somewhere else, but just a massive effort right now. the police helicopter overhead as well. just a massive effort going on here right now to figure out where this individual is and to figure out if there is any danger in that van they believe they have in this neighborhood. wolf? stand by, miguel. i want to bring in chief ramsey, our law enforcement analyst, d.c. police commissioner, philadelphia police commissioner. chief ramsey, what would you specifically be looking for as we await this news conference from law enforcement in new york? i believe we ll get some more information. whether or not we get the actual picture of the individual or name of the individual remains to be seen, but they ve got a lot of things they re working right now. they ve got the van, they know the name of the person who rented it, they probably have surveillance taking place on a couple locations where this person may be, or known to frequent. so there are a lot of things
people. they were in a panic that the russians had taken over the trump campaign and there is all the stuff going back and forth. that explains why you had to surveillance taking place. martha: we got to leave it there. thank you, very much. good to see you as always. president trump was returning home tonight to new york for the first time since becoming president. any moment now, we expect him to step in front of that podium at the uss intrepid, which is an amazing museum, right here on the hudson river. he is there tonight. we ll take you there live as well coming up. also, coming up, late night host stephen colbert said he would change a few words from his anti-trump grand that got him a lot of heat this week. but did not back away from the meaning of the message. his is just the latest in a long line of comedians who seem to have lost, some say, their sense of humor when it comes to the president. raising the question, who took the fun out of late-night? howard kurtz joins us.
saying now, no evidence that obama wiretapped trump. speaker ryan saying again today, the white house is is the white house ready to back down now? it s a question we ll pose to the president today. he said through his press secretary he wanted senate and house intelligence committees to investigate this claim he made against his successor, president obama. it appears the senate at least has done that and they found no indications of not just any wiretapping but of any surveillance taking place before or after the 2016 election. the question is, does the president accept those findings. will he concede it wasn t true and, in fact, apologize to president obama for it? more broadly, the intention of this briefing today was to focus on this budge the budget that cludesome significant increases in spending on defense, homeland security, immigration enforcement, as well as veterans care but it does it by offsetting it with