obamacare and the potential repeal of that, of obamacare. that by the way, pamela, did trigger a lot of boos from the crowd. so a mix of support and opposition in his home state. there s been strong support. strong reaction i say across the country when that s brought up at the town halls. polo sandoval, thank you very much. with me, robert zimmerman, a democratic strategist and former hillary clinton fundraiser. also cnn political commentator ben ferguson joining us. robert i m going start with you, not a word from the white house since these tweets this morning. it s been almost 12 hours. these tweets and the startling claims about wire-tapping and the former president behind it. what s your take here? one of two scenarios, either the sedatives wore off from the state of the union or another tactic by donald trump it to try to change the focus and change the topic. we ve seen that play many times before. his false claims about voter
and sarah westwood, white house correspondent for the washington examiner. your reporting is crucial, you spoke with a former u.s. official about the wire-tapping allegations. tell us about that allegation. the former senior white house official who had direct knowledge of the investigation surrounding trump associates, meddling in the election, and other facts within the election, deny that there was any intentional tapping of donald trump s phones. or anything intentional sort of at trump tower related to donald trump. said this never happened. we never requested it. a warrant was never issued. they never went to a judge asking for this, for any sort of wire-tapping of donald trump s phone. so basically, we have a former officials who are all denying that this, this occurred. certainly under the obama administration. and this person would know all the way through probably mid
it is clear he broke the wire tapping law? they didn t charge him with that. in new york you are allowed to record something like that. is this wire tapping law even apply with i-pads and all? i am glad you brought that up. and yes, lars, agree with everything you said in shock and i will delete the bullying emails you sent to me. but i have to say state-by-state this is going to have to change. this is time where people are taking pictures and posting them online. is everybody getting pictures of me with bad hair days from high school and college? absolutely not. this is the world we live in. is this wire tapping? he is using his phone. he wasn t recording a phone conversation with these
going to stop this stuff. remember this? this administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. i will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom. that means no more illegal wire tapping of american citizens, no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime, no more track citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war, no more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. so that s when he was running for president. now he is president and he s still doing all that stuff. he s still doing all that stuff. he proposed two changes. he proposed that instead of the government keeping all this massive information some third party, private industry or some neutral group keep it. but then the government could take the information whenever they wanted. and he pro
and iraq, wire tapping, enhances interrogation. you had four heart attacks, three catheterizations, a defibrillator, bypass surgery. right. did you worry about your physical health impacting your judgment, your cognition? no. not at all? no. were you the best that you could be? i was as good as i could be given the fact that i was 60 some years old at that point and a heart patient. unbelievable. sanjay had a bunch of studies that suggest that people with decreased blood flow to their brain had depression. he s a great guy, was here with his book tour, but why he turned into mike wallace reincarnated, who put him on that mission? let s not forget about all the accomplishments of dick cheney, six term congressman,