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To rebuild himself, and the economy is doing well and thats always the main thing. >> you have an expression, every time you point a finger at somebody you have four pointing back at you? is that in play here? >> careful with that. >> i never heard that, chris. >> can we learn something every day on "new day"? heres my question. this is the.t point i was tryin to make, which is but for trumps tweets about the wiretapping and what is going on with russia and what is fake and what isnt, do you thi...

Staff and russian interference, so they see it as a wash. >> well, as to the second issue about collusion, thats what is being investigated and this is the beginning of that investigation. on the wiretap, both republican and democratic leaders of the house and senate intelligence committees as well as the fbi director, the nsa director, i believe also commented on it yesterday, and the justice department said they found no evidence of wiretapping or surveillance, as far as i am concerned. most o...

Mean, we just had congressman castro on that said its a lie. >> well, i think this needs to be investigated and it is being investigated in part of the senate intelligence committees bipartisan investigation into russian activities and the election. its pretty clear that russia took active measures or a covert propaganda campaign to undermine the election, no matter who won, whether it was hillary clinton or donald trump. what we heard from the director of the national intelligence is theres no ...

But the language cannot be true but if he is characterizing what we have seen reported in the press about listening to the members of his campaign like general michael flynn, that would be more understandable. >> i know you just said the language literally cannot be true, and -- >> yeah, the president of the united states doesnt go to the foreign intelligence surveillance court personally and he does it through his fbi and through the foreign intelligence agencies. >> as you know, president trum...

Probably a bad day for president trump, director comey basically confirmed that there are members of the trump campaign who are under investigation for coordinating, and that was director comeys word with the russians that interfered with the 2016 elections, and also, as you mentioned, he stated that the justice department found no evidence and the fbi found no evidence of wiretapping or surveillance of then candidate trump by president obama. >> and how about these words, you want to get caught...

Leaks. what i was talking about was the presidents words, the presidents words are more important, and the president has made allegations of a felony of a past president, and its based on no credible source. thats what worries me, and that could be dangerous. >> could i invite you and everybody covering this to keep following the hearings and lets see what the conclusions are both at the congressional arm and the fbi and doj, and thats all i am asking. >> they are not exploring that question, so...

>> lets discuss this with the majority whip. good morning, senator. >> director comey said he neither the department of justice sees no basis and theres no evidence whatsoever to base president trumps claims of president obama wiretapping him. what does that mean about president trumps accusations? >> well, i think we still need to figure out what the president was talking about. when he talked about wiretapping, we know that president obama personally does not -- would not have done that and co...

You guys to figure it out. >> thats hard to believe when you have a president that has literally berated the cia and fbi multiple times, you know, in mid morning or at 2:00 in the morning on twitter, and so hes not showing much respect for the intelligence agencies or concern for their well-being. >> do you think trump was lying about the wiretapping? >> yes. >> do you think that the fbi director was telling you everything that they know about any connections between the trump administration and...

Made by michael flynn to russia. despite the cloud hanging over the white house, the administration is going to do its very best to try and change the subject today and focus on the plan to repeal and replace obamacare, and the president headed to capitol hill this morning, alisyn. >> thank you very much, joe. lets discuss all of this with cnn political commentator and former white house communicator, and matt schlap. now that director comey said there is no basis for president trumps accusation...

On wiretapping and thats president trump, and its distracting -- >> why arent they moving away from it? you were the communications director, and why after what comey said are they still pushing it? >> i think the theory would probably be that they want to appeal to a very small portion of the population who helped elect donald trump. i am not saying it was just that population, but will believe what he says. they want to make it seem like institutions, government, the media are all against him....