Confronting internal revolt over the House Health Care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president Obama Wiretapped phones at trump tower. A lot of americans need to know. Reporter amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between Trumps Campaign and russia. Leaders of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee also Hopeful Comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. Theyre about to screw up big time if they keep running to the Intel Committee and not answer that letter. Reporter earlier this week sean spicer qualified trumps accusation, but now hes sounding defiant. He feels very confident it will ultimately come of this, it will vindicate him. Reporter lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showing growing frustration about the white houses failure to provide any evidence to support trumps extraordinary claim. I think, frankly, the
administration should come forward with whatever proof they have. Leveling a charge like that is a huge deal. You do not make those kinds of allegations, criminal allegations against a former president as he did so recklessly. Reporter this as the white house battles criticism from gop conservatives and moderates over the trump endorsed Health Care Plan following the release of the Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report estimating 24 million more americans will be uninsured by 2026 under the gops replacement plan. Right now im a firm no. I candidly dont see how we get to 216. Im concerned. Thats not what President Trump promised. Thats not what republicans ran on. Reporter one top gop source saying, quote, headlines are terrible, fraying nerves within the gop. Reporter republican senator Lisa Murkowski refusing to
allegations, russia on mind. The man on your screen, republican senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina. Hes a member of the judiciary and Armed Services committees. You will get face time with james comey, the director of the fbi today. You have criticized that the fbi has not been forthcoming enough to your liking. Number one, Director Comey will not appear before the Judiciary Committee. Hes not a witness. We have four people who will talk about what russia does all over the world to interfere with democracies, the tools in their tool box. We wrote a letter, senator white dlooes house and myself wanting to know if theres evidence of a warrant issued by the Trump Campaign. He hasnt answered that letter or confirmed if theres a Trl Investigation of the Trump Campaign. He needs to answer the letter and give the nation some information about whats going on here. Three things. One, i thought he was coming today before the Judiciary Committee to say whether or not hes investigating ties between russia and the trump
administration. Thats not true . No. Theres a misunderstanding here. Two weeks ago we met with Director Comey, senator whitehouse and myself. I told him by The 15th Of March id like to know if theres a Criminal Investigation because im about to launch a congressional investigation of russia. I dont want to interfere with your investigation. I think its very important that Congress Know whether or not theres a Criminal Investigation so that what were doing doesnt interfere with what comey may be doing. If theres not a Criminal Investigation of the trump ties to russia, i think the country needs to know it, Congress Needs to know it, and he has never promised to answer that quest n question. Chairman grassley said something very important yesterday, that he would be willing to block the Deputy Attorney generals nomination until Director Comey gave us the information we sought regarding warrants and investigations. So nothing could happen today in terms o of the fbi. He may decide not to come forward. Youre saying hes not on the plan and hasnt answered your letter. So what we would do next is subpoena the information. I like Director Comey. Hes in a bad spot here. You have the current president accusing the former president of basically having his campaign surveilled. The way you would do that is get a warrant either through the fisa court or a criminal court. I want to get to the bottom of it. The fbi would know if a warrant was issued, they would know if a warrant was applied for. I want to answer that question. If they do not provide the answer to that letter we wrote in a bipartisan fashion, there will be a bipartisan subpoena following the fbi. Hold on a second. You gave the fbi until the ides of march, march 15th i dont know if that was intentional. That was a dramatic play. If he does not come before the committee today, if he does not fond to the letter, youll subpoena the fbi. I never asked him to appear in person today. I like comey. I think hes a good man. I want to know dont you want to know if theres a Criminal Investigation of the Trump Campaign . Yeah. Dont you want to know if theres a warrant issued . You will subpoena the fbi, is that what youre saying . I will subpoena the information requested in the letter with the support of my chairman Senator Grassley who has been terrific. The n Rahhinging Democrat is senator feinstein. They have helped senator whitehouse and myself. Congress is going to flex its muscles. The president of the United States asked congress to look into this as to whether or not the Trump Campaign was surveilled during the 2016 election by the federal government. Im going to get to the bottom of it. If it needs a subpoena to get there, thats what well do. The subpoena would be for the wiretapping, not for information about any evidence linking russian interference to anybody in the trump orbit . You got it. We want to know if a warrant was ever issued, the information provided to the judge or judges in question, what did you give
