President s maralago estate. What are you hearing from the fbi that the Justice Department came forward asked the Justice Department to come forward and knock down the president s claims. Probably has never happened before, pamela, as you know from covering this. Its a pretty Extraordinary Development. So sometime over the weekend, the fbi went to the department of justice and requested and asked them in conversations to refute basically President Trump to say, hey, this did not happen. These allegations that hes made that president obama was involved in some sort of wiretapping of his phone. By extension, i think the director was concerned that the fbi would somehow be blamed for this. And quite frankly, by this request, the fbi is saying this did not happen. We did not wiretap his phones. Yesterday we spoke with a former senior Law Enforcement official who had direct knowledge of the investigation from the department of justice. They, too, confirmed this never happened. So today were learning its a pretty significant thing for the chief Law Enforcement officer to basically now ask for the department of justice to refute what the president is saying. Right. So this is certainly not something that the president wants as a headline. It comes on the heels of the reporting that you have that there has been frustration between the president and his team. The president expressed that frustration regarding their handling of these russian reports. So what are you hearing . Hi, pamela, youre right. This is another bad headline for the white house. I can tell you since yesterday weve been reporting that the president was angry on friday when he was preparing to leave the white house to come down here to florida. He was angry at his senior staff, also with his communications team, his press team. Hes described as showing increasing flashes of anger over their performance, particularly in particular he was angry about the handling of the story the reports around attorney general Jeff Sessions and his conversations with the Russian Ambassador and the fact he had to recuse himself from the investigation into all of this. Hes concerned that those the focus on those stories overshadowed what he saw as very good reviews from his speech tuesday night before joint session of congress. The president was also mad about nonstop leaks that he feels are undermining his administration. One source describing the president on friday said, quote, nobody has seen him that upset. And now just today a few hours ago we learned through my colleague white house producer that the president s angry mood followed him down here to maralago. This is according to people who spoke with him at his resort over the past 24 hours where he continued to express frustrations with his team and handling of russia these questions about russia ties. They said his anger was not directed at any particular aide but he did gripe that his staff had failed to contain the russia story. These sources also say that the president angrily raised the wiretapping issue unprompted in his conversations with friends and acquaintances. While he didnt say what the information he was basing these accusations, what that information was, he did tell these members, these friends that he expected an investigation to prove him wrong. So were getting a little bit of information, a little bit of color about the president s mood over the last several days and it hasnt been good. It certainly has not. Athena jones, thank you so much. This report no doubt helping his mood. I want to talk about this with our panel, cnn david gergen, adviser to president ford, reagan, nixon, former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. Tom, this request from the fbi to the department of justice to knock down this claim by the president , is this unprecedented . I cant remember another time when Something Like this happened. So i think yes, as far as i can tell it is unprecedented. I think that its interesting that what seems to be a request of the department of justice has actually knocked down the story. It doesnt matter now that the department of justice concurs or not, and im not sure who would. If we have the attorney general sessions recusing himself on matters related to campaign investigations and all this related to the investigation, then who is the request going to go to in the department of justice. This is similar to what happened last july when attorney general lynch said at the time shell go with whatever recommendation fbi makes. Yet again, we have a situation where we dont have a fully on board attorney general with regard to this case. And its unlikely Something Like this would happen without the approval of the fbi director james comey. So what do you make of this remarkable rebuke, sectionally, david gergen, from the nations top Law Enforcement official, basically questioning the truthfulness of the president . Remarkable, historic, never seen any of this before. You know, we saw early in the week with his speech to congress that donald trump has the capacity to hit new highs in his presidency. But were seeing at the end of the week he it sink to new lows. He made history at the end of the week with these tweets. Weve never had in American History i can recall a sitting president accuse a former president of a crime. And doing so without a shred of evidence being presented to the public. And then the president essentially sneaks off the stage and says he wont take any questions about it. He doesnt want to talk about it. He doesnt want his staff to talk about it. Were left hanging with this very bizarre story in which there seems to be no hard evidence so far that president