To end. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. President trump is mad, and he is lashing out. In a stunning series of tweets saturday morning, mr. Trump accused his predecessor, president obama, of wire tapping the phones at trump tower during last years campaign. The president offered no evidence nor have his aides since the remarkable tweet storm. Its described by a mix of aides, advisers and friends and angry and very frustrated after a week that started well. Remember his big speech to tuesday and then spiraled out of control. Acknowledged meetings with Russian Ambassadors after months and his team denying any such contacts and, of course, there was this. I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president. United states. I feel like that i am i should not be involved in investigating a campaign i had a role in. That recusal happened just not long after the president said he didnt think it was necessary. With us to their the reporting and their insights this sunday, julie pace of the associated pace, New York Times report remember jonathan martin, perry bacon of 538. Com and Mary Katherine ham of the federalist. Lets go through the tweets yesterday morning before the sun rose. The president was up, and he started with this one, of 35 a. M. , terrible. Just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is mccarthyism. Then 19 minutes later, 15 minutes later, 14 minutes later, new math there, is it legal for a sitting president to be wire tapping a race for president prior to an a election turned down by Court Earlier. A new lurn. Remember the turned down by Court Earlier. Well come back to this and how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process . This is nixon watergate. Bad or sick guy. Weve been asking his aides in the 24 hours since to explain this to us. Is the president getting this at some aides about a Talk Radio Program by mark levine, is that where the president is getting the information or does the president who has access to the most sensitive intelligence, does he know about a wiretap during the campaign . We do know the fbi is looking into alleged contacts between some Trump Associates and the russians, these are public documents, there was an intelligence finding and they went to the court and got it. Which is it . Thats a great question and if someone from the white house could give us a call and answer that question we would appreciate it. Im not sure the president fully understood the door he was opening in doing this if he was just getting the information from breitbart or other conservative media because this has been one of the major questions surrounding this fbi investigation it was the fbi, or were intelligence agencies actually accessing communication that the Trump Campaign had with the russians . If the president is the aware that happened or whether ordered by obama or what happened during the Obama Administration hes essentially given the hill, the investigative committees there and the Intelligence Agency an opening to share some of that information publicly which they have been reluctant to do so far. They have been reluctant. One of two things. Either he has access to some information that there is such a wiretap, but, again, a president cannot order that. A president cannot personally wake up and say im mad hat jonathan. Tap his phones. That would be illegal. He would need the fbi director, the attorney general and a whole lot of technical people involved in that who somehow decided not to share that information, unlikely, but there could be a legal one. But you asked the white house and now they say, sean spicer says the white House Counsel is reviewing what options are available to us. Is that just spin so that they dont say the president was just winging it because they were all surprised by this. They say they found out about this from reading it on twitter. Not part of a plan. Is that spin, or can they actually can the white House Counsel now go and find some documentation and then if there is documentation, that would be a confirmation by the white house that the Obama AdministrationJustice Department went to court and made the case that there was enough probable cause to have a wiretap. Well, its funny you ask that question because yesterday a senior white house official said that don mcgann, who is white House Counsel was going to try to facea order. There was enormous blowback to that and then hours later a second white house official said, well, no, were going to try to figure out what is going on here, but we went have him go and search for a fisa warrant. Why is that . Because the white House Counsel cant go to doj and demand a fisa order. Thats not how it works. That would be breaking enormous precedent in terms of, you know, separation of powers. So that is the ongoing question is are the white house aides basically trying to clean up make trump feel good, by pretending that they will get to the bottom of this when actually they are just trying to figure out how to pretend like they are for his sake, or are they actually doing some kind of an internal investigation to actually figure out what happened last year in this investigation . A lot of conflicting information on certain information, because, again, the president went to florida. Most of his senior staff stayed behind. We know that on friday before he left there were a number of very tense conversations, including im told the president of the United States