ever since president trump s tweet starts appearing saturday morning. do they have any evidence to support that president obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower? no, there isn t an evidence chain that would support such a sweeping assertion. we have reporting about an investigation of people around trump. it s conceivable people around trump the f.b.i. there is a lot of russian communications. chris: he was saying they wiretapped his phones in trump tower. and if the president of the united states barack obama ordered it, there is no evidence that we know about to that effect. chris: laura, there is the question whether this is true.
community for the bush assessment that didn t happen in the obama. that happened in the trump administration. chris: we had another development this week attorney general sessions recused himself from involvement in this investigation. do you trust the justice department now the session saturday to investigate itself were given the fact that if president trump is right, he has supposed information he shouldn t but a wiretap of this investigation. do you think there s a need for a special counsel to handle this matter going forward? i see no reason for that at this point. i would like to see politically accountable officials make these decisions, which means the senate move probably took him from the deputy attorney general an associate attorney general. the american people deserve the accountable officials make in his decisions at this point, i see no reason why that would be necessary. i also see no reason why we
to be clear, chris, i am not the person who forced or coerced in any way senator sessions to answer incorrectly or falsely in front of the senate judiciary committee. but is the point here to keep this white house from being able to do what it s trying to do by continuing at this point at the doonesbury debate about collusion with the russians. that is not my goal, chris. i recently met with the commerce secretary on thursday. i sat down with him to say among the relatives of the many dead regulates the i think we can do things to get back to focusing on growing our economy and manufacturing jobs. you know me and i think you d recognize and someone to work across the aisle. my goal is to make sure we defend our need.
as a surrogate for the campaign, ban was that about the campaign machinations sphwh i don t think jeff sessions need to recuse himself. if jeff sessions told the truth and i believe he did in that question and the follow-up question submitted by leahy. i think donald trump is frustrated about that. there was a lot of pressure put on sessions. the idea that russia threw the election for donald trump and people in michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania chris: they are not saying they threw the election, they are saying there was collusion. carter page who was a one-time foreign policy one-time foreign advisor to trump and paul manafort, and those people
if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? senator franken, i m not aware of any of those that cavities. i have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and i do not have communications with the russians. i m unable to comment on it. chris: i only have a little over a minute left here do believe senator sessions lead to that committee that you are a member of? senator sessions certainly would misspoke when he said i did not have communications with the russians. whether or not but as a willful misrepresentation is something that anguished investigate. the attorney general ought to come back and answer questions we can clear the air and get to the bottom of this. that the only way we can move forward with confidence in our system. i do think a distraction from governing, but important