Of disneys beauty the beast is not welcome at one theater. But we begin this morning with your world in 90 seconds. He hits back at democrats for what he calls an ongoing witch continue. Hes counterpunching as hes known to do. People are talking about their previously undisclosed contacts. To the degree hes breathing oxygen into a story he doesnt like, it seems unproductive. Juan thomas arrested in a wave of antisemitic threats. He said it was all part of a bizarre scheme to frame his girlfriend. Mike pence was asked about a private email server to conduct business. Theres no comparison whatsoever. Snowfall has caused dozens of accidents including a 32car pileup on highway 81. Dozens of cows take to a the road, a road trip. Theyre still trying to make their way to freedom. A Florida Alligator is one heck of a fishing story. Look at the size of the catch. All that a dirt bike sails over the freeway on the highway in riverside county. And all that matters. Its that type of night. Korver off the screen. On cbs this morning saturday. The revelations about the trump teams connections to russia just keep on coming. All this russia talk this week poured cold water on what he thought was his big triumph on tuesday, and he stuck to the teleprompter and everybody said that he came across as much more dignified and much more mature. Actually what happened is somebody from pricewaterhouse gave him the wrong speech. And welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason along with alex wagner. We have a great lineup including a story of a fast food startup thats bringing affordable food and healthy to communities that need it the most. Its a landmark to make a cameo in the movie la la land. Theres a plan to get the historic cable cars back on track. And Alison Krauss is the queen of blue grass. She has the number one country album on the billboard chart this week. Well sit down with the 27time gramammy wininne about windy city and well hear her perform in our saturday session. We begin this morning with a top story. The Trump Administration is facing increased scrutiny over its meetings by past and present associates with russians having close ties to the kremlin. In a tweet this morning mr. Trump wrote, quote, the first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the russian am bass tore was set up by the Obama Administration under Education Program for 100 ambassadors. Mr. Trump was referring to then senator Jeff Sessions. Sessions is now attorney general. He will reply on monday in writing to questions by Senate Democrats about his contacts with a Russian Ambassador last year. Senate judiciary chairman republican Chuck Grassley rejected democrats request to have sessions come back for a public hearing. Meanwhile President Trump is calling for an investigation into a leading democrats own meetings with russian officials. Good morning. Reporter good morning. President trump woke up at his maralago resort this morning firing off a tirm any of this n information, but the president is clearly irritated, and this follows a week in which mr. Trump mostly stayed on message as questions surrounding his teams contacts with russia persists. Youre all business and youre going to make a lot of money, right . But dont run for politics after you do that. Reporter President Trump visited a fourth grade class in orlando friday as he tried to refocus attention on School Choice programs. It caps a week of well received speeches for the president , first to a joint session of congress outlining his agent ta and another address aboard a newly commissioned Aircraft Carrier promoting an expansion of the military. I am calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history. But thats all being overshadowed by questions surrounding the growing list of advisers who met with Russian AmbassadorSergey Kislyak during and after the election. It includes trumps soninlaw jared kushner, Michael Flynn and carter paige and j. D. Gordon. I never had a meeting with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the Trump Campaign. On thursday attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself from any of his agencys investigation into the Russian Election interference because he met with kislyak twice last year. Chuck schumer and other Senate Democrats want sessions to testify under oath about those meetings. In response, the president tweeted these photos friday, showing schumer and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi with Vladimir Putin and Dimitri Medvedev suggesting they be investigated. Roger stone who was a formal adviser to the Trump Campaign denied any connection to russia in an interview with cbs news. Its a witch hunt. You think it is. I know it is. The president was asked directly last month if he was aware of contacts between his team and russian officials. How many times do i have to answer this question . Can you just say yes or no on it . Its a ruse. The questioning continued on friday in which schumer said he would happily discuss his contacts with russia under oath and in flochblt the press. Theres been no Twitter Response from the president on ha just yet. Mr. Trump is scheduled to meet with his National Security council in florida and deep with his newly appointed commerce secretary. Alex . Thanks, errol. Lets turn to philip bump from the