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Have happened. we now call it spygate. you're calling it spygate. a lot of bad things have happened. >> we're not calling it spygate. the, quote, spy is the confidential source the fbi used to make contact with these trump campaign members prior to the election. the aim was to look into russia's meddling in the election. but the president as seized on this to call it a fact of investigators with him, which he denied this afternoon. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> all you have to do is look at the basics and you'll see. it looks like a very serious event. we'll find out. when they look at the do...

Marine one. our white house correspondent jeff zeleny is at the white house. you were asking questions about rod rosenstein. i hope it's not true, it might be true, kind of a scatter shot, to be kind about these allegations that there's a spy planted in the trump campaign. he says we're all using the term spygate. no, we are not. >> reporter: when the president says a lot of people are saying it, that is true, but that's people on one spectrum, those are many of his advisers, including those that work on fox news. sean hannity is essentially an adviser to this president. so some spectrums are ...

♪ >> pete: president trump unveiling a new nickname for the russia investigation. he is calling it spygate. the president is taking aim at james comey and james clapper, they are saying the fbi did nothing wrong. >> we now call it spygate. you are calling it spygate. a lot of bad things happened. they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happen. i hope it's not so. if you look at clapper, he sort of admitted they had spies in the campaign. yesterday inadvertently. but i hope it's not true but it looks like it is. i think james comey has got a lot of prob...

They say coming out of that meeting. it will be a sham. it will be a sham. >> and in a letter directed at the fbi's chief and rod rosenstein, that same person there, chuck schumer, along with nancy pelosi, say they're concerned about the meeting. they want to reconsider it even being held. but if they decide to go ahead with it, at the very least, the democrats should be invited and there should be a bipartisan meeting with the gang of eight intelligence leaders. the reason for the meeting is basically growing out of a conspiracy theory that's being peddled by donald trumps, which because ther...

Harder and harder even for these republicans to deny that the president doesn't somehow have rosenstein as well as mueller in his sights. and the senator told me, look, every time we go into a break, we'll have another one next week, we carry that apprehension and yet senator blumenthal cannot get these republicans to join him on legislation to try and stand up to the president or at least send a signal to the president they know in the end the president himself would have to sign the legislation but to at least show that they are not going to just roll over in the worst case scenario and they...