so we're talking about no wiretapping and no collusion according to james clapper here.s it politics now? on one side you have the democrats crying collusion. this is the discussion we're having. >> isn't it wild? because on the one hand you hear donald trump saying he was surveilled. on the other hand, when you have someone like a former attorney general mukasey saying, number one, president obama would not have been able to order the wiretap. it would have been the attorney general and the reason they would have ordered it because there was suspicion that someone in the trump organization was perhaps colluding with the russian government or acting as a russian agent. it seems like the ultimate of slippery slopes and how you tweet your way out of it i don't know especially if congress does go down the road of having an independent investigation. >> before i let you go, i want to ask you, john, if you have the discussion we have with clapper that says no wiretapping and no collusion doesn't that just put it all to rest? >> no, i don't think so. i think there is so much t

also said today. >> and here are the comments by james clapper to whom senator collins is referring.should point out that clapper's denial of any sort of wiretapping at trump tower. >> we did not include any evidence in our report, and i say our, and that's nsa, fbi, and cia with my office, the director of national intelligence that had anything that had any reflection of collusion between members of the trump campaign and the russians. there was no evidence of that included in our report. >> i understand that, but does it exist? >> not to my knowledge. >> meanwhile, democratic senator chris coons is standing by his calls for fbi transcripts of this alleged collusion. >> i don't have and i don't know of any conclusive proof one way or the other about whether there was collusion between senior levels of the trump campaign and russian official, but i believe that our intelligence community which is the most sophisticated in the world, has intercepts, has raw intelligence, and it's important that the senate intelligence committee which is conducting an investigation be given access to t

>> clapper and brennan. >> clapper and brennan.rump should be ashamed of himself for his appearance at cia. clapper says there is no evidence of the president's tweets about the wiretapping. just basically laying out efd for very obvious coordination between the white house and nunes including on the morning of the monday hearing last week, white house official told me very clearly that nunes would start to raise the issue of incidental collection. and we know since monday after that hearing one of the things that nunes has done i think arguably to change the subject has been to say that the incidental collection is the issue here which led to him going to the white house. you know, and the other night and briefing the president and so there was some very obvious coordination between the white house and the chairman of the intelligence committee on the last week. >> nunes said to me yesterday the only law i thinks may have been broken is the releasing of the name general flynn in that phone conversations. m may. >> but general flyn

"it is not just james clapper. ben shapiro points out how the left has now re-embraced fbi director james comey just a few months ago, many liberals accused him of throwing the election. now that he is asking the department of justice to publicly reject president trump's wiretapping claims, he is back in the good graces. shannon. >> shannon: oh, washington. thank you, trace. joining me not to talk about allegations of wiretapping during the 2016 campaign is former campaign manager for hillary clinton. thank you for joining us tonight. >> great to be here, thanks for having me. >> shannon: is impossible, as i was discussing with louise, is it possible that dni clapper, former, would not have known about this request? it goes to the fisa courts, some on the fbi makes this request, it was a part reportedly granted. is it possible he wouldn't have knowledge of that? >> ivana national security expert. i have never worked at the dni office. i would defer to the specialists on that. i find this entire situation a little b

>> i haven't seen the statement that director clapper issued. if he said that he hasn't seen yet conclusive evidence, that's quite a different issue than whether there is evidence to be investigated. >> on sunday he said he had seen no evidence -- you know the intelligence community report that came out january 6th that was dni, director of national intelligence, cia, nsa, did not conclude collusion. >> i asked the director of the fbi about that today. was this because you have an ongoing investigation and you're not going to release that in an assessment for the public? his answer was that's right. we're not going to include that. and it wasn't included. to point to that assessment and say there is no evidence in that assessment of collusion, well, yes, that assessment did not cover that issue. similarly, the trump administration is trying to argue that there is no evidence that the interference by the russians affected the outcome in the election. that is not true. >> i'm going to get to that in the next panel because there are some potus twee

