look at what happened with wiretapping tweets and fox news actually addressed those tweets.wiretapping tweets were citing a fox news story. let's watch this. >> fox news knows of no evidence of any kind that the now president of the united states was surveilled at any time in any way full stop. >> so the president or at least sean spicer said essentially it was fox news. we were reporting what we heard on their air. now we hear fox news say we can't even back up what that commentator said on our air. is he threatening the credibility of fox news? >> there's a weird dance going on. fox says we don't have proof for what you're saying. we can't back up what you're saying. it does go to show the president's tweets matter more now because he's in the white house and because he has attention of the entire world with his entire feed. >> brian stelter, good to see you. don't forget to watch tomorrow "reliable sources," tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern. >>> coming up, jeanne moos on mcdonald's, tiny hands and a hacked twitter account. why do so many businesses rely on the u.s.

here just one of six tweets. he wrote, quote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. and here is lindsey graham at a town hall this morning. >> the president of the united states is claiming that the former president of the united states ordered wiretapping of his campaign last year. i don't know if it's true or not, but if it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. >> senator graham went on to say if the obama administration was able to secure a warrant to wiretap, that would be concerning because it meant there was a reason the court would allow it. meanwhile, here's what congressman mole ton who sits on the armed services committee told thomas robertss this morning. >> i don't want to speculate on this one tweet from a president who is a serial liar. he gets up every day and lie to the american people. if under the obama administration they were simply monitoring contacts with rus

he, trump, tweeted, now this is the president of the united states. some vindictive crap about arnold schwarzenegger losing his job on the apresent sxis then still on dawn patrol, he tweeted about president obama releasing 122 terrorists frommer guantanamo bay who then rejoined the cause. it turns out nine out of ten were released before obama ever came to the white house. fact. what is happening is that this has gotten so hay wire is that hipeel, his very spokean in the white house and his republicans will no longer play ditto heads. they won't say this believe the guy. sean spicer refuses to lip sync what president trump said about wiretapping. now it is fast his boss were speaking english as a second language. fixing the math. here's how sean spicer explained the tweet on guantanamo when asked about it today. >> obviously the president meant in totality the number released on the battlefield. from gitmo. >> nice try, the only problem, the president specifically said in his tweet that they were released by the obama administration. that's a fact. ch

that probably is the source of his tweet. what we know from the senate intelligence committee was that it was not anyone in the government of the united states. that is what the committee said today. the president of the united states did not kwuse any of the resources that confirm the words of that tweet. the president of the united states on 6:35 a.m. acted recklessly and willfully in tweeting lies about president obama. he is the most deviant man to ever live in the white house. he had 44 predecessors that have established a norm for presidential conduct. he deviates for virtually every one of those norms except wearing a necktie to work. he is a disgrace. he is an embarrassment to the presidency. he violated his office when he put out that tweet. he violated the oath to faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. he is a liar and embarrassment. he is a disgrace and a embarrassment to the house. here is how the speaker dealt with that embarrassment today when chuck todd asked him how much damage th

one is just tweeting in general and what you tweet about.ed the point that tweeting about arnold and snl, although it prays into the culture, i understand that. there are specific issues like the tweet about the wiretapping by which he meant surveillance which has been raised by the intelligence committee chair. the tweets you just quoted --aged i hadn't seen those, they're brand-new -- why is there more focus on john podesta and the clinton campaign. >> she lost and he's president. >> why -- >> i don't want to get into a debate over that tweet. he is president, so he has to answer to it. >> the point i would make is i hate to say this, we're all of an age where we're seeing a politician should never get into an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel, meaning newspaper publishers. twitter is how you goat get around that in today's world. this is an excellent way for the president to do that. >> dan, you heard themd saying you're no better than the journalist you assail when what you tweet is untrue. his supporters see that. these t

