as somebody who spent a year saying, oh, gee, isn't it crazy that he's tweeting this or saying that. when you start to see that there's a pattern to something. not just in terms. news cycle. we're talking about russia and things he doesn't want us to talk about but also the time of the day. at dawn. setting the news cycle in the morning. there is intentionality. going after president obama, that's personal too. >> if it comes out, as it really is coming out already. >> this tweet wasn't strategic. >> he would be seen as being a blow hard who is sending out nonsense at dawn. what about blaming the guantanamo recidivists, when in fact he had a very small role in it. >> i think it was just popping off. going on the morning shows and saying what can i put out this morning to get people like us talking about something like gitmo instead of talking about rod rosenstein who could be the deputy ag is having his confirmation hearings today. >> let me get back to robert. one of the stories that's out is a haywire situation. we saw pictures through windows of steve banning being eruptive last we

here just one of six tweets. he wrote, quote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. and here is lindsey graham at a town hall this morning. >> the president of the united states is claiming that the former president of the united states ordered wiretapping of his campaign last year. i don't know if it's true or not, but if it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. >> senator graham went on to say if the obama administration was able to secure a warrant to wiretap, that would be concerning because it meant there was a reason the court would allow it. meanwhile, here's what congressman mole ton who sits on the armed services committee told thomas robertss this morning. >> i don't want to speculate on this one tweet from a president who is a serial liar. he gets up every day and lie to the american people. if under the obama administration they were simply monitoring contacts with russia

he tweeted that ‘obamaca re he tweeted that ‘obamacare will explode and we will all get together andry.” do not worry." if do not worry. " if you look at where the republicans are now, they control the major levers in washington and they still could not get this done, this tweet is to reassure his supporters. one of the things that was key about yesterday's drama was both the republicans and president trump's spokesman was keen to push forward the message that president trump had done all he could. that he had been up done all he could. that he had been up on the hill, had tried to not just twist arms but break them when it came to try to persuade republicans. -- he tweeted that "obamacare will republicans. -- he tweeted that "obamaca re will explode republicans. -- he tweeted that "obamacare will explode and we will all get together and piece together all get together and piece together a great health care plan for the people. do not worry." the problem is that when it comes to politicians who represent different districts, right across the us, you have very differing views across t

he is certainly tweeting about it a lot. he is trying to set the table for people. two men that met with them today. what is their take, next. why are you checking i want to see if it changed. credit scores don't change that much do they? really? i'll take it! sir, your credit... is great, right? when was the last time you checked? yeah, i better check my credit score. here, try credit karma. it's free. alright, no more surprises. credit karma. give yourself some credit. bp engineered a fleet of 32 brand new ships with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. ( ♪ ) it just feels like anything is possible here in upstate new york. ( ♪ ) at corning, i test smart glass that goes all over the world. but there's no place like home. there's always something different to do like skiing in the winter, jet skiing in the summer. we can do everything. new york state is filled with bright minds like samantha's. to find the companies and talent of tomorrow, sea

>>> he tweeted me at smerconish, what do we have? i think someone has to explain the issue that donald trump won and the democrats lost. i think as americans we need to know exactly how he won. that's all i'm advocating. one more. it says as a resident, thank you for revealing to the world about our legendary coach. steve, it was the most pleasant pleasurable commentary i've ever delivered at cnn. thank you for watching. see you next week. >>> always good to have you on board with us. i'm cristi paul. >> i'm mark savage. i'm in for victor blackwell. >> good to have you wus. new accusations from trump. he alleges former president barack obama tapped his phones during the election. president trump didn't offer any proof of that but cnn white house correspondent a thena jons is live in palm beach. what are you hearing? >> as you mentioned there have been no evidence offered to back up these very serious allegations that the former president was essentially spying on him. but let's go through this series of tweets that the president put o

