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Democracies. >> reporter: interesting were hearing for the first time that lindsey graham when he had lunch with donald trump yesterday and pressed upon the president his concerns with russia, pushing the president on russia, on vladmir putin, but he did not. it sounds like bring up the issue of wire tapping which is what lindsey graham and his counterpart on that committee are seeking today more documents on that and threatening subpoenas if the justice department doesnt provide the evidence. i...

Trump that were on the phone with different russian officials and they could have been surveilled and wire tapped. theres something somewhere out there. they seek to confuse the two issues. thats not the same as saying that president obama ordered a wire tap on his personal phone calls in trump tower. its a way to muddy the message. they sent it over to congress. congress is calling their bluff. if theres nothing, and, obviously, director comey who maybe no one trusts anymore but has gone out of...

If i was donald trump, i would say im unhappy with the last 40 days. i would say it would no longer tweet directly, i would give it to somebody in communications who knows me and will cite it out. so we know longer have just been four days. >> eboni: he will do that and at some point when he makes the proclamations that are not questions, their direct proclamations, even assertions, even accusations, at some point we have to legitimately question the credibility of president trump. i say have th...

Presidents unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped his phones at trump tower in new york city. the white house once again refusing to provide any back up to the presidents assertions saturday morning. how long can the white house avoid at least providing some evidence to back that up? >> well, their belief is that theyve now shunted it aside, that they have now squarely said, okay, its up to congress. sean spicer today said this is what the separation of powers is about. we believe...

His suppositions are, and his assertions, when he just spews this, he is just using twitter as a means to display his paranoia, his presumptiveness and his obsession with barack obama. he cant let him go. >> thats what i was going to ask you, he claims -- his words were, that the former president wiretapped trump tower, theyre spinning it now saying, oh, no, it was the administration, he said, the president. and then the evidence to that, that he didnt mean the administration, he said sic, this ...

Something like this. >> this is bipartisan craziness, people from the left and right have said, this is not normal, this is not what we expect of a leader, the most powerful man in the world. the inability to have deferred gratification or the discipline to impose on oneself. dont say everything you think. a lot of people have thought crazy things, donald trump is channeling what their inner ego, their innerself is about. there are no facts to match what his suppositions are, and his assertions,...

Wikileaks round. so lets leave it at that and let them brief you at the proper time. im be ready the take your questions as soon as i have for information. >> you said we shouldnt take the president literally. apparently his tweet was enough for you to say youll investigate his claims. >> that would be under the assumption that we not interested in the leaks coming out and whether or not there were trump or trump associates that had been put under investigation. those are the assertions that hav...

Seemed to double down on the unfounded assertions in an off camera briefing. >> theres no question that something happened. the question is, is it surveillance, is it a wiretap or whatever? >> reporter: but the presidents tweets from the private palm beach club he calls the winter white house, were unequivocal, stated as a fact, not a question. "terrible! just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism." that was followed b...

Goes and it may or may not be true there was actual wiretapping and it may not or may not be true there was surveillance and other nefarious activities going on by the democrats. >> but the president said it was a fact. he didnt put any ifs, didnt put any qualifiers. he said it was a fact. and that obviously has raised so many questions, the fbi director james comey were told is incredulous, how could he do this? the former director of national intelligence clapper says it never happened. were g...

Was actually tapped. >> he is president he has information that the rest of us do not. thats the way it should be for president. >> they dont agree with him or think like him. why dont we get to the assertions, the fbi director where is he on this tweet. >> one was that trump invoked nix on which is saying the fbi had done something illegal, that this was like watergate in the sense that the law had been broken. the second thing is for the fbi this ratchet up the intention --