obama or any tapped mr. Trumps phones or there was taps on trump tower. Instead Brian Stelter said in the last few minutes in your last report, pamela, what we have is a president who makes something up or reads it from breitbart and throws it out there without evidence and asks congress to investigate. Weve never seen that either. So director comey, tom, has not shied away from basically going solo without the support of the Justice Department we saw. A couple of examples of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe. So in this case, why wouldnt he just come out and say this is simply not true. The fbi was not wiretapping his phone. Well, in a way he has. I think thats the essence of whats coming out. He has because the media reported the request was made. Why wouldnt the fbi put out a statement . Why wouldnt james comey come out and Say Something . Because of what happened last summer when he was chastised for single handedly saying he wouldnt recommend charges, when thats really the purview of the department of justice. Technically he would normally confer with the attorney general. But as i mentioned, when the attorney general yet again we have an attorney general being removed by themselves from being in the decision making. So now who does he ask and where it go . Theres no indication . He doesnt have a Deputy Attorney general to confer with or seek permission. I think thats interesting he would just go ahead with this and put the request in a way that, you know, ensured that it would come out publicly within a matter of a day or two, which it has done. Of course the fbi would know if there was a wiretap, fisa warrant on then president ial candidates phone. David gergen i can clarify that, pamela . Yes. The fbi is the only federal agency to conduct fifa wiretaps. Exactly, which is what im saying. They would absolutely know. Thats what im saying. The fbi would know. So david gergen, why wouldnt the president do, perhaps, a little bit more investigating . Why couldnt he see Something Like this happening where he makes an allegation like this and then, you know, his own agency, the fbi could knock it down. Of course the fbi knows what the reality is . Jay tapper has been reporting from his contacts at the white house. They seem to be the aides of the president seem to be saying to him, listen, he picked this up from breitbart. What a conservative radio commentator said, he hasnt picked this up from official government sources. Have you to wonder, pamela, to your very good question. My sense is this is only an interpretation, that he was so frustrated and so angry that hes been looking for a way to go back on offense in terms of pr. He wanted to move the focus away from Jeff Sessions. He wanted to get away from what he thought was a bad story. He was angry at his people. He came up with a way saturday morning to invent a whole news story. Is this the kind of news story . I mean, if this is an intent to distract from the past headlines, is this any better . No. I think its worse. I think it does no honor to him and does no honor to his office. Im astonished that were here. Weve never seen a situation like this. What i do think is were going to now have were going to have deeper investigations and Intelligence Committees. Whats been interesting is the Senate Intelligence committee is out front in terms of conducting an examination ahead of the house. The senators saw no evidence about this. They want to inquire. Like marco rubio says, i dont know what hes talking about. I have to ask you this, tom fuentes, as weve seen the president is not afraid to fire people. He fired sally yates, Deputy Attorney general after she basically went against his travel ban. It makes you wonder whats going to happen now in this relationship between the president and fbi director, james comey. Do you think there will be any relationship left to salvage, tom . Good question. Again, this is uncharted territory. Its a good question whats going to happen in the days ahead in terms of all of this. To davids point about the fact there are numerous investigations, if they are going to be investigating whether there was a fisa wiretap on President Trump or his people, thats going to be a quick investigation if, in fact, there wasnt any and the director is about ready or has already stated there wasnt any. So quick investigation. Is it possible there could have been anybody else that wiretapped without investigation . Is that possible . Everybody else under the sunil legally. Private investigators. You have people that could have done it, but thats a serious felony to engage in a wiretap illegally. Now, you know, it was alluded to by former director of National Intelligence clapper this morning made a comment about you could have other agencies. What he means is criminal wiretaps dont go to fisa tap but each judge in a judicial district. Those kind of wiretaps if its based on criminal probable cause can be conducted by the fbi, dea, several other federal agencies can conduct criminal wiretaps. But fisa is only exclusive do maybe of the fbi. And to be clear, we dont know if theres fisa warrants on any associates during the campaign or an investigation on someone living in trump tower. But what we do know is that the president claimed in his tweet that obama had ordered a wiretap of his phones. And now you have the former head of the dni, james clapper, saying he wasnt aware of this. Now we have this new reporting from shimon that fbi asked dea to knock it down because it wasnt true. A Fascinating Development in this story that developed as of saturday morning with that tweet. 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