WMAL Interview - JOE DIGENOVA - 03.20.17

INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia

Gorsuch Supreme Court hearings preview: What to Expect at Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing
FBI Director James Comey to testify at Russia hearing on Monday. FBI Director James Comey is set to testify Monday before a House committee investigating Russian activities during the 2016 presidential election, amid expectations he’ll provide long-awaited answers and evidence on that issue and whether President Trump was indeed wiretapped. The Justice Department on Friday gave the House intelligence committee requested information about Trump’s claim of being wiretapped during the presidential election.
Nunes: There ‘never was’ evidence of a wiretap at Trump Tower. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday there “never was” evidence that former President Barack Obama — or anyone else — wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. “If you take the president literally, it didn’t happen,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Was there a physical wiretap of Trump Tower? No, there never was, and the information on Friday continues to lead us in that direction.”
House intel chair: “No evidence of collusion” between Trump campaign and Russia. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Sunday said he’s seen no evidence of collusion between President Trump’s campaign and Russia. Nunes was asked during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” if he has seen any evidence of any collusion between “Trump world” and Russia to swing the 2016 presidential election. “I’ll give you a very simple answer: ‘No,’ ” Nunes said. “Up to speed on everything I have up to this morning. No evidence of collusion.”
Latest on Executive Order on Travel: Trump admin challenges Hawaii judge’s halt on new travel ban The Justice Department is asking the federal judge in Hawaii who temporarily halted President Trump’s new travel ban to limit the scope of his ruling so that the United States can immediately stop taking in refugees worldwide. Justice Department attorneys argued in a motion Friday that U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson’s temporary restraining order was essentially based on the argument that the ban appears to unconstitutionally target Muslims. So his ruling should be limited to the part of Trump’s March 6 executive order that temporarily bans visas to travel from six mostly-Muslim countries into the U.S., not the temporary refugees ban, they say. The attorneys essentially want Watson’s ruling to be in line with a federal judge’s ruling in Maryland on Thursday that temporarily halts the travel ban. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang cited earlier Trump statements and said the purpose of the new executive order “remains the realization of the long-envisioned Muslim ban.” However, he declined to issue an injunction blocking the entire executive order.