is that what she's saying? great to see you guys. keith, thank you. pete, always great to have you. kate, thank you for joining the conversation. david chalian with us, thank you as well. appreciate it all. clearly a lot more to discuss. hand it over. that's it for us at this hour. "inside politics" with john king starts now. thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thanks for sharing your day with us. should be a good agenda day for president trump. senate health care bill, the subject of urgent negotiations this hour. key pieces at the agenda about to be vote ontd. the revised trump travel ban takes effect today and south krrp president will be at the white house for a dinner conversation about the north korean threat. should be a big agenda day. instead, the president is using his time and bully pulpit to add mean, sexist tweets to his rants against the nud news media. msnbc's mika brzezinski is the target of the latest tweet

storm, after criticizing harry morning program the president tweeted, how come ow-i.q. crazy mika along with psycho joe came to mar-a-lago around new year's eve and wanted to join me, bleedingface-lift. i said no. he did it while sitting in the white house added to the swit repudiation, including from fellow republicans. kansas republican congresswoman lynn jenkins tweeted back at the president, this is not okay. as a female in politics i'm often criticized for my looks's we should be working to empower women. please, just stop, was the twitter plea of nebraska senator ben sass. this isn't normal and beneath the dignity of your office. this, from south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with american politics, not the greatness of america. with us to share their reporting and insights, jackie ckucinich

and cnn's phil mattingly. i think i know the answer that, this is who he is, but, why? >> and wouldn't the president's obsession with women and blood, at least it wasn't about her, whatever, but it's just -- it isn't even just about women. it'sbout decency and fitness for office. >> even in a private setting, equally shocking. but tweeted out by the president of the united states in a public for um is outrageous. no question about that, and it seems to indicate this, and a lot of his tweets this week, there is a kind of personal grievance he is fixated on that has overwhelmed everything else going on in the world. you are the president of the united states. you've got health care cooking. north korea. you have syria and yet this is what is on his -- >> a signature campaign item. the immigration issue before the house of representatives. for all the talk about no

signature achievements, hasn't signed health day, a day he could be talking up about getting things done or moving things along. we know he doesn't like the media, uses us to play to his base. if he said psycho, low i.q., childish, third grade. this network made a mistake this week and he bounced on us. fair game. but it's the issue why attack a woman's appearance? say liberal news media, whatever, that's part of his political strategy, but what is it about this president that goes to him attacking a woman's appearance? >> he has never changed. host of "the apprentice," the same person in hollywood quite a wail before being president. he everyone inner adapted to the gravitas that is necessary for this office, and right now we're seeing it sort of being torn down by him publicly tweeting these things, and -- and, you

know, continuing to be very disrespectful to women. and it's not acceptable. and i was most shocked, frankly, by the first lady's office's response to this, which was basically, i'm paraphasing, he punches back harder. you know what? he should be better than this. >> exactly what it was, thes hadtry of mr. trump. as the first lady stated publicly in the past when the her husband gets attacked he will punch back ten times harder. no problem, wants to counterpunch, his right. say, low ratings, famed "new york times," your liberals, biased, challenge the facts. actually challenge the facts what is said about him. all fair game. we can debate whether it's smart political strategy. fair game. the idea, melania trump, went to suburban philadelphia in the campaign, said her platform would be against cyberbullying. this is sexist cyberbullying from the president. you have to stop yourself. from the president of the united

states. >> yeah. i mean, the silence from ivanka trump, who a week ago said she was so shocked by how personal and mean politics have become. >> she has tweeted, right? she has twitter. >> talking last week how surprisingly vicious this town is. >> right. >> amazing. and there is no real justification for it, and sarah huckabee sanders also issued a comment that basically suggested that whatever was going on, or being talked about on "morning joe," by the way, is a news program, was -- had justified an attack on mika brzezinski's looks. >> she said, interrupt you, sarah huckabee said, necessary to push back against unnecessary attacks on the president. i've seen for worst things come out of that show. whatever they did, whatever they did, or whoever he doesn't like, whether -- again, a very important distinction. the president's political strategy, beat up the media. fine. sometimes it works and certainly

