welcome to "inside politics." >> i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. reject, repudiate, you pick the word. voters delivered giant wins for democrats and diversity. along the way, send president

trump and his republican party a thundering message. >> this message was yesterday that virginia sent not only to this country but to this world is that the divisiveness, the hatred, bigotry, the politics that is tearing this country apart is not -- that's not the united states of america that people love. it's certainly not the commonwealth of virginia. >> now, amid all the spin here are three morning after facts. number one, nancy pelosi has reason to believe she just might it be speaker again. two, any republican hopes of significant obamacare repeal are dead. and three, republicans worry the president's deep unpopularity will be impossible to escape next year and believe their only hope now is a big policy win on tax cuts. >> anything which puts more pressure we'll follow through. >> plus the president is in china as all this plays out tweeting despite the so-called great fire wall his focus trying to get beijing to put even more pressure on north korea.

>> every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face. north korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. it is a hell that no person deserves. >> we begin with the big fallout from elections across the country and fresh republican fear, the unpopular republican president could trigger a democratic wave in 2018. democratic candidates won up and down the ballot in contested races across the country, in meryl contests in new hampshire, north carolina in new jersey where the governor's mansion changed parties. washington state where democrats took back control of the tait state house. a slew of firsts last night. fayetteville, north carolina will have its first female african-american mayor. the first transgenders can't. it's the depth of the sweep in

virginia that has republicans so panicked. let's stretch out the map. yes, virginia is a blue state. yes, the democrat is supposed to win in places like fairfax and places like arlington but look at there margin. 0% to 19%? what does that tell you about democratic turnout, republican malaise, intensity was here for the democrats yesterday. it was here, as well. 67-31. yes the democrats supposed to win. it is the margins so stunning. over here, this is what speaker paul ryan be worried about today. lowden county once a reliably republican suburban county. 209 points margin of victory. the same ed gillespie ran for senate three years ago and won this county. last night it swung the other way. pull out the map, come down here. prince william county, virginia, right here, again a suburban area that used to be republican now people call it a swing county. forget about it. it's a democratic county. 60.8% to 38%. again, just a few years ago, ed

gillespie ran competitive here. republicans look at this, they see house districts like this all across the country. and they think this could be a problem for them which is why today you have in the republican party a bit of a panic. >> i think that last night was a referendum. i don't think there's any way that you can look at it in a different way to be honest with you and be intellectually consistent. i know virginia and the precincts and there were some folks that were talking about the issues. those issues weren't in play last night. some of those -- those individual issues were absolutely overshadowed by the national scene. >> with us on this big day to share reporting and insighs dana bash, michael share with the "new york times," the weekly standard's michael warren and cnn's nia-malika henderson. remarkable day jew ja view that the morning after 2009 we were having the same conversations. early in the obama administration, nancy pel at the was the speaker of the house.

we should be careful and not overstate the importance here. but when you look at the depths, especially when you go through not just the suburbs but through the exurbs, even places gil less piece won last night where you can take that and say here's a congressional district in new york, here's a district in new jersey, here's a republican congressional district in michigan. that's what's paul ryan is worried about today. if that carries over, they've got a problem. >> look, one of the things that i look at, i spent 15 years covering politics in virginia, the governors races are aurve dominated by a lot of interest, a lot of commercials. there's a lot of that has to do with the personality of the person that's running. the house of delegates went from 66 votes for the republicans to what looks like it will be 50/50. the democrats picked up 16 or 17 seats. flip 16 or 17 seats. that's incredible. those are races that often are really faked because there's not a lot of tv commercials, there's

not a lot of personals at stake. it's really affected by the national mood. the mood clearly had a huge effect. and when you talk about the congressional districts that are all over the country, that's the wave, feeling of a wave coming over them is what's worried the republicans. >> historically in virginia, correct me if i'm wrong, the governor's race is not always in fact not usually a bellwether for what happens the following year in the midterms. >> it wasn't in 2010. >> four years ago and four years before that. however, the point that you made about the volume and the enthusiasm and the energy that is clearly there for democrats, that is the thing that cog be the indicator for 2018. and look, we've had so much discussion about the democrats trying to find themselves. they're looking around saying where do we go, what kind of candidate dodd we put up.

