of people? very little you can do. once the plot is being executed to avert it. you hope to mitigate casualties? maria: what is the cia looking at now? they have him. they ll look at if there was a cell at working taking direction. assuming if there was a terror plot based on the tactics and that targets here, the overwhelming probability is a terrorist plot. a lot of people suggest that it s jihadist inspired. not yet reported. so we re going to see what law enforcement was doing, what was he doing in the days before and what could have known and who helped him. buck, thank you. just over 30 minutes away from the senate foreign relations committee voting on mike pompeo as the next secretary of state. we re talking to one of the senators vetting yes. lots of reaction to devin nunes yesterday on what information led to the fbi starting an
for the fbi and the cia to support the president, foss give somebody clearances, why haven t you come one the information allows them to provide the clearances? are you, ampb, lazy, or are you providing information led to the candidates, whether they really qualified for clearances. it is not that hard. matthew, the fbi doesn t grant the security clearances. they provide information. it is up to the agency to decide what to do with it. i ll read a statement from the fbi. the fbi does not grant, deny or otherwise adjudicate security clearances for individuals on behalf of these agencies. nor does it make any security clearance recommendations. so what sarah sanders said is not true. they get back ground information but it is up to the white house to decide and the white house
aboveboard, why was it that his own staff felt it necessary to come out of this meeting to call a cia director, the nsa director and tell them that the boss, president trump, had just shared too much information with the russians quest to mark because the cia and nsa, those are the agencies that would be dealing with the fallout. jon: you re suggesting or maybe he s suggesting that there is a learning curve to learning information when you re the president and this president released more than he should. i think there s a lot of concern among serious national security officials in washington about his discipline, about his ability to protect secrets, about his ability to distinguish what needs to stay classified and what he can share. jon: the white house says you might have heard john roberts say off the top that it s close to apoplectic about the leak of information led to your story. what do you say to the white house about the fact that
and though president trump could release whatever information led him to this belief, e has not done that. maybe he has none or doesn t want to release it. he hasn t told the department of justice to release any information it has. could do that but he hasn t. the president has demanded congress investigate and plenty of news on that. jim sciutto is doing the reporting and joins us now. key members of the president s own party speaking out against this. confirming president trump is alone on wiretap island. his attorney general, a trump appointee and republican, jeff sessions, saying he gave the president no indication president obama ordered a wiretap of him. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee saying today he s seen no evidence of that. we know james comey was one of the first challenge this saying he was amazed by this charge.
president obama without evidence of wire tapping trump tower. information led him to believe. there was no such wire tap activity mounted against the president-elect. the fbi asked the justice department to refute the assertion. this is a distraction. the newly revised executive order could come as soon as today. we will shortly take new steps to keep those out who will do us harm. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. you are watching new day. it is monday, march 6th. 6:00 here in new york. we begin with the fbi calling on the justice department to publicly deny president trump s claim that president obama ordered wire tapping of procedure. mr. donald trump offering no evidence. democrats are pushing back