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Least for now. this being evolve as the day goes on here, but the president is not expected to speak about this. one of the issues here, the white house was caught flat footed, almost inexplicably last evening once this announcement happened. they are trying to regain control of this and as phil mattingly was reporting there and that's the whole reason the vice president was out there making a comment and also taking questions from reporters which is very unusual. the vice president is on capitol hill a lot. several times a week. he seldom stops like that to actually answer reporters' question...

Still and talk to them all day long. and back up for why they did it was hillary clinton. not mentioned once he talked about russia and the investigation saying he was cleared so that is something he is going to have to clean up tomorrow. i talked to the communications director at the white house. he said the president does not plan to address this tomorrow. he didn't address it tonight. >> he did address it on twitter some what but not speaking about it and until he does that these questions will persist after that but the white house caught flat footed by this. >> just a note we have invited...

He said i haven't seen him this skrum pissed off in a long time. he shot back this will be investigated, it will come out and i will be proven right. that is what president trump is temg o telling one of his friends yesterday. we know trump is flying home to washington, maybe he's watching this right now. i feel for his aides. his aides are in a impossible position. >> many perhaps were caught flat footed. >> it's easy to get turned upside down on all of this. the part that is most clear, the president cannot unilaterally authorize a wiretap. so if the wiretap was authorized, and again we have...

Now in moscow, as well from russian officials, john? >> matthew chance unpopular apparently tonight in moscow. thank you. david axelrod, i want to go to you and the white house response so far and you've all used this phrase to the drip, drip, drip of information coming out. how would you grade the response? are they equipped to handle this? >> well, look, you had the president go out hours before the attorney general stepped out to recuse himself to say he didn't think he should recuse himself, so obviously, they are not very much a tuned here to what is going on from moment to moment, and i ...

Estate, but i can tell you about the press pool that is at the estate, that is at mar-a-lago. they are reporting that they are going to try to ask the president to respond to this news. i have been reaching out to white house sources, also reaching out to japanese sources to get any sort of response, to learn anything about whether either leader has been briefed about this news, whether the national security adviser, michael flynn, has been briefed, what they might say, and so we're hoping that the press pool gets an opportunity some time in the next few minutes to get some sort of response fr...