unclear if that is really answered here. they obviously picked a democrat that fit the state. whether or not that is going to replicate itself, we'll see. but what is clear is that the resistance, the democratic resistance, they aren't just marching. they're going to the polls. >> there's a lot of spin lapping today. if you look at the vote totals, ed gillespie got more votes yesterday than bob mcdonald. the population has grown some since 2009 but ed did not have an embarrassing is performance in a vote total but had a humiliating performance in the suburbs and exurbs as you move out. those are republican areas. i know 2014 was a different climate, a more republican climate. if you look at the real ed gillespie who ran in that race as the ed gil less me we all know and if you look at the one who tried to adopt trumpism yesterday, it's an inescapable verdict, the real ed gillespie did a heck of a lot better than pretending to be donald trump. >> i think some of that was overstated. he tried to do it kind of

halfway. he was you know, the establishment ed but also kind of played with the confederate memorials. >> that got the most attention. >> it got a lot of attention, probably a lot of attention from people in northern virginia to get out. "the washington post" was talking about it all the time. and that got a lot of people in those states. maybe it helped him a little bit in southwest virginia, more traditional conservative votes. but i think it's important to remember, as well that ed gillespie you know, having that sort of that 2014 experience i think showed a problem within the republican party which is it's now split. it is so much more split than it was in 2014. trump is a figure that the republicans are going to have to grapple with. are they going to run toward him? are they going to run away from him? they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. >> it's almost impossible even if you think it's the right thing to do, it is hard to run from your president. he's the leader of your party.

we learned yesterday that climate exist. does the president get it? he tweeted last night, he was in south korea when he tweeted in this, ed gillespie worked hard but did not imbrace me or what i tand for. the economy doing record numbers. we'll continue to win everbigger than before. he thinks this is not about him. i could go back to the wall and go through result after result after result and look, bill clinton said the same thing heading into 1994. obama said the same thing, this isn't about me. last night was about him. >> it was about him. there's been a conversation about whether or not anti-trumpism is enough. in part, you can see it was enough here. i mean, it certainly fueled the turn out. it certainly fueled the energy. if you think about what democrats did here, i mean, they were all in. you had biden there, obama there, you had all sorts of kind of the interest groups that make up the democratic party. emily's list played heavily in

this race. if you look at the house of delegates a lot of those people able to flip those seats were women. they were very much firing on all cylinders. the kind of fracture of the democratic party that we know so well embodied by tom perriello and ralph northam it, didn't hat matter. they all came together. tom campaigned heavily for northam. we sort of expect trump to say it's not about me because that's what he always thinks. it very much was about him. >> can i underscore one of the things that you pointed out on the map which is that if democrats take away from in that everything's going to be hunky-dory now that all they have to do is put somebody with a "d" by their name and they run against trump they'll be fine, remember this is a state that has been trending in this direction for a very long time. >> that's a great point. >> it's been 20 years basically that it's become, been shifting from deep red to purple and now i think blue. and there's really only been one statewide grooub gubernatorial

in the last 20 years on the republican side who won. he had connections bob mcdonald, he was born in fairfax. was raised in. >> but the -- you're absolutely right. they'd better not overinvest thinking all we have to do is put somebody on the ballot and we win. if you look at this, a lot of us were rolling our eyes at the idea the democrats could win enough house sees next year to be in contention. but this basic dynamic makes them nervous which makes nancy pelosi happy. >> the door is certainly open for us in '05 right now, we have president, president bush down to 38%. that's approximately where president trump is now. that opens the door. that means we get the fresh recruits and they get the retirements. we get the a team and the candidate is very important in the election. >> like her or not, she's a pretty good political analyst