himself venting where are all the leaks coming from and why do we keep getting in our own way and we had a great speech to congress and Jeff Sessions and when the president was on the aircraft carrier, he said he didnt think Jeff Sessions needed to recuse himself. He was very angry about that. Angry about that, so the question is where is this coming from. I want to show you a screen grab of breitbart, the conservative radio host mark levine had a program the other day where levine makes the case theres a deep state, if you watch the show scandal, that a deep state is obstructing trump and obama is in cahoots with it and this is the same guy that said obama is an illegitimate muslim sleeper cell and now hesins cahoots in a deep state to undermine trump. I think he probably saw this story somewhere and did not have inside information that we have seen. Thats my sense, too, yeah. There is is sort of sketchy reporting are on the idea of some sort of fisa warrant, two different versions, one that maybe named some Trump Associates and a broader one approved later because the first one was rejected. So there may be some there there, but it does not equal obama wire tapping trump tower. It may not even actually be related to physically trump tower, but i do think were going to because of this tweet have to ask some people what exactly was there . The tweets do seem to have an obvious strategy of this is an issue he cant get past, the russian connection so let me make it a political issue and say its obamas fault and play it on him and and the danger is he made a bunch of substive claims in the tweets that as far as i can he cant really defend and its also a problem when the president of the United States is introducing facts that were not he basically all but accused the former president of a crime, like getting involved in doj investigations, and we saw the obama staff say no, we did not do this so trump has had a claim against a former president who is very popular while trump is not and right now trump has very little evidence of this point. Some people roll their eyes and say its trump being trump, pointing out these things on twitter and trump is the president of the United States and hes accusing his predecessor of committing a crime, the way he read, turned down by Court Earlier which is gets me back to what hes picking up the breitbart reporting and senator ben sass, a reason can, called this a warping crisis of president trust and you have a president referencing mccarthyism, et cetera and lindsey graham, frequently a credit imof trump and he chooses his words very carefully and he says now that the current president has put this out there about the former president raising such serious Allegations Congress better get to work. If it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. If the former president of the United States was able to obtain a warrant lawfully to monitor Trumps Campaign for violating law, that would be the biggest scandal since watergate. Im very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally. Yeah, i mean, trump was trying to sort of muddy waters here on this issue and, you know, divert attention away from Jeff Sessions and russia and focus more on obama what hes unwittingly done is give more impetus to ben sass and lindsey gram to say nothing of democrats in congress to investigate this. Well, if President Trump was worried about this issue, well, now were going to get to the bottom of this, so it just gives them on the hill cover to push this more aggressively. And trump has benefited so far from the fact that the fbi, james comby in particular, has been incredibly reluctant to say anything publicly about whats happening behind the zones with their own investigation but where hell have a problem i think is when this does move to the hill because youll have house and Senate Committees investigating this, democrats on those committees and were going to be far more willing to talk publicly about what comes up and hes not going to be able to control that. Theres a bit of a precedent for comey coming out. And to sass point its larger than the daily politics of this. I do think there is a giant public trust problem here and often in the news cycle it feels like youre sitting at the madhatters table and theres nonsense coming from every single direction and were all trying to parse it and thats a really deeper issue than the daily politics. Thats right. Before we take a break well come back to the details of the russia stuff and the investigation later on in the program and this happens at a time when you talk to people in the last 48 hours. They say ive talked to a close friend of his who says hes hot. His team keeps getting in their own way and hes also mad about the leaks which he thinks are coming from career people and obama holdovers and hes hot which is one of the reasons why hes lashing out. Whats going on inside the white house . Its really a tough environment right now. What youve seen happen with the president is every time he sees that a story is out of control and turns to his team and blames them for lose control. Thats his main focus right now. He doesnt understand why they couldnt ahead why they couldnt get ahead of the mike flynn and doesnt understand why they couldnt control the Jeff Sessions thing and why sessions recused himself. They follow directions sometimes only to follow out that thats not actually what the president wanted and in a white house where