. >> you were just quoting shawn hannity there. the house and senate and intelligence committee. >> i know you are going to cherry pick. >> you are citing shawn hannity. >> you tend to over look all sources because i know you want to cherry pick it. >> last night on fox news, lets remember as president presides over. intelligence gathering of this country instead cited news clippings on fox news broadcast as the reason why he contended president obama whier tapped him. i have been reading about things. i have been reading january 20th and new york times and we are talking about wiretapping. there was an article, i read other things because the new york times wrote about it. not that i respect the new york times, i call it the failing new york times. if you watch what he was saying and how he mentioned the word wiretap and he mentioned it and other people have mentioned it. >> sean spicer went further suggesting those two congressional intelligence committee simply don't have the evidence they need to say definitively that the presi

and help make the gift of tomorrow possible. >>> is shawn hannity bad for america.odd koppel says yes and said it directly to his face. >> you think we're bad for america? >> yeah. >> you think i'm bad for america? >>. >> you do? >> in the long hall i think you and all these opinion shows -- >> that's sad. >> cnn considpolitical reporter is the significance that ted koppel who has come out and said this to shawn hannity's face. >> if you're a fox news watcher todd c ted koppel this is something he would say. i think what ted koppel was getting at there was sort of what has gone on with republican party and how that has made it that much harder to get stuff done. when you have that kind of echo chamber and we've seen some of this on the left. on the right with fox when you see fox perfect as it has this echo chamber, when you see members of congress no longer really worried for the most part about swing voters because their districts are drawn in such a way where they can do that feedback loop right off the constituencies on fox, there is no more incentive when you h

shawn hannity is kind of his troll and those two have been trading information and patting each other on the back since the campaign. the real question, whose decision is this? just take new york where the u.s. attorney was told where he was perceived to be investigating democrats that his job was secure. now he's gone. i think it could have to do with the deutsche bank, a foreign bank in which our president is $3 million in debt and that bank is under serious investigation in the southern district of new york and it's also under investigation in the uk for money transfers rub bells or dollars and dollars for rub bells. so it's curious to see which u.s. attorneys will be persisting in obvious and this which ones won't. if it's sanctuary cities, new york is one, because some people are being told we're going to keep you the. so we look at a number of maybe 46 but then we're selecting which ones concern us. i think that's a critical question to ask any u.s. attorney and these people are not inside trying to overthrow the gofrm. these are very serious lawyers who do civil and criminal ca

on thursday, trump loyalist shawn hannity called for a purge. >> for weeks, we have been warning you about the deep state president obama had who are hell bent. tonight, it's time for the trump administration to purge them before it's too late. >> reporter: but the white house says cleaning house at justice was simply routine. presidents reagan, clinton and george w. bush all installed their own people, too. one big difference now is that the trump justice department is already embroiled in several major controversies. investigating russian meddling in the election. including the possibility that trump campaign advisers colluded in that effort. trump's own recusing himself. >> therefore, i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> reporter: all that poses a major distraction as the president tries to manage his first piece of legislation. the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. today, the vice president went to kentucky to sell the plan. giving a frank assessment of its challenges. >> folks, let me be clear. this will be a battle in washington, d.c.

let me listen to shawn hannity. this was his a plok on thursday night on his show on fox news that sounds suspiciously what wound end up happening on friday. >> for weeks we've been warning you about the deep state obama holdover government bureaucrats who are hell pent on destroying this president. it's time for the trump administration to begin to purge these sab tours before it's too late. you have shawn hannity telling him to purge the sabateurs. and then donald trump's administration starts purging people they think are the sabateurs i guess. >> yeah, i'm more concerned about a russian mold than the deep state. we need to really look at what's going on here. you look at the connections between the russians and paul manafort, the connections between the russians and mike flynn, the connections between sessions, between kushner, the list goes on and on and on and our problem is we have no idea about the connections between the president himself and the russians because he won't release his taxes. if this is about

