cnn's tom foreman has details. >> we're pleased to see the jobs report this morning.ews for american workers. >> reporter: more manufacturing, more work in health care, education, and mining, almost a quarter million added jobs have the first unemployment rate report down to 4.7%. the president tweeting, great news and much more than expected. but hold on. democrats say this is just a continuation of a trend started by barack obama, noting ever since the recession ended, the unemployment rate has steadily dropped but when obama spoke a year ago of a barely higher unemployment rate of 4.9%, listen to what candidate trump said. >> don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9% and 5% unemployment. the numbers probably 28%, 29%, high as 35%. i even heard recently 42%. >> reporter: it was a standard part of the trump stump speech calling the federal jobless rate misleadi misleading deceptive and fake. >> it's a phony number. these are an absolute disaster. the unemployment number is a total fiction. >> reporter: now zusuggesting t driving force behind the better tha

tom foreman cnn washington. >> and our thanks to tom foreman there.his further with stephen moore, a former economics adviser for the trump campaign. great to have you on. >> great to be with you. >> good to have you. president trump is pushing for tax cuts but also big spend ppg how do these numbers add up? wreck it down for us. >> i cringed when i heard some of the spending increases that he talked about in the state of the union. i'm an old style fiscal conse e conservative and you're going to have to make cutbacks in spending. this deficit if we do nothing is headed to a trillion dollars over the next few years. so the outlook is bleak if we do nothing. we need to do a couple of things. first of all, we need to get the economic growth rate up, from 2% to 4%, you substantially ib crease the amount of revenues that come into the government and that does a lot to bringing down the deficit. but then you have to look at the other areas of the budget that need to be cut. now that report that you just showed mentioned a lot of them. by the way, there are

trump criticized the german leader not along ago as our tom foreman explains. >> reporter: even as the immigrant crisis was surging in europe, he said she was fantastic and probably the greatest leader in the world today. but as germany's angela merkel let more and more migrants into her country and "time" made her person of the year, donald trump tweeted they picked the person who is ruining germany. >> i always thought merkel was a great leader, but what she's done in germg any is insane. merkel did a horrible job when she accepted so many. they will have problems like you've never seen. they're already having huge problems. >> reporter: during the campaign, merkel largely kept her thoughts about trump private. >> translator: i will not intervene at all during the u.s. american campaign. so we'll have to wait. >> reporter: and when he won, she was magnanimous. >> translator: i offer close cooperation to the future president of the united states of america donald trump. >> reporter: but the two now have many sharp differences. >> we're talking about the safety of our nation, the safet

christine, dave. >> all right, tom foreman breaking it down for us. thanks, tom.'s get a check on cnn money stream this wednesday, the first day of march. the dow streak of record highs is over. the dow fell slightly tuesday, finally ending that ridiculous run that we were counting with bated breath. the s&p 500 gaining 4% over the month. the futures are higher right now, stock markets in europe are solidly higher. that's a sign that investors there liked president trump's speech. it's like basic material stocks doing well here. infrastructure play. shares in asia higher as well. now, despite the dow finally snapping that record, the trump stock market rally far from over. one of america's policymakers is paying close attention. here's what the president of the new york federal reserve told my colleague richard quest. >> there's no question animal spirits have been released most the election. stock market is up a lot. household and business confidence is increasing. there's a survey of small businesses that showed a very large increase that december and sustained

tom foreman, cnn, washington >>> the president is bringing back a revamped travel ban. the white house could sign a new executive order banning travel from the u.s. to certain middle eastern and african nations. the trump administration is also temporarily suspending fast processing of h-1-v work visas, a popular pathway for skilled foreigners to work in the united states. they typically take up to six months to be approved but companies could pay to have them expedited. starting next month, the fast-track month will be stopped, possibly for up to six months. >>> mexico is doing everything it can to protect its people in the u.s. from deportation. saturday, the mexican secretary of foreign affairs opened legal aid centers at 50 consulates and embassies in the u.s. mexico says the centers are to help migrants who need legal advice or guidance. the president of mexico called for the centers after the president put in place tougher deportation procedures. >>> civilians are fleeing the iraqi city of mosul as the battle against isis rages on and adding to the misery of suspe

