john karl. one question friday. >> shawn, the chair and ranking member of the house intelligence committee asked the justice department to turnover any information that they have that there was any wiretapping of president-elect trump, candidate trump, trump tower, if there's no evidence will the president apologize to president obama for making such a serious charge? >> let's not get ahead of ourselves. it's important to see where that goes and i don't want to pre-judge their work at this time. >> but if there's no evidence -- >> you're asking what if there's evidence. i'm not going get into a series of hypotheticals judging a report or investigation that hasn't occurred once that's done we'll respond appropriately. jim. >> senator cory gardner reported by politico yesterday to have said he doesn't believe that $14 billion wall along the mexican border is the best way to provide border security does the white house see the support for border wall weakening? >> no, that was something he campaign

through wikileaks we are learning that when he comes out in this press conference, i'm joined by john karl, we keep an eye on the podium and will recuse himself from the investigation. >> he really did not have any choice in the matter, this is a highly sensitive investigation. the fact that he had a prominent position in the trump campaign, the very first senator to endorse donald trump and a key adviser during the campaign make its virtually impossible for him to make decisions on the investigation regarding russian influence in the campaign and add this latest controversy that he himself with the russian ambassador during the campaign, this is clearly something he had to do. i should point out that president trump just a short while ago in adties to saying he has confidence in jeff sessions if he should recluse himself, and he said no. >> this comes on the heels of firing the security adviser, michael flynn, he had conversation but did not talk about those with the vice phe vice president. that was the reason for his firing as you see. >> it's good to be with you. welcome to the departm

. >> reporter: but ignoring abc's john karl as he asked about proof of his last bold charge against obama>> reporter: the top democrat on the house intelligence committee telling abc news. >> i haven't seen any evidence to back up the president's extraordinary and i think reckless claim that his predecessor wire tapped him at trump tower. >> reporter: the white house not ready to say whether trump will apologize for his explosive claims are officially stomped out. >> if there is no evidence that any wiretapping took place, will the president apologize to president obama for making such a serious charge. >> let's not ged ahead of ourselves. i think it's important to see where that goes. i think once that's done we'll respond appropriately. >> reporter: sean spicer touting that new report showing 235,000 jobs added during trump's first month in office. the press secretary quoting president trump saying those job reports may have been phony before but this time they're real. live in washington t-janai norman channel6 "action news." monica. >> thanks. >>> pope francis is open to the idea of a

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john karl, one question friday. >> i make it one.hair and ranking member of the house intelligence committee asked the justice department to turn over any information they have that there was any wiretapping of president-elect trump, candidate trump, trump tower. if there is no evidence that any wiretapping took place, will the president apologize to president obama for making such a serious charge? >> let's not get ahead of ourselves. i think it is important to see where that goes around i don't want to prejudge their work at this time. jim? >> if there is no evidence, what -- >> again, but i you're asking, what if there is evidence, i mean, i'm not getting into a series of hypotheticals prejudging the out come of a report or investigation that hasn't occurred yet. once that is done we'll respond appropriately. jim? >> thank you, sean. senator cory gardner was reported by "politico" yesrday to have said he doesn't believe that 14 billion-dollar wall along the mexican border is the best way to provide border security. does the white

joining us, chief national correspondent, john king and gloria bornlger, karl bernstein, reporter, a cnn political analyst. john king here. you know, jim acosta talked about the drip, drip, drip we have seen. you know, first it was the attorney general. then the meetings in august we learned about today. then the meeting with jared kushner. a lot of meetings with russians. specifically the russian ambassador. >> john, there's a serious case of jitters among republicans because of this. number one, they got surprised by the man who was supposed to be their friend, jeff sessions, the attorney general. two, u i don't understand there's a playbook for dealing with these things. everybody knows, the trump administration knows blaming democrats for this. yes, it makes sense. try to rally political supporters making it all political. democrats didn't invite them to the russian convention. they didn't invite him to trump tower. democrats didn't set up the meetings we are learning after the fact t. president's statement doesn't quite add up or address the facts. here is why republicans are wor

john rally. you heard karl rove say this is more political theater. what's your thought on that? is that what's behind this? >> this is a smoke screen for the democrats to hide true intentions which is to upend the trump presidency at every turn using all means necessary. look they don't care about russian contacts, they care only because he won the election and had a good night on tuesday night and for nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to run out there and go berserk and say he committed perjury, should resign and barking up the wrong tree. guess what? they're eating up the news cycle. trish: they are, trump is going to be speaking momentarily. we'll be watching for that aboard the navy warship that he said he has full faith in jeff sessions. so he's standing behind him. you know, it seems to be a little issue of semantics as well here. you think back to the questioning that al franken did with jeff sessions, mr. rally. he said if there is evidence that affiliates the trump campaign with russia, if they communicated, what would you do? he said, look, i'm not aware of anything like

