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talking about, the british intelligence service have said that s ridiculous. knocked that down. are you seeing the white house backing down from the president s original claim? i m trying to remember any time that president trump as a citizen or as president has admitted he was wrong about anything. i think we ve asked him that question as a candidate. are there things you ve said which are wrong and i don t think he s ever admitted he s wrong. reporter: i don t think i ve ever heard him admit he s wrong. that was one reason i pressed sean spicer on that in the briefing. they started with the original tweets from the president, that former president obama wiretapped him. when that claim proved to be baseless and false and proven wrong and said as much by members of his own members on capitol hill, they then expanded the definition of wiretapping and now it means all these different forms of surveillance. so the question becomes when that doesn t work anymore because keep in min
unfounded wiretap allegation took some interesting turns today. began with bipartisan members of the senate intelligence committee saying they ve seep no evidence that president obama ordered president trump s phones tapped during the campaign. came out at a perez briefing where sean spicer gave a long and winding and contradictory defense saying president trump stand by the claim. paul ryan and others have been briefed. here s what he told wolf blitzer a short time ago. we have not seen any evidence that there was a wiretap or a fisa court order against trump tower or somebody in trump tower. so should the president of the united states, do you believe, apologize to former president obama and apologize to the american people for making such an assertion? i m going to leave it to him to make his decisions. you still personally trust president trump? yes. back now with the panel. i was trying to remember an incident where the president or donald trump as a citizen really has
of donald trump. i asked adam schiff that directly today and he said that s what he expects. schiff would be in a position to know. he has spoken multiple times with comey. they had a private briefing talking presumably about this topic as well. so we ll see if comey goes forward and goes public on monday night. but this is a question that will come up at this high-profile hearing and we ll see if comey expresses reservations or goes out and publicly rebuts donald trump the way that he s now expected to do so. monday. joining us is kirsten powers, kayleigh mcenany, van jones, busy tonight, messy truth town hall after this show. and jack kingston. keirsten, i m not sure where to begin but that press conference today at the white house, the white house has gotten in deep on this and doesn t seem to be able to back out. they re in a situation because sean spicer has to defend donald trump because he doesn t want to back down from
there s been a vast amount of reporting which i just detailed about activity that was going on in the 2016 election. there s no question that there was surveillance techniques used throughout this. i think by a variety of outlets that have reported this activity concluding. so and i think when you actually ask those two people whether or not as chairman nunes said yesterday, when you take it literally, wiretap, the president has been clear he didn t mean specifically wiretapping. he had it in quotes. i think to fall back on that is a false premise. that s not what he said. he was very clear about what when he talked about it yesterday. and jim acosta joins us now. why didn t you press sean spicer on those sources? well, because before i asked that question why are you quoting sean hannity, which is a bizarre question to ask during a briefing, by the way, sean spicer went through this long list of news articles and i guess posts on websites, obscure websites that would lead them