Later our sunday sit down with former president george w. Bush talking about a new book of his paintings that pays tribute to military veterans weighing in on donald trump and regrets he may have about the decision to go to war after 9 11. I was heavy hearted when i made the decision to both go into afghanistan and iraq. I knew that there would be some dire consequences. Our twopart sunday sit down with president george w. Bush a bit later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the president s weekend twitter storm during which he accused president obama of wiretapping his offices here in new york. Nbcs kasie hunt is in West Palm Beach near the president s home there. Good morning. Good morning. President trump is already up and tweeting today about russia and the dnc hacks but the focus is still on those accusations he made against former president obama without any evidence. This morning, more fallout over those explosive allegations from President Trump. Without offering any evidence, the president claims president barack obama tapped his phones last fall. As the government investigated Trump Campaign contacts with russians during the election. This is what democracy looks like. Reporter in a series of Early Morning tweets saturday, he first compared obama to nixon and watergate and took a moment to lash out at Arnold Schwarzenegger over the shows ratings. President trump didnt ask officials who would know about such wiretaps before he sent the tweets and president obamas spokesman released a statement saying neither president obama or any white house official ordered surveillance on any u. S. Citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false. What president obamas statement doesnt say is there wasnt surveillance in trump tower. No one confirmed or reporter the drama unfolding after Jeff Sessions recused himself from any investigations from the Trump Campaign. Tense meetings in the oval office and mounting pressure on capitol hill. The Obama Administration went way out of line or some judge said theres something to the idea and either those two is pretty incredible. Reporter at some protests across the country, actual fighting. Americans as divided as ever over donald trump. Well, i think donald trump is trying to distract americas attention away from the fact that trump and putin have some ki kindclusion going on. I am here to support President Trump and to show him he has our support. Reporter all of this is happening as two white house officials tell nbc news the president is planning to sign a revised version of the travel ban as early as monday. Keep in mind, though, this has already beenep willie . Kasie, hunt, thanks. Jeremy bash is the National Security analyst for nbc news. Good to see you, good morning. Good morning, willie. Well revisit this premise that donald trump is on to something that president obama, as he claims, bugged trump tower in the lead up to the election. Would president obama have the power to warrant surveillance of a private citizen . Absolutely not. After watergate, after nixon, Congress Passed a law that said whenever the executive branch wants to engage in wiretapping or surveillance of people inside the United States, they have to go to a federal judge and get a specific warrant. And, willie, i have looked at these warrant applications from my time inside the intelligence community. They are voluminous filings that are done by career lawyers and presented to a federal judge and those federal judges are hard graders and they turn the Justice Department around all th more homework. Bring me more evidence. Were throwing around the term fisa court, fisa warrant. As you suggested a response to domestic spying. What is a fisa court and how does it work . Its made up of judges from the federal courts who are appointed to serve on this special sppanel and they work wh the Justice Department and the Justice Department and the fbi go to them with a filing that says we suspect someone in the u. S. Is a foreign power. Thats a term youre going to hear a lot, willie. Say working for the russians, for example. This is what is done against spies like Robert Hanson and we expect someone is an american working for a foreign power and the fbi and the Justice Department go to these and they get a warrant to actually listen to their phone calls and read their emails. So, lets walk through the potential of what these tweets mean. Okay fbi legally wiretapped donald trump. What would that tell you, jeremy . Well, that would tell me that a federal judge found probable cause, meaning enough evidence to believe that either there was criminal activity or that there was Foreign Espionage activity in trump tower. Specifically, willie, i think what it means is that a federal judge found that people in trumps oorganization were colluding with the russians. So, if the nsa is possible listening to a foreign entity, say a russian and Donald Trumps conversations or those of his associates were swept up in that collection of data . Yes, that is another possibility, willie. Which is if the nsa was, for example, surveilling or listening to russians overseas and the overseas target were the target of the surveillance and they happen to be talking to people in Trumps Office in new york, that could have been swept up. The Intelligence Agency calls it inadvertent collection. Th privacy is protected and basically the americans names are blacked out. Thats different than what the president suggested here. He suggested his office was the target of the surveillance. Again, in that case, you would need a federal