plays to his base. beat up the media, say what you want, again, challenge the facts what's said on television. challenge the priorities of what's said on television. want to go to the liberal bias card, but why attack a woman based on her appearance? >> and past presidents used their aides to get out a message in their defense most of the time. you didn't see other presidents in the past doing this. i mean, and he's -- not only doing it himself, but he's doing it in such a vile way. it's frankly just unpresidential. >> and i want to get to thetry in this. and phil, spending time on capitol hill. can they pull a rabbit out of the house, pass health care, and come back in the fall, tax reform? all big, hard things to do. al all-republican government. the speaker trying to talk about house republicans keeping promises, passing agendas and gets asked about the president's tweets. >> obviously, i don't see that

as an appropriate comment. what we're trying to do around here is improve the tone the civility of the debate and this obviously doesn't help do that. >> one would think, trying to improve the tone and civility of debates having the president of the united states, biggest platform in the world, to use, to set a tone, would help, but does it affect we're having this conversation, trump voters out there saying, there they go again talking about the fre president. sorry if you're a trump voter, sit down with your daughter and see if you can say those things to your daughter, but does it affect getting things done? >> it does. look, people are, on capitol hill, i've heard a lot of unsolicited text messages after this tweet came out with out of profanity in them. it's frustration. exhaustion. and it's just kind of a, throwing your hands up type of a moment here. look, they don't expect the president to be in the weeds on health care. not holding a town hall speaking for 120 minutes on high-risk pools and why they're necessary or why they matter or how they should be structured, but if he

could focus just on health care and on selling the bill, that's where they want him. they know his social media presence, his ability to get a message out. focus on one issue is helpful to a complicated, complex process with rating level in the low double digits right now. perhaps more importantly, immigration. what they're doing on the floor today, two of his biggest campaign promises. things extraordinarily important to the republican base. extraordinarily important to constituents in a lot of the republican members' districts. this is something they think they won on. they're going to have a victory lap press conference with the dhs secretary and that's what they get asked about. you could hear the exasperation in the speaker's voice. i hear this all the time on capitol hill. you guys aren't covering real policy and don't care about the real issues. you're a mess. every reporter probably hears the same thing from several aides. my response, point to the tweet today. talk to the guy in the oval office and as all of us are running around desperately

getting details on the health care bill, tell the guy in the oval office to also focus on the health care bill. the reflection -- >> look, i had to do this, rip up the show planned to do. about immigration, about health care. we'll get to those. it's important to the american people, but this isn't a guy in a bar. boring sexist in a bar making an ass of himself. important why members of capitol hill say we can't get our stuff done, back to why. he said mika had a face-lift, had blood. liked to use blood when attacking women. mika brzezinski, megyn kelly then u. could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. blood coming out of her -- wherever, but she was, in my opinion, she was -- off base. >> again, that was during the campaign. you might say the president was mad about one debate, but remember, the "access hollywood" tapes, this is who he is.

>> you know, i'm quite automatically attracted to beautiful -- i start kissing them. like a magnet [ laughter ] when you're a star, they let you do it. whatever you want. >> whatever you want? >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. you can do anything. >> we were told before we come on the air, you see these, get shocked then say why be shocked given the history? i don't know if shocked is the right word, but he's the president of the united states. you can't just say, oh, forget about it. it's trump being trump. >> right. well, and you know, this also comes in the same week in which a video went viral of his ca calling over an attractive irish reporter to the resolute desk and talking to the leader in ireland saying what a pretty smile she had. she must treat him nicely. you know, that went by earlier and i didn't get too upset about it. it's part of a pattern and i think, like this tweet is not going to be the be all and end

all. not mean he's not able to get the extra republican votes needed on the health care bill, but it has an impact. tells you he is not changing and does susan collins or shelley moore capito, those senators want to hitch their wagon to this president when continue stantly being thrown on the defense? >> susan collins responded in ap tweet saying, something to the effect, we all don't have to like each other. the media and politicians. but we need to be civil. >> right. >> so -- that, for that reason, it does make it harder. now, if she loves the health care bim, will she vote for it? of course she is. does this make it harder for the president to reach out to her? yes. >> and makes it harder when she goes home and going to come around being against the health care to for it, explain to voters back home and has events back home, guess what she'll be asked about? this has to stop, her tweet. we all have a job. don't have to get along but must

