-- there have been reports an rael intelligence firm was hired to dig up dirt on former obama obama administration officials regarding the iran nuclear deal. does the white house have any knowledge of that or the idea that any trump aides were involved in hiring those intelligence officials? ms. sanders: i'm not aware of anything on that front. if something comes up, we'll let you know. i hope you'll all join us in the rose garden for the first lady's announcement on her initiative. >> wrapping up today's bress briefing a number of questions and comments about geena haspel, president trump's nominee to run the c.i.a. she's on capitol hill today for meetings ahead of her senate intelligence committee confirmation hearing. we're hearing she's speaking with senate democrats today. a hearing is this coming wednesday and we'll have live coverage starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span3. more live coverage shortly right around 3:00 p.m. eastern, about 15 minutes from now, and you heard spokesperson sarah sanders mention it, the white house rose garden will be the scene when first l

obama administration's spied on his campaign in 2016. president leaving little doubt justice department stonewalling it at an end and truth must come out about obama administration intent and actions again trump administration, catherine marriage with our report -- catherine herridge with our report. reporter: white house official said that president concerned about an alleged fbi informant would be raised at meeting that included rod rosenstein. fbi tre director christopher wr. and dan coats, calling on justice department on investigate claims, the deputy announced sunday expansion of a investigation into alleged government surveillance abuse, new line of inquiry will consider if there any political mosmotivation how they used warrants or collected intelligence. administration's clarity and closure. >> president is grateful, that department of justice is going to have inspector general look into it and ensure that there was no surveillance done for political purposes, against our campaign, i think it would be very troubling to millions of americans if that took place. reporter: a source told fox news that republican of chairman house intollgence

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the first place we saw during the obama years that the leak khan's became quite legal and journalists were in the crosshairs with the obama skinny the obama administration department of justice with with them going after james rosen reporters at the a.p. reporters at the new york times so this thing can actually really snowball and get people involved who were never leaking in the first place jose form a second date rex tillerson in a. in a speech at the commencement address at virginia military institute one of a growing crisis in ethics and integrity in washington talk to the importance of truth and political discourse and insists that a common set of facts was essential to maintaining a free society you see apparently talking about president trump. he sure it isn't because there's nothing. that comes to the truth when it comes of the way that trump has handled his presidency he's been lined from day one specially when it comes to the perfect example that he didn't know anything about stormy daniels and the payoff and then all of a sudden he does so he continues to do this bucking forward i think the former secretary of state. is basically just saying

obama campaign came at me. this is just the beginning. >> even former assistant attorney andy mcarty is backing up some of these claims, the obama administration hypocritical pretext. the obamainistration decided to use the counter intelligence powers to spy on the trump campaign using electronic monitoring and intelligence gathering tactics. it ignored the norm against political opponents, not based on evidence of a trump russian conspiracy, but speculation about the russian contacts and sympathies. how many times have i said they are weapon nicing the powerful tools of intelligence. this unprecedented spying is being used by team mueller to malign the president and those around him. the president raised another concern about the ongoing mueller witch hunt. 13 democrats plus people that worked eight years for obama will meddle with the midterms now that the republics are taking the lead in the polls. there was no collusion but by the democrats. the president raises concern given the new revelation that the president is causing rightly spy gate. the mainstream media is actively trying to find anything on this president. the media has been doing everything in its power to dow

the sanctions existed during the obama administration. why didn't the obama -- why was the obama administration unsuccessful in pushing china to make these moves? >> it wasn't a priority. >> why? >> president obama or president bush didn't want to open the box. it's like why didn't obama want to whack syria after he said the red line on chemical weapons. potentially you'll kill some people. none of them wanted the potential. even if it was a small percent of starting confrontation. president trump has been -- he's not as concerned about that. there was potential down side here. there was real risk. we could be sitting here and saying he's gotten us in this trouble and we're at the brink of war. instead there's a greater likelihood of a breakthrough. we have to give him credit. as you know, i've been critical of president trump probably 90% of the foreign policy decision he's made since he's become president. not the whole administration but stuff he said. on this issue, on north korea, the only way you say that trump isn't part of it is if you're just a parti

