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Within the last hour. jeremy bash, i've got to go to you, as a former member of the cia, former official, top official at the cia. your take on what you just heard the president say in that press conference. >> it was insulting to our british ally and em ba embarraso our german ally, angela merkel. it's important for viewers to take a big picture. a major source of tension between us and our nato allies right now is how tough we'll be on russia. the trump administration through the president has signaled we'll go easy on russia, we'll let them have their way in ukraine, in syria and elsewhere....

Strong statement that it's time for president trump to apologize. now, this comes as a number of republicans are just frankly fed up with the white house's handling of the wiretapping issue. they believe that there's no evidence, they believe what the house and senate intelligence committees have been saying, there's no evidence of wiretapping, and that the president and the white house continuing to dig in is a major distraction and also hurts their credibility. one congressman, congressman charlie dent who i just spoke with as well, said that this does undercut the president's credibility an...

Office so information could be shared and theoretically leaked right around the time that trump came. in i spoke to the head of the nsa keith alexander. donald trump did see something. he saw something that caused him to react. he thought perhaps he misinterpreted it, which could get to the wiretapping issue, maybe not being exactly wiretapping, but there was something that he saw that bothered him significantly enough. >> harris: so the president's response, if you have been watching to that is that well, i'm not going to go into detail and i'm pair phrasing him now because i don't want to ba...

Then monitor it. that's the days gone by when technological. that's how it occurred but i think the president was speaking very broadly. that's why it was in quotes. fyi, i don't know if you were even old enough to know when you could screw the bottom of a phone off. certainly my panel, nobody was born at that time. i think people were clear we weren't taung about actually wiring a phone. >> reporter: you're right. this is a day when the white house has a lot of questions to answer. first of all, on the issue of the travel ban, which alone is a significant news story right now. the second co...

He's likely to say to congress here's the parameters of what we're doing and here's what we know so far unless he says we have no evidence that barack obama was tapping donald trump's phone. i mean -- >> there's an important distinction beyond the wiretapping issue, which i think you will have to address. >> there's an important distinction about whether he's investigating contacts with the russians or the trump campaign or the trump organization. that goes in a very different direction in there's collusion and that's what he's investigating. if anybody on the trump side thought that by secret...