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Explosive claims. as a tv star, the host of "the apprentice," as a candidate. what he learned is its more challenging to say things and quickly erase them. take for example of what he said about 3 million illegal votes cast. at the time, it was a big deal, great focus on it, they said there would be an investigation. they have benefited by the fact its almost disappeared. a task force is being formed to look into it. aides here dont want to be talking about it. the issue of the wiretapping claim...

Describe as the most conspiracy minded president, "would be taken aback by whats going on today in terms of this wiretapping claim." explain further what you mean. >> a couple of things. on monday we will get evidence, i suspect, that donald trump tweeted without actually any evidence whatsoever and alleged that his predecessor wiretapped him. this means that we have a president now who is willing to go public with allegations without any information from his intelligence community. thats really...

I polled our recipients of money, what is the single most program? the answer was block grant. when we took the money and sent it back to them after take our 10% out. howie: even a bigger story is the passing of chuck berry at the age of 90. >> im going to write a little letter and send it to my local d.j. there is culture for you. he had more influence on rock n rollers. married for 68 years. there is a cultural message. howie: next on "mediabuzz," president trump is standing by his wiretapping...

To investigate how this got out there. he wants to know who leaked this information. so, you know, putting the wiretap thing to bed, laying that to rest, is kind of the first step in this process. its fascinating that the president doesnt seem to want to let this go, again, bringing it up yesterday with angela merkel. but that is going to be all the congressional investigators, bipartisan, are ready to be done with this. thats going to be the first step on monday. >> and this hearing was suppose...

Want to talk about and what americans care about. >> another explanation might be hes exploiting the fact that reporters are distracted by shiny things. if you look at the opinion polls, trumps approval rating is tanking. he released a budget thats something for nobody budget like the gop hates it. the public hates it. health care. youre seeing thing after thing where trump is in his actual policies that hes putting forward is not getting traction. throwing out shiny objects like a wiretapping c...

Dilanian. what do we expect and can we expect comey to knock down these allegations tomorrow and could he if he wanted to? >> well, jacob, i expect this to be one of the more drama of theic days of the trump presidency and all signs are pointing on the idea that comey will point to this wiretapping claim in some way and explain why it isnt true. when you say put it to rest. i dont think he can put it to rest as long as the president of the united states continues to make the claim that it is tru...

Years in jail. soug so the president and sean spicer have accused president obama of a crime. and the same goes for gchq. you would have to go to gchq and say listen, we cant get a warrant on the candidate trump but would you guys do it? and i just dont see the british prime minister, gchq, ever agreeing to that. they never have. and when they say this is ridiculous, they would even consider it, i believe them. i know gchq. they would never do it. >> i want to ask you now about an awkward moment...

For this president. well have to see if he chooses the road less traveled because hes certainly in a very difficult poxover his own making and i think the only way he can see his way out of it at this point is just to acknowledge the truth that the wiretapping claim that he tweeted about is just false and that he made a mistake. >> well see about that. jim acosta, thank you. matthew rosenberg, appreciate you being on again. up next, breaking news on the congressional side including the head of...

Surveillance and devin nunes stated it and you choose not to cover that part. >> bill: catherine herridge is live. what are top lawmakers saying about the issue. >> and mark warner went beyond the presidents wiretapping claim and based on the information available to us we see no indications trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the united states government either before or after election day 2016. and with todays deadline looming the house intelligence committee wants th...

The man who lived there remains missing. finally, happy st. paddys day to all of you, especially those in michigan who took part in the worlds shortest st. patricks day for the 29th year. a 150 yard, two block march to the town bar. now the comments made by white house press secretary sean spicer during yesterdays briefing. this morning the white house reportedly apologized to britain after spicer brought up a news report while answering reports about president trumps unsubstantiated wiretap...