obama is up 59%. you are not going to find a polling era on the scale that's going to get that wrong. there was an intense racialization to the backlash against obama. there is a huge -- i tried to make the point in my book that people who oppose him have good ideological reasons to do it. and those reasons need to be taken seriously. nonetheless, it is demonstrably the case a major source of the actual support for -- actual opposition to him came from race. i think look at donald trump. look at donald trump. if you think the tea party was really about limited government and constitutional principles, if you think that's what was motivating this mass upsurge in hate toward obama, donald trump is the answer. donald trump is the antithesis of all those values. donald trump won the republican nomination by being the most racist. in fact, by being the only racist in the race. i don't think -- social scientists who looked at the correlation between racism and politics in the obama era found that b-r everyt

reporter: explosive accusations from president obama alleging that president obama tapped the phone lines of trump towers. are these alleged taps even legal? we head to mar-a-lago where president trump is about to meet with some of his star. 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 pol

of some policies of the obama administration. there are people who differ on policy but all wish the best for the country. most people who go into government do so. they want policies they think are good for the country. most people on the intelligence field, they know this, they actually worked pretty hard to keep the country safe. and they have a pretty good job. how many attacks have there been since 9/11? there have been some obviously in some people were let in who shouldn't have been in the fbi should have deported them after -- first meeting set of instead of sending information to the local police, like in orlando, but this is places that trumps travel visa changes would not affect. there is one reason why people -- there are things you can do to tighten up our country terrorism efforts. but people involved in this work hard since 9/11 and we'll them quite a lot. -- we owe them quite a lot. ,ll of this globalist rhetoric i have no reason to defend him but don't attack other people working there. imagine thateories the ent

he truly thinks day to day about president obama and he compares himself to how much president obama was able to accomplish in his first few months in office. why he is somewhat haunted, smas put it, by president obama's first term, i'm not sure. i'm not a psychologist. but he does talk about what he could do with a democratic congress in 2009. >> well, he was a rational man and he is a gentleman. how is that for a rational argument? >> what do you make of this? >> i don't know. 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 r

it was also around the time when obama imposed the sanctions against russia and russia was mad at obama. jeff sessions ran and led the foreign policy and national security team for donald trump. of course, the ambassador of russia wanted to meet with jeff sessions during that time. judge jeanine: i never said jeff sessions ran the national security team. >> carter page. judge jeanine: at the time he met him, the fisa warrant was turned down. there wasn't enough to get a warrant. >> i'm not connecting the two. judge jeanine: i am. i am saying there was something there and the obama administration was trying to get to it. they didn't have a scintilla of evidence to get a warrant. david, if kislyak was such a bad dude that another station called him today a top spy from russia, why didn't president obama order him out of the country with the other top russian officials he threw out? >> it's a great question and another tactic the democrats are using to continue to painted that somehow hillary clinton's loss was because donald trump and the russians were working together to get information

and obama was informed.s not exactly the most engaged guy when it comes to these kind of details. he spends an awful lot of time watching espn and reading his books. >> curious that the statements from the obama camp did not deny it, just that he did not order it. that left the door open. >> i think it was ordered by valerie jared. i don't know that for a fact. but knowing how the administration worked while obama was in the white house, she was really pulling the levers and ben rhodes was the guy who was between the press and these leaks. abby: very interesting. >> thanks for being here. abby: to other headlines this morning, illegal immigrant is on the run after assaults a border patrol agent, border officials say that the man escaped from a hospital in arizona where he was taken after entering the u.s. illegally and then assaulting an agent. the 37-year-old has a criminal history with drug offenses and has previously been deported from the u.s. and a reporter is attacked by a man in a ski mask all on live

obama's calls today if mr. trump wanted them. but if mr. obama did order the n.s.a. to prepare transcripts of mr. trump's conversations last fall under the pretext of national security to find out whether mr. trump was communicating with the russians would have been a good excuse, there would exist somewhere a record of such an order. for that reason, if mr. obama did this, he no doubt used a source in which he'd leave no fingerprints. again, the thoughts from judge napolitano in the "washington times" this morning. you can read them there. let's go to linda from miss miss that she doesn't believe the president. hello, linda, go ahead. caller: no, i don't believe the president. because the first caller took my thunder, stole my thunder. president obama owe bided by the laws and regulations while he was there for eight years. no one had to tap donald trump to know that he's a crook. he tells on himself all the ime. all of his cabinets have had contact with russia. and if the body is working, the head knows too. so no, i don't believe president obama tapped it. that mi

