i m going to vote right now. all right, senator al franken from the great state of minnesota. thank you so much, sir. appreciate it. jake tapper from washington, d.c. breaking news coming from capitol hill right now. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee saying there is no evidence at least not yet on president trump having been wiretapped by then president obama. we ll talk about all of this with the panel next. plus, leaked documents showing cia spying tactics can technology in your own home be used as listening devices? that s ahead. did. n t. hey, come look what lisa made. wow. you grilled that chicken? yup! i did. n t. smartmade frozen meals. real ingredients, grilled and roasted. it s like you made it. and you did. n t. dearthere s no other way to say this. it s over. i ve found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced.
persuade very wary conservatives who held a conference saying why it did not go far enough. even as the trump administration clearly gets on board, clearly starts joining the house republican leadership in selling this proposal is do they have the juice to get those conservatives in line. he said yes. can you do what nancy pelosi did in 2009, get your conference together to move this forward. he said absolutely one of the big questions is obviously committees will start working on this bill as of tomorrow. then it will move over to the house floor. how much room is there for negotiation? how many changes can be made in this initial bill to try and pacify or assuage the concerns of those conservative. i m told from house republican aides there isn t a lot they can do to jachange the general direction of this. that makes what speaker ryan will have to do behind closed doors ahead, what president trump, vice-president pence and price will have to do exceedingly important to move those ind
president trump s tweets accusing former president obama of wiretapping him. senators grilled his would-be deputy. i certainly did read about the tweets that were reported over the weekend, yes. what was your reaction? i don t think it s appropriate for me to share my reaction, senator. if the president is exercising his first amendment rights, that s not my issue. reporter: trump s wiretap charge is now part of the comprehensive investigation by the house and senate intelligence committees. do you believe the president when he says that? well, like i said, it needs an investigation so we can find out what the facts are. so, we ll follow the facts wherever they may lead. reporter: spokesman sean spicer saying the white house will no longer comment. i think if we were to start to get involved you would write stories about how we are getting involved. it s a no-win situation. i think the smartest and most deliberative way to conduct the investigation is to ask the house a
full-fledged repeal and replace, the process itself seems to be incredibly prohibitive for that. and it seems like you would start a process and never really fully finish it. and that s got to scare some republicans, especially the ones coming up for reelection in two years. the chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunez of california just held a press conference and he was asked about president trump s evidence-free charge offer the weekend, that president obama had wiretapped him. take a listen. president is a neophyte politics. he s been doing this a little over a year, and i think a lot of the things that he says, you guys sometimes take literally. sometimes he doesn t have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does which is i think at times refreshing and at times can also lead us to have to be sitting at a press conference like this answering questions that you guys are asking. charles? well, look. i m a political neophyte and i
senate ma jorlt leafeder mitch mcconnell telling reporters he s going to take up the house bill, try and get this done within the next couple of weeks. the reality is with the amount of work to do, with the limited amount of space they have, in terms of losing members, that push both from the trump administration and republicans on capitol hill to try and solidify the support, very, very important, jake. all right, phil mattingly on capitol hill. democrats grill the deputy attorney general over how he might handle a justice department probe into trump campaign advisor s contacts with russia given that he would be the one in charge since the attorney general sessions has recused himself from the matter. he was also asked about president trump s evidence-free allegations that president obama wiretapped him during the presidential campaign. a charge that the fbi director says is false. cnn s jessica snyder is live in washington for us. jessica, democrats had some more pointed questions