had he consulted anyone before he tweeted that he was going to put these explosive allegations out? >> i can't speak 100% whether he did or not. i'm not sure. >> couldn't the president declassify these things if he wanted to? >> you know, i don't think that's necessary. i think what is necessary is congress doing its job. let them investigate this. let them do exactly what they've done on our end and see whether there's something there. i think there is a lot of reporting that indicates there certainly is. >> do you think there should be a special prosecutor to look at this? >> i don't think we're there yet. i think we need to let congress do their job. i think that's where we need to start. again, i think that's the first place to go. and we see what happens from there. >> can you tell us anything about the meeting that president trump had last night with attorney general jeff sessions? did they meet? >> i believe they had dinner, yes. they did. >> and the subject? >> look, he's the attorney general of the united states. um -- >> who recused himself this week. >> he's one of the ca

but now he's tweeting as trump and as president. these tweets and it's hard not to take them seriously. >> absolutely. we need to scrutinize his words just like obama's or bush's or reagan's or any president's words that have to be taken seriously. but i think the media amplifies president trump's tweets in a significant way, possibly too loudly. his posts today were about merkel, about germany. there were 15,000 retweets, that means 15,000 people spread them to their friends. but millions of people heard about those tweets through your newscasts and other newscasts. so it's the media who amplifies his tweets. if i tweet about my breakfast, nobody pays attention. maybe we should spend less time talking about his celebrity feuds. >> >> the president was asked if he regrets any of his tweets. let's watch. >> my second question, are there from time to time tweets that you regret. >> very seldom. >> so you -- >> very seldom. probably wouldn't be here right now. very seldom. we have a tremendous group of people that listen. i can get arou

had he consulted anyone before he tweeted that he was going to put these explosive allegations out? >> i can't speak 100% whether he did or not. i'm not sure. >> couldn't the president declassify these things if he wanted to? >> you know, i don't think that's necessary. i think what is necessary is congress doing its job. let them investigate this. let them do exactly what they've done on our end and see whether there's something there. i think there is a lot of reporting that indicates there certainly is. >> do you think there should be a special prosecutor to look at this? >> i don't think we're there yet. i think we need to let congress do their job. i think that's where we need to start. again, i think that's the first

he has also come out and pubi he is tweets from a reefej , july. has also come out and pubi he is tweets from a couple of , fh’ft “2: '5—2 532—222? f”? 22 t’f‘jt‘e ts ago claiming his phones were tapped at tower tapped at - tower by the obama tapped at - he >wer by the obama tapped at - he is er by the obama tapped at - he is the y the obama tapped at - he is the y the lto ima 5333151151; 2221221212751; 22g22212ie2 he 52215272152; that 22g22212ie2 he 2 1he le1e7511e that there is absolutely say that there is absolutely no evidence of that. he also referred an investigation by the intelligence community in january which came out and concluded that russia did indeed . e e which came out and concluded that russia did indeed with — — — which came out and concluded that russia did indeed with the — russia did indeed interfere with the 2016 election. he said that there was a lot of- he said hated hillary so hm that he putin, hated hillafysor’nirchthathe ' ' wa nt putin, hated hillafysor’nirchthathe ' ' want her to putin, hated hillafysor’nirchthathe ' '

and it's not as though he often runs these tweets by his communications staff, but this official said that they don't believe the president is trying to get ahead of any particular story that's about to come out, but rather, he's angry about all of these stories about russia and the questions that are being raised about campaign aides and ties with contact officials and also pointed to a breitbart news story that has been circulating around the west wing which followed up on comments by the radio talk show host mark levin who claimed that president obama was working to undermine trump's presidential campaign and his administration including through these various investigations on russia and the possible ties to trump associates and i should tell you that trump's social media director dan tweeted a link to exactly that breitbart story so it seems pretty clear that this is what is has influenced the president to put out the tweets this morning but it's a story that's getting a lot of attention. let's read one of the tweets the president put out. how allow has president obama gone to tap

we know exactly why president trump tweeted what he tweeted. because there is one page in the trump white house crisis management playbook. and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from a scandal. the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet. >> we know about the denial from president obama. and the law as well. president obama's former speech swrn writer, jon favreau, your former colleague, said -- i would be careful about reporting that obama said there was no wiretapping. statement just said that neither he nor the white house ordered it. can you categorically deny that the obama white house didn't seek a fisa order? >> i can categorically deny that the white house was involved in directing or interfering or influencing an fbi investigation -- >> that's not what i'm asking. can you deny that the obama white house did not seek and obtain a fisa court-ordered wiretap of the trump campaign? >> the simple answer is, i don't know. it's not because i'm no longer in government. the fact is, even when i was in gove

