he says, alex baldwin, a-l-e-x, whose dieing mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me, dieingg. now says playing djt was agony for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. alex baldwin might be new to the scene, you guys. he's the forgot..baldwin brother, it seems. >> and there's nothing else going on right now. >> nothing. nothing else going on except alex baldwin. we have to tune into this alex baldwin guy. >>> sarah huckabee sanders gave a firm no when asked if the president wanted to get writ of senior adviser jared kushner, but the answer was suddenly different for ag jeff sessions. watch this. >> sarah, does the president want to get rid of his attorney general? >> not that i know of. >> does president trump believe his attorney general is disgraceful? >> look, the president has made his frustrations very clear. i don't have anything else to add. >> a little different there. >>> let's turn to meteorologist bill karins now who has been tracking this storm for us. >> this storm is going to track huge implications for travel and schools and work and

alex baldwin, whose dying mediocre -- this reminds me of the progressive education movement 30 years ago that said if our kids are trying to spell, however they spell it is just fine. whose dying mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on snl now says playing donald j. trump was agony for him. alex -- or alec -- it was also agony for those forced to watch. you were terrible.

that business is a waffle house at 2:00 a.m. >> that was alex baldwin, alex baldwin, by the way, according trump's tweet. if you haven't read it, you should read it. we start with north korea. president trump announcing he is not ruling out direct talks with the rogue regime, saying as far as t

. >> alex baldwin whose dying -- this reminds me of the progressive education movement 30 years bag said if our kids are trying to spell, however they spell is it just fine. whose dying mediocre career was saved by the impersonation of me over "snl" now says playing me was agony for him. it was agony for those forced to watch. bring back darrell. how far is this from normal? >> at this point i take some solace in this. that won't get us killed or plunged into check chaos. really far from normal. i don't love playing, can you imagine if another president did it. i can't remember when the bp oil spill, barack obama, was opining. i understand the executive privilege but calling on the specific person to do your impersonation on saturday night live? that should not rise to the level of the oval office. >> i hasten to add, we did some checking. the tweet was at 5:42, at 4:23 this morning, for the few, the proud, the brave up to watch, fox news did a segment that featured alec bad win as the president. so from 4:23 tomb 5:42. same question. how bad is it? >> it's getting bad. you see time and

this morning, most of you were sleeping, i'm sure, president trump tweeted, alex baldwin -- yes, alex- whose dying mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on "snl," now says playing djt was agony for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. you were terrible. bring back darrell hammond, much funnyer and a far greater talent. it was later tweeted back without those typos. here's his version of donald trump. >> jeb, you're a very nice man, but you're basically a little girl. folks, this is true. i got hold of jeb's birth certificate, and full disclosure, his real name is jebra. >> that is not true. >> that is true, yes, it is. jebra, jebra! >> that's not my name. >> so who does it better, rachel? now that you've seen hammond. >> i think i need to see more hammond. i think baldwin is hilarious. i think the president is probably feeling threatened by what he said about the president, and obviously there's been multiple reports he's got a big ego. he's going to call him alex instead of alec. >> maybe it was auto correct. >> and perry, you've got a favor

. >> alex baldwin. seventh baldwin brother we didn't know about. >> if i can go back to the issue of tariffs because i'm passionate about it. we tried it in 2002 during president bush's administration. the whole argument to us conservatives was it's national security. >> it was also a karl rove political idea. of trying -- hey, we can do well in pennsylvania here. >> exactly. it was a midwest political strategy to do well with the blue collar workers. didn't work. he made it a three-year tariff and within a year he had to postpone it. it doesn't work. plus, all the manufacturers except for china, 90% of manufacturers are all allies of the united states. there's no national security issue. >> chuck, you got to the point of this. at the bottom of every one of these scandals every week is the mueller investigation and that's what's setting him off against jeff sessions on twitter, calling him disgraceful. but the mueller headlines this week alone were staggering. i was on one of them. donald trump's now or

. >> that was alex baldwin, alex baldwin, by the way, according to president trump's tweet. if you haven't read it, you should read it. we start with north korea. president trump announcing he is not ruling out direct talks with the rogue regime, saying as far as the risk of dealing with the madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine. the president also joked about the white house departure, saying, "i like turnover. i like chaos. who's going to be next to leave? steve miller or melania?" this has been a topsy-turvy week at the white house, to say the least. monday the president hosted the nation's governors and talked gun policy, saying he would respond to a school shooting by running into the school, even if he didn't have a weapon on him. tuesday, jared kushner lost his top security clearance. wednesday, losing hope. trusted aide and confidante hope hicks announcing she's resigning one day after telling the house intel committee she sometimes told white lies for the president, but not on important matters. on the same day the president upended the gun debate, appea