obama. i really do think obama's legacy is tied to trump. trump came in and obama endorsed hillary who was a slightly flawed candidate, if i am being completely honest. there were signs now that you look at it in hindsight, there were signs that maybe she wasn't the right person for the job. like i remember -- did you see at the d.n.c. this year where -- and this is not a conspiracy theory. this is what i think they were trying to do. the campaign openly said this. they said the goal of the democratic national convention was to humanize hillary clinton. that was their goal. like how terrible is your candidate when she's been in the public eye for 27 years and you're like, the big problem we are having is that other people are not believing that she is in fact one of them? they don't see her as a human. they see her as some type of pantsuit lizard creature sent from another planet to rule here and the whole convention was trying to humanize her. bill clinton got up and he was like, i met hillary 30 years ago and we fell in love just like huma

for six weeks now, president obama has appointed members to his cabinet.resident trump has appointed members to his cabinet. they may deliver a statement stuff from russia than anything president obama ever did. if you want to know a pro-russia policy would look like come here elements of it. slash defense spending, so the nuclear modernization. rollback missile defense systems. you would enter a one-sided nuclear arms control agreement and you try to do everything you could not war and gas production. that was barack obama's policy for eight years. that is not donald trump's policy. none of those gutter for russia to roll back some of the policies. chris: i'm sure some people are saying enough already, but i want to follow up on that time. there is a possibility you investigated. that is true. there's also the possibility it isn't true in the president just flew off the handle. that would be pretty troubling, would not comment the idea of president would make a charge this explosive about another president without any evidence. >> all presidents are human

brand-new reaction from president obama. welcome to welcome to a new our inside america's new headquarters. trump letting loose a barrage of accusations. accusation including is it -- turned down by quart earlier new low. raising questions about what evidence mr. trump has her has her presidential passage passive to back up his allegations. >> 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

tapped by president obama? >> i think the alarming thing about it is that he continues to double and triple down on what is a false claim, a claim that's been debunked by the intelligence community, by republicans and democrats on the hill, by everybody other than the white house. so one of two things is true. either he knows it's wrong and he's lying about a national security issue, in which case it's going to be hard to trust him going forward, or he can't tell the difference between truth and fiction. in a crises that's really going to matter. if you buy into conspiracy theories, if you start believing everything you hear on fox news and the rubber really hits the road and america's security is at stake and you're sitting in the oval office, you're putting american lives at risk. so i think this is an alarming situation and we should take it seriously. >> we heard shepard smith of fox news flatly deny this allegation that there was any evidence at all, the president referring to judge andrew napolitano, a fo

the american people deserve relief from obama care. the law is feeling right in front of us, it will continue to get worse unless we act, so we have to act. this week, the house will continue working to advance obama care repeal and replace legislation. the house has already done grean work on the bill. i look for to taking it up in the senate soon. we'll have an amendment process in the senate, at the end of the process will send a bill to the one person who can sign it into law, that is the president of the united states. the legislation before the house isn't our only tool to help's stabilize the healthcare market place.g it is one prong of the three-part strategy. the second prong as the administration continues to usee a broad authority to bring relief. officials like the secretary off health and human services, time price, and the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services are already working to bring relief to stabilize health markets that obama care has rattled. remove the third prong is further legislation

a spokesperson for former president obama says, quote, cardinal rule for the obama administration was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the justice department. joining me now, ken delaney. i know you have new reporting against the allegations. what you can tell us? >> that's right. justice department correspondent pete williams has spoken to a senior administration official who tells us that he andthers who are in a position to know have no idea what the president is talking about with his allegations that his communications at trump tower were wiretapped by president trump. and further, this official says that the president trump did not consult with law enforcement officials or others who might have known the facts before he engaged in that tweet storm on this this morning. the reason that is important, becauseis wong dering the president said he learned this information. was he communicating to us that he had just been briefed on a highly classified -- >> do you think that's what it is? is it possible maybe something landed on hi

it was a victory for the disaster of obama care. i promise thank you that victory won't last very long. >> and according to the "wall street journal", the white house is now proactively seeking to weaken obama care through waivers and rule changes, about ut the president said friday he is ready to move on to his next big agenda. tax reform. >> we'll probably be going right now for tax reform, which we could have done earlier, but this really would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support. >> now i'm going for tax reform which i really like. >> will tax reform be any different or will the same divisions doom taxes as well? kelly o'donnell has more on the fall-out. kelly. >> it is tough to explain why some republicans would not go along. that job fell to mike pence today, the vice president in west virginia, talking about small business ideas, jobs and so forth. that was a planned visit there, but he had to add in some explanation about what went wrong on capitol hill. where he had been a big player trying to

