joining us now with their explosive report from circa news, sara carter and john solomon. thank you for making a rare appearance. sara has been doing all the heavy lifting on the show. this is very important.s how is it that evelyn farkas who left the administration is talking specifically about surveillance? it seems like she is admitting the surveillance of you have been reporting on and john has been reporting on that took place of trump transition teame members. she is admitting they unmaskedn them because they are trump transition team members and itit seems she's talk about we have to get it to our friends, politicizing intelligence and talking about leaking intelligence.. what are your thoughts? >> with the story john and i broke with regards to how the obama administration loosened a lot of the regulations that protect the privacy of americans -- this is going back all the way to 2011. everyone thought for a long time once it was revealed in january when obama expanded executive order 12-333 to all the agencies, everyone was just focused on that. no one most focuse

department, the department of defense, then you have to work your way all the way down. >> sean: john solomonsara carter companies are respected journalists, solomon was with the ap for 20 years. which do you make of what they discovered as in fact there was a fisa surveillance in the weeks leading up to the election. reporting now that there might have been a second warrant that was issued, nonpfizer. that is attorney general know about it? did the people around him know about it? any information shared with hillary? what was the reason for this? what was the justification? did anybody think about the political ramifications, did they see any of the internal political -- remember the political campaign was being run under the same email server. did anyone think maybe they shouldn't have access to that? >> solomon and carter are both incredible journalists, they are doing the job that some of the of the lapdogs in the beltway media refuse to do under obama, and of course it's the kind of muckraking that so many of these liberal journalists refuse to d do. until they woke up when trump was swo

here now are journalists who broke this story sara carter and john solomon, i'm going to start with youause john would show up yesterday. this is really important. two warrants granted, one was the fisa warrant explaining the other warrant that they found no rut evidence of any russian pollution at all and that's what your report says. >> what we discovered through our sources is that the investigation into trump server is not inside trump tower but outside up at register two trump no evidence of any criminal activity that would warrant any kind of prosecution of anybody in the trump team. that was a very short-lived investigation. there were also a separate fisa, an overall size of the don't have as much information on tha that. that was a general fisa that covered a whole hacking investigation. whether or not there were people connected to that, we don't really know. we know that the warrant to look into trump server found nothing criminal in that investigation. >> sean: wasn't one fisa and want to not? >> exactly, the server was not a fisa, it was a regular warrant, the fbi had a tra

we had reporters on this program, john solomon and sara carter are both saying there was surveillance of the server at trump tower there was a fisa b warrant. while he is willing to admit when investigation is going on he will not admit another in terms of leaking he says it's common practice, we do not acknowledge that. is that troubling to you? >> that is why we have an intelligence community investigation. the point is the president asked for this and we already had investigation going on before all of this. that is why chairman nunes andnd his ranking members are going to see to the bottom of this and get through everything all russia related. i was busy doing my job so i did not watch the hearing. i don't think we learnedoi anything new here and it only confirmed what we have been saying all along. at the end of the day we will get to the bottom of all of the stuff. the question you just raised, with the intelligence committee -- the investigation that's ongoing. >> sean: back to health care, is the freedom caucus on board? earlier today, they said 40 members were not going to vo

we have been reporting everything with john solomon and sara carter for two weeks. my opening monologue, what is your reaction? >> i thought today showed the best contrast of all. you have an eight month long investigation on russia with nothing to show for it and donald trump in office with a little less than two months with so much to show for it. intrusive, invasive, expansive entitlement we've had -- being repealed and replaced. negotiating, listening, improving and making progress on the bill with leaders in the house and senate. of course our governors who control the medicaid dollars. the contrast is really remarkable. i love the way president trump defied all the negative noise inside the beltway by going to kentucky and putting a very positive optimistic message out there for all to see. the positive optimistic message he delivered in louisville tonight really matches the market, the stock market, consumer confidence, a 12 year high among homebuilders. he matches a lot of the mood of this country that is not being reflected or covered because it is negative

what evelyn farkas saying here -- she is admitting what we have been saying, what sara carter and john solomon and james rosen had all been saying. surveillance took place. take a watch. >> it was aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can. as much intelligence as it can before president obama leaves the administration because i had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people. >> sean: that's the intelligence? that you want your friends on capitol hill to get? is that the information she's talking about? next, she admits there was unmasking. that should not happen. >> the trump folks if they found out how we knew what we knew about their staff, the trump staff dealing with russia they would try to deal with those sources and methods. we would no longer have access to that intelligence. >> sean: oh, intelligence, unmasking, surveillance. intelligence leaking was taking place and by the way, in case some of you people don't know, that could very well be a felony. take a look. >> i became very worried because not enough was coming out into

