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The press beefing and there was talk about whether he meant this literally with the tweets with wire tapping or not. going back to our discussion about the fact it was in quotation marks. >> eboni: or he meant it to be surveillance. >> elizabeth: it can surveillance smart phones. >> steve: if thats true. you have reports from the new york times and lots of others that used the term wiretap to say it was going on. youre exactly right. saying people say lets get to the bottom of it, i dont think t...

Administration. sean spicer has had -- its been awkward to watch. hes had to go out there and make these statements and you know just watching that there is no good answer. >> its sort of self-inflicted because actually if nine days ago, president trump said, oh, i got ahead of myself, and i made a personal call to president obama -- >> he doesnt do that. >> no. they would have ended this. this would be over. >> exactly. democrats are makes the argument that in is a big accountability and respon...

Surveillance. >> i think he only did one of them. >> i understood this a week ago. i dont understand why -- >> i dont know why were parsing punctuation. suddenly from the president. if he says wiretapping, he means wiretapping. >> and "the new york times" said there was wiretapping. >> sean spicer says the president was very clear. he always says that, right? the president was very clear that when he put quotation marks around -- no, he is not very clear. but if youre the only who gets it out of...

Stay warm today. >> take care. a winter blast in washington, d.c., but you just heard it right there from governor malloy in connecticut, he has a spring in his step after the cbo report about health care. and now all of a sudden walking back claims he was wiretapped by president obama. the importance of quotation marks. what does that mean? its an important question you ask,

The tweet speaks for itself. and today seemingly out of nowhere we hear, actually, president trump doesnt think president obama wiretapped him personally. and kellyanne conway did have a different idea and she was saying, no, that wiretapping was in quotation marks and it is about broader surveillance. the fact of the matter is there have been no reports. any published reports in any legitimate newspaper or publication that has any proof that president obama did this to president trump. there ha...

In quotation marks and it is about broader surveillance. the fact of the matter is there have been no reports. any published reports in any legitimate newspaper or publication that has any proof that president obama did this to president trump. there has been no one in this administration who has that proof, no one on capitol hill who has this proof, no one in the intelligence community who has this proof and yet now there is a request to extend the period by which they find this proof and seaso...

Debt by $300 billion over ten years, which is a lot of money, i want to get his take on that. i want to shift topics because well jump back to this news conference. but andre, i want to get your take, im not going to play it, on the fact the white house now maybe seems to be backing off a little bit the presidents, without evidence, evidence-free claim that he was wiretapped by president obama, which is accusing the former pra eer pref a felony. now sean spicer says he doesnt mean that president...

President of the republican party and hes quote a sick or a bad man. that was a very specific charge made by the president and its going to turn out to be disproved, probably. who knows? >> i think sean spicer is in a really bad situation. his credibility really matters. he came out yesterday and said, well, didnt you read the tweet? it had wiretaps in quotation marks and, indeed, one did have wiretaps in quotation marks t. problem is there was another one that does not, i bet a good lawyer coul...

Lawmakers demanding evidence of the presidents claim he was wiretapped and the justice department says it needs more time. maybe its looking for more quotation marks?

Job to provide the kind of evidence, if the press, the public feel like the president has spoken and has not provided the kind of facts to back up his claim. and i was going to say before, i think it is time that we move past sort of dissecting, well, the president said this on twitter or these comments were made in quotation marks. twitter is actually the purest form in which the president delivers his message to the public and to everyone else. and so i think the 140 characters actually go a l...