obama administration. >> yes, we did. mark: what did the obama administration do in response to these scenarios? >> well, the obama administration, to its credit, took solar emp seriously enough that they formed a task force to study the problem, but didn't want to hear about nuclear emp, and the chairman -- >> the nuclear em sp a nuclear event that wipes out the grid. >> that's right. mark: or a chunk of it. >> detonated at high altitude. if iran got the bomb, it could do it. north korea's got the bomb now and knows about emp and threatened to do it to us. that's exactly why the obama administration didn't want to know or hear about nuclear emp, they wouldn't meet with the chairman of our commission, dr. william graham, the world's foremost expert on this. he was one of the people that discovered the phenomena in the 1962 star fish prime test when i was in elementary school. imagine not meeting with dr. william graham. it would be like not meeting with albert einstein when he's trying to tell thought nazis could develop the atomic bomb in 1939. that's how irresponsible the administration was. sh

administration. trump has been obsessed with investigating obama's surveillance of him pretty much since he took office. he tweeted with absolutely no evidence no proof, no backup, no prod obama had wiretapped him and continued to make that assertion for several months. >> by the way we have no knowledge as to represent the fact that obama or obama administration or white house executive office demanded the fbi launch this in the first place, no evidence to suggest that. >> if this fs being done for political purposes, obviously it would have been done to help hillary clinton not to help donald trump which was everything that the fbi did by keeping the trump investigation secret and being very public about the investigations into hillary clinton. it was clear one campaign suffered from that and one campaign was helped and it wasn't the politically expedient one for obama and -- >> you also can't control foreign entities and what they are wanting to do. >> you cannot take -- >> there was russian meddling in our elections and a lot was done by social media, mining these ads on social media, getting people fired up. and going against each other on social media. nobody had anythi

officials and the fbi under the obama administration, so, yes, it happened during the obama administration, but this was a counter intelligence operation to dry to prevent operations in a former tower. you had salliaty yates coming t the white house to protect michael dplin. so the department of justice started out to protect the legitimacy of the administration. they only morphed into a criminal investigation because of the actions of those during the campaign. >> what do you think set the president off today? >> there was a second meeting at trump tower between donald trump jr. and some emissaries from some foreign powers suggesting they wanted to help the trump campaign in the 2016 elections, i think that's something that caused them to getman. >> congressman, thank you. >>> let's bring in our panel, for more analysis right now, washington correspondent for new york magazine, cnn legal analyst and former prosecutor who has worked closely with robert mueller. and c nrks nrnn analyst. what's your latest tweet by the president saying that he demands the doj investigate the f

evening, president trump demanding that justice department fully investigate charges that obama administration obama presidential campaign, result, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, fbi director christopher wray left their afternoon meeting at white house with new marching orders. chief of staff john kelly has a new duty to assure dodge complies -- doj complies with congressional document demands and organize those meetings where they will review the unredacted

the house didn't during the obama administration -- did it during the obama administration. it is about getting across how seriously these folks take this matter. letters andy pounding gorefest on the -- pounding your fist on the day of the committee hearings can only get you so far. chairman ofhave the the oversight committee and the chairman of the intelligence committee, meeting with rod rosenstein tells you the message is getting through. they take this congressional seriously. >> more to come on this story. with the future of the republican leadership in the house. where is mark meadows in that? >> the most important thing he votess there are not 218 for a republican speaker. you need almost all republicans because it is a full vote. you have democrats voting too. not completely but mostly. there are so many people in the house freedom caucus that they have leverage on who become speaker because if they were told -- if they withhold their vote, they cannot elect a republican. if republicans maintain a majority, and that is when their leverage increases so you will be he

