committee to look into these situations and find out what did go on. you take a situation like general flynn. he was uncovered in a wiretap of some sort it s against the law for any americans named to be exposed to be part of any surveillance like this. so how do these illegal leaks get out, what s happening. why isn t there equal concerns for how that got leaked? howie: one of the reasons it s become such a media fixation, is president trump accused president obama as mccarthyism and the media is saying they haven t seen evidence to support that. the house and senate intelligence committees have agreed to look at it. chairman devin nunes said he thinks there is something to look at. howie: after your briefing jake
you shouldn t be talking to me, you should be talking to fox. we have learned today former cia officer and former counter terrorism official larry johnson had a hand in the british intelligence agency rumor. brian stelter talked to him. let me ask you about this thing. sure. so my sense is that on monday, napolitano says this on tv, he says he has intel sources who believe this is true. you re saying you were one of those sources, but you didn t know napolitano was going to use you like that? what happened was i communicated, when donald trump tweeted what he did saturday two weeks ago, the next day i was interviewed on russia today. i had known about the fact that the british, through ghcq were information back channel, this was not at the behest of barack obama, let s be clear about that. but it was done with the full knowledge of people like john brennan and jake clapper.
committee to look into these situations and find out what did go on. you take a situation like general flynn. he was uncovered in a wiretap of some sort it s against the law for any americans named to be exposed to be part of any surveillance like this. so how do these illegal leaks get out, what s happening. why isn t there equal concerns for how that got leaked? howie: one of the reasons it s become such a media fixation, is president trump accused president obama as mccarthyism and the media is saying they haven t seen evidence to support that. the house and senate intelligence committees have agreed to look at it. chairman devin nunes said he thinks there is something to look at. howie: after your briefing jake
backing this up, so it will be very interesting to see what comes out tomorrow. what form two you expect that evidence or that retraction to appear? reporter: we have not gotten a schedule for tomorrow. we usually don t get that until the end of the day, so it s unclear if we ll get a press briefing tomorrow or any sort of briefing, but its unclear what form that evidence might take when there s no evidence that there is evidence. that s why the fbi director wanted the doj to publicly refute it. and the former head of the dni, jake clapper said this did not happen and president obama has vigorously denied that he ordered any sort of wiretapping inside trump towers. if there were evidence, it seems