Evidence. Senators Lindsey Graham and sheldon whitehouse, however, who lead a judiciary subcommittee sent a letter to that Department Today asking about any wiretapping warrants against the Trump Campaign. Good for them. Senator graham said today the country needs answers on this. Lets watch him. President trump claims that president Obama Administration targeted his campaign, trump tower, in the tweet. I have no knowledge of that, but hes challenged the congress to help him so lets help. Not trying to compromise classified information. Not trying to compromise an investigation. The question is, has there ever been a warrant issued . This is a major deal for the country. I want to get to the bottom of it. He knows what hes talking about. Whats at stake is the reputation of the u. S. Country of america, you might say. The president accused the u. S. Government under his predecessor of tapping his phones. Wow. Well, senator tim kaine said today that kind of behavior coming from the white
Like global warming. We cant do that if people feel embarrassed to be associated with the United States. You combine that with the fact that the State Department has essentially been neutered, e s eviscerated by this administration thus far and watching in real time as america and americas image withdraws from the world. Do you know any republican senator or member of the house whos a republican, any party member of any party who believes the president believes he was wiretapped, who even believes he believes it . I dont think anybody knows exactly what donald trump believes and what he doesnt believe. I think whats scary to many republicans is that theyve had the opportunity to walk this back and theyre putting not only the presidency and the reputation of the presidency, but the reputation of the entire country at risk, the longer that this floats out there. The reality is is congress can ask the Department Of Justice as to whether theres a wiretap, bul but if theres an active invest
replacement for liz truss who announced her resignation yesterday after a tumultuous six weeks in office. let s bring in sky news anchor and nbc news contributor, wilfred frost with the very latest on this. good morning to you. thanks for having me. where does it go from here and why is boris johnson s name back in the mix, is that possible? it s definitely possible. as you were outlining, we have a more pacy leadership election than the one we had over the summer that selected liz truss. that one took about seven weeks, this one will take seven days from now. we ll know who the next prime minister is by next friday, possibly sooner than that, as soon as monday, and part of the process of speeding that up is they massively increased the bar to get on the initial short list. you now need 100 mps to put your name forward of a total of about