tomorrow morning, of course, marks two weeks since the president first tweeted that president obama wiretappeds controversy on fire. so here's a look back at what a long and, yes, strange two wee it's been. president trump's explosive allegation on twitter accusing former president obama tapping his phones at trump tower. >> he said it's a new low by president obama. >> there was no such wiretap activity. i can deny it. >> the president wants congress to look into this. >> i have no insight into what exactly he's referring to. >> i've seen no evidence of the allegations. >> do you believe that barack obama wiretapped trump tower? >> there's no evidence of that. >> sean spicer attempted to clarify president trump's tweet on wiretapping. >> the president was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know, wiretapping. >> the fbi and department of justice last week for any evidence of a warrant and hadn't heard a thing. >> will your justice department comply with the -- >> thank you. >> either retract or provide the information. >> i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. >> i've seen

, i am telling you it will all be part of it. >> what does that have to do whether president obama wiretapped trump towers? >> i think the term wiretap is a dragnet 1920s term that does not play in the 21st century, and ideas of what surveillance is. there was broad surveillance and the government has the ability to surveil almost all of our conversations and watch everything we do, and we have a felonious leak of somebody involved in one of the conversations and to me it's incredibly troubling and i hope it is to all of you. >> i don't think the question of whether president obama wiretapped president trump should be put to test, he needs an apology and we need to move forward. the focus and what the american people care about is whether or not the current sitting president is whether or not his associates or he was involved with a foreign government, and that's the focus, and intruded in the election, and democrats have to be patient, too, and we will see what comes out of it. >> jen, matt, thank you for the debate. >>> president trump is touting the health care bill this morning, and he is

to back um his startling allegation that the former president of the united states, president obama, wiretapped him in trump tower during the campaign. keeping him honest, we know this tonight because bipartisan members of the senate intelligence committee say they've seen no evidence that barack obama ordered donald trump's phones tapped during the campaign. we know this because house speaker paul ryan also says he's seen no evidence. remember, the president asked congress to investigate and the house and senate intelligence committees have been doing that for the last dozen days. we know the president has no facts to back um his early morning saturday tweet storm because in today's white house briefing press secretary sean spicer read a long list of media reports that he seemed to believe back um the president's claims. media reports. sean hannity, judge napolitano, "the new york times," the very paper the president of the united states has referred to as failing and fake. >> sean hannity said judge andrew napolitano made the following statement -- days after election, heat street reported. j

20th, a new york times article where they were talking about wiretapping. >> reporter: the new york times never reported that president obama ordered wiretapping of trump tower. the 45th president said wiretapping meant surveillance. >> does the president stand by the allegation. >> reporter: you're mischaracterring what happened. >> reporter: what happened the top about hims -- members of the intelligence committee declared saying there was no such wiretapping. we've seen no evidence of that. sean spicer not backing down spending 8 minutes reading media reports and conservative commentary, one report alleged british spies gathered information on then president-elect trump. the uk response, these allegations are complete and utter nonsense. the justice department has to hand over any evidence on the wiretapping claims. reporting in washington, kenneth moten channel 6 "action news." >> villanova wildcats shook off a sluggish first half in the ncaa tournament they downed st. mary's 76-56. fans packed kelly's tavern in bryn mawr last night. "action news" spoke to some of them who are hoping for a repeat of the championship vic

the idea of president obama wiretapped president trump. >> president trump didn't just learn it last was peeked and shown how people in the government are out to get him and he made up accusation that president obama tapped his phone. >> i don't think anyone believes that that president obama wiretapped president trump. >> i would degree with you. there's a slice of donald trump supporters who believes if the president trump believes it, then it happened. >> in the state of play, in the internet and news, is there anyone who believes that tonight, who is going to change his mind in any way? >> donald trump came out and said, i was in a bad mood. sae story, i thoughtut it -- >> there's so much. >> what would we do? >> the president said this, but obviously, people know it's not true. >> where do we go with this? we got people who really need healthcare in the country and we're pushing this one. i'm not talking about the russian investigation but we're pushing this one. >> i think there's time to be concerned about the fact that the president makes unsubstantiated statements and doesn'