here now with more, the journalist who broke the story, sara carter and john solomon. this is pretty blockbuster information. by the way, you are not a member of my right-wing conspiracy, you worked for the ap for 20 years. i doubt i could get a job there. >> probably not. >> sean: probably not? thanks a lot. has anyone else in the media looked into your story, called you about that, asked for background? considering you are well known this industry. >> they haven't and at the end of the day, you are more concerned about the facts and what sort of attention or media attention you get. there are so many things being thrown around washington right now. follow the money, follow the politics. he started to see a partisan political line and a money line. i think both of those things are important to keep looking at. >> sean: sara, has anybody reached out to you? why don't you bring us up to speed on this new development while john gets his earpiece fixed. >> no, no one has reached out to me either. the most important thing isch getting the facts out to the american public.

sara, got to say again, both to you and john solomon, great investigative work. deserve far more coverage than you have been getting. has any other major television network reached out to you both? >> no. i have seen it out there. i see people talking about it. but, no. >> sean: we will continue to follow the story into next week. i promise you. author of the book "treason," former speaker of the house newt gingrich. no evidence found, basically exoneration by the investigative units, and the narrative has gone on since before the election. what does this tell you? >> the first thing that hit me tonight, listening carefully to that interview, and she really made some good points, the second born, which apparently went right at the campaign computer, sort of the electronic equivalent of watergate. in 1972, when nixon operatives, who were government employees, broke into the democratic headquarters to find out what the democrats were up to, that was considered such a huge scandal, nearly it because the president his job. what you have electronically, the federal go

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you and john solomon broke this story. i misunderstood a part of it. want to correct the record t here. your sources are telling you that there were two, one was a fisa warrant. that did allow surveillance but it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> absolutely. there was a fisa warrant taking out to oversee the whole election issue that had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with trump unless there could have been some backdoor issues were as they were monitoring some russians and picked up some communication. and then there was a traditional fbi investigation. u >> sean: a second warrant? >> i do not even want to call it a warrant. a traditional fbi investigation into the server that was connected to trump tower. it was registered to trump tower. that investigation was to look into the server and to see they were pings between trump tower and the bank. absolutely nothing nefarious or criminal about that investigation. >> sean: so there was some surveillance at some point of the server for trump tower which is off-site, not exactly at the tower. >> a

sarah, i have to say again both to you and john solomon, really great investigative work. you deserve far more credit and coverage than you've been getting. has any other major television o network reached out to you both? >> no, i've seen it out there, i've seen people talking about it, but no they have not. >> sean: that's sad. weight continue to follow this story into next week. with more information former house speaker, newt gingrich. two warrants issued. no warrants found. and the narrative has gone on since before the election. what do you -- what does this tell you? >> well you know the first thing that hit meet tonight listening carefully to that interview, and she really made some good points, the second warrant, which apparently went right at the campaign, computer, is sort of the electronic equivalent of watergate. in 1972, when the nixon operatives who were government employees broke into the dec i can headquarters to find out what the democrats were into that was considered such a huge scandal it ultimately the cost president nixon his job. now you have elect

it's interesting that the mainstream media, john solomon was an ap reporter for 20 years. >> i've beenorting for two decades now. i've covered everything from afghanistan to the war in iraq. john too. >> sean: the important thing here is you have actually confirmed something no one else in the media has, there was a warrant in october before the election, the fisa warrant was involved to potential russian influence. and that every time they looked at donald trump and his campaign and possible collusion, what did your intelligence law enforcement say they found? >> nothing. they could not find any criminal evidence. that server investigation found absolutely nothing. we are breaking a story tomorrow, sean, on the people who reported to the fbi the pings between the servers and gives a little bit more background on the people that actually pushed the fbi into the investigation. >> sean: can i guess that it may be someone in the political arena on the other side of the aisle? >> your guess is close. i could say that it is somebody that supports the other side of the aisle and not politica

. >> sean: welcome back to "hannity," sarah carter and john solomon have been breaking many big storiesientist who is a hillary clinton donor pushed the trump russia server narrative eventually led to an investigation by the fbi. they found no wrongdoing. sarah and john reported that sources told them russian alpha bank which allegedly had this computer connection to the trump organization asked the department of justice for help to identify a computer in the u.s. that they believe is being hacked to make it look like communication exists between the president and moscow. sara carter joins us now. i said this to you last night, this is becoming more like a new addition of homeland every single day with these new developments. what they are saying on the russian side of things it is they've able to trace back -- there is someone they think within the united states that is faking a relationship -- a computer relationship between that bank and at the trump. do we know if this was the same thing investigated in october? >> they suspect it was. that's very interesting because even back in oc

