second, the second, to study evidence actually exist? today the top democrat on the house intelligence committee says he doesn t think so. i don t expect we ll see any evidence of this either. i agree with timecard. one of two possibilities here. the president quite deliberately for some reason made up this charge are perhaps more disturbing the president really believes this. reporter: the charges former president barack obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the election. the former president has led the charge. so as the current fbi director reportedly asked the justice department to publicly reject the president s claims. congressman schiff plans to ask about it directly when he testifies before the full committee later this month. republicans have also been very critical of president trump on this issue. just today, john mccain said thursday road need for congress
to investigate these wiretapping allegations. here is why. i ve no reason to believe the charge is
priebus echoing his complaints about media coverage. the truth is we don t have problems in the west wing. you read about the stories i don t get along with bannon. actually, we ve gelled as a team, and we get along great, and we re working well together, and the amount of drama and spin that you read about mostly in the washington daily gossip rags is unbelievable stuff and isn t true. and you read it every day and wonder what alternative universe they re reporting on? harris: we have fox team coverage, garrett tenney is following developments and the possible executive order on immigration coming at any time. we begin with kristen fisher traveling with the president in palm beach, florida. you and i saw each other friday when he got there. the president met with four candidates for national security job today, but may not be done interviewing, i understand? reporter: that s right, the white house says president trump could be meeting with
more candidates tomorrow. on top of th
compared hitler to bashar al assad. is that enough to stop calls for him being fired? in the driver s seat. my one on one sit down with ford s ceo mark fields. his message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. good morning, everybody. i m ali velshi at msnbc headquarters in new york. rex tillerson and sergey lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. the two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a news conference. we know that there has been tense talk over syria. today s meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house intelligence report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. president vladimir putin saying in an interview today, quote, where s the proof of syrian forces using chemical weapons?
there is none. end quote. putin also says relations with the u.s. have, quote, degraded since president trump took office. president trump had his own criticisms of vladim
your government and the united states government seems to be miles apart on the syria issue, ukraine and other issues. did you feel that you ve cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today since you ve had those discussions with secretary tillerson? we did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. and they have, again, brought this on themselves with their conduct and war these past few years. we discussed our view that russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping assad recognize this reality. we do think it s important that assad s departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so
achieved. this is a very high legal hurdle in order to bring such charges against an individual, so i would not suggest to you that all of that evidence is in place. but i think the longer time goes by, it s possibl
reporter: the white house defending the government s response. the federal response has been anything but slow. in fact, there s been an unprecedented push through of billions of dollars of federal assistance. reporter: but the president has spent the last three days tweeting repeatedly about nfl players who kneel during the national anthem. mr. trump, continuing to fan the flames on twitter monday night. sources tell cnn that the president appears pleased with the firestorm he has created, telling a private dinner of conservative leaders it s really caught on. i said what millions of americans were thinking. administration officials tell cnn that chief of staff john kelly is not happy with the public feud but the retired military general, who lost a son in the afghanistan war, agrees with the president on the substance of the debate. meanwhile, nfl teams continue to show solidarity against president trump s comments. the entire dallas cowboys team and team owner, jerry jones,