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illegal immigration, we are a nation of laws and will no longer look the other way. >> that's secretary mullens, john kelly, and voting on two key immigration items talked about in the campaign. kate's law, from san francisco, allowing courts to put tougher prison sentences on immigrants who repeatedly cross into the united states illegally and are caught. either just get caught or caught committing offenses. allow judges to keep them in jail longer. sanctuary city law allowing the federal government deny funding and crackdowns on cities that don't cooperate with federal enforcement. a day the president should be doing handstands as key campaign pieces of the agenda making it through the house. >> they voted on kate's law last year. a couple democrats came over and supported that. that's a bipartisan victory for house republican leaders.

another thing you think they'd want to tout, but there are a lot of problems from outside groups particularly on the liberal side of things on cases, the aclu about the direction of these bills. the track they take. so will this actually move forward in the senate? able to get 60? they neat 8 democrats to come over. unlikely. probably get 3 or 4. goes bakz back to what we talked ak. you're getting stuff done in one chamber of coof congress, thing touted on the whiteboard, want to cross off, are doing that now. this should be something to focus on a. boost out of the house putting pressure on the trump state democrats, so-called. democrats up next year from states to campaign. >> if you get enough democrats in the house, not saying a large number. a few. then talk about this bipartisan vote and a big push in the senate. if the president talked about it, adds pressure. >> and republicans, too.

isn't a lock in the senate because of the criminal justice reform. >> true. >> people former and they think the bill will lead to more mass incarceration. that's also. again, talking about policy. talking about legislative strategy. which is what you think the white house would want to be talking about. >> a fight they want to v. exactly. >> something they are more than willing to go to the mat to fight. >> and a fight which in most of the country especially red america, he's had solid ground. >> no question. >> this is actually, i think, a potentially good opportunity for trump to actually wield some political influence to sell his agenda to people in the middle, maybe to moderates who i think actually -- kate's law is something i think democrats will actually have a hard time voting against. many of them. but you don't actually see the president doing that. he's never really going out there and pushing specifics of legislation and actually making it difficult for people to vote against something that is easily

explained. that from their perspective is easily explained. so, you know, it's a missed opportunity here. yesterday they also had a briefing on this at the white house that was off-camera, because they insisted on having an off-camera briefing yet again this week. they're really fumbling the ball here on some pretty, you know, straightforward efforts, political efforts, that they could get wins on. >> to help their loss. >> the president had roundtables whey he calls the victims of illegal immigrants, but talking about kate's law. kate steinle's parents and brother asked that her death not be politicized, and seems like they could have honored that. >> a different way to do it, maybe. the democratic side, house hispanic caucus came up early this morning. don't like the merits, a., and b., suggest republicans are moving it now to show progress because they have failed elsewhere. >> they have health care, famed to do tax reform. they failed to work on any

substantive or significant measure of legislation. instead of doing that, because they can't do it, they instead look to pit people against each other. >> this is one of those classic issues, if i had the map i would show it. you look at especially the house. all the red house districts. the blue house districts on the coast, and in this congressman's case, areas of texas. one of those areas in the blue parts of the country they say, how dare you cut off federal funding to sanctuary city? the red part, why didn't it happen ten years ago? >> i do think there is -- the sanctuary cities issue is, i think, more nuance than people make it out to be. when you explain it, when pollsters ask people about sanctuary cities and explain the broad strokes of it, there are a lot of people who identify as democrats and a lot of independents who say, well, maybe that's not the tway should be. so it's a hard issue, and one that i think, you know --