. >> but john, we know, reporting from john solomon and cara carter, he is a former ap reporter of 20 years standing and former executive editor of "the washington times," talking about surveillance, a trump server, a trump tower server ent far from here. something is going on here. all these intelligence sources have been leaking to the newspapers for months. we know in fact there is something going on. >> look, what we don't know is that president obama ordered wiretaps of president trump as president trump -- hang on, hang on. i'm not done. there has been no evidence of that provided. likewise, jeffrey, we've seen or heard no evidence, we've heard from intelligence officials that they've seen no evidence of collusion between the russians and trump campaign associates. brian fallon, to you, i imagine you too would like to see some of this evidence if it exists. >> absolutely. hey, maybe jeffrey is right, maybe there is no underlying criminality here, maybe there is no collusion. but there is certainly a lot of smoke here. if i were the white house, they among all other people should

this audience for over two weeks straight now, and corroborates and confirms everything you and john solomond i want your full reaction to it anything you want to add to this bread >> i think it is hugely significant. my reaction is the sources approached chairman nunes they had a classified information that we had been reporting all along. abby said that's information that i as a reporter can't accept or take from sources. we have been told this that's why we were out here telling the audience every day for the last two weeks. this goes far beyond what the scope of what everybody is reporting out there. one of the things, unmasking of the names, going beyond russia. what chairman nunes was able to show it wasn't just about russia. they were getting transcripts from people within the trump team that were not about russia at all. we need to ask two questions, very important questions, sean. who were on those logs that view to these reports and who approved it? those the two most important questions. >> sean: i say to little differently maybe to be more incendiary because it's my nature. who k

we now learn from james rosen and john solomon and sarah carter, all investigative journalists for decades that in fact there was surveillance at trump tower. and it went on in november, december, and january and it may have even happened before the election. time will tell. shouldn't that concern every american -- that there is surveillance and that probably the sitting president at the time, president obama and his closest aides knew exactly what was going on in trump tower and they didn't tell him? >> look, i think this whole process should concern everybody. the level of hostility to trump trump, the level of leaks which are felonies, clearly illegal. the whole process by which president obama apparently -- we ought to look at the decision on those. who decided -- remember, these are not hard, serious facts. they changed the rules. so you could pick up the dumbest, weirdest gossip and now you can distribute it to all the different agencies knowing that making that available almost guarantees it will leak. this is all done in early january after they lost the election. there is a whole

been reporting this for two weeks, you know this, you've been on and watching sarah carter and john solomonplaying word games, the fbi director playing word games? not wiretapped. it was their surveillance? were there two warrants? was the trump server surveilled? the answer appears to be yes. as an ancillary look at the pings from a russian bank, big deal. you would think they are allowing this conspiracy theory have the media to go on for another year, another eight months. wonder they say definitively nothing happened? >> it certainly does lend belief to this idea that intelligence has become in some circles really politicized. the real shocker is that in a hotly contested election year, the fbi director was briefing the president of the united states on an ongoing investigation involving an opposition candidates. we don't really know what happened at that briefing he wouldn't go into it yesterday. it was very strange that the president gets briefed but the congressional leaders weren't briefed until yesterday or the day before yesterday? >> hannity: how did hillary clinton find out? how

she along with our colleague john solomon they had confirmed the existence of a present court warrant

. >> and i had been on a road trip with john solomon. >> seth: fantastic guy, one of our all time favoritesand in nashville. mary let us stay at her place in nashville while she was down in little rock. so we were thinking, like -- then we went down to the party in little rock. but along the way, we were like, we've got to do something really nice for her, because she's, you know, pulling out all the stops. >> seth: yeah, letting you stay in her home. >> she's the best host of all time. so we decided that we would just give -- get her every place we went, every restaurant, because we were going to be delicious restaurants, we would bring doggy bags of the stuff we did not eat. >> seth: oh. as a thank you. >> and like so we would give her a little taste of our trip. >> seth: okay, gotcha. >> like she could, you know, and we were on the road for a good four days before we met up with her. >> seth: okay. and so you brought four days worth of doggy bags. and i have a photo here, because you presented them to ted danson. >> yeah. >> seth: and he seems pretty enthusiastic. >> he loved it. >> seth

john solomon, a 20-year ap reporter has written this long story at circuit.com with sarah carter.y looked into this. there was in fact surveillance of a tru server. let's get it all out there, the fact that it happened and it leaked all over the place for months. >> but the -- >> last week when you asked should the president be taken literally, which is nunes said that the press takes him too literally. you said he should be taken seriously. that's essentially where the question. should the president be believed? >> i think he should totally be taken seriously that there was surveillance of the trump campaign and it was leaked, absolutely. >> but not literally. >> jeffrey would you -- >> no, literally means there were people surveilling the trump campaign and leaking the information they gained to reporters. >> words emerge from his mouth and we understand the definition of those words, should we believe the president understands the definition of the words? that's literally, the words are literally what he means. >> the tweet he put out, he put the word wiretapping in quotes. wha

