make sure their needs are accommodated. >> reporter: cnn miami. are you live in cnn newsroom on saturday. nice to have you along with us. tonight deafening silence after president trump shocked his own top aides while offering no evidence that president tapping of his phones of trump tower. how low has president obama gone to tap my phone during the election process. this is nixon watergate. bad or sick guy. the claims are false. athena joins me from mar-a-lago. >> reporter: there's no evidence

to substainate the president''s allegation. the president's tweet storm came as a surprise. it's not uncommon for the president to wake up in the morning and begin tweeting, he began tweeting 6:30 a.m. they reported to a breitbart news circulating around the news. he claimed that president obama worked to undermine trump's presidential campaign and administration including through variation investigation on russian and possible ties. this officials said that story on breitbart news infuriated the president. the president social media director and adviser dan tweeted out a link to that news story

which lends kre densz to the idea that the president was basing the tweet on that news story. a spokesman for president obama said he would have had nothing to with ordering wiretaps. these are getting attention from democrats and republicans. south carolina republican talked about this. listen. >> i don't know if it's true or not but if it is true, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. it's my job as united states senator to get to the bottom of this. >> you heard from senator graham saying it is his job to get to the bottom of this. there is far from over. lots of questions being raised about those early morning tweets. i have to remind the viewers

that two former officials have called the idea that then candidate phone tapped nonsense. the other said this did not happen. it is false. pamela. >> thank you for that. >> i want to bring in cnn justice producer shimon, what is her response. >> like she said they are calling it nonsense it did not happen. there's nothing to suggest that the fbi or the department of justice had tapped his phone lines they are authorization to tap his phone lines. given who trump was then and now they would need permission from the highest levels of the department of justice to even get authorities for this.

there are layers of things that investigator have to go through to get permission. in talking to a senior level initial former initial with the department of justice who had direct knowledge of this investigation flatly denied it. that has been continued through the day and talking to some other u.s. officials. no one can understand what donald trump is rerching in tern of this allegation of his phone being tapped the government listening in on his conversation. we have not had new information since this morning there's no clarity what he was talking about. all we know is that former officials are denied it. some current u.s. officials have denied it. >> on that point, the white house has offered no further

explanations other than officials pointing to a breitbart radiohost that president obama worked to undermine the trump campaign administration. wouldn't there be a paper trail that he would have access to. >> that's a good question. it's not clear. as president you would think if he asked for something he would get it. there's this division between the executive branch and the investigationors. they have gone through great lengths o where the investigation stands. a few week ago there was a thing about when fbi asked white house to knock down the reports. there was a brew ha what are you doing. why are you doing this.

you should not be asking the fbi to knock anything down. yes, there should be a paper trail. if there's a fisa, it would be sitting in the department of justice in some safe and it would be a secret. the only people to know within high-level people within the department of the justice and the judges who sit on the fisa court who would grant this. >> all right, shimon, thank you. >> sure. >> we bring in tom fuentes analyst. the fact that president trump said president obama order wiretap on his phone does that tell you trump doesn't understand how the process works. >> we don't know the source of his information. if there was some connection with president obama and his staff in providing information which left fbi to seek a fisa

warrant it could be some -- some connection. we don't know. he hasn't produced any of tho information. whether he will with a late night tweet tonight or first thing in the morning tomorrow toll add clarification we have to wait to see. up to now, everyone is questioning the basis of his allegation. we don't know. >> what could this source of this information be beyond what we know that there's right wing reports alleging this. ask he ask if my phone wiretapped. what kind of access could he have about this. >> if the allegations were made against him and members of his immediate staff, if he was subject of an investigation they may not be in a position to inform him. but if he wasn't and the

allegation these are wiretaps against his staff, it would be a different story he would be in a position as president to obtain the information and declassify it if he chose. >> this would mean that a judge determined there was probable cause that his phone would need to be wiretapped during the campaign, correct. >> not a judge, a fisa court. >> the fisa court. >> yes. that's a panel of judge with top secret clearance who hear the submission from the fbi and the department of justice to conduct these wiretap and they would rule on that. i can tell you the information on these are close hold. if you have a fbi field division has four hundred agent there may

be unaware of this because of the sensitivity. this is not something that's going to be known through out the department of justice or white house or other places. >>s -- it's going to be restricted of the need to know about this wiretap. to provide the evidence to support the -- technician to point it out. >> tom, thank you. source describing to cnn president enraged. one aide saying, the staff never seen president trump this mad. we'll talk about it up next. you're live in the cnn newsroom.

