On key issues. Plus, james comeys email investigation is back in the spotlight with the watchdog announcing an investigation into the matter. And the Vice President joe biden gets a surprise sendoff as president obama awards him the president ial medal of freedom. Good morning, everyone. It is friday, january 13. Im alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. Top members of the Democratic Campaign including bill clinton and Hillary Clinton, believe the james comey review of the email server is why they lost the election. In july they described Hillary Clintons behavior as careless. Then in october, comey writes congress about discovery of emails believed to be pertinent to the investigation. And then before the election said the emails didnt show anything else to influence the election. For his part comey said, i am grateful to the department of justices ig for taking on this review. He is professional and independent and the fbi will cooperate fully with his office. I hope hes able to share his conclusions with the public because everyone will benefit from thoughtful evaluation and transparency regarding this matter. Support came from both sides of the aisle including the Republican House chair Jason Chaffetz and highprofile democrats. There were strange things that neither side of the political aisle liked and they need to answer for those. I think steps were taken by the leader of the fbi near the election that were not precedented, did not ever happen before. His statement about whether there was going to be an opening investigation or closing the investigation, i dont think was fair, professional or consistent with the policies the federal bureau of investigation had. Its been a busy week for comey to address the russian Intelligence Report and was impressed whether the campaign, Trump Campaign looked into the allegations. There are numerous reports saying that the russians have had contacts with People Associated with the Trump Campaign. My question for you, director comey, is has the fbi investigated these reported relationships. And if so, what are the agencys findings . Thank you, senator. I would never comment on investigations whether we have one or not in an open forum like this. So i really cant answer one way or another. Mr. Comey, did you answer the question that there is an Investigation Underway as to connections between either the political campaigns and the russians . I didnt say one way or another. Especially in a public forum, we never confirm or deny pending an investigation. The ironny of your making that statement here i cannot avoid, but ill move on. Sometimes we think differently about closed investigations. But you asked me if i had any pending investigations and were not going to talk about that. The first three days of Senate Confirmation hears showing cabinet members breaking from the policies that Donald Trumps campaigned on. And statements that their commander in chief was making as recently as this week. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of muslims entering the United States. Although the close is temporary, we must find out what is going on. I have no belief and do not support the idea that muslims as a religious group should be an addition to the United States. I dont think it is ever appropriate to if cuss on something as religion as the only factor. We have to fight so viciously and violently because were dealing with violent people. We cant do waterboarding, which is not the nicest thing but its peanuts compared to many alternatives. If you were ordered by the president to restart the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques that fall outside of the armys manual, would you comply . Senator, absolutely not. Congress is taking an action now, it makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding or any other form of torture. I dont think we should ever come close to crossing the line that is beyond what we as americans intend to follow in terms of interrogation techniques. We are going to build a wall. They are saying, oh, man, how do i get down from this wall . A physical barrier itself will not do the job. It has to be a later defense. If putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks . Thats called an asset, not a liability. The most important thing is that we recognize the reality of what we deal with with mr. Putin. And we recognize that hes trying to break the north atlantic alliance. Some are finding daylight of the incoming members of the campaign historic. Louis, president elect Donald Trumps choice for director of the Central Intelligence agency went before the senate yesterday in open and closed hearings. Republican congressman mike pompeo of kansas recently elected to his fourth term sought to e lay the Intelligence Communitys uneasiness about the new president while also denouncing leaks. As a member of the house intelligence committee, i fully appreciate the need for transparency and support from members of congress. Ive lived it. We owe it to our constituents to get to the bottom of intelligence failures, but we owe it to the brave americans of the Intelligence Community not to shirk our responsibility when unauthorized disclosures to the media expose controversial intelligence activities. Pompeo spoke out about russian involvement in the president ial election and promised to continue investigating what happened. Its pretty clear about what took place there. Im very clear about what that Intelligence Report says. This was an aggressive action taken by the Senior Leadership inside of russia and america has an obligation and the cia has a part of that obligation to protect that information. And there was a startling moment during senator mark warners comments about russia when the feed abruptly cut out. Finally, as you know, chairman burr and i have committed to conduct a review of the intelligence supporting the intelligence committees assessment that russia at the direction you see it there, the feed went break. The hearing room plunged into darkness as the room and lights went out. And Kelly Odonnell shot the video of the Committee Going into recess. When the power didnt come back on they moved to a different building. In a town hall, white House Speaker paul ryan addressed a number of issues the Incoming Administration will face. He broke with president elect trump saying Congress Wont create a deploration committee. When people kept confident that our border is secure and borders are endorsed, then i believe that all people in the coup industry will be in a much better position to fix these thorny or bigger problems. But if youre worried about, you know, some Deportation Force coming knocking on your door this year, dont worry about that. Everybody