them . Did they give you a warrant . I want to know that. Thats the letter which would be backed up by subpoena. The question is there an active investigation of the Trump Campaign regarding their ties to russia . No one has ever told me there is. Director of National Intelligence clapper said a couple weeks ago on his watch there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russians. So i want to know that this has been raised by the current president , i think congress should look into all things russia. If theres a Criminal Investigation, chris, i dont want to get in the middle of that, because that should be protected. Thats why youre not going to include it in the subpoena. Right. You also implied that you dont think theres anything to the wiretapping allegation. You think the president put it out as a distraction. Youve been one of the proponents of the simple logic is he should pick up the phone. Jim comey is not going to duck him the way hes ducking you. Thats his boss. He could know the information right away and declassify the information. Is that true . Number one, i dont know if the president can pick up the phone and ask questions about an investigation of his campaign. The bottom line is people have asked the president to deliver any information you have, the trump people, about what may have occurred. Theyve given us nothing. Ive seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. Ive seen no evidence of a wiretap being requested by the department of justice, a warrant. But the longer it takes to answer my letter, the more concerned and si suspicious im beginning to be. I think the law is fairly clear. Whether she should is an ethical consideration. You can talk about that all day. It might be legal, too, actually. So i dont know. The flip side of it is this. People say you keep talking about the russian connections and contacts and theres nothing there. Clapper came out and said theres no proof of collusion. Comey has not jumped at the
chance to tell you what hes doing with any russian investigation. This is about political hate directed towards the president. I dont have political hate directed towards the president. Ive talked to him twice in the last week, had great conversations about health care and national security. But the president raised this issue a week or so ago saying he believed his campaign was wiretapped by the former president. There would be a way to find that out. Once you raise it, youve got to answer the question. Is there a warrant . Was a warrant ever issued by any judge anywhere in america to allow the Trump Campaign to be wiretapped . Im going to find the answer to that. If there is a Criminal Investigation on going regarding the Trump Campaign and their ties to russia, i want to know. Im going to pursue all things russia because here is what i do know, the russians tried to interfere with our election. I dont think they changed the outcome. It wasnt a 400pound guy sitting on his bed who hacked into the dnc. It was russian intelligence services. They took that information, gave it to wikileaks and tried to
basically embarrass secretary clinton, and if we dont stop russia, it could be iran and china tomorrow. It could be republicans on the Receiving End of this. Those are separate considerations, right . Right. Why they did and how they did what they did as russia, thats something everybody believes deserves inspection. Whether or not trump had something to do with it is a separate inquiry. Absolutely. To this point there hasnt been any proof of that. Youre right. I have seen no hefd. I have requested whether or not any evidence exists. To get a warrant to follow the Trump Campaign, theres two ways you can do it, the Foreign Intelligence Services act would allow you to follow Campaign Operatives if you believe theyre interacting with foreign agents. The second way is a criminal warrant to follow the Trump Campaign if you believe theyre taking services from a Foreign Government in violation of our campaign laws. I want to know were either of those warrants ever issued. I dont believe they were, but the longer it takes to answer that question, the more suspicious i get. Senator, lets get at the real question thats behind all this. You either believe whats coming out of this white house or you dont. Thats something you guys are having to deal with. I know theres a lot of spin. I know what politics is. I grew up in it. Right. But this is different. Do you believe whats coming out of this white house on a daily basis, or do you feel that you have to check everything these days . Well, i dont believe that the statement made by President Trump that he believes the Obama Administration surveilled his campaign is something very, very serious. And he challenged the continue to get to the bottom of it, and i will. You cant leave that hanging. In termination of the president s efforts to Reform Health care, ive been impressed by how much time hes spent as a person to try to get a better bill. Republicans have an opportunity to do this by ourselves. We also have an opportunity to screw it up by ourselves. Right now the house bill in my view will have a hard time getting through the senate. Rand paul says he cant vote for refundable tax credits in the house bill because thats an entitlement in another name. Medicaid in the house bill allows for open enrollment for another year and a half to two years, and thats a problem for me. The president is working hard to find a bill that will replace obamacare. My advice to the president , if you cant find a better plan coming from republicans, dont buy it just because the republicans want to sell it to you. Let Obamacare Collapse, and it will. Then try to replace it in a bipartisan fashion. Thats what i would recommend he do. I want to hear from you before we let you go about why you think obamacare is going to collapse. But i want to go back to one question i didnt get an answer from you on. I said do you believe whats coming out of the white house on a regular basis. On the wiretapping allegation, i get that because the president raised it and put it on you, you have an opportunity to dig into
it. Im asking you, just like with wiretapping which you dont seem to buy, do you feel that has become part of the normal now which is, they say things that arent necessarily true which you have to check up on . Well, i think every president says things sometimes that doesnt work out. This was at another level. I never heard this before he accused the president of a felony, called him a bad or sick man. Right. He didnt seem to base it on fringe reporting. Right. I want to make sure that the accusation that the former president was involved in surveilling the current president is put to bed forever. As to this president , i had a good conversation about how to rebuild the military. Were talking closely about health care, how you can put an Infrastructure Bill together. I want to work with President Trump. Its not a Credibility Problem other than this one issue to me has to be solved. Well leave the deeper discussion about health care to another day when we understand
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