President Trump on the battle over the GOP replacement plan for ObamaCare, wiretapping allegations, the 'illegal, disgraceful' leaking of his tax records to media and more in an interview with Tucker Carlson broadcasted on Wednesday's Tucker Carlson Tonight.



"So a lot of people thought that was plausible, they believe you, you're the President -- you're in charge of the agencies. Every intelligence agency reports to you. Why not immediately go to them and gather evidence to support that?" Carlson asked about the wiretapping allegations.



"Why not wait to tweet about it until you can prove it? Don't you devalue your words when you can't provide evidence?" Carlson also asked.



"I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks," Trump promised.



Transcript, via FOX News:





TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: So on March 4, 6:35 in the morning, you're down in Florida, and you tweet, the former administration wiretapped me, surveilled me, at Trump Tower during the last election. How did you find out? You said, I just found out. How did you learn that?



PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: Well, I've been reading about things. I read in, I think it was January 20 a "New York Times" article where they were talking about wiretapping. There was an article, I think they used that exact term. I read other things. I watched your friend Bret Baier the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening, and wiretapping. I said, wait a minute, there's a lot of wiretapping being talked about. I've been seeing a lot of things.



Now, for the most part, I'm not going to discuss it, because we have it before the committee and we will be submitting things before the committee very soon that hasn't been submitted as of yet. But it's potentially a very serious situation.



CARLSON: So, 51,000 people retweeted that. So a lot of people thought that was plausible, they believe you, you're the President -- you're in charge of the agencies. Every intelligence agency reports to you. Why not immediately go to them and gather evidence to support that?



TRUMP: Because I don't want to do anything that's going to violate any strength of an agency. We have enough problems.



And by the way, with the CIA, I just want people to know, the CIA was hacked, and a lot of things taken -- that was during the Obama years. That was not during us. That was during the Obama situation. Mike Pompeo is there now doing a fantastic job.



But, we will be submitting certain things and I will be perhaps speaking about this next week, but it's right now before the committee, and I think I want to leave it. I have a lot of confidence in the committee.



CARLSON: Why not wait to tweet about it until you can prove it? Don't you devalue your words when you can't provide evidence?



TRUMP: Well, because "The New York Times" wrote about it. Not that I respect "The New York Times". I call it the failing "New York Times". But they did write on January 20 using the word wiretap. Other people have come out with --



CARLSON: Right, but you're the President. You have the ability to gather all the evidence you want.



TRUMP: I do. I do. But I think that frankly we have a lot right now. And I think if you watch -- if you watched the Bret Baier and what he was saying and what he was talking about and how he mentioned the word wiretap, you would feel very confident that you could mention the name. He mentioned it. And other people have mentioned it. But if you take a look at some of the things written about wiretapping and eavesdropping --



And don't forget, when I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes. That really covers, because wiretapping is pretty old fashioned stuff. But that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that's a very important thing.



But wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.

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