judge to approve that. The last option is that President Trump made the whole thing up. Jeremy bash, thank you so much, appreciate your time. Let me turn to chuck todd. Moderator of meet the press. Chuck, good morning. Wednesday morning when the reviews of Donald Trumps speech came in of the joint session of congress, they were glowing. Lets be honest. A lot of us said, lets pump the brakes and see what he does the next few days. Woke up saturday morning and found out what he does. Yep. This is exactly, the russia story in this situation is consuming his presidency early on. Thats pretty clear at this point. They, this white house is not yet ready to embrace the need to figure out a way to better compartmentalize it. Create distractions. Its clear what the saturday tweet storm was. At some point, though, i think that we are headed for some sort of special commission, special prosecutor, some sort of independent investigation because the tweet storm on saturday, i think thats going to be a bridge too far for too many republicans on capitol hill, willie. I think they need an escape hatch and they need one badly and i think theyre going to be looking for an independent way out. Thats the irony. People saying, yes, hes creating a distraction with those tweets. Those tweets focused people on what may have happened and made it more likely an independent investigation, a special prosecutor. Look, you take him at his word and this demands an immediate investigation. Or dont take him at his word and it demands an immediate investigation because it either way, it demands thorough and serious and a deep investigation. I have to tell you, i want to echo something that very powerful statement all weekend long. We have a crisis of trust in this country with so many of our institutions, whether its us, willie, in the press. Or government institutions. And, so, to have our president make these allegations, we have to run them down at this point. It has to be run down. The government has to. So many of these folks on capitol hill because if were ever going to restore trust, weve got to run down these allegations. Yeah. Chuck, lets talk about the president s state of mind on saturday morning when he woke up and made these tweets. Reporting from bob costa at the Washington Post today that suggests donald trump was furious that attorney general sessions came out and recused himself. Didnt think he should have done it. In fact, thought it was a sign of weakness. Look, that is donald trump going all the way back to when he first began his businesses and his empire in new york. Remember, his mentor in many attorney and roy cohn was always one that suggest deny, deny, deny, punch back. Dont ever give an inch and donald trump has lived his business life, his public life and his political life that way and im not surprised that he is furious. I think he thinks now by sessions doing what he did that it opens the door for more problems. And i think thats the way the president sees this and i think thats why he exploded at his staff. He may have opened the door further with his tweets this weekend. Chuck will dig deeper into the russian connection on meet the press and hell be joined by marco rubio. Were talking to former president george w. Bush a bit later this morning about his new book portrait of courage and the trump administration. Id ask president bush what he would say if trump would call asking for advise. I know you dont want to criticize President Trump, but called you, what advise would you give him . Id say same advice i gave before. Its a really hard job and i wish you all the best. It depends on what he asked. Of course i would answer his phone call. I want him to succeed. One piece of advice would be you picked some really good people and empower them. Make sure that theyre able to give you their unfedered advice. Tillerson, mattis, mcmaster, these are all people i know and admire a lot. Much more of my twopart interview with president bush including his take on immigration and the way the president talks about muslims in this country coming up in our next half hour. Some other headlines this morning. Vice president mike pence demanding an apology from the Associated Press for leaking his wifes private email address. Publishing it, actually. They published mrs. Pences email information in a story about pences resistance to public record. The ap stands by it story but did information as soon as it learned the email account was still active. A new york man is being held without bail on terrorism charges after he allegedly tried to join isis in syria. He appeared in federal court saturday. He faces charges of attempting to provide Material Support to the terrorist group. Federal prosecutors say he traveled repeatedly to the middle east and told police he planned to bring back an army with him. Air india says this morning its airline has set a world record by flying around the world with an allfemale crew. All part of a celebration ahead of this weeks International Womens day. The crew flew a plane over the pacific from new delhi to San Francisco and back over the atlantic says it has now applies for a Guinness World record. A few nfl teams may be very excited for the draft. Recent College Players showed their stuff, university of washington wide receiver john ross ran the 40 yard dash in 4. 