i accept everything james clapper said.t contradicts every piece of significant reporting over the last six months. if he is saying there was noe fisa application, there was no fisa warrant, then why have so many news entities said that there are? that's number one. number two, why did chuck todd a not have james clapper on it weeks ago? to disclaim that this fisa stuff was hanging out here. they are all pivoting, including the media. they were are trying to present the case of overwhelming connections, overwhelming concerns, overwhelming potential evidence of trump and the campaign involved with the russians. now it is wait a minute, no, because i say these are police state tactics. you have no basis for all these investigations. now they are saying wait a minute, we didn't have a fisa warrant. we did not do these wiretaps, eavesdropping. now the media are completely confounded. chuck todd said, i've got him now. by the way, i endorsed ted cruz. just so the liberals know, during the republican primaries, i want our preside

clapper.next up, only a couple hours after its release, democrats already calling the new white house refugee pause a quote muslim ban. minority leader senator chuck schumer tweeting this. to be clear, this is only an updated muslim ban. it still makes us less safe. it's mean spirited and un-american. even the media continuing to press the point that the six countries listed are muslim majority, even iraq was dropped. let's look at the ap tweeting. new travel ban for six majority muslim countries. and pr saying quote trump signs new order blocking rivals from six majority muslim countries. let's take this to the president of the american islamic forum for democracy. look who's here. dr. zuhdi jasser. doctor, why is the focus back on this being quote a muslim ban? >> well, because that's all the democrats and the left have in their arsenal to counter. all they want to do is counter anything that the trump administration comes up with. and they use us muslims as a prop, as a identity politic, an

we heard jim clapper say we have no evidence of collusion. well, if you don't have any evidence of collusion, you have obviously been looking for collusion. so we've known for a while that there has been an investigation of collusion, otherwise jim clapper couldn't say there is no evidence of collusion. he wouldn't make that assertion. none of this is really new news other than the fact that we now know for sure. i'm not sure this is as mind bending as maybe we are projecting here. the one good story is they said there is no evidence. what is all this collusion about? there has to be some end on the part of the russians. what would that enbe? the democratic party was saying for a long time they interfered with the election. they messed with the vote. well, it's clear they have now publicly said there is no evidence of vote tampering, none whatsoever. that narrative is now gone. then what is the other -- >> well, they both said, admiral rogers and the fbi director, that the russians's intention was one to try to underminus democracy, two, weak

clapper. at this point everyone on this dias should agree with mr. clapper. we as the committee have seen no evidence, zero, to indicate there was co-collusion or criminal wrongdoing between the previous administration or campaign and russian officials. i want to comment quickly on the leaks. you said very clearly it's a crime, both of you have said that. you indicated it endangers national security, which i certainly agree with, that it makes us hard to authorize tools to protect our national security. and many times it's inaccurate. and i would ask you then if someone in the intelligence community has some concerns, if they feel like there's been an overreach or the government is doing something they shouldn't be doing, any government official, is there a process they can go to where they could make that known or express their concerns? >> yes. all of us, the intelligence community have robust whistle-blower provisions that we educate our folks on and part of the whistle-blower track is they can bring information to the appropriate committee or congress. >>

the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, was on the sunday shows yesterday. he said he doesn't know. take a listen. >> i will say that for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, tlifs no such wiretap activity amounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign. >> now, what the president is a master at -- we have seen it many times -- is to try to take the story away from something that he is not happy with. he does that with his twitter account, and that is what he did, no question about it, when he started tweeting these allegations about the former president at 6:00, 6:30 in the morning on saturday after he left washington really unhappy about the fact that jeff sessions recused himself from the fbi probe, about the fact he didn't feel like he had a good week last week. but here's the thing to remember, there still is an investigation into allegations, questions about any connection between russian officials and trump campaign officials. we don't know if that's at the justice department right