and gets this. there will be more republican retirements out of this. there are democrats coming out of the woodworks to run for office. there are republican who's think they'll come back in early 2018 to repealing and replacing obamacare. in maine last nice, the republican governor did not want to expand medicaid. main voters 58.8 to 41.2% said we want to expand medicaid. that's number one in maine. susan collins republican senator lives in that state. couldn't get her vote last time. good luck mitch mcconnell next time. in virginia, ralph northam and ed gillespie, what issue mattered most to you? health care. 77% voted for the democrat, 23% for the republican. there is no way with a 52-48 senate and those election results and i don't even think in the house you'll be able to get moderate republicans to vote for anything na looks like repeal of obamacare. it's dead. >> you look at people signing up for obamacare. the feeling was since this is

administration wasn't publicizing it that maybe this would it be another way to kind of make it crumble. but you know, there were a lot of people ho were signing up it it, record numbers of folks signing is up for it. you wonder if this is a trend. in maine, folks in utah, idaho trying to figure out out if they want to expand medicaid, as well. that will likely be on the ballot in 2018. >> that shows us a double whammy when comes to health care. on the one hand, you have swing voters and moderates who are saying, we don't want to do away with obamacare. on the other hand, you have the true believers in the base saying excuse me, i voted for you all for three elections to repeal obamacare. you didn't do it. i'm staying home this time. >> that's a dynamic that's playing. one of the things the white house is saying look, republicans are frustrated with congress. they don't say they're probably going to get frustrated with the president, as well if they don't start delivering on some of these propses. that's why a lot of republicans are really saying we've got to

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day about some possible diplomatic opening with the north, the speech instead was a stern rebuke of the kim jong-un regime. >> i say to the north, do not underestimate us. and do not try us. we will defend our common security, our shared prosperity, and our sacred liberty. the weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer. they are putting your regime in grave danger. >> striking the tone number one. but especially because earlier in the day, the president seemed somewhat optimistic. he said i see some progress. we'll see. there was no sign of progress there. that was a call to arms, russia, china, everybody else toughen your sanctions, tighten the noose. it was a speech full of personal insults of kim jong-un. >> personal insults but by trump standards not that bad.

meaning he didn't do the rocket man thing. and i actually for the first time that i can remember think he gave some context for -- he was talking to the south korean national assembly. they don't need context for what happened in north korea. they've lived it. but obviously his audience was the american people and other allies around the world that he's trying to galvanize. you know, context for why the u.s. and allies can't allow north korea to continue on this path. this open question that we still do not know the answer to because there is no answer is, how is he ever going to get to where he said he wanted to go last flight which is where the president before him and before him and before him said they wanted which is a denuclearized north korea. >> and there is. >> it's impossible. >> especially impossible because in the speech, in the speech he didn't say let's sit down at the table with that as a goal.

let's sit down at the table and we'll talk. he said he would only sit down at the table if north korea agreed up front we were negotiating a verifiable end to the program which is never going to happen. >> right, but this is something that the administration has been working on literally since day one since president obama said this is going to be the most difficult task for you incoming president trump. and along the way, we've had these assurances things were changing that china had blocked you know imports nooses north korea that they were taking these actions only to find out a couple weeks or months later that things hadn't changed. so now i think you're seeing frustration from the president. because the results are not there from what we have been told ever since he took office were supposed to be happening, that changes were coming. yet, do you have to wonder what that discussion that's happening -- >> to that point, listen to the president. he's going to be sitting down

with xi tomorrow and seeing vladimir putin and moves on to vietnam. the president called out empty putin and mr. xi saying i need more. >> all responsible nations must join forces to isolate the brutal regime of north korea. we call on every nation including china and russia to fully implement u.n. security council resolutions, downgrade diplomatic releases with the regime, and severe all ties of trade and technology. it is our responsibility and our duty to confront this danger together. >> his rationale for not having a trade crackdown on china has been this is more important. north korea is more important. i think i'm getting their help. he's not getting as much as he wants. that's a big test for him going into the talks tomorrow. >> it is. and you know, he all along has said and you kind of see him

