kristen fisher live from the north lawn. are they sweating the white house were taken this in stride? >> will find out by tomorrow. right now there are two big outstanding question. the first question is will the white house comply with this request to give the committee evidence about the wiretapping allegations by tomorrow and second, the second, to study evidence actually exist? today the top democrat on the house intelligence committee says he doesn't think so. >> i don't expect we'll see any evidence of this either. i agree with timecard. one of two possibilities here. the president quite deliberately for some reason made up this charge are perhaps more disturbing the president really believes this. reporter: the charges former president barack obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the election. the former president has led the charge. so as the current fbi director reportedly asked the justice department to publicly reject the president's claims. congressman schiff plans to ask about it directly when he t

kristen fisher is there with the latest from his camp. reporter: it's been over 12 hours since the very tweeted out his shocking claim that former president barack obama wiretapped some of the phones inside trump tower during the campaign. we haven't heard from white house officials. they haven't provided proof or evidence to back up these claims. but let's look at the tweet that started it all. he said how low has president obama gone to tap my phones. in response to that, democratic congressman adam schiff says if there is something bad or sick going on it's the willingness of the nation's chief executive to make the most outlandish claims without a scintilla of evidence to support them. if true, it could lead to serious trouble for former president barack obama and his staff. they are accusing him of wiretapping the campaign headquarters of his political adversaries. if false, it gives critics of president trump a lot of ammunition. >> what have he heard from president obama? reporter: he put out a statement, a denial, denying this is

. >> kristen fisher's fly from florida with the latest. what are you hearing from president obama about this? >> a spokesman for former president obama the accusations that he ordered the wiring is false. i'll i'll reach you the full statement it reads "a cardinal rule of the obama administration was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the department of justice. as part of that practice neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on u.s. citizens. other suggestion otherwise is simply false " that statement does not mention the department of justice or the fbi. there is some wiggle room there. in fact, look at, look at what president obama's former speechwriter posted on twitter "i would be careful reporting that obama said there was no wiretapping. statement just said just said that neither he nor the white house ordered it. " these reports surfaced yesterday's and breitbart news which used to be used by president trumps chief strategists steve bannon. th

lauren is covering the latest on the attorney general, but let's begin with kristen fisher in palm beachflorida. reporter: we are waiting for an official response from the white house. but over the last hour, the white house director social media posted a link on his twitter account to the breitbart story that seemed to set off this series of shocking tweets from president obama early this morning. he said how low has president obama gone to tap my phones. bad or sick guy. adam schiff said if there is something bad or sick going on, it's the willingness of the nation's chief executive to make the most outlandish claims without providing a sil -- a sca of evidence. form president barack obama respond in a statement from his spokesman it reads neither president obama nor any white house official ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. they say it's false. but that statement does not mention the f.b.i. or the department of justice. it leaves them some wiggle room. and it's something a former top aide to former president barack obama steamed highlight in a tweet. he said i would be careful

kristen fisher is there with the latest from his camp. reporter: it's been over 12

kristen fisher is there with the latest from his camp. reporter: it's been over 12

kristen fisher. there's more fallout on premium's tweet.enator lindsey graham spoke out at a town hall. >> the comment about the latest, have you seen it? so apparently this morning, president trump tweeted out that he believes that president obama ordered wire tapping during the campaign-- and that would be-- so i don't know what happened , but i can only say that the president of the united states is cla i am-- claiming that the former president of the united states ordered wire tapping of his campaign last year, i don't know if it's true or not, but if it is true, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. leland: there you go, from senator lindsay graham. help us following the bouncing tweets here. gregory korty of usa today, good to see you. >> sure. leland: we thought we would have a quiet morning. evidently mr. trump's aides thought they'd have a quiet morning and all of us woke up to this. up he is unpack. what's new? we've seen the reports before that there was perhaps a request to a court, a secret court for nation

it's very much a working weekend for the president and his number two, both are in florida and kristen fisher there at the winter white house. hi. >> hey, leland, today it's not so much what president trump is doing, it's what the vice-president is doing. vice-president mike pence is going to be landing in jacksonville in about an hour to deliver remarks in defense of the american health care act and then tonight, he's going to be coming right here to palm beach to speak at the annual club for growth conference. a lot of conservative lawmakers are going to be there, exactly the kind of lawmakers the trump administration needs to convince if they're going to get the bill through the house. yesterday, president trump was in full deal making mode trying to put the hard sell on the conservative committee in the oval office. he obtained two big changes on the bill. not all republicans are sold. listen. >> without resolving some of those issue, it's going to be difficult. >> i'm not sure we're getting working on it. >> if i hear one more senator say it's dead on arrival i think my head will explode

ainsley: and kristen fisher is live at the white house with details for you. itter this morning quote big announcement by ford today. major investment to be made in three plants, car companies coming back to the u.s., jobs, jobs, jobs, all caps, exclamation point. now, we don't know how many jobs will be created. but the detroit news is characterizing it as significant. we also don't know if this was an entirely new investment or if it was already in the works but the white house says this is all as a result of president trump's to michigan just two weeks ago where he pushed auto not to my recollection invest in the american workforce and build more factories here in the united states. now, on that trip, president trump also hinted that a major auto industry announcement was in the works. so this could be it, but we don't know for sure. ford is expected to make it official with an official announcement some time a little bit later today. brian, ainsley, and steve. steve: there's so much winning. kristen, thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: all right. next

pete: kristen fisher is down at mar-a-lago. >> no response from the white house just yet. typically in the events like they they just like to refer us over to the secret service and that's exactly what's happened in this case. this is a big deal because now we're talking about the third big security scare at the white house in just one week, and this is latest one happened around 11 o'clock last night. someone driving a vehicle pulled up to a secret service security checkpoint and then, according to a law enforcement official, told the secret service officers that were there that he had a bomb, that he had some kind of explosive device inside that vehicle. well, of course, that person was taken into custody, the vehicle was then searched and declared suspicious, and really the only official comment that we've gotten is from the secret service, and i want to show it to you guys right now. it reads "in accordance with proper protocols, secret service personnel increased the posture of readiness due to the fact that this is an ong

kristin fisher follows the story live in the white house. kristen, unusual that someone would make it that far after jumping the fence. >> unusual but not unprecedented. the spokesperson with the us attorney's office said the intruders name is jonathan tran and he is expected to be arraigned in court sometime today. accused of jumping the fence here at the white house. shortly before midnight and he was captured by the secret service at the south entrance to the white house. that's the entrance that leads right to the executive residence which is where president trump was when all that went down. he is praising the secret service for doing a fantastic job while describing the intruder as atroubled person . his motive is still a mystery but they say they found nothing hazardous inside his back pack. nor did he have a criminal record but trump didn't seem to they seem to faze. he spent the afternoon at the trump golf course in virginia where i to our long working lunch with the part cabinet and several members of the senior staff with homeland securit

we have christian fisher, our correspondent down on the ground. abby: kristenople wake up this morning, and you look at your phone, and you see all of these tweets from president trump, you may think it is paranoid ranting and who knows it may be. but for president trump to come out and say these allegations, and i don't think these allegations, the significance of them can really be overstated to come out and say that he believes a sitting president think so that a former president was wiretapping and listening to the lines in his personal home right before the election during the campaign at a time when that sitting president, president obama was actively supporting and campaigning for president trump's component, that is an explosive allegation. so let's just dive into the tweets and give you guys some specifics about what exactly president trump is saying this morning. here's one. quote terrible. just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing sound. this is mccarthyism. he then said quote how low has president