. >> so far, according to clapper, no fire. >> first of all, two things about clapper. he left two and a half months ago. >> the investigation had been going on apparently now. >> the investigation is continued now. b, the way it works in intelligence and this is where i -- where i was forged instead congress and intelligence, information might go from the cia to fbi or fbi to cia, but now going to director of national intelligence. so he might not have known. i wouldn't place a lot of weight on that. the fact is you have to have an investigation. there is reason to believe there should be an investigation. the director mentioned that yesterday. >> there's a lot of democrats putting a lot of faith that there is some fire there. that there was some sort of collusion. if it turns out it wasn't, how damaging is it for democrats. >> he didn't say collusion. he said connection. a word like that. i don't think it's damaging at all. we know there's plenty of connection. that's evident. the fact is is there any breaking of the law. the fact they cooperated is not any -- is self

dni clapper said the that's what he's saying. and we got the russians messing around with hacking into the dnc. those are the three primary issues? i think they're all important. >> yes. but even more so it's what are we going to do this doesn't happen again. there's a fourth issue, greta. as the fbi director said, there are classified leaks that are absolute criminal acts. the fbi director said that today. he also said there are many stories that are not true. >> former president of wiretapping him. what do you say about that. >> what do you say? your constituents must ask you, right? >> you heard the answers today. i think the answers were certainly clear. as of defending this tweet, talk to donald trump himself. >> don't you want to say something? he's going to keep tweeting. he was tweeting this afternoon. >> there certainly is. there clearly was chatter of information about communications that were happening in the trump campaign that have been leaked to the wnts and "the new york time times". >> he says tapping. >> that is

general clapper was in the room and. is there anybody in the room that could leak it out?this was a report not circulated of 20 people. this isn't unmasking of names where 20 people in the nsa and 100 people in the fbi. this is four people in the room with the president-elect of united states. i don't know who else was in that room. thats with leaked out, within minutes or hours of you handing him that dossier. it was so confidential, if you read media reports you handed it to him separately. believe me i'm not saying it is you. it is a small unpercent of that people that would have known about that if it is disclosure of classified information, if you start investigating leaks that is one place you could really start to narrow it down. >> again, mr. king, i can't comment because i do not ever want to confirm a classified conversation with a mt. or president-elect. i. my general experience there are turns out more people that know about something than you expected. first, there may be more people involved in the thing you realize, not this in particular but in gin, more pe

clapper. let's be clear about that. know, once again, given the fact that president trump said that his predecessor ordered a wiretap, this needs to be resolved, and it shouldn't just linger for weeks and weeks. mr. comey can resolve it. again. there were press reports that he wanted the justice department to do it. if you really want to get to the bottom of it. every step of the way i have been interested in getting the steps out, make sure it's not swept under the rug. the step now is for mr. comey to come out. >> have you been been briefed on transcripts of any communication between russians and trump associates? >> i can't comment on internal deliberations or documents in front of the intelligence committee. i just am very concerned that with investigations you would like to have it about a closed box or at least as closed as possible. i think the press and the american people are obviously getting more and more cynical. i would like to see a special counsel named. i think that's in the public interest. but from the

clapper joins me now., sir, to "meet the press". >> thanks, chuck, for having me. >> let me start with the president's tweets that maybe president obama ordered an illegal wiretap of his offices and if something like that happened would this be something that you would be aware of? >> i would certainly hope so. obviously, i can't speak officially anymore, but i will say that for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was no wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign. i can't speak for other title 3-authorized entities in the government or a state or local -- >> i was just going to say, if the fbi had a fisa court order for surveillance, would that be information that you would know or not know? >> yes. >> you would be told this. >> i would know this. >> if there was a fisa court order. >> something like this absolutely. >> at this point you can't confirm or deny whether that exists. >> i can deny it. >> there

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james clapper says no, there was no order of any kind of a wiretapping. he would know about it. >> well, i think the reports from the former dni clapper are the most important new developments of the day. the thing that has been so perplexing to me from the beginning about this whole episode is that if donald trump is right, it is arguably worse for him than if he is wrong. the president of the united states barack obama cannot unilaterally order a wiretap. if there was a wiretap it was because the law enforcement officials in the 0 bam that administration were able to convince a judge that there was sufficient grounds, sufficient reason of concern about collusion with a foreign agent to justify the war tap. as lindsey graham said yesterday, that would be a source of great concern if it were true at all. but certainly today you're seeing the former officials saying it never happened at all. i don't think we know the answer yet one way or the other within but it is a strange place for the president to be in, essentially where if he is valid in what he's sa