democrats are framing it, you heard in that clip, as pitting people against each other. which is a different way of opposing that law than saying this is not something that should happen. so i think -- democrats have a sort of p.r. message they want to put out about this bill, and frankly, republicans are making it very easy for them to do that, and i think if they really had a full discussion about this, they may have a better shot of convicting some of these moderates. especially in those trump districts that they might have to take a second look at a bill like that. >> smart, coherent political conversation about policy. tonight will be a big test. starting a test. big test for kelly, the revised travel ban goes into effect tonight. parts of it supreme court allowed. a united states citizen or legal permanent resident, green card holder, current visa holder, allowed in. the ban guidelines, prove trying to get into the country you have a bona fide relationship.

the twesupreme court said. aunts and uncles, grandparents, not covered pap questi edcovere. a question the way they rolled it out. blocked by courts. now a chance to implement this and we'll see, do we expect protests? expect debate? >> i think you can expect protests. because there are aclu and other groups that are going to make political hay of this. whether there's going to be the mass confusion at the airports we saw when this first went through, that -- we're not hearing that's going to be an issue like it was. >> the challenges for the department to decide. i think deciding a bona fide relationship thing will be the interesting -- >> particularly refugee groups. >> sit tight. up next, is the senate health care bill back on track? well, depends who you ask. saturdays used to be for college football. now you drive 300 miles to watch this. don't get me wrong. you love "flag dancing" as much as the next guy.

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with a great health care package. so, now they're happy. >> what do you mean by big surprise? >> a great big surprise. thank you very much. >> chicago cubs there, if you didn't get that. asked around the senate, you get a lot of eye rolling and a few signs of key division holding up the bill, well, still settled? cnn's m.j. lee up on capitol hill. did this to phil mattingly yesterday. your turn today. talking to republican senators this morning. any more confident, take 52 minus 9 and get to 50? >> reporter: yeah, it's primetime now. a lot of furious negotiations happening. we've seen a stream of senate republicans walking in to mitch mcconnell's office just like yesterday. vice president mike pence expected toing back on capitol hill as well. i have to stress, no deal yet. we do not yet know what this revised bill will look like, but we do know, are learning about some of the details that may end up getting include r cld in thel

bill. one, $45 billion in extra funding for opioid treatment, really important issue for senators like rob portman, shelley moore capito. and the other more to appease conservatives, more flexibility for health savings accounts. having said this, a clearer sign that these negotiations now happening are very real. a lot of these key senators are really holding their cards close to their chefst not wanting to talk about what the negotiations have been about. i did earlier catch up with, or should say, tried to catch up with senator heller of nevada. take a look. >> what needs to happen by friday in order for you to get to a yes? >> it's not about me getting to a yes. not going to negotiate with, with the press here on what it's going to take to get to something favorable for the state of nevada. bottom line is, this bill's not good for the state of nevada, i'm simply not going to support

it >> reporter: exactly did you say to president trump about the attack ad made against you? >> i don't want to talk about it. yeah. it's a private conversation. >> reporter: did he say he knew about the ad? >> i don't want to talk about it. thank you. >> reporter: you see there, john, heller not really shedding insight into the big surprise that president trump talked about. maybe we'll know more tomorrow. >> get to the gym tonight. cardio in there. a good thing. so thank you, m.j. lee on capitol hill. it tells you something, though, when senators normally like to press their issue. negotiation, dean heller, from his issue, medicaid, cuts medicaid in a way that hurts 200,000 people in nevada and doesn't want to talk about it. does tell you normally that there's trading going on and sensitive. therefore, if i'm going to come out of this a win are i better keep quiet now. right? >> yes, and look, manu raju

hustle, i appreciate. and senator heller is not a good guy to get to talk to you in the hallways as-is. negotiations are real, happening. no question. the vice president is currently in an office, actually ongoing. the divides here haven't changed at all. right? like, the opioid money is good. not enough for senator capito. and ted cruz will be happier, they want more than the hsa flexibility and remains the point, how do you thread the needle? get into cutting back on regulations for conservatives and not touch pre-existing? a red line. add more money to medicaid and not upset with the birth right and until you find that balance, no deal is to be made despite what everybody says. biggest issue, get both sides to come out of respective cubbies, up to this point, haven't done