in whato confidence obama did and i do believe that he did wiretap trump. i was not a supporter of president obama and have written so many editorials on every possible policy issue and so forth, but obama did not wiretap the leaders across the world. the u.s. government wiretap leaders across the world and that is something the bush and ministration did as well and i don't think president obama change that much but if you try to do certain things like wiretap for bad reasons, this is the republican presidential nominee, he can do that. he has to order people to do that. are we really to believe that people in the fbi and cia layers down were complicit in this conspiracy? did they fool the fbi into thinking something was when it wasn't so? that is the crisis. what people who think "obama wiretap trump" really think is that the fbi was complicit. jim comey was the director and there ise director and some institutional crisis that needs to be addressed. host: do you think people would ultimately accept these things and these results for these crises would be r

he also said he didn't believe donald trump was wiretapped under the orders of barack obama. >> he said yesterday though i don't believe. >> yeah. i don't believe the president ordered a physical wiretap of trump tower. >> and -- >> physical wiretap and other surveillance activities. want to make sure none used for political purposes. >> do you have any reason that anything may have picked up donald trump's communications at all? any evidence? >> other than general flynn, we don't. >> this comes ahead of highly anticipated meeting on monday, james comey, fbi director among the first witnesses testifying at first public meeting of the house intelligence meeting with investigation into russia, ties into the meddling that allegedly occurred and campaign process with the trump campaign in the elections. james comey will get asked about the wiretapping question. and adam schiff, top democrat on the committee telling me today that he believes comey will bat down this question, rebut president trump on this issue and say that there were no wiretaps of trump tower under the orders of barack oba

paul ryan, i asked him directly, do you believe that president trump was wiretapped by obama and his administration. he said no, no such wiretap existed. two top republicans on the senate, richard burr, mark stone said there is no surveillance of trump tower. during his feisty press conference sean spicer cited devon dev devon nunes suggested that perhaps during broad surveillance some of donald trump's communications were picked up. i asked devin nunes if there is any chance that president trump's communications were picked up, and he said no and he doesn't believe that donald trump was wiretapped under the orders ever president obama. >> you said i don't believe. >> i don't believe that the president ordered a physical wiretap of trump tower. >> what do you make of the -- >> if it's a physical wiretap or other surveillance activities, which is the question. >>ed to is -- >> we want to make sure no surveillance activities were used for purposes. >> do you have any reason to suspect that any of these picked up any communications at all. >> other than general flynn, we don't. >> don, t

20th, "the new york times" article where they were talking about wiretapping. >> reporter: "the new york times" never reported president obama ordered any wiretapping of trump tower. the 45th president adamant on twitter the 44th tapped his phones now says wiretapping meant surveillance. >> does the president still stand by -- >> you're mischaracterizing what happened. >> reporter: the top democrat and republican members of the senate intelligence committee declared we see no indications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the united states government either before or after election day 2016. the committee says it was briefed by the appropriate authorities. even house speaker paul ryan chimed in. >> no such wiretap existed. we cleared that up. we've seen no evidence of that. >> reporter: sean spicer not backing down spending nearly eight minutes reading media reports and conservative commentary. >> let me quote them. >> reporter: one alleged president obama used british spy tos gather information on then press-elect trump. the response, these are complete and utter nonsense. monday a big day on

. >> do you believe barack obama wiretapped trump tower? >> there as no evidence of this suect for the senate ia intelligence committee to take a look at. and they are looking at whatever

wiretapping. there was an article, i think they used that exact term. >> reporter: but "the new york times" never reported president obama ordered any wiretapping of trump tower, citing anonymous sources, the paper reported surveillance of russian officials who had been in contact with trump associates. >> all right. so let's go live to jon karl at the white house tonight, and we know the fbi director came to the hill behind closed doors this week, but soon the american people will hear from him on this? >> reporter: he will be before the house intelligence committee on monday, david. this is a hearing on russian interference in the elections, but you can be sure that this question of the alleged wiretapping will be front and center, and he'll have to answer it before the public. >> jon karl live at the white house. thank you. >>> next, the controversy surrounding president trump's new budget. his first budget out today, and some republicans giving it a chilly response. the president calling his budget america first. $54 billion for the pentagon, and billions in cuts to domestic and foreign aide programs. he was pressed