either you, admiral rogers, do you have any reason to disagree with the conclusion of general clapper that there's no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign? >> mr. king it's not something i can comment on. >> likewise i'm not going to comment on an ongoing investigation's conclusions. >> but again you're not going to disagree with general clapper, just not going to comment. the reason i point that out that's the situation the other way around you can't comment on something there's an inference out there because a person's name is brought up, because he may have worked for somebody at a certain time there's a guilt impliein th. i'm not in any way being crical of either you. i'm saying this is a situation i think n be damaging to the country, and does advance the russian interests of trying to destabilize democracy and cause lack of confidence in our system. with that i yield back, mr. chairman. >> recognize mr. schiff for 15 minutes. >> a couple follow-up questions before i pass to representative sewell. it wasn't the russians had a negative preference again

chris, clapper was the director of national intelligence. the agency that actually coordinates the other 16 agencies to the degree that they could be coordinated. would he be the one who would know something about this? when he says it couldn't have happened, would he be in a position to know that? >> absolutely. in spite of that we heard from sean spicer earlier at his off camera briefing saying hear the equivocati equivocation. not to my knowledge. first he called what clapper said into question, let's go through wh members of this administration have said just today because it confirms what the critics are saying that there is no proof for what the president charged in that series of tweets. first you had sarah huckabee sanders who asked about this simply said, this is what the president believes and she is not at a high enough clearance to potentially know about other intelligence and kellyanne conway suggesting that perhaps the president is privied to intelligence we don't know about. and then at that off camera briefing, the press secr

clapper joins me now., sir. >> thanks, chuck, for having me. >> let me start with the president's tweets yesterday. this idea that maybe president obama ordered an illegal wiretap of his offices. if something like that happened, would this be something you would be aware of? >> i would certainly hope so. obviously, i can't speak officially anymore, but i will say that for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign. i can't speak for other title three authorized entities in the government or state or local entities. >> if the fbi for instance had a court order for surveillance, would that be information you would know or not? >> yes. >> you would be told this? >> i would know this. >> all right. >> something like this, absolutely. >> at this point you can't confirm whether that exists. >> i can deny it. >> anything at trump tower? >> no. >> that's a big revelation

general clapper was in the room. you were in the room. director brennan were in the room. this isn't unmasking of names where you have 100 people in the fbi or the nsa. it's not people all together in the room. this is four people in the room with the president-elect of the united states. i don't know who else was in that am radio. that was leaked out, it seemed, within minutes or hours of you handing him that dossier. it was so confidential that you actually handed it to him separately. believe me, i'm not saying it was you. i'm saying it's a small universe of people that would have known about that, and if it is a disclosure of classified information, if you are going to start with investigating leaks, to me that would be one place where you could really start to narrow it down. >> again, mr. king, i can't comment because i do not ever want to confirm aa classified conversation with a president or president-elect. i can tell you my general experience -- there are oftentimes there are more people that know about something than you expected. first, because there may be mor

one is james clapper coming out and saying there were no wiretaps. somebody who worked for barack obama, he also worked for barack obama, he also worked for barack obama, he also worked for george w bush and george hw bush. he is seen as a trusted figure, a non—partisan figure. and another key development, the fbi director, james comey, it has been reported he approached the justice department and asked the justice department to come out publicly and say that president trump was wrong, that this was a false accusation and that this was a false accusation and that it needs to be rejected. that isa that it needs to be rejected. that is a big slap down from the director of the fbi. the french conservative francois fillon has said no—one can force him to withdraw his candidacy for the presidency. he is under investigation over payments he made to his family. in a television interview, he insisted his campaign would continue. party leaders are due to meet on monday to decide the way forward. three influential figures propose that mr fillon be replaced by

clapper is seen asa tirade on twitter. clapper is seen as a trusted figure within washington.s having a breast the justice department and asked them to come out and say it donald trump was wrong. but this is a false claim and is to be shutdown. the french conservative, francois fillon has said no one can force him to withdraw his candidacy for the presidency. he's under investigation over payments he made to his family. in a television interview, he insisted his campaign would continue. party leaders are due to meet on monday to decide the way forward. three influential figures propose that mr fillon be replaced by his defeated rival, the former prime minister, alan juppe. this report by our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, contains flashing images. despite the temporary comfort of a crowd, francois fillon is an isolated man, his party no longer united behind him, his campaign director gone, his candidacy dismissed by some as a collective suicide mission. after weeks of pressure to step aside, mr fillon today turned the fire back on his party colleagues, telling them it w

