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with this? what's been their reaction since "the new york times" article? >> as you pointed out, white house officials say the president is not done with going after corker, a top republican, a vote he needs. there are mixed feelings about that. obviously, the president thinks this is a worthwhile strategy. he thinks he can go after corker with no problem, but not everyone in the west wing is convinced of that and certainly trump's allies outside of the west wing are not convinced of that. they believe that this is someone trump is going to need over the long term and also that he's just creating another spectacle that's not necessarily going to move forward the legislative agenda that he's hoping to advance. >> is there concern amongst the president's allies that this could affect, i mean, his ability to pass that legislative agenda? >> reporter: absolutely, there's concern. i mean, bob corker has not set off this rush of other republicans who were going to say these same things publicly because he's in a different position. he is retiring. he's not going to run for re-electi re-election so he's unburdened by the re-election fight. he is for now a vote the president needs. he's an important voice on

foreign policy, he's an important voice on budget issues and president trump has a very narrow majority right now in the senate. he has seen his legislative agenda stymied over and over again. so when are on the precipice of another big thing, in this case, tax reform, you need all the help you can get so fighting with republicans, fighting with members of your own party, is probably not what's going to get you there, anderson. >> sara murray, thanks so much. a lot to unpack. maggie haberman is back this hour, kristen powers, chris jennings, van jones, new book out "beyond the messy truth: how we came apart, how we come together." also joining us is matt lewis. maggie, to hear, you your saying the last hour what senator corker is saying is not out solve the ordinary for what you hear others saying on capitol hill but to say it out loud. >> it's shocking to hear him say this out loud, frankly, look, he's clearly liberated by the fact he's not running for re-election, liberated to some extent having been pushed pretty far. this has been simmering for a

while. this weekend's episode began with the president tweeting that a version of events that people around corker completely -- and corker, himself, to my colleague, jonathan martin, completely contested. that corker had begged to be the secretary of state and so forth. he's saying things really about the president's fitness for office. it's beyond that because that's something that i think we've been hearing about, frankly, since the campaign. he's being very specific that it is daily battle to try to control this president. it's a daily battle to keep him from doing something more dangerous than he has done, that he -- and the thing that i was very struck by was there was a degree of sort helplessness as jonathan characterized it correctly as he was talking about how the president tweets things that are not true and he said i don't know why he does that and maybe you don't know why he does that, but he continues to do this. and that seemed to be what was really jarring to him. that is the thing that people increasingly are not sure how to deal with. >> i mean, again, this is a guy, you know, running the senate foreign relations committee, for him to be saying, talking about world war iii and the people around the president needing to rein him in all the time, and

it's -- i mean, it's frightening. >> it is, and i think it's also key that this is not somebody who was an anti-trump person. so, you know, if this was somebody -- there are people who were just skeptical of donald trump from the very beginning. this was somebody who was playing well with donald trump, was a supporter and, you know, maybe even going to be his vice presidential candidate. so the fact that he's saying these kinds of things shows he gave him a fair willing to give him a try. it's become pretty clear this is a highly problematic president. >> van? >> i mean, part of the thing that is worrying to me is that we're starting to see everything through the prism of here's another twitter scandal, here's another bit of the crazy. how crazy? h you're talking about somebody who has more access to information about threats to america than almost any human being on earth. senator corker. saying he's not afraid of world war iii. to the paper of record for the

country. that should be a full stop, all traffic comes to a halt moment, because this is a cry for help for the country. and yet -- >> it comes -- it doesn't come until after donald trump personally insults him on twitter. if he really is concerned about the country, i thought donald trump was, you know, not a -- was a bad hombre a couple years ago. i do have better insight than bob corker? corker helped give this guy the presidency. and he doesn't speak out to the paper of record until he's insulted on twitter. >> well, here's what i think. people are saying that because he's supported trump in the past, that he somehow can't speak out now. people can have relationships that go bad. there's something called divorce, okay? you can be that close to somebody and later on say this was a bad person. >> i'm just saying it's motive. i don't know that this -- that he is sort of shrouded in mobility here, either. >> i don't know corker but he's my home state senator and even as a republican, i've never had a cause to feel anything other

