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Sean Spicer's Wiretap Wavering (3.10.17)

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Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Young Turks, Donald Trump, Jamie Benson, Progressive, News, Bernie Sanders, Progressive Talk, Liberal, Cnn, Msnbc, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Thom Hartmann

4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press welcomes Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Adam Wollner, & Pema Levy to discuss the White House's inconsistent messaging on Donald Trump's wiretapping claims, the Democratic response to Paul Ryan's Powerpoint presentation on health care, & the latest on Trump's Russian connections - all the big highlights from this Friday 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.

0:11.8

So where do we start today?

0:13.0

Well, let's start with the fact that you haven't heard from Donald Trump this week, have you?

0:17.4

Uh-uh.

0:18.0

Guess why?

0:19.1

Because he stepped in a big time last Saturday when he tweeted

0:23.1

out that Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap of his phones at Trump headquarters at Trump Tower

0:31.3

during the last days of the campaign. Now, of course, that didn't happen. He hasn't shown any

0:36.9

proof, not at all. He has put

0:39.7

everybody around him on the spot because they can't confirm it, because, again, it never happened.

0:47.1

And by the way, just by the way, right, this might have some relevance here. The president of the United States cannot

0:55.6

order the FBI to tap anybody's phones. Does not have the legal authority to do that. That was

1:02.8

taken away after Richard Nixon did it back in Watergate days. But it does what, here's what Donald Trump didn't expect.

1:12.9

It raises the question, well, if somebody was tapping his phones, why were they?

1:19.2

And the only people who could have been doing it was the FBI, which would have to go to FISA, the FISA court, to get a warrant.

1:26.3

So if they were, you see where this is going, if they

1:30.0

were tapping his phones, they had to have gone to FISA, the FISA court, and they had to

1:37.0

prove to the FISA court that there was some reasonable suspicion of criminal activity for them to do so.

1:45.8

So if indeed Donald Trump's phones are being tapped, it's because he is under investigation.

1:53.1

Now, we don't know that for sure, but that's what really is this is all about.

1:58.4

And that's why all week long, unusual for him, Donald Trump has

2:02.5

not taken one question from one reporter, even though he has had lots of events where they

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