we know exactly why president trump tweeted what he tweeted. because there is one page in the trump white house crisis management playbook. and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from a scandal. the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet. >> we know about the denil from president obama. the president's former speech writer said, i would be careful about reporting that obama said there was no wiretapping. statement just said that neither he nor the white house ordered pit. can you categorically deny that the obama white house didn't seek a fisa order? >> i can categorically the white house was involved in influencing. >> that's not what i'm asking. can you deny that the obama white house did not seek and obtain a fisa order -- >> the simple answer is, i don't know. when i was in government, i was not in a position of being regularly briefed on an fbi criminal or counterintelligence invasion gags. no one at the white house, including the president of the united states, should be in a position in which they'r

you seemed to acknowledge the president was wrong when he tweeted 122 prisoners released by the obama administration from gitmo had returned to the battlefield, in fact, was mostly by the bush administration. will he retract or even apologize for that, given he also called it a terrible decision by the obama administration, and given that that was incorrect, there still has been no proof either of his tweets about widespread voter fraud or the wiretapping, does

tweeted on this? hes the lack of support you may looking for and we we re support you may looking for and we were looking and the way to check that, has he tweeted it out? what was interesting about this is he stood traditionally in front of a podium. tonight. donald trump would have done that, gone on to twitter and shouted down, so 40 days into donald trump's rain and it feels like a state of permanent resolution where he is fighting battles all the time! first—day lead yesterday. where he is fighting battles all the time! first-day lead yesterday. he has given up for lent, that is at! that is he hasn't tweeted! jesus walked in the wilderness for 40 days, you have a president with a messiah complex staggering from one thing to another. there is a metaphor somewhere! you have it here first. in 40 days each week but you might be late. still with the guardian, the new mi6 boss, less white and less like james bond. this is good. this is a very interesting piece from the guardian where they now think he sho

he tweets about fox. he uses fox graphics to advance his agenda. he promote fox as fair while denigrating its rivals as fake. all of this amounts to a fox news presidency. a presidency shaped by fox news in all sorts of ways, big and small. we saw it in action this week. let me show you how a comment on fox created an international incident. andrew napolitano, a former superior court judge now an analyst on fox said this. >> fox news has spoken to intelligence community members who believe the entrance did occur. that it was done by british intelligence. >> so he said his sources believe that the british helped obama spy on trump. not that his sources have proof, but they believe it happened. that was on monday afternoon. on monday night, he doubled down. this time on a fox newscast. >> sources have told fox that if then mr. donald trump, the president-elect was surveilled, it was done by a foreign intelligence entity. >> okay so he said if it happened. if it happened the british did it. the next day he dropped all the caveats. watch. >> three inte

but tonight he said he found out in "the new york times" six weeks before he tweeted it. in that same interview, he called "the new york times" dishonest media. he said that in the very same interview with the president of the united states said he relied on "the new york times" for intelligence and did not receive any intelligence about that wiretapping accusation from anyone in his own intelligence agencies. >> if every intelligence agency reports to you, why not immediately go to them and gather evidence to support that? >> because i don't want to do anything that is going to violate any strength of an agency. >> because i don't want to do anything that is going to violate any strength of an agency. if you're trying to make sense of that sentence, you can stop now there is nothing in that sentence that makes sense. donald trump simply chose to provide words after the question mark of the question. the words have no relationship to the question. so the president had two sources of information for that tweet. one was "the new york times." the article the president relied

yesterday he tweeted a picture of schumer with putin. e also tweeted house minority leader pelosi in 2010 demanding an investigation. schumer responded saying he would happily talk about my contact with mr. putin in '03, took place in full view . democrats say sessions' recusal isn't going far enough. they want him to resign. paul ryan coming to his defense. >> i would think dozen if not more hundreds, that's very common. we meet with ambassadors constantly as members of congress. that's their job, is to come and meet with members of congress and express their interest. >> we'll try and separate fact from friction. joining me cnn political commentator, errol louis and kpous correspondent for "the washington examiner," sarah westwood. welcome to you both. >> good morning. >> sarah, what do you make of president trump's twitter exchange with senate minority leader chuck schumer? >> it was interesting because it sort of underscores the defense that republicans seized on early in the day when these allegations first came out, which is that th

