mark, i think manu raises a key point. the president said wiretapping in his tweets. we heard from the top democrat on the intelligence committee that did not happen. trump trying to broaden that to any sort of surveillance, you re now also hearing they along with devin nunes, chairman of the house intelligence side and of course adam schiff, they don t see any evidence of that either. right. one more it to, jeff sessions said yesterday in richmond, virginia, he himself as attorney general had never briefed donald trump on any kind of wiretapping allegations that donald trump, president trump, had made a couple weeks ago. what s problematic for the president is that he does seem to be in an island of his own. this wasn t something that had leaked out of the white house that they thought, you know, had happened to president trump. this came directly from president trump. this was a saturday morning, this was him on twitter. and how he went about it is very
trade and people love that. he talked about health care but not the reception when he attacked the media and the judge who ruled in hawaii. health care is front and center now. all of these these like wiretapping allegations and like immigration, all of these other fights are zapping some of the attention away from what need to be the focus right now which is this health care bill is really imperiled. if you could try to do this in a way that doesn t send us all to sleep, that would be good, jon. wow. you live, of course, down in nashville where the rally was. you speak to people there all of the time. if there is going to be an issue amongst trump supporters that does divide them away from the white house, what do you think it s going to be? what would be the fault line? well, i think interestingly, on health care any way, he has got a problem to his right. which i don t know that at least it took me a while to figure out exactly. a lot of people really want an
the reason he was fired is that he lied to vice president pence about what his conversations that took place. the mystery at the heart of these russian contacts is why were there so many and what were they talking about? that s what this investigation is supposed to do and it should start rather than everyone speculating about what might be in some investigation. all right. excellent points from everybody. jeffrey toobin, thank you. glory, athena, jim sciutto, manu, we ll get back to you shortly. for the first time ever, the department of justice filed criminal cyber charges against russian government officials for what they call one of the largest data breaches in u.s. history. we have details. also, the fbi director james comey will testify during monday s house intelligence committee hearing regarding the president s wiretapping allegations against former
pro-mightedpro compromised a billion accounts. the government is saying it s under investigation. they are not saying whether they think the same people did the hack. they are not saying that they didn t but they are not saying that they did. secondly, they are not giving any indication that they believe anyone else is involved and thirdly, specifically asked whether any of these people involved in the attempt to influence the election last year and they say all we re talking about is this case. right now at least. our justice correspondent there, pete williams, thank you. kelly o., let s pivot and talk about the wiretapping allegations for a second. have we heard anything from the white house so far today on that? reporter: a bit of a lull on that. we know the latest description from sean spicer, the president s spokesman, is that the accusation made via twitter by the president may have been a broader kind of question about surveillance, not the specific definition of wiretapping
dana: new developments on president trump s wiretapping allegations. leaders of the house intelligence committee say they have seen no evidence that president obama ordered wiretaps on trump tower during the presidential campaign. the committee is investigating the wiretapping charge as part of its probe into russia s alleged meddling in the election. we don t have any evidence that that took place. i don t think there was an actual tap of trump tower. thus far, we have seen no basis for that. president obama wouldn t physically go over and wiretap trump tower. now you have to decide, are you going to take the tweets literally? if you are, then clearly the president is wrong. but if you re not going to take the tweets literally and that there is a concern that the president has about other people, other surveillance activities looking at him or his