we've got celebrity tweets.out trump's enemies, government affairs and a bunch of random (bleep) we call w.t.f. >> four very competitive trump tweet regions, hasan. >> let's start in the celebrity region where the number one tweet is trump going at his biggest foe rosie o'donnell, baby. >> huh-oh. >> sorry, @rosy is a mentally sick woman, a bully, a dummy and above all a loser. other than that, she's just wonderful! >> ooh! just an incredible flurry of insults in just 140 characters. >> i love how he tries to redeem it at the end. like my dad says, hasan, you're dumb, a dues grace to everyone in my family, but technical you're still my son. >> that's cold. >> for an indian family, that's a lulu buy, baby. i love you, pop! >> cool. in round one that rosy tweet is up against mileycyrus. @mileycyrus is on a triky and slippery path. the wrong move needs too givion. guidance! all caps. is he giving the guidance? >> i think he's describing the concept of guidance. >> maybe you yell out "guidance" when someone needs he

after president trump sent those tweets. the president launched a series of wild accusations this morning without consulting any of his aides, tweeting this, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process? this is nixon watergate and president trump offers zero evidence to substantiate those claims. cnn senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny has spoken to an administration official and joins me now on the phone with more on this. jeff, what are you learning? >> this tweet storm from president trump did take administration officials back in washington by surprise. this has been a tense week in the last, i would say, 3 or 4 days inside the white house ever since these revelations about russia and the meeting with attorney general jeff sessions came to light, but these tweets this morning really surprised senior administration officials and the officials believe that the president was not trying to get ahead of any particular story but simply he's furious about how the russia inv

he tweeted out, quote, terrible.ust found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. in a second tweet he said how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon, watergate, bad or sick guy. now, president trump has so far offered zero proof, zero evidence to back up these claims. so, where is all of this coming from? well, yesterday there was a report in breitbart and that breitbart report was referencing some claims made by a conservative radio host, mark levine and that quote used police state tactics, allegedly including wire tapping trump tower. these are just allegations, but these reports claim that last june, in the middle of the election, the obama administration submitted a request, a highly secretive foreign intelligence surveillance court to monitor communications involving then candidate trump and some campaign officials, it was reportedly turned down and then in october right before

tweet. >> the fbi is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> the answer is continues to be no. and at some point, take no for an answer. >> is paul manafort a subject in your investigation? >> not going to comment on that. >> paul manafort who played a very limited role. >> he was the chairman of the campaign. he literal lid wly running the campaign. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> was the president's statement that obama had his wires tapped in trump tower a true statement? >> i have in information that supports those tweets. >> so president obama could not yun ra unilaterally authorize -- >> we now know the real fake news was coming out of the tweets from the president. >>> today, the resistance to drup druonald trump's lies move hearing room in the ho

chl t tweet. the president of the united states is claiming that the former president of the united states ordered wire tapping of his campaign last year. i don't know if it's true or not, but if it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. { crowd yelling } >> the other side of the story -- just be quiet. if the former president of the united states was able to obtain a warrant lawfully to monitor trump campaign for violating law, that would be the biggest scandal since watergate. so here's the deal. as we get ready to talk to each other, i am very worried. i'm very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegal. i would be very worried if, in fact, the obama administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfully about trump campaign activity with foreign government. so it's my job as the united states senator to get to the bottom of this. i promise you i will. >> we just heard there senate graham promising to initi

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tweet somebody about something? think hitler's is his daddy while you do a dna test akin too see if he was heather because he is acting like he did. host: let us hear from sue also on our democrats line. caller: yes, hi. thanks for taking my call. the first thing i want to say is that actions speak louder than tweets. last time i checked, u.s. citizens have the right to live wherever they want to within the united states. is diverging attention from a need independent evaluation from in therence of russians u.s. election. we need an independent investigation. we need evidence of claims. this president does not want the evidence against him. ts this with unfounded claims and does not provide his tax records. this man is undermining freedom of speech. he is trying to, and his republican cronies by the way, are trying to end separation of church and state. they do not believe in the u.s. constitution. they are trying to use the ,residency for financial deals -- which hisly family has ignored hundreds of years of ethics

