and the president was briefly seen driving a golf cart yesterday in palm beach.ents there are raising concerns about paying their share of security costs while at the resort. and with the first lady and his youngest son living in new york, the cost to protect the first family is adding up. here's cnn's sarah gannon. >> reporter: we want our money back, that's what new york city is saying, asking for millions of dollars, the cost of protecting the president, his family and their homes, in a letter to congressional members last month. commissioner james o'neill wrote, funding will be critical to ensure new york city can allocate the personnel and resources that are necessary to keep the city and all its residents safe. >> we have never had a situation where a president of the united states would be here on such a regular basis. >> reporter: during the transition period from election day to inauguration day, o'neil says the cost of securing trump tower and the area around it, added up to $24 million. palm beach county officials say they pay an estimated $60,000 in o

our casey hunt is in west palm beach tonight with president trump. >> reporter: without offering any evidence, president trump today making an explosive claim, that president obama tapped his phones before the election. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: starting at 6:35 a.m. the president sent a string of five tweets, "terrible," he wrote. "just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism." comparing obama to nixon and watergate. he then hit the golf course. a senior u.s. official tells nbc news the president apparently didn't consult with people inside the u.s. government before he sent the tweets, that experts say could have profound implications. >> if the president's claims are correct it means that somebody in trump tower was involved in criminal activity or foreign espionage activity. that is a stunning admission. >> reporter: white house staff had been circulating this story from the right wing website once run by chief trump strategist steve bannon. by midday a spokesman for president oba

thomas. >> all right, kasie hunt reporting for us in west palm beach. thanks very much. and just to a point about from the trump administration to the obama administration. yesterday, about 1:00 in the afternoon, kevin lewis, a spokesperson for former president barack obama put out a statement saying "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 any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false." so, for analysis, i want to bring in tom dupree. he was a deputy assistant attorney general during the tail end of george w. bush's administration. tom, let's get to this right now and sean spicer's tweets, if we can put them back up, especially in correlation with this statement we had from president obama, saying that reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling and t

>> kelly o'donnell starting us off this morning in west palm beach. kelly, thanks. chuck todd is moderator of "meet the press." good morning mirks frie, my fri. >> good morning, willie. >> let's talk about germany and britain. it's an awkward moment between president trump and angela merkel, not just in the oval office when president trump appeared to refuse a handshake with angela merkel and then at the joint press conference he said, we've both been wiretapped. obviously a touchy subject with the chancellor there. where do we stand with germany and great britain, two of our closest allies? >> i don't think one president dust-up is going to upend these alliances, but it certainly makes for awkwardness between these allies. the british spy agency is an important intelligence ally for the united states, and to have an accusation that has been made by the president of the united states that somehow the british intelligence agency was being used to spy on him or used to go around the u.s. intelligence -- i mean, it is one of those things that then could actually have a

she claimed that donald trump forcibly kissed her at palm beach home.y pregnant melania trump was in another room. said she ran into mrs. trump on fifth avenue months after the incident. says melania trump asked her why she hasn't seen her around recently. that is the portion of the story that melania chose to take issue with. >> mrs. trump's lawyer sent a letter to people magazine demanding a retraction saying the meeting on fifth avenue never happened. >> i was never friend with her. i would not recognize her. i would not recognize her on the street or ask her why we don't see her anymore. so that was another thing like people come out saying lies and not true stuff. >> she briefly retreated from the campaign trail. then melania trump came out strong in the final days to make her closing argument on behalf of her husband. he knows how to make real change. make america great again is not just some slogan. it is what has been in his heart since the day i met him. >> it was a moment where everyone stepped back and said why hasn't she been doing this more