than proud of him and the decor rum a decorum and the way he's conduct ed himself as a senator this. is not a fire brand, not an irresponsible guy. when someone like him is talking about an adult daycare center, you have to then read into that the level of threat that he feels and level of frustration he feels. this is someone of our best senators and saying something very serious. >> how do you see it? >> corker is not the only senator trump has a problem with. at any given time, he's feuding with six or seven. on top of that, his strategist, steve bannon, is recruiting primaries for six other republican incumbents. 12 of 13 out of 52. even if you're moderately proficient at math, you can see how this is a problem for getting the republican agenda passed. there is significant concern on capitol hill they're not going to pass the budget resolution next week which is the key to unlocking the door of reconciliation, which is the key to tax reform. we have significant policy agenda problems in and these

feuds don't help. i want the president to succeed and wants republicans to succeed and these feuds aren't getting us there. >> so, but who bears the lions share of the blame, in your o pin job? the president for going after corker, corker for doing this or some combination thereof? >> i think there's combination, blame, in all of these kinds of feuds. look, these people are supposed to be one big happy family. granted, some of theme people are like cousins that never met but have to sit next to each other at thanksgiving dinner. some juncture, we have to sit here, eat together and be civil until it's over for the purpose of satisfying the voters who september the republicans to run washington, d.c. >> it's trump's fault. donald trump, this is a pattern. i don't know of bob corker having a vendetta or feud with anybody else. maybe it's happened. what we do know, donald trump, he goes from person to person. he's always fighting one person. usually not all at the same time. he sort of goes from enemy to

enemy. so i think he's to blame. >> i think pathat's part of the problem, the cascade of enemies, cascade of scandals, so then you don't actually realize when something significant happens. this does not -- i mean, in the overall abnormality, the absurdity we have now adapted ourselves to, this is actually scary. because -- >> this is not ivana and melania trump having an argument today. >> it's a really important point, when everything gets kinded of kind of reduced down to the same prism, he's fighting with someone. heard an objection about this understandably when he was attacking the mayor of san juan and the headlines were all, h s they're in a dispute. they weren't a dispute. his supporters would say she's looking for a partisan fight, what have you. you look at the situation heshe in and she's wading through sewage to help people. you wonder if it's a wise idea for the president to be attacking her. what is going on with corker is so fundamentally not normal, but to van's point, we're on this

kind of slow cascade downward on this and it's hard to realize sometimes when something is much bigger. >> also corker, i don't have the exact language in front of me, one of the things he said was, you know, he knows for a fact that every day it's a battle in the white house to contain the president. that's -- that's -- >> that's not, you know, saying mean things about your, you know -- >> that's not snomebody on the outside saying -- that's him saying i know for a fact this is a daily battle. >> we've all written versions of that, to be clear, but the difference is him, this prominent republican senator -- >> senior senator. >> senior -- well, who has worked with the campaign since last year, who was very helpful during transition, who has urged other republicans to work with this white house. him saying that is a real breach. it's very different. >> yeah. >> also the adult daycare center, i think everybody, a lot of people thought that was a delicious thing to say and they were so excited about it. i think it was a missake for corker to do that. trump is debasing our culture so

much. and when you have somebody like bob corker now engaging in this kind of back and forth, i just think, look, where is this going to end up? now we're going to have senators name calling and -- i think at some point you have to step back and be a grown-up. >> didn't work when marco rubio tried in the campaign. >> everybody else ends up a little bit degraded when they try to take him on -- >> nobody survives the -- >> that's right. >> -- the back and forth really. >> it's probably not unusual for presidents and members of congress to not get along all the time, but, boy, it's unusual it to play out in public. when people start calling each other names you never want to feel like, well, i let the guy get the best of me. where does it end? >> in other words, we're flu flunkiflun flunking kindergarten. also later the president's protest of the nfl players' protest. why he walked out of the colts/49ers game and the storm he caused. on us.

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incredibly irresponsible. it adds to the insulting that the mainstream media and the president's detractors, almost a year after the slerelection, th still can't accept the election results. it adds to their ability and their cover to speak about a president of the united states, the president of the united states, in ways no president should be talked about. >> and that happened. so back now with the panel. i mean, for -- i mean, the irony, of course, is for kellyanne conway to be saying bob corker's tweet is irresponsible yet to completely back the president on all of his tweets. i suppose -- >> it's completely bonkers. like, i cannot think of another word when you listen to that. you know, i actually agree with her as i said on the last panel, but i don't think what bob corker did was senatorial or mature or really an appropriate way to respond. neither is pretty much everything donald trump dwetwee.

