Four or five weeks or so. It was hastily done in the first week of his presidency. Of course it was blocked with legal challenges there, but they did outreach and they signed this engo. You can see the will be on eye of the president. He likes signing executive orders. He likes having people into the oval office. Well he signed it alone today because im told he simply didnt want to be faced with explaining these accusations he made against president obama here. So i think it is, you know, no question, the white house is trying desperately to get back on message this week, on focus in week, on the health care bill, on this travel ban, but there is still this giant cloud hanging over this west wing. And that is caused by the president himself sending out those messages on twitter. And im sure you have heard the same. I have heard from people who are familiar with the president s thinking, and his behavior, that the fact that he left on friday night, left his senior staff behind, didnt have anybody minding him early in the morning or mining him in florida kind of left him to his own devices, literally, his twitter device. Jeff, thank you so much for your reporting. Appreciate that. Now on this subject i want to go straight to pamela brown, our Justice Department correspondent with news regarding james comey. Pam . Reporter we are learning more dana about the fbi directors reaction to Donald Trumps tweet over the weekend alleging that the past president wiretapped his phone. Our source says he was incredulous about this allegation, the wiretapping allegation. The source says there was a level of simple disbelief when he saw what donald trump had tweeted and the big concern was that this allegation would make the fbi look bad. Thats what prompted the director to have staff at the fbi reach out to the department of justice asking the doj to knock down the allegation. The source says that comey felt that institutionally he had to push back on this because of the magnitude of the allegations that he knew not to be true. Over the weekend senior level officials within the fbi reached out to the Career Personnel at the department of justice to try to clear up the reports that Obama Wiretapped the phone of donald trump. And a u. S. Official saying part of the discussion was for doj to publicly knock down the allegations which so far, dana, that hasnt happened. We are told director comey was aware of these discussions and that he was frustrated and he still is frustrated that that request to have the doj to knock down the story went unanswered over the weekend and still right now. This gives you insight into whats been going on behind the scenes. The source i spoke with said that the fbi director is still trying to figure out the appropriate mechanism to formally come out and say the allegations are not true. It could be that he eventually does come out and say it is not true. We will have to wait and see. It begs the question, is he concerned at all how the rest is going to react to this. What im told by a person familiar with the matter is that a he has no plans to resign as of now, that he knows the possibly exists that there could be a confrontation and that he could be fired by the president but that is not something that he worries about. We should mention that the fbi and the department of justice decline to comment. Great reporting. Just the fact that the frustration that james comey felt that you are reporting about, not only with the president himself and the allegations he made, but also that the Justice Department, which of course is run by republicans, the trump Justice Department, didnt answer. So james comey clearly wanted to get that information out and make it public, because they werent answering at the Justice Department. So fascinating pam, thank you so much. I want to unpack all this right now with a panel. Joining me now, the author of pistols to press, lessons on communication from an fbi agent and spokesman, jeff lanza who is now retired from the fbi and our own jeff toobin, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. Jeff lanza, you heard the reporting. What do you make of comeys reaction . Well, i think it was an appropriate reaction because there is really only two ways to put a wiretap on ones one here in the United States. That would be through a criminal investigation. The second would be an intelligence investigation and that you would have some sort of indication that someone is operating on behalf of a foreign power or a u. S. Citizen is involved in treason or possibly planning terrorism. Outside of that in either one of those cases it would be the fbi that would be installing those wiretaps. And comey has come out strongly and appropriately, i think and said hey we didnt do it. He doesnt want people to get the wrong idea. Jeff, whats going through your head when you hear all of this. The president making an allegation. The fbi director being livid over the weekend when he saw it because he said its just not true. Him trying to get the Justice Department to deny that it is true. Not being able to do that. So he goes public. Is your head spinning or is this sort of business as usual in the trump years . Absolutely not business as usual. This is head spinning stuff. Its crazy you would have this kind of communication and to put doj right in the middle of this communication between director comey on one side and the president on other side. Its going to be interesting to see how exactly they respond. On his part i think he did the right thing. He doesnt want the public getting the wrong idea that the fbi was there installing wiretaps hamaybe without jurisdiction. Do you think there is a kernel of truth about this wiretapping or is it just a distraction . Or a paranoid fantasy. Thats another possibility. I dont think there is anything real here. There is a very well established procedure as jeff pointed out for how we get wiretaps in this country. And both of those procedures involve the Justice Department going to a federal court. Either a fisa court or a Federal District court and getting authorization. So the very idea that president obama sought this out when there is no evidence for that it just strikes me as, you know, just something that didnt happen. What makes it even weirder now is that people are saying well it should be investigated anyway because you know some people are saying it. I mean thats not how the law is supposed to work. You are supposed to have a basis for something before you conduct an investigation. Some people are saying a familiar term from the Trump Campaign. Jeff be tooin, i want to turn to the travel ban. Iraq is no longer kurnd. Current green card and visa holders of all of these six remaining countries no longer included. There are exceptions for religious minorities, or syrian refugees. Do you think that this is merely, its more palatable to republicans who were upset about the first one. More importantly, do you think this will hole up in court . I think it has a much better chance of holding up in court. Its obviously the work of serious lawyers. They are aware of the criticisms from the District Court in seattle and the ninth circuit. And they crafted it in a way to try to satisfy those concerns. The overarching Program Remains that trump during the Campaign Said i want to ban muslims. Its still up on his website. So the argument that this is just a pretext for a muslim ban is still there. But that is a much tougher argument for any plaintiffs to make at this point because at least in this executive order the administration has spelled out that we picked these six countries because we just cant trust the