he said president obama wiretapped me at trump tower during the campaign. n't think a word of that has been challenged effectively. >> well, we've been reporting for weeks and weeks and weeks that, you know, wiretaps may have picked up vary members of trump's campaign at trump tower. and, again, i remember -- i'm old enough to remember when the white house was saying that was an intentful wiretap. look, the president said -- >> a sick president. at what trump said. >> he said he s sick and he was bad. >> watergate. >> and watergat and he put it directly at president obama. nothing -- i don't remember anything in those tweets about inadvertent surveillance being picked up. so i don't think anything fundamentally has changed. >> why did nunes throw this dust all over this story? >> what else is he going to do? i think schiff realily does raie a question. this guy was on transition, had communication with the white house. we heard through the reporting nunes is going through the hall and talking about this, the white house wants him to stand up on this stuff. i

what do you want to see happen with president trump's accusations of president obama wiretapping him?> donald trump is destroying the credibility of the office of president 140 characters at a time. this charge that he has made about some wiretapping before the election without a sin tilla of evidence, has been refuted not only by the former president but the national head of intelligence and the head of the federal bureau of investigations. the republicans in congress still want to take this seriously. why? so they can avoid a serious investigation, an independent, transparent investigation, of the russian involvement in the last election. >> what do democrats do? >> we will continue to press forward. we pressed for the recusal of jeff sessions from this matter, and that virtually has happened and we will confirm that today in the committee, and we want the appointment of a special prosecutor so we have an independent person that will look at the involvement at the russians in the last election, and i favor calling for an independent commission that goes further and publicly and brin

wiretap story. i haven't seen him this ticked off in a long time. when i mentioned obama's denials about the white house, he said well this will be investigated. it will come out. christopher, thank you for joining us. if you have any, about trying to examine the president would need to get up and tweet about this, i wonder. >> well, breaking news, donald trump likes to tweet what he thinks and feels and what's going on in his mind. and he's been doing it a long time so there's no surprise here. a lot of people were caught very much off guard by this. but my conversations with him saturday, he was extremely confident about the information. he was angry. this did not seem like something he was sort of bantering about. like something about ted cruz' father or something like that. this was very serious. >> he spent any number of years talking that about the illegal immigrants. so don't say they're casual remarks. they were serious charges. he was on the birther patrol for years. >> well, let's make it clear, i'll not here to represent the president. nor the white house. i'm ju

director comey, have you seen any evidence that president obama wiretapped trump tower? but asked that same question today, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee had this extraordinary admission. >> we don't have any evidence that that took place. in fact, i don't believe just in the last week of time. the people we've talked to, i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. >> reporter: congressman devin nunes adding this. >> so now you have to decide, as i mentioned to you last week, are you going to take the tweets literally? and if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. >> reporter: the white house has refused to provide any proof of the president's accusations, and this week they tried to shift focus beyond actual wiretapping. >> do you know whether trump tower was wiretapped? >> what i can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. >> do you believe -- >> there was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their -- certainly through their televisio

wiretap island. his attorney general, a trump appointee and republican, jeff sessions, saying he gave the president no indication president obama ordered a wiretap of him. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee saying today he's seen no evidence of that. we know james comey was one of the first challenge this saying he was amazed by this charge. in light of those facts, they have to walk back the initial claim but the president was clear about what he was charging, that president obama himself wiretapped mr. trump himself. no evidence of that saying republican members of the house, the attorney general, et cetera, so when at he's talking about n is something different and that's crucial because there is evidence that the intelligence community was surveilling russians who were in touch with members of trump's campaign during the campaign. that is perfectly legal. these are russian officials and other russians known to u.s. intelligence as a matter of routine intelligence gathering. they're listened to, conversations are listened to. and sometimes americans are on the other end of that line. that's legal to