. >> shepard: a live look in palm beach, airport.resident trump has arrived at the winter white house, as the aides say. now he says it's all work and no relaxing at mar-a-largo. immigration policy is in flux. what we've been told is that a priority for deportation is undocumented immigrants and those violent criminals get the bad ones out as the president put it. the bad hombres. that's not universal. a case in point a young woman in mississippi spoke out about immigrati immigration. she will now be deported without a hearing. the feds are causing it a visa waiver overstay which is why she doesn't get a hearing. daniel vargas is from columbia. she called on president trump to protect immigrants like her. federal agents arrested her minutes later. retaliation? is that what happened? her lawyer says the paperwork had expired and that she applied for a renewal but it's still waiting. jonathan serrie with more on this. jonathan? >> well, daniella vargas' lawyers are worried. they requested a stay for her. it was a lapse in the daca that

has returned to mar-a-lago and spent several hours at the trump international golf club in west palm beach where he played at least a few holes of golf. upon arriving there, we were told he would have meetings and make phone calls and may hit a few balls. we did get video of him on the golf course and now back to mar-a-lago but still waiting for any sort of proof or evidence to back up these explosive allegations. >> athena jones, thank you so much. appreciate that. so we are hearing from other senior former officials under the obama administration who are also denying the phone wiretapping claims. one saying, quote, this did not happen. this is false, wrong, another telling cnn this is, quote, just nonsense. obama's foreign policy advisor ben rode slamming trump on twitter saying no president can order a wiretap. those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you, end quote and former senior advisor to president obama, david axelrod, tweeting this. this seems nuts. frantic way in which the real donald trump is kicking up dust only adds to suspicions and the need

one thing we found is there was a group in palm beach called the palm beach police foundation and a paid trump thousands of dollars every year to rent out -lago, his club. he wants to give them money but he doesn't want to give his own money so he calls a friend of his who is deceased and he asks the widow, i am gathering money for the palm beach police foundation, would you like to donate, to add to the effort from your husband's foundation? she says sure could he says, don't send it straight to the palm beach police foundation, give it to me. less than $2000, which he takes and gives to the palm beach police foundation without adding anything from his own. just makes their money into his money. then he gets a giant crystal la in his, a whole ga honor, for his generosity. all other people's money. that was the kind of thing he seemoing to make ihim generous rather than being generous. bill: is this what he calls the art of the deal? david: yes, if you can swing it. but it is a lot of work. bill: that is your next question for donald trump. ok, so the videotape, how did you discover that

then she reemerges, greeting her husband in palm beach, florida, as he disembarked from air force oneall. but when the prime minister of japan and his wife visited the white house, melania trump was absence. >> she wasn't really engaged with mrs. abe, and so she went around washington on her own. this is a really significant breach of protocol. >> when asked about this, the white house explained that melania trump wanted to greet mrs. abe, but mrs. abe had already made commitments. melania trump later flew with the president and the abes to florida, spent the weekend at mar-a-lago, and did sightseeing together. a few days later, mrs. trump returned to the white house for the first time in nearly two weeks to greet the israeli prime minister and his wife. >> how important is it that the first lady be by the president's side? >> the first lady can be tremendously important and play an important role for the rest of us, by reaching her husband, whom she knows better than anybody, and telling him what is really going on in the land. her security bubble is somewhat, somewhat less than his.

palm beach county has a $40 million deficit. it needs the cash. >> the secret service is facing scrutiny over two presidential security lapses. an agent's laptop stolen from her car contained blueprints of trump tower. it's highly encrypted. police believe it was a crime of opportunity not knowing what was in the computer. >> the fence jumper last week was on grounds 15 minutes. sources say he may have tried entering the building with mace. jonathan tran told a reporter after his court appearance today said he did it because he wanted the attention. he is a troubled person. >> secretary of state of state rex tillerson visited south korea. they were using digital cameras to keep their eyes on the proceedings across the border. the trump add migh administratis opened the possibility of preemptive military action. if the north elevates the threat of the program to the level we believe requires action, the option is on the table. >>> j.c. penny will close 138 stores across the country, costing 5,000 jobs. four stores are in our area

air force one back at palm beach airport. the fifth weekend spent here since president trump took office. joined by fir ly melania, herarents and baron trump, who turns 11 monday. a brief escape from a cold washington, where icy body language was evident friday, as the president met with german chancellor angela merkel. tension continued at a joint press conference where merkel delivered a subtle dig. >> translator: in the period leading up to this visit, i've always said it's much, much better to talk to one another and not about one another. >> reporter: questioned by german reporters about the president's woiretapping allegations, his disputed claim that barack obama had surveillance on trump tower and that british intelligence helped. mr. trump deflected and blamed a media source. >> that was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on fox, and so you shouldn't be talking to me, you should be talking to fox, okay? >> reporter: fox news then distanced itself. >> fox news knows of no evidence of any kind that the now pres

