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Isha sesay. and i'm john vause, time to check the headlines, u.s. vice president mike pence is dodging questions about whether he believes barack obama wiretapped donald trump. mr. pence says it should be up to congressional committees to look into all of this. the vice president joins a growing list of republicans avoiding that very question. we have not heard directly from barack obama about donald trump's wiretapping claim, but sources close to the former president said he is exasperated by the claims. a spokesperson denies the charge. >> and donald trump says he is committed to the new...

Analyst, they're not the line level prosecutors. they're not the fbi agents who initially got the flynn transcripts. so we're going to need to talk to all of the witnesses, not just the five that everybody knows their name. >> and just lastly, i've got to ask you about reports that you are being considered by the trump administration for a federal judge appointment. can you say if you've been approached by the president or the administration about a seat on the federal bench? >> i have never met president trump nor have i had a conversation with him. i am blessed to have two very good friends ...

A source close to the former president told our own peter al sander that president obama "rolled his eyes" at the current's president's unsubstantiated tweets about having been wiretapped. president obama believes the climb undermines the integrity of the office of the president. he believes they don't affect his own integrity because they're blatantly false. retired general michael hayden was director of the cia and nsa. he's the author of "playing to the edge, american intelligence in the age of terror" now out in paperback and i asked him how he reacted to the president's wiretapping claim....

With the former chief of staff, since president trump made his wiretapping claim over the weekend. >> joining us now to explore the crumbling relationship between president trump and his predecessor president obama, and joining us now, good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> we're hearing that president obama was upset in response to donald trump's wiretapping claims. the fact is, president obama is essentially accused of committing a felony here. put this in some type of context for us. before now, have we ever seen a former president assailed by his predecessor this way? >> no, not only d...

The president and our administration are very confident that the congressional committees in the house and senate that are examining issues surrounding the last election, the runup to the last election, will do that in a thorough and equitable way. >> reporter: so an interesting response from the vice president there. now, yesterday white house press secretary sean spicer said they have no reason to believe that the president is the subject of any investigation. and the white house still isn't offering up any proof to support the president's wiretapping claim. instead, they've taken it to cong...