wiretapping. do you believe that president obama illegally wiretapped president trump? >> well, we don't know. the president asked for an investigation and he's going to get it. that will be led by the house intelligence committee. we'll play a supporting role in the oversight government and reform committee. i'm not going to presuppose the conclusion of this. we'll look at the evidence. >> have you seen any evidence? >> we just are starting that process and we'll look closely at it. >> does it require an investigation? can you as chairman of the oversight house committee pick up the phone and call the fbi, department of justice and say, hey, was there a fisa warrant for this? >> i wish it was that easy. i did contact director comey over the weekend and he did not call me back. i hear these reports of what he believes. i find them with no credibility. >> this is interesting. you called him. >> i texted him. >> to find out if he is, in fact, incredulous? >> i said please call me if you can. i would like to know that. >> you got no response? >> no response. but that's not atypical. there's not o

zero evidence and have no reason to believe that president trump's claim that president obama had him wiretapped at trump tower is true. well, despite that, today the white house stood by the president's claim. >> are you saying that the president still stands by his allegation that president obama ordered wiretapping or surveillance of trump tower despite the fact that the senate intelligence committee says they see no indication that it happened? does the president still stand by the allegation? >> he stands by it, but again, you're mischaracterizing what happened today. >> he wasn't mischaracterizing what happened today. let's bring from cnn's jeff zeleny and manu raju. it's been almost two weeks, gentlemen, since this wild and apparently baseless claim has been made. the white house has gone through several responses. first they were trying to find out just what it was the president trump had been tweeting about. then they demanded a congressional investigation to find out what happened. then they switched to no comment with people including vice-president pence refusing to say that they agr

official says, quote, it doesn't know if the administration will have proof of former president obama wiretappingtower by monday. that's the deadline set by the house intel committee for any alleged documents for the alleged wiretap. >>> we are learning president trump through an assistant attempted to call now former u.s. attorney, paw raura. >> i do want to ask what we know about this call? >> this is an interesting development in the whole surrounding of bharara. bharara received a phone call from the president's assistant around thursday asking him to call the president. now bharara called the assistant back and said it was inappropriate for him to call and talk to the president and that's a violation of protocol in the attorney general's office and he called the chief of staff to jeff sessions and told him he was not going to talk to the president. it was the next day it was made known that these 46 u.s. attorneys from across the country were going to be removed from their post immediately, and there was not going to be a bharara said he was not going to resign and the president had to essen

news in america this morning -- new fallout from president trump's claim accusing president obama of wiretapping. hear why the fbi director now wants the justice department to step in. >>> plus, the new travel ban rolls out today we're live in washington with the details. >>> breaking news, as north korea launches more missiles while the u.s. and south korea hold their meetings >>> newel allegations that isis has used chemical weapons in the iraqi city of mosul. >>> and caught on camera. close call on highway in texas. the quick reactions that kept everybody safe. >>> and a all. president trump has a full day of meetings ahead with cabinet members as the fbi refutes his allegation that former president obama wiretapped him. >> in fact sources say fbi director james comey is now calling on the justice department to publicly reject the claims as the president calls on congress to investigate them. abc's lana zak has the latest from washington. >> reporter: today the senate is expecting to hear more from the attorney general jeff sessions from his meetings with russian ambassador. overshadowing tha

james comey was incredulous after he heard president trump's allegations that former president obama wiretapped some former intelligence directors are speaking publicly on the matter, denying that intelligence agency wiretapped trump's phones and calling the president baseless -- at least his accusations are baseless and harmful to u.s. security. >> the fbi had advised a court order for surveillance would that be information you would know. >> yes. >> you would be told this, if there was a fisa court order on something like this? >> something like. >> at this point you can't confirm or deny whether that exists? >> i can deny it. >> there is no fisa court order. >> not to my knowledge. >> the you take anything the president tweeted. the plumbing doesn't work that way. it could not have happened the way he said it, that the president of the united states directed to have surveillance on someone. it hasn't been like that since the 1970s. >> it makes us vulnerable. weakens the united states and makes us vulnerable to our enemies. that's the danger. >> i should also add that the first director of na

