a time-out. the story from politico saying napolitano told them that trump told him he s on the supreme court short list. that s interesting. i keep coming back to sports with trump and his relationship with cable news commentators, which is every now and then an owner takes an analyst from espn and makes them a coach. they sound brilliant when they re talking about the games on the halftime show and sometimes things don t always go so well once they re put in a position of running a team. and it sort of feels to me like he has in some respects misread that, you know, the fact these people can sound brilliant analyzing from the sidelines. it s very different from actually going in and getting your fingernails dirty. great to see you. thanks for being here. thanks for watching today. we ll be back next week. state of the union coming up next.
push fox s immigration story and they used it to buttress that you won t find on other media. it was a win-win. what was the latest on judge napolita napolitano, the legal commentator who said the brits were spying on trump. he s been off the air for over a week. in think it s interesting. if roger ailes was still covering fox, he would have taken him off and quietly slipped him back on the air. rupert murdoch has bigger irons in the fire. this story embarrassed and angered some lawmakers. murdoch calling the shots instead of ailes. if it were a year ago you would have seen anal tan notice back earlier. they say he s not just taking
[ laughter ] what i m saying is it s clear in those stories that people working for the obama administration. again, as i have said before, when some bureaucrat in the agriculture department said ketchum was a vegetable, ronald reagan was held responsible. that s what we do with presidents. harry truman s, the buck stops here. this happened on president obama s watch you ve heard those new york times articles. i would suggest you go back and read donald trump s tweets because what he alleged is not what you are saying. what he alleged what judge napolitano is saying is that this is an we re not parsing words. we re reading literal tweets from the president of the united states. and judge napolitano is doing the exact same thing and his sourcing says that the president of the united states, president obama, was running an off the books intel operation using british intelligence and there s no evidence of that. correct. and fox news has backed away
a pundit put out an unproven claim like that, would you have repeated that without certainty? i don t know the whole story with what happened there, anderson. all i know is when i was on fox just like when you re on cnn, we like to kind of get it right and not just say things to get ratings, you know, so i know the judge, i don t know what he said, and i m not sure what the president said, but fox is saying there s no evidence of what napolitano said. i don t even know what napolitano said. here s what i do know. as the governor of this state, my word matter. as the president of the united states, the president s word t mamas matter. this is to some degree a learning experience for the president. one of the things i told him when i was in the oval office, one time my wife pulled me aside because i was saying something and she didn t like it and she said, hey, john, you know, you re the father of ohio. why don t you act like it? so i told him that story and he
task. fox news cannot confirm judge napolita napolitano s commentary. we know of no evidence that the president of the united states was surveilled at any time in any way, full stop. that is where we are tonight. britain upset that the white house is trafficking in claims made by a tv commentator that british intelligence was running a secret operation off the books for the president of the united states against the man who is now the president of the united states. truth is stranger than fiction. these days fiction is getting a lot more play. kirsten powers, and the rest of our panel. l maggie, you have manu s reporting, which is huge news if it s later confirmed and if monday have comey comes out