Good morning, everyone its tuesday, february 13th. We begin with the Trump Administration where officials continued to offer tangled explanations about the departure of a high level aide accused by two former exwives of Domestic Abuse. To the white house chief of staff calling the allegations true without a definitive statement on who knew what when, heres a brief recap for you. Why would the president accept his resignation if the president thinks he did nothing wrong. I think that was a personal decision that rob made and one that he was not pressured to do but one that he made on his own. Would rob porter still be on the job today had he not decided to resign . His last day was yesterday. Would he still be on the job . Sarah sanders made it very clear he worked very hard. I found out about it recently and i was surprised by it. As you probably know he says hes innocent and i think you have to remember that. Was that just what you found about . We found about the situation last tuesday and within 24 hours his resignation has been accepted and announced. I can tell you that a conversation took place within 40 minutes and beyond that i dont have anything else to add. And the white house also deflektded questions on why President Trump has not personally offered any sympathy for the exwives or accusing his former aide of physical and emotional abuse. After expressing nothing but compliments when the president spoke to reporters on friday, Sarah Sanders began with a statement about taking Domestic Abuse seriously. Good afternoon. How was your weekend . Good. Its great to be back with you guys. Why does he have to speak through you . The president has been clear multiple times through myself and others within the administration that we condemn Domestic Violence in all forms. He has not said it. Im the Spokes Person for the white house and the president and im saying it right now. Why didnt he say it . Im not sure how i can be any more clear. I think the president has expressed his views. He wishes porter well and that he believes people should have due process but he hasnt addressed the victims of domestic vie laens olence at al. If you paid attention to what i just read to you he literally dictated the statement to me. Does the president still wish rob porter well . Does he still believe that he wants him to have a great career ahead of him because that would seem i think the president of the United States hopes that all americans can can be successful in whatever they do. In the investigation into rob porters background that kept him from receiving a security clearance despite handling the classified information goes directly to the president has refocused attention on senior white house officials like Jared Kushner operating on temporary clearances over 15 months. Nbc news has been told there are dozens of them working with classified information, but democrats say that congressman trey gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight committee has refused to ask the white house about any information about security clearances for for a formal briefing on the matter and that growdy has failed to ak for clearances. Sarah sanders was adamant that they arent the ones compromising the nations secret lt. Can you guarantee that youre classifying information. I think were doing and taking every step we can to protect classified information. I mean, frankly if you guys have such concern with classified information theres plenty of it thats leaked out of the hill, thats leaked out of other communities well beyond the white house walls. If you guys have real concerns about leaking out classified information, look around this room. You guys are the ones that publish classified information and put National Security at risk. Wow. All right. President trump has formally unveiled what he calls the biggest and boldest Infrastructure Investment in American History but the burden of funding the plan wont fall on the shoulders of the federal government. The plan proposes 200 billion in new federal spending. The white house says that will ultimately spur 1. 7 trillion in investments over the next ten years. It would require local and state governments to either drum up large sums of money or partner with private companies to tap into those federal dollars. During a meeting yesterday with state and local leaders President Trump looked to rally support for his plan. As of a couple of months ago, we have spent 7 trillion in the middle east. 7 trillion. What a mistake. And but it is what it is. This is what i took over. And were trying to build roads and bridges and fix bridges that are falling down and we have a hard time getting the money. Its crazy. The problem the states have and local leaders have with funding the infrastructure is horrendous and we will build, we will maintain, and the vast majority of americans want to see us take care of our infrastructure. A word that describes so much of the president s bill, probably about 80 of it is trump tolls. The trump infrastructure plan is like a hollywood facade. It may look real from afar, but in truth its a flat mirage. The trump plan has the skin of an infrastructure plan but it lacks the guts. All right. Lets talk immigration now. So after months of kicking the can down the road the senate has began working on trying to strike a deal on immigration reform. As the fate of fenearly 2 milli undocumented immigrants hangs in the balance. The senate voted yesterday 971. Now, the process is expected to include a wide range of plans including one release by the white house last month. That plan creates a 25 billion fund for border security, provides a 12year path to citizenship for Daca Recipients known as deemers. Prohibits the parents of dreamers of legal status. Limits the Nuclear Family and ends the diversity of the visa lottery program. Less than three weeks to go until the daca program is set to expire, mcconnell called the Trump Administrations proposal the best chance at passing a bill. Watch this. This legislation is a fair compromise that addresses the stated priorities of all sides. Its our best chance to producing a solution that can actually resolve these matters which requires that a bill pass the senate, pass the house, and earn the president s signature. It has my support. It wont be easy. Its certainly achievable. Democrats are fully committed to protecting dreamers and we have long supported effective border security. Many republicans are in the same boat. The only enemy here is overreach. I hope to be able to make a deal. I hope the democrats are not going to use it just as a campaign. You know, theyve been talking about daca for many years and they havent produced. We started talking about daca and i think well produce, but if the democrats want to make a deal, its really up to them. So while senator mcconnell is getting behind the white houses plan, outgoing republican introduced his