Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee, responds during a TV news interview to a question about President Donald Trump's administration and ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Lindsey Graham offers two ways Trump Tower wiretapping could be bigger than Watergate
Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Saturday that President Trump's tweets about former President Barack Obama wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign could be the biggest political scandal since Watergate.
At a rowdy town hall event in Clemson, S.C., the Republican offered two ways the story could develop into a controversy larger than the one that forced President Richard Nixon to resign.
"I don't know what happened," the senator began, before offering a summary of Trump's allegations on Twitter earlier in the day.
"If it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since Watergate," Graham said, to shouting. He added that if the Obama administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfully to investigate Trump's ties to Russia, then that would be the biggest scandal since Watergate.
"I'm very worried," he said.
He assured his constituents: "It's my job as a United States senator to get to the bottom of this. I promise you I will."
"I'm very worried…" Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks on Trump accusing Obama of illegal wiretapping pic.twitter.com/tP05KgXfke— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 4, 2017
Trump himself compared the wiretap to the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
"How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!", Trump tweeted Saturday morning.
Tom Price: Legislation only part of replacing Obamacare
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price argued Wednesday night that his agency can accomplish for health coverage what Congress cannot.
Price said HHS will continue working toward improving Americans' access to health coverage, through reviewing rules issued under Obamacare and overturning those that "hurt patients."
"All those rules, thousands of guidance letters—all of those were done through HHS and we're going to look through each and every one of those to see whether they help or hurt patients," Price said at a CNN forum on healthcare.
Price had been asked how Republicans will improve access, since the Congressional Budget Office has said their plan would roll back coverage gains under the Affordable
Several politicians, including Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Saturday have suggested an independent commission investigate the wiretapping.
