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Some of the wire tap communications have been provided to the white house, says "the new york times." so my point here is that if i was the press secretary and the president wanted to do something of this magnitude, he should have called people together, said im very upset to see this. i want to issue a statement. lawyers should have advised him. for the president trump to say that this was criminal violation by barack obama, he lost the key point here that he wanted to make about possible wire ...

The russians and all this sort of thing, he turned it around on them. they wind up on the losing end. >> he accused the president of wire tapping. that is the fake news. what is the literal way to take that statement that makes it more correct? >> why the "new york times" reporting this. wire tap provided to the obama white house. >> there is no evidence provided. >> the president is in charge of his administration. >> he said barack obama tapped his phone. is there evidence of that or not? >> y...

Pay practices. kalanick since apologized. on friday, ubers head of growth and products resigned. uber facing accusations of sexual an harassment. a lot going on. >> one p.r. disaster after another. >> disrupting. getting a lot of bad press. it will be a big week. this is a big week. a fed meeting next week and jobs report this week. people want to see what obamacare will look like. the travel ban and what does that mean for business? >> we expect the travel plan some time today. perhaps that wil...

Found ourselves in a situation where you have a saturday tweet, a series of tweets from the president of the united states making allegations against a former president that are as yet completely unsubstantiated. >> yes, andrea. i will admit i was somewhat looking forward to a relatively quiet saturday morning, and woke up to find that. the pace at which the news, donald trump, his twitter feed, his white house moves is certainly unprecedented, and its not an exaggeration to say weve not seen an...

Appropriate for the white house. >> democratic leader nancy please always a pleasure to see you. good to be here with this morning. reckless, what one democrat is calling president trumps twitter tirade accusing president obama of any evidence of wire tapping without evidence and will president trump ultimately have to explain himself and provide evidence. that story is next. i have asthma...

Anti-semitic. >> that is senator lindsey graham in a town hall. its quite a contentious town hall. they began by talking about allegations president trump made against the former administration. these are allegations of wire tapping. it appears that lindsey graham is going to talk more about that. he began the entire meeting talking on that subject and then moved on to other issues such as obamacare. >> obamacare, police and racial profiling. russia people are asking about. well continue to foll...

An affair with watergate -- we still havent heard from the white house. its been nearly 12 hours. what do you think about that? what should be said and whats your expectation? >> right. well to use a hallowed journalism cliche, these are what we call bombshell allegations in the big "if true" category. and the fact that the white house isnt supporting president trump in the twitter comment he made is telling. it suggests there may not be a "there" there. i think the larger issue that this points...

Front and center all week. and suddenly, the conversation is turning to obama. so this is who president trump is. and i think that speech really didnt reflect the kind of shift people are talking about. >> so, bob, i want to go back to you, because you were a c.i.a. agent. how would anyone prove wire-tapping would take place? isnt the whole point of wire-tapping to keep surveillance covert, under the radar? >> you cant prove it, the implication is that the president went out and sort of a black ...

Keep things under wraps. in a way, he gets into these modes where he both wants to lash out but he also very much wants to divert tom, what are your concerns when president trump is trauking about wi -- talking about wire tapping of his phone, wire tapping at the trump you to ntower at new york hes talking about. is he also making an admission so to speak as the investigations are ongoing as it relates to russia and the u.s. elections and the trump campaign officials? >> well, i think not necess...

Obamacare and the potential repeal of that, of obamacare. that by the way, pamela, did trigger a lot of boos from the crowd. so a mix of support and opposition in his home state. >> theres been strong support. strong reaction i say across the country when thats brought up at the town halls. polo sandoval, thank you very much. with me, robert zimmerman, a democratic strategist and former hillary clinton fundraiser. also cnn political commentator ben ferguson joining us. robert im going start with...