Ivanica trump. A surprise guest. Appearance amid well publicized between her and her father. Prf a message praef daring a e blap er escape. Dramatic caught on camera. Pa a man hunt for the suspect under way. No shower. A train barreling into a station after the massive blizzard. The last waiting passengers with a giant wall of snow making. Thats the worst commute ever today thursday march 16th rks 17 you imagine youre get ready to go to work and that happens . Youre like, i know im having a bad hair day now. If you turn up the audio enough, you can almost hear the engineer on that train laughing like crazy. Im sure he didnt do that on purpose. I dont know whats worse. Getting hit with snow, or when a taxi goes through a puddle after a rainy day in the stay. That looks pretty bad. Lets start with the flurry of activity around the white house. The president s travel ban, blocked by a judge just hours before its supposed to take effect. The budgets proposal, just being unveiled to congress today. And theres russia. Multiple investigations playing out into moscows suspected interference in our election. Several members of russias Top Spy Agency have been charged by the Justice Department in the hacking of at least 500 million yahoo accounts. Were going to break it down and start with Hallie Jackson at the white house. Hallie, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. It is not just hawaii, now, white house on that travel ban. This morning, a new ruling, out of the state of maryland, is more narrow in scope, but makes a very similar argument. Both judges, saying the administration is targeting muslims. In the face of a stinging setback, donald trump, defiant. Were going to take our case as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court. Reporter the president promising to fight the decision, blocking his latest travel ban, which would have gone into effect today, temporarily barring immigrants from six, mostly muslim nations. But derrick watson, a federal judge in hawaii, ruled that executive order amounts to discrimination. Writing, a reasonable objective observer, finds it disfavors a particular religion. The judges argument was once a muslim ban, always a muslim ban. Reporter the department of justsa District Courts ruling, which is flawed in reasoning and in scope. Promising to revise the travel ban, create affidavit the first one was put on hold by an appeals court. This is a watereddown version of the first one. This is a watereddown version. And let me tell you something. I think we should go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do in the first place. Reporter its that original order that triggered protests around the country last month. And confusion at airports. The revamped version was rewritten to avoid legal challenges. But judge watson determined this new ban didnt seem that new at all. Citing this interview from a top trump adviser last month. Fundamentally, youre going the have the same basic policy outcome for the country. Reporter the Hawaii Attorney general, applauding the judges decision. The way our government works, we need to be able to also take check and balance out that whole process. Reporter but with one of his signature immigration programis at risk, the president is on attack. You dont think this was done by a judge for political reasons, do you . No. This ruling makes us look weak. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan, who argues, its a matter of national security, says hes confident the ban will eventually be enforced. We have gotten a lot of Intelligence Briefings about the lack of vetting standards or or the ability to vet, from certain countries. I have no doubt this will stand. Reporter this morning, a white house official tells me, they do plan to fight this ruling, with the department of justice now considering next steps. Matt and savannah, almost certainly an appeal. Hallie jackson, thank you. The president is facing meanwhile the president is facing another major battle over his first budget proposal. The blueprint out facing some criticism. So whats in it popular programs could see their funding slashed. Nbcs Peter Alexander has that part of the story. Peter, good morning to you. Hey, matt, good morning to you. The white house is unveiling its federal Spending Priorities today in what it is touting as America First budget. It could include some of the biggest cutbacks of federal programs in decades. President trump back on the stump wednesday night in nashville. Got to get the health care done. Got to start the tax reductions. Now trying to close his biggest deal yet, a Seismic Shift in government spending. Calls for single largest increases in defense spending in this country. Reporter new this morning the president is proposing to pump 50 billion more into the pentagon, a 10 increase, plus more for veterans benefits, School Vouchers and infrastructure and 6 increase for Homeland Security, 1. 5 this promise to send the bill to mexico. Who is going to build the wall . Promising to offset with deep cuts elsewhere, slashing 30 state department and epa hitting funding for foreign aid and efforts to combat global warming. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson in tokyo taking massive cuts to his department in stride. The level of spending the state department has been undertaking particularly in this past year is simply not sustainable. Eliminating funding for corporation for public broadcasting making pbs and npr rely on viewers like you. Were going to lose many stations in small markets and rural market throughout the heartland of america if this funding is eliminated. Concerning part of the rust bell that made him president , President Trump promoting promise p are keeping 900 jobs right here in michigan. Gm said 80 of those are workers that learned last week they would be laid off with no set date to get their jobs back. I think its a disgrace. Reporter also responded overnight after Rachel Maddow revealed part of his tax return obtained by dcreports. Org. I have no idea where they got it but its illegal. Youre in the supposed to have it and its not supposed to be leaked. Reporter back to that budget proposal, it is final right now. Ultimately its up to congress. Theres already resistance there, fierce resistance, including some among republicans. Its the lawmakers on capitol hill who get to authorize government spending. Matt and savannah. Thank you. Also new information coming to light how President Trump came to the conclusion then president obama ordered wiretapping of his phones at trump tower during the election. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez here with savannah, hi. President trump said he first heard about wiretapping from media reports from New York Times and fox news. He still has offered no truth his explosive tweets are true. Today there is growing frustration among republicans on capitol hill. This morning President Trump raising new questions and offering nuances. When i say wiretapping, those words were in quotes. The president suggesting it wasnt necessarily a, quote, oldfashioned wiretap president obama ordered at trump tower. Wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think youre going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. But the house intelligence sometimes Top Republican says hes seen no evidence of that. You have to decide are you going to take a tweet literally. If you are, clearly the president is wrong. Attorney general jeff sessions. Did you ever have any reason to believe he was wiretapped by the previous look, the answer, no. On capitol hill the answer also swirling with whether russia interfered in the 2016 election, this as the Justice Department announced charges in a separate case, mammoth lawsuit on yahoo for information swiped from users. Russia successor to kgb. Defense targeted white house and russian officials Cyber Security, diplomatic and military personnel. To fsb officers are now charged with running the attack or accused of hiring two known criminal hackers to do the dirty work. Bill neely in moscow where one of those russians under arrest charged with treason for allegedly giving information to cia. Nother hacker arrested in canada. No sign Russian Police is hunting them. Intelligence officer. Reporter Authorities Say no decision has been made whether to retaliate, kick out russian diplomats. Law enforcement Officials Say the hacking case has no connection to russias attempt to influence the election. Fbi director james comey said to be in the hot sunday as he testifies. Thank you very much. Russian tapping and wiretapping some of the topics we discussed when we sat down with the new u. N. Ambassador nikki haley, her first interview in that role. We begin by talking about the president s travel babb just a couple hours before it was blocked by a federal judge. During the campaign you strongly objected to any idea of a muslim ban. You called it unamerican, unconstitutional. You said it defies everything this country was based on, and its just wrong. Now we have the second version of this travel ban thats being do you support it . Yes. Why do you support it now . Its not a muslim ban. I will never support a muslim ban. I dont think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is unamerican. What the president is down. Everybody needs to realize what he is doing is saying lets take a step back. Lets temporarily pause. Temporarily pause immigration from majority muslim countries. No, matt. Hes saying lets temporarily pause and you prove to me that the vetting is okay, that i can trust these people coming through for the american people. And as the daughter of indian immigrants, what do you say to others who worry they wont be allowed in this country when they have every right to come to this country or people who are worried they are going to be sent out of this country . I can tell you, first of all, as a daughter of an indian immigrant im extremely sensitive to the fact the fabric of america is immigrant. I want that always to be the case. Countries in question have serious terrorist attack tifft going on. Now were hearing theres going to be a dramatic cut in funding for state department. Some of that money is going to come out of the money you need to do things you do at the united nations. Do you have a plan in place to make due without that money . Yes. And i will tell you that its okay, because i know when we got to the u. S. , first thing we did was cut out overtime. There was way too much overtime there. You look at the united nations, the secretarygeneral is new just like i am. We both have come on efficiencies needed in peacekeeping reform, which we spend a ton of money on, and weve come together on management reform. When you look at the things were absolutely cutting, theres way to cut and keep values to u. N. Thats