washington post. Good to see you. An Early Morning tweeted storm from the president attempting to put blame on the democrats for all of this amid a number of allegations about Trump Campaign officials meeting with russians. Will this strategy work . It seems to work with the base so far. Well, Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi did it too. But i think its important to note that its disingenuous. The question here is not did they meet. Of course, they did. The issue is to what extent did they meet with the russians before the election campaign. Thats what the question is. Thats why this web of ties is important. Its not just sitting down and meeting with the ambassador. Now that sessions has recused himself, where do thing fwos from here . Its a good question. Right now there are investigations under way. The intelligence committee, for example, appears to be investigating this and theres fbi investigation thats been under way for some time. Jeff sessions wont be involved with that. But there are a lot of other options. There could be a special prosecutor, independent committee. The real question is political operation. To what extent do they need to act to do something more about this . The question is to what degree do they need to appoint more officials to have an aggressive posture toward russia to perhaps prove there is no collusion between the two governments, right . Yeah. I mean for the most part, the white house has already established its top tier. Its put out most of its cab nets nominees. There are some signs doing exactly what it said. Deputies. Exactly. Deputies that demonstrate that. But it still doesntance the question. Im not sure donald trump feels as though he will be motivated to demonstrate how antirussia he is in that way with these questions looming. But mar gretsch bren about and others reported there appear to be signs that the approach to russia is shifting. Yes. The broad question is what happened with russia before election day, right . Yes. With that question unanswered, all of the whatever the administration does now, i think, is secondary to that question and i think clearly what were seeing this morning and what weve seen over the course of last week, Donald Trumps response is not to change what hes douk but to deflect it. What, ben, are the ripple effects in terms of his agenda . He had a big speech this week that was supposed to be a turning point f you will. Then this storm reemerges. How does that affect what happens in congress and the president s agenda moving forward . I think whats stunning, he came out of ha speech giving you tim presentation this is a different donald trump, hes talking about policy issues. Roughly, but hes talking about policy issues. And instantaneously he steps on it. There was a story about the russian ties. But, you know, during the speech, the time for trivial fights is over, i think is what he said. And then he starts launching all these trivial fights. Donald trump repeatedly during the campaign would do something and step on it and make it harder for himself. And meantime there is resistance within the Republican Party itself over the obamacare plans. Many of the republicans saying they havent had a chance to see it yet. Right. The trick to obamacare, obamacare itself was sorts of the bipartisan strategy for dealing with health care. It came out of whats called romney care in massachusetts. Its a big strategy. Its hard to figure out how youre going give everything to everyone at a low cost. Its meeting with resistance. Its not clear where its going to end up. The replacement is a lot trickier than they anticipated. Hes stoked the ire of his own parties with rand paul and ted cruz saying maybe they wont. Good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Paula reid is in our Washington Bureau with that part of the story. Good morning. Good morning. As the nations top law enforce mnlts official Jeff Sessions will oversee some of the most cob ten shus cases in the country, but this week he was the controversy. So much, it may be harder for the nations top cop. I have been here for three weeks. A lot has been happening. This is likely not how Jeff Sessions eninvestigationed his First Press Conference as attorney general, announcing his recusal to the investigation of ties between the u. S. And russia after a previously undisclosed meeting with a Russian Ambassador. I believe those rex men dagss are right and just. Therefore, i have recused myself in matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. Sessions is unlikely to heed the democrats call for a resignation, but so much controversy in the first few weeks of office could undermine the ambitious agenda he laid out earlier in the ek woo. He promised a renewed promise on drug prosecutions including marijuana. I am, as you know, am dubious about marijuana. Strict on enforcement of immigration laws. Were housing a lot of people who committed serious crimes who entered the kun troy unlawfully and who are stoins be reported. And a hall mark of the obama department. We need so far as we can in my view help Police Departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness. Im afraid weve done some of that. Were going to pull back on some of that. On friday he met with the ncaap to high light some of their rights. The desire