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Warrants and now a threat of the word indictment. >> interesting. big picture here, rick, how do you president trump is going to react to all of this especially considering he falsely accused the former president of wiretapping him before? >> i think he's probably going to say see, they were wiretapping me, see, they did have potential wire taps in trump tower. >> but there's no evidence they were wiretapping him. >> there's some indirect vindication of what he said earlier. look, this is a serious matter and something that the president and his team should be concerned about. i mean, dependin...

Were wiretapping me. see, they did have potential wiretaps in trump tower. that would be my guess. >> there's no evidence they were wiretapping him. >> some indirect vindication of what he said earlier. look, this is a serious matter and something that the president and his team should be concerned about. i mean depending on what the nature of this potential indictment is and whether it implicates manafort and some activity in the campaign or something outside the campaign, i don't think we know that yet. but it certainly has to be a concern to them, and from my perspective, you know, best lef...

Wouldn't they have this? >> well, they would, and i think rick's absolutely right. i mean what we probably will hear from president trump is that he has been vindicated, that he was wiretapped when, in fact, what he would be doing by saying so is that he'd be clouding the facts. he'd be distorting the facts to try to fit the narrative for him to push back. and we should note that will probably work with his base. his base has been very loyal to him. they think that not only is official washington out to get him, the republican establishment is out to get him, and of course us in the media are ...

Restarted the surveillance after obtaining a new fisa warrant that extended at least into early this year. now, the second warrant, don, was part of the fbi's efforts to investigate ties between trump campaign associates and suspected russian operatives. it's unclear when that new warrant started, but we have learned that as part of the warrant, earlier this year the fbi conducted a search of a storage facility belonging to paul manafort. of course that's in addition to that raid last july on his home when the fbi executed that no-knock warrant. don? >> do we know, pamela, whether president tr...

That he was wiretapped? >> well, that certainly raises the question. the justice department has publicly denied the president's own lines were wiretapped. as you'll recall, he tweeted out months ago that president obama had his wires tapped. the justice department has come out and said that's not true. but what is possible, don, is that he was picked up on the manafort surveillance, and we should note that manafort does have a residence in trump tower, but it is not clear if the fbi did surveillance on him there. don. >> great reporting. thank you very much, pamela brown. i want to bring in cn...