hinting at it here this idea his friendship with the leader of china would mean there's a different course going forward. so far, no sense of that actually happening. they'll meet at some point. he'll meet with the putin. we'll see if something -- but these are all of the ways in which previous administrations have tried too, putting pressure internationally, cutting off diplomatic ties, economic ties. the thing is north korea doesn't really care. if they starve their people, yeah, they don't care. >> you're right. he didn't say rocket man or use the juvenile language he uses sometimes in saying these things. if you accept the north korean culture from grandfather to father to now son they treat him as a deity. his message to kim jong-un was you are not worthy. >> i also have come here to this peninsula to deliver a message directly to the leader of the north korean dictatorship. north korea is not the paradise

your grandfather envisioned. it is a hell that no person deserves. >> talking last night to some foreign policy intelligence types all saying the question now is how does kim jong-un respond to that. >> partly it's how does he respond and how does does our president offer any sort of follow through. if you think back to the campaign, right, as he meets with the chinese over the next 24 hours, during the campaign it was all hammering the chinese. we sort of would have thought that if you had gotten president trump, what you were going to get was an extraordinarily contentious relationship with china. instead he decided to develop this friendship and see where that got him. it hasn't gotten him very far. they haven't engaged on the trade issue. if they do, they'll find that's very difficult, as well. there's no sense -- there's no path we can see right now that leads from where you know, where

the president is right now to where he wants to get in that. >> continue that part of the conversation. the two leaders meet tomorrow. when we come back, more about last night. what 2017 means for 2018. ah, dinner.

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more now on the fallout from last night especially the virginia election and the blame game boomerang in republican circles today. president trump blamed a bad candidate who he says did too little to embrace heim. breitbart ran this headline, republicans swamp ed gillespie. rejected. to state the obvious, gillespie did run the race and he lost. but trump world's read of last night's results clashes with what you hear from republicans on capitol hill this morning. there republicans now have ballot box proof their president is a drag and they remember history, the big win republican

wins in 2009 that were a spring board to the midterm rout. now republicans worry the tables could be turning on them. listen to house speaker paul ryan this morning. this is his take, play down the election results but -- >> it doesn't change my reading of the current moment. it just emphasizes my reading of the current moment which is we have a promise to keep and have to get on with keeping our promise. one of the chief props we made when we ran for office, all of us whether it's the president or congress in 2016 was we would do tax reform and tax cuts for families for people. >> if anythinging this puts more pressure to make sure we follow through. >> i can't think of a different answer. republicans do think the most imperative thing for them to do is keep some of their promises to the american people. here we are in november, they were supposed to repeal and replace obamacare, they didn't and won't. the president promised a big infrastructure package and never sent it to the hill. tax cuts is their last best hope.

but that was strikingly familiar to exactly what nancy pelosi said the morning after bob mccouldn't won in 2009 where she said we dras need to do as we promised. they did pass health care and in march they passed obamacare and got pummeled. >> and the analogy here could be that republicans pass a big tax cut that, by the way, affects people in high tax states like california and new york and elsewhere negatively. there are republicans in those states, there are republican districts. what if by passing tax cuts, you sort of heal your party kind of at large but you open up and put in play dozens of republican seats in these high taxed states who the opponents of which are going to say you raised my taxes. >> can i say one thing about that breitbart headline. it was catchy, swamp creature. swamp thing. ed gillespie. give me a break.

this time yesterday, ed gillespie was doing everything that the breitbart wing of the republican party wanted him to do. sanctuary cities and law and order and ms-13 and they were so happy he was embracing trumpism and then he lost and it's like who is that guy. >> you're saying like the president they support so much they're transactional and have a very short memory. >> they're as political as the next guy. >> bannon was praising him. >> we haven't said this enough. yesterday trump lymph without trump didn't sell. the question for republicans is remember, when obama wasn't on the ballot in every election they got pummeled. will the same thing happen to republicans without trump on the ballot. to help you make your point, he knew you were going to say that, matt drudge unlike breitbart blaming candidates, matt drudge is saying republicans need to be worried. he says next stop alabama. he says democrats are born again.

