eavesdropping allegations by president trump leveled against former president obama in 140 characters starting at 6:35 a.m. on saturday. including comparisons to mccarthyism and watergate adding fuel to the fire. senior u.s. official fbi director james comey aed t justice department to publicly knock down president trump s claim. the fbi and justice department both declining comment but former top intelligence officials are providing their own reality check. if you take literally what the president tweeted the plumbing doesn t work that way. if something happened it could not have happened the way the president said it. my gut is i think the president forgot for a moment in the morning saturday that he was actually president. joining me now are nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house and nbc justice correspondent pete william. first pete let s break down the new travel ban. peter also, the two petes. let s talk about the way it was
the silencing. how the left is killing free speech. wow. let s just be clear. no. for a long time, i ve been writing that there is this women on the left just violent people. it s people say what about conservatives? conservatives don t have the cultural power for silence anybody. if they wanted to. and we saw in this situation, what happened with the petes rea owner is that they expressed a view that a group of people don t like. it happens not to be my view. but they have a right to express that view. i take heat when i saw this. i don t like bill maher. he s good for america because he says everything he wants. that is healthy. you have groups of people that take every word i say in the
and we saw in this situation, what happened with the petes rea owner is that they expressed a view that a group of people don t like. it happens not to be my view. but they have a right to express that view. i take heat when i saw this. i don t like bill maher. he s good for america because he says everything he wants. that is healthy. you have groups of people that take every word i say in the hopes they can attack my advertisers, shut me down get me fired. this isn t new. what is shocking is the moving from a civil rights agenda, live, let live. let us live our lives, moving into punishing people who disagree with you. when we see this move from the
it was important to have united states influence for a better outcome that leads to more peaceful events in the future. he gave his life. so we have to look, was the security accurate for what we knew and in accordance with what the mission was for the ambassador at that time. i don t think anyone can say today, yes, or no. the f.b.i. is on the ground and they will have a great forensic picture and we can make a determination. we are also scrubbing everything we knew up to that point. was there a smoking gun that was missed? we do not know that answer, either. i have not seen anything that indicates that. we just don t know. all of those petes have to be put together before we come to the conclusion, they did not is the right security posture in benghazi. chris: now, the wave of anti-american violence across the islamic world.
it was important to have united states influence for a better outcome that leads to more peaceful events in the future. he gave his life. so we have to look, was the security accurate for what we knew and in accordance with what the mission was for the ambassador at that time. i don t think anyone can say today, yes, or no. the f.b.i. is on the ground and they will have a great forensic picture and we can make a determination. we are also scrubbing everything we knew up to that point. was there a smoking gun that was missed? we do not know that answer, either. i have not seen anything that indicates that. we just don t know. all of those petes have to be put together before we come to the conclusion, they did not is the right security posture in benghazi. chris: now, the wave of anti-american violence across the islamic world.