look at the obama administration. obama was there for eight years and have these great democratic majorities in the first two years and then you have the 2010 republicans had 63 he seats in the house and so on. years, obamae faced the republican house and ultimately gave up on doing anything with republicans in congress. he didn't want to compromise. he didn't want to see him much. as little as possible. remember, he was going to do everything unpadded paper and so on and he did. of these things by executive order and i give the trump administration credit for nullifying those things. you can nullify an executive order and it was a huge mistake by obama, and he admits to know mistakes, but it has allowed a republican administration to wipe out so much of what obama did. >> i have got a couple of questions that have been put together in this way, but how much has the character of the republican party been changed by trump? how much is trump in normalized by the republican party? debt and government spending does not need to

look at the obama administration. obama was there for eight years, had these great democratic majorities in the first two years. then you had the 2010 election republicans were robbed 63 seats in the house and so on. the next three years, obama faced a republican house and ultimately the senate, and he gave up on doing anything with republicans in congress. he did not want to compromise. muchd not want to see them , as little as possible. do everything on pan am paper and so on, and he did. things by these executive honor, which i get the trump administration credit for in nullifying those things. you can nullify them with an executive order. ,t was a huge mistake by obama of course, he admits to know mistakes. but it has allowed a republican administration to wipe out so much of what obama did. this is a couple of questions i will put together. the character of the republican party been changed by trump, or how much has trump been normalized, so to speak, and the republican party? debt, limited government spending does not

john: is this the same administration that has been blasting the obama administration because the obamaand the nuclear deal would give iran and upper hand on economic growth? now they want to get north korea and upper hand and do it with a telecommunication company that we believe and have evidence that they are engaged in espionage with our military because they are using their phones? i don't think so. there is something terribly wrong. kevin: procedurally speaking, should lawmakers, like chairman thornberry who said these restrictions will likely still shoulduded in the nda, that happen, cap president trump use the commerce department to get around this? john: no, not with regard to cell phone and other equipment sales. kevin: walk me through that procedurally. john: the u.s. military has two different ways of doing with this. on the face of the commissary, they have previously sold the te phones.- sold zte the chinese government can use those come -- those to collect data. so that equipment will not be sold on base. secondly the military can instruct its civilian and enlisted and of

obama administration. the issue here is what happens if when and how politics injects itself into the criminal justice system into the investigative system? the assumption is that because it was the obamaadministration, obama endorsed hillary, therefore there must be some sort of nefarious reason. and the democrats say john kelly wants to be here because he wants to run back and tell trump. it's classified. we're all speculating. we have no idea what is in there -- >> what we do know, democrats weren't invited. that made it clear that they would like to be there. although sarah sanders, remember when she asked about it, they said they didn't have any questions about this. they weren't -- they didn't request information. so they got their way. trey gowdy making it clear when talking to dana perino, he said great. i don't care who is there. if democrats are going to show up, i'm not in charge of the guest list. if they're going to be there, they better show up with an open mind and tight lips. will that happen? >> the most important thing, not who is in the room but what information is brought in the room. they're's my theory. when the obama administration realized that the trump campaig

in fact, one of the episodes of the obama administration was we thought if president obama didn't come out soon enough to express his support for the people. so i think president trump here was saying listen, you got a dividend, you the iranian people were to have gotten a dividend from the nuclear deal and it was misspent by the extreme clerical leaders of your regime. i think this is a way to signal to them that they are with them. when you think about the iranian currency which more or less has been depressed and near collapsed, collapsing anyway. i think the administration probably said you know what? this is a pretty good time to get in here and do additional economic sanctions. and the europeans while they will be upset, i think at the end of the day they are not going to want to go do a lot of business in irain because it's just -- iran because it's too politically risky and i think they need the economic relationship with the united states more than they knead -- need them with iran. >> dana: talk to me about the president's new team. he has a new national security adviser john