field office in west palm beach.hulkin from the v.a. president trump. a photo as well as vice president pence. this is standard operating procedure in every government office around the country. so if had you a v.a. field office in boston, for example, back in the obama days you walked in, there would be an official portrait of barack obama, joe biden and the v.a. secretary. so far in west palm beach, they have refused to hang the trump-pence, shulkin photos. that's why mast took matters into his own hands. we have been told looking overnight local stations in west palm beach are reporting that the v.a. in west palm beach has taken the trump, pence portraits back down saying this was unauthorized by the republican congressman to do this. they need to authenticate the photos somehow as if they don't realize this is really donald trump. and they are not explaining why about 50 days into this administration they haven't hung the photos themselves. i mean, if this congressman has to take matters into his own hands, why h

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one of the limousines there in palm beach at the palm beach airport. and we are awaiting president trump. i guess president trump has already -- has he already departed -- de planed? he has already de-planed and they are on their way. theodore needs a seat belt, i think. they're heading there to m mar-a-lago for the weekend which is going to be a working weekend, of course, we'll have more after a quick break. (vo) maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. or here, when you walked away without a scratch. maybe it was the day your baby came home. or maybe the day you realized your baby was not a baby anymore. every subaru is built to earn your trust. because we know what you're trusting us with. subaru. kelley blue book's most trusted brand. and best overall brand. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> in just two weeks we are going to introduce the first cnn hero of 2017, and here's how to nominate someone. >> ready to ride? >> yes. >> bring it in, girl. >> yeah! >> reporter: every year cnn heroes honor people doing extraordinary work to c

>> kelly o'donnell starting us off this morning in west palm beach. kelly, thanks. chuck todd is moderator of "meet the press." good morning, my friend. >> good morning, willie. >> let's take a look at the week that was and how two of the united states biggest allies must be feeling, germany and great britain. awkward moments between president trump and angela merkel not just in the oval office when the president appeared to refuse a handshake with angela merkel and then at the joint press conference, he said, well, we both have been wire tapped, obviously, a touchy subject for the chancellor there. where do we stand now with germany and great britain. two of our closest allys? >> look, it is an -- i don't think one presidential dust up is going to somehow up end these alliances. but it is certainly makes for awkwardness between these allies. the german -- the british spy agency is an important intelligence ally for the united states. and to have an accusation that has been made by the president and the united states that somehow the british intelligence agency was

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i think they give him $200,000, which he then takes and gives it to the palm beach police foundation without adding anything from his own. just makes their money into his money. then he gets a giant crystal palm tree, a whole gala in his honor, for his generosity. all other people's money. that was the kind of thing he was doing to make him seem generous rather than being generous. bill: is this what he calls the art of the deal? david: yes, if you can swing it. but it is a lot of work. if you are a billion or, why not just spend the money? : was that your next question for donald trump. ok, so the videotape, how did you discover that? david: well, i didn't really explain that. bill: billy bush was your story. david: we were not expecting it. it is not something we knew existed before it showed up. there were rumors of a tape from "the apprentice," this low-light reel of bad behavior from "the apprentice." we searched for and searched for it. i think a lot of other people did and never found it. this tape we did not know existed until we had it. we got it at 11:00 in the morning on a

there were crowds outside the southern wait house in palm beach, florida.hey wanted to let the president know he has their support. organizers say this is a response to the string of protests across the country. some of those same protesters have organized anti-trump protests today. police in those areas are on high alert and hoping to avoid conflicts between the two groups. we'll be watching and will keep you updated. julie: after slamming hillary clinton's use of email, vice president mike pence is on the defensive over his private account while governor. turning over boxes of messages today. we'll be speaking with a republican member of the house oversight committee about what's next if anything. a disturbing turn in iraq's attempt to liberate mosul. chemical weapons. the white house is running a lean operation with many jobs yet unfilled. so how does this affect its ability to govern. ♪ that's life. you diet. you exercise. and if you still need help lowering your blood sugar... ...this is jardiance. along with diet and exercise... jardiance lowers blood

