bret stephens an op-ed columnist at "the new york times." thank you all for joining us. there is a jekyll and hyde aspect to this. but clearly, what is credible, yamiche, is trump on tweet. when he tweets out, what great word, tweet, at 6:30 in the morning when most people are still asleep. that's trump. this guy reading a teleprompter, i love it, in the diplomatic room. in other words, the room where you have to be diplomatic. your thoughts. who is the real guy? >> i'll say this. the great toni morrison who died today said if you can only be tall if someone else is on their niece, you have a serious problem. there are people all ray aye cross this country people who think this president has a serious problem which is he wants to demonize other people. he wants to make immigrants as scapegoats. i just came back from dayton on the, ohio where people are pointing to his rhetoric not only is he creating divisions in our own community, his inaction in gun reform and in passing gun legislation, he is creating the societies and creating this atmosphere that is making us all un

bret stephens is personal friend. i known him 20 odd years. he is brilliant writer.g argument. >> he is pulitzer prize-winning column i. a very smart guy. now that he deleted his twitter account that he perhaps overreact ad tad. stuart: look at headline, trump allies target journalists over coverage deemed hostile to the white house. using journalistic techniques to target journalists and news organizations a retribution, as a warning not to pursue coverage critical of the president is fundamentally different from the well established role of the news media scrutinizing people in positions of power. respond to that. >> no it is not. this is egregious double standard. what happened here, the backstory, real quickly is, that some of these trump allies dug up tweet from senior editor at "the new york times," anti-semitic stuff, talking about a crappy jew year, really raw stuff from 10 years ago. he had to apologize. so now "the times" says, trump allies digging up old tweets. that is really dirty pool. but journalists including those at "times" and other news outlets do

also tonight, "new york times" self-righteous columnist bret stephens is being mocked after having al on meltdown. can't even take a little tap after presser calls him a metaphorical bedbug. in response to a piece about an actual infestation at the times office. stephen is so upset he actually emailed the professor's boss and then went on msdn c, the conspiracy theory channel to air his grievances can bring the whole thing to attacks by totalitarian regime. he is in the wrong business. take a look. >> yesterday, professor george washington university described me as a metaphorical bedbug just in the context of "the new york times" having a bedbug problem in our building. i think that kind of rhetoric is dehumanizing and totally unacceptable no matter where it comes from. i wrote a personal email which i think was very civil saying that i didn't appreciate it, that i would welcome him to come to my home in new york and meet with my family and see if he would comey a bedbug to my face. >> loved is that the worst thing you have ever been called? >> is a bad history of being called -- be

anyway, yamiche alcindor, mike mcfaul, bret stephens, christopher dickey. >>> coming up, it gets worse, dirt ball politics. trump allies are unleashing dogs on journalists releasing oppo research and compiling dossiers on potentially embarrassing social media posts in order to try to intimidate reporters. he wants the media to stop reporting on him objectively. he's going after people's families, people who work for them in their organizations, anything to stop people from reporting on him. >>> plus, bombshell new poll numbers tonight show a major swing in the democratic race for president. the poll shows a virtual three-way tie right now. it could be an outlier but it's fascinating, except for joe biden because biden in big trouble here. he's now slipping behind the two progressives on the left, behind bernie, behind elizabeth. we'll get much more on that tonight. a lot of news tonight on this monday. stick with us. that's why with dell small business technology advisors. you'll get tailored product solutions, expert tech advice and one-on-one partnership. call an advisor today at 877

he mocked the then primary republican nomination, called out conservative columnist bret stephens, who'sn critical of him, he threatened the governor of puerto rico for a hurricane. and he tried to break up with fox news for no longer getting the job done for him. yep, that's all real. all happened today. >> today, yeah. >> if anyone loved him -- if anyone cares, they do this. you offload twitter, save all of the data, i do it about once a week myself. you put it in a lockbox, and you take it for a walk. nobody loves him if that doesn't happen today. >> no, he will be back on twitter. we're used to this sort of insanity. the fox news stuff is interesting because this is the latest in a series of angry tweeted directed at his very favorite news outlet. >> it's actually a serious story. we asked a question around this table, all four of us asked, media-run state or state-run media? and it was not hyperbole to suggest a very unseemly association. trump thought fox was state-runned media. >> i don't like to do media criticism because there are so many people doing it. >> right. and trump cla

bret stephens, can democrats walk and chew gum? >> this is the greatquette for the next 18 months.that speaker he will pel finds a way to slow roll the process in various committees so it doesn't dominate the headlines when we should be focused on defeating trump. >> mark caputo, you spent a lot of time in swing districts. you live in a county that's going to matter a lot in this presidential race. is the impeachment that dangerous to democrats nationally or not? >> i doubt it. look at the news cycle. we can't remember what the news story. >> we couldn't remember yanni and laurel. >> the benefit to democrats for impeachment is giving one more bite at the apple for the public to learn all of the allegedly il say bad things that donald trump did. the problem nancy pelosi has is she's been approaching the impeachment as if it's a legislative function and a bill and it's not. she's out of her league thinking about strategy and the like. the reality is if, if, if donald trump committed a high crime or misdemeanor and if democrats can believe that, then it is their job or republicans it

. >> sandra: "the new york times" bret stephens ridiculed over his response to being called a bedbugitter. sending an angry email to the professor who posted the joke and also alerting the school's provost. among those also mocking him for his thin skin is the president who took to twitter this morning. he is now quitting twitter after being called "a bedbug." tough guy. alexandria ocasio-cortez chiming in. "my own friends burst me harder than that." howie kurtz is here. great to see you in washington. i am not sure how to handle this. i can't believe how much "bedbug" is in the news right now if you let's go to the original tweet that set all of this off. "the bedbugs are metaphor. the bedbugs are brett stevens." then all chaos ensued. >> this is a tweet from a professor at george washington university here. he was playing off of the news. so first of all, i have been called much worse than a bedbug. second of all, this was an amazingly thin-skinned reaction on the part of brett stevens. nobody would have heard of this thing except for the letter that he sent to the professor and to

. >> bret stephens thank you for letting us hear that. susan, always great to see you as well. right now, puerto rico is on hurricane watch as tropical storm dorian barrels toward that island. the storm expected to hit early thursday morning and then strengthen on its way to florida. morgan chesky is already in puerto rico with the latest. what is happening on the ground? preps under way? >> reporter: yes. absolutely so. i can tell you a state of emergency has been issued for puerto rico but you definitely wouldn't know it from the vibe here on the beach in san juan. still plenty of people behind me on the beach enjoying this sunny day. as for the locals they're definitely not taking any chances. we were there yesterday to go by stores that were busy with people loading up on all the necessities. runs on water, ice, and especially generators. everyone i spoke to when i asked what is your biggest concern ahead of tropical storm dorian if and when it moves on to the island, they said, power. because it wouldn't take much to knock out power, not just for parts of san juan but espe