February 1st. We begin with the record setting and deadly cold temperatures in some parts of the midwest. Its the coldest its been in decades. The winter storm in new york is now being blamed for three deaths. Officials say a 69yearold homeless man was found frozen and deceased next to a bus stop. To other men were describe itted as older. It brings the total of weatherrelated deaths to 12. Just a sense of how cold its been b in part. S of the country. These are photos of a fireman and his crew after working in negative temperatures in hammond, indiana. For the latest onpa what to expt moving atforward. We bring in bill karins. Good friday morning. Its losing its grip, but its still cold. Still some advisories out there for windchill. One spot here up in the catskills. But its not half as bad as it was yesterday. It was negative 50 in chicago. Yesterday was negative 20. Current lu in chicago were negative 5. Were definitely heading up. Its a typical cold morning. New york city is at negative 3. Boston at negative 5. D. C. At 12. We have really seen the in the midwest. St. Louis feels like 23. This is the windchill. This is the feels like temperature. Now lets talk about the actual temperature. This is the map wed like. This is the 24hour temperature change. In the the last 24 hours, in other words this time now to this time yesterday, we have risen 25 degreesrd in chicago, in st. Louis. Significantly warmer from d. C. To f charleston and many other areas. Be careful in the ohio valley. Theres a little bit of light snow. Well continue to watch this. The weekend forecast, everyone is going to love it. Well check back in in a little bit. After calling americas spy chiefs passive and naive, President Trump says he and intelligence officialssa have a common enemy. Fake news. Trump says they told him their testimony before the senate where they todisagreed with himn russian cyber threats, the Nuclear Ambitions and the state of the iran deal with no mention of the border was all twisted by the media. The president was defiant about his handpicked leaders for cia. Do you have confidence in them to give you good advice . I disagree with certain things they have said. But time will prove me right. I department see the report. When you read it its a lot different than was covered in the news. Shortly after the comments, haspel and coates met with the president at the white house. Trump posted a photo, quote, just concluded a great meeting with my intel team in the oval office who told me what they said at the hearing was mischaracterized byin the media. We are in agreement. The testimony was distorted press. I would suggest you read the complete testimony from tuesday, a false narrative is so bad for ourrr country. I value our Intelligence Community. Happily, we had a very good meeting and we are all on the same page. Now the president. Remains set in his view, even as a reporter reminded him that the Intelligence Leaders disagreements with him were recorded on visdeo. Mr. President , did you talk to your intelligence chiefs today about the displeasure with their testimony . I did, and they said they were s misquoted and were total taken out of context. So i suggest you call them. They said fake news. We just ran exactly what they said to congress. It didnt surprise me at all. Multiple senators said President Trump should not be so quick to make his disagreements with the Intelligence Community public and also should consider their advice. I would just advise the president to move cautiously, to please listen to his military commanders. Those on the ground and the Intelligence Community. With you come into public life and you face all these issues, particularly in Foreign Policy where every country is steep ed in history and tradition, theres an awful lot to learn. You have a steep learning curve. You have to et rely on the advice and judgment and the wisdom and just the experience of peopleg who have been in these forpositions for decades. Says if you have a problem with intel, you have to talk to them in the office. I like dan coates. Im not sure i agree on iran, but the point is hes well respected, highly professional and you dontn want to air you dirty laundry in a fashion that would send maybe the wrong signals to some people out there trying to persuade. President trump labeled the dpoft funding and Boarder Security negotiations a, quote, waste of time. Not very encouraging to say the least. Yesterday the president told reporters he would declare a National Emergency. If theres no funding forerhe h border wall. Heres where he and House Speaker stand exactly two weeks before the funding deadline. Theres not going to be any wall money in the legislation. Its a place where enhanced fencing would work. Let them have that discussion. I think nancy pelosi is hurting our country by doing what shes oudoing. And ultimately, i think i have set the table very nicely. I think people understand. They understand. They didnt know what was going on with the southern border. Now they know. They had no idea the amount of crime or drugs. I have set the table. I have set the stage for doing what im going to do. Im going to wait until the 15th. Its a waste of time. T could i have done it differently, no, not really. By having the shutdown we have set the table for where we are now. If i didnt do the shutdown, people wouldnt understand the subject. Nancy pelosi said this morning theres not goingel to a wall in this deal. Et shewa did say she would be on to other kinds of physical barriers. Would you accept that . No, because if theres no wall it doesnt work. If you go to tijuana and take down that wall, you will have so many, people coming into our country that nancy pelosi will be begging for a wall. She will be begging for a wall. She will say, mr. President , please, please give us a wall. President trump proclaimed hes not a target of the special counsels investigation in the 2016 lelection. Tell iing the New York Times received reassurances from rod rosenstein. Rod told me im not a target of the investigation, but later suggested he had not talked with