it. >> a lot of these changes are relatively small and many are not going to bring down this es 22 million uninnumbered, really, really exceptionally bad for republicans. cannot go home and sell that. that remains one of the big, underlying problems with this bill. yeah, put more money here and there, but are you going get the coverage numbers up? it's not clear these changeless do that. >> one of the things you hear from some conservative senators, ron johnson of wisconsin, they're saying the cbo score is going back too far. using old numbers. it's probably, you know, more like 15 million that won't be covered. still -- not really a good argument. >> arguing, losing. >> from a purple area, philosophically, house conservatives especially, yes, dropping the employer mandate, individual mandate, therefore, individuals exercise their right not to buy insurance. number of uninsurers go up.

make that argument conservative flois. government shouldn't be involved from a safe conservative district. senator heller, win in a purple stay, a lot tougher. this from rand paul. saying how hard to get to the sweet not one big bill. rand paul, this is a good idea or attempt to undermine things when he said, split the bill. >> i think if we take this bill and split it into two pieces, we pass one that is more, looks like repeal, conservatives like. the other one load up with all kinds of christmas ornaments, gifts, money, and just pile money on it that the democrats will vote for and some republicans will vote for, then i think both end up passing. may not be completely good for country but at least the repeal that way. >> a., do both end up passing and, b., the solution here, as complicated as this has been, not to try to send one bill back to the house and pray but two bills back to the house? >> the good back story here, tell which the senator prefers

as he describes it. he actually brought this up in a closed door meeting yesterday and pumped to members, after the meeting went ahead and described the reception, landed like a lead balloon. tell you where the idea is here. >> the rest us, stupid enough to think it's a smart -- >> he's in -- rand paul is not the leader of republicans in the senate. there's a reason. >> and crazy, everybody up here that's seen this happen. crazy ideas sometimes end up being the answer to things. saw it in the debt limit. a wild thing i'll throw out and it ends up being the thing. what rand paul pumping is not "the thing." moments, they don't have the clearest path forward, people get creative. creativity will pass the bill that's now run into a big wall and we'll see what the magician of the senate at senator mcconnell has been called -- >> even if this collapses they want to say they voted on full repeal. the senate vote now as it stands is not close.

the question, if it collapses, see what happens. magicians working in the senate. if collapses, the idea broached, since republicans in charge of the entire government, carry baggage, even though it's obamacare and voted against it to the many problems the existing law has out in states. would there be a big bipartisan summit on health care, the democrats, republicans and the president? >> president trump, i challenge you to invite us, all 100 of us, republican and democrat, to blair house to discuss a new bipartisan way forward on health care in front of all of the american people. it was -- it would focus whaabo what you, mr. president, talked about in your campaign. lower costs, better health care, covering everybody. >> going to find out if he's serious. he hasn't been serious. obamacare is such a disaster. such a wreck. and he wants to try and save something that's really hurting a lot of people.

it's hurting a lot of people. you'd have to be very, very serious. and done a lot of talking, bad talking, and -- just doesn't seem like a serious person. >> is it -- moments like this, sometimes the bizarre thought becomes the reality in today's washington. is it possible that we will be seeing a bipartisan health care summit at the end of this or is that crazy talk? >> here's why i'm skeptical. usually when these things are coming together, they both have each other's numbers. they don't have to communicate through the cameras. they're doing this, a bit of grandstanding on both sides. well, i mean, right now the gop is warning against bipartisan solution. but -- >> you don't get anywhere close to repeal. agree with democrats, conceding. we're fixing obamacare. >> automatically a loss for some republicans. >> that's actual lay threat made by leader mcconnell to members.

one speaker ryan made a couple times, too. we don't get this done, the only option working with democrats and every conservative thing you want flies out the window. the dynamics of this debate. as long as republicans pursue anything appears repealed, democrats won't come help them. democrats want to scuttle repeal, democrats won't help them. win this i don't want to say it's over. if it crashes and burns senators on both sides of the aisle recognize something needs to be done. a lot of issues packed into a short-term bill they could get 70 votes for. we're not there yet. >> and important people watching at home what is being voted on is not a repeal. it's semanticing. republicans want to call it repeal and can't and work with democrats. democrats don't want to call it repeal and if they call it

repeal and make the same change, can't work with republicans. it's just about semantics right now. we're not talking about an actual repeal effort at all. >> washington being washington. sit tight. up next, president trump with fireworks. a lot more to his trip than that. this is a story about mail and packages.