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president obama is gracious to him. there's no line he would cross to make sure to distract us of the issues around russia. >> it strikes me as a guy who used to say obama is an illegal immigrant. he is not the president -- when he makes these claims. is he president or is this weird extra curriculum at dawn that he practices. >> he is letting his unfounded opinions fly. chris, i will step back, he is entitled to his opinions. >> when are they going to put out a statement saying this is incorrection. call the fbi director to the stand and put him under oath to say is there any evidence of any attempt to bug donald trump? what's so hard about that? why are we waiting months of this nonsense. >> i was encouraged that the fbi director was attempting to have the department of justice clear this reckless statement by the president. we should do that this week. we should not let the american people be confused about what happened here because the president is reckless with his tweets. >> we have not heard anything yet about i

on president obama. how potentially damaging is this for the sitting president now to make these accusations about his predecessor? >> the first thing i'd say is that you know president trump can find out the answer. richard nixon had a top secret investigation. of the intelligence community. started after he became president. to find out if they wiretapped him during the '68 campaign. and he diskickoffed they hadn't. now, then he started fake news and would say he had been wiretapped. it wasn't true. he knew it wasn't true. that report was declassified a couple of years ago. donald trump could actually find out what fisa warrants had been issued. he has the power as president. i think it's unlikely because presidents realize, outstanding presidents realize that the next president can fipd out what they've done and it would be a real challenge to our system if an outstanding president wiretapped and incoming president, whether or not they saw warrants on other people, that's a different issue. this is ve

we have been talking about president obama accusing barack obama of make the ex closive charge of actingnixon during watergate. personally blaming the form president for wire tarpg his phones in trump tower during the campaign. why would he make such a charge without proof. >> clearly the president has information that has not been released yet. it's not far-fetched to even imagine something like this being done by the obama administration it's the same administration that used several agencies to target republicans. the d.o.j. raid on gibson guitar for using the same wood on their guitar as their competitor. because they were a republican donor. howie: to say the president probably has evidence he's not sharing doesn't rise to the level for the media to be able to report this is true. if he has that information why would he not release that information to make his case. >> he says i just learned. this is something he was just informed. he said that in his statement and i'm pretty sure we'll see more of that to come. y where is the evidence where donald trump was working with the russian

do you think in retrospect that president obama handled this the right way? >> i think president obama handled that as he received information of the highest confidence. i do think with all the respect in the world for the press, that the press could have done a better job instead of printing every e-mail that came out and saying this comes to you from vladimir putin, they were ha, ha, ha, john podesta said this or that, the press were accomplices in the undermining of our election by the russians by not pointing out this stuff is worthless because it comes from an undermining of our election. or reminding the public where the leaking of these e-mails came from. i can't speak to the time that what president obama -- wish it all happened in a time that the public could know this had an impact on the election. a lot of things had an impact on the election. this certainly was one of them. but what's important to know is that it doesn't happen again and that people in other countries are realize what they are going to be susceptible to when the russians come in t

the obama administration ignored him. it was hardly the only time israel would feel let down over the last eight years. that culminated in what we saw in the u.n. in december. the u.s./israel relationship was in a terrible state when the new administration took office. we all agree on the importance of reaffirming our relationship and charting a new way forward. but to do so, i believe we first need to examine what went wrong over the last eight years. and that starts at the beginning. former president obama and i have very different opinions about america's role in the world. it won't surprise you, any of you, to hear that. we disagreed about the value of our alliance with israel. we disagreed about whether the post-war order remains in our nation's interest. we just had a fundamentally different approach to the world. president obama formulated policy based on fulfilling campaign promises made in 2008 and pursued politically expedient solutions to whatever stood in the way. that was his approach. and his first week in o

