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Former President Obama must answer questions about U.S. government surveillance of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign, Sean Hannity said in his opening monologue tonight.

Hannity pointed to anexplosive new report from Circa News, which found that the FBI briefly investigated a computer server tied to President Trump's business, that was allegedly communicating with a Russian bank.

The agency, however, has not gathered evidence of election tampering to date that would warrant criminal charges against any of the presidents associates.

Hannity said that during the campaign, a plurality of staffers would have had customary technological ties to the Trump Organization.

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Hannity said it's time for Obama and intelligence officials who oversaw this operation to "come clean."

"What do they know? What information was gathered?" Hannity said. "They need to assure you, the American people, that this was not not spying on a political opposition party just weeks before an election."

He added that just days before leaving office, Obama expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share intercepted personal communications with 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.

"We've been asking: Why did President Obama wait until the last minute, two weeks before he leaves, to issue that order?" Hannity said. "It's an order that he did not apply to himself for eight years. And since this order was signed, we've seen an explosion of leaks coming from intelligence agencies."

He said all of this raises "very serious" national security, ethical and privacy issues.

"Until we get answers, we're going to keep asking these questions," Hannity said.

Sara Carter, of Circa News, later said that there were reportedly a total of two simultaneous investigations, and that only one was subject to a FISA warrant.

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Former president Barack Obama responded to President Donald Trump's accusation that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower phones while still in office .

"A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Obama spokesperson Kevin Lewis said in a statement on Saturday. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."

Earlier Saturday morning, Trump posted a series of tweets claiming that Obama in October sidestepped a court ruling to wiretap the then-presidential candidate's phones on a level that was "Nixon/Watergate." Trump did not include any evidence or links to back up his assertion.

"I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!" Trump tweeted just before 7 a.m. eastern. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" the president added.

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Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz sparked fury online Tuesday after saying Americans may have to choose between buying a new iPhone and health insurance yet the criticism glossed over similar remarks made by then-President Barack Obama.

Chaffetz was speaking after House Republicans revealed their plan to replace ObamaCare. Responding to claims the plan doesnt guarantee access to care for low-income Americans, he said:

"Well, we're getting rid of the individual mandate. We're getting rid of those things that people said that they don't want. ... Americans have choices, and they've got to make a choice. So rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.

Chaffetzs remarks to CNN sparked a firestorm on social media as iPhones quickly became a top trending topic, as did TrumpCare.

The controversy was widely reported, with some outlets expressing outrage at the congressmans comments.

The Washington Posts Philip Bump wrote that Chaffetzs comment revives the poverty is a choice argument." Meanwhile, Slate declared: GOPs most embarrassing Congressman strikes again while Yahoo Newswent so far as to break down the exact cost of an iPhone, both for a Verizon contract and an AT&T contract, to compare the cost to health insurance.

Yet left unsaid was that Obama made similar comments in 2014. In a town hall meeting with Spanish-language outlets, Obama was asked about a man who had written in saying he still couldnt afford insurance.

In a lengthy answer, Obama speculated about someone making $40,000-$50,000 a year, who thinks an insurance option that costs $300 a month is too much.

I guess what I would say is if you looked at that persons budget and you looked at their cable bill, their telephone cell phone bill, other things that theyre spending on, it may turn out that they just havent prioritized health care because right now everybody is healthy," he said.

Nobody actually wants to spend money on health insurance until they get sick, he added.

Chaffetz later clarified his comments on Fox News "Americas Newsroom," and conceded he didnt make his remarks as smoothly as he could.

"What we're trying to say -- and maybe I didn't say it as smoothly as I possibly could -- but people need to make a conscious choice and I believe in self-reliance," he said. "And they're going to have to make those decisions."

Adam Shaw is a Politics Reporter and occasional Opinion writer for FoxNews.com. He can be reached here or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.

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President Barack Obama speaks during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015.(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson caused a stir Monday when he referred to slaves as "immigrants" but he wasn't the first person to do that.

In December 2015, then-President Obama made similar comments during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives.

The president did not specifically say "slaves" during his speech, but instead mentioned "those of African heritage who had not come here voluntarily" who "in their own way were immigrants themselves."

The full quote, per the Obama administration's archives:

"And perhaps, like some of you, these new arrivals might have had some moments of doubt, wondering if they had made a mistake in leaving everything and everyone they ever knew behind. So life in America was not always easy. It wasnt always easy for new immigrants. Certainly it wasnt easy for those of African heritage who had not come here voluntarily, and yet in their own way were immigrants themselves. There was discrimination and hardship and poverty. But, like you, they no doubt found inspiration in all those who had come before them. And they were able to muster faith that, here in America, they might build a better life and give their children something more."

The similarities between Carson's comments and Obama's speech were first reported by Breitbart News.

Watch Obama's speech here. The section mentioned above begins at 5:56:

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