they be unmasked. president trump this morning tweeted the revelation was amazing. of course, it has not yet been confirmed as true. joining us now, brit hume. you might tell everybody the fox news report is based on anonymous sources. that makes me uneasy, but housley is a good reporter. now john roberts is getting the same information. is that where we are? that s correct. also eli lake at bloomberg, a good reporter, has the story as well. i think we can safely assume there is something to this. moreover, susan rice has not responded. if this were not the case, one senses she would be quick to say so. we can t conclude definitely that this is the real deal but i think there is real evidence. it certainly confirms this whole thing about the surveillance of people, picking up of trump associates and the unmasking of their names andd identities is a legitimate thread for these
president trump this morning tweeted the revelation was amazing but has not yet been confirmed as true. joining us now is bret hume. you may tell everybody the fox news report is based on anonymous sources. that makes me uneasy but houseley is a good reporter and now john roberts is getting the same information. and eli lake at bloomberg has the story and susan rice has not responded. if this not the case the consensus is she d be quick to say so so we can t conclude it s real deal but there s real efforts and confirms of surveillance and unmasking is a
towards this one claim. what maggie was saying how he thinks he will be vindicated if whom was being monitored. that s not the accusation. he said he personally had his phones tapped by barack obama. it s a specific allegation. with angela merkel, he said we said nothing. we just cited this fox news report. that is saying something. when you cite a news report, cnn doesn t cite a report without verifying it is true first. right? shouldn t the white house do the same? i have to say that excuse, we cited it, it reminds me a lot of trump s repeated excuse during the campaign that would get him in trouble and say look, i just retweeted it. i am just retweeting. that s actually a physical action that you are taking and a
own department of justice on this claim he hangs on to in the last couple weeks. there were some reports the report might be classified. is there a chance we might not find out what it says? reporter: there is a chance. it s a classified report in a classified briefing room. one copy give on the members of the house intelligence committee for them to review. monday is a key omit. that s when there will be hearings on capitol hill. james comey will be among those who are testifying. he ll be asked about this. and what does he say publicly. we don t know yet but we are expecting according to some that he will back down these reports of wiretapping. that could be the first time we hear what s revealed publicly. from our understanding there s nothing that confirms what president trump has been saying. thanks very much. the department of justice reporting just the late nest a string of high-profile
this aftermath of a random series of early morning tweets and has alienated great britain in the process. and has sent the whole government apparatus on this wild dpoos chase to hunt this down. we have the intelligence community looking at this, all these resources being put toward this one claim. then even what maggie was saying how he thinks he ll be vindicated if somehow paul manafort or whomever was being monitored. that s not the accusation he made. the accusation was he personally had his phone tapped by barack obama. a very specific allegation. then with angela merkel today said yoe said, you know, we said nothing, we just cited this fox news report. that is saying something. when you stand at the podium and cite a news report, cnn doesn t cite a news report without verifying that it s true first, right. so shouldn t the white house do the same?