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Any better. Craig, thank you. Thank you. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us, dont forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. Just go to cnngo, a. C. 360 s. T. A. R. T. Starts right now. And good evening, thank you for joining us. Were waiting to hear from fbi director james comey whos going to speak at a dinner for the Intelligence Community. Well bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. Earlier today, the top two members, the Senate Intelligence commit...

Transition. >> from there he went to the white house and briefed the president on what was troubling to the white house. >> does this seem to describe what the president was talking about the quote wiretapping that was talked about as broader surveillance? >> you -- what i have read seems to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i dont know that its right, and i dont know that the american people will be comfortable with what i have read, but let us get all the reports. >> c...

House this afternoon to share what i know with the president and his team. >> reporter: but before nunes had a chance to brief he president, white house press secretary, sean spicer, was peppered with questions about the curious timing of it all. >> the president said he had additional information he believed the white house or he or his representatives would present related to this investigation, what congressman nunes has is not related to that? >> youre asking me questions he has not briefed ...

Other seen other people caught in these cross fires. the democrats want to put pressure on wiretapping. the big question is how much will those two issues distract with the underlying reason were having this investigation in the first place, which is the election legitimate. was he elected freely, or was he elected with the help of a foreign power? and, so, wiretapping and leaks could -- not that they are not important issues, but they could distract from that main underlying question. >> you ju...

Dont know and thats why we say may or may not be looking into these ties at the moment. stay with you tara. any sense of the white house, how they might be working to prep for what comey might say, the reaction to what he might say? >> right. i mean, if he completely dismisses trumps claims of wiretapping and puts that to rest, the presidents credibility is on the line. and it will show that this white house refers to news reports based on secondhand and third hand information, calling into ques...

Protecting the interest of the united states, both economically and military and inerms of countering terrorism. >> the brus sells forum is happening this week. you have leaders from all across europe gathering as well as the united states. what do you think the headline is going to be? >> if the past is a predictor, it will be a side issue. topics that we have with the europeans, how they are transitions in a climate of brexit, isis. instead most likely it will be on this notion of the united s...

Issues like that. to get the relationship bogged down on issues like this doesnt do anybody any good. >> your thought that the president may be willing to risk damaging these relationships, is this a matter of him not understanding the vernacular of foreign policy or a matter of him not caring at the moment? >> i think its a matter of a president who cares more about immediate news sickles. he wants to win with one tweet over the weekend just for the sunday news shows and is willing to sacrifice...

Methods or classified information. so he could just say i cant comment on these matters. there is a lot of questions about surveillance but also methods of surveillance involving computer servers, bank accounts. were not sure if we will get anynswers on those either. adam shif had put pressure on director comey to come out and say there was no wiretapping of trump tower. >> he could say very little. he could say nothing, but it still could mean a lot as we look at the words that he selects in an...

Because lieutenant general michael dpl michael flynn was caught up talking with kislyak. does this go beyond that and qualify that what the president was tweeting about wiretapping? >> it definitely goes beyond what happened to general dplfly. we dont officially know what happened to general flynn, that was one of the things we asked for in the march 15th letter was for the nsa, cia, and fbi to get done, so far the fbi has not told us whether or not theyre going to respond to our march 15th lett...

>> reporter: dave and christine, the white house is trying to dig in to talk about the baseless claim of the wiretap in the 2016 campaign. at the briefing, sean spicer predicted the president will be vindicated after the committees on capitol hill investigate the matter. here is what he had to say. >> the president said clearly when he referred to wiretapping, he referred to surveillance. >> it sounds like, sean, we dont mean wiretapping anymore. now we will say this other forms of surveillance....