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ming up this morning, karl discusses the recent decision to reverse course on an obama administration plan to phase out private prisons. then john lott, president of the crime prevention research center will discuss the trump administration's move this week to roll back an obama era backgrounds checks rule and democracy journal contributor chelsea barabus discusses her article on how employers and other entities are using big data and how the relationship between workers and technology is changing. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> sunday, in depth will feature a live conversation with pulitzer conversation dave barry. during our live discussion from bookstore in karl gables, florida, we'll be taking your calls and emails and facebook questions on his literary career. >> in 1986 i moved to miami and been there ever since and karl and i are going to talk about it but it's a good place if you want to be a

>> anthony: irmin studied with karl heinz stockhausen, but it was a trip to new york city where he was exposed to what lou reed and the similarly classically trained johnd that would prove to be the catalyst for can. '64 was still pretty early days for cultural ferment, i guess. >> irmin: not here. >> anthony: not here. >> irmin: not here. >> anthony: so the question is, why here? what was it about cologne? >> irmin: well, i think it's this generation, which were like me. we grew up in this after war, terrible destruction. and that was the generation which started to create something new. that was bubbling from everywhere. >> anthony: we're having dinner at ox and klee. part of the new codinigne scene where chef daniel gottschlich plans to ki us with deliciousness. grilled scallop with black salsify. a consommé of burned hay, lemon gelee, and walnut oil. when you began can, what was the initial reception? >> irmin: in the beginning, they said that we are not able to play music. we were dilatants. >> anthony: but, i mean, you were all technically proficient accomplished musicians. >> irmin: we were. we were all except the guitar player who was the young

. >>> more on this from jon karl our chief white house correspondent, matthew dowd our chief political analyst and, johnbegin with you and saw the white house dismissing these. the democrats call for jeff sessions to resign but the pressure for the attorney general to recuse himself from this investigation as he's facing questions about his testimony is going to get intense. >> reporter: no question about that, george. look it's important to say at first that i've been reporting on this issue of the russian connection for weeks now. nobody in any of these discussions has suggested in any way that jeff sessions would have been the conduit between the campaign and the russians if there was one but the white sessions' staff knows, s appea cannot be the one decisions about whe investigation goes. >> and, matt ial prosecutor to look into it as well. >> the trump folks thought they m 48 momentum on s would ben weeks then days nowdurs. i think when you look at this whole thing to keep up the march madness theme, donald trump gave a great halftime speech in game one of the tournament but there's a lot of games

john? what are you working on? >> same in my world too. major developments in repealing and replacing obamacare and we have coverage and karl rove and a senatoralk about the increasingly tense fight over what's in the bill. plus, the very latest on the allegations of russian meddling and the allegations of wiretapping. happening now. >> bill: see you in ten minutes. >>> president trump continues his push against illegal immigrants and the spotlight on the court's backlogs and some strep for years. >> bill: before president trump took office the immigration courts were drowning. now his crackdown on illegal immigration can push them further behind as enforcement ramps up. how long's the wait and is it the same everywhere, casey? >> it's quite shocking for a lot of people places like texas, california, new york have the highest concentration of cases but nationally the average wait time just to get before an immigration judge in this country is approaching two years. can you believe that? 673 days. the data provided by a nonpartisan think tank out of the university of syracuse and a sitting judge of 36 years said it's like trying death penalty

john mccain now says congress no longer has the credibility to independently investigate russia's role in the election, robin. >> all right. thank you so much, we'll bring in our chief white house correspondent jon karlknow you have a lot to say about that. you heard what cecilia just said about what congressman nunes said. an extraordinary moment. what has been the response from the white house to his statements? >> reporter: well, you've heard the president say he feels somewhat vindicated. but as chairman nunes made it clear, he was talking about so-called incidental collection, absolutely nothing that he says he has found as he said would prove the allegations that trump tower was wiretapped. more seriously. the impact of his actions yesterday of chairman nunes' actions yesterday raise questions about whether or not his committee can conduct a bipartisan and impartial investigation about the russian interference in the election. he ran down to the white house yesterday to brief the president on what he found. robin, that's the kind of thing you would expect a white house staffer to do, not the chairman of a committee that is investigating the white house itself or associates of the white house. >