this is what president trump drew our attention to during president obama's term. this is what we have to face now. host: is, aren'tquestion there standard salaries for everyone associated with anything he does, from the pilot to the secret service? anddo they separate it out always make a video about what they cost? are they moving about? understood how you have a cost for it. that is a great question. when we look at travel like we have seen with president trump, he can choose to stay with washington, said kerry cost are less than if a travel professionally overseas, because -- the rest of this on c-span.org. we take you live to the cato for a discussion about transportation infrastructure. >> president trump has repeatedly called for a trillion dollar m per structure plan p or we do not know exactly what that means. does he mean federal government pending or the plan by these for new, tax credit investment ever structure. i am hoping the white house --

my guest today is donald verrilli, us solicitor general under barack obama.s the constitution ensure that the white house is always subject to, not above, the law? donald verrilli, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen, it's good to be here. let's start with a personal perspective. having served five years as obama's solicitor general, how painful is it for you to watch donald trump pledging to undo so much of the legislative executive legacy left behind by barack obama, and of course a legacy that you defended? well, had you asked me that question two months ago i probably would have said extremely. but as time has passed, i think the resilience of the achievements of the obama administration, i think, is starting to show itself. and so i am more optimistic now that it's going to be a lot more difficult than it might have seemed at first blush for president trump and his administration to undo the progress that was made under president obama. i'm thinking in particular of health care but other things as well. well, we'll go in detail through some of the th

but why go after obama now? >> that president trump is tweeting before 7:00 a.m.n a saturday morning so frequently about these allegations of his campaign's collusion with russia shows that he's incredibly concerned about it and he's trying to deflect blame. he is in the mode of trying to push off on to other people what they have done wrong. and i think to deflect from possible wrongdoing on the part of his own campaign. he's clearly unnerved by these allegations. >> peter, what is your take on these tweets? >> he's doing what he's done since he began the campaign. >> but these allegations are explosive. >> well, he's doing as i said what has been very clear from the day he began campaigning. and that is deflecting as elyse says, but also making it very possible for us to focus on obama rather than on trump. and what is iconic to me and rather disturbing is that the chief architect of mccarthyism, roy cohen, was donald trump's mentor, advise, close friend. so there is an old saying if you spot it, you got it. so fhe's talking from a positio of knowledge with roy

ed: it really is president obama accusing the obama administration of wiretapping his phones and maybex & friends" this morning. rich edson is live in washington, d.c. tracking this developing story. >> good morning, president trump is accusing president obama wiretapping him. terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism and added, quote, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process? this is nixon-watergate. bad or sick guy. in all, six tweets this morning. four of them regarding the alleged wiretaps. the president has nothing about who informed him the previous administration wiretapped trump tower. we reached out of to the white house to clarify this. this there is unconfirmed report on breitbart claiming radio host has requested investigation into the previous administration's monitoring of the trump campaign. fbi did catch michael flynn former nasa director nsa direct. that was routine monitoring of the ambassador. this is moments after jeff sessions ha

obama deported some people. everything in such a ham-handed way that i think it will discredit the conservative arguments that don't deserve to be discredited necessarily and leave conservatives much worse off and republicans worse off. host: maria from new jersey, independent line. caller: i have a couple points to make. said of all, mr. kristol it was unthinkable to question the intelligence agencies. i would like to remind him that mr. klapper lied under oath about surveillance of citizens. schumer written president trump with the intelligence agency's revenge. loretta lynch met with president clinton before the brouhaha came out, and no on his her to task. it really is not a question of party. it was the establishment and running their little wars, wanting no borders for our country. nobody is looking to president yet.'s record he has not been vetted yet. the globe had an article that the clintons had been put under that jury in december and hillary clinton tried to leave the country. either that is true or

former president obama bugged trump tower before the election.l be talking to former house speaker newt gringrich about that as well as peter king on the intelligence committee. let us know what you would like to hear from our up copping guests, stay with us, we are looking at sunday morning futures, we will be right back maria: welcome back, the white house demanding action after president trump accused former president obama of wiretapping trump tower before the election. a white house statement says this, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. president donald trump is requesting that as part of investigation into russian activity the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch, investigative powers were abused in 2016. joining me right now fox news contributor newt gringrich. mr. speaker, always a pleasure. what do you make othe situation we make this morning develop as we speak? >>

