administration is turning to congress for help. finding evidence to support his claim that former president obama had telephones that trump tower tapped during the election. we should point out that president trump has offered no proof so far. now, fbi director james comay is taking his concerns about it to the justice department. the new york times wants him to set the record straight because the president s claim imply the agency broke the law. president obama said intelligence chief says is is not truth. i will say for the parts of the national security apparatus that i oversaw is dni, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time or as a candidate, or against his campaign. i cannot speak for other title iii authorized entities in the government. harris: leyland begins our coverage from the white house. this sounds like a case case of the fbi shouting, tell them we did not break the law.
you can look at it that way. it also sets up a showdown potentially between the fbi director in the presidency. between the attorney general and the president. the last time we had a showdown like that involve the current fbi director, james comay is a famous to having stood up to president bush and threatening to resign over a situation he did not like during the bush administration. whether it comes to that is yet to be seen. we cannot verify the new york times report but we have been told by law enforcement officials that president trump s allegations over twitter that president obama ordered wiretaps of his own during the election, caught senior law-enforcement officials completely off guard. adding to that, those officials had no idea what trump was talking about. the white house and for its part is not responding to responded to this new york times story either.
administration is turning to congress for help. finding evidence to support his claim that former president obama had telephones that trump tower tapped during the election. we should point out that president trump has offered no proof so far. now, fbi director james comay is taking his concerns about it to the justice department. the new york times wants him to set the record straight because the president s claim imply the agency broke the law. president obama said intelligence chief says is is not truth. i will say for the parts of the national security apparatus that i oversaw is dni, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time or as a candidate, or against his campaign. i cannot speak for other title iii authorized entities in the government. harris: leyland begins our coverage from the white house. this sounds like a case case of the fbi shouting, tell them we did not break the law.
welcome back to justice. time for for the panel. i m joined live by the assistant to the president george w. bush. and for democracy democracy for america. thanks for being here. look, this makes me crazy. ben rhodes who tweets these restrictions, no president, they were put in place to protect us first citizens from people like you. and yet, yet, ben rose was part of this administration where the obama administration use the irs to go after conservatives and that they went after the justice department, when after reporters, and then now we have james call me saying you better say something because we never did this to the president. last week james comay says the fbi would love to help the administration but they cannot get in the position of getting
the dad said it was all worth it because he built the coaster to spend quality time with his son. this, after, after an overseas deployment as a navy pilot. eric: look at how much fun he is having. arthel: it s a little airplane he s flying, like his dad. that doesn t that doesn t for us. thank you for joining us. up next, the fox report. the head of the fbi wants the justice department to publicly deny claims that they were wiretapping trump tower. the new york times is now reporting fbi director james comay known for the back-and-forth of hillary clinton s e-mails is now asking the top law-enforcement in america to say that president trump is wrong. this following the president talking about the man who used to have his job. at this hour president trump is back in washington, d.c. where his