Second, the second, to study evidence actually exist . Today the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says he doesnt think so. I dont expect well see any evidence of this either. I agree with timecard. One of two possibilities here. The president quite deliberately for some reason made up this charge are perhaps more disturbing the president really believes this. Reporter the charges former president barack obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the election. The former president has led the charge. So as the current fbi director reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly reject the president s claims. Congressman schiff plans to ask about it directly when he testifies before the full Committee Later this month. Republicans have also been very critical of President Trump on this issue. Just today, john mccain said thursday road need for congress
to investigate these wiretapping allegations. Here is why. Ive no reason to believe the charge is true, but
turning now to the duelling healthcare plans for 2020. it s medicare for all versus obamacare among the top democratic candidates. this afternoon, senator bernie sanders is going to be delivering what his campaign is calling a major address about his medicare for all plan. and this address is coming just days after former vice president joe biden laid out his healthcare proposal which retains the core structure of obamacare. our nbc road warriors are on the trail. garrett haake is in iowa with the former vice president. but we start with shaquille brewster on the trail in the burrow for us in washington, d.c. ahead of sanders address. shac shaq, what are we expecting to hear today? we re expecting to hear a full defense to medicare for all and a shift to offense. he s going to call on the entire 2020 democratic field to reject large donations from health insurance and pharmaceutical executives and he s going to outline his signature policy
take a listen. i know how hard it is to get it passed. i watched it. starting over makes no sense to me at all. i knew the republicans would do everything in their power to kill obamacare, they still are. but i m surprised that so many democrats are running on getting rid of it. so medicare for all is pretty popular with democratic primary voters, but so is obamacare and so rae mains president obama by tying himself as the protector of obamacare, joe biden is hoping there s enough of a lane there among perhaps more moderate, more conservative, older democratic primary voters who say you know what? i maybe don t love my health insurance, but the prospect of blowing it up entirely or rolling the dice on something new and as expensive as what shaq just laid out doesn t appeal to them. it s an interesting political play and plays to a more pragmatic voter. you hear biden on the video and on the stump several times say, look, he was intimately involved in crafting the affordable care ac
vice president biden gave a speech this week. he said medicare for all would tear up part of president obama s legacy the is he wrong? of course he s wrong. you re either medicare for all, which means obamacare s gone, gone, period. all, which means obamacare s gone, gone, period (vo) parents have a way of imagining the worst. .especially when your easily distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, we re taking on distracted driving [ping] he said medicare for all would he said medicare for all would the all-new subaru forester. the safest forester ever. let s see, aleve is than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills.
contrast with the sanders plan which it is to remake the healthcare system from scratch. this is one of those rare political debates that both sides really want. bernie sanders says, yes, in fact i am blowing up the system. and joe biden says, guys, did you hear him? he says he s going to be blowing up the system. that s too risky. we re going to be having this fight over and over over the next come of months. how much of this is joe biden tying himself to the obama legacy? this revamp, is it enough to set him aside from his more progressive counterparts? there s certainly an element of that. biden puts himself with i think beto o rourke, amy klobuchar, michael bennet, a couple of the other candidates who go less far than medicare for all. he s the biggest name among them defending obamacare, a strategy that worked very well for democrats in 2018 and trying to expand upon it. i want to play for you a little bit of how he talked about this in a campaign ad rolling out this plan. i t