we now know that the obama administration spied -- if the obama administration, he is the president, ck stops at his desk. he may be playing around with his library in chicago and going off and writing a phony book and everything, he needs to be held responsible and his surrogates should be held responsible. the fisa court failed us. the fisa court failed us. we have these national security letters that are supposed to be used in extreme circumstances being used. a cabal of fbi agents who took it upon themselves to investigate a candidate and his campaign, and then we have of course actual spies, one or more, and the trump campaign. what is this? this on the stomach soviet union, venezuela? at the united states of america. let me say this. once mr. mueller turns over his report to mr. rosenstein, the president should do two things. he should pick his favorite united states attorney, not favored because they are cows, most confident they can, give them an assignment. i don't care what jeff sessions does. he is the president. tell him, i want you to t investigate the activities that too

has been a key foreign policy priority notjust for the trump administration but the obama administration but the obamat he has a greater need. that is the balance that people will be looking at. to what extent is he prepared to give up this new power in order to reinvigorate his country, solidify himself in power, stop his people starving and create some economic development? the trouble is we are seeing the pictures now of what they claim to be a nuclear testing site being destroyed, north korea are the kings of propaganda, they would have to go much further than that to prove that they are denuclearise but we are hearing from south korea is they have no intention of that so one wonders what president trump would actually come back from with these stocks. there would have to be a much more significant programme of inspection and verification, taking a bunch of journalists inspection and verification, taking a bunch ofjournalists to see a couple of explosions doesn't really tell you anything quite frankly and to their credit those journalists said exactly that when they came back from that exercise. i

we fall-- and the obama administration and obama and george w administration terribly in afghanistan, but particularly obama administration would put pressure on karzai, karzai would pull back, because we would constantly be afraid if we lose any kind of the connectivity or work, what would they do. and frankly, there have been real limitations with the unity government and what it had performed. so, you know, to me, that is the really crux of the problem, how do we get our local partners, despite all the rhetoric, the strive to embrace the same political vision of government inclusion and equity. and the more we build up, the warlords, the more we hand over military equipment, ironically, the more we are, in fact, often undermining that larger political goal. >> okay. thank you. and i take that point, but i'm not yet going to let go of the question of authorities and washington decision making. so, david, let me turn to you and ask, did you consider when you were developing the recommendations here, whether congress might, you know, assign these authorities, legislatively? >> sure. w

and that's what you've touched on is this wanting to criticize his predecessors the obama administration brock obama and the man who negotiated this deal in twenty in twenty fifteen the former secretary of state john kerry he tweeted not only on monday but again on tuesday criticizing john kerry saying he's hurting the country by trying to salvage this deal and reach out to the iranians again this is sort of put speaks to the fact that donald trump very much wants to appear in control and he certainly is intending to do that leaving us hanging until he makes that announcement at eight hundred g.m.t. ok kimberly we'll leave it there and we'll be back with you in the hours to come kimberly help of a lot of the white house thank you. a dense web of written agreements and deadlines make up the iran nuclear deal which took years to agree the deal was finally signed off by iran in two thousand and fifteen with the five permanent un security council members as well as germany and the european union a week later it was unanimously endorsed by a un security council resolution iran agreed to reduce the number

president trump insisted to fox news that he has been far tougher on zte than the obama administration ever was. the obamainistration recently considered sanctions against zte and then backed off. president trump telling me yesterday "i shut down zte." mike? >> mike: our john roberts leading us off on the north lawn. thanks. there are questions about thursday's supposed destruction of the north wants main nuclear testing site. this comes amid out uncertainty of denuclearization talks with the north. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot has the latest on that from seoul, south korea. [shouting] >> a protest friday outside the u.s. embassy in seoul pushing for president trump to go ahead with the possible summit with kim jong un. one sign of the region watching closely the back and forth over the proposed kim-trump meeting. china reacting to the summit talk. president trump has accused chinese president xi of turning kim jong un against the u.s. [speaking foreign language] >> we really hope the u.s. and north korea can cherish the recent and positive process, exercise patience, show goodwill and

