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Protecting the interest of the united states, both economically and military and inerms of countering terrorism. >> the brus sells forum is happening this week. you have leaders from all across europe gathering as well as the united states. what do you think the headline is going to be? >> if the past is a predictor, it will be a side issue. topics that we have with the europeans, how they are transitions in a climate of brexit, isis. instead most likely it will be on this notion of the united states accusing allies of not doing enough to contribute to the alliance or issues related to wiretap...

Issues like that. to get the relationship bogged down on issues like this doesn't do anybody any good. >> your thought that the president may be willing to risk damaging these relationships, is this a matter of him not understanding the vernacular of foreign policy or a matter of him not caring at the moment? >> i think it's a matter of a president who cares more about immediate news sickles. he wants to win with one tweet over the weekend just for the sunday news shows and is willing to sacrifice, you know, long-standing relationships with key allies with the great deal grounding of foreign p...

Methods or classified information. so he could just say i can't comment on these matters. there is a lot of questions about surveillance but also methods of surveillance involving computer servers, bank accounts. we're not sure if we will get anynswers on those either. adam shif had put pressure on director comey to come out and say there was no wiretapping of trump tower. >> he could say very little. he could say nothing, but it still could mean a lot as we look at the words that he selects in answering those tough questions. >> absolutely. >> tara, what has been the reaction? i know it's onl...

Because lieutenant general michael dpl michael flynn was caught up talking with kislyak. does this go beyond that and qualify that what the president was tweeting about wiretapping? >> it definitely goes beyond what happened to general dplfly. we don't officially know what happened to general flynn, that was one of the things we asked for in the march 15th letter was for the nsa, cia, and fbi to get done, so far the fbi has not told us whether or not they're going to respond to our march 15th letter which is now a couple weeks old. >> again does this seem to describe what the president was tal...

>> reporter: dave and christine, the white house is trying to dig in to talk about the baseless claim of the wiretap in the 2016 campaign. at the briefing, sean spicer predicted the president will be vindicated after the committees on capitol hill investigate the matter. here is what he had to say. >> the president said clearly when he referred to wiretapping, he referred to surveillance. >> it sounds like, sean, we don't mean wiretapping anymore. now we will say this other forms of surveillance. what is it next? >> jim, i think that's cute. at the end of the day, we talked about this for thre...