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

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

it was also around the time when obama imposed the sanctions against russia and russia was mad at obama and clinton. 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

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

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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

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

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 materiaterm, 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 guant

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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does he really believe that obama wiretapped trump tower? if he does, then we have a much more serious problem than we have yet acknowledged. but i do think it's quite plain that, from a constitutional perspective, in terms of what a president should and should not do, he doesn't know right from wrong. >> in the text of the president's new travel ban, the white house claims that according to the attorney general, the fbi is conducting counter-terrorism investigations into 300 refugees, more than 300 refugees, currently in the united states. is that true? >> i don't know what the exact number would be, but a couple of things leapt out at me about that section. firstly, the only examples they gave is two iraqis which must have been the two involved in the non-existent bowling green massacre and one who came as a child. is he suggesting that extreme vetting will be able to tell that a child years later becomes radicalized in the united states? the reality is as director comey has testified in open session, there are counter-terrorism investigat

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

trump tower. >> the obama -- president obama, through a spokesman, denied any direct involvement. does president trump not believe him? >> i think they don't have the best track record. they say they had a cardinal rule. that's not true. the president himself got directly involved in the e-mail scandal with hillary clinton. >> you don't believe him when he says that doesn't happen? >> the attorney general met privately and secretly with bill clinton. >> to pretend this is a clean and credible source, i'm not joust buying it. >> do you believe there was a fisa order? even if president obama didn't order it? >> i think there certainly could have been. it sounds like there's something we should look into and verify. >> is the trump administrati administration -- >> that's above my pay grade. white house counsel we owe to it the american people to look into it. >> if there was an order, there would have to be probable cause shown. evidence of wrongdoing. isn't the president saying, this, indeed, happened, confirming that the investigation had enough evidence to get a fisa order? >> i'

now president obama has responded. in a statement released by his spokesman, "a cardinal rule of the obama administration is no white house official ever interfered well any independent investigation led by the department of justice." as part of that practice, it neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. nbc's intelligence and national security reporter ken delanie, and nbc senior political editor beth fooley. thank you both for joining us today. appreciate it. ken, let's start with you. >> i was wondering to myself was president trump briefed on surveillance at trump tower? is that what he is trying to say? all reporting today is that's not the case. we can't rule it out completely. as you mentioned, a senior u.s. official has cautioned us against this -- against what trump charged. the way that he articulated this charge is just not how it works. we just don't know if that's happening here. it seems like it would be pr

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

bombshell allegations from president obama that the obama administration had his phone lines wiretappeduring the presidential campaign. the white house promising more details on this soon. julie: a the vice president response to news that he used a private email for government business while he was governor. we begin with a fox news alert. president trump hearting a quiet saturday with a series of tweets about former president obama. that he tapped the phone trump tower before the u.s. election. it would take an order from a judge who found probable cause. all of this erupting as big questions swirl about attorney general jeff sessions. and moscow's alleged interference in the election on trump's behalf. lauren is covering the latest on the attorney general, but let's begin with kristen fisher in palm beach, florida. 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

because obama, this hurt obama a little bit.he basic insecurities of most politicians because he is not insecure himself. so their neediness was an abstraction to him. >> yeah. >> and trump is the most profoundly insecure person who has held this office compared to nixon who was deeply insecure, lbj was insecure. and that's what's scary about it. most bullies are insecure. >> both lyndon johnson and nixon's case, their insecurities built as the job was crushing them. >> right. >> it wasn't a first month of insecurity. let's look at what "the wall street journal" reported. nbc literally had the detail that president obama rolled his eyes, which we have a visual for. okay, that's good. "the wall street journal" reports that president obama was livid over the accusation that he bugged the republican campaign office, believing that mr. trump was questioning both the integrity of the office of the president and mr. obama himself. people familiar with his thinking said, and this would not be the first time since with donald trump sinc

president obama has denied any direct involvement through a spokesman saying, neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. either obama tapped trump's phone. or he didn't. one of them has it wrong. this hour, the search for the truth. two questions we'll seek to answer. is it possible that there was a legally sanctioned wiretap at trump tower? did a court approve surveillance based on evidence the public does not yet know? and second, if mr. trump is flat out wrong, what made him level this extraordinary charge? did the man who has daily access to the deepest levels of u.s. intelligence base his claims on something he read on the internet? here to help us answer these questions, we have spokespeople for both presidents trump and obama. plus senator al franken, whose question to jeff sessions focused attention on those ties to russia. chief washington correspondent jonathan karl joins us in a moment. with what may have motivated trump to tweet. but we begin with chief investigative correspo

for the first time in obama care, we expanded obama care or the obama administration did rather to able bodied individuals in a way that had never been done before. it was not a specific class. that led largely to the ballooning costs. i think a lot of the reforms that will be contained in this bill will address that. but we've got to let it work its way through the process. >> i want to ask you two communication questions. >> good. >> because the president gave himself a grade on communication, let me ask you about the experiencehat the prevus administration had when obama care was going through its own stages. the president, president obama said, the opposition to the legislation was able to seize the opportunity while it was being legislated to create public perceptions about what was in the legislation. so my question is, what is the president going to do to improve communications, to be out there explaining what is in the bill, to working the bill. that's the first question. >> thank you. on the first one, as i mentioned, it has and continues to have significant outreach to members