he already tweeted a threat to fight them along with democrats at the midterm elections. ter, he got more specific. "if mark meadows, jim jordan, and raul labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts and reform." and "where are mark meadows, jim jordan, and raul labrador? repeal and replace obamacare" meanwhile, health's legislative affairs director says it's all about accountability. a speak president is holding members accountable whether or not they are members the freedom caucus. >> harris: is is how you get it done? >> mike: sometimes, but you have to be very careful with this. they're not prone to pressure. they go by what they believe and frankly, interestingly, a lot of these guys stood with donald trump and paul ryan was bailing and heading to wisconsin and saying terrible things about donald trump. >> harris: there are now 28. what do you say about 35 others who are more moderate who also made up that number that said no? >> mike: there are some who didn't like that bill because it wasn't conservative enough. there were peo

he tweeted at 6:35:00 a.m. that he just found out that mr. trump tower just

i'm not going to put another conspiracy theory out there, but maybe he did -- maybe he did before he tweetedthat and maybe there is something that he knows. nothing is impossible in this political environment. >> do you believe, though, at 6:20 in the morning in mar-a-lago? >> i listened to mark levin's full statement on this and i think he was the guy that really kicked this thing off. >> reporter. >> he quoted mcclatchy, "washington post," "new york times," the guardian. he said they're all alluding to the law enforcement surveillance of trump at trump connections to russia. so i think under the idea of, you know, one side always uses anonymous sources -- >> but let's just zero in on that. because actually the reporting -- in order to do that, you would need a fisa court unless he's alleging this was some sort of secret -- >> but we do know -- >> and the only reporting on the fisa stuff -- >> there was an application for a fisa court in june and apparently in october. >> this is according to heat street which doesn't really have a firm track record with its sources. >> but remember "the ne

done think you're going to stop him from tweeting. >> he has a level of teflon around him. we tweets that we are going to war with north korea, are we going to believe him. are they going to believe him. he has to become more presidential. >> what are the republicans -- what are republicans saying to you? >> they shake their heads, they are embarrassed by it. trumpette against them in a republican primary. >> they think if he tweets he going to come after them there's a enough of a base to -- >> remember the bus fiasco, she asked him to get out of the race and within two days she reinstated it because of the blow back from the district. >>> how about speaker, any requested what they thinks? >> the speaker, if he was speaking to his father confessor would be saying something different than he says right now. >> on another note, bad news and husband and more me beloved badgers lost. >> that's right. they are going for broke he was convinced. >> he'll put th at ncaa champion. >> no, he was true to the end. >> college basketball is fun. nice to see you hope you come back. >> i

after accusing the 44th president of the united states of perhaps the worst crime since watergate, he tweets again attacking arnold schwarzenegger and once again mentioning the ratings of the tv show the apprentice. anyway. later on, saturday, the white house apparently caught by surprise by the president's tweets demands a congressional investigation of the threat to the public, not the ratings of the praens. that's public knowledge. now he must have had serious evidence to back up those charges. in fact, as president he could have called up the department of justice and found out if a fisa warrant for surveillance at trump tower had been requested. he could have also decided the declassify any such request and made it public. there's no evidence he's done any of that. as for any evidence the president had before tweeting, keeping him honest tonight, we have yet to see it. his information appears to come from conservative radio hosts and websites and the base for their story as yet unverified reporting from the bbc the guardian and heat street on obama administration efforts last year to ge

