week? no, no, no. not at all. in fact, i think, look. julian put his finger on it. there are past presidents who have been able to get along with their predecessors even in the case of bill clinton and george h.w. bush. the biggest example there. exactly. he defeated him. he beat him. that is not just having different politics. he went directly at him and took the man s job. in this case, i think we are not going to see anything resembling that kind of relationship because donald trump s entire political career is really based on attacking barack obama with the birther lie that was sort of the foundational sort of theme of his emergence into politics and even after getting elected, sort of throwing out this baseless accusation of being wiretapped at trump tower. one thing we know about donald trump he goes back to his base and one of the things that works
russian hackers. i think what we have here is one month march 4th was the first time president tweeted about being wiretapped. we ve spent a month on this deflection and not focused on what s really important. well, let s moments ago we ve got more buzz feed reports now the former trump adviser, carter page, met with a russian spy back in 2013, three years before he met donald trump. according to the report page provided documents about the energy business to a russian operative later charged with being an unregistered agent of foreign government. that s set back in 2015. the revolution of page s connection is clearly documented date between russian intelligence and someone in trump s orbit. how do you put that one more layer, you ll need a pretty complicated chart to connect, roger, stone, manafort. by the way he s been caught not
these reports. and kind of suggests that whistle-blowers have come to them with this very troubling information, that the trump white house, of course, immediately seizes on to it and says, you know, this somewhat vindicates our claims of being wiretapped. and this kind of goes on. nunes eventually admits he did get the information in a meeting at the white house. but it s a story that makes no sense, because you don t go to the white house to randomly meet with people. it s not like you can walk in and say, hi, i m devin nunes, this is jim from the nsa. we re going to check out the intelligence. so what s finally emerged is that there were two white house officials who, one of whom kind of dug out and find the intelligence. the other of whom who appears to have provided it to mr. nunes. they provided it to him at the white house, or he went to the white house, then went to capitol hill the next day, had a press conference, and went back to the white house to brief president trump the
intelligence gathering, suggests there s a lot of improper unmasking of their names in these reports. and kind of suggests that whistle-blowers have come to them with this very troubling information, that the trump white house, of course, immediately seizes on to it and says, you know, this somewhat vindicates our claims of being wiretapped. and this kind of goes on. nunes eventually admits he did get the information in a meeting at the white house. but it s a story that makes no sense, because you don t go to the white house to randomly meet with people. it s not like you can walk in and say, hi, i m devin nunes, this is jim from the nsa. we re going to check out the intelligence. so what s finally emerged is that there were two white house officials who, one of whom kind of dug out and find the intelligence. the other of whom who appears to have provided it to mr. nunes. they provided it to him at the white house, or he went to the white house, then went to capitol hill the next day,
certainly congressman adam schiff also made this nexus between the timing of the new york times report and this letter inviting the intelligence top officials from the house and senate committees to view this material. so, clearly sean spicer, the spokesman for the president, knew this was coming. he was prepared for this. and did not want to take questions that would help us to understand if there is anything to the recording in terms of the white house being willing to confirm or refute elements of that story. one of the big questions comes down to not only white house staffers, what may they have done or not done, but the president, himself, after he sort of set up first the tweeted claim of being wiretapped, which has been roundly discounted by officials with the ability to know if there had been any so-called wiretap, when he brought broadened that to more surveillance. in a televised interview, the president said more information would be coming and it would be good stuff. toda