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At trump tower before the election. youre on the senate intelligence committee. if comey testifies that theres no evidence wiretapping, do you think president trump needs to apologize to the public and to president obama so that this whole episode can be put behind him? >> jake, well see what director comey testifies about tomorrow. ive been on this trip since thursday night, but i do understand that documents were also delivered to the committee on friday by the department of justice and the fb...

Assured the american people, every single american will have access to affordable coverage that works for them, not for government. >> youre saying after the third part of this has passed and the president has signed it into law and time has gone on so that its been implemented, every american will have insurance, there will be universal coverage? >> every american there have access to the kind of coverage that they want. >> great question there from jake tapper, access versus insurance. also re...

Former director of national intelligence, as saying, that he had no evidence that there was coordination between the trump campaign and the russians over this effort to subvert the election. and he used that as an authoritative source. well, director clapper also said, theres absolutely no truth to the fact that trump had been bugged. and apparently, thats not good enough for mr. spicer or the president. >> carl, you know, sean spicer was also asked about whether this will permanently damage the...

Russian incursion on our election, during the campaign, because he was so concerned about not creating a perception of using an intelligence investigation, an fbi investigation, to influence the outcome of a campaign. so he was doing what he thought was his responsibility as a trustee of our democracy, and then, this president now sort of casually throws off this outrageous charge, without any evidence. so, im sure he finds that galling. >> do you -- david, would you expect him to say anything p...

We dont know. trust has been degraded across the board. >> lindsey graham almost spoke to that very point earlier today. take a listen. >> i want to find out was a warrant issued against the trump campaign for illegal legal activity? thats not too much to ask. the answer is either yes or no. if the answer is no, then i think we can move on and say that there was no surveillance by the obama administration through the warrant process, then the question is did they do something illegally? i highly...

Trump tower. thats what donald trump raised himself. >> correct. >> i think mr. clapper, jim clapper, was being very careful. he was addressing only what was put out there. and you know if youre in any kind of enforcement, intelligence agency, you dont go beyond what you have to deal with in that moment. i think he was very very careful. as for the point about whether theres so much smoke, you already know fire, i think thats baloney. we are at the tip of the iceberg of something unprecedented w...

Spicer, wolf, said he has no reason to believe that the president doesnt -- does not, but wolf, you have to question whether the strategy that the white house is implementing here is the right one. keep in mind, earlier today the house republican intelligence committee chairman, devin nunes, said he plans to hold hearings on this coming up and that if you look at the slew of people who may be invited to testify from the dni, jim clapper, to john brennan, former cia director, jim comey, the fbi d...

Switch when its turned on, focussed on you its incredible. cant there be kind of accessories to that, people that are picked up as a matter of course during the investigation? >> it is very true. there is a possibility here that there have been indicators of criminality or collusion that did not rise to the level of a warrant yet or which may have risen to a warrant after jim clapper made his statement. we dont know that but there is a possibility of that. we do have incidental collection. we ha...

There have been indicators of criminality or collusion that did not rise to the level of a warrant yet or which may have risen to a warrant after jim clapper made his statement. we dont know that but there is a possibility of that. we do have incidental collection. we have collection which comes from third party nations which are handed off to us which we be not accept until we coon rate it ourselves. it sits out there. thats a possibility. all of this being said, all this does is brings to ligh...

Nothing that has to do with electronic surveillance. look, the president pushed out a tweet on saturday saying barack obama did this. number one he cant do that. he doesnt have the authority. since the 70s we took the authority away and put it in the federal courts. even if he wanted to do it he couldnt. the core of the tweet is beyond wrong. its impossible. now, other people can do it in the government to go to a judge to get the warrant. we have two kinds of warrants to do that. one for foreig...