was sworn in when he tweeted that congressman john lewis was all talknd no action or results. john lewis, on saturday, january 28th, he attacked "the new york times" and "the washington post" calling them dishonest in all caps. it was saturday, february 4th when he called the federal judge who halted his travel ban, a, so-called, judge. he attacked the media on saturday, february 11th, over his daughter ivanka's clothing business. this is where we are. it kind of speaks for itself, does it not? >> of course, mike barnicle, this saturday, it's hard to say the worst of all -- well, actually wasn't also a saturday or was it a friday where he called the media the enemies of the people? i think that may have been a late friday, but it is always going into the weekends. as i said before, especially when jared kushner and his daughter ivanka are away for the sabbath, this all begins. and his staff that he is kicking around spends the rest of the week trying to clean up after the mess that he makes on friday nights and saturday mornings. >> joe, the president o

he violated his office when he put out that tweet. he violated the oath to faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. he is a liar and embarrassment. he is a disgrace and a embarrassment to the house. here is how the speaker dealt with that embarrassment today when chuck todd asked him how much damage the reckless lying tweet about president obama has done to presidential credibility. >> i will say what i said for months now. it will be an unconventional presidency. twitter and facebook and these things are new. we as americans have not fully processed this new system we have. it will be an unconventional presidency and i will not go out and stifyvery tweethat's out there. >> titter is new? that's the new defense. twitter is 11 years old. it will have it's 11th birthday next week. donald trump has been on twitter for eight years. high school math is much harder than twitter and they give you four years to master that. here is a picture of the very first american president to use twitter on the day he met the s

fine job. >> thank you. >> the president is awake at this hour, and he is very busy tweeting. he appears to be very, very angry at the conservative republicans in the house of representatives who he still needs to pass any future legislation, and he is still angry. in his tweets tonight at bill and hillary clinton. >> i really think it will be best if he were to step aside, let someone else handle this investigation. >> well, i'm sure that the democrats do want me to quit because they know that i'm quite effective. >> chairman nunes seems to be more of a partisan for the president than an impartial actor. >> now we know he went to the white house to get that alleged information. >> you can't make this stuff up. >> i'm bouncing around the room a little bit with all of his explanation. >> people don't get on the white house grounds by accident. >> go into a secret room and log on to a computer unless somebody on the white house staff allows you to do that. >> you remember, president trump said he felt in part vindicated by the revelations by devin nunes. >> they don't know what t

when he tweets about foreign policy today he put out a tweet about north korea while secretary of stateea and so, you know -- >> which actually that's the one wheri think, kevin, he is so uncertain -- i think that north korea, it m not be such a bad thing if they're unsure about president trump because we've tried everything else with north korea. >> he's advocated that he's argued that his unpredictability is an asset. critics would pounce on it. while we in the media haven't adjusted to his tweets, the markets have. >> we'll take a quick break and gop senator joni ernst hosting a town hall in des moines and seen tensions rise at town halls across the country since president trump was sworn in. this coming days before a critical vote next week which is on the gop health care plan monitoring this town hall and bring you any developments as they come in. >>> and there's a news alert. it republican vote on health care took place today the bill would not pass. why? i'll tell you about some big news that happened today just under the radar and we are awaiting the arrival of air force one in

the president is down in mar-a-lago, he started this morning when he tweeted the information. it sounded like he just received it. >> i woke up this morning to do fox and friends and was greeted with the news. the president of the united states is with the attorney general and general kelly and steve bannon. i think it's incumbent upon the * to clarify his tweet this morning. with all due respect to the commander-in-chief, he can't put out something as exclusive as these extraordinary allegations, that the 44th president wiretapped the 45th president. this is very, very nuclear stuff. the president has to tell us whether he really believes the tweets that he issued this morning are accurate. are they literally true, or are they hyperbole? he has to tell us that. right not you consequences are enormous. first of all, pair threatically. one of the nicest things about the transition has been the relationship between president trump and president trump. they have been respectful of each other. president trump has gone on to suggest president obama must like him because he's so givi

there are specific issues like the tweet about the wiretapping by which he meant surveillance which hasthe intelligence committee chair. the tweets you just quoted --aged i hadn't seen those, they're brand-new -- why is there more focus on john podesta and the clinton campaign. >> she lost and he's president. >> why -- >> i don't want to get into a debate over that tweet. he is president, so he has to answer to it. >> the point i would make is i hate to say this, we're all of an age where we're seeing a politician should never get into an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel, meaning newspaper publishers. twitter is how you goat get around that in today's world. this is an excellent way for the president to do that. >> dan, you heard themd saying you're no better than the journalist you assail when what you tweet is untrue. his supporters see that. these tweets are wrong. >> the problem is not twitter. the problem is the twitter user? president obama had a twitter account for several years. he never tweeted anything that caused controversy or was embarrassing to himself or t