more than mitt romney,is bernie sanders, the obama's.imate left mainstream media will try to make a big deal of this but -- trump paid a higher tax rate than msnbc/comcast, 24% and more than obama, 19%. tomi lahren and jessica tarlov -- jessica, i almost feel bad for you because this came out faster than i could get on the program tonight. >> i feel bad for me too right now.s >> sean: tomi lahren, should we be m nice to her, guys? >> we will give you a path, jessica. it's a rough night for all of those that have really dedicated athe past six month of their lives to delegitimizing president trump for everything. it's just a rough night for those individuals. it will be okay.ti >> you've got a little too far now. it's not quite that rough. this is just the first'v -- >> sean: this was portrayed with breathlessness as the great conspiracy that donald trump in 2005 made a profit, he sold a home to the russians. he paid $38 million in taxes. wow. real conspiracy. the russians knew in 2005 that donald trump would be president. >> these were j

he has a thing about smearing obama. he cannot stand the fact he left with a clean record. >> two things. one it is -- go ahead. >> i can tell -- >> we have at president saying and surrogates saying massachusetts voters were taken over the border in new hampshire. when you have soldiers going off to war that creditability become important and i wonder how far he can continue to do this before it can be suggests -- >> pretty far. >> i would say there's something about the eternal war between barack obama and donald trump that began years ago. it began with the birthism and continued with the jokes -- obama made at dinner. number two, it is trump versus comey, which the trump people view as a nest of people who oppose him. as for comey he may want to stay in the shadows for him he has a record of coming out in public and explaining his actions to prove he is not political, he did it in the fall with hillary clinton and the e-mails. he came out and said we're looking at this. i want to tell everybody about it. i'm trying to

a spokesman for president obama said the obama white house never ordered surveillance on any u.s.izen. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's election headquarters. >> eric: thank you for joining us. president trump making that startling allocation happening in her early morning tweet storms. it comes as his administration has been facing growing scrutiny over the alleged communication with russian officials during the campaign. >> arthel: were following this from outside mar-a-lago. >> were still waiting for some kind of official response from the white house, but a few hours ago dance giving all, who is the white house director social media posted a link on his twitter account to the breitbart story that seem to start this tweet storm from president trump this morning. here is one. president trump president trump said that how low has president obama go to tap my phones during the sacred election process. this is nixon, watergate bad and sick. adam said that if there something bad or sick going on is the willingness of the nation's chief executive to make the most outlandi

he said this entire case for the idea that obama and obama aides were trying to undermine trump in aiety of ways. and then we can show the breitbart headline that came as a result of that. a far right web site, of course, run by steve bannon until recently, bannon now trump's chief strategist and the breitbart story tried to elaborate and take it a few steps further. that breitbart article was passed around, circulated in the west wing on friday. apparently, trump was infuriated and perhaps the tweet storm today as a result. >> clear, brian, those claims have not been substantiated, right? >> and far from it. there have been reports and i think we should be clear about this, there have been reports from other news outlets that there were attempts to tap to listen in on the phone calls of certain trump aides or people close to president trump. you might call them associates. that was attempted in the summer and the tal befofall before the election. there's those reports circulated and not independent lly confirm those reports to the best of my knowledge but isn't is it possible they w

charged -- a charge the obama team immediately denied.

still move forward with what president obama put on the table. there's a question of being an partner here and we all have to do our part. there's people in canada and china looking to take up the the fact of the matter is u.s. and china alone account for 45% of the world's emissions. if the u.s. isn't doing its part, it sends a signal to other countries that, well, if they're getting off the hook, why capacican't we? we're not nearly as prosperous, so there's a concern about that. from thee secalling in republican line. you're on with zack colman. hi. r: i just wanted to say that i deplorable that my parents came from coal country in pennsylvania, and now in aleigh, north carolina, and this region of raleigh, there coal-mining e been plants that dumped coal refuge nto our waters and that are still not being cleaned up by that ate by the companies caused it. feel for people that were once in the coal-mining but we need to find a cleaner way. we don't need more people going into coal mines and getting lack lungs and having their families having to

