People in the state. Well begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. When asked by a senator whether hed had contact with the russians in any way, shape, or form, he said no, period. So obviously that turns it to be not accurate. Jeff sessions failed to disclose contacts with the Russian Ambassador. Democrats are intensifying their request for Jeff Sessions to recuse himself or step down. If there is something down and it goes up the chain of investigation, it is clear to me that Jeff Sessions, who is my dear friend, cannot make this decision about trump. The dow broke another record. Make it rain, dow. 21,000. The president of the academy announced that the two accountants responsible for the mixup will never work on the oscars again. It happened suddenly. You could hear it. Parts of the southwest are cleaning up after tornados. A wild scene throughout the streets of california. A suspect leading police on an hourlong chase. Hes not going anywhere. 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Attorney Jeff Sessions is under new operation to withdraw from an investigation into the russian interference with the 2016 election. The department has confirmed he spoke with the u. S. Am bass tore last year while he was an adviser to the Trump Campaign. Sessions did not reveal those conversations at the confirmation hearings even though he was asked about them. And now some are calling for the attorney general to resign. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said this. Jeff sessions lied under oath and is not fit to serve. Jeff pegues has covered the russian hacking story from the beginning. Good morning. Good morning. Jeff sessions is in charge of the fbis investigation into whether trump representatives coordinated with the russians during the campaign. These new revelations are turning up the heat on him to at least step aside. Attorney general Jeff Sessions, who was a trump representative during the campaign, has repeatedly resisted calls to recuse himself from the investigations into russian meddling in the election. The trugth, the whole truth. Under oath during his confirmation hearings sessions did not disclose he met with the russian representative twice. If theres anyone who communicated with the russian governent during the course of this campaign, what will you do . Senator frank, im not aware of any of those activities. Ive been called a sur fwat a time or two and i did not have communications with the russians and u im unable to comment on it. But in september sessions met in his office he met with Russian Ambassador sergei kiss lee yak. And in july he saw kisliac in another meeting. In a statement overnight the attorney general said i never met with any russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is false. The senator had over 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors. It is not uncommon for the Senate Committee to meet with ambassadors. They say sessions failure to come clean during the confirmation is disqualifying. It sounds like he did not tell the truth and a lie is a lie is a lie, period. And so in some kind of way, weve got to come to grips with that. Former National Security adviser mike flynn was fired last month after he misled the Vice President about his meeting with the Russian Ambassador. Anthony . Jeff pegues. Thanks, jeff. The Trump Administration strongly denies any cushions with russia but there are new signs it is preparing for a political fight on the issue. Margaret brennan is at the white house with new information. Margaret, good morning. Good morning. Well, white house lawyers told President Trumps aides this week to preserve emails and other materials that are relevant to ongoing probes into russian contacts with Trump Campaign associates. Now, a Senior Administration official responded to this report, downplaying the significance of the order, telling me the white house is simply taking proactive steps here, calling the accusations, quote, false and politically motivated attacks. Now, these instructions come as the Senate Intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation, asked all agencies the keep all materials of contacts between trump aides and officials. Trump has repeatedly said he is not aware of any contacts between russia and his team but cbs news has confirmed that fbi counterintelligence is investigating. Norah . Margaret, thank you so much. Republicans in congress are still work on their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. On tuesday President Trump spelled out some new details including tax credits to help americans buy insurance. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill where the president s ideas are calling for a feud inside the gop. Good morning. Good morning. The Republican Leaders have gun trying to sell this plan to their gop members which is a challenging task because theyre still missing some key figures and details. Theyre hashing all of this out behind closed doors as they try to tamp down a rebellion from their own right flank. Senators who were briefed on the new Health Care Plan last night were instructed not to say much about whats in it. The details wont matter, but its in many ways a promising start. Heres what we do know. A draft of the plan leaked last week replaces obamacares low income tax credit and subsidies with more tax credits that goes to everyone. Its determined that a 40yearold making 20,000 a year would see his or her tax credit drop from an average of 4,100 under obamacare to under 3,000 under the new plan. They would get less help, whereas, younger people and wealthier people would be better off. Like the obamacare plan it would make the tax credits refundable. Which means the americans will get the money even if they pay little or no taxes but some on the right say its handout and theyre saying no. Its fundamentally a new entitlement. In the closed door gop meetings theyre arguing it would result in millions of people losing the ability to afford insurance and republicans getting the blame. Its not going to be perfect, but this is our one chance to keep our promise to our supporters to whom we made the promise that wed repeal and replace obamacare. Another big Sticking Point is what to to about obamacares huge expansion of medicaid which now includes 1100 million more people. Some say its a vital safety net. Others say its too enormous and needs to be scaled back. Thats a very important point, nancy. Thank you. Dan senor was a Senior Adviser in the 2001 campaign and he joins us now. Good morning, dan. Good morning, norah. A spokesperson told us last year that sessions had conversations with 25 different foreign ambassadors in his job as a senator then on the Armed Services committee. Why does this conversation with the russians, ambassador matte . It matter because there continues to be this question about conversations, alleged correlation as it is alleged between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. Youre right. Any senator who did not serve, in any given year he was means with tens of ambassadors and these were typically pro forma meetings, not a lot of substance