the fact that the president used wiretapping in quotes, last night he said it was very important it was in quotes. out of the four tweets where he accuses barack obama of wiretapping him, he only used quotes in two of them. does he feel like trump tower was broadly sur veiled. >> he was very clear about this last night. he talked about it. >> no, he wasn't. >> yeah, he was. he meant it, he put it in quotes, it was very broad. i understand that, that's the point of them looking into this. i think the idea is to look into this. >> if all this comes out and there's no proof that president obama had any role in any wiretapping, there was no wiretapping. will president trump then offer an apology? >> that's like three times this weekend, i think the answer is, we're not going to prejudge where the outcome of this is. >> for the -- >> no, hold on. >> for the wiretapping, the house intelligence committee and senate intelligence committee -- >> no, here's the quote. i think it's very possible, that's what he said when he said the president's communication could have been swept up in collection. >> here's what devin nunez said yesterday. >> do you have any r

wiretap. he wasn't saying surveillance by the obama administration. aying wiretap and wiretap alludes to something that would need a fisa warrant. and if that's the case, and the dni didn't know about it and the fbi director, james comey reportedly didn't know about it, and president obama is denying it, do you believe they're lying or does president trump just not understand what wiretapping is? >> i think, perhaps, it's a matter that since so much of what we do today is not by wire anymore but rather communication by cell phones, it may very well have been communications picked up with someone who they could legally follow, which is someone from another country. if there were communications coming from the trump offices, that would be considered incidental. >> do you think as president of the united states he has an obligation to the american public to be full and forthright with the information he has before he lobs what would be and is the most explosive allegation likely in our nation's history concerning the conduct of a past president towards a

he accused former president barack obama of wiretapping him during the election, tweeting, "terrible! just found out that obama had my 'wires tapped' in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism!" and "how low has president obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon/watergate. bad (or sick) guy!" the tweets seem to reference a story from friday that brought up and unsubstantiated report that the obama administration wiretapped the trump tower in 2015. >> i do not know if it is true, bit if it is true, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. >> reporter: a spokesperson for former president barack obama said a cardinal rule is that no white house official ever interfere with a independent investigation by the department of justice. one of his former senior advisers had a tweet in response saying no president can order a wiretap, those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. the repercussions of these allocations could be huge. if true, they could lead to serious tro

understand. >> so remember obama saying all is forgiven. >> no but they made nice. >> we probably make too much of this whole thing. i don't think donald trump snuck in and planted a wiretapd because you don't want to suggest it. >> barrack obama does seem to be running a sort of shadow campaign against donald trump. >> based on what? >> a lot of reporting. whether we're going to talk about the leaks from bureaucrats or the story holding up inside obama's washington mansion, whether it's the eric holder looking at redistricting. he's a young active guy living in d.c. and he'll probably be pulling strings to help defeat donald trump. >> president trump is as involved in this. he made this decision that this russian story line narrative of his campaign is not going away. legitimacy questions are not going away. so he is going to obama and this is all some scheme by nasty democrats that lost an election and as we know he will tweet about anything. >> both things can be true. >> donald trump is paranoid but i think obama is behind the scenes. >> did you give us the he may be paranoid but doesn't mean people aren't after him. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. >> why you saved

i have no confidence with what obama did, and i do believe that he did wiretap trump. guest: look, i was not a supporter. president obama, i written -- i wrote editorials criticizing him on policy issues, and i voted against him twice. but obama did not wiretap leaders across the world. the u.s. government wiretapped leaders across the world. that is something the bush administration did, as well. i do not know that president obama changed that much. but if you try to do things like wiretaps for bad reasons, he cannot do that at he has to order people to do that. so are we willing to believe that people in the fbi and cia, layers down, were complicit in this kind of conspiracy? thethe white house fool fbi? that is where this is really a crisis. you think about people who think obama wiretapped trump, they're really saying the fbi was complicit. jim comey was director of the fbi and is now. it is a crisis that needs to be addressed. host: even if you go down the road of investigations, do you think people would ultimately accept these things and the crisis would be resol

