you. that s going toth wrap up this hour. allie will be back here tomorrow, 1:00 tomorrow and 3:00 eastern.00 deadline white house with nicole wallace starts right now. ighi, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington d.c. on an historicas day in the administration s capital. it s a day that s scratched out of any fictional depiction of a runon away white house. onen day after the independent watchdog for the justice department obliterated donald trump s year s long smear campaign against the fbi that it unlawfully investigated his campaign s ties to russia. the president todaysi just in t last hour is meeting with russia for a second time in the oval office. and the o big, big headline tod? the house ofin representatives this morning announcing articles of impeachment against donald trump who becomes the fourth president in u.s. history to face impeachment.
course, completely refutes president trump s long running claim that he and his campaign were spied upon. it is worth taking a look how that saga began. in march, 2017, weeks after trump took office, the president alleged in a series of tweets he was illegally wire tapped by president obama before the election. he offered no evidence to back up the claim, but had this to say during an interview a few days later. when i say wire tap, those words were in quotes. that covers. wire tapping is pretty old fashioned stuff. that really covers surveillance and many other things. now, the justice department later debunked that claim. that didn t stop the president from pushing it. may, 2018, claimed the fbi infiltrated his campaign, former director of national intelligence, james clapper admitted there was spying. something clapper said he did not do. this past spring, the president repeated the allegation, this time referred to it as treason,
diarrhea, hair thinning or loss, vomiting, rash, and loss of appetite. be in your moment. ask your doctor about ibrance. president trump scheduled to take off from the white house an hour and a half from now, leaving behind battles in washington for the battleground state of pennsylvania. he s headlining a campaign rally tonight with the vice president by his side. that state, of course, key to the president s victory in 2016. he carried it by less than 1 percentage point, was the first republican to win there since george h.w. bush in 1988. joining me from hershey, pennsylvania, monicaal abou alb. lots of folks have been lining up all day. what are they telling you? reporter: that s right, chris, hundreds since about
greatest men and women working there. director wray says he is taking actions to fix issues raised in the report and there are many of them. what do you make of the president s tweet there? again, more extraordinary nonsense in the sense that he s saying things that, one, contradict himself, one sense saying the fbi is broken, the other sense it has great people. the fbi is its people. the fact is they continue to do their jobs every day like the professionals that they are. i thought director wray hit the nail on the head, did a terrific job yesterday in that interview, not only explaining the value of the individuals that work in the fbi, but also defending the independence of the institution, and rejecting a lot of the nonsense out there that the fbi is something that it snisn t, tt it is acting outside its charter, doing anything maliciously, trying to overthrow any governments, that it has some kind of deep engrained bias
also part of the we ve seen it with giuliani. we ve seen it with the president. if i m doing it in plain sight, it can t be wrong. i think there are a couple things going on here. i think that s definitely part of it. he feels like as long as he s doing it in plain sight, he can say it ssi normal. i also think it s a sign of how confident he is in his ability to shape the public discussion and to twist the truth. with help from his allies and the media, certainly. but the idea that american president feels comfortable being so strangely close to russia after russia has attacked us, given the long history with russia is to me a sign, it s not it is about him doing it in a public. it is also about the fact that he feels like he has the republican party and conservative mediare establishmt sove solidly behind him that he can say basically whatever he wants and he s confident his allies will spin s it in a way that is positive or at least not