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Security and the department of veterans affairs while making huge cuts in discretionary spending, the epa, and the state, agriculture, labor departments and all of that take big hits in the budget. joining me is the debtirtor of office and management and budget, mick mulvaney. thank you for being on the show. >> thanks for having me. >> do you take the president at his word that he or his associates were wiretapped? >> im the numbers guy. im sitting here doing the budget and im not involved in t...

Probably going to be talking about the wiretapping which is part of the problem here, what we should be able to focus on is putting collusion behind us. right now we are getting distracted because we are focused on the wiretapping issue and the silly tweet that donald trump put out there than the real issues that matter to the american people. maria: thats what i keep asking cabinet members and said they are not being thrown off in terms of their agenda. they want to get gorsuch confirmed by eas...

Jim comey, the fbi director. its not clear there has been anything to support that yet. and that really hope that the white house, you know, they can knock down some of the collusion talk that has been out there. thats really the best they can hope for from jim comey at this point. >> you are having a bit of a bbc moment, tom, and i hope everythings okay. live tv. thats how it goes. and sarah, i want to run more sound. when it comes to the wiretapping issue, bidthat was set to our w blitzer.

Wiretapping. whats interesting is he steps so out of the bounds of what the protocol is for the fbi director on the hillary clinton investigation, coming out saying that he wasnt going -- there couldnt be an indictment, you couldnt prosecute the case, this is why she made such a mess and hes apparently not allowed to confirm the existence of an investigation regarding national security in a public setting so theres going to be a lot of i cant answer that question tomorrow. so im interested to kn...

Patters partisan bases, well continue to have problems. >> i want to ask you about the wiretapping issue. we know the report has come out and said there is nothing to indicate trumps claim that there was in fact a wiretap that was done. do you think now it is the time for the president to apologize or at least to come out and say hey, it was a mistake to say it. >> well, look, yes, apparently there was no evidence to prove to support the charge former president obama may have tapped trump tower ...

Sign on to democratic discharge petitions in the house saying calling for an independent investigation of the trump campaigns links with russia. an independent investigation of whether or not press obama wiretapped president trump or then president-elect trump. if you see those discharge petitions in the house gain momentum and actually pass potentially the house against the objections of the republican leadership thats very damaging not only to donald trumps administration but also to the leade...

Usually picked by you know the president and their camp on whose questions will be enter and ied in that kind of setting? >> youre right about that. it was the two german reporters who asked tougher questions in this press conference with merkel and trump. american reporters asked about health care. important topics but i think the wiretapping issue is what made the most news in the press conference and those questions where is asked by german reporters. i think what this ultimately comes down t...

Republican controlled congress, theyre the ones who are going to have to decide what they want to do with this. >> brandon, turning to this wiretapping issue. do you think at this point that this has the potential to have a negative affect on presidents credibility? >> i dont. i think the president right now should really be focused on building his party and focused on cuts that actually will help reignite his base and also his party and being responsible for those elected that will support this...

Wiretap but surveillance. again, sean spicer, the white house press secretary saying, maybe there was the british collection thats the reports theyve seen. so they stick to it and monday is going to be really important. youre going to have the director of the fbi there in an open hearing going to be asked these questions and have to address it on live national television. its going to be a very big day. >> it makes you wonder if there were some documents of any sort provided to these investigato...

Felony and calling him a sick man. at what cost, though? certainly were not talking about jeff sessions having to recuse himself anymore, so the distraction worked. but at what cost? at the credibility of his presidency? the credibility of the united states? now were having to apologize to the uk? its getting a little out of hand. >> jackie, i still cant get my arms around what monday is going to look like with the fbi director and a number of other u.s. officials facing questions under oath fro...