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and bastille day, july 14th in france. the invitation from the new french president up to now sharply critical of president trump. >> -- who is it we are? we all share the same responsibility. make our planet great again. >> climate change hasn't been his only beef. watch this. sharing this from the nato summit, turning away from president trump to embrace the german chancellor, angela

merkel. just scored big in parliamentary election clearly looking to assert himself as a big player in europe. the video is awesome. isn't it? in it mr. trump, a chance to make a big impression preparing for the meetings including president trump's first face-to-face with the russian president vladimir putin. a surprise and a late add to the president's schedule. macron calls come for bastille day. a conversation at the white house, should we do this. why? number one, what's -- no. i don't mean sarcastically. the president knows his numbers in europe are pretty bad. a poll in germany, 11%. france, 14%. for the president to do the right thing. lectured at the nato summit didn't go well in europe, in the president's defense, nato allies increasing defense spending. getting what he wanted from a policy perspective. why did the president say, a good idea?

>> seems he can't back away from this challenge. he knows this is sort of like a mano a mano fight between him and macron and this is trump. he's not backing away from that and he gets an invitation and is going to take it. next week when he's at g-20 it is going to be tense and it's going to be tough. angela merkel has already signaled that the european leaders who are pretty much allied with her and macron probably number one on that list are going to confront trump over a number of issues including the paris climate agreement. so trump is facing a challenge to his leadership and to his presidency right now from european leaders, and it's not like him to back down from that challenge. so he's going to go and it's going to be interesting and maybe there will be really tough handshakes. >> and two separate trips. regardless, come from the g-20 meeting and a couple days later flies over to paris. that's just -- very unusual. >> yes. >> because when you think of all the logistical preparation and

planning and security planning that needs to go into this. he was worried about protests in london, for the state visit there, still not on the calendar. but -- i don't know why he would, there would be thought -- anymore receptive. >> why does their president, then, just elected, then a big parliamentary win. taking a bit of a risk in his own country. knows president trump sun popular but clearly wants to assert himself as a fighter. maybe doesn't get along but protect the transatlantic alines. come over, mr. president. let's get to know each other better. >> seen it in the past. wining and dining the president, is a little, is effective diplomacy. maybe we'll see a little of that, and during this trip, to france. >> and i just want to add that, obviously, there's always lots of questions what foreign policy strategy is and that. they recognize what just happened in france. recognize there's a largely a reshuffle in europe now and somebody with a large

presidential win a large parliamentary win is now a power player and clearly somebody who's making moves in europe. so the idea that he had a good call, i'm told, with macron after the elections. the idea would you want to ingratiate yourself with that person or try and establish a firm relationship considering the possibility that maybe he's the new rising star in europe or the real power player there makes a lot of sense. >> and plus president trump, run for re-election. this guy, lie trump, came from out of nowhere. not a politician. had a new party. ran against the establishment but with establishment views. very interesting mix what he did. came up with the conversation earlier. one of the things the president will do rile in europe at the g-20, first face-to-face meeting with putin. we know from accounts, dana dash, great reporting yesterday saying the president is reluctant to talk about the russian meddles. if you're talking about that, cyber attacks, never mind collusion or obstruction, talking about that, somehow