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right now, attorney general sessions. the president is angry with the senior staff over handling of sessions changing his story. sessions recused himself from the investigation and a possible ties between rirks russian officials and the trump campaign earlier this week. i want to bring in the former ambassador ice man. ambassador, welcome. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >> nice to have you. as we know, jeff sessions recused himself. why is that? >> familiar pamela, we cannot c the political chain of command in the justice department on the people who respond to mr. sessions who had to step away from this investigation of the trump campaign and possibly mr. trump's own ties to russia

because mr. sessions was a part of that campaign has those close ties to mr. trump. in order for the american people to be confident given the extremely serious allegation here, russian interference and possibly trump campaign collusion with the russians we need to have somebody independent and trusted. tar rules for doing that. they are called special counsels and we need one now. >> there's no evidence to support that there's collusion but of course, there's fbi investigation into contact between trump associates when russian during the campaign. our jim acosta is reporting that the are the is angry recused himself. you stated the president's tweet smelled of desperation why is that? >> well, the president is

lashing out without evidence and you're right, these are questions that are being asked about russian attacks on our democracy and our possible whether it exist or not remains to be seem, trump campaign collusion, we know there were a lot of contacts with russians by those in and around mr. trump. for the president to say apparently without basis, it looks like he is reiterating and some what distorting right wing news article that president obama tapped his phone, it has no foundation it's wrong trump in a lot of trouble. >> let me ask you this, when you were ambassador, you would meet with several officials of the

check republic with it be unusual for you to meet with people as jeff sessions when he met with the russian ambassador to the u.s.? >> it would not have have been unusual for me to attend a political convention or meet with campaign officials it would have been unusual if when i went before the united states congress and i was asked about it i didn't disclose it. it would have been unusual if that was the latest in a pattern of nondisclosure that saw for example national security adviser flynn have to leave his job. it would be worst if it was connected to a president who refused to turn over his tax returns which may have evidence of hi own financial connections to russia. we don't know. what i'm saying the context is everything. and here the context is very

troubling. very out of the ordinary. >> thank you for having me. a lot of expleive. that's how the white house aide describe conversation with the president this week. we are hearing inside from the white house about trump furious. you're live we'll be right back.

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word tonight from people kploes to president trump that it's not the most comfortable weekend to be a senior white house staffer. the president is upset than many people have ever seen he aiming anger at everyone. it starts from roller coaster week at the white house. a short time ago.

i got the full store from cnn jim acosta. >> we are tell you president trump was frustrated with the team on friday morning just before he departed for mar-a-lago according to one source that i spoke to. "nobody has seen him that upset", being inside of the oval office. we have a camera rolling where you can see officials having heated conversation with one another. the feeling is that the communication team, had allowed the news of jeff sessions recusing himself that over taking the narrative of the week. from what we're hearing from sources the president was upset that sessions had recused himself from the case.

that was something according one source that the president thought was hasty and over kill. he was hot over this because he felt that basically they were giving their adversaries up on capitol hill more ammunition. the other thing we are hearing from sources close to all of this is that reince priebus, the white house chief of staff and steve bannon, were both schedule to go down with the president yesterday but those chance, abruptly changed. steve bannon did go down today and he having dinner with the president there at mar-a-lago. jeff sessions, attorney general, homeland security kellyanne, so on. no questions about it this breaking news we saw late in the week where jeff sessions we coused himself because he did

not talk about having met with the russian ambassador to the u.s. and that entire story just infuriated the president. in the words of one source, the president told the team that the staff fumble on this. >> that was jim acosta. >> i want to get to former governor, thank you for m cooing on. i want to start with you, the anger at the president staff, does it seem misguided to you. would you expect lim thim to be angry at jeff sessions. >> i'm angry that someone let this get back to someone on abc. if he did express this it didn't leave that room. he has a problem of loyalty and

loyalty is a big thing with donald trump. so i would say first offi he ha to find that and stop it. if people are saying things about someone you revere, you're going to be upset. in the state of the union it was received by the american people to derail that to say he has russian ties, it's dishearting for me and the american people. >> when you say someone is lying about your friend, what do you mean by is that. >> when they condition to say jeff sessions met with the russians -- >> he did. he met russian officials that was ambassador of the u.s., that's true. >> go ahead. >> keith, did you want to say

something. >> i was going to say he met with kislyak two-times. he denied having met him. when he was asked the question about al franken, he said he had no idea who the person was. he had no contact with russia and he tconsidered himself a surrogate. that's a misleading statement at best and some may consider that a lie. we have a problem with donald trump not taking responsibility he trying blame everybody else for the problems. he blaming the staff, the immediate, sean spicer, he blaming jeff sessions. when do you wake up. it's time for him to man up and