can't have two standards, one, the president can act like a maniac on twitter and a senator does something that's mild -- >> she publicly embraces the president's tweets. >> yeah. >> every time. every singled time. covfe covfefe. there's never been a tweet that she didn't figure out some way to justify, defend, be outraged that anybody didn't understand. it's her whole shtick is getting out there and defending this stuff. so for her to then wander out into the vast tundra of american society and begin lecturing our hectoring anybody about anything on twitter is ludicrous. >> the idea it's because world leaders see it. >> that's our point. now you're mad, he might be saying something about trump on twitter that's maybe discrediting. trump is saying stuff himself on twitter that is discrediting. of himself. you might point that out. >> this is -- i mean, i think this is always the conflict is that there's a genuine frustration among the part of trump's aides and i understand it where they feel like he does

not get the respect that has been afforded to other presidents. the problem is it never factors in whether he, himself, is showing respect to the office in some of his behavior and that's always the problem. >> i think kellyanne has a job to her, her job is to defend the president. she works there. >> absolutely. >> her job isn't to go out and be a pundit like we're sitting here doing. >> there's a thing where people keep looking for people who work in the white house to come out and trash the president. it wouldn't happen. >> it wouldn't happen, anyway. >> that's correct. >> i'm worried about the long-term political implications of the white house continuously being critical of republican members of congress especially the ones -- it doesn't apply to corker because he's not running bought especially the ones who are on the ballot. if grassroots republicans hear the white house say these people are bad, not loyal, they're not worth voting for, and the voters don't turn out in the midterms, what are the political implications of this? the party has to worry about this in november of next year. >> i think. you absolutely right. this could have ramifications.

republicans could lose the majority. not going to do tax reforms. the last couple days haven't helped. the long-term implications are is this the new normal, will the next president be a celebrity who attacks people on twitter? you know, this didn't -- donald trump didn't completely come out of nowhere. i mean, we've had a degradation, i think, over time. even things like norms -- violation of norms like ross perot announcing on a tv show he's going to run for president, right? today, not shocking. will this begin something very dark in the future? >> yeah, i'm not also willing to cut kellyanne the slack you guys are cutting her. i don't think because you work in the white house it gives you a right to come out and say up is down, and down is up. that's what she's doing. it's a complete alice in wonderland insanity where she's saying things that aren't true. why is that okay?

this idea, like, that somehow bob corker's the republic who's problematic -- >> i don't think that's what i was saying, i don't think that's what scott was saying. what a i am saying, i don't th what she's saying is different than what the president is saying. if you're going to take issue with the president which many people do, people can leave or not leave the white house. i don't understand the surprise -- >> i guess what i'm saying is if she quantities to come out and defend the president, that's her job. i agree with that. she should do that. but she should do it on nonludicrous grounds. >> yes. >> she could say i don't think that senator corker is doing well by his people in tennessee because he should have his eyes on tax reform, et cetera, et cetera. >> it i don't think that was -- >> she's criticizing him over twitter? that's nuts. >> think about that for a second, though. i don't think that would sound any less ludicrous, to use your word. you know, he should keep his eye on tax reform. people are going to say the same thing about the president. what's the line of defense you think would work better? >> it's the lecturing about

twitter -- >> she's actually a very good propagandist. >> exactly. >> i think it's very effective. >> it's propaganda. >> i wouldn't have her on if i were interested in actually getting to the truth or insight or gaining insight into what's happening. but she's very good at, like, blindly defending the president and as you said, that's kind of her job. >> this is the whole point of why corker has a different patina in the first place, is ei is somebody who has defended the president. now he is not. that's why this -- >> working at the white house or whether you're, you know, bagging groceries at the corner market, if you go out on national television and trash your boss -- >> you're done. >> -- you won't be working there the next day. so i think -- i think she's doing with what she's supposed to do. >> not saying she should be trashing him, don't say these things that are completely bonkers -- it's just gnot accurate. >> the ease with which they can be juxtaposed with what you previous ll lly said. we have lot more tonight including vice president pence's own protests at the nfl game this weekend and how the president is trying to use it to