before the break, i think i said shawn hannity had the worse week in washington. >> yeah. >> his weekr. you said sean spicer was not so hot. would his boss agree? >> first of all, thank you for the kind wishes. it is wonderful to be on tv with you. no, his boss would not agree and that's the problem here which is there is an audience of one on trump's watches. what you saw on thursday is something that donald trump applauded. the problem is by thursday night, the u.s. was apologizing to britain for saying as general hayden made clear saying something that's not true. well, maybe britain was involved in the wiretapping of trump tower. the problem here is yes, i think sean spicer in donald trump's eye did a good job but in terms of presenting facts and using the words that matter when you are standing behind the podium as a spokesperson of the united states, not just of donald trump but of the united states, i think it is a dangerous precedent to cite columnists and people who are -- these are not intelligence professionals. these are people writing things. you cherry pick what you want

at that white house briefing, sean spicer read from these various news accounts, including from shawn hannity from fox, and suggesting that maybe british intelligence spies of the -- the president-elect trump are nonsense and utterly ridiculous andignorance. >> is that your reaction as well? >> we consider information from unnamed intelligence sources as if it is intelligence. my formal line, we would call that information and not knowing the source of the information, you cannot speak to the credibility of it and also quoting press alone is not confirmation like you would get from the fbi or the intelligence communities. so, you know, i have said a lot and i think we have talked about this to wolf, one of the greategrea greatest successes of russia intelligence is their activities have create a wedge whether they'll proceed between the white house and the american public and this kind of conversation, this kind of bickering and partisan fighting is creating a problem and it is putting our intelligence services in danger. we should let the men and women go about to do their job and that's why

. >> why are you quoting shawn hannity. sean spicer went through the long list of news articles and posts on websites, obscure websites that would let them to conclude that the 39 has the same backing that was wire tapped by former president obama. one of the articles and you mentioned this, that the white house is relying upon was written by the "new york times." the president has called time and again the failing "new york times." on the face of it, they are leaning on information that they have questioned as not reputable in the past. during that long list of sources, he also cited sean hannity and something that was said on his say and something that judge thnapolitano said. those are non-biased source of information. they tend to be source of information that feed a lot of the president's experience theories. >> the reporter who wrote that article and we are about to do it again. he doesn't say anything about president obama wire tabbing. what judge napolitano said they came out and said it's ridiculous. are you seeing

listen to what he called shawn hannity last night. .s clear that i would be concerned if i was the president. that's why i wanted him to negotiation and i felt like i had a duty and obligation to tell him. as you know he's been taking a lot of heat in the news media. there are things he should look at to see whether or not he thinks the collection was proper or not. >> last hour the ranking democrat on the committee weighing in on how the information was obtained by the chairman and how he handled the whole thing. watch. >> i am concerned that the chair has been unwilling to rule out that the documents came, either from the white house or coordination with the white house. >> the events of this week are not encouraging. anyone watching them has very legitimate profound concerns about whether this congress, indeed, can do a credible investigation. >> mark, i want to go to you first. this is a lot to sift through. can you break down what is going with chairman nunes. >> first of all, chairman nunes calling him a stooge is ridiculous. shou

whether on the right or the left, in this case it's partly due to shawn sean hannity not challenginga crowley at all. to suggest that her editor has her back and this book was completely okay, the book was pulled from the shelves. harper collins had to step in in this case. monica crowley can try to repair her reputation but she's doing it in ways that are untrue. it's making people worse by misleading people. >> what did harper collins say? >> well, harper collins pulled the book. i can't exactly remember what their statement was. something alodng the lines, we are pulling the book until she can update it with citations for her book. that book still has not been updated. they are not reselling it. you can't buy a kindle version or anything. so, again, what is she talking about? >> i put this as much on hannity particularly as i do on her. you know, if you're going to try to rehabilitate someone, but do it by letting them mislead viewers about what actually happened, i think that's disappointing. so that's kind of on hannity. she did seem to come in with prepared remarks trying to di