be the president, not the blamer and chief. >> these were two public meeting, if he was trying hide something, it didn't be he met in his united states senate hauf with the ambassador, that's not something you can hide. there's people herb where. that's not something you lie about under oath. he probably forgot about it. >> you don't forget a meeting with the ambassador of russian when the company is in the midst of a discussion. that's not a tenable answer to that question. >> you love to beat this russian drum, but he met with the democrats and the president. this is a continuing drum beat,

instead of -- the people who voted for donald trump want to see happen, this is a continuing beat to beat down a guy who is commander in chief of this country. >> did the president add to that drum beat by tweeting out today that the president obama was wired tapped his phone during the campaign as part of an investigation. did trump fuel that fire, andre. >> he controlled the narrative. he dictating the media where they go with the story. but he didn't like -- he feels like, most of the part-tiof the when he pointed this out, as the stories progress, he knows what he is talking about. >> that's not true. when did they back up the 25

illegal votes. when did he back up the idea that he had the largest electoral win since ronald reagan. are you enabling the liar and chief in the white house. you need to stop and hold him accountable. the hype the. >> are you denying that? >> this is what happened, this is what happened with donald trump he puts out a false statement and there's no evidence to back it up and people go on television to defend the indefensible. people won't stand up and hold their own president accountable. >> let me ask you this.

>> there is unacceptable. you should be ashame of yourself for defending this. >> let me ask you this. it appears that the president relied on right wing allegation about president obama and -- >> how do you know that? >> white house officials, speaking to my colleague, circulated. the president wasn't being briefed before dawn on a saturday morning on intelligence for a president to make an allegation like that against a former president that he was wiretapping, what kind of proof would you want, burden of proof before a president go out two tweet like that. >> they reported interception to

trump associates, i don't know if you remember the story. the new york sometimes has said several of his contacts have had intercepted communications. he feels like he is being wire tapped and they have reconfirmed that. >> donald trump this morning at 6:00 a.m. or some time like that sent out series of tweets of president obama wiretapping him. he said president obama is a sick person. this president 6:00 a.m. in the morning getting up today, he is an embarrassment to the country and to the world to have this man who cannot control his impulse early in the morning. he needs to have restraint and discipline. you as a republican should have the gall and -- just the courage to speak up to him.

at least someone should have the courage to speak truth to power. no one is doing that and that is the real crisis in our country. >> last word quickly. >> i know you like to be divisive. >> let's listen to what andre says. >> it's at continual drum beat. the american people want change. they elected him. i know you don't like it. get used to it. he is going to do things you don't agree with. le is the president of the united states. he is going to fight the media when they don't disagree with him. he is not backing down and he has enough gumption to say i'm not going to take it any more. because i'm one that the media

b beat up on me. if he tweeted that -- >> we would want to know what he was basing that on. we are waiting for official white house response on that. >> thank you to you two both. coming up, i'll speak with republican steve king who did not want to see republican jeff sessions recuse himself. does he know something we doesn't know about allegation of president obama. you're live in the cnn newsroom. hold more. for fully loaded lashes. big shot volume. see it. believe it. maybelline's big shot. make it happen. ♪ maybelline new york

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this is nixon water gait. bad or sick guy. joining me now on the phone congressman king. thank you for joining us. do you have proof supporting president trump's allegation that president obama ordered illegal tap of his phones. >> i don't know anybody has the hand on the information that president trump may be using at at point. he made the allegation and made it publicly. there's no evidence to back it up. i think the place to look to see if there have been fisa warrants that have been issued. if you look back at the media this was reported that the fbi sought fisa warrants but had been denied as of last summer. in november the bbc reported on the second attempt, the fbi had

received the fisa warrant. so that may be what president trump is addressing and it's something we need to get to the bottom of it. some of it may be classified so this could be a while before we get to the bottom of this. >> to be clear, cnn does not have the independent reporting. let ask you, your fellow colleague tweeted this allegation has serious implications. do you agree with that? >> i do. i agree with that. we have our constitutional rights what one of the things he has been focused on has been those rights to privacy and looking closely at the fisa warrant. i sit on the committee where we have jurisdiction over this issue. i sat in on this just this week.

