Hoyer Discusses President Trump's Allegations of Wiretapping and the GOP Bill to Make Americans Pay More For Less with CNN's Erin Burnett

WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) joined CNN's Erin Burnett this evening to discuss President Trump's allegations of wiretapping and the House Republicans' bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video:

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“If they had proof, it seems to me they would have disclosed it to the Congress, but more importantly to the American people and President Trump would have been happy to do that. The fact is, I think, his representation was untrue. It's an alternative fact. It's either made up in his own head, and there's no evidence to corroborate that. So he may be extremely confident, but we've seen him day after day after day be very confident that things were as they are not. He makes it up as he goes along.”

“As I understand, Spicer's comments also were, well [Trump] may not have been talking specifically about wiretapping. I just think that can't be true or if it is true, it is a wildly irresponsible statement. Wiretap means something specific to every American. Every American knows what a wiretap is. Every American knows that you have to get a court order with probable cause to tap an American citizen's phone or communications. And so some representation we know he meant something else, like somebody standing at the door of Trump Tower and seeing who's going in and out, is just not believable.”

“The Director of National Intelligence under the Obama Administration says he didn't do it, they didn't do it. And we believe -- I can't say that he said that – but we believe that Mr. Comey, the Director of the FBI, has given reason to believe that the FBI didn't do it. So I don't think it happened and I don't think they have proof that it happened. And I think they're now trying to weasel out of a very, very serious and unfortunate allegation the President made off the top of his head as he’s said so many things.”

“I'm the [Democratic] Whip and if you ask me how many Democrats are going to vote against it, I could say definitively how many Democrats would vote against it. But I haven’t whipped on the Republican side. Obviously, the Republican side is deeply divided, which is not a new phenomenon… They're deeply divided. I think there's a real chance that it will fail on the Floor, but we'll see.”