alex baldwin, whose dying mediocre -- this reminds me of the progressive education movement 30 yearshat said if our kids are trying to spell, however they spell it is just fine. whose dying mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on snl now says playing donald j. trump was agony for him. alex -- or alec -- it was also agony for those forced to watch. you were terrible. bring back darryl hammond, much funnier and greater talent. how far is this from normal? >> at this point, i even take some solace in the celebrity and pop culture flippery because that's not going to get us killed or plunge us into economic chaos. really far from normal. i don't love playing the can you imagine if another president did it. >> go ahead. >> i can't remember when during, say, the bp oil spill, barack obama was opining about fred armisen versus jay far row. i mean, i understand the extent of executive privilege, but calling on the specific person to do your impersonation on saturd "saturday night live"? that should not rise to the level of the oval office. >> andrew, i havsten to add, th twee

call 1-800-501-6000. >>> trade wars are good, alex baldwin is bad. guns are, well, we're not quite sure. there is the revolving door of key white house staff. here now to discuss all of it, the democratic senator from hawaii, mazie hirono. thank you for being with us. i appreciate it. as you look at the end of the week where the white house is explaining the positions on guns, on tariffs, saying the key staff members are not meeting, would you look at the white house and say it is running look a well oiled machine? >> of course not. the word is chaos continues. as one of my republican colleagues said, every day is a new adventure with this president. and his most recent announcement about the tariffs, the wall street immediately -- the stock market immediately responded. but the bottom line for this president is that whenever he's under attack, then he goes to his base and it is all about trump every day, all the time. and he starts talking about america first, and his nativism. he preys on the fears of people in the public. >> the word you used was

. >> it would have been funnier if he left it at alex baldwin, like i don't know even know your name.> aides every morning are probably like, what is he going to tweet now? on policy, he's had a good week and when he tweets out stuff getting under his skin, i know his die-hard supporters love that. >> the times he's gone after jeff sessions. >> when you hear that kind of stuff, regardless of what you think of jeff session, what do you think of that? >> him ripping him a new one? >> it cheapens his argument, i think, after while. >> he's a 71-year-old grown man. no amount of criticism is going to get him to stop. he's saying 71-year-olds can't change. get off my lawn. the jeff session thing, i feel like he's narrating. alec baldwin has the sunday show this week. he gave his enemy a lot of publicity. >> maybe it's all by design. maybe he really likes him. >> i have that theory about rosey o'donnell. >> the oscars are this weekend. they are trying to tone down the politics. can they do that? >> not with kimmel. he's going to go after trump. he will throw in an illegal immigration or heal

in fairness to the president, his opposition to alec baldwin, or alex, seems to be clearing and unwavering which is fine except, remember, vladimir putin says he has a missile that can invade nato defenses, 17 people were murdered inside a school two weeks ago, and the stock market tanked yesterday and is down big in pre market trading. so let's start there. cnn's abby phillip for us at the white house. the president all over the issue of trade this morning, abby. >> reporter: that's right. he's defending vociferously a proposal to lay 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminum. this was opposed by some members of his own white house and a lot of republicans on the hill. but the president here is doubling down on social media. he says we must protect our country and our workers. he's single out the steel industry which he says is in bad shape. if you don't have steel, you don't have a country. the white house saying the president is not as concerned about the drop in the stock market, concerned about the fundamentals of the economy that are strong and he wants to protect these industries. he

having started his day attacking a misspelled alex baldwin, tonight, surrounding by the trapping of the presidency and the mechanism to launch a nuclear attack that travels where ever he goes. donald trump will in at some point. while not given to bouts of self-reflection, it is possible that he'll pause to marvel of what a week it has been and his presidency is in. we are told that it was not going to be this way. this was supposed to be easy. it was donald trump who told us that and he did it more than once. >> i am not worried about this. i really believe that 60% meaning should be so easy. >>> that's easy to be presidential. >> so many of these things are so easy to fix. >> we'll get jobs back and we'll stop companies from leaving and it is so easy. >> a lot of politicians. it is going to be so easy. >> you will get great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost and it is going to be easy. >> i work with politicians all my life, they're easy. i am so good at this stuff. i am so good. it is so easy. >> our thanks to our friends at "hardball" for compiling that collection. this was

minutes" and said he's not going anywhere. >> now anybody serving in government -- >> back to alex baldwin. >> so you want to focus on alec baldwin? >> if fairness, i asked about alec baldwin. >> she asked the question sfwlu went back to it. >> i did. the problem with the president is he's more interested in cable tv or snl than in running the united states of america. >> no. he's interested in tariffs and trade. >> let's face it, tv is over, mr. president. run the country. >> he is running the country. >> paris denard, bill press, thanks to you. >>> outgoing senator orrin hatch ripping into obamacare and its supporters calling them, quote, the stupidest, dumbass people. the architect of obamacare joining me live, next. directv gives you more for your thing. your top-rated thing. that five stars, two thumbs up, 12-out-of-10, would recommend thing. because if you only want the best thing, you get the #1 thing. directv is rated #1 in customer satisfaction over cable. switch now and get a $200 reward card. more for your thing. that's our thing. call 1.800.directv we have a question about your

