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He says, wolf, based on my personal dealings with the president there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. now, on the wiretapping issue, im told by a source familiar, wolf, that he was just joking about that, he was not serious, but, of course, "the new york times" paints a very different picture in that he said it, that he was serious. so we will have to obviously see how the white house responds to this, this comes at a very tenuous time for rosenstein as he is overseeing the special cou...

Shoulder pads. not what he does as head of the staff but as chief, firstal off of equals among the president. if the presidents trusts him, thats 99% of the game right there, seems like right now the president does. havent seen indication otherwise. hes always talked up. i keep on trying to call him secretary and general. chief of staff john kelly. and john kelly has gone to bat for the president publicly. via on the wiretapping issue. be it on the travel ban. so he has sort of earned the presid...

Up the white house wiretapping issue. the ranking democrat offered his own theory. >> there must have been a strong push back from the white house about the nature of mondays hearing. its hard to come to any other conclusion about why it would be canceled. clearly it has to do with the week. >> the chairman cannot continue to lead the investigation, but its not their call. >> thank you. >> youre welcome. >> with us congressman smallwell. we dont know what was discussed, but you would imagine tha...

Later. i had the most touchdowns. why are you doing that? youre leader of the free world? its interesting, when i hear him in person, for the most part you kind of get what hes saying. read the written word, i wonder, do you think he believes this? says it a lot. >> says lies. >> george con stanza, if you believe it, its not a lie. >> if you talk to some of his friends, they say he actually believes some of these things. >> thats really sad. >> it is where it is. but i actually think that some o...

Up the white house wiretapping issue. the ranking democrat offered his own theory. >> there must have been a strong push back from the white house about the nature of mondays hearing. its hard to come to any other conclusion about why it would be canceled. clearly it has to do with the week. >> the chairman cannot continue to lead the investigation, but its not their call. >> thank you. >> youre welcome. >> with us congressman smallwell. we dont know what was discussed, but you would imagine tha...

Maybe -- >> im not saying -- >> theyre lies, but maybe he believes it. >> hes sort of a george costanza version of lies. if you believe it, its not a lie. >> if you talk to some of his friends, they say he actually believes some of these things. >> then thats really sad. >> it is where it is. but i actually think this has a cumulative effect now, and i do think that in the last few days, we passed a threshold on this wiretapping issue, that that has put the public in a whole new place. and you s...

Undermine the significant statement that was made by fbi director comey thats also now been made by the national intelligence leadership that there is not a shred of evidence to support president trumps claim in a 6:00 a.m. tweet now several weeks ago that president obama wiretapped now-president trump in trump tower. theres no evidence for that so far at all. >> hold on, senator. is this a black flag? isnt that what they call it? some phony thing out there. everybody goes chasing. are we chasin...

Sitting. . >> whos going to walk into his bedroom and take away the tweeting? >> thats the problem. but to say im on my team and doing it for you, he needs that. >> this could not have gone worse i think for the white house today. >> whats worse for them? the fact hes being investigated by the fbi or the argument -- >> wait a minute. >> no. >> first on the wiretapping -- >> too close for comfort id say. >> on the wiretapping issue, comey could have said weve given everything over to you to discl...

How he handled the key questions around this. members of congress demanding two big questions we might see from comey. one we are more likely to get than the other. the first is the wiretapping issue. the president obviously tweeting president obama wiretapped trump tower. in the last week, you had republicans and democrats saying, look, theres no evidence of that. you can expect the fbi director to get asked about that today. members of congress are expecting he may offer some answer that will ...

Director comey gave him the dossier. >> martha: gave who the dossier? >> president-elect trump. he gave in the dossier to look at. within a matter of outdoors, that was all leaked out. >> martha: it went to "the washington post." do you think we will find out who we leaked it from that very small, highly placed group? >> if there is any group, such a small number of people, they may have had one or two aids in there, the code and have been more than six to eight people. that was disgraceful, doi...