as usual, he's tweeting. he followed up on his meeting with angela merkel. d that he and merkel had a great meeting and lashed out at the media again. h >> meanwhile the house intelligence committee holds its first hearing monday on the allegations of russian interference in the u.s. elections. james comey is expected to testify. he was given instead wednesday to determine if trump's claims that obama wiretapped his tower. >> oh dear ra odira was the mot. she was 44 years old. she will be laid to rest friday. >> tonight, the world has lost one of rock 'n' roll's founding fathers. chuck berry passed away this afternoon. here's chuck steverson with a look back on his life and legacy. ♪ ♪ ♪ there's a country boy named johnny be good. >> if you want to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might call it chuck berry. the words are john lennon's, but the music is un mistakeable as the man. before they named it, chuck berry was playing it. my but that country boy could play. he combined his guitar with showmanship breaching racial barriers and soon had 1950s america

later, he deleted the tweets. at least bowwow, also known as little loser trended on twitter and he did not even have to die. not that anyone would notice of course. you know a lot about this arena. what is your take on this new, bowwow controversy? >> i have given this a lot of thought. great, i have lost interest in snoop after the dog a father although i enjoyed his work with dr. dre. after that, to be honest i drifted into a very heavy phase, i entered and truly lost myself, 36 chambers. for the reference, i have -- on my ankle. [applause] >> greg: i think the show is over. and in the morning we are going to go home and i don't even want to ask you another question. >> i do not have many answers. so this works out. >> greg: lauren, i don't like exercising outrage muscles. i know it will come back and hurt me. i will end up saying something stupid. the only reason this bugs me and apparently doesn't bug anyone on the other side, the corollary if you had said that about michelle obama you would lose your job. i g

the white house intended to accept his letter of resignation so he tweeted he had been fired. tweeted saturday he had been fired. >> he continues to tweet. pete, i want my panel to weigh in on this. christine quinn and matt welsh and a new york staff writer, also the author of new york times best seller, "black edge: inside dirty money and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street." the man on wall street was -- when you look at what happened to preet here, he was just a u.s. attorney, he was, himself, a massively political guy. are you surprised by all of this? >> on some level, i'm not. he learned a very hard lesson and others learned donald trump does not always stick to his word. preet's legacy is going to largely be in his wall street cases and his public corruption prosecutions. he's going to be remembered as much for the cases he did bring as the ones he didn't bring in both those areas. with the wall street cases, he led the huge crackdown of strading with hedge funds and achieved a lot there. however, there are many people who feel unsatisfied with his

>> well, i saw him a few hours after he did those tweets. ust come in off the grsgolf he went through the process on the fisa report. he detailed some of that to me. >> what did he say? >> he said the first judge rejected it. they wind back the other time. >> did he have evidence of that? that's a news report that's not been substantiated. >> i wouldn't say he got it from that news report. he was pretty confident about it. he did not disclose to me. >> you think he has intelligence? >> i think he's aware. i believe -- and i'm talked to a number of people of the trump campaign through the whole election campaign and after, there's almost 100% consensus of people at the highest levels they were surveilled at one point or another. whether that was done at trump tower or associates of the campaign of whatty a peer tt ta were. >> the president said, the former president wiretapped him at trump tower. >> let's be clear. i'm not here representing the president. >> i know. >> i'm not speaking on behalf. >> i want to be clear for the audience. >> righ

he tweeted in february that, quote, any negative polls are fake news. and when asked about leaks from the intelligence community during the last month's press conference in the east room, he said the leaks are absolutely real. the news is fake, because so much of the news is fake. his staff has gone into action, too, pushing at one point the orwellian term alternative facts. during an interview on nbc's "meet the press," kellyann conway said our press secretary, sean spieser, gave alternative facts and we in the administration feel compelled to go out and clear the air and put alternative facts out there. the white house has taken their fight with the media so far as to block access to outlets that they disagree with, banning outlets like cnn, politico, the bbc, "the new york times," the "los angeles times" to an off-camera press briefing last month. but of all of president trump's relentless attacks against the media, the most disturbing to me was when he tweeted in february that, and i quote, the fake news media, the failing "new york times," nbc news,

