millions of dollars. the more important thing, and that was your last question, it s the opportunity cost. as we re doing this and not addressing the other issues. the opportunity costs to the american economy, to the american taxpayers, is tremendous. maria: we ll see if they get anything done. that s what the american people voted for. i think both sides will get impacted there. congressman, always a pleasure. thank you. maria: we appreciate it. donald trump is speaking out about this, firing of fbi director james comey. martha mccowan will weigh in and rand paul is on deck. stay with us. back in a moment. what s that? p3 planters nuts, jerky and seeds. i like a variety in my protein. totally, that s why i have this uh trail mix.
warrant. maria: of course, we know at the time final weeks of president obama s term, he changed all the rules and allowed the agencies to share raw data, which was not the case for the eight years that he was in place and even before that, prompting so many people to question. the main stream media made fun of the president when he said he was surveiled which he was. you ve been talking about it. you re wondering if you were surveiled. without question general flynn was. people call it incidental to try to say it wasn t a big deal. it wasn t incidental to general flynn an his career that they listened to a private conversation. i m concerned for americans in general. but i have gotten two reporters that came up who said they have multiple sources, some of this has been published already, saying that the obama administration was looking at my private information. there are rumors of other people who ran for president. i m trying to get to the bottom of this.
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president that he was not the subject of an investigation? i can t comment on any conversations the director may have had with the president. maria: i m joined by senator rand paul from kentucky. good to see you, senator. what do you make of that? he would not commit. we know what the president wrote to the letter to jim comey saying, despite you telling me on three separate occasions andrew mccabe would not agree to it. i think we put our intelligence people, fbi, all these people in impossible situations. we try to ask them to talk about things they shouldn t be talking about. some ways that s what got comey on the bad list of democrats and republicans. we trot him out at press conferences probably from his own sra hreugs. we put him out there and ask him all these questions about investigations. really what you want from an fbi
one case he called me. did you ask him, am i under investigation? i actually asked him, yes. i said, if it s, would you let me know, am i under investigation? he said, you are not under investigation. but he s given sworn testimony that there was an on going investigation into the trump campaign and possible collusion with the russian government. you were the center piece of the trump campaign. what i can tell you i know that i m not under investigation. me, personally. i m not talking about campaigns. i m not talking about anything else. maria: martha mccowan, great to see you. great to see you. maria: your reaction? i mean, sarah huckabee sanders was just asked about this. she said the president basically has the right to ask. that s what the white house attorneys are saying. really falls into james comey s court, the answer to this question, whether or not he did answer the question, am i under