him directly. Lawyers say hes not a target of the vgs. Asked if that also covered the separate investigation of his former Attorney Michael Cohen by federal r prosecutors here in new york he nesaid, i dont kno about that. Neither rosenstein or mueller has said whether trumpth is a target and the president could not recall when rosenstein would have assured him. He sent three tweets about the investigation last night saying this witch hunt must end. Two of the tweets related to this. Reports fromhe abc and cnn that the blocked calls that donald trump jr. Made before his meeting with russians in trump tower were not to his father but rather to business associates. President trump tweeted at 10 00 p. M. To amplify the reports, just out big deal, telephone calls after the innocent trump tower meeting that thel, media d dems said were made to his father were just conclusively found not to be made to me. They were made to friends and businessfr associates of don. Really sad. Last night House Intel Committee chair said democrats are pursuing the phone records after republicans on the committee dechiened to comment when they were in power. Schiff said the outcome does not rule out other possibilities. D those conversations could have taken place over the phone or taken place by don jr. Walking down the hall to talk to dad, but t its key to understanding the president s involvement in all of this. We already know that the president and his son misled the country about meetings the campaignet was having with russians. They denied they even took place. When they were confronted with meetings liex louk the meeting in trump tower, they misled the country again about what took place in that meeting. Joiningoo us from washingtons White House Reporter for politico gabi. Obviously, we have been focussed on this trying to figure out who the phone calls were made to. Now it seems according to the reporting that we have those names. Whats the likelihood that we could get a phone log to see what it is they spoke about . I i mean, im sure thats something theat special counsel already has in his possession. Whats interest iing about thiss democrats have really wanted to press this issue for quite someg time. Adam schiff mentioned probing this through the powers that the House Democrats will have with congressional oversniegt sooigt. Now oversight. Now that this wasnt a phone call made to p his father, then candidate donald trump, we will have to wait and see if thats actually something Congressional Democrats pursue. This is depending on whether or not the reporting is true, which nbc has been unable to confirm and so has politico. Walk us through what we have seen starting with the testimony on capitol hill and then the pa january try in the oval Office Yesterday as a couple officials were brought in for that photo opt to talk to President Trump about the threat assessment. What are the lsting effects . You have hard it from several republican lawmakers in the past 24 hours. Many people said this was debt a detrimental to our key allies. They areie locking at the dispr sits. And its a sign of weakness thats being signalled to those allies and adversaries. I think a this photo opportunit held yesterday at the white house and the comments that the president made to the reporters in the oval office afterwards were sort of a clear picture of the white house doing damage control, to sort of go over what the president tweeted rlier. Its worth noting that President Trump said he would encourage every american to watch the full testimony to get a fuller picture. He decried this as fake news, but the president is the one that tweeted this out presumably without watching the full testimony. Hes the one whoth targeted his own intelligence chiefs in the first place and caused this controversy. So i do think the white house right now is trying to sort of smooth those relationships over even though the president admitted in the same breath yesterday that there are disagreements that he has with those advisers and top intelligence officials. Th h stay with us if you would. 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But interstate 70 could have some issues. Washington, d. C. Between an hour from now youll start to see snow flakes. You may get half an inch or so. The snowfall totals, the white is 1 inch. Even philadelphia south wards could get an inch. Could do a little better. Lets talk about the warmup. Chicago is negative 10 was the high on wednesday. By the time we flipped to the weekend and into monday, up to 55 degrees. St. Louis, 68 on monday. Cincinnati, 62. These areas are going to be 65 degrees warmer that the high temperatures. The same for d. C. , cleveland and new york. Not as extreme. But the temperature in d. C. Is 57 on monday. The big. Warmup is upon us. Frozen pants challenge. Thank you. White house Security Specialist has been suspended without pay a week after nbc news reported that jah ved kushners security clearance has been approved. Shes been suspended for two weeks for defying her supervisor. Clines of the sunt of an article that said he approved kushners. Top secret clearance after it was rejected by two career white house Security Specialists. Two sources familiar with the matter say the specialist made the decision to deny after a background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him. The suspended specialist as a rare form of dwarf and considers her a whistleblower and says the charges were brought as payback for the decision to file the complaint against cline. The interview yesterday President Trump said he played no role this directing white house officials to arrange for Jared Kushner to receive a topsecret clearance. President trump tweeted thoughts about iran writing the democrats are fan of being weak with iran. They have no clue as to the danger they would be inflicting on our country. Iran is in financial chaos because of the sanctions and iran deal termination. Democra democrats put us in a bad place but now good. Iran replains in compliance with the deal. It. 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