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vice president mike pence and his wife had their own protest at the nfl game this weekend. they were back in indianapolis attending the colts and san francisco 49ers game on sunday. they decided to walk out and leave the stadium after some 49ers players knelt during the national anthem. sho shortly after, the vice president explained why on twitter writing, "i left today's colts game because @potus will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, flag or national anthem." after that tweet, the president posted his thoughts on the matter, "i asked vice president pence to leave stadium in any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. i am proud of him and second lady, karen." then this morning the president returned to twitter to share more shaugt thoughts writing " by vice president pence is long planned. he's receiving great praise after leaving game after the players showed such disrespect to country." to complete the circle, the president is fund-raising for his re-election campaign after pence's walkout. we're back with the panel. was this just a preplanned stunt? >> yes. it was a stunt to protest the

protest because this is completely off the rails. nobody remembers, this is not -- this was supposed to be about police/community relations. that was the initial concern. that there was some police misconduct issues. they want to raise that. it's now become about free speech for athletes. it's become about disrespect for our soldiers. not one player has ever said one bad thing about our soldiers. this just crazy on top of crazy inside of crazy, deep fried more crazy and apparently it is good politics because they're trying to raise money off of it. i think the saddest part about it for me is that pence had an opportunity. if you wanted to deal with this to say we are actually going to do something about the underlying cause of these protests. nobody now is talking about the underlying cause of the protests even though the concern continues in the neighborhoods these guys come from. don't forget, these guys are rich, these guys are rich. they shouldn't complain. trump is rich, he complains all the time. these guys come from neighborhoods where they're

still getting text messages from their cousins about being pulled over. these guys are two, three years out of those neighborhoods. they are desperate to get something done. we're not talking about it at all. >> i wrote a column sunday for the daily beast making that point which is i actually do not support kneeling during the national anthem, but i still think there's a problem with police brutality and we need criminal justice reform. and i don't think that conservatives should allow this culture war controversy to prevent us from pursuing -- >> remedies for real problems. >> exactly. i think we should be doing that. i'm actually with mike pence substantively on this, but i think it was a stunt and -- >> you think he went to the game with the idea he was going to walk out? >> that's what i think. >> the 49ers. if there's any team that is going to kneel -- by the way, i don't see it as an act of disrespect. when they were just sitting there not standing up, was that was disrespectful.

the idea you stand, take a knee, what you do when somebody is hurt on the field, they're saying somebody is hurt in our country. they are showing respect. the idea you're going to go no a 49ers game and nobody is going to kneel, give me a break. >> mike could have, as he did, stand with his hand over his heart, could have tweeted, i stood up, honoring our flag, first responders. i think it's inappropriate others -- he could have done that. he could have made a political statement. it seems like this was meant to whether it's fund-raising or just to, frankly, divide the country, which i think is a dangerous thing to do. >> pointing out we have the latest cnn poll, more people disagree with what the players are doing, saying 49% say it's the wrong thing. >> you know what, that makes this the most popular black protest in history. let's not forget, when they were doing the sit-ins, when they were doing their freedom rides, those same polls were showing 70%, 80% of americans saying stop it, cut it out, you made your point, quit. so the fact that you have almost

half the country saying that it's okay, these are the most popular black protests in history of the country. >> somebody was talking to me about a poll in which they had seen an uptick in the number of voters who believed that there was mistreatment of african-americans in the country. and that is a change since this whole controversy. i think one of the problems that this president has had with literally everything is recognizing that there's an equal and opposite reaction in life and in politics and when you are in the oval office, it is not as if you're running a constant re-election campaign. so, yes, it's certainly -- i don't know if it was a stunt, i don't know, but they were out with their statement, the vice president's office, very quickly. >> right. the traveling pool -- >> they were told he might leave early. they clearly had thought of what would happen but it was beyond just thinking of what would happen. it wasn't just that he left. it was that they put out this statement, the statement was followed by a picture of him there. i mean, so this was a -- at least a choreographed response and it was done pretty quickly. if you want to look at what this administration wants to talk about, it's usually pretty clear

with these releases. >> the most popular thing donald trump has done since he's been president is work with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. but he's -- he's not drawn to that. he's actually drawn to this culture war stuff. >> he is obsessed, according to literally everyone i talk to, obsessed with the word that they use, with losing his base. losing his political base. he talks about it all the time. >> you have the reporting about, you know, in alabama when he talked about this, you had the reporting about him coming back on the plane that he felt this was -- that was the big success from that night in alabama. >> it went well, played well with the crowd. he spent the whole weekend at bedminster when he'd talk to a couple people in the dining room at the club, he'd say what do you think of this? most people told him they didn't think it was wonderful and said, no, no, no, my base loves it, my people love it. >> the polls seem to support his instinct. >> that's what his people cite, his advisers cite whenever you ask them about this. >> but this isn't about disrespecting the flag. i agree -- i have van's point of view that it actually isn't just disrespectful, we've gone through this before about why