case ci kasie hunt is in west palm beach, florida. what is he saying this morning? >> reporter: these are potentially is explosive new allegations from president trump. he is accusing the obama administration of wiretapping his phones in the days leading up to the presidential election. so he is still walking through this -- the most recent one just five minutes ago. first one, he says terrible. just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. he calls it mccarthyism. he goes on continuing to on say that question, is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping a race for president prior to an election? turned down by a court earlier. a new low. i bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that president obama was tapping my phones in october just prior to the election and in the most recent one, he says how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process? this is nixon/watergate. now, we do not know where these explosive allegations are coming from. there

she's in west palm beach, florida, traveling with the esident. kelly, is the president going to be returning to the white house under a heightened sense of security there? >> reporter: well, i think there is always a high level of security where the president actually is always at the white house, too, even when he is not in residence. this morning he is already at his trump international golf club. we expect he'll be spending part of the morning there and then flying back to the white house and to washington later this afternoon. at least that's the plan. it is a working mix. we're told he's going to be taking meetings and phone calls, but doing it at his golf club. and also, we can tell you that this has been a string of these issues. a little more than a week ago, there was a fence-jumping incident, where that particular intruder who was later charged was on the grounds of the white house for somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes. that was certainly a high level of concern. overnight what has happened is that there was an incident involving a ve

so it's sort of a reason why the president likes to come to his home in palm beach.lovely day. the tweets set off a way for president trump to try to, again, control the narrative. seeing some of the coverage, reading the media reports that showed some questions about the interaction between himself and german chancellor angela merkel. there were a number of data points during their visit that suggested it was far more tense and contentious than friendly. now the president is qualifying it as great, and we, of course, weren't able to see the private conversations, and angela merkel herself said it is certainly more beneficial to speak face-to-face than to talk about each other at a distance. what we are talking about on real divisions on issues like immigration, also on nato. so the president is saying that there are a number of member nations who do not pay their fair share. that is true. most member nations do not pay the 2% of gdp that's required. but it is not a rolling balance, where they actually owe money to nato. and so there is a little bit of a mischaracter

january 1 a pre sifting thet wrohipping to expect waid tot trump accusing the wir supporters in palm beach how l h or sick guypu!blish friday on oths simply false ".dsay graham saiil. of links between the trumped sts campaign and russia also traveled to florida for dinner with the president. >> secretary of commerce wilbur ross will be attending dinner with the president in palm beach as well. >>> now, last week, president trump suggest those two believe in his vision for the country should hold a mass rally and today they did just that. march for trump events held across the nation. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan takes us to one of the rallies here in our area. you have got to accept opposing opinions even when they come from people that despise and loathe you. >> reporter: that message of tolerance from the founder of people from trump in southeast pennsylvania as he rallied supporters at neshaminy state park. >> we want to send a message to all republicans that happen to be in the house and the senate that we're not going away and that we need them to support his agenda. >> repo

nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us from west palm beach. kelly? >> reporter: good evening, jose. the president and vice president are in palm beach tonight, just days before a crucial deadline on a major campaign promise, repealing obamacare. today it was mike pence who made the public sales pitch. he visited jacksonville, florida and a paper supply company there trying to drum up support for gop plan. when they vote thursday, they may not have the support to pass it. >> just yesterday president trump made it clear. he supports the bill 100% and we all do. every day more and more members of congress are getting on board. >> reporter: the take was very different in texas where long time conservative congressman pete sessions held a town hall meeting. the auditorium was packed and much of the reaction boiled over. >> we continue this no member of congress -- >> we must change course! vote it down! >> reporter: trying to ease some of those concerns, the congressman explained what's in the gop plan and said that many of the changes would be phased in over the next couple of years. jo

. >> the president waived to supporters in palm beach, florida, hours after mr. president obama of wire tapping trump last objection. how low has president gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon water gate, bad or sick guy! >> president trump wrote the wiring tapping happened at trump tower but offered no evidence. the tweets following a story publish friday on a website breitbart detailing similar claims of obama surveilling trump spokesman for the former president responded in part, "neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance of any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false ". >> it would be the biggest political scandal since water gate. >> town hall event lindsay graham said illegally wiring tapping trump would be troubling but he said it would be equally concerning if president trump was legally surveiled. that could mean there had been evidence of activity between the trump campaign and foreign government. >> my job as the united states senator to get to the bottom this.