cnn's tom foreman has that for us. tom? >> hey, don. the trump plan keeps several of the most popular parts of obamacare. you can still keep your kids under your coverage until the age of 26. you can't be denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions and there are no annual or life-time limits on insurance benefits. but it also drops some key components of obamacare. the individual mandate which says everyone has to be assured or pay a penalty would be gone so would the employer mandate. and government subsidies to help cover the out of pocket expenses for people would be replaced by refundable tax credits for those folks. and, there is this huge change -- medicaid, which covers care for poor and low income people has always been funded in a fungible way. meaning if the costs go up, the number of people change in a state, the federal money to help changes too. not anymore. under the trump plan each state would receive a set amount of money each year and there would be plan caps for federal funding for all of this over time. so the

tom foreman have more?ny people have to say there's nothing there before you realize there's nothing there. >> reporter: the administration is moving fast to put distance between president trump and a key person of interest in the russian hacking, paul manafort. manafort was president trump's campaign manager from early last year and dismissing early claims by democrats that russian hackers hacked into dnc commuters to twist the election their way. but now a lawmaker in ukraine says he has discovered a new document in an office where manafort worked as he advised the former russian candidate for president, a spokesman for manafort says manafort does not recognize the document and it's not his signature and cnn cannot verify the us then tisity of the invoice, a longer list revealed last fall which purports to show $12.7 million in payments alongside manafort's name. that lawmaker who found the new document believes all the money could be for dun undisclosed services paid for through president's political par

>> thanks so much to tom foreman and i'm joined once again by senior media correspondent brian stelter you make of the timing of these breitbart hits against ryan. >> breitbart said they had this tape of ryan saying i'm going to defend trump, but they've had it for six months. this was right around the access hollywood video tape. there were rumors about this tape, we had heard this paul ryan had said this, but never actually heard him recorded saying this, until this pivotal moment in these health care negotiations. i think the most obvious theory was breitbart was trying to time this to put pressure on paul ryan, breitbart has been relentless about obamacare-lite or ryan care. and rand paul's concerns about the bill, so the site is trying to hold, i suppose trump and ryan accountable from the right on this health care issue. >> it looks like it's also going trying to distance trump from the -- even though he says don't call it trump care. >> people are pointing out he said every american will be covered, there will be health care for everyone, access for everyone. president trump is

tom foreman explains. >> we're very pleased to see the job reports that came out this morning. >> more healthcare and education and mining, almost a quarter million rate for the new frez down 4%. 'tweeting great news and much more expected. but democrats say this is just a continuation of a trend started by barack obama noting ever since the recession started the unemployment ralt has been pretty steadily dropping. yet when president obama spoke over a year ago of a barely hire rate of 4.9%, listen to what candidate trump said. >> don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.5 and 5% unemployment, the number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. in fact, i even heard recently 402%. >> it was a standard part of the trump stump speech calling the federal job rate misleading. >> it is such a phony number. these numbers are an absolute disaster. the unemployment number as you know is totally fiction. >> now the white house suggests the driving force behind this better than expected jobs report is optimism over the president's business, trade, immigration, and tax policies. never mind that

cnn's tom foreman joins me now. is steadfastly pushing back on any allegations of wrongdoing. >> oh, he absolutely is, jake, just as the white house is as you noted there. and yet it does look like he may be heading for the hot seat in front of congress where he will face a simple but dangerous question, did he or anyone else connected to donald trump help the russians in their attempt to influence the last election. the white house is fast putting distance between the president and his campaign chairman from last summer, but paul manafort may have a hard time slipping past members of the intelligence committee who want to grill him. >> we know what russia has done in the electoral process. now we have to see what kind of combination or conversations took place between folks affiliated with the trump campaign and the russians. >> reporter: a new report from the associated press claims manafort secretly worked a decade ago for russian billionaire to promote kremlin interest. he says the money was for business consulti

cnn correspondent tom foreman joins me to breakdown the numbers. dent isn't looking just to spend, but he also wants to cut. >> it's complicated. there is a lot going on here. the budget the president wants is far reaching and it's ambitious, it fits neatly with many of his campaign promises to roll back regulations, cut waste, disrupt washington, but now what he wants is going to collide with what congress will give him and the results could be wildly unpredictable. even for a billionaire president, the budget proposal is a whopper. starting with the trillion dollars for infrastructure, new bridges, roads, dams, power lines. >> financed through both public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs. [ applause ] >> reporter: also on the wish list, a $54 billion or 10% increase for the military, which already accounts for more than half of all discretionary spending. and, of course -- >> we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. >> reporter: the president has said mexico will pay for it. mexico say

