When it comes to President Donald Trump’s claim that he was wiretapped, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants the evidence to speak for itself. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee called on Trump on Sunday to either prove that his predecessor Barack Obama illegally tapped his phones or retract the allegation. His request comes roughly one week after Trump made the unprecedented claim on Twitter without offering any evidence backing it up. “The president has one of two choices, either retract or provide the information that the American people deserve,” McCain told CNN’s Jake Tapper, host of State of the Union. “I have no reason to believe that the charge is true, but I also believe that the president of the United States could clear this up in a minute.”

Source: Huffington Post March 12, 2017 19:07 UTC