undermines his legitimacy. the question what will he say? macron sat next to putin said, stop meddling. russians caught meddles in their elections. what do we expect from the trump/putin meeting? >> a big mystery. talk to people -- a lot of people in europe are looking closely at this meeting, because they want trump to side with europe, and not side with putin. and it's really not entirely clear that that's what trump wants to do. he has spoken out more undermining europe than challenging putin in a number of ways. the election meddling thing is a huge problem. putting aside everything about whether he won because of the meddling or not, the president still has not acknowledged that it even happened. >> right. >> and hard to believe when he's in a one-on-one scenario with putin he's going to suddenly divert from his own script and say something that he clearly does not believe. so, you know, i don't think -- i

think it would be hard to expect that to happen, but we'll see. >> we all -- >> surprises us every day. >> and diminishes what happened. this was an attack by our chief adversary on us and one that all 17 intelligence agencies agree about, and have, leaders of which have testified only recently in congress is going to continue, going to get worse. >> right. >> for the president of the united states not to address that in a face-to-face with the leader of russia would be -- very odd. >> very odd is a very -- you're being kind. >> yes. >> we'll watch as that plays out. next, want to be a straight-talking new generation political star? be careful what you write. are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ♪

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this moment on capitol hill, nancy pelosi respoending to the president's tweet this morning, sexist, mean tweet attacking an msnbc news anchor.

>> that really saddens me, because it is so beneath the dignity of the president of it's united states to engage in such behavior. i just don't know why republicans, they can tolerate almost anything. a candidate beating up a reporter and cheering him on as he arrives in congress. the tweets of the president of the united states. they set a low standard for public officials in terms of their demeanor. it's really sad, though. the president of the united states. something's wrong there. yes, ma'am? >> something's wrong there, nancy pelosi saying at the end. if you haven't seen it already or weren't with ut top of the hour, an attack on mika brzezinski of msnbc this morning. the president attacked rating of the program and said how come low i.q. crazy mika along with psycho joe came to mar-a-lago christmas eve and insisted on joining me. she was bleeding badly from a face-lift. i said, no, to hanging out with them. although apparently they did

hang out with him. criticism of the media, childish, low i.q., childish, third grade. criticizing, outlike, bleeding badly from a face-lift, i said, no. this is all over social media, twitter, the political debate here in washington. you heard leader pelosi, a number of republicans condemns this. and a republican strategist, long a critic of president trump, make it clear. tweets is there any serious company in america that wouldn't fire a ceo for publicly attacking a woman for her appearance? interesting question. >> very good question. you know, the emphasis on misogyny and about trump's obsession with women and blood is all well and good, but i thought nancy pelosi was right, and this is a woman who's a historic woman, first female speaker, seen as, you know, the voice of women especially, from the left, but she emphasized that this, about the, what this is -- the indecency of this for

the office of the president, and i think that was probably the right tone for her to set. >> we talked about this earlier, but when you saw republican women, lawmakers, responding to this, a lot of them, first thing they said, as a lawmaker a female lawmaker, i know what's it's like to have my appearance criticized. we all know what it's like, to have your appearance criticized. this hits home in a way, because a lot of people know what it feels like to be mika brzezinski on the receiving end of an attack like this. >> and to be fair, there have been's presidents of both parties with volatile personalities, but to have it sort of on display and have that person sort of representing the presidency in that way publicly is different. it's -- it's differ and it's really -- it really is unprecedented. >> it would be sexist and boorish and awful if he said it in a private conversation but defensively, a private conversation, he did this. a tweet. not something he said privately

and a weak moment. he did on purpose. that ends it for us today. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." wolf blitzer in the chair after a quick break. have is a good day.

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. 7:00 in mosul, iraq, and friday morning in pyongyang, north korea. from wherever you're watching from around the world, that's very much for joining us. we start with president trump and his latest tweets sending shock waves through washington, d.c. and around the country. perhaps around the world. uncertainty right now over north korea, possible military options for the u.s. there's also the question of whether the president will have a substantive meeting with the russian president vladimir putin at the g-20 summit at the end of next week and there are senate republicans trying to revive their health care overall, but with all of those critically important issues swirling through the white house, the president of the united states took time out this morning to tweet this -- i'll put it on the screen.