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Explosive claims. as a tv star, the host of "the apprentice," as a candidate. what he learned is it's more challenging to say things and quickly erase them. take for example of what he said about 3 million illegal votes cast. at the time, it was a big deal, great focus on it, they said there would be an investigation. they have benefited by the fact it's almost disappeared. a task force is being formed to look into it. aides here don't want to be talking about it. the issue of the wiretapping claim and the claims against president obama for ordering the wiretapping or surveillance of trump tow...

Describe as the most conspiracy minded president, "would be taken aback by what's going on today in terms of this wiretapping claim." explain further what you mean. >> a couple of things. on monday we will get evidence, i suspect, that donald trump tweeted without actually any evidence whatsoever and alleged that his predecessor wiretapped him. this means that we have a president now who is willing to go public with allegations without any information from his intelligence community. that's really bad. and that raises -- >> is there any precedent of other presidents doing something similar? >>...

I polled our recipients of money, what is the single most program? the answer was block grant. when we took the money and sent it back to them after take our 10% out. howie: even a bigger story is the passing of chuck berry at the age of 90. >> i'm going to write a little letter and send it to my local d.j. there is culture for you. he had more influence on rock 'n rollers. married for 68 years. there is a cultural message. howie: next on "mediabuzz," president trump is standing by his wiretapping claim. donna brazile finally acknowledging lying.

To investigate how this got out there. he wants to know who leaked this information. so, you know, putting the wiretap thing to bed, laying that to rest, is kind of the first step in this process. it's fascinating that the president doesn't seem to want to let this go, again, bringing it up yesterday with angela merkel. but that is going to be all the congressional investigators, bipartisan, are ready to be done with this. that's going to be the first step on monday. >> and this hearing was supposed to be more about the broader russian investigation or looking into russia's involvement in the ...

Want to talk about and what americans care about. >> another explanation might be he's exploiting the fact that reporters are distracted by shiny things. if you look at the opinion polls, trump's approval rating is tanking. he released a budget that's something for nobody budget like the gop hates it. the public hates it. health care. you're seeing thing after thing where trump is in his actual policies that he's putting forward is not getting traction. throwing out shiny objects like a wiretapping claim or something else is a way to -- >> that's a master showman at work. we haven't seen the r...