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
meanwhile, there s all these important issues going on in the country and around the world that we re not addressing because we re so focused on this crazy tweet. skpand that s the large issu right there, congresswoman, you have just hit it on the head. what are you in congress, or we in the media, supposed to do when a president or this president makes a false accusation like this? what now? do we just walk away from these wiretapping accusations, though he accused the former president of a felony. is that that s it? we just take that in stride and move on now? i think spending more time on it gives him, frankly, more credibility over something that is false from its very essence. and you re absolutely right, it is outrageous that president trump would charge former president obama with committing a felony. so the only way to deal with someone who is unwilling to deal with reality, i think, is to
back down on his wiretapping accusations and saying nothing about the house intelligence committee hearing. joining me now is brian fallin, a former press secretary for hillary clinton s campaign. we switched him out for robbie. because he s just as good. no one ever wants to say the president lied. but he lied about wiretapping, he lied about mass voter fraud. birtherism. how can he be credible at all now? well, i think you asked the right question, i m so upset, we skipped over this in the past 30 minutes, let me give you three questions we re not addressing. number one, what is the federal government s responsibility in the next election cycle to protect a candidate? who asked that today? number two, as we go into the next 4, 6, 12 months, here s the question, not what happened with general flynn, the question is,
public opinion has changed as a result of president trump s wiretapping accusations against president obama and the hard slog over his health care bill. or if these low marks are merely an outlier. putting the president s approval rating in context though, his three immediate predecessors all had numbers that were above 50% two months into their presidencies. we ll be right back.
most significant day of the trump presidency so far. fbi director james comey will testify for the first time since trump s election before the house intelligence committee. he ll be asked about probes into russia and trump s wiretapping accusations. the implications to that are large. yet at the same time, the senate will also hear its first testimony on one of the most far-reaching decisions trump will make in office. his selection of judge neil gorsuch to replace that supreme court vacancy that arose during obama s term. what does gorsuch stand for? he says he wants to follow in scalia s footsteps. what could that mean for civil rights, gay marriage, money, and politics, and trump s travel ban? i m excited to tell you i am anchoring a two-hour special on that confirmation fight on the eve of the hearings, sunday, 5:00 p.m. eastern, joined by senators on the judiciary committee, leaders at naacp and planned parenthood, conservative legal scholars, a former clerk to judge gorsuch. i d