they're doing it the way they're doing it, to not be disrespectful. the reason it's also not about that is because that would mean the only problem here is that they're doing it during the national anthem. i just don't believe that. so i -- you're asking me to believe that if instead they waited until the national anthem was over, and at some other point decided to come out and maybe put their fists up and do something that donald trump wouldn't be attacking them. and the people wouldn't be complaining. and i don't believe that. and so i think the problem is what they're protesting. >> scott? >> it wouldn't be as clean as a political issue if the flag and the national anthem weren't in play. i'm just going to give you the raw political analysis. this is a complete and total winner for the trump white house. >> which is why they're -- >> in the national our vas s >> in the national our vas urve is looks good. places he has to hold on, ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, among his people in those states, he's not even close. i suspect they're going to keep

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more now on the nfl protest. players kneeling instead of standing for the national anthem. as we mentioned vice president mike pence walked out of the colts/49ers game yesterday in protest after players took a knee. cowboys owner jerry jones spoke to reporters in the locker room and said, "there is no equivocati equivocation. we're standing for the flag. if there's anything that is disradis ra respect fful to the flag, we will not play." he did an interview tonight with espn reporter and guess where it seems jerry jones got the idea? here's what espn reporter tweeted a short time ago, "jones emphasized nfl game ops manual several times then this. you know who reminded me about the game ops policy? donald trump." mr. jones' admission comes a couple weeks after he joined the cowboys kneeling before the anthem at a monday night football game. they aended up standing once th flag was displayed. back with the panel. joining the conversation, jeffrey toobin. jeff, legally can employers tell

their employees not to do something which they feel expresses their right to free speech? >> yes. the constitution, the 1st amendment, only applies to the government. the government cannot pun issue. they can't throw you in jail for expressing your opinions. the 1st amendment does not apply to public employers. just today an espn analyst was suspended for two weeks for expressing her views about the current situation. >> jemele hill. >> you and i could be fired from cnn if we start endorsing candidates. that is a -- you know, a power that employers have. in the united states. the only issue in the nfl situation is there's a collective bargaining agreement between the union and the nfl. and there may be some provisions in there that the players could argue that it would be an unfair act by the employer, but i think

by in large, it is clear here that jerry jones, if ehe wants to, could fire or suspend players who wouldn't stand up. >> van, there's a chapter in your new book, and the chapter, it's an open letter to conservatives and you say, "more than anything you place great value on protecting and upholding the foundational liberties enshrined in the constitution particularly the right to free speech, movement, association and religion." those conservative principles, how did they square with opposition to taking a knee? >> look, i think that the conservative movement has some real trouble and i -- i wrote this book, you know, "beyond the messy truth: how we came apart, how we come together," trying to figure out how we can better republicans and better democrats. i think we need two strong party. the conservative movement now seems to be an anti-liberal movement. it's much more interested in figuring out ways to poke at liberals than to actually lift

up values s that the country c actually be united around. there's really a huge missed opportunity here. the republican party, everybody's forgotten this now, has been leading the charge on criminal justice reform. rick perry, the governor of texas, closed prisons and brought crime down. governor diel in georgia closed prisons, brought crime down. kasich in ohio, big criminal jus ti justice reformer. this is their issue. they've thrown it in the garbage can because they want to do cultural war nonsense. it's completely outside of any national policy to lift the country up. you could say to these young people, these football players are coming from neighborhoods that are still struggling. they're doing well the last couple years. their families are not. you could say, listen, i want to talk about not the people who are kneeling or standing, people falling down in this country because they don't have jobs, they're fall doing down because what's happening in their neighborhoods. i have to look beyond your

symbols because i have conservative values that can help you. they're missing this opportunity because they'd rather do this nonsense. that's the tragedy i see. >> what he said. i agree with everything you just said, but jerry jones, and i'm a redskins fan, so very hard for me to say something good about this man, but as you mentioned, he is the owner. you know, in the nfl right now, you can't celebrate in the end zone. right? if i want -- you know, if tom brady wanted to wear, like, an nra sticker on his helmet, he couldn't do that. you know, that would be banned. the new york yankees, i don't think you can have facial hair, right? you can't have long side burns or a goatee. that's their policy. and i actually like this. i think we need to get back to more sort of old guys, old women, old people, whoever, like basically saying, no, that's not who we are. used to been an editor at a newspaper would be, like, we're not going to cover that story. we're not going to cover twitter.

