his spokesperson saying neither president obama or any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. james clapper also denying the allegation. for the part of the national security apparatus that i oversaw as dni, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign. and at this point you can t confirm or deny whether that exists? i can deny it. there is no fisa court order? not to my knowledge. of anything at trump tower? no. reporter: trump s team isn t buying it. sean spicer speaking extensively offcamera, defending the president s tweet, there has been enough reporting that strongly suggests something occurred. continuing by saying lawmakers have a lot to look into. there is information that affects national security that has been leaked out, that concerns him. homeland security secretary
there is no fisa court order? not to my knowledge. of anything at trump tower? no. trump s team isn t buying it. sean spicer speaking extensively offcamera, defending the president s tweet, there has been enough reporting that strongly suggests something occurred. continuing by saying lawmakers have a lot to look into. there is information that affects national security that has been leaked out, that concerns him. homeland security secretary kelly in an interview with wolf, backed the president. the president of the united states said he has his reasons to say he has some convince iin that needs to take place. assigning a special prosecutor is a way to ensure the investigation proceeds impartially. in the ongoing house intelligence panel inquiry. leaders are setting an aggressive timetable. sending this letter to the director of national
rest of the questions of was there ever any surveillance? the last point is we do know from the fbi inquiry that th former national security advisor flynn that were intercepted. no one says that s a bad thing, indeed the president of the united states reacted by removing flynn based on the information and the facts ascertained. flynn was not let s be clear, any kind of target, no one said that. it is the job of our sbex agencies to look at those foreign contracts. that happens all the time. david, ari was just talking about sean spicer. he held an offcamera briefing today. hallie jackson asked him if trump and fbi director comey had spoken since saturday. listen to this exchange. has the president spoken with the fbi director about the allegations he made saturday morning and does he have confidence in the fbi? to the best of my knowledge, i m 100% certain that he has not. does he have confidence? there s nothing aye been told
this. okay. offcamera. let me read the fbi and doj have to remain in pennant, but every contact is not improper. i have not examined these in detail. correct. it sounded from reading that like he is trying to give himself cover in case something improper did happen. this isn t a full-throated defense. every contact may not be improper, but i haven t look add these. that s what any person would say in his position. he hasn t looked at them. nor should he waste his time looking at them. should he recuse himself no. do a special prosecutor? special prosecutor of what? where is the crime? we haven t named a crime let alone suggested that charges are going to be brought? until congress comes out and says here is the proof. we now see. there was connections between the trump campaign and russians known to u.s. intelligence. if, then, only then, then you would say, that would be possibly a criminal act, right? no it wouldn t. even if they had regular contact, talking a
and the wind conditions as we head on into the work week. thank you so much. a star of the hit tv show game of thrones is focusing his offcamera efforts on the topic of climate change. jonathan mann shows the mission to document some of the dramatic changes that are happening right now in greenland. it s like a whole different world. like something out of a movie. reporter: for danish actor, greenland is his family s second home. his wife grew up there. now the game of thrones star and newly appointed good u.n. ambassador is partnering with google to document the country s changing landscape. he s traveling around wearing a high tech backpack collecting street view imagery of the country s amazing sights. to those stranded icebergs called beached whales to its hot springs. what i love about it, you re in the middle of nowhere and i