all this before he heads over to mar-a-lago and palm beach, florida for the weekend.monitor the president's activities. we'll have live coverage of his speech coming up. democrats have a message for the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions. his recusal, many democrats say, is not enough. adam smith of washington state is the ranking member of the armed services committee. he's joining us from seattle. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. appreciate the chance. >> you say recusal is not enough. you say he is unfit to serve as the head of the justice department. you want him out. tell us why. >> well, it's -- what's interesting about this, as many people have said, look, there's nothing wrong on its face with members of the trump campaign, be it jeff sessions or michael flynn, having conversations with russian officials. you know, it's a little odd during the course of the campaign. but what's interesting is that they have done it, in a ways that subtrefuge, denied it. snuck in the back door at the republican national committ

. >> and as we're talking we are looking at air force one there in west palm beach. we understand president trump will be leaving his winter white house and returning back to washington. again, all of these questions, however, don't end there. we are really at the tip of the iceberg of so many of these questions surrounding the ongoing investigations and now newer investigations that are being launched there on capitol hill. and by the urging of the white house, might we add. all right, steve hall, tom fuentez, good to see you, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> of course we'll continue to monitor the scheduled departure of air force one from west palm beach, florida, back to washington. we'll have much more right after this. two become one. then you're a couple. think of all you'll share... like snoring. does your bed do that? the dual adjustability of a sleep number bed allows you each to choose the firmness and comfort you want. so every couple can get the best sleep ever. does your bed do that? only at a sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $

i had a live cameron palm beach earlier.ld've dialed it up for you, eric, if i had known you were interested. >> dana: i have a question to people who are critical. because the storm shifted and didn't hit d.c. and philly and new york as they thought, there's criticism of the national weather service. i don't think it's warranted but what do you think? >> i don't think so at all. you can't tell exactly where weather is going to go. we talk about hurricanes. they were originally predicting this be 50 miles off coast. if it had been 50 miles off coast, they warm water from the atlantic wouldn't have come into boston and new york and philadelphia. it would have been in the mid-20s instead of the low 30s. this freezing rain would've been snow. we would've had to inches in boston, new york, two feet in boston, two feet in new york just like they projected. instead it moves 40 miles of the west so they got it inland. they can't be perfect. they were close. >> bob: people upset when they say there's a big storm and it doesn't happe

tom. >> david wright with the president tonight in palm beach, florida. david, thank you. >>> turning now to abc news chief political analyst, matthew dowd. the president started off the week strong with that rousing speech to congress. are these new tweets about to derail his focus? >> pivot to a more presidential way on tuesday. as you know in basketball you have to have that pivot foot firmly planted. his pivo it's going to make it much more difficult to accomplish his legislative agenda in short term. and not only that, his unprecedented attacks on a former president, saying that former president wiretapped him is going to make it very difficult for him to unify the congress. >> matt dowd, thanks. >>> and much more on these breaking political developments coming up tomorrow on abc's "this week." >>> next to the bitter chill blasting americans from the great lakes eastward this weekend. some of incredible images from those cold temperatures. firefighters in new jersey dealing with ice like this. and the new drone images coming in tonight of that deadly

. >>> the president landed in palm beach earlier today and tonight county officials there are telling him to pay up. the county says every time the president visits his mar-a-lago resort it costs that county about $60,000 in police overtime costs. the county says the meter will cross the $1 million mark during this weekend's visit. fall beach county says if it doesn't get -- palm beach county says if it doesn't get reimbursed for the costs, some local services may have to be cut. >>> ever since president trump announced his intention to cut funding for wheels on wheels, donations have been pouring in. >> reporter: over the past nine years the pretender studio in santa monica has raised money for wheels on wheels west. a mother and daughter felt greater urgency to hand over a $10,000 check on friday. >> it's a gift for the kids. it's a gift for the parents to know their kids are a part of this incredible program and making sure we do our part to take care of pour community. >> reporter: she's emotional because much of the heavy lifting was done by her young dance students who put on a

