it s the president that kee getting in their way. they wh we were going to sit here talking aut leaks. they wish we would draw conclusion that is give them a little bit of relief, i guess, from this glare of questioning about russia/trump contacts. i think the focus is on the outlandish claim of an obama wiretapping of trump tower. it s a constant exasperation of republicans outside the white house. we will show these all day. if we can show the tweet this is morning of donald j. trump before this gets under way to lay the informational predicate, it may be useful. again, conversationally, they can be summed up in a phrase, nothing to see here. we are working on getting those up on the screen. hearing room on the left. mr. comey at, i guess over 6 5 , will be instantly visible when he comes in the room.
it s in line with how senator mccain talks about this connection. i think we are here and this day is an impossibility for the white house because of trump s own tweets. we are going to talk about this for his entire presidency. the white house, if you take away trump s twitter addiction, if you take away the fact that he accused his predecessor, who is extremely gracious to him of a crime, of wiretapping trump tower, today could be a decent day for the trump white house. they have gorsuch on capitol hill. they have this hearing where it s possible in a public setting. the fbi director says there s nothing i can talk about in terms of russia, trump campaign contacts. but, we have the sticky fact that donald trump accused president obama of wiretapping trump tower and we have the hard evidence we are expected to hear that there is absolutely no proof of that. a trump friend and ally in regular contact with this white
look at the gallup poll numbers. it with was a deceitful claim. he did it to take our eyes off the dots we are continuing to connect. he wanted to put it on president obama. it was shortsighted strategy. more and more evidence is coming forward about he and his team having personal and financial ties to russia. if we were in a court of law, juries are told every day, if a person in an investigation dlik rattly lies about a fact in an investigation, consider not believing anything that person says. i think the american people are starting to question the credibility of our president. that s unfortunate because we need our president to be credible. without a doubt. congressman, i know you have a busy day ahead. we are going to leave it there. thanks for sharing your thoughts this morning. thank you, stephanie. the hearing with james comey is set to start in over an hour and the senate hearing for neil gorsuch is happening this morning. we are going bring them to you
based on what he said, republicans are pressing for answers about the collusion claim. he also seemed to acknowledge thathatevepiece of evidence that the ranking member was talking about on meet the press this weekend, adam schiff called it circumstantial evidence of collusion, different from contacts with russians. he seems to acknowledge he has seen whatever that piece of evidence may be and he s drawing different conclusions from it. brian? casey hunt from outside the hearing room, thank you. congressman peter king well known to television viewers. nicolle wallace, mr. comey is 6 8 , father of five. when he walks in the room, we will be aware of it. won t miss it. let s continue the conversation before the interview about how the president started his day. well, he started the day like no normal president starts their day but the way he likes to start his day. you need to back up to the weekend.
into this investigation to connect the dots and iran. he and the team s connections to russia. it s important we clear that up to proceed with the investigation. right now, the american people want to know, were they mere coincidences theies wit russia or a convergence with working with russia as they were running their interference campaign during the 2016 election. help us understand what you know, your colleague, adam schiff says there was collusion between the trump campaign and the white house as it relates to ties during the campaign, yet david nunez says there wasn t any. what evidence do you believe there were ties? unlike any campaign we have seen in history, donald trump and his team have extensive ties to russia. that, in and of itself, is not illegal. however, look at when were the