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Which was did obama actually wiretap turump tower, i think te president is clear to that. no, no. in the dozens of reports i was able to see, i was able to determine that it was -- it looks like it was legal -- legal connection, incidental collection, but made itself into intelligence reports. so it has to deal with fisa and multiple number of fisa warrants out there but there is nothing criminal at all involved. >> mark halpern, this is one of the most staggering things ive seen. donald trump t...

What have you learned joe? >> well, think about it. you have the federal investigation, evan perez was just talking about. thats on going. the eyes of the nation focused on how the republican congress is handling the investigation on its own and then the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee essentially doing an end run around established procedures. raising questions about the ability of this committee to be fair and impartial. >> house intelligence committee chairman stunning...

That someone gave him evidence that intelligence communities under president obama did pick up electronic surveillance on members of the trump transition team and put that so-called incidental information into intelligence reports. that might be illegal. >> i recently confirmed that on numerous occasions,t the intelligence community incidentally collected information about u.s. citizens. details about u.s. persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent fo...

President obama did pick up electronic surveillance on members of the trump transition team and put that so-called incidental information into intelligence reports. that might be illegal. >> i recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, information was instantly collected. details about u.s. persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting. i want to be clear, none of...

Collection, incidental collection, but then made itself into intelligence reports. so it has to deal with fisa. and there is multiple number of fisa warrants that are out there. but there is nothing criminal at all involved. >> joining us now, rajesh day, former council to the national security agency, mika oyang, a former house intelligence committee staffer. >> and a security reporter for "the new york times." raj, you were basically the nsas lawyer. you were one of the lawyers for the 9/11 co...

President obama wiretapped him at trump tower? >> he is not right about that, jake. as you know, ive told you that, i think, many times. >> right but you just said he was right. what is he right about? >> in terms of it does appear like his name and people and others ended up into intelligence reports. so, i mean, look. you can make what you want of it. but most people would say that is surveillance. >> harold, im dumbfounded here. i dont know what he is trying to prove. all he said yesterday is...

White house about what he has found about surveillance, trauma campaign members perhaps have been swept up, and he talks to sean hannity in a pretaped interview. we have a clip of that tonight. >> i will say that the dissemination is pretty far and wide. like ive said before, i think -- it appears to me it was all legal. the question is, should it have been done in the first place, and secondly, were any other american names unmasked, and i have information that says there were periods for sayin...

. all right. fallout today from two huge bomb shells dropped by house intelligence committee leaders. the chairman, devin nunes, apologized this morning to the intel committee but wouldnt say for what. democratic colleagues are questioning his objectivity because of his unusual move to brief the president yesterday about information that he says bothered him in intelligence reports. >> it was a judgment call on my part, and thats -- at the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision,...

Team were put into intelligence reports which may or may not -- its probably fine, but we have to make sure that the president himself needs to see this because clearly there was surveillance that was conducted. and i dont know if it was -- im sure it was used legally, but he should know this just like the other administration knew what was in those intelligence reports. >> you are obviously an important man on the capitol hill. youre the chairman of the house intelligence committee. doesnt pres...

And then, out of nowhere, what is being pursued as a terrorist attack in london, overseas today, three dead, 20 wounded, not counting the attacker. to cover all of it and take over the next hour of our coverage, im joined here in new york by steve kornacki, steve. >> thanks were brian. good afternoon, everybody, im steve kornacki. again, live here in new york. it is day 62 of the first 100 days for donald trump as brian just said a particularly busy day today. topping our agenda right now, new i...