the obama administration opens up an investigation into the trump campaign without any criminal evidence. the obama administration used secret subpoenas to obtain phone record from the trump campaign and used an unverified dossier of russian smears. the bottom line remains. team obama spied on the trump campaign using wiretaps and moles with no legal justification. now the people who were used to gather the information from stonewalling the american people. >> we have yet to see any credible evidence or intelligence that led to the opening of this investigation. jesse: sara carter joins me now to break this down. devin nunes didn't clearly say it, but he made the premise there is evidence this may have bean set-up from the jump. do you believe that? >> i do believe that. based on the evidence we have now compared to a year ago. they went after chairman nunes. they went after me open my breaking stories, saying this is implausible, this is a joke, this isn't true. now going into the second year and all of the evidence that has come out of this, what we discovered is a counter-intelligence investigat

would take that on, congresswoman jackie spear wants to roll back the administrations ban on transgender troops to the obama -- obama era which was more tolerant permitting transgender troops, and on the flipside, you have steve king of iowa who has an amendment that would bar enforcement of the obama era transgender training. >> a quick one, how soon, if it is coming between the rules committee early in the week, how soon might we see a florida begin on the authorization bill? >> i don't know that i can predict that, but we do know that on monday, max thornberry, the chairman of the committee, and the ranking member are going to be before rules and on tuesday evening, they will start discussion and debate. the last time i checked, it is more than 550, and if you look at last year when there was 400, 210 made it to the floor. that is lot for the committee to tackle and they have been known to work, even into 2 am. it could take quite a while. >> conjugal, congressional reporter -- and defense news out .com. thanks for the update. >>> washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. comi

one part of the russian policy that i find identical between the obama administration and the trump administration, both trump and obama would prefer congress to stay out of things. there's a general view that foreign policy should be handled by the president and congress should not interfere. that has been universal thought by administration after administration. but we have an advantage, the separation of the branches of government and we need to use that. we do not have to have loyalty to our political leader, because we do have the independence of the legislative branch. even when you have the same party controlling we can act as an independent body and that can give us strength globally. we did the first in iran, where president obama did not want additional sanctions impose, and congress passed the bill unanimously even though the administration to on it. the obama administration recognized that the laws need to be carried out. secretary clinton did a great job in getting other people to follow us, and the sanctions to bring about the climate for negotiations. the bill we passed last year did some extreme things.

brennan who was pushing it, all the secretive activity going on top echelons of the obama administration. you drag down the obamasn't that why they don't ever want to get to the bottom of the dossier? >> yes, yes, absolutely. and the other reason is there was a black ops basically intelligence operation run against president trump not through official channels. devin nunes acknowledged as much in his interview. mark: i mentioned this in march 2017 i came under withering assault, that's how i knew i was under -- >> you called for the fisa warrants, but this is important, there were two channels, they were not official channels, this is the run through the united states senate, john brennan, senator harry reid and dianne feinstein's staff, that operation is going on through former staffers. second channel, i'm not talking about official intelligence channels, the second channel was the state department. diplomats and bureaucrats running intelop against president trump being run through victoria nuland and jonathan whiner. they have acknowledged the role. mark: we haven't gotten close to the bottom line. >> with al

some of it used by people around trump, linking specific officials within the obama administration, talking about the obamao chamber and the flun influence of democrats on the media. so there is certainly a political element. i should point out as well we were not able to document that, the direct client involved was a trump official as has been speculated and, in fact, at least one source near black cube said this was a private client, that there was potentially a powerful commercial interest that wanted to dismantle this deal in some way. >> and finally, richard holbrook was a mentor to you, someone i followed through his experience as well. you said once to hillary clinton he was like a father to you. what did you get from him personally and professionally? >> you knew richard holbrook well. that is saying something. he was a profoundly difficult man as we all knew. he had a larger than life personalities. >> there you are. >> the counter point to that as many bridges as he burned and as sharp as his elbows were, he was the most devoted mentor. every single person on the afghanistan and pakistan team, h