is to move away from some of the federal Police Departments and insist that someone with experience head the civil rights division. Despite a rocky third week on the job, sessions still has the full support of his bosses. The president and i have full confidence in the attorney general. He is a man of integrity. Theres still a few outstanding questions including what specifically was discussed during his meetings with the ambassador and to what extent hes actually recused himself. Is it only for inquiries into the campaign or negations into the white house. Thoejts . Paula lead in the white house. Thank you, paula. Many immigrants are afraid they might be deported because of trumps policy. Rose easy cobar who says her husband was detain and deimportanted to el salvador two weeks ago. The father of three was working on his status. His attorney said hes never been convicted of a violent or serious crime. This ving is not part of what President Trump and all his policies have been, deporting criminals, getting rid of the bad hombres. Sadly were getting rid of good hombres too. Rose escobar said shes fighting to pay the mortgage and keep her young children. She said shell fight to get her husband back in the u. S. Mike pence rejected the request to review email records when he was governor. The Indianapolis Star reports he used a private email account to conduct business when he was governor. On the campaign trail he repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email whisystem while she was secretary of state. This ing shows the former president ial candidate holding a smartphone. The headline reads pence used personal email in office. The perfeicture was taken by a commuter during a trip. Tomorrow morning john dickersons guest will include the vice chairman and former defense secretary leon panetta. After rtheast is back throu cold of winter. Snow showers moved through boston and while there was no significant keep the northeast a deep freeze. One was killed and more than to injured in a 32car pileup. It happened as a result of a skaul. For more we turn to ed curran of wbbm. Good morning, ed. Good morning. Its cold out west. Were taking a look at rain and snow out to the west. You can see as we go saturday into sunday you have rain and snow that goes into Northern California, even southern and we have Winter Weather advisory thats up for areas over here in oregon, Northern California, we have a winter storm warning until monday at 10 00 a. M. For areas above 10,000 feet and wind advisories in the tan area here. Theres a wide weather warning across a wide area with low humidity leshlgs and high winds that causes a fire danger through this region. Now lets go out to northeast where the story is the cold. Welcome back to winter. The high today, portland, 17. 22 in boston, 32 in new york. The 22 in boston is about half of what you ought to see this time of year. You ought to have a high of about 44. Tomorrow its a little bit better. Anthony . A little bit brisk, ed. Ed curran of our chicago station wbbmtv. Thanks. A former reporter allegedly trying to harass his former girlfriend has been tied to eight bomb threats at community centers. Heres more. Reporter he was arraigned friday afternoon in st. Louis for allegedly making eight bomb threats to Jewish Community centers nationwide. Authorities say thompson began making bomb threats in january. Nypd deputy communicationer of intelligence and counterterrorism john miller says his department helped the fbi catch thompson. No matter how you shield your coward is as you make these threats from behind whatever tech income kay curtain you use, we will shine a light on you. Reporter he claims he wasnt motivated by antisemitism but sought revenge through a campaign after his girlfriend amelia dumped him. His college roommate. He was charismatic, ambitious, funny, and at the same time bizarre like a lot of this stuff doesnt make any sense. Reporter investigators have charged thompson with one count of cyber stalking. According to this criminal complaint he sent threatening emails to jewish communities in his girlfriends name. He said his girlfriend is behind the bomb threats against jews. She lives in new york and is making more threats. Orrin see gal is director of the antidefamation league. You know, while were in unprecedented times in terms o antisemitism, i this i this time wont only be remembered for the bomb threats and antisemitism but how people stood up to it. Reporter a law enforce mnlts official tells cbs news the threatening phone calls to jccs and other jewis banksy has brought lots of colors to the walls of west bank over the years. He recently painted an israeli and another soldier in a pillow fight. Its 2 x 2 after the hour. How heres look at the weather for your weather for the weekend. Coming up, punishing the as actors of political decent gain more attention, some are looking for ways to curb. Plus, beauty gets banned. Why one owner is refusing to screen disneys new version of kwtd beauty the beast. Youre watching cbs this morning saturday. Dare to go nude. In pure gold. The new 24k nudes palette. From maybelline new york. 12 pigmentrich shades. 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It was business, sure. Yeah. And then you go to dinner. You know, really and truly, we mustnt pay all that much