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Maybe -- >> i'm not saying -- >> they're lies, but maybe he believes it. >> he's sort of a george costanza version of lies. if you believe it, it's not a lie. >> if you talk to some of his friends, they say he actually believes some of these things. >> then that's really sad. >> it is where it is. but i actually think this has a cumulative effect now, and i do think that in the last few days, we passed a threshold on this wiretapping issue, that that has put the public in a whole new place. and you see the evidence of that in the quinnipiac poll. i really did believe he would have gotten -- if...

Undermine the significant statement that was made by fbi director comey that's also now been made by the national intelligence leadership that there is not a shred of evidence to support president trump's claim in a 6:00 a.m. tweet now several weeks ago that president obama wiretapped now-president trump in trump tower. there's no evidence for that so far at all. >> hold on, senator. is this a black flag? isn't that what they call it? some phony thing out there. everybody goes chasing. are we chasing the wrong story? is the story not nunes but the story, in fact, manafort got 10 million bucks?...

Sitting. . >> who's going to walk into his bedroom and take away the tweeting? >> that's the problem. but to say i'm on my team and doing it for you, he needs that. >> this could not have gone worse i think for the white house today. >> what's worse for them? the fact he's being investigated by the fbi or the argument -- >> wait a minute. >> no. >> first on the wiretapping -- >> too close for comfort i'd say. >> on the wiretapping issue, comey could have said we've given everything over to you to disclose whether the president was telling the truth. no, he took the president head on. second on...

How he handled the key questions around this. members of congress demanding two big questions we might see from comey. one we are more likely to get than the other. the first is the wiretapping issue. the president obviously tweeting president obama wiretapped trump tower. in the last week, you had republicans and democrats saying, look, there's no evidence of that. you can expect the fbi director to get asked about that today. members of congress are expecting he may offer some answer that will be illuminating. the other question, of course, this broader one about potential contacts or even c...

Director comey gave him the dossier. >> martha: gave who the dossier? >> president-elect trump. he gave in the dossier to look at. within a matter of outdoors, that was all leaked out. >> martha: it went to "the washington post." do you think we will find out who we leaked it from that very small, highly placed group? >> if there is any group, such a small number of people, they may have had one or two aids in there, the code and have been more than six to eight people. that was disgraceful, doing that to a president-elect. that what that was doing, that gave the rest of the media the excuse t...