20 Million People facing Severe Weather, including damaging winds, hail and possible tornadoes from arkansas to minnesota, today. Monday, march 6th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good rntoday. Itck. Y a tweet good morning to u. Ng his sethe president exosones during the 2016 electi. Comeyomey to reveal es after president r a mixomi mixon watergate style plot. Saying obama was a bad or sick guy. All of it without evidence. President obamas office, dismissing the claim as false. The Trump White House is doubling down, calling for an investigation, to see if the Obama Administration abused its power. Adding that neither the white house nor the president would come until oversight is conducted. A trump spokesman verifying the claim. This is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power and a huge attack on democracy itself. Reporter the head of the Senate Intelligence committee, richard burr, said in a statement, his committee will follow the evidence where it leads, guided by intelligence and facts. But the former director of intelligence, james clapper, rejected President Trumps claim. There was no wiretap activity mounted against the president elect at the time, or as a candidate or against his campaign. Reporter even some republicans are casting doubt on mr. Trumps allegations. Ive never heard that allegation made before by anybody. Ive never seen anything about that anywhere before. But again, the president put that out there. And now, the white house will have to answer to exactly what he was referring to. Reporter democrats going further, calling the president s twitter tirade a deliberate effort to deflect attention from russian meddling in the election. I think this is a distraction. Is he trying to divert things here . Yes. Reporter the president according to one aide, reading senior staff the riot act. Furious that Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from any investigation involving russian meddling. An animated discussion with top advisers appears to be happening inside the oval office friday. Still, Trump Supporters came out in force in cities across the country this weekend. Standing by hind the president. One of the rallies turned violent, as Trump Supporters were met by protesters near the university of kra c at berkeley. At least ten people were arrested there. Also this morning, there is plenty of speculation of where the president may have gotten his information for the saturday morning tweets. Conservative radio host, mark la vin talked about what he called a, quote, big scandal. Thats by friday morning, breitbart, that steve bannon formally ran, picked up on that article and posted it online. Lets turn to sarah huckabeesanders. She is the Deputy White House press secretary. Good morning, savannah. Great to be here. Can we pick up where peter left off . When i saw the tweets, i thought President Trump must have gotten a briefing that makes him believe that president obama tapped his phone at trump tower. Subsequently we learned from the white house and other sources that this is drawn from media accounts. Before we go further, can you let us know, is that the source of this information, strictly from media reports and not from any other source . The president firmly believes that the Obama Administration may have tapped into the phones at trump tower. Is that based on media reports . This is something we should look into. We would like to know for sure. The media has been extremely dismissive of this reporting and this potential story, while all the while, being very happy to jump on all of the false attacks that have been launched at this president over the last six months. Wait a minute all were asking for is a fair and same look at this potential story and to let the House Intelligence Committee do their job. You deserve that. Just so were clear on this one point is his information, that president obama tapped his phone, based solely on something he read in the media, yes or no . I havent had a chance to have a conversation directly with the president. Hes at a higher classification than i am. He may have access to documents that i dont know about. But i do know that we take this very seriously and we think it should be thoroughly reviewed and investigated. And were asking congress to do their job. Indeed and do just that. Youre entitled to do that. And on meet the press, the former director of national intelligence, that would have overseen Something Like this. Heres what he told chuck todd. Take a look. If the fbi, for instance, had a court order for surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know . Yes. You would be told this . I would know that. If there was a fisa like this. Absolutely. You cannot confirm or deny whether that exists . I can deny it. There is no court order . Not to my knowledge. Of anything at trump tower. You say the media is mismissive of this. They are trying to find out if its true. Director comey of the fbi also saying it isnt true. Are they lying . All were asking that the House Intelligence Committee is allowed to do their job. Thats what we want them to do. When the fbi said the reports about the president were b. S. , it was ignored. When the New York Times reported it was b. S. , when the House Intelligence Committee said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the trump campaign, the reports kept coming and kept coming. Theres a doublestandard here. All were asking is that the same level of attention be put to this and let the House Intelligence Committee investigate this and see if theres any truth to it. The American People deserve to know if this happened because if it did, this would be the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that weve ever seen. I think what you say is true. It would be the greatest abuse of power if it happened. But some of the press rofeports that the white house looks at, goes back to november. If its a huge overreach, why not blow the whistle back then . The president says he just found out. Can you reconcile that for us . Its never too late to do the right thing. Thats what were looking for here. Lets do the right thing what you laid out is huge. The greatest overreach. Why wouldnt that have been reacted to back in november when the first reports suggested a fisa warrant had been requested . Our administration was becoming aware of how this could have happened and the potential threat this would cause. And due to that, we want to make sure its thoroughly investigated and thoroughly reviewed and the American People have a right to see if that happened. Sarah, in fairness, thats not what the president tweeted on saturday. He didnt say, if this happened. He stated, as fact, unequivocally, that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. He also said, he was tapping my phones in october. And he said, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones. Bad or sick guy. He said it happened. I think the president firmly believes it did. And all were asking for at this point, through the administration, is that we get down to the bottom of it and see the iedia loves to create th walked ro applied to this or the house intge sanders, th wiretaps, issue a lawful warrant. U. S. Crime committed. Eiteed to knows. To warehouses for the verinlp point monthhe evidence of that. And here we are,later, the white house. At some getting these kind of attacks for the first time from the president , the current president. You look at the news reports that the white house cites, none of them stand for the proposition that president obama tapped mr. Trumps phone. A lot of democrat says, hes trying to deflect. But deflect to what . The conversation at large is still about russia, which is not a conversation he wants to be having. He had a successful speech. He doesnt want to talk about this stuff. You want to understand, you look at the history and the practice and psychology of the president. He wants to be shown being aggressive and showing strength from his point of view. After a week that started so well with his speech to congress and the nation. And then, had his attorney general recuse himself from the investigation over russia. A feeling that his staff wasnt defending him enough. So, i think you say its not a great deflection because it keeps the focus on russia. From his point of view, it shows him on offense. But hes destabilized washington and the world again with a series of tweets, with an extraordinary, outrageous allegations that now hes i think they hope go away. I dont think his staff wants to keep up this fight. I think theyre sorry that it happened because it is a distraction. Not just from russia, but from the legislative agenda. Hes there to pass things, not to pick fights. A big week on that. Thank you. Another major story out of the white house today, the Trump Administration preparing to unveil a revised travel ban after his first one, halted by federal courts, was met with controversy, confusion and protests. Nbcs Hallie Jackson with the latest for us. Hallie, good morning. Reporter hey, lester. Good morning to you. A Senior Administration official tells nbc news that details about this revised executive order are expected to be revealed at the department of Homeland Security today. The president himself is not expected to be there. All of it, marking the start of a relaunch on one of the president s most controversial pledges. Today the administration expected to roll out the president s new immigration executive order. This one, among his most controversial. A revised version of his onhold travel ban. Changed to try and keep it from getting tied up in legal battles, like the original. That one, signed january 27th, temporarily barred immigrants from seven mostlymuslim nations. W, quily it moved the firstng t first series of controlsside tweeting reporter that was februarystr on thesed executive de blanket ban challenges. Then theast sea, or the sea of japan. U. S. Military Officials Say they did not pose a threat to north america. The launches are seen as a reaction by north korea to an annual joint military exercise between south korea and the u. S. , which got under way on friday. 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The fbi is joining the investigation into the shooting of a sikh man. He was approached by a man in his driveway, they got in an argument and he was shot in the arm. The suspect apparently said, go back to your own country, before the shooting. And 20 Million People across parts of the south and midwest are bracing for severe storms that includes the possibility of tornadoes from Northern Arkansas to missouri. Now, to a scandal thats rocking the u. S. Marine corps. The Defense Department now investigating hundreds of marines after nude photographs of their female colleagues were discovered on a secret Facebook Page. Nbc National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer has more on that this morning. Reporter despite the phrase, the few, the proud, the marines, the marines may be anything but proud this morning. Hundreds in its ranks appear to be caught up in a social media scandal, first brought to light by a veteran who is speaking out this morning. Mistrust rocking the marine corps, following troubling allegations of cyber betrayal. Pictures of more on two dozen naked women, surfacing on a private Facebook Page called marines united, with almost 30,000 followers. The network allegedly solicited photos of female service members, who were identified by their full name, rank and duty station. Some of the photos apparently taken without the womens knowledge. More than 2,500 comments, which contained graphic language and condoned rape, was