donald trump tweeted that president obama wiretapped him implying something terribly nefarious, maybe happened. chairman nunes went before the cameras and you saying, surveillance happened but i don't think if there is anything wrong with that. i'm just uncomfortable. so, some unmasking happened. it's not clear whether it was a crime or not made nunes uncomfortable. donald trump said it was nefarious, terrible, sat, et cetera, et cetera. what was it? that's the gap. maybe nothing happened at all, but the fact that donald trump represented it in such a terrible way, that's how we keep getting into these problems. >> you i'm guessing it's going to hurt the idea of the house intelligence committee conducting this investigation. >> you know, it is shocking to see politics taking place in the house of representatives, i know. but, you know, he is a politician and he's running this investigation and he is a trump loyalist. and he's acting that way, which certainly compromises his role as the nominally independent leader of a -- >> he says he's not acting that way. he was one of the first re

the president is extremely confident that he will be vindicated on his claim that president obama wiretapped him. maybe they found that microwave cam. >>> plus dangerous winds, sleet and snow coming in sideways, shutting down cities and the danger is far from over. welcome to "the lead." i'm jim sciutto in for jake. we begin today with our politics lead. this afternoon the white house was forced to defend the republicans' proposed health care overhaul by, once again, lashing out at the source of some inconvenient information. this time the target is the congressional budget office. after the cbo's analysis found that the gop bill would cause a dramatic drop in coverage, a projected 24 million fewer people insured by the year 2026. and older americans facing especially high premium increases. democrats are seizing on the reports' findings and some republicans are getting nervous. talking about slowing down the repeal and replace that they promised during the last election, but the gop leadership and the white house are holding fast. cnn's phil mattingly is live on capitol hill. fill, do the r

will apologize if it turns out there is no proof of his explosive [ inaudible ] that president obama wiretappedhim. let's bring in our political experts and mark preston, if there is absolutely no evidence, no proof at all that president obama was wiretapping donald trump in the final days of the campaign, how does he get out of it? how does the president emerge from this? does he formally have to say, you know, i made a mistake, i misunderstood, i apologize? >> i think in his own mind he's already emerged, right? i seriously doubt he will apologize. he was so solidly behind the fact that, in fact, that it did happen that i think that he's going to try to ignore it and move on. that's what we see his administration doing right now. they are basically trying to deflect questions and try to move on to the next issue. >> he rarely does admit that he made a mistake, right, david? >> [ inaudible ]. he started out this administration with such a powerful weapon. his twitter account was followed by all these people that believe whatever he said. the more he cries wolf and keeps turning it up to 10, 1

revelation, the fbi director shooting down the stunning twitter allegation that president obama had wiretapped him. >> director comey was the present statement that obama had his wires tapped in trump tower a true statement? >> with respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, i have no information that supports those tweets. and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. the department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of justice and all its components. the department has no information that supports those tweets. >> no individual in the united states can direct electronic surveillance of anyone. it has to go through an application process, through a judge, the judge can then make the order. >> so president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> meanwhile just blocks away from where i am at the white house, the white house refusing to walk back that wiretap accusation. that didn't stop president trump from getting back on twitter today and

a weekend that included him accusing president obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign, an allegation president trump provided no evidence to support. his predecessor and former director of national intelligence say it's simply not true. but the white house wants an investigation. press secretary sean spicer saying this morning, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately awe head of the 2016 election are very troubling. president donald trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into russian activity, the congressional intelligence committee exercise their u authority to determine whether executive branch powers were abused in 2016. neither the white house or president will comment further until such oversight is is conducted. all of this amid-new reports of rising frustration between the president and his staff over the continued talk about ties to russia. i want to bring in the white house correspondent athena jones. what are you hearing about those conversations between president trump and his team regarding their

jackson. >> reporter: tonight a new suggestion from the president that it wasn't simply a wiretap president obama had installed at trump tower, like he originally claimed, but maybe more surveillance, hinting at more to come. >> wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> reporter: it's another interpretation of his explosive tweet 11 days ago, still providing no proof. >> now you have to decide are you going to take the tweets literally, and if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. >> reporter: that's the house intelligence committee's top republican revealing he has seen no evidence of the president's claim. so he wants congress to keep investigating. so what's the president basing his accusation on? it's still not clear. but his attorney general says it didn't come from him. >> reporter: did you ever give him any reason to believe he was wifetapped by the previous administration? >> look, uhm, my answer is no. >> reporter: now time is running out for the fbi director on capitol h