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

as obama was leaving offices. intelligence normally reserved for handful of intelligence leaders spread throughout briefings to scores of workers and soon leaks appearing in news organizations often in stories lacking context of how national security -- fox news bret baier said the following. report in 2016, fisa -- involving donald trump and several other campaign officials. then turned down. then in october. renewed and start-up wiretap at trump tower with computer and russian banks. continues, shot down -- i judge said -- jonathan you can follow up. no go to monitoring trump tower. this is wiretap going on monitoring of computers. by all accounts don't come up with anything in the investigation but the investigation continues and we don't know it. november 11th, 2016, heath street repted two sepate sources with links to the intelligence community c confirmed -- sean hannity went on to say protections known as minimization features put in place to protect american citizens caught up in surveillance and by i watt

are we still talking about president obama? at this point if you're president and you are going to lead and you think about immigration, health care, tax reform, all these other things you could be doing the fact that you're talking about president obama possibly wiretapping you without any evidence i think starts to get even his own party wondering what is going on here and who did we back. robert: speaking of the intelligence community, the c.i.a. is investigating its own operations after wikileaks released thousands of documents about the agency's electronic spying techniques. wikileaks publisher julian assange called the c.i.a.'s failure to secure top-secret information devastating incompetence. what about the timing of this, peter? julian assange has been linked to russian officials though he denies that link. peter: interesting. in some ways almost as interesting as the substance of what was released is the timing, the fact that it came up now. we're talking about wiretapping and the whole russia investigation. what is go

obama a bad or sick guy. i'm not asking you as a member of the intelligence committee, asking you as a leader in the senate, what's your reaction? >> tom: i try not to parse and review every one of president trump's tweets. i prefer to focus on things like his speech to congress, where he laid out a very careful plan of action. what he's thinking and where he like the appointments and his cabinet and the policies he's pursuing. >> chris: this is a pretty serious charge. what would you say to them about an allegation by one president, that a former president wiretapped and during the campaign? >> tom: we had a town hall with over 450 citizens, almost for an hour and a half got a lot of questions. we got one question about this. all of the questions were about health care in the harms that obamacare caused and the immigration laws under president obama's tenure, or rebuilding the military. this kind of topic is not going to do much to bring these people comfort that we will fix their health care system or immig

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 t tell everybody about it. i'm trying to

he called president obama a bad or sick guy. this source of his wiretapping claim appears to be a radio host mark le vin. let's watch. >> president obama and surrogates supporting hillary clinton and democrat party using the instrumentalties of the federal government to surveil members of the trump campaign. >> that's a voice to be believed. a spokespersons issued denial. neither president obama or white house officials never order surveillance. it's false. it was denied by national security james clapper ij. >> would that be information you would know. >> yes. >> you would be told if there was a fisa court. >> yes, something like this. >> can you deny whether that exists. >> i can deny it. >> there's no fisa order. >> no. >> the fbi director pushing back, the fbi says the report james comey asked the justice department to reject president trump's assertion that president obama ordered tapping of president owes phone. the claim is false. and must be corrected they said. well, nbc later confirmed that reporting. president trump c

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

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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

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

bush and president obama had more votes. million americans are out of the labor force, a figure that included both seniors and teenagers. if you go back to before he was president. there was the birther moment. he repeatedly claimed president obama wasn't born in the u.s. also his claim and accusation that primary rival ted cruz's father was somehow involved in jfk's assassination. finally this fiction that trump was always opposed to the iraq invasion. there's absolutely no proof of that but there is proof he suspected supported it, at least a little, in 2002 in an interview with howard stern. to join me politico's eli stokele. sean spicer just had a briefing a moment ago. he was peppered with questions by the press about where exactly donald trump got this idea he was wiretapped. he said, well, it may have been fisa, it may have been surveillance. he also said there are a lot of reports out there that are asking these same questions. what reports? >> right. he said, or whatever. we need to know if it was surveillance or wh

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

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

. >> president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap? >> nobody could. i have no information that supports those tweets. the answer is the same for the department of justice and all of its components. >> the white house dismissing much of comey's testimony. >> there's a lot of areas that need to be covered and a lot of information that still needs to be discussed. >> reporter: continuing to deny any coordination. >> you continue to look for something, and continuing to look for something that doesn't exist doesn't matter. >> reporter: and refusing to back off the president's wiretapping claim. >> is the president prepared to withdrawal -- >> we started a hearing and it's still ongoing, and as chairman nunez mentioned this is one in a series that will be happening. >> and trump firing off defensive tweets in real time throughout the hearing, leading one lawmaker to press comey to clarify the record. >> tell congress that did not influence the electoral process, is that accurate? >> we have offered no view on potential impact because it's something we neve

he called obama a bad or sick guy. the source of his wiretapping claim appears to be a concerted radio he's. -- host. >> we have a prior administration barack obama and his sur grats who were supporting hillary clinton and their party using the instrew mentalities of the federal government shlgs intelligence activities to surveil members of the trump campaign. >> that's a voice to be believed. >> a spokesman says neither president obama or any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u. official. >> if the fbi, for instance, had a court order would that be information you would know or not know? >> yes. >> you would be told this? >> yes. >> if there was a court order on something like this? >> yes! you can't confirm or deny whether it exists? >> there is no fisa court order? >> not to my knowledge. >> of anything at trump tower? >> no. >> new york siems said james comey asked the justice department this weekend to publicly reject president trump's assertion of the tapping of mr. trump's phones. @president

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

for president trump to be ollowing that lead and almost jumping ahead of president obama and spending, it brings some on how diligent is president trump sort of being taking travel and making these trips happen, not just once in a while, but as we've seen with president marlago, four out of the last five weeks to his beautiful estate. raising questions. next four years, how much will axpayers be spending on this kind of travel? are they comfortable with subsidizing the president's on private ng business trips, effectively selling the president's last ame, potentially selling to people who seek favor with the president. this is going to be a big question. just to trips to florida, if he travels to florida like ast week, what is estimated price tag for a trip? guest: you know, we want to know down to the line item what this costs, we know incredibly complicated. ll the secret service agents have to go down and do advance trips and make it into a fortress. have to guard marlago, on water on both sides, one road way right outside, airports all around, safeguard those. we know from preside