Top Republicans & Democrat senators react to Trump's wiretapping allegations against Obama

U.S President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his Trump Towers last year during the election period and then directed the Senate committee on Intelligence to investigate the allegations.

Now major Republican and democratic senators have reacted to Trump's allegation, saying they will push ahead with investigation of the claims with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes saying he believes it's possible former Trump security adviser Gen. Flynn may also have been wire tapped

Devin Nunes said to CNN;

"A lot of the things he says, you guys take literally," ''Maybe Flynn was wiretapped but it raises valid questions'

Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, who is leading a concurrent investigation into Russia's interference said;

"We're going to go anywhere there is intelligence or facts that send us," 

 "So I'm not going to limit it one way or the other. But we don't have anything today that would send us in that direction, but that's not to say that we might not find something."

Asked if he believed Trump's allegations, Republican John Cornyn said: "I don't know what the basis of his statement is."

Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said;

"We'll follow the facts wherever they may lead, but he's not shown us any evidence," 

Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff said: "The President has asked our committee to investigate this," 

 "Mr. President, we accept."

 "It is also a scandal if those allegations prove to be false"

White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer also talked about the allegations on Tuesday during the White House Briefing, he said; "Nothing has changed," 

"It's not a question of new proof or less proof or whatever, the answer is the same, which is that ... there was a concern about what happened in the 2016 election. The House and Senate Intelligence Committee have the staff and the capabilities and the processes in place to look at this in a way that's objective and that's where it should be done."

The House Intelligence committee has requested the delivery of intelligence documents as regards Russian interference in the U.S elections by March 17

Zucker said the contentious climate has not harmed CNN, but rather its ratings and revenue have seen a huge boost.
He said the most important thing was not to be intimidated by the president and stick to aggressive journalism.
"When you are reporting, when you are standing up for the facts, when you are telling the truth, when you are standing up for the first amendment, when you are calling it the way it is, that's not hitting back — that's doing your job," he told the INTV conference. "I think that he (Trump) continues to believe that the media is insinuating that his presidency is illegitimate. That is not what is going on here. We are just trying to ask questions, we are just trying to do reporting, we are just trying to do our job."
Zucker, who in a previous role as head of NBC Entertainment, helped launch Trump's TV career by giving the go ahead to the hit reality show "The Apprentice," said the last time he spoke to Trump was on Dec. 21 at 7:00 p.m, when he was watching TV at home and his cellphone rang.

"I say 'Hello.' He says 'Jeff, Donald.' I say 'Hello, Donald.' And he spent the next two minutes railing about a guest we just had on CNN who said something about him he didn't like. He yelled at me for two minutes and he said 'OK, got it? Goodbye' and he hung up," Zucker recalled, to giggles from the audience.