talk with the wiretapping. 11 days since the baseless allegation that president obama wiretapped him.t things. read in i think january 20th, "new york times" article talking about wiretapping. article. i think used that exact term. read other things. watched your friend bret baier the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening. and wiretapping. i said wait a minute, there's a lot of wiretapping being talked about. i've been seeing a lot of things. for the most part i'm not going to discuss it because we have it before the committee and we will be submitting things before the committee very soon that hasn't been submitted as of yet. but it's potentially a serious situation. >> does that sound like proof to you philip? >> don, is this comedy central? i'm sorry. tell you what is happening here. there is a serious point you'll see roll out in the next week or two. speculate here. but president obama did not authorize wiretapping at trump tower. that's complete nonsense. i think we have a bait and switch setup here. this is going to roll out, see

wiretapping in quotes. last night he said it was important that it was in quotes. out of the four tweets where he accuses barack obama of wiretapping him he only used quotes in two. in two he specifically said he tapped his phones. he didn't use the term wiretapping. minutes ago you said it was communications being swept up. can you definitively says feels like barack obama wiretapped trump tower? or does he feel like it was broadly surveilled? which is it? >> he was clear last night. he talked about it, as you said. >> he wasn't clear. >> he was. he said he meant it, he put it in quotes. it was very broad. that's what he meant by the use of the term. >> so was it phone tapping? >> it was surveillance. i think we have covered this ten times. >> there is no specific answer of what it was. >> i understand that, but that's the point of them looking into this, caitlin. i think the idea is to look into this, have the house and senate intelligence committees look into this and report back. vivian. >> i want to follow up on that. if all of this comes out and there is no proof that president obama had any role in any wiretap

james comey said he is seen no evidence to support the president's plane president obama wiretapped trump tower before the election. >> with respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him, i have no information that supports those treats. we have looked carefully. >> the statements came during a five-hour hearing on capitol hill. >>> the white house insists the investigation will show no collusion. joel waldman has the developments. >> i can promise you we will follow the fact is wherever they lead. >>reporter: fbi director james comey for the first time admitting his agency is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 us presidential election. the director adding the federal probe also includes examining any potential links between the trump campaign and moscow. >> he cause it is an open ongoing investigation and is classified, i cannot say more about what we're doing and whose conduct we are examining.>>reporter: a flood of leak to details of a secret russian dossier on trump prompting this response from nsa director mike rogers

trump's tweet yesterday which is what we are talking about, he was indicating that he was wiretapped by president obamahe president wiretapped him, that means the president had to get a fisa warning, had to go to judge and prove that there was probable cause that he was engaging in some sort of possible behavior that justified a -- justified a wiretap. right, so you either he did something that justified a wiretap or he's just straight making this up which is insane for you to lie on the former president of the united states. >> well, let's listen to what mark levin had to say about that and how he layed it out. listen to that. >> the gurdian has learned the fbi applied for a warrant from the intelligence surveillance court over the summer in order to monitor four members of the trump team. washington most, march second, u.s. investigators have examined contacts jeff sessions at the time he was advising trump's campaign. new york times, flynn have said to talk to russia about sanctions trump took office, where did they get this information? heather: and then let's take a look at what ben rhodes had to

reaction this hour to a series of explosive president trump tweets that accuse the obama administration of wiretapping trump tower. a story that broke just before 7:00 this morning. and we begin with new reaction to those allegations by president obamaobama -- preside trump accusing the obama separation. here just one of six tweets. he wrote, quote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. and here is lindsey graham at a town hall this morning. >> the president of the united states is claiming that the former president of the united states ordered wiretapping of his campaign last year. i don't know if it's true or not, but if it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. >> senator graham went on to say if the obama administration was able to secure a warrant to wiretap, that would be concerning because it meant there was a reason the court would allow it. meanwhile, here's what congressman mole ton who sits on the armed services committee told thomas robertss this morning. >>