he's going to keep tweeting. he was tweeting this afternoon. >> there certainly is. there clearly was chatter of information about communications that were happening in the trump campaign that have been leaked to the wnts and "the new york time times". >> he says tapping. >> that is not to the level of what the president is saying. even though we all know that this chatter and this communications was happening, the president needs to explain. >> this does hang over washington and the administration. we've got health care, possible tax reform. we've got immigration reform perhaps. we've got so much going on in this country. infrastructure and now this is sort of consumed all the oxygen. >> this is really troubling. as the people testifying today said, the goal of the russians is to cause havoc and to bring questions about the democratic process. this announcement of this investigation is that questioning. the fbi director said the investigation has been going on since july. i think we're all hoping and encouraging the fbi director let's get this done and to the bottom

we know exactly why president trump tweeted what he tweeted. because there is one page in the trump white house crisis management playbook. and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from a scandal. the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet. >> we know about the denil from president obama. the president's former speech writer said, i would be careful about reporting that obama said there was no wiretapping. statement just said that neither he nor the white house ordered pit. can you categorically deny that the obama white house didn't seek a fisa order? >> i can categorically the white house was involved in influencing. >> that's not what i'm asking. can you deny that the obama white house did not seek and obtain a fisa order -- >> the simple answer is, i don't know. when i was in government, i was not in a position of being regularly briefed on an fbi criminal or counterintelligence invasion gags. no one at the white house, including the president of the united states, should be in a position in which they'

we know exactly why president trump tweeted what he tweeted. because there is one page in the trump white house crisis management playbook. and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from a scandal. the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet. >> we know about the denial from president obama. and the law as well. president obama's former speech swrn writer, jon favreau, your former colleague, said -- i would be careful about reporting that obama said there was no wiretapping. statement just said that neither he nor the white house ordered it. can you categorically deny that the obama white house didn't seek a fisa order? >> i can categorically deny that the white house was involved in directing or interfering or influencing an fbi investigation -- >> that's not what i'm asking. can you deny that the obama white house did not seek and obtain a fisa court-ordered wiretap of the trump campaign? >> the simple answer is, i don't know. it's not because i'm no longer in government. the fact is, even when i was in gov

this is just one of six tweets president trump fired off around 6:30 a.m.ote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. president trump also made an attempt to tie president obama to the fallout over meetings attorney general sessions and some of his top aides had with the russian ambassador. he tweeted "the first meeting jeff sessions had with the russian ambassador was set up by the obama administration under education program for 100 ambassadors." and this tweet, "just out -- the same russian ambassador that met jeff sessions visited the obama white house 22 times and 4 time last year alone." meanwhile, attorney general sessions is getting ready to respond to democrats on the judiciary committee about why he wasn't forth coming in the meetings with the russian ambassador. also new today, secretary of state rex tillerson pushing back against the white house's proposed drastic cuts in the state department and u.s. aid budgets, the whopping 37% cut could go into effect

he sent this tweet this morning. said he just learned presumably he's not getting an intelligence briefing early on a saturday morning. so it does appear, betsy that this information came from the breitbart report or a right-wing radio talk show host. it appears once again he's relying on the right-wing media reports to make these allegations. the last time i recall it was about sweden in a fox news report it was all about attacks in sweden. do you think this is reckless? >> we know exactly what his media diet is like. he reads a lot of breitbart. he watch es fox and friends. and the reality is that breitbart has a so they record in reporting things that are factually accurate. they draw lots of criticism for getting stories wrong in the past and in the past when steve bannon was running the site, for refusing to apologize stories that were incorrect. they ran a story about loretta lynch. said she was the loretta lynch named to run the jxtd that was completely wrong. the fact that the president is relying so overwhel

it's an absurd tweet because it's not a hoax. we know that michael flynn talked to the ambassador, the russian ambassador even before the election. we know that people who worked with trump, manafort and others had russian connections. we know that russia attacked the election to help donald trump. there is nothing hoaxy about this. >> david, i have spoken to the russian ambassador before. am i part of rigging the election? >> i'm glad you brought that up. >> okay. >> because this will allow me to explain why this would be wrong. starting in june, there were media reports that the russians had hacked the election and were mucking about. by mid-august, trump and flynn were briefed that russians were behind the hack, and that the intent was to throw the election in his direction. okay. so now the question i have for you, eli, and maybe you can get an answer from michael flynn or anyone connected to the trump world. okay. you're talking to the russian ambassador or any russian after that point in time what are you saying to them? ar

