adam schiff of california. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> you bet. >> you just heard senator paul suggest the intelligence community of the united states may be spying on the president and actually may be spying on senator paul as well. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i hate to see members of the senate or house make such claims without any factual basis. it echoes of course what the president has suggested or did suggest not only in this tweet, but when he earlier accused his predecessor of wiretapping him. that's not the case. of course it's not the case. and i think it brings, you know, disrespect to the office of the presidency to make such a suggestion. look, i'm glad the president has finally responded and told the country that he didn't make tape recordings of james comey, of course, we're going to need to get an official statement from the white house that answers our full question because the fact that he didn't make the tape or doesn't know tapes, doesn't mean the tapes don't exist.