let us get all the reports. >> reporter: was the president correct in what he tweeted? >> it's possible. i think the president is concerned and he should be. he would like to see these reports. >> kimberly: quick round of reactions. >> eric: it's explosive. when i heard this news, i thought, what do you lead with? this is massive. now we have a leaker or whistleblower who has confirmed what trump has kind of alluded to. but more portly has confirmed the opposite of what the intel department was testifying on monday in front of the panel where they said there was no surveillance going on on anyone in the trump administration. now we know it may or may not be flynn but there are others. incidental collection of data which is basically a surveillance. he has to come via surveillance. they didn't stand there and take pictures. they did it with data and they did it through a fisa court. it has nothing to do with russia. there is even further proof that james comey and rogers were less than "what -- with what was going on tour the trump administration. it's exclusive. -- it's

. >> we know exactly why president trump tweeted what he tweeted because there is one page in the trump white house crisis management playbook, and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from the scandal and the bigger the scandal the more outrageous the tweet. >> i think he's going from information he's seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential and if it is, this is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that i think we've ever seen and a huge attack on democracy itself. >> reporter: at this point, there is no evidence, of course, that any of this -- these wiretaps did happen and the president, sean spicer in his statement calling on congressional committees to investigate whether there was any inappropriate wiretapping of trump tower. we now have adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee out saying, look, this is not something that we necessarily need to take a look at, that the president is essentially not talking about things that are rooted in fact, and the ranking member on the senate inte

senate intelligence committee mark warner, senator, let's start with the claims by the president he tweeted that he on saturday that he had just found out obama had quote unquote my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory, nothing found. he called it mccarthyism. what do you make of this? >> well, john, let's step back for a moment and look at what we do know. we know that we have seen an unprecedented attack by a foreign adversary, russia, in terms of meddling in our election. we saw before the election thousand internet trolls trying to use and place classified information, we saw manipulation of certain algorithms so that if you googled certain items you got russian news, rt news, other false news, we saw the selective hacking into dnc and individuals that then tried to leak that information to benefit mr. trump. we also saw before the election an unusual change in the republican platform in favor of russia. we saw mr. trump himself encourage the russians to hack into hillary clinton and we saw this just unusual affection that the president seems to have, or once seemed to ha

>> he tweeted about them yesterday. d, i want to thank the house freedom caucus, club for growth and heritage foundation for saving obamacare and planned parenthood. >> there you have it. there wasn't too much said about that and he also told people to watch a show on fox news. >> that, i saw. >> where the host called for paul ryan to step down in the first 10 minutes of the broadcast. trump was going lash out at someone. at first lash out at democrats, because they could have all voted against the bill and it still would have gone through. it was a republican failure. i think he will keep trying to work with them on other issues. it's risky. yeah. we can always count on republicans to cut taxes for the rich. that's been a central organizing principle of the party for deca decades. beyond that there's a lot of stuff he wants to do fairly contentious. stuff on immigration contentious and a lot of his other priorities are contentious issues. i'm not sure he can count on republicans going along with all of it. >> i will get

he then immediately regretted it and tweeted about it. which means, of course, others had to try it for themselves. >> of course, why not. nintendo said the cartridge coating was made to taste so bad, so that gamers and kids wouldn't put them in their mouths. apparently it's not working. >> it sounds like it had the opposite effect. >> yeah, so much for eating the dust, they're eating the competition and then doing that. >>> when we come back back -- an alleged assilant walking around inside a hotel. >>> and this scene on a highway in houston. hang on tight, everybody, we'll be right back. ck. i've gotta hit the loo. we can't stay here! why? terrible toilet paper! i'll never get clean! way ahead of you, big daddy. aww charmin ultra strong. it's washcloth-like texture helps clean better. it's four times stronger... ...and you can use less. beautiful view. (wiggles butt) thanks to charmin. and you, honeybear! awwwww we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin? it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. luckily there's powerful, 24-hour,