>> the tweets themselves cross the line? >> yeah. >> in my opinion, what the president is doing is he is getting information -- we're not sure of the source -- but he's getting information that says, look, a lot of these media stories are either overblown, they're not giving the reason how this information was gathered in the first place, and what he's done through his tweets is inject this issue into the public debate, not only about what were the contacts between the russians and the administration, but how did we come to be in a place in the first instance of gathering and collecting this information? so, in that sense, i think what he's done is he's broadened the spotlight to include not just the communications between the campaign and the russians but also what was the evidentiary basis for going out and collecting this information in the first place? >> tom dupree, great to have you on. thank you for helping us get through the legal weeds on all of this. it's a story we'll continue to follow. much appreciated. >> thank

president trump tweeted this morning that barack obama is a felon. know he's president but this strike you, this kind of conduct, with the office of the presidency? does it? i don't hear hail to the chief when i hear about this banter at dawn. i don't hear a president gdoing his sworn duties. i hear that guy who said ted cruz's father killed president obama -- president kennedy. i hear a guy who calls into right wing radio with a crazy hate-filled conspiracy theory, something forgotten by dawn, not woken up by it. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> this will be a plan where you can choose your plan. and you know what the plan is. this is the plan. >> trump care has landed? >> look at the size. this is the democrats. this is us. >>ed w widespread backlash grow republicans revolt against a republican bill. >> why are republicans so opposed. >> and trump care supporters make their case. >> rather than getting that new iphone, maybe they should invest in their own

this morning is one he is tweeting and tweeting a lot one of the things he's not mentioning is the surveillance claim and wiretapping claim. how important is that today and what do you expect to hear about it? >> it's very porn because it's a big distraction and i expect it to be put to rest pretty quickly as the chairman of the committee has said there is no evidence unless comey drops a bombshell today i don't think there is any evidence and we'll move on from that issue quickly. >> what if you're not allowed to because your brother and sister republicans want to go beyond wiretapping. what about anything? any kind of anything done by the obama administration that could in some way pass as surveillance of the trump station. it will not die unless you get it at its root. >> i won't press on it. i don't think that's the major focus of the hearing and there's precious time with director comey and mike rogers so the main focus is going to be with the russian connection and it's a free ranging investigation. so now i will caution we're limited today because it is an open session. they're all on a

this is the tweet. "terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism." tonight he was asked how did he find out about the wiretapping. >> how did you find out? you said i just found out. how did you learn that? >> well, i've been reading about things. i read january 20th a "new york times" article about where they were talking about wiretapping. there was an article. i think they used that exact term. i read other things. i watched your friend bret baier the day previous where he was talking about certain complex sets of things happening and wiretapping. i said wait a minute, this is a lot of wiretapping being talked about. i've been seeing a lot of things. >> and so there it is. there is the answer. the president of the united states read it in "the new york times" six weeks before he tweeted it. and in his tweet he said he just found out. just found out. but tonight he said he found out in "the new york times" six weeks

that's not quite accurate that tweet? >> i haven't been following anybody on twitter while i've been sitting here. >> i can read it to you. the nsa and fbi tell congress that russia did not influence electoral process, this tweet has gone out to millions of americans, 16.1 to be exact. is the tweet, as i read it to you, the nsa and fbi tell congress that russia did not influence the electoral process, is that accurate? >> well, it's hard for me to react. let me tell you what we understand the state of what we've said is. we've offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact because it's never something we looked at. >> okay. >> so it's not too far of a logical leap to conclude that the assertion that you have told the congress that there was no influence on the electoral

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tweet the show @"the lead" jake tapper. over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> breaking news, under investigation. the fbi director, james comey reveals the bureau has been conducting a criminal investigation of russia's election meddling since july, and now, for the first time, he says that includes alleged links and coordination between moscow and trump associates. >>> no wiretapping. the fbi chief publicly dismisses president trump's claims that he was wiretapped by president obama, saying there is no information to support those allegations. >>> on defense. the white house is not apologizing, saying nothing has changed. while