we are paying attention to the issue, we are looking closely at them. this is something we need to drill into. if there were surveillance of a presidential president during the campaign or surveillance of the staff to see if they had russian contact, we see the fisa warrant application to evaluate them with the information provided this is going to bring about a close look at the fisa cart to make sure they are protecting the privacy of everyone. if this turns out to be true that the -- the brief administration or operatives within the campaign that had influence within the obama administration are seeking conduct a surveillance that was decide to effect the election results, this is a very heavy thing indeed. by the way, i which say that

evidence of russian ties is no more strong than we don't have that evidence, that evidence don't out. they have beeni looking for it. but i don't see evidence of it. >> the evidence of trump ties to russia? >> yes. they have been reach be hard. the information on the surveillance of the phone calls made by general flynn, the most serious part is that was classified information if they were wiretapping the boambassad from united states it russia and that information was leaked out, that's is a turn out to be true, that is a felony, we should be drilling into that. there's men things that suggest

that. this goes into the politics of the political campaign and an effort to undermine the transition into president trump and undermine the presidency as well. this is a big deal. if we have to go back through it we have to go back through hillary clinton and all of those associations that were never resolved. >> cnn has been told that trump has never been upset as he was after the jeff sessions over shadowed state of the union address. why tweet about the former president wiretapping his phone. that -- >> if you're watching the hyper ventilation -- he carries as

much integrity as anybody. i know him very well, if you're watching that, it's out of pro portion to anything that happened. i think that president trump is looking at it if you have information at trump tower, you're center of operation under investigation by the fbi and you have information leaked out that look to undermine your administration, there's this justification for a high degree of anger on the part of president trump. you should remember he is not the kind of person that walks away from confrontation. he will fight these to resolve it down the bottom. and i think that in the end, he going to be proven to be more correct than not on each of these issues. >> congressman, thank you, steve king. >> thank you. just into cnn we are

learning that the white house is seeking court documents to back up the president's claim, donald mcgahn is reviewing what option is available to us. several senior officials confirm to cnn but white house officials could say whether such documents exists. accordi according to courses that spoke to "cnn today." we'll be right back. stay with us.

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cnn investigations uncovered disturbing reports of rape and abuse in some of america's nursing homes. anna cabrera reports.

>> how are you feeling today, mom, do you know who i am? >> she could hardly move and speak, she was the most vulnerable of the vulnerable. >> he destroyed the final memories i had of my mother. >> moya fisher remembers her mo in better times. >> here are photos of my mom in indonesia. i love that. that's her right here. sonia immigrated to the u.s. where she raised two children of her own. >> she was diagnosed with alzheimer about 14.5 years ago now. it was gut wrenching. you lose your mom day after day.

>> they turned to walker methodist health center. then a nurse walked in on an unthink about act by a 76-year-old certified assistant. >> he had his pants down and she was went over and he was rapeing her. it there was nothing she could do to protect herself, she could not even callout. >> they found from 2014 to 2016 they were miss handling cases of sexual abuse. at least a quarter involved

alleged sex abuse. >> there no family, there's no one there, and i'm all alone in my room. this man, and his name, his first name was andy, and he came in my room and actually molested me. >> the fact of the matter is you gave iek a narcotic, right? >> he admitted to drugging before assaulting an 88-year-old resident in minnesota. >> he testified she was coming on to me, really? >> did you ask him to have sex with you? >> of course not. do you think i'm crazy. >> she had a two centimeter

laceration that was in the stages of healing, but was pretty significant. >> also significant, a nurse remembering a phone call she got from edgewood vista's director of nursing. >> she wanted me to understand that this salesperson what she would consider a flirt, and flirted with this poor boy me, that when it hurt her, he stopped. >> is that victim blaming? >> absolutely. >> i can't comment on employee matters. >> if it was perceived to be that way is there any response? >> we weren't prepared for anything of this nature and we have to do better.

>> they sighted edgewood vista for not doing anything soon enough. the department of health found no wrong doing even though facility records found that the george kpingbah was suspended for previous cases of the same thing. they ruled the allegations unsubstantiated. when asked about this, walker methodist said they cooperated every step of the way with investigators and regularly evaluate standards and safety protocols to protect the lives of older adults. >> are the regulatory agencies doing another to keep facilities like that accountable?

>> the minnesota department of health declined an interview, but says there is an increase in allegations of sex abuse. they added we take these cases very seriously and making sure patients are protected is our top priority. kpingbah remains behind bars, but many perpetrators face no f punishment at all, allowed to continue to work with the elderly. >> if you could say something to the perpetrator, what would you tell him? >> he took away the last shred of dignity that my mother had.

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