one of the biggest political uproar's in history, according to the president. chief white house white house correspondent john roberts starts us off this evening from the north lawn. >> good evening. critics saying president trump is overstating the case when he claims that his campaign may have been spied on. but that's not even slowing the president who is on a fast boil about what he says could be a huge political scandal. leaving the white house today, president trump let fly on what he is now calling spygate to. >> it looks like a very serious event but we will find out. when they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happened. i hope it's not so. because if it is, there's never been anything like it in the history of our country. >> president trump claims the fbi may have been spying on his campaign after a confidential informant had contact and meetings with three trump campaign officials. carter page, george papadopoulos, and sam clovis.