we know that the obama administration spied, look, it is it the obama administration and he's the president his desk and he may be playing around his library in chicago and he is be held responsible. the fisa court failed us. we have national security letters that are used in extreme circumstances being used and a fbi agents that took it upon themselves to investigate a candidate and his campaign and actual spies in the trump campaign. what is it? the soviet union or venezuela or central america? it is the united states of america. once mr. mueller turns over the report to mr. rosenstein. the president should pick favorite united states attorney. not because they are pals. but give him an assignment. i don't care what jeff sessions. and tell him. i want you to investigate the activities that took place in this election and let the chips fall where they may. and the innerferrance by the fbi and cia and national intelligence. and brennan and clapper and comey did. not because i am going to punish them. you am make determination. >> sean: susan rice. >> i would also tell them to fix this. we c

that was a big battle with the obama administration over that torture report. the obamatration stood fast and said we're not going to release the names of cia operatives or names of countries. that has to remain classified. that's the argumenresident is mg push for her but she herself wavered last friday. she's afraid she's going to hurt the agency by reopening all these wounds. >> yes, absolutely. she's very concerned they're going to relitigate this very dark chapter in american history where the cia went down a road, you know, brutally interrogated people. many people consider to have been torture. israel hard ft' it's really hard for them to defend it. donald trump during the campaign opened door and said torture works, and i want to do worse than water board, and that's got a lot of people concerned. >> of course there are bipartisan former leaders of the cia all of whom endorse her. she's got a huge amount of support. >> it's remarkable. people who are trump supporters, trump critic, democrats, republicans. if you're associated with the cia, apparently you love gin

the same thing during the obama administration. other time obamaally managed to get to the negotiating table and get an interim deal, the arena's had 22,000 centrifuged. so the idea pushing for zero enrichment has already been proven over and over again that it is unattainable, no one in europe believes in it any longer, and thahat is why they'e committed to this nuclear deal in which instead of f going for zero, th arere making susure t irananians cannot get a nuclear weapon. fofor mike pence and his miministrationon to go back toto demands thth have beenen proveno be unattainable, is correctly perceived by almost everyone as an attempt of getting this i ino a confrontation. juan: what has been their response inside of iran to pompeo's speech and the administration policy given the fact that president or himself has to deal with hardliners within his own government who might welcome a greater confrontation? >> this has been problematic for the group on a government. they put almost all of their eggs in the basket of securing a new era deal and the

obama bros during the obama administration, they were known for putting an echo chamber around the deal so that everybody would support it. for years they have said you have to support this deal, iran has been in compliance, has been in compliance. kennedy: he said that. he publicly stated what you just said. >> yes. and now today when we get this other report from israel and they are sharing this evidence with other countries, they're saying that oh, we always knew iran lied. you can't have it both ways. either you knew they with weren't in compliance so why were you telling people they were or there's another issue going on. but it is also another issue. what do you do just because they're not in compliance. that is not as easy or cut and dry as possible. the ultimate goal, what obama said he was doing by signing the deal was keeping iran from getting nuclear weapons in four different ways. i this i h e was way too eager for a deal and way too trusting of a group 37 but what that does that mean going forward? there's a lot of way to negotiate and work together to con train iran was developing nuclear weapons, the ultimate goal. kennedy: it's interesting. there's a difference between actually solving a problem and doing something to look like you're solving a problem when you're really trying to secure your legacy. and you know, i would say that's what president obama was doing, because so much of this is secretive. it was not taken before the senate. it was not explained properly to the american people. and it really did feel almost like obama care where it was rushed through without proper airing out or vetting process. >> right. it's very easy to get out of this deal precisely because of what you said. it was not ratified by the senate. not a treaty. easy to come