in some cases they turn out to be true. you can think of watergate as a conspiracy theory that turned out to be true. but at the same time conspiracy theorizing leads to a kind of sloppy thinking. reporter: past rumors include the clintons leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake. 9/11 was an inside job and, of course barack obama should give his birth certificate. reporter: so what s new now? well, the trump administration s unprecedented disregard for facts. alternative facts to that. reporter: according to nyhan, russia s intrusion into the u.s. election has lowered the bar for belief even further. contacts with russia and the unprecedented russian interference in the election have seemed to legitimize elaborate conspiracy theories of the sort we d see on homeland or house of cards. those people have taken those legitimate questions as a license to believe in all sorts of things for which there s no
capitol hill. manu, what s going on here? reporter: well, the house investigation coming to a total stand still, john, over this fight between the democrats and republicans over the role of devin nunes, the chairman of the committee who did say yesterday that he wanted to hear privately from fbi director james comey, but james comey telling cnn that he s actually not gotten that invite yet and does not want to be in the middle of this tug-of-war between republicans and democrats about how to move forward. now, this is a marked contrast to what was seen on the senate side of the capitol. the leaders of the senate intelligence committee said they are conducting a thorough deep dive into the russian meddling in the elections, something that the chairman of the committee richard burr said is the biggest one of the biggest investigations he s seen in the last two decades. the leaders of the senate intelligence committee vowing to answer this fundamental question. did the trump campaign
that s raising serious concerns. manu raju live on capitol hill with more. hey, carol. before wednesday s hearing for mr. price, already getting lots of controversy for shares that he, tom price, actually purchased in health care companies while serving as a congressman from georgia. those health care shares coming at the same time pushing legislation on health care issues. the most recent controversy, impurchasing up to $15,000 of stock in a medical device manufacturer. at the same time as pushing legislation that would delay key medicare rule that would actually have hurt the medical device manufacturer zimmer biomed had that medicare rule been taken effect. after the publication of our report, trump s campaign pushing back saying that this controversy was much ado about nothing. only a small amount of stock and they say a number of the shares were purchased through a broker.
from president obama. would like to know what you think about got ya questions. i ve written an op-ed for cnn.com. check it out, cnn.com/opinion. give me your thoughts. i appreciate it. can we replay that from president obama? we did. i was the only one who couldn t hear it. so hopefully you did, and i apologize. the white house also took a more serious shot at the new house speaker, paul ryan, calling his stance on immigration reform, quote, preposterous. manu raju live on capitol hill with more. reporter: this is a fight paul ryanments to have when he was running for house speaker, he told his republican colleagues that he would not move on an immigration bill unless it had a majority of support from within his conference. clearly, that is something that is not in the offing in president obama s final time in office. now, we re waiting for paul ryan to address reporters for the
news conference. we ll bring that to you when it begins, of course. let s start with cnn s manu raju live on capitol hill with the big budget battle brewing. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. republicans just met behind closed doors to talk about this budget deal. when they came out, the response was pretty muted inside. people were not rushing to support this deal. they had just dropped this deal on their lap right before midnight last night. now, they re trying to jam this through before boehner leaves office. this is something they re trying to pass by as early as wednesday. paul ryan will assume the speakership on thursday. this is moving very, very fast through capitol hill. a lot of conservatives are concerned about not only the process but the policy, raising the national debt limit to march of 2017, increasing domestic spending to the tune of $80 billion and looking at some details and how the cuts also