tom foreman is out front. >> reporter: the blistering series of tweets raised extremely serious accusationstration wiretapping phones at trump tower with zero evidence to back the claims. nonetheless, president trump's team stormed the talk circuit echoing his outrage. >> i think the american people have a right to know if this happened. >> and god bless the united states. >> reporter: what spurred the roaring tweet storm? after the president's widely praised speech to congress, sources say he was furious to see questions about his team's ties to russia again stealing headlines particularly galling was attorney general jeff sessions' decision to step back from an investigation into the matter. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> reporter: one source told cnn nobody has seen the president that upset, while others said in a meeting laced with expletives, trump accused his staff of fumbling the sessions situation, creating a mini disaster. tv cameras captured the an animated meeting in the oval office involving trump's senior staff including chief stra

cnn's tom foreman has that story for us. >> we don't know many details of what the fbi is consideringis look into the so-called russian connection, but we do have an idea about some of the people they are scrutinizing. >> how many people have to say that there's nothing there before you realize there's nothing there? >> reporter: the administration is moving fast to put distance between president trump and the man who is a key interest in the russian hacking investigation. paul manafort. >> obviously there's been discussion of paul manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> reporter: limited? manafort was donald trump's campaign chairman from may to mid-august last year. overseeing the staff, the budget, and dismissing early claims by democrats that russian hackers targeted their party's computers to tilt the election trump's way. >> they certainly are getting desperate rather early in the game. >> reporter: now a lawmaker in ukraine says he has discovered a new document in an office where manafort worked as he advised the former ukrainian president

here's tom foreman. >> reporter: the fuse on the explosive wiretapping claim was lit by a flurry of tweetsd out that obama had my wires tapped. this is nixon watergate. a new low." yet as skeptical lawmakers have pressed the president for details, he has waffled. >> i've been reading about things. i read in -- i think it was january 20th, a "new york times" article where they were talking about wiretapping. i think you're going find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> reporter: it's a pattern. in the election just weeks before the vote when many polls showed him trailing he said -- >> the election is rigged. it's rigged like you've never seen before. >> reporter: he produced no evidence. yet when hillary clinton took the popular vote, he flung out another unsupported claim. in addition to winning the electoral college in a landsl e landslide, "i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." on his tax returns, for years he promised he would release them. in may 2014 -- >> if i decide to run for office, i'll produ

that's where it's no longer a joke and he needs to take it seriously. >> one of the things tom foremann this as well. you hear the president when he's confronted with something that has been proven false. a claim that's been debunked. his reaction is, i didn't say it, i'm just quoting it. it happens now and it's happened before. a walk down memory lane. >> i didn't make an opinion on it. that was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on fox. there's this doubt. people have doubt. again, this was not my suggestion. i didn't bring this up. >> why did you put it in your tweet if you don't believe it? >> they said it, i didn't say it. >> i don't know. i was given that information. i was given -- actually, i've seen that information around. >> that's like me saying, congressman, i am not asking you a question, i'm just looking directly you, and i'm going to string some words together and put a big question mark on the end of it. is this now the epitome of distinction without a difference? >> i think this is the donald, this is the style. and i think as he matures in office, he'll do wh

tom foreman has the fact check for us. listen to this. president's speech was filled with numbers but did they add up to truth? take jobless n. >> we most honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. 94 million americans are out of the labor force. >> the figure is right but the vast majority of the people don't want work according to government data. 44 million are retired. 15 million disabled. nearly 15 million taking care of a family member and 16 million in college or job training. maybe because they couldn't find work but all those big adjustments bringing the number way down. how about crime? >> the murder rate in 2015 speerned its largetsest single year increase in nearly half a century. >> that's only because the murder rate the year before was really low. the overall rate is still way down compared to past decades. immigration? >> according to the national academy of sciences our current immigration system costs american taxpayers many billions of dollars a year. >> yes, that report says integrating first generation immig

tom foreman has more from washington.hite house press secretary: "obviously we are very pleased to see the jobs report that came out this morning - it's great news for american workers."more manufacturing - more work in healthcare, education, and mining... almost a quarter million added jobs have the first unemployment rate report for the new president down to four-point-seven percent. the president tweeting: "great news" and "much more than expected!" but hold on: democrats say this is just a continuation of a trend started by barack obama...noting ever since the recession ended, the unemployment rate has been pretty steadily dropping. yet when president obama spoke just over a year ago of a barely higher unemployment rate of four-point-nine percent...listen to what candidate trump said...pres. trump: "don't believe those phony numbers, when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. the number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. in fact, i even heard recently 42 percent."it was a standard part of the trump stump speech...ca

