ABC's Martha Raddatz interviews White House principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about President Trump's accusation that President Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower.



When asked about President Obama's statement via his spokesperson, Huckabee Sanders commented, "I think they don't have the best track record."



"We're taking the reports that places like "The New York Times", Fox News, BBC, multiple outlets have reported this. All we're saying is let's take a closer look. Let's look into this. If this happened, if this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and the biggest scandal," she said.



Raddatz wonders: "Why does he believe these articles that you say you cite? And I'm saying, they are not definitive. Then Breitbart brings them all together, and Heat Street. They have 'two sources with links to the counterintelligence community.' That's it. Anonymous sources."



President Obama's Justice Department made two requests in June and October of 2016 to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. Because the first was denied, the second was narrower and focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of transmitting links to Russian banks.





RADDATZ: Was the principal source the Breitbart story? Which links to "The New York Times", but "The New York Times" doesn't say anything definitive. Donald Trump does. There is nothing equivocating about what he says. "I just found out that Obama had my wires tapped." That's not look into something. He says it happened.



SANDERS: Look, I think the bigger thing is you guys are always telling us to take the media seriously. Well, we are today. We're taking the reports that places like "The New York Times", Fox News, BBC, multiple outlets have reported this. All we're saying is let's take a closer look. Let's look into this. If this happened, if this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and the biggest scandal.



RADDATZ: The president of the United States is accusing the former president of wiretapping him.



SANDERS: I think that this is, again, something that if this happened, Martha.



RADDATZ: If, if, if, if.



SANDERS: I agree.



RADDTAZ: Why is the president saying it did happen?



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RADDATZ: OK. The president, let me say again, the president said it did take place. Why does he believe these articles that you say you cite and I'm saying, they are not definitive. The Breitbart brings them all together, a heat street. They have two sources with links to the counterintelligence community. That's it. Anonymous sources. The president constantly says he doesn't like anonymous sources, and he doesn't like leakers... Is that the bar? Yes, yes, we do. Yes, we do. But the president believe this is -- but what's the bar there? What does the president believe?



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The Obama -- President Obama, through a spokesman, denied any direct involvement. Does President Trump not believe him?



SANDERS: Well, I think they don't have the best track record. They said they had a cardinal

rule. Well, frankly, that's just not true. The president himself got directly involved when it came to the email scandal with Hillary Clinton.



RADDATZ: You do not believe him. You don't believe him...



SANDERS: The attorney general met privately and secretly with Bill Clinton during the middle of an investigation, so to pretend like this is a very clean and credible source, coming from – I'm sorry, I"m not just not buying it.



RADDATZ: Do you believe there was a FISA order, even if President Obama didn't order it?



SANDERS: I think there certainly could have been. And it sounds like there's something that we should look into and verify.

I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017