discussed, kind of box checking. I think the Trump Administration has to get to the bottom of how theyre going to explain explain all this conversation. I do not think its as big a deal as others do, but as it relates to attorney general Jeff Sessions, to lie o congress, you have to willfully know youre actually Misleading Congress and the material has to be extremely relevant to the focus of any kind of an investigation. Many this case i actually think then senator sessions had no idea that meeting with one ambassador over the other was materially significant. It appears that theres no way for him to have known this was in the context his meeting was in the context of questions swirling around any kind of an investigation about the campaign and connections to the government. Dan, theres pressure in some cases coing from the right on this. Richard pain er said its a goo way to go to jail. I mean how does the Trump Administration respond to this situation with sessions at this point . I think youve got to break these packages into two difference tracks. One package is should he resign. Based on what i know so far, it looks ludicrous that he should resign. Democrats calling fitter it really overreaching. The other question thats going to be the substance of debate on whether he should recuse himself. He may be under pressure from that and i think some republicans as you point out whats the threshold for that, tan . Its quite ambiguous, it really is. Its whether or not they believe they can raise serious doubts about his ability to oversee an investigative body that will be dealing with these allegations of the campaign ties to russia. And let me make one other quick point here. One of the challenges here is theres complete opacity about who all of these representatives were from the russian government who were operating on behalf of or under putin. There was always confusion of who was with the Trump Campaign. Who was actually speaking to whom is something we toejts know yet. More to come. Dan senor, thanks so much. Good to be here. In the next half hour well talk with anthony fox about the trillion dollar plan. Its part of the series issues that matter. The dow is trading this morning at about 21,000 for the first time. You can hear it there. Traders cheered the recordhigh yesterday at the closing bell. The dow jump third degree 03 points to close at 21,115. Other indices also set records. Investors are optimistic about businessfriendly policies promised by President Trump and possible improvements in the economy. Recovery efforts are under way this morning after deadly storms swept across the nations midsection. Drone video shows the devastation in one illinois community. The violent weather is blamed for at least five deaths. At least 27 tornados were reported from the south to the midwest. More than 100 homes have been destroyed. Mark strassmanns in chattanooga, tennessee, where the storms left a trail of damage. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. On streets like this, the storm that barreled through here was quick but crushing. This tree felt on top of the house behind me right into the living room. The good news is the woman inside was not hurt at all, but parts of Tennessee Valley face quite the cleanup. The storm stretched hundreds of miles, whipping through the south and parts of the east coast. Hail slammed alabama. Heavy rains flooded parts of ohio. Strong winds blew the roof off this car dealership in North Carolina and toppled trees in tennessee, crushing this mobile home and injuring a young boy inside. Parts of the midwest are still cleaning up after the storm system roared through the area tuesday night. More than 100 homes in perryville, missouri, were damaged with many destroyed. The twister that hit this community was on the ground for up to 15 miles. From above, you can see the scope of the damage in ottawa, illinois, about 80 miles outside of chicago. In the small nearby village of naplate, dozens of homes were also damaged, some leveled. The windows are busted out. Theres debris everywhere in the house. The only room that didnt get touched luckily by the grace of god was my room and my daughters room. The rest of them are sorry. Reporter tornados that swept through these communities packed winds of up to 155 miles an hour. One person was killed by a fallen tree limb. More than a dozen others were injured. God bless you. Im so sorry. Reporter illinois governor bruce ronner toured the damage on wednesday. This could have been much, much worse. Now we want to make sure we help the Community Recover quickly. Were going to have state resources here to help with the cleanup. Reporter and recovery will come slowly. That side of the street has power. This side of the street is still dark. The white house is talking to state and local officials about getting help to all the people who need it. They need a lot of help. Mark, thank you so much. The vatican faces new scandal. A Founding Member who set up a foundation has now quit. She accuses the vatican of stonewalling efforts set up by pope francis. Seth doane is outside vatican city on how the harsh city is putting a light on it. Reporter good morning. This is a very public blow to the vatican on a sensitive issue. At the core, a woman who is a victim of Church Sex Abuse who says theres a cultural resistance to change here at the vatican. It was better for me to come out and speak about it. These men, they dliev on sithri silence and cover it up. She was sexually abused by a priest as a teenager and set up a foundation. We spoke with her this morning at her home in dublin, ireland. To find that this group of men in this lever of the church do not see Child Protection as a priority, do not get it in 2017, its just unacceptable. Reporter in her resignation effort she wrote she believes the pope is sincere in his efforts but some members of the vatican curia or the church is mott. You look around you for those with advice. Reporter monsignor anthony figure ray toe is an nbc consultant. Its very, very serious, perhaps more than any other organization in the world. The church has taken this on board. Reporter boston card nan sean omalley who heads the Commission Said in a statement we will certainly listen carefully to all that maria wishes to share with us about all of her concerns. The only other victim of sexual abuse on the panel was peter saunders, critical of it and forced out last year. Recently the pope has been criticized for being too lenient on at least one pedophile priest. Instead of defrocking him he was removed from Public Ministry and sentenced to a lifetime of prayer. Questions remain. Seth doane in rome. Thank you. A big catch in california leads to a big criminal investigation. Ahead, why this cell phone video will help determine why men will pay thousands of dollars for ivanka trumps husband has a white house job but she may have more clout. Ahead, how the president s daughter is working to shape and soften the president s message. Youre watching cbs this morning. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by fast signs. 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