he sent this tweet this morning. said he just learned presumably he's not getting an intelligence briefing early on a saturday morning. so it does appear, betsy that this information came from the breitbart report or a right-wing radio talk show host. it appears once again he's relying on the right-wing media reports to make these allegations. the last time i recall it was about sweden in a fox news report it was all about attacks in sweden. do you think this is reckless? >> we know exactly what his media diet is like. he reads a lot of breitbart. he watch es fox and friends. and the reality is that breitbart has a so they record in reporting things that are factually accurate. they draw lots of criticism for getting stories wrong in the past and in the past when steve bannon was running the site, for refusing to apologize stories that were incorrect. they ran a story about loretta lynch. said she was the loretta lynch named to run the jxtd that was completely wrong. the fact that the president is relying so overwhelm

. >> if you look at the president's tweet, he said clearly "wiretapping." the president was clear in his tweets it was wiretapping. that's span a host of surveillance tops of option. >> he meant -- >> he had it in quotes. >> you're interpreting the tweets? >> no. >> did you ask him about >> i did. he said it was something that was referred to in other reports. >> he cited other reports in his information with you. >> yes, he did. >> congressman, for a week, trump has let it hang out there that the president obama wiretapped him. now they are trying to weasel out of it. i think the grown up here is mccain who saying put up or shut up. >> -- they have gotten away with the fantasy that there were 3 million fraudulent votes casts. this president does not get called into account for putting out false statements. even though it involves something of historic magnitude an -- it doesn't seem to stick with donald trump when he fly out lies. >> i think there are people who believe it. i don't accept it. somebody should tell the speaker of the house he is -- being a fe

>> i think he did not want to have to answer questions today about his tweets. about his bombshell allegations against the former president. i mean, that is why we have not seen him on camera today with any reporters near him. that's plane and simple why spicer didn't give an on camera briefing, it was off camera. the president is in hiding. >> to be fair, i think this executive order is a far more professional, far more fair document than the first one. it's much more likely to be upheld by the courts, the argument that this is a muslim ban is going to be tougher to make. the professionals got involved. you had quite a show of force the president wasn't there, but you had the secretary-general. i think it was -- >> this was a long way to go d and -- >> yes, but this is not going to make the country safer, it will make muslims less likely to want to allow themselves in the united states. it doesn't change that basic dynamic, it's better legally, but again, studlies, you know t they found 3% of the people involved with terrorism were refugees. >> to my point. and

he tweeted if the ban were annoyanced, the bad would rush into the country that week.dudes out there. they pushed it back from last week because they wanted it to live in the glory of the joint congress. now there's a ten-day grace period. does that cut into the argument that this was a national security order that needed to be put in place right this second for the purpose of protecting americans? >> there was also a leak that the apn covered where homeland security declared none met the criteria of concern to this country. there's a lot of evidence that republican administration wanting to do a muslim ban, i think have a interesting time. it was interesting when we were watching kelly trying to distance himself to say we will work to enforce the laws. they were doing to spite the current principle they out. >> we are expecting replacement bill to come out later. is there any chance that paul rayi rayian is going to get -- with on and sent up to president trump? >> there's a chance but it's going to be an extremely difficult job for ryan and mcconnell and it's going t

afterward he tweeted how good was the meeting at potus. i gave him my new cell phone number. re best friends. >> lindsey graham is funny. >> he is funny. >> he responds to trump by smashing his own cell phone. then he said on television last week that his relationship with the president had not improved enough for him to give him his cell phone number. he is having fun with this. i don't expect him to be on board with the trump foreign policy agenda. >> which think of him as holding grudges but we reached out and embraced ted cruz and he had animosity you have seen in politics. what did cruz say, he was a come pullive liar -- lindsey graham who he loves to mock, says come on in, and we'll work together. >> i think there's is one of those moments where they have that kumbaya, it's public shaking of the hands, does it change the dynamics on foreign policy, i think it stays the same. >> panel, thank you. >>> news about north korea and it's not good. i'll tell you about it after the break. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose.