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What the chairman called a big gray cloud over the trump administration for at least months. chris: mr. speaker, i want to give you a thought experiment. assume that adam schiff, the ranking democrat, was the chairman of the committee and he raced to the white house to tell president obama about some information he had gotten on benghazi, let's say, before he told his committee. wouldn't you have been among the first people to cry foul on that? >> we would have been deeply shocked, horrified and called for an independent commission. [laughter] chris: meaning what, that this is just rounding up...

Gray cloud over the trump administration for at least months. chris: mr. speaker, i want to give you a thought experiment. assume that adam schiff, the ranking democrat, was the chairman of the committee and he raced to the white house to tell president obama about some information he had gotten on benghazi, let's say, before he told his committee. wouldn't you have been among the first people to cry foul on that? >> we would have been deeply shocked, horrified and called for an independent commission. [laughter] chris: meaning what, that this is just rounding up the usual suspects? >> meaning...

What the chairman called a big gray cloud over the trump administration for at least months. chris: mr. speaker, i want to give you a thought experiment. assume that adam schiff, the ranking democrat, was the chairman of the committee and he raced to the white house to tell president obama about some information he had gotten on benghazi, let's say, before he told his committee. wouldn't you have been among the first people to cry foul on that? >> we would have been deeply shocked, horrified and called for an independent commission. [laughter] chris: meaning what, that this is just rounding up...

wrong, i read an article, the article was wrong. >> that was the chairman of the house intel committee. that wasn't some wild-eyed back bencher. the chairman of the intel house committee saying there was no wiretap. we can wait for director comey to tell us for chair. let me quote one other thing. donald trump last night talking to tucker went a long way to say i put wiretaps in quote and could mean a lot of things. on that list of march 4th tweets, he writes i bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that president obama was tapping my phones in october. no quotes whatsoev...

Items ahead. >> we do. >> reporter: obamacare, tax reform, getting a supreme court justice done. considering how difficult it's been to get the cabinet confirmed, how troubled are you about the road ahead? >> well, it's clear that in the early months it's going to be a republicans-only exercise. we don't expect any democratic cooperation on the replacement of obamacare. we don't expect any democratic cooperation on tax reform. i had just gotten here and i was a back bencher here still trying to figure my way around when we did tax reform the last time. very different environment. democratic ho...