thinks theres some Deportation Force being assembled, thats not happening. President elect trump used the phrase Deportation Force. Thats why people think it. I know. But im here to tell you in congress, its not happening. In another exchange over russia, House Speaker ryan took a tough tone on president Vladimir Putin underscoring the divide between the president elect and some republican lawmakers. Russia is a menace, a global menace, led by a man who is menacing. Vladimir putin does not share our interests. I think we have to step up our game on russia. I think we have to step up our game with respect to confronting russia when they act like this, when they frustrate our interests. I do believe that they tried to effect our elections by meddling in our elections. If youre going to meddle in elections, youre trying to affect it. Theres no place for it. The fact that a Foreign Government tried to meddle in another governments elections is wrong. So i do think sanctions are called for. It was an emotional afternoon at the white house when president obama surprised joe biden with an honor only two other Vice President s have ever received. For the final time as president , i am pleased to award our nations highest civilian honor. The president ial medal of freedom. You can see it there. The Vice President was overcome with emotion. He was turning around at times to try to regain his composure. He said he had, quote, no inkling of the honor and was coming with his wife and senior staff to toast their incredible journey. While the president awarding this distinction only been bestowed on three other people, Pope John Paul ii. President obama called joe biden the finest Vice President we have ever seen. Folks dont just feel like they know joe the politician, they feel like they know the person. What makes him laugh, what he believes, what he cares about. Pretty much every time he speaks, he treats us to wisdom from the nuns that taught him in grade school or an old senate colleague, but of course most frequently cited katherine and joseph sr. , his mom and dad. No ones better than you, but youre better than nobody. Bravery resides in every heart and yours is fierce and clear. When you get knocked down, joey, get up get up get up thats one that makes us all smile there. The president ial medal of freedom was established by john f. Kennedy back in 1963. The other two Vice President s who received it before, Nelson Rockefeller and hubert humphrey. Still ahead, the daughters of george w. Bush offer advice to sasha and malia bush as theye the white house. And look at this photo that took place last week. Check that out and well come right back. Its just a date. I can stay. Im good. I wont be late hey mom. Yeah. No kissing on the first date, alright . 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One of the things he talked about was a video making its round last week. The teen here seemed to confuse ryan by dabbing during a photo session, but ryan cleared everything up last night. You know, i actually do know what a dab is, okay . Just for the record. Its this, you know. I do. So the most amusing thing was, what, a week ago when we swore people in, this congressmans son, we were doing the pose, he was doing it he wasnt doing a dab, by the way, it looked like he was sneezing. He was holding a bible and going like this, so thats not dabbing in my opinion. Cam newton dabs. You remember the teen got grounded. His father said, straighten up. Former president george w. Bushs daughters sasha a general fla and barbara bush wrote a letter to sasha and malia obama. Now you are about to join another rarefied club. One of former first children. You will be writing the story of your lives, beyond the shadow of your famous parents, yet you will always carry the experiences of the eight years. You wont have the weight of the world on your young shoulders anymore. Explore your passions, learn who you are, make mistakes, you are allowed to. Your parents will be rooting for you as you begin your next chapter and so will we. The letter is one they wrote eight years ago just as the obama sisters were preparing to enter the white house. Thats pretty nice, dont you think, bill karins . I love the mistakes part, because we all do it, you learn from it and hopefully dont do too much damage along the way. Speaking of damage, an ice storm this weekend will be one of the more significant ice storms we have had, probably going back two or three winters. It is already beginning. On our radar here, the blue shows you where it is snowing. The pink shows the freezing rain already starting in southern missouri. And three days from now well show you freezing rain on this radar map. We have almost 10 Million People under an ice storm warning including st. Louis, kansas city, joplin, springfield, wichita, Oklahoma City is in a freezing rain advisory. They are a close call how bad its going to be. Then areas like indianapolis, cincinnati, south of pittsburgh are under a freezing rain advisory. Eventually, well get the freezing rain to omaha and des moines. Looks like chicago, youre probably going to avoid a lot of icing with this storm, so that is the bulk of it. When you get problems with ice, when you get over an half inch of ice, you get the power lines coming down, the tree limbs to snap and break. As far as the icy accumulation map goes, again, very light accumulation of ice in areas of the southern ohio valley. The real problems are going to be north texas, oklahoma, kansas and the southern half of missouri. When you get up into the brighter colors here, the pinker shades, thats over a half inch. Thats when well have significant impacts. Again, well watch you closely here in northern oklahoma, areas of western kansas and all of southern missouri. Again, kansas city and st. Louis, youre on the edge of the very heavy ice. Its not certain youre going to see a ton of Power Outages, but it is possible even in the me o metropolitan areas. St. Louis, youll get a break going throughout tonight. But then as we go towards tomorrow, the heavier stuff will be here near oklahoma, southern kansas and kansas city. You have to remember on sunday, we have the Football Game in kansas city with the steelers coming to town. Well have a 1 00 start east coast time. And that could be very interesting on sunday. It will probably be going from freezing rain over to rain, but that could have a half inch of ice and Power Outages in the area. 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Hes set to hire buffalos anthony lynn as head coach who finished as interim coach for the bills. Meanwhile, the news is not sitting well with san diego fans who spent the night destroying their now outdated apparel and memorab