. >> if you take literally what the president tweeted the plumbing doesn't work that way. if something happened it could not have happened the way the president said it. my gut is i think the president forgot for a moment in the morning saturday that he was actually president. >> joining me now are nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house and nbc justice correspondent pete william. first pete let's break down the new travel ban. peter also, the two petes. let's talk about the way it was rolled out, but more importantly i guess the substance of it. pete williams, what is the big difference, the big differences which we're showing up there on the board as well? >> right, it's six countries now, not seven. doesn't include iraq. the government says that iraq now has given assurances that it can provide the kind of information needed to vet visa applicants. it takes effect march 16th, not the day the president signs it so it gives people a chance to get ready for it and the government hopes it will not create the chaos at airports. it says that the people w

tweet the show @"the lead" jake tapper. i am turning the show over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> breaking news, under investigation. the fbi director, james comey reveals the bureau has been conducting a criminal investigation of russia's election meddling since july, and now, for the first time, he says that includes alleged links and coordination between moscow and trump associates. >>> no wiretapping. the fbi chief publicly dismisses president trump's claims that he was wiretapped by president obama, saying there is no information to support those allegations. >>> on defense. the white house is not apologizing, saying nothing has changed. while the president's tweets suggest a new conspiracy theory. >>> after an ominous rocket engine test, north korea says it's not afraid of the u.s. and threatens to use what it calls its nuclear sword for self-defense. >>> i am wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. fbi director james comey today publicly rejected president trump's claim that he

another tweet, trump calling the whole situation nixon/watergate. a spokesperson for former president obama says, quote, cardinal rule for the obama administration was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the justice department. joining me now, ken delaney. i know you have new reporting against the allegations. what you can tell us? >> that's right. justice department correspondent pete williams has spoken to a senior administration official who tells us that he andthers who are in a position to know have no idea what the president is talking about with his allegations that his communications at trump tower were wiretapped by president trump. and further, this official says that the president trump did not consult with law enforcement officials or others who might have known the facts before he engaged in that tweet storm on this this morning. the reason that is important, becauseis wong dering the president said he learned this information. was he communicating to us that he had just been briefed on

explain. >> when trump said those tweets or when he wrote those tweets he clearly wanted the americanlic to believe that president obama himself with no predicate demanded of the fbi that they put wiretaps on trump tower and on trump himself. first of all, you can't do that. there's no way that a president could do that but even assuming that he's right, it would be so -- it's such a hostile statement about the previous administration and i think what's happened this week is it led comey, director comey by monday to say, look, this is about my investigators and this investigation. i was wrong. i thought comey would not validate that there was a criminal investigation going on or investigation going on about potential collusion with the trump administration it was a jaw-dropping moment and the reason why i believe now comey did that was to protect his agency and to protect the investigation. it's now almost impossible for the trump administration to close down the fbi investigation. they can, you know, sort of be in collusion with nunes which is clearly the case right now but it's almo

i can't get my tweet up! tweet-us interrupt-us, what am i going to do? >> donald! donald! >> nixon! i'm so happy you're here, i'm getting scared. >> there's no reason to get scared! you just have to flip the script. for instance, i heard president obama tapped your phones. just tweet that and the hounds are off your trail! >> obama! i knew he was up to no good! how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the big sacred election process? this is nixon/watergate. bad. boom! >> donald, stop! abe ma'am lincoln? >> don't listen to nixon! he was the one who tapped the phones in watergate. >> shut up, abe! don't you have tickets to the theater tonight? >> donald, nixon had to resign for lying. >> oh, damn it! president lincoln is right. donald, you don't want to end up like me. to paraphrase myself, i am a crook! but the rumors about you and the russians are just spooky! >> just admit what happened, donald! >> fake ghost news! somebody help! das vedana! who will you be calling? >> vlad putin! it's the shore with stephen colbert! tonight stephen welcomes anderson cooper, judd a

