U.S. Senators gathered on Capitol Hill today seeking answers on Trump's relationship with Russia, and Trump's obviously bogus claim that U.S. President Barack Obama spied on his presidential campaign.
South Carolina's Lindsey Graham said he's close to demanding a for joint select committee on the Russia/Trump connections.
At hearing, @LindseyGrahamSC says FBI has still not told him if it's investigating Trump-Russia ties. He says an answer is needed.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 15, 2017
Ides of March: today
Senators spotted with knives: 0
Keeping a close lookout though
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 15, 2017
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vows that Congress would "flex its muscle" for answers on Russia-Trump ties https://t.co/TEkuAAgAPL pic.twitter.com/AqtX5FVwbL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 15, 2017
Chairing a 2:30 pm hearing on Tools Russia/Autocracies Use to Undermine Democracies Throughout the World.
WATCH: https://t.co/Wds7pyLqyn
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 15, 2017
Lindsey Graham is holding a hearing tomorrow "to examine the tools Russia uses to undermine democracies across the globe." pic.twitter.com/yW6YWs0Jo4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 14, 2017
I feel like we're underselling a very important point: the current president accused the former president of a crime: illegal wiretapping.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 15, 2017
And not just a lie — a slanderous lie. Against a man whom Trump has been slandering for years, claiming he was sneaked into the country.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 15, 2017
And in related news, from the New York Times:
In a striking repudiation of President Trump, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a Republican, said on Wednesday that he had seen no indication of Mr. Trump's claim on Twitter that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“We don’t have any evidence that that took place,’’ Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “In fact, I don’t believe — in the last week of time, people we’ve talked to, I don’t think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower.”
If Mr. Trump’s Twitter claim is to be taken literally, Mr. Nunes said, “then clearly the president is wrong.”
How convenient that cable news' coverage of the Senate's Russia inquiry was interrupted by a carefully-timed Trump speech.
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) March 15, 2017
.@LindseyGrahamSC: FBI "about to screw up big time" if it doesn't honor request to provide evidence of Trump's unsubstantiated wiretap claim pic.twitter.com/gPIcpBGIeU
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 14, 2017
“I have a flip phone, no microwave … nothing made after 1950,” Lindsey Graham deadpans on @Morning_Joe
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 15, 2017
