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Communication he was referring to that could have been swept up under section 702. >> but that's not what the president said in those fweets tweets, but i'll leave it on that. >> he was precise. >> more than imprecise. how low has president obama gone? he tweets how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon [ inaudible ] bad or sick guy. he was very, very precise in those four tweets and as of yesterday the white house still, after all of this, is not moving away from that. they are standing firm. but i'm not going to press you on that...

He didn't apologize for that either. >> isn't it an abuse of power to launch those four tweets 17 days ago really smearing the former president of the united states? >> that's a good question. i'm not sure, there are a lot of things you can say about it. there is a way you can call it an abuse of power, sure, but it was very, very bad idea. it was a very big mistake. it was a derogatory and denigrating and, to use your word, lying, about his predecessor, which is for so many reasons a terrible thing to do. and the open question is whether or not this silence means, okay, forget about apologizi...

Wiretapping claims that president obama wiretapped trump [ inaudible ] to listen in on his conversations. does the president, president trump now owe president obama and the american people for that matter an apology for that very [ inaudible ] accusation? >> look, i still don't know what he was talking about. i think it's very clear that there was not a title 3 traditional wiretap. what i still wonder, what i've wondered from the very beginning and am still wondering is whether there might have been an order pursuant to section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act in which there w...

This is a judge who is exceptionally well prepared for the supreme court. just as he's exceptionally well prepared for every case that he [ inaudible ]. and i think that he's going to be confirmed one way or another. >> well, when you say one way or another, do you think republicans would use what's called the nuclear option and break the filibuster by insisting that a [ inaudible ] majority is all you need to confirm the nop nation of a supreme court nominee? >> we don't know that that's even going to be necessary to consider that at this point because there is still a very possibility, i wou...