we talked about was from the official potus tweet page, and they still have not corrected that tweet, even though it's been multpointed ou them, multiple times that it's not true. how has the white house responded to the fact that no wiretap evidence has been found? >> they're still not backing down. which is interesting. you have republicans and democrats in the house and senate, now you have the fbi director himself coming out, saying that there's no evidence to support this wiretap. but the press secretary, sean spicer, did not back down. listen to what he said today in his press briefing. >> he said that there's no information to support the allegations that the president made against president obama. >> at this time. >> so is the president prepared to withdraw that accusation and apologize to the president? >> no. we started a hearing. it's still ongoing. and as chairman nunes mentioned, this is one in a series of hearings that will be happening. i think there's, as i noted last week, there's also a lot of interesting news coming out of that in terms of the activities that have

there is more basis to the schwarzenegger tweet than the obama tweet, why isn't the >> i guess his ratingsot as big as donald trump's were. >> stephen: grea sad end to a gt show. >> saddish sad. ( laughter ) the reporting on the tweets, i think it's a large distraction, i think that's clearly part of what he was doing. >> stephen: is it pure distraction? >> no, it's like a seismograph, this is like a real-time seismograph of the inner workings of the president's head and it's fascinating. an emotional size mo grasp. he's like a live wire of emotion. we had to wait for decades to hear nixon on tapes. we hear donald trump realtime. usually people try to keep the president cloistered and not before the public at all times. he breaks through. >> stephen: whoever pries the the phone out of saturday off. >> the "the washington post" wrote an article you quoted at the beginning of the show and part that i found funny is you quoted a part where the president said afterward he felt better later on in the day. it actually talked about him need ago release. he gets angry, it builds up, needs a releas

he tweets about president obama and a few minutes later tweets about the apprentice. >> we can also say when it comes to these tweets and these accusations of wiretapping that in essence, why would he do that? is there something more behind that as far as strategic diversion? is he really wanting to distract here or you have also the other side saying that he's shooting himself in the foot either way. >> exactly. >> it's damning for him if it's not true or if it is, that maybe a federal judge found something as far as anything criminal or anything that may be damaging to him. >> that was my point exactly. i think that's exactly right. >> all right. talk to me very quickly, when you have this as far as how this information may have come to the attention of donald trump, in your thoughts, where could that have been from? >> well, my understanding is it's from breitbart news or from some other crazy news source. just think about this for a minute. why would he tweet that without verifying his own information? how would the president of the united states wake up early in the morning and not

those tweets.fact that this white house is in this much disarray reflects poorly not on the chief of staff or anyone else, but on the president of the united states, himself. >> what are countries around the world thinking. in a moment, donald trump's worst deal on trump's failed attempt to make a name for himself. first, a look at some of the ground we have covered this morning. >> accused a former president of the united states of committing a felony. >> it is hard to overstate how reckless that tweet was. there is a full fledged war now between the president, past presidents, the intel community. you will never prove that barack obama ordered the tapping of his phones. >> the president of the united states put his reputation and the reputation of the united states at risk to get a draw. >> i could not find one person inside the white house that defended donald trump. >> a chance to reassert the notion he is in charge. he is not going to let mem behave in a way that is weak. >> his own spokes peo

and so he tweets. the press corps that was so convinced that donald trump had become presidential on tuesday night because he spent an hour sluggishly and oh so obviously reading a teleprompter filled with words that were not his own, that same press corps, that so embarrassingly fell for that performance tuesday night, was shocked. i mean, just shocked that donald trump woke up saturday morning and started tweeting sheer madness. didn't they know donald trump was going to do that to them? if you fall for saying on a tuesday that donald trump is presidential because he read a teleprompter, don't you know that the clock is ticking on when he will unleash his madness in a way that will make you regret every word you left hanging out there about this utterly unpresidential man? you didn't know that? 6:35 a.m. saturday morning, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism." oh, no. this is mccarthyism. congressman and tru

host: another tweet. thanks for the tweet, victor. mark has this.ziz joiningbdul us from springfield, massachusetts. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: fine, thank you. caller: my understanding is that america has not fought any wars since the civil war on their own soil other than something brief with the pearl harbor attack. it is more important to me that citizensrotects their from one of these nuclear weapons to get here in america. i was watching c-span, and they were saying that most of our that they will only be able to take down maybe 50% of the nuclear weapons that come here. that means 50% are going to hit. i think it is more important that we prepare our citizens from being attacked by nuclear weapons here, especially when we have -- we dependent on oil, gas, which we got underground, and we got our nuclear facilities. if they hit us, it is going to be interesting with the other explosions from our use of gas and oil for fuel. host: that is a sobering thought, abdul. thank you for the call from springfield, massachuset

