Evidence. Senators Lindsey Graham and sheldon whitehouse, however, who lead a judiciary subcommittee sent a letter to that Department Today asking about any wiretapping warrants against the Trump Campaign. Good for them. Senator graham said today the country needs answers on this. Lets watch him. President trump claims that president Obama Administration targeted his campaign, trump tower, in the tweet. I have no knowledge of that, but hes challenged the congress to help him so lets help. Not trying to compromise classified information. Not trying to compromise an investigation. The question is, has there ever been a warrant issued . This is a major deal for the country. I want to get to the bottom of it. He knows what hes talking about. Whats at stake is the reputation of the u. S. Country of america, you might say. The president accused the u. S. Government under his predecessor of tapping his phones. Wow. Well, senator tim kaine said today that kind of behavior coming from the white
Like global warming. We cant do that if people feel embarrassed to be associated with the United States. You combine that with the fact that the State Department has essentially been neutered, e s eviscerated by this administration thus far and watching in real time as america and americas image withdraws from the world. Do you know any republican senator or member of the house whos a republican, any party member of any party who believes the president believes he was wiretapped, who even believes he believes it . I dont think anybody knows exactly what donald trump believes and what he doesnt believe. I think whats scary to many republicans is that theyve had the opportunity to walk this back and theyre putting not only the presidency and the reputation of the presidency, but the reputation of the entire country at risk, the longer that this floats out there. The reality is is congress can ask the Department Of Justice as to whether theres a wiretap, bul but if theres an active invest
duly authorized surveillance? and so kerry, where are we with what the congressional investigators on say the house intel committee like devin nunes are going to be able to get out of the doj and the fbi? well, that s the real difficult thing for the public to discern is what the house intelligence committee is doing. are they exercising their lawful and appropriate oversight under the national security act? or are they doing political favors or potentially legal defense favors for the president? and so it s difficult to decide. i really put this latest quote unquote scandal because i think it s a contrived scandal with respect to the source same category of the unmasking of the situation. it was handled proently but that the house intelligence committee tried to make into a political scandal with going back to march of 2017 when the president tweeted that former president obama had, quote, wiretapped
investigation wait a minute. let s narrow this down. sure. you re saying if they wire if who? what active i m talking about the schism question, did president obama order a wiretap on candidate trump? there s what active investigation would that be? would involve that? you mean if there s an active investigation as to what his role was with the russians, you mean? no. correct. i don t think there s any doubt the covert agents or department of justice could answer the question as to whether or not president obama ordered it. the question of whether there is a wiretap or was a wiretap, that s something that congress often asks and doesn t get answers. okay. here s a reaction, by the way, senator john mccain to the president s charge. i think that the president of the united states who has stated categorically that trump tower was wiretapped, that he should come forward with the information that led him to that conclusion. it s a very serious charge against the previou
the question of whether there is a wiretap or was a wiretap, that s something that congress often asks and doesn t get answers. okay. here s a reaction, by the way, senator john mccain to the president s charge. i think that the president of the united states who has stated categorically that trump tower was wiretapped, that he should come forward with the information that led him to that conclusion. it s a very serious charge against the previous president of the united states. well senator mccain, i think, is from the sane era of politics. here s how some other top republicans reacted including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and chair of the senate and house intelligence committees. i think we have an existing committee, the intelligence committee, looking at all aspects of what may have been done last year related to the russians or the campaigns and we ll leave it there. have you seen any evidence of that?