let's parse clapper's words with precision.e says there was no fisa wiretap to his knowledge against the president or his campaign. but he doesn't deny there might be a fisa wiretap against trump's associates. there is a lot of lack of knowledge out here, a lot of careful afte avoidans of of -- f avoidance of real questions. the white house may have done us a favor rather than sitting here and speculate by the. let's have congress look at it. eric: in order to get the foreign intelligence surveillance act to tap something, you need probable cause and a federal judge to sign off on that. reports have been that this a server in trump tower that may have had communication with two russian banks. you have got 6 who say they spoke with russian officials before or after the election. is it feasible the fisa warrant would be specifically for that computer and they were looking at some type of potential alleged connection between any of these six or others and the computer and trump or someone's business? >> there is that possibility.

clapper wrong when he said that? >> i think he is right about characterizing the report which if you all have read. >> i agree with mr. clapper. at this point, everyone on this dais should agree with mr. clapper because we in the committee have seen no evidence that would indicate there was collusion or criminal wrongdoing between any members of the previous administration or officials.d russian i want to come in very quickly. he said clearly it is a crime -- both of you have said that. it endangers national security that it makes hard for us for us to authorize very important tools it many times, it is inaccurate. i would ask if someone in an -- if someone in the intelligence , anynity had concerns government official, is there a process they can go through when they can make that known and express concerns. >> yes, all of us have robust whistleblower provisions that we educate our folks on. part of the whistleblower track is you can bring information to the appropriate committee of congress. our budget -- >> are bo

the former director of national intelligence james clapper is pushing back as well. >> as i oversaw at dni there was no wiretap mounted against the president-elect at the time or a candidate. >> reporter: even members of the president's own party are having difficulty defending the tweet storm. >> i have never heard that allegation made before by anybody. >> at this point i have seen no evidence of what he's allege zblrd senator susan collins a member of the senate intelligence committee told face the nation they would investigate the claim. >> it probably would be helpful if he gave more information or if he just didn't comment further and allowed us to do our work. >> a spokesperson for the former president never authorized any wiretaps on u.s. citizens. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. kendis and diane. >>> the trump administration is expected to unveil its new travel ban today e revoking and replacing the original executive order that was blocked by a federal court. the new immigration order removes iraq from a list of countries that will face a 90-day travel ban. >>> hous

either you or admiral rogers have any reason to disagree with the conclusion of general clapper that there's no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign? >> mr. king, it's not something i can comment on. >> likewise, i'm not going to comment on an ongoing investigation. >> you're not going to disagree with general clapper. you're just not going to comment. the reason i point out is that's the situation the other way around. you kmant comment something and often there's an inference that because a person's name is brought up and he may have worked for someone at a certain time that there's a guilt implied in that. i'm not being critical of either of you. i'm saying this is a situation that can be damaging to the country and does advance the russian interest of trying to destabilize democracy and cause a lack of confidence in our system. with that i yield back, mr. chairman. >> recognize mr. schiff for 15 minutes. >> a couple questions before i pass. it wasn't simply that the russians had a negative preference against secretary clinton. they had a positive pref

i think it was james clapper that also said there was no wiretap of trump. maybe matters to trump or maybe he saw something on television that we haven't been able to see yet because we're busy here. >> it explains why he had such a rough first two months also. you have to know when not to speak in that position. to let others do the speaking for you and to allow inertia to take effect. he doesn't do it well. he's trying to create the action and it's been biting him consistently through two months that he can't believe have gone the way he wanted. >> that's exactly right. he made himself the center in this presidency. interestingly health care is one where he has at points held back one step of reserve and that's going to be a fascinating moment this week because the history of, as they both noel, since republicans took over congress in 1995, they almost always get whatever the bill is out of the house after all the grumbling from conservatives they find a way to pass it through the house and that's going to be what happens this week as well and then all of

