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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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Samantha Bee finally got to weigh in on President Donald Trumps address to the Joint Session of Congress and TV news reaction MSNBC got scorched in the process.

Last week, Americas one-man white supremacist employment program managed to talk about his dystopian agenda using an indoor voice, without mentioning his electoral college win or deporting anyone from Congress, Bee said at the top of TBSs Wednesday night Full Frontal.

For this astonishing feat, the pundits rained golden compliments down on him in the warmest shower hes ever had outside of Moscow. The segment then cut to clips of TV news talking heads foaming over at Trumps performance.

Look, I know its extraordinary that he learned to read something, finally. I didnt think he could do it either! But you dont have to gush like hes a toddler who just made a boom boom on the big-boy potty, she scolded.

According to Bee, only one person in all of TV-news punditry wasnt buying it that night.

Cut to a clip of a black woman in the audience at a CBS News post-speech town hall, complaining: Thats not the Donald Trump that Ive seen for the past 30 days. Where is that guy that says what he wants to say, that is loud? Im gonna look for him on Twitter tomorrow, and see what he really thinks. Great job to the speech writer, but I will see Donald Trump at 12 AM!

Shhh! Dont tell the truth! It sounds biased! Bee cautioned. Then, she added, You know, maybe cable news should hire more black women. Except not you, MSNBC! No, you just sweep her out of the way to make room for whichever Roger Ailes harassment survivor pops out of your underground railroad next week.

Trump did not long get to enjoy his victory over his own tongue, Bee regretted.

Enraged by more leaks, this time having to do with Russia and his new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump became steaming, raging mad. And, as a nervous nation started to wonder if Tiffany was the only one of Trumps acquaintances not talking to the Kremlin, the president did what any strong leader would: hightailed it to Florida faster than a Jewish grandmother in November, Bee continued.

From there, POTUS tweeted on Saturday that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his office at Trump Tower just before his electoral college win.

Oh, thats new: white guy shoots himself in the dick, tries to pin it on a black guy. When has that ever happened? Bee snarked, rhetorically.

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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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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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