one of them is john solomon. and i really honestly believe that they're telling the truth. ot like the other reporters. he is our president. host: that's kay from texas. we mentioned budget matters before, taking a look at the budget that was released yesterday. this is reported on the hill, saying the president will ask congress for $1.5 billion this year to begin work on the wall that he promised to build along the u.s.-mexico border. it's part of a $30 billion supplemental spending request that's being sent to lawmakers on thursday, according to the white house budget director. the request could trigger a fierce partisan showdown over the controversial wall proposal, as well as the president's broader efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. now, that $1.5 billion is going to be outside the other budget requests, saying the hill story also reporting that the president is going to ask for $2.6 billion in funding in his fiscal 2018 budget. that's also being released today. and document is the president's top line budget for next year, doesn't include projections over

new jersey there terrorism expert john solomon.a so i'm calling to see if you can help me save on my energy bill. we can do that. great. i live in a post-war, pre-war, mid-century home and the heating system is a turbine, hvac, reverse hydrogen, boiler pipe unit. well sir, i can see that you live in a twin and based on the size, your usage has been spiking. ♪ that's exactly what i thought. if you're not an expert, peco can help. we have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. peco. the future is on. >> wikileaks has published thousands of cia documents detailing the agency's secret hacking capability. the leaks describe a project called weeping angel that allows spy agencies to turn smart tvs into listening devices. >> i love there is a cia agent to come up with the code names t. other spies are i'm going to jump out of a hock, land on an airplane and assassinate the ugandan foreign with zx. >> and the other guy says we will call it x mayhem. i'm inspired, too. >> no shortage of material. >> weeching an gem, is that the nam

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rahel solomon has t all of that plus the late shows ' bandleader john bat tees hon orders here in philadelphia. but first a check on the forecast with katie and the roads with meisha. >> good morning, we need some monday morning -- i'll tell you right now the roads are okay, one accident, downed pole, very wet, as i was coming on in. >> a lot of showers still to track. all pretty scattered. not like a wall of water, but definitely leading to obviously damp travel but also poor visibility. warmfront, very light winds, watching for two separate issues as a result of that. not only do you have the to face fog issues w that said, here's obviously the look at the rain that's on storm scan3, but we've also got dense fog advisory to talk about specific to southern most new jersey even extending at least at the shore point here to ocean monmouth counties but all of the state of delaware, ph included here and the back to chester, wa least under ae.ount pocono for rent issueshat r warmfront, in the name, but not going to there, unfortunately with the warmfront passage, meisha?eing g in a lot of the came

john f. kennedy's only diary is going up for auction. again, what it reveals >>> good morning i'm rahel solomon.re investigate the deaths of twin, seven month-old girls, inside a lindenwald apartment complex. girls were were found at pines apartment complex. mother of the twins called 911 and performed cpr but girls were unresponsive. medical examiner's office and camden county prosecutors are leading the investigation. >>> now lets check forecast with meteorologist katie fehlinger. it is chilly. so frigid. >> it is very frigid but not as harsh as yesterday. we are expecting daytime high to reach 10 degrees below average here at he but wind has eased up out there we will get to the graphics. we will take a look at our current conditions like in some area locations. down the shore it is 19 in atlantic city. at the moment which should feel more like 11 degrees when you factor in that modest wind looking forward in the eyewitness weather seven day we will spike backup to 70 on saturday for one day before we bottom out, again by sunday and unsettled pattern business to unfold. meisha. >> all right k

john. >>> the victory bay recovery center in laurel springs was founded by a.j. solomonlighted a.j.'s recovery frommer heroin ad ddiction. >>> and football is on the move. the u "big 33" football classic will not be played at a hershey park any longer. it will move to a dawson county facility because of the financial issues. i'm tracy davidson and you can always stay up to date with our free nbc 10 app. thanks for watching. ♪fast, rhythmic drumming it's coming soon to the poconos! america's largest indoor waterpark is making waves. kalahari resorts & conventions in the poconos. book your african adventure now! >>> this morning on "today's take," it's nick lachey like you've never seen him before, with throwback thursday. and things get wild when sheinelle and i go behind the scenes at the bronx zoo. and what you didn't see at the oscars. the backstage photos moments before the mixup. that's all coming up right now. >> from nbc news, this is "today's take." live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> it is a thursday morning, march 2nd, 2017. and we are listening to "col