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Not so benign. >> showed him taking large deductions for decades to come. we don't know the answer. we know he paid millions in taxes and don't know anything else. which we all presumed he probably paid millions in taxes. maybe. i think it's a little bit of a diversion. whether planned or unplanned. >> i appreciate your honesty. we don't know where the leak originated. how it got under the transom for johnson, who will be on the show in a little bit. >> no. we don't know. i'll take diversion and go right to distraction. which is basically the same word. bottom line is donald trump, his adminis...

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. >> important distinction beyond the wiretapping issue, distinction between investigating contacts between the russian and associates of the trump campaign or campaign and election. if anyone on the trump side thought by releasing or secretly sending out tax returns would overplay the story -- if investigating for collusion. >> do you think that's possibility? >> sure. >> got anonymously in the mail? >> guy from "the daily beast." >> forme...

Rest of the republican agenda? >> no, because i don't see there being any direct relationship between this investigation about an alleged wiretapping of one administration by another administration, and the other work that needs to be done. there are 435 congressmen, 100 senators, a president with a very large staff. we can do many things simultaneously. so, i've not seen any adverse effect on our doing these other matters that need to be done. i will say that the media has shifted attention from some of these other matters to the president's statement and to the wiretapping issue. but that's ...

Answered yesterday when director james comey will testify. i don't know what to say that the president continues to be confident and yeoman's working to out and answer the unanswerable and i think that's what we saw with sean spicer on the wiretapping issue. >> in referring to the evidence he talks about significant reporting and would exclude any information coming from him other than any other -- the president put the tweet about the wiretapping based on news reporting, mostly it did not support his contention. >> there's also a big difference between wiretap and surveillance and president o...

It's real -- >> yes. >> reporter: -- or assume it's phoney? >> donald trump has said multiple times in the past, he's cited the cbo multiple times on twitter. when he has criticized obamacare. when he did criticize obamacare. peter, what do you make of that answer? >> reporter: well, bottom line is he's not the first politician to pick facts he likes andse them. what is unique in this situation is as president right now, puts lot of americans in a unique position, as well as lawmakers to understand when what he is saying is a real comment and when it's a phoney one. that applies not just to wi...