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Trump's Baseless Claims of Wiretapping (3.6.17)

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4.7601 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bill Press is out so executive producer Peter Ogburn is filling in. He welcomes Paul Singer, Cate Martel, & Patrick Tucker to discuss Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, whether or not Congress will investigate these baseless claims, what to expect from the new travel ban, & a full timeline that explains what prompted Trump to tweet at 6am on a Saturday - all the big highlights from this Monday 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.

0:11.9

6.49 a.m. on Saturday morning. Right? Here we are. It's the weekend. He's on vacation in Florida. I wake up early because I have this

0:25.5

constant anxiety of creeping death over my shoulder. And who do I see tweeting but our president

0:30.9

of the United States? 6.49 a.m. Saturday morning. Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my, quote,

0:39.5

wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory.

0:44.1

The victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism.

0:50.2

Uh, that is a hell of a claim.

0:59.9

That a sitting United States president, Barack Obama tapped into a private citizen's

1:10.4

phones at his place of residence.

1:14.6

That is shocking.

1:18.6

Shocking.

1:20.1

It would be the biggest political scandal since Watergate.

1:24.5

It would be the biggest political scandal since Watergate. Lindsay Graham is correct on that.

1:29.4

It would be a gigantic scandal. Did it happen? Well, we don't know. Donald Trump went on. He says,

1:38.0

is it legal, this is more of his garbage tweets, is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping a race for president prior to an election

1:45.3

turned down by a court earlier, all caps, a new low. He goes on, I bet a good lawyer can make a

1:53.0

great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October just prior to the

1:57.4

election. How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process?

2:04.3

The very sacred election process.

2:07.5

He goes on, this is Nixon slash Watergate, bad or sick guy about Barack Obama.

2:16.7

First of all, you keep the name of Barack Obama out of your snake mouth.

2:20.8

First of all.

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