youre dealing with a lot of incoming but also trying to have a proactive agenda, i think they have basically are at a point where they are stuck right now. One point. Lindsey graham, senior senator, used the term watergate twice in that clip. Its important to note, it looks like were in a moment where republicans are very nervous about a burgeoning scandal. See how that plays out and if nothing else an opening from the president to ask more questions. The president put this on the table and well ask more questions. When it comes to Election Year contacts no means yes. That in a few minutes and a trump agenda Progress Report as the president nears the 50day mark but first every sunday politicians say the darnedest thing. This sunday was an snl shoutout to Jeff Sessions a l. A. Forrest gump. I wish i could go back to the white house and see mr. Trump. 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Ill only use an oralb the 1 brand used by dentists worldwide. Oralb. Brush like a pro. Welcome back. President trump hit the 50day mark in the week ahead and there are giant policy tests looming. Take two of his controversial travel ban just one of them. We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside america. We cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists. That is why my administration has been working on an improved vetting procedure. Were told that new travel ban could come as early as tomorrow and then within days republicans begin to plan action on an obamacare replacement plan, even though there are giant internal gop differences over the details. Were all working off the same piece of paper and plan so were in sync, the house, the senate and the Trump Administration because this law is collapsing. In sync on the goals, not necessarily on the details. Lets start with the travel ban proposal which were told could come as early as tomorrow. The administration has said since the judges blocked this, that this was urgent and had to be done and then they themselves undermined that argument a bit being careful. They want to get it right and im told the Homeland Security secretary general kelly wants to be clear. Let make sure were clear and getting it right is better than getting it fast. How do we expect it to be different than the same . First of all, the secretary was involved. He was nominally involved before and the key is what are the details . Last time there were all stories of people who went to harvard and doctors and all these people who had been in america already and they were being blocked from going in. I wonder if the details of the actual travel ban will be different to where its only basically if youve not been in the u. S. That said well have a lot of lawsuits against because a lot of people feel like he campaigned on a muslim ban. This is a muslim ban and aclu and groups like that are going to fight this, but i do think it will be administered in a more coherent way because the Homeland Security secretary is involved and has been planning this for a while. General kelly was with trump yesterday. The homela. Its how they presented it to the public. When the president signed the first up, he did it late on a friday night and the actual order didnt come out for a couple of hours and there was no sales pitch and they were stuck with a really negative and emotional coverage of people trying to get into the country and being blocked so they are talking about not only having the president sign this and having it be more thoroughly vetted internally and also trying to set actual policy to the public which is pretty basic things that you tend to do in white houses but something that this white house is still trying to get their hands around. They have been different in that regard because in part they were trying to move fast. He wants to be seen as a man of action and to his credit what hes been doing is keeping i did dealt and the problem with rushing it falls off the wayside. I want to put up on screen, were almost to the halfway mark of the first 100 days, some people think its a fair place to judge, others think its too premature. The president wants to get done the travel ban, on hold waiting for the second version and obamacare, a couple of very big next couple of weeks and theres some concern about the pricetation but the president wants to move forward on the wall and infrastructure, the president said in the speech he wants to spend a trillion dollars, a mix of public and private, and as he moves forward, the details of these issues, fascinating debates ahead. The Biggest Issue is tax reform. For pokes like paul ryan this is a long running fantasy that they think now is coming true. What i dont understand ive heard a lot of this talk over the last few days in washington is why trump did not come out of the gates and do infrastructure first where you would get a bipartisan vote, big early victory and trump with the hard hat and the shovel and the Ribbon Cutting and the whole nine yards, would it have been keynesian, not so conservative, sure. He is keynesian and not conservative. So you jam your own party and squeeze democrats. Its a win and bannon by the way was talking about this after the election. What happened to that . Instead now, the entire conversation, if its not about russia and controversy at the white house and feuds, its all about, well, whats going to be the obamacare replacement . Thats going to be the biggest policy question in the First Six Months