going to cut to the bone. You talk about peacekeeping. Some of that money goes to peacekeeping missions, talking about humanitarian aid to impoverished nations of the world, vaccine programs. These are the leadership in the past. Even if you cut back, theres going to be some sort of vacuum left behind. Are you worried at all a country like russia or china will attempt to fill that vacuum in terms of leadership around the world. We need russia to step up and pay me, other countries to step up and pay more. Weve carried the burden for a long time. I must condemn the aggressive actions of russia. You said some tough things about russia. Do you think President Trump has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to russia and vladimir putin. I think hes open minded to everyone. He doesnt want to cut anyone off. What hes allowed ple to do, if i see something wrong i call them out. At the same time if i see an opportunity to work with them like isis and daesh, were going to do tha take your ambassadors hat off for me for a second, though. As just a any questions about the relationship between donald trump, his associates, and the russians. I really dont. Ill tell you why. Ive talked to him about it fl while they know people, youve got to look at the fact ambassadors jobs are to talk to everyone. Thats what weve seen the Russian Ambassador do. At the same time hes not once told me not to slam russia, go and be nice to russia. Hes letting me do my job. We now know russian were behind hack of yahoo dnc, meddling in our election. What should the president do in response . Take it seriously. We cannot trust russia. We should never trust russia. Thats all, just take it seriously. What else should we do . No. I dont think we want anyone meddling in our elections. Thats why these investigations matter. We have to find out exactly how involved they are and we should never be okay with that. Should we increase sanctions. When we see the facts we should have some sort of action we te have to know all the facts first. You would say you and the president are on exactly the same page in terms of your level of distrust for russia and vladimir putin. Im not going to say that. Im not going to talk about where the president is because i dont know. I have always made it clear in my confirmation and the words to the u. N. That i dont trust russia. Theres been an awful lot of talk, ambassador haley, about the president s tone. After his speech to joint session of congress you complimented him. You said, you know what, the tone was right. It was a different tone, it was president ial. Four days later President Trump tweeted out and accused his predecessor, president obama, of wiretapping his phones at trump tower. Was that president ial . Im not going to comment on any of that. What i will tell you is his address to congress, the tone was spot objecn, president ial. Left to his own devices and back to his cell phone saturday morning, he goes back to accusing the president , former president , of committing a crime and presents no evidence. Is that president ial . Im not going to say he is our president , matt. What he does, faults and all, hes our president. So i want him to be successful. When these tweets come out i mean, do i look at them and say, okay, where did that come from . Yes. But i dont pick up the phone and say what are you doing, i just know thats who he is. Obviously im walking a narrow line there. Hes the boss. Were going to have more of our conversation with ambassador haley, including how she feels about President Trump calling the u. N. A club and the personal side of the job, moving her family from South Carolina to new york city. Look forward to that. Lets turn to al and get the first check of the weather. Whats going on . We have amazing video, am track train coming the to the station on the way to the penn station. Its the first train in after 18 inches of snow, and that snow has got nowhere to go, slow mowing it. Who has nowhere to go is the woman in the hat. Take a look at what happens here. You know what . Thats got to hurt. Look at the chunks of snow coming off of that. Its just bad. All right. The other side of the snow, down in washington, d. C. The Cherry Blossoms. They have been damaged. This could be the first time there are no blossoms for the peak season of Cherry Blossoms. They got damaged at 27 degrees. Last couple of days its been 27 to 24 degrees, so the National Park service is examining them. Well have to wait and see. That would be a terrible thing if that happened. 51 Million People under effective freeze watches and warnings, from missouri all the way down to central florida. Temperatures feels like 17 in d. C. , jacksonville feels like 24. 19 in atlanta. Today the cold air continues with temperatures anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees below average. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good morning, everybody. Im storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Mostly clear skies. Temperatures sunshine today. Those northwest winds wont be as strong as the last couple of days. It will still be breezy and cold. Afternoon highs should get in the upper 30s and low 40s across the area. Sunny and dry. For tomorrow clouds back in the picture. Highs in the upper 40s tomorrow with a chance for a few raindrops late friday night. Thats your latest weather. 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