2 at the combine. Now, earlier in the week adidas offered to buy an island, yes, an island, for any player who managed to break the record in their shoes. But heres the sad part, ross will have to enjoy an island get away on his own dime, he was wearing nikes when he broke that record. Keep in mind, this is actually below average for this time of year. Been a strange season. Its not lasting long. Expecting 60s above normal temperatures. Thats a look at the big picture. Heres the local weather. Rights now, were still in the teens and 20s across the area. 24 degrees in washington. 19 in rossville and 21 in rusin. You have beautiful sunshine. Sunny throughout the day today. With a high so, this is what i was talk about. Take a look at the people behind us. Look how bundled up they are. It is freezing today. They have to get the tshirts and shorts out in a couple days. Thanks. The highs and lows of the week the the little boys running for their lives. Together well study its incredible moves so we can be ready for the coming rise of the machines. Plus, our sunday sit down with president george w. Bush on a project that highlights the president s heavy burden of committing troops to war and more of his take on the early days of the trump administration. All that, plus harry smith. As we go to break, our photo of the week, hollywoods biggest stars stunned when they learned of the best picture mix up at the oscars. 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On thursday morning secretary zinke commuted to work through the streets of washington on horseback. The new secretary was escorted by mai police were the ones that offered to help zinke into the office on his first day. How cool is that . If youre a navy s. E. A. L. Commander for 25 years, you get to work however you want to. Takes his job very seriously. Well done. Our next low goes to the feeling when you meet the robot that will soon be your over. Designed by the google team company, his 66 handle put on a terrifying show of skill and power. Displaying agility and speed and picking up and carrying a 100pound crate and showing off a vertical leap of 48 inches, which, by the way, the same of Michael Jordans back in the day and eventually heading outside where he descended stairs and a snowy hill before it rolled through the parking lot presumably stealing up a car and meeting up with the other robots. Should we just surrender now . Completely terrifying. Cool and then creepy. Its like this. Lets put the next high from the pennsylvania preschool wrestling circuit. A 4yearold boy named isaiah going up against a 5yearold girl and he wanted no part of her. The gladiator shaked hands but as soon as the referee blew the whistle isaiah takes off running in circles away from his opposing opponent. She even pauses here for a second to look over at the grown ups with a, what am i supposed to do here . After one more chase isaiah ran out of gas and the little girl pinned him and got her hardearned victory. Its the first match of his life. Hes like how does this work . I so hope they know each other when theyre older so she can use that as ammo. Our next low is the speed of one recent 60meter dash that well loosely call a sprint but enthuse astically call awesome. Rogers racing down the against a young whippersnapper, 92yearold dixon hemphill. It happened at the usa track and field masters championship. But in the end, its the 99yearold rogers with a burst of speed winning the race in a photo finish. The margin of victory, 0. 05. If only he had leaned at the finish line, he thinks he would have won. We need to rematch that one. I think they are. Its a tight race. No excuses. Hit the gym today, willie. If theyre doing it at 99, we have to be there, too. 5yearold best pals jax and reddy. Jax was due for a hair cut and asked if he could play a trick on his preschoolteacher and get the same hair cut as reddy. Figure they would pull one over on their teacher and see if she could know the difference between them if they had the same hair cut. Pretended she was talking to jax. Great work by the teacher. Facebook post from his mom went viral. If this isnt proof that hate and prejudice is something that is taught, i dont know what is. The only difference jax sees in the two of them is hatheir hair the kids see the world the way it is supposed to be. Have a soft spot for them. The last low goes to the guy who fled police in a stolen pickup and caught some dukes of hazard level hair. This is in webster parish, louisiana. Before hitting a Drainage Ditch and creating a ramp for the 18yearold neighbor who launched him into a parking lot. The person in the car it landed on both escaped without serious inju injury. Lets go to the slowmo replay here if we could. Just a good old boy never story totally worth it just to get the dukes of hazard theme song. Imagine if that was your car. Coming up next, our sunday sit down with president george w. Bush on his artistic tribute to the veterans who fought in iraq and afghanistan. And any second thoughts they gave him about decisions he made as commander in chief. Then harry smith on a sports columnist so legendary the statue outside the arena is of him. You can head over this is a news 4 today news break. Hi, good morning everybody, it is 8 26 on this sunday, march 5. Prince georges county police say a man is on the run after gunfire with an officer. This is what we know so far. Police say they responded to a call about a fight. A man was robbed. Officers spotted the guy who matched the description of the robbery suspect and started to chase him. During that chase, shots were fired. Officer not hurt and its still unclear if the man was hit. Call police if you have any information about the case. Check on your sunday forecast is next. Stay with us. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction b