Other issues so i think part of this is political gamesmanship. it s a strategic choice to try to solve two problems at once. i m not sure it will work. the freedom caucus and the house of representatives is not happy with a lot of this and come december which is not that far off we re still going to have to deal with the budgetary issues. thank you so much. you ll be back both in a moment. coming up the justice department weighing in on president trump s claims that former president barack obama wiretapped him during his campaign. the details next. destruction is massive, families have lost everything. the final impact not yet known. but you can help. go to cnn.com/impact, for information and to find links to charitable organizations and
Even at the end of the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. we re following breaking news out of washington. the justice department revealed it has found no evidence, zero evidence that donald trump tower was wiretapped. both fbi and nsd confirmed that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the march 4, 2017 tweets. among the tweets were these accusations. terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in the trump tower before the victory. this is mccarthyism. has low has president obama gone to tap my phones? this is nixon/watergate. bad or sick guy. let s bring in cnn political
Justice department weighing in on the fight over who will pick up leadership of the consumer financial protection bureau tomorrow. the justice department office of legal counsel says the law allows president trump to name the acting director, but legal experts think it s not clear, and that this battle may need to be decided in court. nbc s morgan radford has the back story on all of this. reporter: just hours after the agency s first director, richard cord ray, stepped down on friday, he promoted his chief of staff to a position that would put her in charge. but then, president trump fired back, with his own appointment. saying mick mulvaney, the white house budget director, would oversee things. setting off a political firestorm. mulvaney, previously called the organization a sick, sad joke. some of us would like to get rid of it because we don t like the idea of there being a nonaccountable federal agency, which is sets a terrible precedent. reporter: his new rival leandra eng
A white house spokes woman, lindsay walters, fired a warning shot in her to the times, saying, the president is as strong as he s ever been in iowa and every ambitious republican knows that. tillerson is in the philippines for a security forum with world leaders including north korea s foreign minister. this comes one day after the u.n. unanimously passed a new round of sanctions on north korea for its nuclear provocation and other inn vu.n. violations. here s what nikki haley, u.s. ambassador to the u.n., said this morning. it s time for north korea to realize we re not playing anymore. north korea has the opportunity to do the right thing. and by stopping this reckless behavior. we will now see. but the united states will respond based on north korea s actions. also new today, the justice department weighing in on president trump s renewed attacks on hillary clinton. trump basically suggested at a campaign rally that the doj should investigate clinton. here s what deputy attorn