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Embedded between that warmth. this is it right now. >> absolutely. pedram javaheri. nice to see you warm in the studio. another person -- absolutely. another person very snug and warm is our max foster in london. ill hand it back to you. >> rosie, thank you very much. you look snug and warm in your hat. the other big talking point is president trumps wiretapping accusation. the latest of a series of assertions that hes made without evidence to back them up. proponents say hes using the outrageou...

Prove it. remember, the president is a phone call away from getting this answer and he has more power to declassify information than anyone. mccain says if you cant prove it, retract it. >> the house intelligence committee is giving the justice department until today to provide any evidence of this wiretapping claim. an adviser to the president is more than just doubling down suggesting there was perhaps much more than just wiretapping of the campaign. this as we are 53 days in to the trump pres...

Show for it, no justification, no evidence, and then to say, well, well await the outcome of the investigative process. there would be no vittive process but for him making that wild and up until now unsubstantiated assertion. i think youve got to show something before you put a statement like that in play. i didnt hear anything. to your point about the bergen record and the conflating that is taking place oochs, i also sense theres a desire on the part of the administration to wrap into this th...

They have little in common. as with so many of the unfounded charges. 3 to 5 million illegal votes. highest murder rate in half a century and on and on. the white house is spending its energy and your tax dollars trying to change demonstrably false assertions into perfectly understandable beliefs tangentially related to the original lie. while doing so, theyre squandering their own credibility and wasting time defending the indefensible instead of devoting time to improving your lives. jim acost...

Majority 52-48. you lose three republicans or half a dozen are expressing grave doubts about the house republican language. you lose that, it doesnt make any difference what happens in the house. >> they cant go ahead with the agenda. there is less chance to say that democrats are going to lose the house, maybe they would have some difficulty in the 2018 in the senate. but whats i think senator cotton is saying to his colleagues is if they pass this bill, republicans will own this and at least g...

So many people in your own party fighting over this, im not sure this is going to make it through. >> it might be a hard sell. kevin, also in the report house and senate intelligence committee members are getting unprecedented information on russia and its connections to the 2016 campaign. so when will the public get these answers? >> the committee will hold a hearing on this within the next two weeks. and all of the top u.s. intelligence officials are going to be testifying at that hearing. and...

>> shannon: its really intriguing story of. if you want to read the account of how this unfolded for you, its on the foxnews.com the opinion side. you already had some freedom of information at your request. when you found out about this and you are hopeful that you would get a response in 2012 at what actually happened. it who recorded this call, how got to "the washington times." here are five years later, no answer. are you confident that this in an interracial to the bottom of what the presi...

And. >> and it certainly isnt the first time that donald trump has heard and repeated a conspiracy theory. he did it repeatedly after the campaign. he did it after he was inaugurated with the assertions about massive illegal voting. in the election and then in new hampshire. so, you know, at this point, im not particularly phased by donald trump repeating a conspiracy theory for which there is no evidence in whic in all likelihood is not true. but if the congress can come up with some evidence f...

Director james comey, hes been meeting with key lawmakers, the so-called gang of 8. com comey hasnt made any public statements about the assertions that the president believes the president obama has wiretapped him during the campaign. if you were inside, tell us what youd want to learn from director comey right now. >> well, you know, wolf, as im sure your viewers know, every other day president trump says something which is totally preposterous. a little while ago he talked about 3 to 5 millio...

President trump accused his predecessor of wiretapping his phones the with white house has done nothing to become up that. sean spicer yesterday said the white house will continue to insist that congress actually spend their time and investigate the presidents ridiculous assertions as fact. these are the assertions he put out on saturday morning. >> is the white house position that the president can make declarative statements about a former president basically committing a crime and then the co...