president trump standing by wiretapping allegation yet offering no proof ahead of monday s hearing with the house intelligence committee. back with my panel. welcome back. hi don. kirsten the first one so give her the question. acknowledged me at least. administration seems to be in weakest position heading in next week. republicans planning to vote on repeal of obamacare. dealing with budget that no one likes, fbi director likely to testify saying no wiretapping took place. what are they going to do? maybe trump come up with another conspiracy theory for us to chase after. these are important issues. maybe wants us to be talking about things that don t matter in the sense of things that didn t happen like him allegedly
president trump standing by his wiretapping accusation, still without offering any proof. during his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel saying they have something in common, referring to allegation that u.s. allegation tapped her phone. joining me john mcwhorter. host of the slate podcast lexicon valley. i ll have to listen. president trump tweeted four tweets speaking specifically about wiretapping. sometimes in quotes john, sometimes not in quotes. what is going on?
need to know for your new day. rex tillerson in south korea delivering a strong warning to north korea, saying nothing is off the table if pyongyang continues to elevate its nuclear program. and president trump standing by the claim that president obama had him wiretapped even though the house speaker and head of the house and senate intel committees say there is no evidence. new york city s police commissioner as you just heard blasting the trump budget proposal say it would gut all federal funding to the nypd. president trump welcomes angela merkel to the white house, nato, isis and state of russia and ukraine expected to top the agenda before they will take questions from reporters. round one madness on tap today in the ncaa college basketball tournament on thursday northwestern made the most of its first appearance in the dance in 78 years, knocking
following breaking news, president trump standing by his claim he was wire tapped by president obama. when questioned by a german reporter during today s news conference with chancellor angela merkel, the president glanced over to the chancellor and said, and i m quoting him now, at least we have something in common. let s bring in our political experts. gloria, let me start with you. the president repeating this unproven claim that he heard on fox news by judge andrew napolitano that a british intelligence service that spied on trump during the campaign under orders from president obama. when asked about that the president said, you shouldn t be talking to me, you should be talking to fox. he did say that andrew napolitano is a very talented legal mind. here s what fox a little bit after the news conference had to say. fox news cannot confirm judge napolitano s commentary.
worker, my god bless the motor city, and may god bless the united states of america. thank you. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] president trump standing there in michigan outside a state he won. he talked to auto workers, bottom aero fuel, but also key is what was not mentioned he is traveling down to nashville tonight. he will talk health care. he will be traveling with friendly conservative press, the question will be what and how he talks about it as he s been so so quiet on that specifically and of course not answering any questions on the wiretap allegations from his tweet two saturdays ago, pretty typical