what was our big knock on obama care?thout any of us. >> at relevant committees are working as they should to write a bill to replace the affordable care act or, obama care. once they assemble a proposal democrats and republicans will offer amendments. >> elizabeth: so when will republicans unveil their plans? >> that could begin as early as next week as house committees could merge their house healthcare bills. visiting with mike pence he said congress is about to get busier. >> we expect in a matter of days you will begin to see a very brisk pace of legislative activities. we are going to repeal and replace obama care and we'll do it at the same time. >> democrats generally oppose the effort arguing that it will eliminate sufficient health care for millions of americans. republicans have been discussing a plan to offer tax credits to buy insurance plans that would be less regulated. >> elizabeth: thank you so much. they're certainly plenty of speculation about what republicans will propose and what they'll be able to pa

we have been talking about president obama accusing barack obama of make the ex closive charge of actingxon during watergate. personally blaming the form president for wire tarpg his phones in trump tower during the campaign. why would he make such a charge without proof. >> clearly the president has information that has not been released yet. it's not far-fetched to even imagine something like this being done by the obama administration it's the same administration that used several agencies to target republicans. the d.o.j. raid on gibson guitar for using the same wood on their guitar as their competitor. because they were a republican donor. howie: to say the president probably has evidence he's not sharing doesn't rise to the level for the media to be able to report this is true. if he has that information why would he not release that information to make his case. >> he says i just learned. this is something he was just informed. he said that in his statement and i'm pretty sure we'll see more of that to come. y where is the evidence where donald trump was working with the russians

skblet let's get to the report on repealing obama care. steven moore, a former senior economic adviser to the trump campaign. gloria, let's dive into it, shall we? >> okay. >> so 14 million more americans would be uninsured by 2018. that's according to a nonpartisan congressional budget office. 24 million more uninsured by 2026. is this the report they were expecting? >> it was the report they were bracing themselves for, they were trying to undermine the credibility of the cbo last week and this week. they knew they were going to get some bad numbers. there are still regulations that are yet to be proposed, there are fixes we can't to do. this isn't the be all end all. this is a real big problem. you have more uninsured, more older people who are going to end up paying more. you have people in red states who are going to end up paying more. there's a lot -- >> trump supporters. >> there's a lot of problem here. working class voters, i mean. >> we're going to dive into this deeper, i want to get to premiums, and i'll go to you after that.

there's a neediness there which is such a contrast to obama. obama, this hurt obama a little bit.ies of most politicians because he's not insecure himself so interest neediness was a distraction to him. and trump is the most profoundly insecure person who has held this office. to nixon who was deeply insecure, lbj who was insecure. that's what's scary about it. >> i have to say, in both lyndon johnson and nix only's case, their insecurities built as the job was crushing them. wasn't a first month of insecurity. let's look what the "wall street journal" reported. literally the detail that president obama rolled his eyes. we have a visual for it. the "wall street journal" reports that president obama was livid over the accusation that he bugged the offices, believing mr. trump was questioning both the integrity of the office and mr. obama himself. peep familiar with his thinking said, and this would not be the first time with donald trump since he started with the birth certificate. >> right. so people have known for a long time, since the takedown of the white house correspondents'

there have been problems with obama, clinton, etc.t has been a long time since we had a great president. since we are under the same cloud, i think we should come together and just keep each other as americans. now, those that want foreigners kicked out, don't just look south of the border. there are foreigners from other countries running mafias to have people terrified over here. host: on your point, you talk about being under a cloud. do you think the media makes too much of this and this is just president trump, this is what he does and we are focusing on the wrong things? caller: well, the media always focuses on sensationalism. yes, i think some of the things that have been focused on with trump is a little too far-fetched, but when it comes to people getting caught for breaking the law and government, they are not too big to fail, just like big business. host: thanks for joining us this morning. we go to robin in old ford, pennsylvania, republican caller. caller: i am really getting aggravated with all these people. i have been

barack obama tapped my phones. by his own language, by his own lay terms or by expert terms, it all adds up to the same thing. we are prohibited from talking about any form of classified information as it pertains to foreign intelligence gathering or a criminal wiretap. we can't discuss that, but, you know, we can discuss this accusation because it is completely without merit and i think it's incumbent on us to explain to the public what is lawful surveillance and what isn't and what sean spicer is saying the president is saying is not logically coherent or possible because what it means is to say on the one hand the president wasn't subject to an investigation and a court approved warrant and on the other hand we still believe they were tapping his phones means that the fbi would have had to have engaged in some rogue operation unsupervised and unapproved by a court and there's no evidence of that. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >>> next, live pic churs from nashville. the president will be ther