let's get more from tom foreman. >> hey chris, hey allison, we don't know the details of what the fbinsidering in their investigation of the so-called russian connection but with we do know a bit about whom they are looking at. >> how many people have to say there's nothing there before you realize there's nothing there. >> the administration is moving fast to put distance between president trump and the man this is a key interest in the russian hacking investigation. paul manafort. >> there's been discussion of paul manafort that played a limited role for a limited amount of time. limited donald trump's campaign chairman from may to mid august last year. overseeing the staff and the budge and dismissing early claims by democrats that russian hackers targeted their party computers to tilt the election trump's way. >> they're getting desperate early in the game but now a law maker in ukraine discovered them as they advised the former ukrainian president. the lawmaker says the paper looks like an invoice for $750,000 in computer parts. allegedly signed with manafort's name. he does not

more now on the latest episode and the sources of ire from tom foreman. >> reporter: the blistering series tweets raised extremely serious accusations about the obama administration wiretapping phones at trump tower with zero evidence to back the claims. nonetheless, president trump's team stormed the talk circuit echoing his outrage. >> the american people have a right to know if this happened. >> and god bless the united states. >> reporter: what spurred is the roaring tweet storm? after the president's widely praised speech to congress, sources say he was furious to see questions about his team's ties to russia again stealing headlines. particularly galling his attorney general jeff sessions' decision to step back from an investigation into the matter. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> reporter: one source told cnn nobody has seen the president that upset. while others said in a meeting laced with expletives trump accused his staff of fumbling the sessions situation creating a mini disaster. tv cameras captured an animated meeting in the only

tom foreman tonight has more. >> unbelievable!rter: a key question of the transition was how far would president trump step away from all his business interests. >> you sell water and we have water. >> we have trump steaks. >> we have trump magazine. >> reporter: the answer, not very. almost every three days since taking office he's stopped by a trump building, trump hotel or trump resort. according to a breakdown by the "washington post." and he's been to golf courses so many times his press secretary is playing defense. >> so on a couple of occasions he's conducted meetings there, he's actually had phone calls. so just because he heads there doesn't mean that that's what's happening. >> reporter: but all that activity behind closed doors with no oversight is making government watchdogs nervous. democrats are pushing for legislation demanding visitor logs at places like his mar-a-lago resort. >> he's really making his business part of the government, or the government part of his business. >> you know, i'm a good golfer, believe

here is tom foreman. >> reporter: if there is one thing this president likes to do, it's make a deal put on that hat, first by cozying up to several senators who were arch rooifrivals during the cam. he had ted cruz and his family to the white house for dinner and posing for a picture with the kids. cruz called the trump family warm and gracious, the same at the scene same ted cruz who said his father was connected to the assassination of kennedy. >> it won't work. premiums and prices will continue to spiral out of control. >> reporter: then there is senator rand paul. candidate trump belittled on the debate stage. >> first of all, he shouldn't be on this stage. he's 11 and has 1% in the polls and how he got up here, there is far too many people, anyway. >> reporter: trump turning on the charm. the president reached out to the kentucky senator over his continuing opposition to the health care overhaul and later tweeted i feel sure that my friend rand paul will come along. and campaign arch enemy lindsey graham got the treatment, too. trump met with graham cautionening the president a

i want to bring in tom foreman. >> we had about 39,000 people out there with their pads and phones, whatevering in casting about 15 million votes moment to moment, the line moves up if they like it. it moves down if they don't. democrats in blue. independents in purple. republicans in red, and look at how the lines behaved when he brought up his signature issue, the thing that got him into the race, the border wall. >> for that reason, we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. >> this is the number one thing that propelled him into the race, and democrats don't like it. independents don't like it, but republicans went soft on that too in the views audience. people not too done on that. there were other areas where you could really see the gap between the democrats and the republicans. no more so than when he talked about the superior court. conservative justice passed away antonin scalia. democrats thought barack obama would fill the see. the republicans blocked it. and now president trump has his ideas. >> to fill his seat we have chosen neal gors

