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The president defended his claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

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During a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Trump that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, citing “a certain very talented legal mind” he had seen on Fox News. Fox News anchor Shep Smith later that the network “cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary” and “knows of no evidence of any kind” to support Trump’s claims. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking in Seoul, said” if North Korea continues to escalate its nuclear-weapons program, signaling that the administration would consider military action. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the House on the Republican health-care bill next week. Trump he was “100 percent behind” the American Health Care Act, after meeting with the Republican Study Committee to discuss the legislation.

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