This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Monday, March 6, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

When the president accuses his predecessor of targeting his own campaign for wiretapping.

It's worth taking notice.

Julian Sanchez, senior fellow at the Cato Institute,

says the specific claim that President Obama wiretapped

Trump Tower, so far at least is without support.

We don't know exactly how the claim came about, but it can be reasonably assumed or thought that Donald Trump claimed that the Obama administration

was wiretapping Trump Tower and it's important to get those specific words out there after he had read something

on Bright Bart that had summarized something said by a talk radio host which followed on from reports from Great Britain about exactly that kind of claim.

So, you know, if you only have 30 seconds to listen, we should get this out of the way,

the specific claim made on Twitter by Donald Trump

about Barack Obama wiretapping his phones

is almost certainly false.

There's no public evidence at all

to support the idea that anything like that actually happened.

He may have badly garbled some reports that are themselves questionable that he was absorbing,

it sounds like second or third hand and we can get to the details of what those entailed but in terms of the claim he made that's that's just not true and I think it is

Probably worth just stop pausing to say it's a little bit outrageous to

to see the sitting president making an accusation of a was basically criminal

certainly scandalous conduct by his predecessor, based on essentially

no evidence.

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