it's junk. now we don't have that anymore. so i think this is a -- i'll say one, the first good thing i've ever said about jerry, i think it's a moment of leadership and, in fact, in the arizona game, the other week, he did go out with his team and kneel in solidarity, not during the national anthem. >> i guess my question is, though, most people took the kneeling when he did it the first time as if it was in solidarity with what the players were doing about b the national anthem even though it wasn't then. what i find notable about this is the president has been looking for an nf lrk ol owner agree with him. he's been pushing this for a while, this is what the team owners should be doing. h now he has one who seems to be going in that direction. i guess it's a little surprising to me to hear people supporting a president telling private enterprise how they should run their private enterprise. and that is how this is going. >> the idea of going back to, like, the olden days when things weren't covered, i mean, i hear that and think there's a lot -- the evening news used to be 15,

18 minutes and everybody on it was white and all the stuff that got covered was -- >> very few women. >> a very limited views of what was actually happening in the world so i actually think the idea -- i think for a lot of people in america, the idea of going back to the good old days, they weren't that good for -- >> i think there were some bad aspects to the way things used to be done and we've made progress on that, and i think we've also gone in the wrong direction in some ways. >>? you're saying that they should be able to, you know, decide th. maybe you're one of the conservatives who had a different position on this but there was a big case with a man named brennan ike mizzola who was fired because he's given money to an anti-same-sex marriage and initiative and lost his job. conservatives went in sane. >> they have the right to do that. >> no. conservatives said that that wasn't okay, that was an infringement, he should be able to express that.

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trump's spokeswoman quickly released a fiery statement, "there's clearly no substance in this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately attention seeking and self-serving noise." sounds a bit like a plot line from a reality show. earlier today i spoke to my friend and expert on all things real housewives, bravo's andy cohen. host of the real housewives reunions. so, andy, you have tweeted out that only you as the executive producer of "the real housewives" franchise can mediate this dispute. >> absolutely. you know, it's funny, i watched you host all those "housewives" reunions last year -- >> presidential debates -- i moderated presidential debates. you can -- >> you can call them what you want. to any they looked like "housewives" reunions. but i'm watching -- >> if fact, you claimed the second debate with president trump and hillary clinton, you claimed -- >> you stole my bit. >> what was the bit? >> the bit is that when things are going so scorched earth at a

r reunion show, i say can you please say something nice about each other? that's how you ended -- sometimes it's the only trick you have left, to end on kind of some sort of positivity. >> that is how we ended the debate. i think that came from an audience question. >> yeah, which came from me. but anyway, i was watching this play out today and i just thought, you know what, and i would like to be, you know, i'm here on cnn, open invitation to the first lady, to the honorary first lady, ivana trump. i'd like to get marla maples in there. i think she maybe has some unresolved issues. and i feel it would be great to have ivanka trump there as well. i will set up two couches, get this thing going, and just put me in the game. i can do this. i can -- i can make this okay. >> would ivanka have, like a walk-on, would marla maples have a walk-on? >> marla would be there from the top. we'd bring ivanka out later. i think she's got things with everybody. >> you for the longest time, though, have believed this is an

episode -- this is an ongoing "real housewives" show. >> listen, we are now however many months into "the real housewives of the white house" and i'm calling for a reunion show early. the term isn't up. i think we need to get one going. the president has been tweeting like liberally like a real housewi housewife. >> you've been saying this for months now. i want to read you some of the president's tweets because goin considered a great honor for a championship team. stephen curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn. >> this is a classic housewife move. rescind invitations liberally. you saw it with beth nanny and louann. dor inda and seasona at the berk shiers. >> this is a move they do, a rescinded ichb have i taking. >> yes. now, if he had said that he wasn't coming, so it didn't really work in this case, but that's the fine print. >> all right.

