Im jake tapper. We begin today with our politics lead. Attorney general bill barr making the extraordinary claim before the senate today that, quote, spying did occur on the Trump Campaign by the Intelligence Community in 2016, when barack obama was president. And that barr is investigating whether the surveillance was, quote, unauthorized. The public has, of course, known for some time that the fbi investigated the Trump Campaign, prompted, were told, by campaign aid george papadopoulos, talking about the russians having emails belonging to hillary clinton, but barr is talking about unauthorized surveillance, though he declined to explain or detail his allegation in any way. This comes as President Trump earlier today unloaded on special counsel Robert Muellers investigation, calling it illegal, calling it an attempted coup against his presidency, and again repeating the false suggestion that muellers findings totally exonerate him on the matter of obstruction of justice, a matter for