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evidence. senators lindsey graham and sheldon whitehouse, however, who lead a judiciary subcommittee sent a letter to that department today asking about any wiretapping warrants against the trump campaign. good for them. senator graham said today the country needs answers on this. let s watch him. president trump claims that president obama administration targeted his campaign, trump tower, in the tweet. i have no knowledge of that, but he s challenged the congress to help him so let s help. not trying to compromise classified information. not trying to compromise an investigation. the question is, has there ever been a warrant issued? this is a major deal for the country. i want to get to the bottom of it. he knows what he s talking about. what s at stake is the reputation of the u.s. country of america, you might say. the president accused the u.s. government under his predecessor of tapping his phones. wow. well, senator tim kaine said today that kind of behavior coming ....
mike chael flynn s contacts and were there any people in donald trump s universe as a candidate who were in contact with entities in russia, russian agents, that kind of thing. it is significant but it s also the standard way they would begin an investigation. the white house acknowledges it will preserve these types of records. i want to go to the white house. kristen, what do we know about these memos, signed by the secretary of homeland security? reporter: halle, these are draft memos, not etched in stones. the white house saying these are among the choices under consideration but it shows that the white house is looking to get tough on immigration. they include hiring 10,000 agents and officers for custom enforcement, expedite the removal of undocumented immigrants in the u.s. for two years or left. it would call for deputizing local law enforcement and then it would also potentially hold parents who pay smugglers to bring in their children accountable. they could face p ....
i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. that statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the washington post revealed that sessions met twice last year with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. sessions scrambled to clarify. in retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the republican convention and he met again with the russian ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g-20 meeting with vladimir putin. since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. i m telling you it s all phony, baloney garbage. all of the contact by the trump campaign and the associates was with the american people. you are not ....
confronting internal revolt over the house health care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped phones at trump tower. a lot of americans need to know. reporter: amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between trump s campaign and russia. leaders of a senate judiciary subcommittee also hopeful comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. they re about to screw up big time if they keep running to the intel committee and not answer that letter. reporter: earlier this week sean spicer qualified trump s accusation, but now he s sounding defiant. he feels very confident it will ultimately come of this, it will vindicate him. reporter: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showing growing frustration about the white house s failure to provide any evidence to support trump s extraordinary claim. i think, frankly, the administra ....
trump s name tattooed on his neck, because he explained it s the one place where people can t mess with it. i put this on my front yard, they will vandalize my house. i put a sticker on my truck, they will screw up my truck. come vandalize me. that s all i ve got. tom: makes sense. [laughter] he probably displays the ink proudly. a little old ladies are like, i love my 40. it will be like that, you got this. oh, my lord. tom: i have no idea what he s saying, but i love it. goober sees a lot of himself in trouble. he s not the most politically correct person. i m not the most right is right, wrong is wrong. and if it ain t right, make it right. tom: he s pretty passionate. but how about people who are more committed to trump? they are called proud boys. clinical introduced us to the group which is led by an intriguing fellow named kevin mcinnes. these are the proud boys. launch this past fall by vice media finder gavin mcginnis who calls it a western chauvinist ....