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wiretapped mr. trump on president obama's behalf. did you ever request that your counterparts in gchq should wiretap mr. trump on behalf of president obama? >> no, sir, nor would i. that would be expressly against the construct of the five eyes agreement that's been in place for decades. >> the five eyes are some of our closest intelligence partners and britain is one of them? >> yes, sir. >> have you seen any evidence that anyone else in the obama administration made such a request? >> no, sir. and again, my view is the same as director comey. i have seen nothing on the nsa side that we engaged in any such activity nor that anyone ever asked us to engage in such activity. >> if you were to ask the british to spy on americans, that would be a violation of u.s. law, would it not? >> yes, sir. >> our relationship with british intelligence is one of the closest we have with any foreign services, isn't that true? >> yes, sir. >> now, the british allies, our british allies have called the president's suggestion that they wiretapped him for

accusing his predecessor of a federal crime, "terrible, just found out that president obama had my trump tower wiretapped." a few minutes he wrote "how long have president obama gone to tap my phones during the sacred election process, this is nixon/water gate. bad, sick guy." our panelists. welcome to you all. vivian as a baghdad chief, you don't scare eeasily. i am interested of what it is like to sit there in the front row. we can measure a judge so much from your facial expression. [ laughter ] >> the facial expressions are just one side of it. there is so much at stake with everything that's been said so far. . it does feel like it is been months and years of us getting to know donald trump and his administration and going over sometimes in circular motion, so many issues that the american people probably are getting frustrated with. you can see the report running through the reports of allegations of different stories of possible surveillance or ware tapping or any kind of monitoring that went on by trump administration officials and people were associated to the campaign and one of the interesting

wiretapped mr. trump on president obama's behalf. did you ever request that your counterparts in gchq should wiretap mr. trump on behalf of president obama? >> no, sir, nor would i. that would be expressly against the construct of the fisa agreement that's been in place for decades. >> and the five eyes are some of our closest intelligence partners, and britain is one of them. >> yes, sir. >> have you seen any evidence that anyone else in the obama administration made such a request? >> no, sir. and again, my view is the same as director comey. i've seen nothing on the nsa side that we engaged in any such activity, nor that anyone ever asked us to engage in such activity. >> and if you were to ask the british to spy on an american, that would be a violation of u.s. law, would it not? >> yes, sir. >> our relationship with british intelligence is one of the closest we have with any foreign services, isn't that true? >> yes, sir. >> now, our british allies have called the president's suggestion that they wiretapped him for obama nonsense

speaker, last night on fox news, president trump suggested that his assertion that president obama wiretapped him speaker ryan: i thought you were going to ask an obamacare uestion. reporter: the president said this was based off of press reports, accusations, press reports. are you comfortable with the president making an assertion like that based off of press reports? and frankly, do you believe that he was wiretapped? speaker ryan: well, i answered the question whether the wiretap occurred. i think devin nunes and adam schiff answered that question pretty clearly. i got the same briefing with them on that as well. but after we heard about this we did see a number of press reports that made this >> house speaker paul ryan. we'll leave this now and go back live to the house floor as members will prepare to vote. and agreeing to the speaker's

he said that obama wiretapped him. pens on monday when comey says, trump saysbamadid not wiretap trump? >> that's the biggest question. the statement from nunes toy is really telling. nunes has been a key ally of this president. he's part of the transition team. he's not one of those who has been critical of the president and the administration. so that's very significant. there are so many questions involved in comey's expected to testify on monday. one of them certainly is how trump will react to that. trump is still defending his use -- his tweet talking about wiretapping. they're arguing, of course, they're talking about a broader kind of surveillance effort. the other questions that senators have from comey is, are you investigating russia ties? is the fbi investigating russia ties? they've been very adamant about that question. they haven't gotten any answers. >> i'm sort of thinking, maybe it sounds -- maybe it's sort of an unseemly view, but come friday, angela merkel, the german chancellor, is going to be here.