clapper, said that during his time he saw no evidence of collaboration between the trump campaign and the russians and he didn't believe a warrant was issued, and if one had been he would have known about it. all i'm saying i'd like to get to the bottom of this one way or the other. if there is an investigation covering time periods mr. clapper was not in charge of or something new came up, i want to know about it so we do not run afoul of it. we're not trying to impede an investigation. we're trying to make sure that one can go forward without congress getting in the way. in the next hearing will be how to protect an investigation from political influence if there is one. so i would imagine most americans would like to know the state of play of what's going on in our country. count the subcommittee to be in on the idea we should provide you more than we provided. senator grassley has been supportive of this committee's efforts. there will be another hearing soon about how to protect the investigation and hopefully before we have that hearing we can tell you if there is one to protect

of the fbi, director rogers of the national nsa, former director brennan from cia, former director clapper. former acting attorney general and mr. henry from crowd strike services. with that i would be glad to take any questions you have. >> you said you want to avoid a witch hunt. are you already downplaying the issue and the outcome of this investigation. >> no, we are trying to get as many of the facts as possible. we announced we will have an open hearing and we are inviting people who obviously have some information as a reports to this investigation. >> why the invitation for general flynn. >> he is invited to attend, but he is not on our official invite list. if there are people who would like to attend, we would like to have them. we encourage them as long as they have something to do with this investigation. at this point, we have invited the people who we feel our directly in line with having information about this information on all sides of it. general flynn is a tangent to some of this because of his name being involved in a lot of the leaks. >> your democrat counterparts, how

james clapper, admiral rogers, they all stayed at the same thing.n any votes in any of those states that in the selection. >> that should be the top line. at the top line of this whole discussion. it will be because of the media but i will tell you at the end of the day, we are a constitutional republic. it's the rule of law and you cannot have the fbi -- he has created his own constitutional -- >> the most important thing is we cannot have the leaks of classified information fleenor times. >> sean: we know that the felony. just like they never finished with hillary and the server. good to see you in studio, by the way. jay, thank you as always. i'm next, tonight, right here on "hannity." >> we are going to drain the swamp of government corruption in washington, d.c. we are going to keep our promises, all of the promises that we made. >> sean: doubling down on draining the swamp, keeping his promises, cutting taxes all during tonight's rally in kentucky. we get reaction from larry elder and corey lewandowski as we continue. weeds. nature's boomerang

this is the same clapper that went before congress and testified under oath -- >> it does include the. he is aware of fbi counter intel swrens. he was asked that in a follow-up >> andrea, you covered the story, he testified there was no massive data collection of phone records of millions of americans and it was out and out perjury, and he later had to admit that he had not told the congress the truth. this is the guy they're hanging their hat on? >> it was not perjury. >> i think president trump is right. there needs to be an investigation into the matter. i'm not saying he's right or wrong. i'm just reporting who he told me, but also when you look i think, clapper himself says there was no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. i think that's pretty significant. >> and how angry was he at his own staff for the way they handled the sessions matter? >> well, we didn't get into that. i saw the president in the oval office wednesday and he reiterated how great a job he thought reince priebus was doing. lot of fake news. reince wasn't down with the president.

clapper did not. he did not discount the possibility that this may have come from somewhere else in the administration that's not under his purview. he said clearly to chuck todd that he's talking about the agencies under his purview. it's a big administration, a big government filled with people. judge jeanine: kellyanne, we are both lawyers. he's saying it could be title 3. if it's title 3, it would be a local or state prosecutor and a criminal case. he's talking about foreign intelligence. so it's important if it's a federal criminal case. >> my on point is mr. clapper in issuing aly denial about a specific question chuck todd asked him later in the interview left open the possibility it could comepe from somewhere else it's the the same thing that happened yesterday when president obama's spokesman said the white house never interfered in a department of justice investigation. but he did leave open the possibility that other pieces of the administration may be the source and the leakers. judge jea