abc's david wright is in west palm beach. >> reporter: clearly unhappy with the coverage of his first meeting with german chancellor angela merkel, president trump took to twitter to set the record straight. "despite what you've heard from the fake news, i had a great meeting," he tweeted. "nevertheless, germany owes vast sums of money to nato and the united states must be paid more for the powerful and very expensive defense it provides to germany." the issue did come up yesterday, and merkel committed to increase germany's defense spending. trump applauded that. >> i want to thank the chancellor for her leadership in supporting nato. >> reporter: a german reporter also asked trump about his twitter rants. >> from time to time, tweets that you regret? >> very seldom. >> very seldom. so, you never -- >> very seldom. >> reporter: today, the president is in palm beach with his family. vice president mike pence is also in florida, pushing the republican health care plan. >> and we're going to continue to work with members of congress to improve this bill. >> reporter: about 22 republican

based on which aides ended up coming down here to palm beach. they say, the bottom line, the president was expressing his frustration about messaging, and the senior staff heard that message loud and clear. >> david, thank you. >>> next to the extreme weather. millions of people feeling this weekend's bitter chill. for some, it's the coldest temperatures all year. staying warm is challenge. especially to firefighters. eva pilgrim on the battle to save lives. >> we have a two story commercial. trying to locate the fire. >> reporter: this seven-alarm fire in queens, new york. two firefighters injured, dozens turned out in the bitter cold overnight. and in union city, new jersey, this block covered in ice after a deadly blaze. embers igniting this historic church, its steeple collapsing. >> the flames were just out of control because of the wind. >> reporter: in massachusetts, this ice a reminder of another frigid firefight. >> a second alarm for the town of warwick. >> reporter: firefighters facing negative 5-degree wind chills as a mother and fou

today the president is visiting his home in palm beach. early this morning, he sent several tweets, saying he had just found out that his predecessor had his wires tapped. president trump offered no evidence to support his claim. lieutenant governor gavin newsom says the tweets are keeping the american public from focusing on important matters, including the environment. >> now we're distracted about another tweet, a trivial tweet, after the condemnation of trivial things during his state of the union speech around arnold schwarzenegger and then a blockbuster accusation against the former president of the united states, with absolutely no substantiation and nothing to back it up. >> several members of congress have reacted to the tweets, including maxine waters, who says there's something wrong with this president, and added that president obama could not order a wiretap on trump. trump did not talk to reporters today. he just waved to a crowd as he was finishing golfing in florida. other legislators, including dan ki killdee from michigan

very seldom. >> reporter: today, the president is in palm beach with his family. vice president mike pence is also in florida, pushing the republican health care plan. >> and we're going to continue to work with members of congress to improve this bill. >> reporter: about 22 republican congress members have yet to sign on, which could doom the bill. joni ernst got booed. >> the affordable care act as it is right now is you unsustainable. unsustainable. >> reporter: but plenty of don't like the replacement? what's your biggest concern? >> my biggest concern is lack of affordability. >> we had six, seven years to develop something and have done it. >> control cost. make it affordable so that the average family can -- can be covered. >> david wright speaking with voters in south florida. daftd joins us live now. the white house also preparing for the fbi director to speak publicly about trump's wiretapping allegations for the first time? >> reporter: that's right, james comey is set to appear monday in front of the house intelligence committee. it's going to be a blo

abc7 news reporter david wright has the story from west palm beach. >> reporter: president trump back in washington after igniting a political firestorm this weekend. >> if this happened, if this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and this is the biggest scandal. >> but you're not saying let's look into this. >> reporter: trump's bombshell in a series of tweets saturday morning, accusing his predecessor of spying on his campaign. trump said, "obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before victory," but cited no evidence. and sunday the white house was still offering no proof, instead calling for a congressional investigation. >> if this happened, martha, this -- >> if, if, if, if! >> i agree -- >> why is the president saying it did happen? >> look, i think he's going off of information that he's saying that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential. >> reporter: now the white house says there will be no further comment on the allegations until congress investigates. even members of trump's own party are left confused. >> i have no -- i'm not sure what it

large crowds also turning out in new york city and palm beach, florida. supporters saying they want to show pride in president trump's presidency. garrett tenney joins me in the studio. great to have you in hi. >> great to be here. julie: there were also some anti-trump protests, what were they like today. >> at least a couple dozen, and a lot of them said from the get go their goal was to shut down think support for president trump. and when you -- to do that, you have to look no further than one of the activist groups' names, by any means necessary. that's why things got ugly this afternoon in berkeley, california, where a few dozen trump supporters had started to gather for a march for trump rally when some of the protesters went up to the group and started arguing which led to shoving and fists flying. since then the protests have continued to grow and the fights have continued the break out as well. police are on hand and hoping to avoid a repeat of what we saw on berkeley's campus one month ago when riots broke out. earlier today in ohio anti-trump

