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With the media, but the recent ducking and dodging tactic with reporters raised new concerns. president trump boxed out the media by canceling two open press events this week and administration officials shouted down reporters as they tried to ask questions. watch this. >> reporter: from wikileaks -- >> thank you. >> thank you all very much. we will get to work. thank you. >> mr. president, any proof of the wiretapping? >> thank you, guys. thank you. thank you, press. thank you, press. thank you...

If hes not making it up and its true, its an even bigger problem because the question is would people believe him, would american people believe him, would people around the world believe him. and that has real world consequences. >> athena jones is at the white house for us. the clock is ticking. lawmakers want to see proof by tomorrow. any update from the administration sth. >> hi, fred, no updates, no indication that any sort of evidence is going to to be forthcoming. this is a question the a...

Not correct. >> governor matt bevin of kentucky, thank you for being with us on "new day." >> thank you. two leaders of congress coming up this morning on "state of the union" with jake tapper. john mccain on the show to talk about his next step to take on the president over russia, and cory booker talking about his plan to challenge the new health care proposal. thats today on "state of the union" with jake tapper here on cnn at 9:00 a.m. and why the presidents recent dodging and ducking of...

>> there is no reason to believe that he is the target of any investigation. >> the white house attempting to clarify president trumps unfounded claim that former president obama ordered wiretapping of trump tower during last years election. >> the tweet dealt with wiretaps and the other is an investigation. there are two separate issues. >> vice president mike pence dodging questions about his bosss wiretapping accusation. >> the president has alleged that the former president committed a felon...

Russians would call, a useful idiot, in their campaign to undermine our democracy. both are wrong, both should be condemned, and the president has a lot of explaining to do about why one, with russian involvement that helped is okay, but the other isnt. >> u.s. vice president mike pence is the latest white house official dodging questions about donald trumps claim that former president obama wiretapped him. senior republicans in congress say theyre prepared to subpoena u.s. intelligence agencies...

And the other is an investigation. they are two separate issues. >> reporter: vice president mike pence dodging questions about his bosss wire tapping accusations. >> the president alleged that the former president committed a felony in wiretapping trump tower. yes or no. do you believe president obama did that? >> what i can say is the president and our administration are very confident that the congressional committees in the house and senate that are examining issues surrounding the last elec...

>> they are now demanding sessions go before the senate judiciary committee. >> i think he should recuse himself. >> some calling for sessions to step aside. >> theres going to be investigations about russia then he may actually become the witness and i dont think he should be leading the investigation. >> and applauding him after he did so. >> its the right move. it doesnt say he is necessarily admitting guilt. >> house speaker paul ryan dergeding sessions. >> we have seen no evidence from any ...

Democrat on the house intelligence committee is blasting fbi director james comey for dodging questions about the bureaus investigation into russias meddling in the u.s. election last year. >> in order for us to do our investigation in a thorough and credible way, were going to need the fbi to fully cooperate. at this point the director was not willing to do that. >> reporter: democratic senators are calling for more transparency as five congressional committees are investigating the trump campa...

So i never give up a dream. by the way, two entilements are being reformed with repeal and replace. thats two entitlements right there. just this spring. so we are well on our way to reforming entitlements by repealing and replacing obamacare. thats a pretty darn good start. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> there you have it. the house speaker sort of dodging that last question. is he giving up, i believe, are you giving up your hope for entitlement reform with this budget? lets bring in...

For the white house was on some of the shows today, and basically when she was asked, pressed whether donald trump had said he was going to take care of everybody, she was asked if anybody would lose their health care, she danced and dodged as much as she could to leave that wide open. theres some tough, toufz issues coming up. and its going to move beyond the kind of tone m issues we have been dealing with, and the yuan lat 2r5 local -- unilateral steps the president has been making. >> athena,...