. >> do you know whether director clapper knew the name of the u.s. citizen that appeared in "the new york times" and "washington post"? would director brennan have access to an unmasked u.s. citizens name? would susan rice has access to an unmasked u.s. citizens name? >> fbi and nsa directors testified that leaking and americans name is in serious federal crime but they only hinted at the existence of a criminal leak investigation. >> bret: catherine herridge. thank you. much more on this with the panel. on the senate side, confirmation process for supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch officially kicked off with opening statements today. questioning begins tomorrow morning. chief legal correspondent shannon bream is on capitol hill. first day showed bitter partisanship and a focus on a man who wasn't even in the room. >> long before we are democrats or republicans, we are americans. >> day one and it's clear democrats are still frustrated by the fact that president obama's nominee, judge merrick garland, never made it this far. >> judge garland wa

not going nearly as far as clapper seemed to and saying there were no taps. michael and david. >> yeah, well, look, yes. and i am not suggesting for a moment that we have all the answers here. there is clearly lots to be learned. but i do think that is worth pointing out that, you know, in some respects, the story is murkier today than it was last week. because if, in fact, there were no fisa warrants that intercepted communications among trump operatives, then one does, you know, one does want to know what is the -- what was the basis for these superstitions in the intelligence community and we haven't seen them yet. >> we don't know the answers. >> that's true. also other ways of getting surveillance. the surveillance as has been indicated in some reporting may have been done by allies and other services overseas. and if they pick up conversations between trump associates and russians, they are free to give it to us and we do not need fisa warrants for some of our collection overseas, we don't need fisa warrants either. even involving americans. kind of the

general clapper director of national intelligence said on january 20th, he had found after six months no evidence of any collusion whatsoever between the trump campaign and the russians and all these leaks. and yet we get story after story saying "intelligence sources say." either the journalists are lying which i do not believe, i think they have the sources or the sources are breaking their oath and breaking the law by leaking out falsehoods where things they do not know can damage the president of the united states and its being done within the government. >> sean: sara carter and john solomon, these are seasoned, real journalist. they are not opinion people like i am, but they are reporting -- they go further, any time the trump campaign issue came up, it was investigated and debunked. >> this thing has been going on for eight months. eight months into watergate, we had seven guys indicted, convicted, prosecuted, and sentenced. they were gone. eight months in, not a single indictment. if there is somebody that did something wrong in the trump campaign, in which clapper said -- the

james clapper.he same james clapper who denied that there was a data mining of american citizens. united on capitol hill with his hand up under oath and then came back and said well, i kind of lied. >> bob: you are right. >> eric: the same guy who said it didn't happen. >> bob: unless you have a big enough crane to put michelle obama on top of trump tower. >> kimberly: okay, now we are getting crazy. >> bob: what's crazy is the president of the united states. >> kimberly: bob, i know you are super worked up because we saw the progression of this over the weekend with the tweets. >> bob: this guy has a hissy fit. it's disgraceful parade you don't do that as a county sheriff in louisiana. >> kimberly: all right, anyway. the point is, bob, there should be no problem and you should agree with getting to the bottom of it and finding out what was the exact nature of the request, how wide a net was cast because certainly they can do this data mining and get the information. >> bob: in half an hour, it coul

clapper says there is nothing there. >> that's not what clapper said.udge jeanine: he said there is no connection. >> he said there is no wiretap. judge jeanine: he said there was no evidence of collusion between the trump administration and russia. >> i understand -- judge jeanine: this has nothing to do with donald trump, it has everything to do -- >> he's corrupting the administration. judge jeanine: fox news, let me ask you a question. >> you guys covering for him. judge jeanine: you think barack obama opened up the intelligence agencies so they could leak everything and he has a shadow government with valerie jarrett. he's not doing that. only fox news -- judge jeanine: building a wall in washington. >> i don't know what you are talking about. there is no evidence about that. judge jeanine: coco, stop making this wrap up before you come on. good-bye. the fight is not over. next. my political panel just can't wait to get into it. next time i'm going to let you have fight with her. later -- has the president threatened anybody? >> that's not his styl

clapper, not to my knowledge. a senator from delaware, i have no evidence of collusion. there is a point at which you continue to search for something that everybody who has been