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🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Bill Press is out so Sabrina Siddiqui (The Guardian) is filling in. She welcomes Vann R. Newkirk II, Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), & Faiz Shakir to discuss the White House's lack of evidence on Donald Trump's wiretapping claims, the Republicans' intraparty divide on health care, a moderate Democrat's take on the health care fight, & the ACLU's fight against Muslim Ban 2.0 - all the big highlights from this Wednesday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is Bill Press and Friends on the District Productive Network.
0:11.4	Donald Trump, in his characteristic way, took to Twitter to make an outrageous and explosive claim that President Obama ordered his phones to be wiretapped in Trump Tower prior to the election.
0:28.6	He called the former president a quote unquote bad or sick guy.
0:33.7	Also, of course, is the fact that Republicans in Congress have no idea what to do about Donald Trump's claims.
0:41.7	We've never been down this road before, right, Peter?
0:44.5	No.
0:45.2	Well, Mitch McConnell said he has seen no evidence that any such wiretapping occurred.
0:52.0	Same goes for Devin Nunes, who is the chair of the House Intelligence
0:56.5	Committee tasked with investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election, which of course is the
1:01.5	basis for all of the drama surrounding the wiretapping issue. It's because there's, again,
1:09.5	more scrutiny over potential links between associates
1:12.2	of Donald Trump and Russian operatives that he levied this unsubstantiated wiretapping claim
1:19.8	against Obama. And Devin Nunes, I was on Capitol Hill, Peter, yesterday provided a
1:27.2	weekly update on their investigation.
1:30.6	One newsy item was that the first public hearing on the House Intelligence Committee's
1:34.9	investigation into Russia will be on Monday, March 20th.
1:39.7	And among the people invited to testify are James Comey, the director of the FBI, former director
1:45.6	of National Intelligence James Clapper, Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general under
1:53.4	Obama who was fired when she would not, when she said she would not defend Donald Trump's
2:00.8	initial travel ban.
2:03.2	But when the wiretapping issue came up, Devin Nunes decided to offer a very familiar line to us reporters,
2:13.7	chastising the media for reading into what Donald Trump says and does.
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