Dem senator: Trump should apologize for wiretap claim if he has no evidence

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) says President Trump should apologize for accusing former President Obama of wiretapping him if he can’t provide evidence.

“It deserves our attention because the president has raised a very serious accusation of criminal conduct by a former president,” Merkley said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day.”

But, he added, if the administration can’t give Congress any evidence of the claims, he expects the issue will “quickly be set aside.”

“And say, OK, we looked at it, there is no information here and so conclusion is reached that it was a fiction developed by the president and asserted. Perhaps, as widely reported, he took it from Breitbart News,” Merkley said.

{mosads}”This is where our president seems to go for his information and that he got this one absolutely wrong and really, quite frankly, should apologize.”