the president also tweeted spoke to president of mexico to give condolences on terrible earthquake. unable to reach for three days because of his cell phone on reception site. >> classic. >> housewives do that? >> oh, yeah. works every time. yeah. >> the president also tweeted duane the swamp should be changed to drain the sewer. >> something that works throughout all the franchises is you keep repeating the same lines over and over until someone listens. we saw it with stripper gate in new jersey. we saw it with book gate in new york. just stay on message, and if you keep repeating it, then it will sink in. >> all right. final tweet from the president, what about all the contact with the clinton campaign and the russians? also, is it true that the dnc would not let the fbi in to look. >> okay. well, this is -- well, there's a few things there. he does remind me sometimes of first season-wife who will say anything to stay on the show,

but bringing up former housewives who are no longer on the show is often very effective. they don't have a voice, so when he brings up hillary clinton, she's not on the show anymore, but it's still an effective tool to get people to think of, you know, other things, former housewives. listen, i will say the housewives are entertainment, and that's what they're meant for. this all is distracting nonsense from what's really going on in the country. i should point that out. but i'm here for it. >> and you want in the game. >> i want in the game. let a pro in. let a pro in. >> anything else, andy? >> no. it's fun. i mean, i'd like to ko anchor the show with you sometime. i feel very comfortable here. >> you think ours worlds completely enmesh? >> listen, there is a reality star in the white house. he tease things coming up.

he'll say, oh, i have a decision coming up. stay tuned. i mean, his mode us appear pran die is a reality tv star. so, yes, our worlds are meshing. ill like to host an actual presidential debate. >> yes. no doubt. >> andy cohen, thank you. >> thanks. >> well, coming up, if you saw this video from puerto rico, your first thought was i wonder how soft those paper towels are. well, you're in luck because the president has an answer for you and the ridiculous is next. a world without accidents. for the future: to get there, we're advancing safety technology. designed not only to automatically brake but also actively steer... ...this is the most sophisticated lexus safety system ever. and a preview of what's to come. experience driver-first innovation.

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the president talked about it over the weekend. you remember the scene from when he went to puerto rico last week and threw paper towels at people. to update you, what the president seems most concerned about and this may come as a shock is himself. here he is in an interview with mike huck bethat aired on trinity broadcasting network saturday. >> we did a great job and we weren't treated fairly by the media because we really did a good job. i mean, one example they had these beautiful soft towels, very good towels. >> now, i think i speak for all the media when i say we stand corrected. we were not aware that they were beautiful soft towels. that i've got to say does kind of change everything. from now on we will absolutely wait to hear from the attractiveness and texture of whatever you throw at people before we report it. our bad. snl also was not aware of how gorgeous and supple the paper towels were. >> nothing says i understand the gravity of the situation like a billionaire to saying six rolls of paper towels to hurricane

victims. >> the president's interview was really eye opening. i want to quickly pick it up, just a quicker picker upper from the part about the pageant ready paper towels. >> they'd these beautiful soft towels, very good towels and i came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people and they were screaming and they were loving everything. and we were -- i was having fun. they were having fun. they said throw them to me, throw them to me, mr. president. and so i'm doing so -- so the next day they said oh, it was so disrespectful to people. it was just a made up thing. and also, when i walked in the cheering was incredible. >> you were a rock star. i saw the video of it. >> it was crazy. the cheering, it was deafening. >> mike huck be, you were a rock star. yes, they are still talking about puerto rico. again, as of today 40% with no water, 85% with no electricity. let's take another look at the

video. >> i hope you can hear me over the deafening cheers of people catching those aluring velvety paper towels. can you hear me? can you hear over the cheering by the rock star? i believe we have kraktd the code of the president's whole fake news thing. factual information, fake news, fawning praise, real news. please, tell us more. >> the media is really the word i think one of the greatest of all terms i've come up with is fake. i guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but i've never noticed it. >> i'm sorry, did he just kind of indicate that he invented the word fake or he thinks he's the first person to use the term fake news? let's not forget that during the election fake news mostly was used to describe the fabricated untrue stories that trolls posted online. that was until the president

himself come an deerd the term, latched onto it like it was a great looking satiny roll of paper towels, for instance, and constantly hurled it at everyone until it meant something else entirely. that could be the saddest most frustrating part of all of it. but it's not even close. we love you, puerto rico. thanks for watching 360. time to turn it over to don lemon. cnn tonight starts right now. new developments tonight in the las vegas investigation and the top republican questioning president trump's fitness for office. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. i want you to listen to what senator bob corker tells "the new york times". >> i do worry that he's -- sometimes i feel like he's on a reality show of some kind, you know, when he's talking about these big foreign policyissues. and, you know, he doesn't realize that, you know, that we