News presidency. A presidency shaped by fox news in all sorts of ways, big and small. We saw it in action this week. Let me show you how a comment on fox created an international incident. Andrew napolitano, a former superior court judge now an analyst on fox said this. Fox news has spoken to Intelligence Community members who believe the entrance did occur. That it was done by british intelligence. So he said his sources believe that the british helped obama spy on trump. Not that his sources have proof, but they believe it happened. That was on monday afternoon. On monday night, he doubled down. This time on a fox newscast. Sources have told fox that if then mr. Donald trump, the president elect was surveilled, it was done by a foreign intelligence entity. Okay so he said if it happened. If it happened the british did it. The next day he dropped all the caveats. Watch. Three intelligence sources have informed fox news that president obama went outside the chain of command. Hes gchq.
That was senator Lindsey Graham this week asking the Big Questions that we all want to know about regarding donald trump. Number one, is the fbi investigating the relationship between trump and russia . And if so, did that investigation lead to a fisa warrant to monitor Donald Trumps phone calls or those of any of his campaign team. And could that be whats behind trumps unfounded claim that president obama tapped his phones in trump tower . The fbi told senator graham that they would respond to his questions in a classified letter sometime next week. But he just might get beaten to the punch by his Congressional Colleagues in the house, because on monday fbi director jim comey will be testifying at a House Intelligence Committee on russian interference in the 2016 elections. Leaders of the House Committee have been making plenty of their own demands on the fbi for answers about trumps wiretapping claims. So mondays hearing will be the first time that we all hear publicly what jim comey
i m rick sanchez. campbell is back tomorrow. thanks for being with us. here now, the king, larry starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com larry: tonight al qaeda claims responsibility for trying to bomb a u.s. airliner out of the sky on christmas. making america pay for reported strikes in yemen, and they threaten more attacks. plus, the first homeland security chief, tom ridge. what does he think of janet napolitano s controversial remarks that the system worked and her little back pedaling today? he ll tell us if president obama s response is tough enough. we will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the vie he lent extremist who is threaten us. larry: all that and more next on larry king live. good evening. the christmas day bomb plot story gets more interesting by the hour. we have ed henry cnn s senior white house correspondent with us from hawaii, and nic robertson senior international correspondent