alluding to some of the comment that is candidate trump made about her in the campaign and more from tom foremanrter: even as the immigrant crisis was surging in europe he said she woos fantastic and probably the greatest leader in the world today. as germany's angela merkel let more and more migrant's into her country. donald trump said they picked the person that is ruining germany z what she has done in germany is insane. merkel did a horrible job when she accepted so many. in germany, they are going to have problems like you have never seen. they already have. >> she largely kept her thoughts about trump private. >> i will not intervene at all during the u.s./american campaign. so we will have to wait. >> reporter: when he won, she was mag nnanimous. >> i offer close cooperation to the future president of the united states, donald trump. >> the two have many sharp differences. >> we are talking about the safety of our nation, the safety and security of our people. >> reporter: as he has tried to slap a travel ban on several muslim majority nations she has argued the fight against terrorism d

here's tom foreman. >> reporter: if there's one thing this president likes to do, it's make a deal.t on that hat. first by cozying up to several senators who were arch rivaling during the campaign. he has ted cruz and his family to the white house for dinner even posing for a picture with the kids. cruz called the trump family warm and gracious. this is, of course, the same ted cruz whose father trump asserted was somehow connected to the assassination of john kennedy. >> the house bill has been put as obamacare lite. premiums and prices will spiral out of control. and then rand paul who candidate trump belittled on the debate stage. >> he's number 11. how he got up here, there's too many people. >> reporter: trump turning on the charm. he reached out and later tweeted i feel sure that my friend rand paul will come along. and campaign enemy lindsey graham has gotten the treatment. trump met with graham cautioning the president against giving in too much to congressional psh. >> if members haved ins, we want to hear them and be part of it. this isn't getting jammed through. >> report

tom foreman is "out front." >> russia is a ruse. >> reporter: different players but the same playbookor: this all looks like a witch-hunt. >> reporter: the russian government is sounding a lot like the white house in denying any improper ties between the two. >> we are fighting the fake news. >> stop spreading lie and false news. >> reporter: yet skepticism, especially among the president's foes, persists. why? >> i would get along with putin. i've dealt with russia. >> you think you'd get along with putin. >> i think i'd get along with him fine. absolutely fine. >> reporter: ever since he incited conflict, the web of suspicion as widened. paul manafort worked for years with the pro-russian president of ukraine. manafort is being scrutinized by investigators for his contact with russians known to u.s. intelligence during the campaign. president trump's assessment just weeks ago -- >> he said that he has absolutely nothing to do and never has with russia. >> reporter: carter page lived in moscow, did business with russian energy firms, and trump said page was on his foreign policy team

tom foreman out front. tochl, this is going to be krurnl. a lot of attention.s in the middle of the night. 50 miles from north korean border. what can you tell us about it. >> this is a state of the art array of tools here. normally, this missile defense system consists of nine vehicles. most of them missile launchers. also a couple of demand vehicles and advanced radar system which both acquires the targets which the incoming missiles and guides these missile killing missiles out to strike them. so what do these things look like. eechl one would be about 20 feet long. weigh about 2,000 pounds. this would be the booster down here. this gets it into flight and then it breaks off as it gets closer to the target. leaving you with this part of it. the front end has advanced electronics in it. break off in flight as well. exposing seeker here to help guide it to target. control system helps push it into the final impact. up there. they call all of this the kill vehicle. it's range is pretty impressive. it can go down range and 16 miles high to engage target. >> tom,

more from cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: even as the immigrant crisis was surging in europe, he saidhe was fantastic and probably the greatest leader in the world today. but as germany's angela merkel let more and more migrants into her country and "time" made her person of the year, donald trump tweeted, they picked the person who is ruining germany. >> i thought merkel was this great leader. what she's done in germany is insane. it's insane. merkel did a horrible job when she accepted so many. in germany they're going to have problems like you've never seen. they're having huge problems. >> reporter: during the campaign merkel largely kept her thoughts private. >> translator: i will not intervene at all during the u.s. american campaign. so we'll have to wait. >> reporter: when he won, she was magnanimous. >> translator: i offer close cooperation to the future president of the united states of america, donald trump. >> reporter: but the two now have many sharp differences. >> we're talking about the safety of our nation, the safety and security of our people. >> reporter: as he has

tom foreman is out front. >> reporter: the white house was already running away from the president'sormer campaign manager paul manafort, but now the president's team seems to be in a dead sprint, insisting lawmakers, law enforcement, and officials have all reviewed allegations the russians may have had american help hacking the last election and -- >> seen zero evidence of any collusion between the trump campaign and russian officials, and that's not going to be changed by a former business dealings of a campaign staffer from a decade ago. >> reporter: just a staffer? not according to other prominent republicans during the race. >> nobody should underestimate how much paul manafort did to really help get this campaign to where it is right now. >> reporter: but those business dealings, the press secretary was talking about a new revelation that manafort worked for russian billionaire oleg alleged to have secretly promoted russian president vladimir putin's agenda with manafort making millions. he says the money was for business consulting. manafort says the work did not involve repre