international women's day tweets cause backlash.t that says over but how do you start a sentence with i," international starts with i. >> a lot of the tweets started with i. >> andy: it makes perfect sense. katie, you said that if he hadn't tweeted anything at all, he would've gotten -- he did what he had to do here, this could have come from obama, could have come from bush, and of story. >> it's a lose-lose, they were going to attack him either way. >> andy: agreed. michael riedel, you said that if hillary had been elected, woman wouldn't have taken the day off. that's true, but the whole day without a woman campaign is over direct result of trump's election, don't think anyone is defending otherwise. >> international women's day has been around a long time, they just turned it into a anti-trump campaign. >> andy: they're not pretending otherwise. >> they should all be fired for not showing up for work. >> andy: john, you pointed out that trump praised women for the role they play in the economy and makes it sound like they are ca

and sean spicer tweeting today. reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigation immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. sounds like the white house is doubling down on what president trump says happened. >> as we should, martha. if this happened, once again, this would be the greatest abuse of power and overreach that has probably ever occurred in the executive branch. >> what about the accusation? you keep saying, if, if, if. the president of the united states said it was a fact. he didn't say, i read a story in breitbart or "the new york times" or wherever else. he said, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. that's not an if. >> look, i -- i will let the president speak for himself. but in terms of where we are in the white house, our ask -- >> you're his spokesperson. >> and i'm speaking about it right now. >> but you're backing off of it. you're backing off of it. >> how am i backing off of it? while i'm saying that i think this happened -- >> because

but how when you have the president tweeting what he tweeted on saturday morning, how do you not lookrhaps marching toward an area where we don't want to go? how do you not look at this travel ban as a part of venturing into territory that could be bleak and dangerous for our country? >> mika, the simplest way for me to answer that is president trump has to realize he's the commander in chief of our armed forces. he is our chief executive, head of state. we don't have a king, somebody else to represent the country. so every word he makes is taken seriously from around the world. one thing i've learned from watching president obama is that the credibility of american power depends on what a president says and whether a president follows up with whether or not he says with clear policy. these off the cuff statements pounded out at 5:00 in the morning are a way to leave allies and adversaries both confused, beginning to doubt what ab american president says, not understanding the implications. we've seen how easily power slips away from the united states in situations like that. for his

his exact tweets say that quote some guy gave up his first class tweet for uniformed solder people thanking trying in the to vomit or yell about mosul. that is last strong hold. iraqi forces are bat tolling clear it, as a result, innocent civilians have been killed, one reason the professor says he opposes the war policy and issues the tweet but regardless of his reasoning the tweet in 140 character is offensive to many people on campus and across the country. >>> he is not a great political science professor in the end of it and i'm surprised he teaches at drexel >> i think he should respect our military that gives everything for us. that is the lee you can do is give up your seat on the plane >> any within really involved in the military it is disgusting and disrespectful. >> to meehan average citizen there is other things on the news that are a tad more pressing would i say in the meantime. >> we have some mixed opinions by students here at drexel, university released a statement saying assistant professor of social media statements quote were made outside the classroom, are his own opin

this is his tweet from then. if the ban were announced with a one week notice, the bad would rush into our country during that week. a lot of bad dudes out there. anybody making any attempt to square that? >> not really. -- that puts lie to the original idea they had to sprung on the public the way it was and caused so much chaos and confusion. we know from the reporting that this time they've talked more, the white house has, to their own agencies that are going to carry this out from the state department to the justice department and obviously with dhs, as well as congress members. we know that some of the cabinet secretaries have been on the hill to brief congress members. details have leaked out about the changes aad of time. that's a good thing in that people will be more prepared. there was a conference call from dhs officials before the official announcement today, but it gives why to the idea that it was lacked before people could rush in and talked about this as a national security problem. another inter