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Within the last hour. jeremy bash, ive got to go to you, as a former member of the cia, former official, top official at the cia. your take on what you just heard the president say in that press conference. >> it was insulting to our british ally and em ba embarraso our german ally, angela merkel. its important for viewers to take a big picture. a major source of tension between us and our nato allies right now is how tough well be on russia. the trump administration through the president has si...

Strong statement that its time for president trump to apologize. now, this comes as a number of republicans are just frankly fed up with the white houses handling of the wiretapping issue. they believe that theres no evidence, they believe what the house and senate intelligence committees have been saying, theres no evidence of wiretapping, and that the president and the white house continuing to dig in is a major distraction and also hurts their credibility. one congressman, congressman charlie...

Office so information could be shared and theoretically leaked right around the time that trump came. in i spoke to the head of the nsa keith alexander. donald trump did see something. he saw something that caused him to react. he thought perhaps he misinterpreted it, which could get to the wiretapping issue, maybe not being exactly wiretapping, but there was something that he saw that bothered him significantly enough. >> harris: so the presidents response, if you have been watching to that is ...

Then monitor it. thats the days gone by when technological. thats how it occurred but i think the president was speaking very broadly. thats why it was in quotes. fyi, i dont know if you were even old enough to know when you could screw the bottom of a phone off. certainly my panel, nobody was born at that time. i think people were clear we werent taung about actually wiring a phone. >> reporter: youre right. this is a day when the white house has a lot of questions to answer. first of all, on...

Hes likely to say to congress heres the parameters of what were doing and heres what we know so far unless he says we have no evidence that barack obama was tapping donald trumps phone. i mean -- >> theres an important distinction beyond the wiretapping issue, which i think you will have to address. >> theres an important distinction about whether hes investigating contacts with the russians or the trump campaign or the trump organization. that goes in a very different direction in theres collus...

Not so benign. >> showed him taking large deductions for decades to come. we dont know the answer. we know he paid millions in taxes and dont know anything else. which we all presumed he probably paid millions in taxes. maybe. i think its a little bit of a diversion. whether planned or unplanned. >> i appreciate your honesty. we dont know where the leak originated. how it got under the transom for johnson, who will be on the show in a little bit. >> no. we dont know. ill take diversion and go ri...

Parameters of what were doing and heres what we know so far, unless he says we have no evidence that barack obama was tapping donald trumps phone. i mean. >> important distinction beyond the wiretapping issue, distinction between investigating contacts between the russian and associates of the trump campaign or campaign and election. if anyone on the trump side thought by releasing or secretly sending out tax returns would overplay the story -- if investigating for collusion. >> do you think tha...

Rest of the republican agenda? >> no, because i dont see there being any direct relationship between this investigation about an alleged wiretapping of one administration by another administration, and the other work that needs to be done. there are 435 congressmen, 100 senators, a president with a very large staff. we can do many things simultaneously. so, ive not seen any adverse effect on our doing these other matters that need to be done. i will say that the media has shifted attention from ...

Answered yesterday when director james comey will testify. i dont know what to say that the president continues to be confident and yeomans working to out and answer the unanswerable and i think thats what we saw with sean spicer on the wiretapping issue. >> in referring to the evidence he talks about significant reporting and would exclude any information coming from him other than any other -- the president put the tweet about the wiretapping based on news reporting, mostly it did not support ...

Its real -- >> yes. >> reporter: -- or assume its phoney? >> donald trump has said multiple times in the past, hes cited the cbo multiple times on twitter. when he has criticized obamacare. when he did criticize obamacare. peter, what do you make of that answer? >> reporter: well, bottom line is hes not the first politician to pick facts he likes andse them. what is unique in this situation is as president right now, puts lot of americans in a unique position, as well as lawmakers to understand ...