tom foreman is "out front." >> how many people have to say there's nothing there before you realize nothing's there? >> reporter: the administration is moving fast to put distance between president trump and the man of key interest in the russian hacking investigation, paul manafort. >> obviously a discussion of paul manafort who played a limited role for a limited amount of time. >> reporter: limited? he was campaign chairman from may to mid-august last year, overseeing the staff, the budget, and dismissing early claims by democrats that russian hackers targeted their party's computers to tilt the election trump's way. >> they are getting desperate rather early in the game. >> reporter: now a lawmaker in ukraine says he's discovered a new document in an office where manafort worked as he advised the former ukrainian president, viktor yanukovych. the lawmaker says the paper looks like an invoice for $750,000 in computer parts allegedly signed with manafort's name. a spokesman for manafort says manafort does not recognize the document and it's not his signature, and cnn cannot verify the authe

tom foreman is out front. >> reporter: the president's speech was filled with numbers but did they addo truth? take joblessness. >> we must honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. 94 million americans are out of the labor force. >> the figure is right but the vast majority of those people don't want work, according to government data. 44 million are retired, 15 million disabled, nearly 13 million taking care of a family member, and almost 16 million are in college or job training. maybe because they couldn't find work, but all those adjustments fwlang big number way down. how about crime. >> the murder rate in 2015 experienced it's largest single-year increase in nearly half a century. >> reporter: that's only because the murder rate the year before was really low. the overall rate is still way down compared to past decades. immigration. >> according to national academy of sciences, our current immigration system costs american taxpayers many billions of dollars a year. >> yes, that report indicating first generation immigrants is costly but their kids contribute so much t

tom foreman has tonight's "big number." >> obviously we're pleased to see the jobs report that came outs morning. it's great news for american workers. >> reporter: more manufacturing, more work in health care, education, and mining. almost a quarter million added jobs at the first unemployment rate report for the new president down to 4.7%. the president tweeting, "great news" and "much more than expected." hold on. democrats say this is just a continuation of a trend started by barack obama noting ever since the recession ended the unemployment rate has been pretty steadily dropping. when president obama spoke just over a year ago of a barely higher unemployment rate of 4.9%, listen to what candidate trump said. >> don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9% and 5% unemployment. the number's probably 28%, 29%, as high as 35%. in fact, i've. heard recently 42%. >> it was a standard part of the trump stump speech, calling the federal jobless rate misleading, deceptive, fake. >> it is such a phony number. these numbers are an absolute disaster. the unemployment number as you kno

tom foreman is out front. >> i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. >> reporterother shot across the bow of the republican accomplishment. >> i have real concerns with our nomin nominee. >> reporter: the explosive comments by house speaker paul ryan were recorded and reported last october. so why did the ultraconservative website breitbart release the audio now? possibly because it could help drive a wedge between president trump and establishment republicans. >> good morning, everybody. >> reporter: who are jointly pushing a plan to repeal and replace obamacare. >> i want to thank paul ryan and everybody. >> reporter: it's a plan they like, but many on the far right despise. >> i think they are basically taking the obamacare framework and trying to call it a republican piece of legislation. >> that is not what we promised the american people we were going to do. >> reporter: when president trump's new head of health and human services promised under trump care -- >> i firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially -- >> reporter: -- breitbart hit back

tom foreman is "out front" to show you. >> reporter: the fuse on the explosive wiretapping claim was lit by a flurry of tweets. just found out that obama had my wires tapped. this is nixon watergate, a new low. yet skeptical lawmakers pressing the president for details, he has waffled. >> i've been reading about things. i read in i think it was january 20th, a "new york times" article, where they were talking about wiretapping. i think you'll find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> reporter: it's a pattern. in the election just weeks before the vote when many polls showed him traili ining he said >> the election is rigged, rigged like you've never seen before. >> reporter: he produced no evidence, yet when hillary clinton took the popular vote he flung out another unsubpoena ported claim. in addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. on his tax returns, for years he promised he would release them. in may 2014 -- >> if i decide to run for office