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Onesie and diaper. you can see right there. officials believe the girl went missing after her mother had a mental health crisis. the child is okay. and now with her father. and before we go, be sure to tune in tonight for a cnn original film, rbg, learn about the life and career of justice ruth bader ginsburg, tonight at 8:00 eastern, only on cnn. there's more. thanks so much for sticking with us. thanks for joining us this saturday, i'm fredricka whitfield. a stunning new report from "the new york times" reveems that after president trump fired former fbi director james comey back in may ...

And i need help. >> this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christy polk. >> happy new day to you. breaking this morning the president is firing back after his actions were a threat to national security. >> he responded on twitter a short time ago saying, wow, just learned in a family new york sometimes the corrupt leaders of the fbi almost all fired to leave the agency for very bad reasons opened up an investigation on me for no reason and with no proof after i fired lying james comb my, a total sleaze. the counterintelligence probe was happening simultaneously with the obstruction ...

Bit. but extrapolate further on exactly what the president is thinking. >> reporter: fred, president trump and the white house are slamming the fbi in the wake of these reports that counterintelligence agents were looking into whether president trump was working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests in the days after he fired former fbi director james comey. as you mentioned, white house press secretary sarah sanders calls this counterintelligence probe absurd. president trump has been vocal on twitter this morning, going after comey, his former deputy, andrew mccabe, calling them corrupt...

We're pushing forward on the breaking news out of washington this morning. we've learned the fbi opened an inquiry into whether the president of the united states' actions were a threat to national security. >> and that counterintelligence probe was prompted by the firing of former fbi director james comey. "the new york times" broke this story last night. the fbi tried to figure out, the "times" says, if the president of the united states was acting on behalf of russia, and if he was putting u.s.' interests at risk. the president responded to the reporting with a tweet this morning, claiming ...

Comey's firing to the russia investigation helped spark this counterintelligence probe. here is one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, an excuse by democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> the second instance is a draft letter that president intended to send to comey listing the reasons that he was irtooing h in firing him. his lawyer blocked trum...