we begin with president trump s claim that barack obama s administration placed trump tower under surveillance during last year s election campaign. committee have now said they see no indications that this ever happened, while the chairmen of the house intelligence committee have also said they don t believe mr trump s allegation. and britain s communications ifieellifififife éfiéfiffi f f 7, f gchq, said the suggestion that it wiretapped donald trump during the election campaign were utterly ridiculous and should be ignored . from washington, our correspondent tulip mazumder reports. as presidentjohn‘s st patrick s day celebrations got under way, minus a green tie, another controversy looms large. his tweets from a couple of weeks back dreaming that his predecessor, barack weeks back dreaming that his predecessor, ba rack obama weeks back dreaming that his predecessor, barack obama had tapped predecessor, ”figgggg,grlhgmgrhgdtgmgg phone keep coming
it s rare for britain s intelligence community to make a public statement about anything. so the fact that gchq felt it had to rebut allegations that it spied on donald trump shows how seriously they took the comments made by the white house press secretary, sean spicer. gchq said the claims were nonsense, utterly ridiculous, and should be ignored . £225 i292; £553,516? £52531 ”777 , downing street says it s been promised by the white house that the allegations won t be repeated. it is an extraordinary claim, that donald trump was bugged by gchq on the orders of barack obama, a claim that has led to strenuous denials from london. it was first tweeted by president trump who said his phone had been tapped before his inauguration. he said president obama was a bad or sick guy. the intelligence committee said there was no evidence. the evidence remains the same, we do not have any evidence that took place. we have cleared that up, we have seen no evidence of that. wher