pointing to past reports that merkel was once surveilled by the u.s. intelligence community during the obama administration. as far as wiretapping, i guess, by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps. reporter: the white house is digging in, even afterpress secretary sean spicer sparked a diplomatic uproar defending the president s comments. you also tend to overlook all the other sources, because i know you want to cherry-pick it. no, no, but you do. but where was your concern about the new york times reporting? reporter: to back up the president s wiretapping allegations, spicer cited an substantiated report from a fox news commentator. last on fox news on march 14th judge andrew napolitano said, three intelligence sources have informed fox news president obama went outside the chain of command, didn t you the cia, the nsa, the fbi, or the department of justice. he used gchq. what is that? the initials for the british intelligenc
members did not get to review it because it was a hard copy they received but there s some frustration they did not get it in time. nevertheless, this statement saying they got the documents, we ll see what they say and what james comey says on monday when he testifies before the house intelligence committee. julia, we understand obviously this is classified, but you heard what the chairman said to manu going into the room, he doesn t think there s anything in there that would change his view to the fact that wiretapping had not occurred. what s your take on the statement? i ve been in government enough to i ll interpret it for everyone there s nothing in there to suggest wiretapping a occurred. how do i know that? if there were the fbi would be investigating it. and therefore the chairman would not be as confident saying what he had said publicly. this tweet investigation is
false. [ talking over each other ] you re trying to defend the indefensible. no respect for the american people as well as the intelligence and the allies. i m asking for what evidence you have that they don t. exactly what the right accused obama of every time, alienating allies. he s alienating allies left and right. we had a president who told the world oh, just [ talking over each other ]. we are dealing with this president right now. [ talking over each other ] we told a bad guy what erp we were going to do and didn t do it p. this has nothing to do with assad. paul ryan, devin nunes, senator burr, john mccain, tom cole, all these guys have said there s nothing there. that s one thing. the second thing is on this issue specifically of britain, our biggest ally, he came out
they picked the person who is ruining germany. i ve always said it s much better to talk to one another and not about one another, and i think our conversation proved this. reporter: earlier today, the justice department handed over to the house intelligence committee some documents that the trump administration is saying would bolster the president s claims about wiretapping over at trump tower. the chair of that committee, devin nunes, is expected to make a statement on all of this within the next hour. i should point out i did go back to the british government earlier this afternoon and asked them whether or not they had another comment about what the president had to say today and the white house press secretary for that matter because they did not back off of that claim that the british government was perhaps involved in the wiretapping at trump tower. they again used it during this news conference today and the president said you can talk to fox news about all this. the briti
private insurance? yes. absolutely. it reporter: did you see it right away, the increase sfs. you could see it just doubling. reporter: a tax attorney, chris, in part owes his living to the impact obamacare has had on his middle income customers. people can t afford insurance so they go without it or they buy the insurance but don t pay their taxes so they come into my office as a result. reporter: safe to say in this part of america the affordable care act is not very popular. after twice voting for obama, calhoun county swung the other way in 2016. was donald trump s talk of replacing obamacare one of the things that drew you to him? definitely. reporter: jim is self-employed and the republican county chair. he too says he struggled to pay his family s thousand dollars a month health insurance premiums. i ended up just deciding i m going to go without. reporter: what do you know of the republican plan put forward