Any better. Craig, thank you. Thank you. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us, dont forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. Just go to cnngo, a. C. 360 s. T. A. R. T. Starts right now. And good evening, thank you for joining us. Were waiting to hear from fbi director james comey whos going to speak at a dinner for the Intelligence Community. Well bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. Earlier today, the top two members, the Senate Intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. And while its obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape its going to take, its hard to miss the sharp contrast between todays rollout between straight
forward, devoid of policy, a train wreck over on the house side. Both the house and the Senate Intelligence committees are supposed to investigate russian meddling in the last election as well as poli
transition. from there he went to the white house and briefed the president on what was troubling to the white house. does this seem to describe what the president was talking about the quote wiretapping that was talked about as broader surveillance? you what i have read seems to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i don t know that it s right, and i don t know that the american people will be comfortable with what i have read, but let us get all the reports. chairman, was the president involved? it is possible. bear in mind that chairman nunes spoke to the press, paul ryan and the press again. and then the president makes a public statement saying he feels somewhat vindicated, even though
house this afternoon to share what i know with the president and his team. reporter: but before nunes had a chance to brief he president, white house press secretary, sean spicer, was peppered with questions about the curious timing of it all. the president said he had additional information he believed the white house or he or his representatives would present related to this investigation, what congressman nunes has is not related to that? you re asking me questions he has not briefed us. he has not briefed the president. reporter: nunes was back in front of the cameras wednesday afternoon after talking to the president. when asked about those claims by donald trump that he was wiretapped, nunes response was, you could say a bit complicated. this seemed to describe what the president was talking about, talking about quote wiretapping which they then said was broader surveillance? you when you what i ve
other seen other people caught in these cross fires. the democrats want to put pressure on wiretapping. the big question is how much will those two issues distract with the underlying reason we re having this investigation in the first place, which is the election legitimate. was he elected freely, or was he elected with the help of a foreign power? and, so, wiretapping and leaks could not that they are not important issues, but they could distract from that main underlying question. you just asked that question of the ages that you laid out there for us. the question is, your thought, i m curious tomorrow, will we see an 80% collusion question now that adam shif is using that word or 20% wiretapping? what s the balance? well, the wiretapping could be put to rest really quickly. as you said just a yes or no question and we could move on immediately. i would guess that comes up early. but earlier on meet the press, adam shif did say he wants to
don t know and that s why we say may or may not be looking into these ties at the moment. stay with you tara. any sense of the white house, how they might be working to prep for what comey might say, the reaction to what he might say? right. i mean, if he completely dismisses trump s claims of wiretapping and puts that to rest, the president s credibility is on the line. and it will show that this white house refers to news reports based on secondhand and third hand information, calling into question the credibility of the press department and even more than that the executive branch and i don t know how they re going to be able to handle questions at the press briefing about this. if comey says there is absolutely no evidence of wiretapping and even goes further to say that there is no evidence of any sort of surveillance, this is going to be a huge issue. and i m sure they will try to find a caveat, do some tap dancing around, oh, well maybe outside of trump tower.