later tonight vice president pence will be in palm beach, addressing the club for growth, as you know a conservative group, very much anti-tax. so they have been among the voices expressing concerns about what that new health care bill under the gop plan would cost. many thinking it's not quite conservative enough, ayman. >> kelly, i wanted to ask you about this morning's tweet from president trump, somewhat unexpected. i guess not unexpected if it's a saturday morning tweet, but somewhat unexpected that he's once again lashed out at germany on the heels of what even he says is a successful meeting. >> reporter: it would seem based on his tweets, and you read them so i won't repeat it, that he feels that the coverage of his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel did not reflect what he thinks the meeting accomplished. what's interesting about that is that it was very obvious at certain points that there was tensiobetween the two countries. that's not a secret, because they disagree shy. the president has been critical of angela merkel's policy toward accepting refugees and immig

. >> let's go to west palm beach, florida and kasie hunt.t is the latest reaction to president trump's claims? >> reporter: well, frances, the latest here, of course, that donald trump is demanding that congress investigate the wiretapping on the part of the obama administration at trump tower. so far we have former intelligence officials saying there was no wiretapping, at least not under the authority that's granted to the national security community. jim clapper telling chuck todd on "meet the press" that he's not aware of any such warrants and the investigations, of course, would come into the senate and house intelligence committee investigations. that's what the president is asking for. vice chairman on the senate side, mark warner who was talking about this this morning. let's take a look at what he had to say and then talk about it. >> i'm not aware of any fisa court order regarding the trump tower. >> any other kinds of -- >> i'm not going to get into what ongoing investigations the fbi might be taking, but i think it doesn't take a

liz: the president just landed in west palm beach, florida. exiting air force one, having just met on school choice. and there is an important market point here to be made. and he did it but i got some more numbers. since the election, the total market value of all global stocks just hit an all-time high of $56.7 trillion. pushed over that limit in part by the 4 trillion that has been added to the u.s. stock market since election day. >> this is an amazing, amazing market run. even at dow 18,000, there was talk that that market was overpriced. now we are here with a burst of buying activity based on free-market capitalism we haven't seen in a long time. liz: there is jared kushner with his children. we saw marco rubio. >> that is senior advisor and son-in-law. i believe there is ivanka if i see right. liz: there is ivanka. >> i don't want to throw cold water. i like his policies and this mark account but here's the thing. the average pe generally long term historically on s&p 500 stocks is about 15, right? liz: yep. >> where is it now? liz: 18

. >> reporter: but his early morning accusations from his palm beach club, that his phones were wire-tapped by the obama administration, were by far of much greater consequence. terrible, he wrote, just found out that obama had my wires tapped just before the victory. nothing found. that was followed by four more presidential outbursts. taking on president obama and misspelling tap. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon/watergate. bad, or sick, guy. for anyone but the president, it would be a crime to reveal such a secret fbi wiretap on trump tower. and no u.s. official contacted by abc news would confirm the allegation. >> it's an extremely serious offense. anyone who would reveal the existence of a wiretap would violate federal law. >> reporter: because the president cited no proof, it's not clear whether he based his allegations on a top secret white house briefing. or from reading an article on the conservative breitbart website. posted friday with detailed speculation from a conspiracy-loving talk show host, mark levin.

they give him $200,000 which he then takes and gives to the palm beach police foundation without adding anything to his own. hen he gets a giant crystal palm tree, the whole gala in his honor for his generosity. that's the kind of thing he was doing to make sure he seemed to generous without being generous. >> this is what he calls "the art of the deal." >> it's a lot of work. if you're a billionaire, why not just spend the money? >> that your next question for donald trump. so, the videotape. how did you come onto that? how did you discover that? were not expecting it. it was not something we knew existed before it showed up. there have been rumors of a tape from "the apprentice," with supposedly some sort of lowlight reel, in which his bad behavior was captured. we searched for it, but never found it. this tape we didn't know existed until we had it. we got an 11:00 in the morning on friday, a five-minute video originally . in the beginning, you see the bus and hear him and billy bush but you don't see them. then after two minutes of talking, they get off, meet the actress who has com