in the last few minutes a spokesman for mr obama has rejected the claims and said neither mr obama noranyever ordered surveillance on any us citizen, adding any suggestion otherwise was simply false. 0ur washington correspondent laura bicker reports. there is a protocol between presidents, even across the political divide — a peaceful handover of power even when the pair do not get along. in a tirade of tweets donald trump has trashed this tradition. he accused barack obama of ordering a wire tap on his trump tower phone, not in one, but in four tweets. the last read: "how low has president obama on to attack my phones during the very secret election process?" "this is nixon — watergate. what a contrast to his tone during this week's address to congress. this was not the pivot to a different kind of president that many people thought. so were the trump towers phones tapped 7 the conservative news organisation breitbart seems to think so, and it blames barack obama. but no president has the power to order a wiretap, only the fbi can do that, with a warrant from the court. president trump i

trump is essentially saying that barack obama trump is essentially saying that ba rack obama was trumptially saying that barack obama was behind it and... i guess i would have to surmise, again, this is speculation, if the fbi were to do that because they felt there was a russian connection of some sort, i would have thought that something of that importance would have to go to the top. ijust cannot see... can you imagine the home secretary here? this is a paranoid fantasy of donald trump again. shades of that, yes. but i think there could be more to it. you would imagine, even, most democratic countries you would have to have probable cause before the wiretap was okayed. absolutely. if the fbi we re was okayed. absolutely. if the fbi were doing it officially then they would have had to have announced it during the election campaign as they announce their investigation into hillary. if they did it unofficially, then all sorts of things might be going on but... did you read that, you know, is such a serious allegation that it has warranted a response from president obama he... i don't t

how low has president obama goneo tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon watergate. bad or sick guy. president obama respond saying quote a cardinal rule of the obama administration was 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 if white house official ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is false. but mr. obama's statement says neither he north white house ordered the wiretapping. not that in trump's organization wasn't tapped. the other big story of the day. president trump issuing an extreme vetting executive order. iraq lists in the previous order a was removed this time because of improved screening and reporting by the iraqis. green card current visa holders exclude from the president's new order. jeff sessions ann and john kelly described the order as critical to our national security. >> we cannot compromise our nation's securit

look at the obama administration leaving stink bombs behind and the leaks from may be old obama operativesw you feel, if you want to be self-righteous, read the piece in the "orange county register," i think. >> eric: k.g. or dana, if clapper said no. james comey pushes back and says no. and if there is a wiretap, who did it? >> dana: the accusations from president trump with that barack obama himself ordered the wiretap against donald trump as a person. if that turns out be true, the republic is over. bar the door. the white house had a senior administration officials saying even if this turns out not to be true, it's been beneficial because we have muddied the waters enough because now this is what everybody is talking about. 50% of the people will believe barack obama ordered a wiretap. >> eric: kimberly. if the fbi, according to combint wasn't the nsa. >> dana: you are saying if the fbi did it. we don't know those things. the precise allegation is that president obama ordered a wiretap against president trump himself, person-to-person. if that happened -- >> kimberly: the common sense

absolutely. ♪ >> president obama: all right. as typical and uniquely a hanoi dish as there is. these beautiful little pork patties, grilled pork belly. bun cha is served in a broth of vinegar, sugar, and the ubiquitous nuoc cham, or vietnamese fermented fish sauce. chilies to taste. i mean, if you have an important state function after, you might not want to go too heavy on the garlic. >> president obama: you know what, i'm going with this thing. you know? we're gonna do what's appropriate. >> anthony: a little vinegar. >> president obama: all right. >> anthony: and then you just hack off noodles, you just drop them in your bowl. >> president obama: yeah, that's not too elegant, but i managed it. >> anthony: and dip and stir and get ready for the awesomeness. >> president obama: i'm ready. now, is it appropriate to just pop one of these whole suckers in your mouth or do you think that you should be a little more -- ? >> anthony: well, slurping is totally acceptable in this part of the world, but -- [ laughter ] it takes some ski