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The president's lawyer and those tweets from the president are very much in line with the talking points we're seeing from the republican national committee. so everyone is on the same page there focussing on leaks and the idea that this is a phony story. >> yeah. the republican national committee not calling the special counsel, though, bad. >> right. >> he specifically said the investigations is being led by very bad people, which is interesting, especially given the climate here now. let me ask you something. the washington post reports the president is under investigation for obstruction o...

Grad. he said the law is very specific. there has to be an underlying criminal probe to trigger the special counsel. the fbi was very emphatic -- >> the sound bite from director comey, he said there was something. >> well, he said they were looking at collusion. actually the fbi was very emphatic for many months saying it was not a criminal probe, it was a counter intelligence probe. and, in fact, rosenstein was asked by members of congress and i'm told he did not have a good explanation as to how this all happened. but the bottom line is, greta, we've gone on for now six months. there's no ev...

Trump tower based on president-elect's reaction to the meeting and without him directly asking the question, i offered him that assurance, that he was not under counter intelligence probe. the second time in a dinner on january 27, comey says the president told him he was considering ordering an investigation into the dosier. comey says, quote, i relied he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him, which we weren't. in a march 30, phone call, comey, quote, explained that we had briefed the leadership of congress on which individuals we ...

Nothing has changed. catherine herridge is live on capitol hill. today's hearing is wrapped up. what are we hearing from republican members? >> shep, one of the things we learned today is there's really been two tracks to this investigation into russian interference. we had the intelligence community report last fall and then we had this on going fbi counter intelligence probe. this is one of the most highly sensitive and classified cases that the fbi can conduct. republicans during the hearing went back to the comments of former obama administration officials and worked in the intelligence co...

Storms. cnn's sara murray is live at the white house for us. the president would request the investigation from lawmakers, but theoretically he's the one sitting on this nonexistent evidence. >> reporter: it's a little bit of a conundrum here today, jake. white house press secretary sean spicer went further today saying there is no reason to believe the president is the subject of a counter intelligence probe, but still not offering any proof as to why the president would suggest that he had been wiretapped by former president barack obama. it's been four days since president trump's shocking ...