that to me is a better reaction that wade better learn the lessons here and study this. >> it's certainly a truer more intellectually honest assessment than what you have from trump or people like laura ingraham. you wonder what this means for bannon who said he's going to primary everybody and primary all the swamp things. you know. >> the nancy pelosi said this morning she's praying deeply for that. >> yeah. what does that do to his mission at this point? and you imagine people like we were talking to b.o.b. barbara comstock in virginia, martha mcsally. maybe she'll run for that open senate seat but all of these republicans should certainly be worried that this playbook because they were hopeful this playbook of trumpism light married to a kind of chamber of commerce republican would work and it didn't. backfired hugely. >> i talked to somebody on monday at the white house about tax reform and the message was, look, everybody on capitol hill and in the white house sort

of'ses that we've got to the pass something, that this is sort of -- there's political imperative here. i think obviously that imperative is even more striking now. if you look at compare where republicans are now to where democrats were in 2009, 2010, why did republicans do very well in 2010? it was actually, there was a substantive argument. they did pass, democrats passed health care. it was health care, cap and trade and stimulus. they passed two out of three of those. that was the rrth for republicans going into 2010. there's not a substantive argument here in part because republicans haven't passed anything in congress. the issue always will be trump. and when you're at 36% approval, it washes out all of these other issues. it's all about trump and that's a problem for republicans. >> sometimes that's enough. sometimes and again, one of the things about yesterday in 2016, donald trump broke and bent every rule of american politics. what happened yesterday was the old rules apply. historically unpopular

president, your party gets whacked. the democrats can think we've just got to the put mickey mouse on the ballot and we'll win. the question is to win in some of the tougher republican areas they have to plan on the economy. it can't be just anti-tump i think. jerry falwell, the son of the former moral majority leader i believe still the president of liberty university, here's his brilliant plan. d.c. should annex northern virginia and return the governance of virginia to virginians. all federal employees who are conflicted. we talked about barbara comstock whos in a district that's very tough to hold. i'm going to guess she considers herself a virginian. it is interesting. i don't mean to be too snarky. i'm interested when the day after an election, a man of god i guess decides some people are more equal than others because people in northern virginia. >> are swamp creatures meaning the accusation from falwell and people like him is because the population has exploded in

northern virginia and northern virginia is part of the company town of d.c. that is all about the swamp, then that they're not real conservatives. >> it's a big part of the northern virginia economy. that's overly simplistic. there are a lot of other jobs out there. yes, they elected an african-american lieutenant governor and the first transgender candidate who ran against a guy who called himself the best homophobe. there's a little bit more at play than that. >> there's always the idea, sarah palin talked about it like this is real america versus urban america or changing america. and last night, the changing america, the changing demographics in that state started to catch up with that state. it was something that i think was overstated in 2016 that changing america didn't necessarily show up. but i think finally it did for democrats. you know, democrats going into this i was talking to democrats before this race. they didn't know it was going to be such a blowout. they were saying two to three points. >> it's the size.

>> and the margins, too. what's more important is how not just the northern virginia suburbs, those nonvirginia part that i happen to live in and it is part of virginia. but it's the suburbs arn richmond, the suburbs in the tidewater region. this to me is the bigger problem for republicans. it's they're losing the suburb yooits which are such a core part of their coalition. they're adding a lot of coal coalition and doing that really since george w. bush endorsed strip mining in 2000 in west virginia. if you can't hold the suburbanites it's where everybody lives. >> you're already losing the urban areas. the suburbs are the next biggest pot of people. simple math. it's been one year since then candidate trump became president-elect. one year ago tonight. a lot has changed since this. >> hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time. and we owe her a major debt of

gratitude for her service to our country. i mean that very sincerely.