governmental structures there to identify people who would be dangerous to the United States. That as opposed to any sort of a religious reason, thats going to make it easier to defend in court. Jeff lanza, your reaction . Well, i agree totally with what jeff said on that particular issue. I think right now there is this major distraction going on in terms of this fbi supposed investigation into the russian connection and then of course the claim of the wiretaps which again to me is just its unprecedented in my 20year history with the fbi i have never seen anything like that or any type of acrimonious relationships like this between doj, the white house and the fbi. If i could add one thing ofs not totally unprecedented. Right after the end of the campaign, james comey over the objections of the Justice Department went public not in the form of a leak but made a statement, extremely j ding to Hillary Clintons campaign. He did it twice. So this sort of conflict in a highly political setting is not completely unprecedented. Jeff lanza, jeffrey toobin, thank you both for your insights. Appreciate it. We will talk about more on this new ban and what it entails with our senior Diplomatic CorrespondentMichele Kosinski who is over at the state. First of all, when does this take effect. Ten days from now. There is a bit of buffer there, today plenty of times that raised questions among reporters. If this was so urge eninitially that the first ban had to be rushed out, why is it now less urgent . Why is there less of a risk . We did get an answer from a spokesman saying well the element of surprise was taken away after the first one so there wasnt really the same kinds of urgency there for this one. Michele, do you think that i mean it sort of looked as though, the thee at ricks of it with the attorney general, the secretary of state the director of Homeland Security all there making statements together. That was certainly intended to show if not to say in the executive order its different this time around. Do you get the sense that they are comfortable with the new one unlike the last one. Its hard to say but we know there was induty that went into it. Its kinds of like if they want to be on board with us and they are part of the administration they really have to be on board with us. Now with the new language and certain things taken out, they do feel like this at least works for them. I think that word that we always hear in washington, the optics hugely noticeable today. The first travel ban was rolled out in the president s haul of heros with President Trump signing it and the second of defense by his side. This time around its as if to say we can we not only talked to the departments that have to implement, the state department, dont of Homeland Security, and the attorney general was there, too. They are on board, rolling this out themselves. And then President Trump signing it in private. There was just a photo that was put out in that. They clearly want to say there is unity and input and poem involved in this one much better than the rushed original one. Most of his team wasnt even in place yet at the time that he signed it michele, thank you. Just ahead, former Obama Administration director jen sacky reacts to the current president accusing her former boss of wire stapping him. From birth sfirkts, to crowd sizes to wiretapping, why donald trump seems to thrive on controversy. Kim jongun launched even more missiles. How will the u. S. Respond . 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Law makers in both parties are challenging President Trump to proof his latest unfounded allegation about his predecessor, former president barack obama. They believe the president is trying to deflect issues currently dogging his administration. One of those members is democratic congressman jim hims, who sits on the house intel committee. If you look at that tweet there, he mocked the president with this tweet saying i know this will end up being sticky, but yes, i did the tapping, hashtag maple knot wire. Congressman joins me now. Thats an elaborate suite tweet. It did the trick. Got attention. It is a new england thing, dana. I get it. I get it. But if true, if or if there is any kernel of truth to this, since you are on the Intelligence Committee, you are a member of congress likely you would not choose sarcasm. Does that mean that you really think that there is no chance that there is any credibility to this allegation. I think there is no chance to the correlate of the allegation that president Obama Wiretapped donald trump. The president of the United States doesnt have the power to wire tab ib in. The only kwai to get a wiretap is in a criminal court or the fisa court. They need to give the fbi a warrant to set up those taps. The odd thing about President Trumps allegations is that if there is anything here, for example, if there was some sort of wiretap, some sort of listening in on conversations, chances are it was targeting russians. And so therefore if conversations were picked up in trump tower, the big question, which all these investigations are centering on, which is whether there was communication between the Trump Organization and the russians. That points us in one direction. Otherwise it is just an unhinged president tweeting insanity early in the morning. Congressman, i just want to follow on one thing that you said. You said it definitely wasnt the president , meaning president obama, who ordered the wiretap. Lets assume that is fact. You are not ruling out the notion of the fisa court for the fbi that wiretapping going on inside trump tower threw official changs channels during the Obama Administration . There is three ways there could be doshs of the least three ways but the three ways that matter here in which there could be a wiretap on trump tower would be if Law Enforcement believed there was probable cause there was a crime being committed by someone this trump tower. You might have wiretap. If our Intelligence Community believed that there was some activity that involved a foreign power or foreign agents there could be a fisa wiretap. That would require not the president of the United States to say hey lets tap donald trump. It would require Law Enforcement to appear in front of a federal judge, demonstrate probable cause and get authorization for wiretap. Lets turn to an issue which i dont think the president wants us to talk about, which are the allegations or questions, our investigation your committee, the Intelligence Committee is looking into as well as the senate as to whether there was any communication or even as far as collusion between russian officials and Trump Campaign officials. Former director of the National Intelligence agencies, the former dni James Clapper said yesterday he didnt see any evidence of that when he was still in his position. Take a listen. This could have unfolded or become available in the time since i left the government. At some but at the time we had no evidence of such collusion. Congressman, you are on the Intelligence Committee. Have you seen any evidence of collusion . I think as you know, dana, the investigation into overall russian hack, which we know happened. We know now that it happened because later on in the election process the russians decide they were going to try to help donald trump this investigation has just begun. I was critical of chairmen burr and chairman nunes for going out last week and saying what they think the conclusions may be. We have just begun the process of getting documents, of getting transcripts. What we have is we have a series of questions. The big one being was there