own proposal which he hopes to bridge divides between the parties. Flakes plan would provide provisions addressing daca, border security, family based division but it is not decrease legal my grags like the republican plans do. Its approval is not guaranteed in the house. House Speaker Paul Ryan would only bring legislation to the floor that President Trump supports. Lets bring in our White House Reporter. Thanks for joining us withern morning. What do you think the chances are that we see a comprehensive immigration bill passed before the midterm elections . Reporter well, Senate Democrats and republicans only have until march 5th to do something with the dreamers. The white house has indicated that President Trump does not want to extend the deadline past march 5th. Thats going to be a very difficult position for democrats in particular if daca is allowed to expire because the white house did lay out a plan that included a path way to citizenship for every dreamer who was even eligible nor the program not just those enrolled. Now, its important to note that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is getting behind this plan because it is considered maybe a little bit more hard line conservative than you would think would be able to pass the senate but mcconnell mentioned crucially that this bill has to work its way through the house where it will need to be a little bit more conservative to gain traction and it has to be something President Trump has a chance of signing and hes already said he wont sign a bill that doesnt include those four pillars that you mentioned. Jeff flake doesnt represent the republican consensus on immigration. And so it will be interesting to see if there are enough Senate Democrats who can come on board with the white house plan to get it through the senate. Let me ask you really quickly about a story we were talking about earlier in the program, one that continues to snowball. The issue of rob porter. The conflicting statements coming out of the white house on his exit. Reporter well, there their refusal to clear up a lot of the uncertainties is in part whats fuelling this controversy into a second week. Remember that the white house originally tried to treat this story as tabloid gossip before they were forced to take a harsher stance against rob porter once pictures emerged of one of porters exwives that made their original praise of him untenable and now you still have the white house refusing to answer questions about why porters lack of a security clearance didnt raise any red flags internally and until they clear up some of those questions i think this story is going to continue to dog them. All right. Live for us in washington, d. C. Well check back with you in about 30 minutes. And President Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin yesterday. Trump offered his personal condolences of the victims of the sunday plane crash. All 71 people on board were killed when the plane went down outside of moscow. Their call first reported by the Russian News Service came just prior to putins meeting with Palestinian Leader and per the white house, trump pushed his desire for the palestinians to come back to the negotiating process. The palestinians have asserted that the u. S. No longer has a role in negotiating a peace due to several moves and decisions by the Trump Administration, most notably believing the American Embassy in israel. It all comes as several democrats are calling for the administration. But which the administration now says are actually not needed. And the diplomatic fit for tat continues to pummel to new depths. Moscow is now considering changing the official address to one north american dead end. Wow. Thats some serious diplomacy. It comes in response to washington, d. C. City council changing the name of the area in front of the russian embassy. Certainly a war of naming. Yeah. Neighborhoods. 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The olympic destroyer, organizers confirm the attack saying it affected the internet and tv services but did not compromise critical operations. However, the security firms could not confirm who was behind the attack but ciscoes Threat Intelligence theme had mal ware that point to Russian Forces being behind the offensive. Lets get a check on the weather now with bill karins. Its all quiet on the weather front. As we go throughout mid february, this is the time of year we can get pretty good sized snowstorms but no signs of it. Its chilly out there. Very typical winter chilly. Minneapolis to bismark single digits. In the teens in boston and 20s for i95 corridor so its typical for mid february but the warmup is on its way. We have clear skies out there in many areas out there. Little bait of rain, freezing drizzle in virginia. Thats about it, but the i would building warmth is the story during the day today and during this week. Today well jump up to 53 at memphis. D. C. , 40, thats seasonable but as we get into wednesday, thats when the warmth shoots north ward. Even st. Louis gets up to 58 degrees and by the time we get to thursday ahead of this cold front its very mild. 66 in philadelphia and we will get cooler as we head toward the upcoming weekend but its not going to be frigid. 23 basically typical this time of year. Look at raleigh near 80 by the end of this week. Maybe one or two days in february but this is going to go on for a week or two. Very strange. I like it. Im not complaining. I like the warm weather. All right. You can add more olympic hardware to the u. S. Medal count and a lot of it is gold. The very latest from the winter games in pyeongchang including another crowning achievement for team usa. Well tell you about it in a moment when were back. No, please, please, oh shrieks in terror heavy breathing and snorting no, no. The running of the bulldogs . Surprising. Whats not surprising . 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Crowning her with the gold medal there, becoming the youngest female medalist in olympic snowboarding history. Gold finished in third giving team usa a bronze. So far team usa has earned three gold medals with all of them coming from snowboard competitions. The other two were won by red yes r gerard. And shaun white will go for gold later today. In the Alpine Skiing event. Ted was among the top American Finishing fifth with mar sell hirsher winning gold and the olympic athletes from russia has won the bronze medal in curling defeating norway 84, canada and switzerland face off for the gold today. And other olympic news womens hockey goalies will not have to remove the statue of liberty from their face mask. The images on the masks of net minders do not violate ioc policy. The rule in question states that no item worn or used by a team may feature the word or lyrics from national anthems, or slogans related to national identity. U. S. Womens hockey play russia later today.