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Of address can be a defining moment for a president and for the country. but tonight washington is not entirely focused on the very important issues president trump will be speaking about: immigration, the economy, terrorism, infrastructure. inside the halls of congress, all the buzz is about a memo written by house republicans accusing fbi officials of bias and cooking a fisa warrant application so it could spy on the trump campaign adviser. democrats say the document is stacked with half-truths and lies and amounts to little more than a crude attempt to undercut the special counsel. the spea...

>> reporter: yeah, david. you heard him say it, but the bottom line is, there are bipartisan calls in congress to strengthen the background check system, including john cornyn, a prominent republican in the senate, saying that he wants a new law strengthening the current background check system. david? >> jonathan karl reporting on the president's trip in asia. jon, our thanks to you. and there are also major developments in the russia investigation tonight. a former trump campaign adviser now changing his story in testimony under oath. what he now acknowledges. here's abc's chief investigat...

They take that action? >> how does the president expect the secretary of state to be effective when he is questioning his intelligence? >> back to ashley for a second. ashley, can you tell our viewers how far from normal, how far off plumb this is? >> well, this is a white house press corps that at this point doesn't startle or surprise particularly easily. but there is, as you just rolled that montage, sort of a surreal quality to all of this, just the barrage and the onslaught and the type of questions they're being asked, and the extent to which the white house press secretary is having to,...

Saying this? it isn't true overall. >> is it proper for the president to attend a baseball game where they might take a knee and he will walk out if they take that action? >> how does the president expect the secretary of state to be effective when he is questioning his intelligence? >> back to ashley for a second. ashley, can you tell our viewers how far from normal, how far off plumb this is? >> well, this is a white house press corps that at this point doesn't startle or surprise particularly easily. but there is, as you just rolled that montage, sort of a surreal quality to all of this, ju...

>> let him finish. marc, go ahead and finish. >> first, again, ben, these are half-truths. even the san francisco 49ers acknowledge that he walked away from that contract, they would have released him anyway. it was obviously a strategic move by the team. he didn't just quit the nfl. that's just not true. and you know that as well. >> he had guaranteed -- >> ben, let me ask you this question. you say that the president is bringing this up pause it's a hot topic and it's becoming, as you say, cool to disrespect the country. but is the president not bringing this up because you go to a rally, yo...