if donald trump holds on to florida and north carolina, then these are the states that will decide the next president of the united states. >> what a historic moment. we can now project the winner of the presidential race, cnn projects donald trump wins the presidency. >> that was a historic moment. and it was one year ago tonight that donald trump won the presidency. and i just love this, i'm sorry, despite what the president says

and tweets look at who then candidate trump and his team were watching who they watch when it matters most. that's election night. tune to cnn. well, let's look a year later the president by the numbers here. if you go back a lot of polling in the first year of donald trump. here's one interesting big change. right after the election, the american people were largely divided, 44% favorable, 46% unfavorable. a year later nearly six in ten americans have an unfavorable view of their president. the president has historically low approval ratings. that's a facts one year later. united divided you heard him before the break talking about hillary clinton's service. he wanted to unite the service. the open people were divided on that question right after the election. now again, nearly six in ten americans say this president has divided the united states of america. this scorecard is horrible for the president. if you look at these big qualities, is he honest, is he a bad leader, does he care about average americans, he is not level headed, is he strong and intelligent on every one of them, the president's heading in the wrong direction.

61% still say he's strong. but that's down 13 points from a year ago. 56% say he's intelligent down 1 points. look at this, 59% say he's a bad leader off the charts, up 21 points. these qualities for the president not good. we know the president tweets a lot. we took a score. 54 of his tweets have been about president obama. 46 about hillary clinton. in '13, he used a favorite hash tag sad. last night, the president was in asia but couldn't resist reminding the people of south korea about one year ago. >> since my election exactly one year ago today, i celebrate with you. our stock market is at an all-time high. unemployment is at eight 17-year low. we are defeating isis. we are strengthening our judiciary including a brilliant supreme court justice. and on and on and on.

>> neil gorsuch i'm sure his grateful. his name id is off the charts in south korea. i don't blame the president. he's overseas. i'm making fun. of course, he wants to talk about a year ago. he won a historic victory. we're learning a year later sometimes the glow doesn't last very long. it's hard to believe it was only a year ago that election night. let's talk about a couple of things. number one, the president did say and you heard as we went to break, applaud hillary clinton for her service. i mean this seen sirely. he said in that speech on election night he wanted to unify the country. if you look at the numbers and reaction in the virginia election, the voters in charlottesville, people don't believe he has done that. >> and he has actubly not done it. i think a lot of people would argue he has actively tried to be divisive and being divisive along cultural and racial lines, along ethnic and religious lines.

almost seeing that as a strategy. you mentioned charlottesville, going after nfl players, going after jameel hill feuding with a war widow wasn't helpful to this. back then a year ago, people were hopeful. he sounded sincere and talked about reaching out and bridging the divisions, healing divides. but so far he hasn't done any of that. no expectation at this point that heal. >> let's listen a bit. it's important to what he said on election night. on that night he sounded very conciliatory about trying to bring the country together. >> now it's time for america to bind the wounds of division. have to get together. for those who have chosen not to support me in the past of which there were a few people, i'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country. >> that was very gracious

actually. >> very. >> very gracious. now they brought some democrats in on tax reform. we've seen episodes here and there. the reaction to charlottesville both sides on other issues, an at best a mixed message. the american people certainly think he has to to more to divide than unite. >> there's two areas in which he has failed to live up to that sort of lofty ideal. one is policy and the other is tone. on policy, he didn't sort of take a middle of the road approach. whether it's epa and trying to gut the epa or the regulatory approach to reverse everything that barack obama did or its immigration policy which is much more -- those are all divisive issues that are at the heart of why the country is so split. on tone, i just think it's impossible to look at the tweets, various people i think our paper did it too compiled all the tweets over the last year. they're just one after another as nia said going after every

