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And names were unfairly unmasked. i dont know why he didnt do that. >> one more quick follow up. you want to tell me why the fbi and the cia get nervous when the oversight chairman tell us all the details when the first response is this is not held within the umbrella of the committee, im going to the white house. thats why they get nervous. leaks in the executive branch thats being investigated. >> you served in the white house, david axelrod, during the obama administration, do you remember te...

Partially vindicated, even though nothing about this in any way shape or form vindicates the outrageous claim president obama wiretapped him. >> congressman, youve been general wrus with your time. youve been standing there awhile. >> no worries. >> appreciate you joining us. congressman jim himes, thanks very much. >> thanks, wolf. >> david chalian, you got two democrats on the house democrats committee including the ranking member, they are really upset and theyre angry at their chairman. >> y...

Porcupine comes in and he says, "does that come in patties?" i said "yup" wolf comes in and says, "howd you learn to talk to animals?" and i said "books" and we had a good laugh about that. [laughter] thats a commercial made the johnsonville way.

>> reporter: the president is trying to bring house republicans on board but one interesting thing we are hearing is his approach. its not necessarily a threat that-the-would support someone to primary them or run against them in the 2018 reelections but actually the opposite. he is telling people that i will have your back, i will support you if you vote for this. basically we are all in this together and, wolf, talking to some of these lawmakers who have come face to face with the president in...

Extraordinary. actually a major breach. >> sounds like a very, very extraordinary -- nic robertson is now on the scene for us as well. nic, tell our viewers first of all where you are, what youve heard, what youve seen. >> reporter: wolf, im just looking straight down the road towards the bridge. it sounds as if the police are coming further back at this time. were at a big green in front of the houses of parliament. on the green theres an emergency services recovery helicopter that seems to be ...

Critical information and rushing to the white house? it is the president saying partially i i feel vindicated and the speaker saying look, there was something there. the reality is in has nothing to do with the outrageous claim that president obama wiretapped trump tower. but it gives them just the thin est thread now to say, im partially vindicated and in the spirit of muddying the waters, i guess this is going to make donald trump and his people sleep a little better tonight. >> if the preside...

Thank you. >> adam shiver is the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. joining us now is another democratic member of the committee, jim himes of connecticut. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> good evening, wolf. >> you just heard your ranking member say he wont say if he thinks that the chairman nunes should step down. are you among those who think he should step down? >> well, i am with adam on this one. its sort of hard to imagine how this investigation proceeds with any cr...

But stand by for a moment. phil black is also getting some information. what are you learning, phil? >> reporter: wolf, where im standing there is just across the road from britains houses of parliament, that iconic building. it is now currently surrounded under absolute lockdown in what is a very large and new police operation. police around here are still in the process of driving people back from the scene. theyve established lines. there are vehicles, police motorcycles, heavily armed police...

Official -- additional officers will be deployed across the city, and the police are telling residents of london, visitors to the area, to avoid these large swaths of westminster. this is, of course, where the houses of commons are located. this is where we were. i was with a colleague sitting in on prime ministers questions. today is an important day, of course, because weekly, as many of our viewers know, the prime minister takes questions from members of parliament, which means its busier tha...

Appropriate government oversight, or go back decades, wolf, some of us are old enough to remember during the watergate era and the level of cooperation between sam irvin, a democrat, and a howard baker, a republican, to follow the facts wherever they led. this was disappointing when you consider the -- those traditions of government oversight. >> let me play this brief little clip. the president reacting to what he learned. listen to this. >> do you feel vindicated by chairman nunes coming over ...