list of reports having to do with the president. he sparred with the president s claim. the president has been very clear when he talked about this last night, we talked about wiretapping, hen meant surveillance and there have been incidents that have occurred. are you saying that the president still stands by his allegations that president obama ordered wiretapping or surveillance of trump tower despite the fact that the senate intelligence committee say they see no indication it happened. does the president standby it? you re mischaracterizing what happened today. he was clear about this last night. he said he meant it. it was very broad. so that s what he meant by the use of the term. was it phone tapping? it was surveillance. the house intelligence committee will begin holding public hearings on monday. james comey is expected to testify.
york times. if you watch what he was saying and how he mentioned the word wiretap and he mentioned it and other people have mentioned it. sean spicer went further suggesting those two congressional intelligence committee simply don t have the evidence they need to say definitively that the president is wrong. he talked about last night and wiretapping, he meant surveillance. there is incidents that occurred. i believe he was. can you say that he feels like barack obama wired trump tower or surveillance or which is it? he was clear about this last night. he talked about it as you said. he meant it and put it in quotes and it was broad. that is what he meant by the use of the term. was it phone tapping? no, it was surveillance. we covered this ten times.
the president has been very clear when he talked about this and he talked about it last night. we talked about wiretapping he meant surveillance. there have been incidents that have occurred. are you saying that the president still stands by his allegation that president obama ordered wiretapping or surveillance of trump tower, despite the fact that the senate intelligence committee says they see no indication that it happened? does the president still stand by the allegation? he stands by it but you re mischaracterizing what happened today. look. he was very clear about this last night. he talked about it, he said that he meant it. he put it in quotes. it was very broad. and so that is what he meant by the use of the term. so was it phone tapping? no. it was surveillance. i think we covered this, like, ten times. he did say donald trump in the march 4th tweet explicitly it was a wiretap ordered by president obama. public hearings will be held on monday. fbi director james
last night. he talked about it as you see. reporter: he wasn t clear. he put it in quotes, very broad. reporter: so was it phone tapping? no, it was sveillance and i think we ve covered this ten times. now the controversy has triggered what could be considered an international incident. the white house having to explain to british officials that spicer was simply pointing to public reports, not endorsing any specific story or the information in it. after the british spy agency in a rare public statement vehemently denied claims, calling them nonsense, all this as the president s top diplomat secretary of state rex tillerson is overseas and issuing a stark warning that military action against north korea is on the table. we re covering all the big headlines. andrea is in south korea covering secretary tillerson, here in washington nbc white house correspondent hallie jackson, the guardian political supporter sabrina
two of them he said he tap his phones. minutes ago you said it was communications being swept up so does he feel like the tower:was tapped or surveilled? he was clear about that last night. it was in quotes, it was broad. that s what he meant was it phone tapping or oh. no. surveillance. we covered this ten times. there s no specific answer what it was. what i understand that. but that s the point of them looking into this, katelyn. the idea is to look into this. have this house and senate intelligence committee look into in and report back. i want to follow up on that. if all of this comes out and there s no proof that president obama had any role in any wiretapping, there was no wiretapping, will president trump offered and apology i d say this three times this week. the answer is we re not going to