different kind of like little you know touch point, wedge in the country and sticking a. >> a lot of republicans after last night saying they hope last night will finally get that through to him. he did get a supreme court justice through. he's getting a lot of other federal justices through. that's a big deal. >> that is the thing he can point to and what i hear from republican voters and people who wanted trump to succeed say well at least there's neil gorsuch. i think he succeeded not just at the supreme court level but on the federal judge level, as well. he's been helped by a few things. institutionally. mitch mcconnell keeping that seat open for a republican president was huge. it wouldn't have happened without that. you also have an infrastructure so the conservative legal instruct that's there that has sort of inyou indicated a whole generation you have conservative judges. >> he accepted. >> he accepted that. that's been a struggle for him on a big policy issue like obamacare which the conservative

movement has not figured out a way forward on health care. >> one of the reasons he won understated reason during the primaries he used immigration. during the general election he used a lot of trade. he also tapped people's frustration with anyone who has a title. including secretary clinton. drain the swamp was part of the old. democrats and republicans. >> i cannot tell you how many trump voters i talked to throughout the trump campaign at his rallies, that was the thing i heard more than anything else. he's din. we need to shake it up. i feel like my theme this hour is swamp but it was you know, the swamp out of there. that has not happened. the note of egregious example is his hhs secretary now former secretary who got fired for taking private jets to -- charging taxpayers lots and lots of money instead of just flying you know a commercial or trying to save money. that i would think, if i go back

and talk to those trump voters about is this what you had in mind, the answer is no. this is what i would expect from the people who are in the swamp. >> former campaign aides trading on his name and making money in their firms and everything. they just replaced the alligators. up next a bold move by the president as he takes on the great fire wall of china. sit you can train yourself to cook with less oil. introducing new pam spray pump made with extra virgin olive oil. now you can pump instead of pour, plus get the superior non-stick you love. new pam spray pump. ththe next energyngs toto power our dreams,re will be american energy.

president trump landed in china about 1 hours ago and already tweeted three times despite the so-called great fire wall of china. on behalf of flotus, we thank you for an unforgettable afternoon and evening at the forbidden city in beijing. president echoed his warning for north korea. this would be a fatal miscalculation. do not underestimate and do not

try us. it's a controversial move because facebook and twitter are banned in china for domestic users but in the words of a senior administration official the president will tweet whatever he wants. late put up is the first tweet there where he is thanking president xi for the greeting. what makes this one jump out? it's 217 characters. 217. there we go. it's the new twitter. it's the new twitter. you can write an essay as opposed to a paragraph. >> something tells me if he tweeted something like president xi please release all the people have you in prison who -- and end all your human rights abuses it would be hard for us to see those teets. >> all seriousness, the president tweeted something like congratulations on president xi for his political victory. this is still a repressive he regime how about @president xi. i love this twitter thing. your people will, too. >> that would send a message. >> that would be a real message.

we know that isn't this president. he's bffs with the leader of china and isn't one to use the bully pulpit in highlighting human rights abuses. >> i just want to show you the new england patriots decided to take advantage of the new world and tweet out all of tom brady's wins. they ran out of space. even with all those characters. they say twitter wants to add more characters. don junior weighing in. how about a compromise he says. still going. that's right. donald trump jr. says how about everyone gets one of these a day. 140 was art form. 280 is everyone's chance to write their gettysburg address that no one wants to read. donald trump jr. on twitter he tweeted yesterday virginia slow theers should turn out today for ed gillespie. >> he's going to pull it out today. >> what do we make? no? >> what's that. >> new twitter, are you going to write essays.

>> i'm not on twitter very much. 280 seems excessive. >> i try to keep it under 140. i limit myself. >> i suspect we'll still have the cliffhanger tweets from donald trump. >> dot, dot, dot. >> we'll have to continue to look for the next one. >> i used to have to write before i switched to this tv thing. give it a try. thanks for joining us. see you back here same time tomorrow. wolf blitzer up after a quick break. have a good day. did yon the national debt?ssman get elected by talking tough will they stay true to their words?

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