talking about hospital groups, nurses groups, doctors groups, including the american medical association, and of course, the very influential aarp. it's a formidable list for any lawmaker to contemplate. meanwhile, the president met tonight with a number of conservative organizations, groups that gop lawmakers also pay attention to get together. it ended a short time ago. our jeff zeleny joins us now with more on that. but first, this breaking news on wiretapping president trump and former president obama. what's the latest? >> reporter: we know that these two presidents have not spoken since saturday. and actually, since inauguration day, anderson. but i am being told tonight that their chiefs of staff have spoken since saturday. the former obama chief of staff, denis mcdonough, reached out, i am told to the trump administration's chief of staff, reince priebus, on saturday, to talk about this extraordinary allegation that was made on saturday. i'm also told that other advisers from both administrations have been having conversations. now, we don't know exactly what these conversations are pertaining to, or what they're rolling out, if they're talking