this is catching a lot of attention, not solely for the fact that initially the tweet said alex baldwinrencing alec baldwin. dying mediocre career saved by his terrible impersonation of me on snl saying now playing me was agony. it was agony for those who were forced to watch. >> i think alec baldwin has too much fun. with that tweet right there, erica, that is red meat for the base. that's exactly what the president is doing, having a little fun, throwing out something, bashing not just the media, but "saturday night live" and their portrayal of them, they love it, gives them something to nibble on for the weekend. >> the gift the president is serving up on a friday. paul, your take? >> get spell check. first, dying, it is a five letter word, dying. d-y-i-n-g. this is the word nerd in me. he's an embarrassment. the person happiest is alec baldwin and lorne michaels, it will boost their ratings. that's fine if you're a private citizen at the top of your gold-drenched penthouse in manhattan. he's my president. and we have real threats and real problems. we have just barely buried all the

alex baldwin now says playing me was agony. it was agony for those forced to watchful there were, however no, tweets from the president he on vladimir putin. he was boast that he has new high-tech weapons ready. >> as a matter of fact, every weapons system today easily surpasses and avoids an be anti-missile support system. >> there were a large number working with interim security clearances like rob port he. kelly admitted that was more people that he was comfortable with. in another remarkable moment, he considered the handling of classified material was not up to the standards that he had been use to when he came on board last summer. it is a stunning statement given what he said during the campaign. it was just odd timing for john kelly to drag all of this back up after such a turbulent week. >> thank you very much. the powerful oversight committee chairman has demanded that the white house provide information security clearances for senior staffers. the deadline he set has now passed. let's to go our correspondent. what a

donald trump should invite alex baldwin to the white house. >> but so far, trump's not laughing. debut, the president hate-tweeted his disdain. just tried watching "snl," unwatchable, totally biased, not funny. and the baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse. sad. >> i do miss my old life. >> we all, do, sir. [ laughter ] >> as the trump jokes escalated, the president's distaste for late night intensified. >> you attract more skinheads than free rogaine. >> in may, "the late show's" stephen colbert found himself in hot water when he blasted trump in an over-the-top profanity-laden meltdown. >> the only thing your mouth is good for is being vladimir putin's [ bleep ] holster. >> his tirade sparked a firestorm in the press and fueled a #firecolbert campaign on twitter. trump did not respond right away. >> trump was obviously restrained for about the first six months of his presidency. >> but days after the attack, the president surfaced, condemning colbert in a "time" magazine interview saying, quote, you see a no-talent guy like colbert. there's nothing funny about what he s

saying alex baldwin, correcting it, because it is important that the most powerful guy in the world weighs in. and don't forget best to lose hope. hope hicks. a trump whisperer. one friend of president trump said the hope hicks depart wour send the president into a tail spin which of course promise the question, she hasn't even left yet. if this isn't a tail spin, what is it? i want to bring in analyst maggie hagerman. she's been reporting on this. we're hearing that this week does seem different. the president is more isolated and angry than ever. do you get a sense this is a new level or will we be on to something else on monday? >> i think both things are true. we'll be on to something else. but i think this is a deeper level of chaos and unpredictability on the president's part. on the staff part, a number of people have said they feel like this is essentially mirroring the early days of the white house when they first came in in january of 2017 and in the beginning of february 2017 when they had rollout of the travel ban, this was chaotic, and which was one side of the white house not

alex baldwin, which is not exactly his name, whose dieing, not spelled right, mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on "snl" now says playing deejay t was agnew for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. you were additional. bring back darrell hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent. i think he should resubmit for spelling errors. >> you were president of the united states. they put out everything you write for months taeurts. >> the president of the united states woke up at 5:42 this morning and the first thing he is thinking is who should play him on saturday night live. it is beneath the office and shows he should be in the role he's happy with. being famous for famous sake. responsibility doesn't seem to suit him. >> as a newspaper editor, i just want to say blech. somebody teach the man grammar and spelling. i'm just praying somebody does. >> i'm sure it was just auto correct. the true demon in all grammatical errors. you have to surrender the me to the we. i get tariffs send like a good strength. you mess with us, we mess with you. t

alex baldwin whose dying, mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on "snl" now saying playingr those who were forced to watch. you were terrible. bring back darrell hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent. >> alec baldwin does appear to be enjoying this. here is his response. agony though it may be, i'd like to hang in for the impeachment hearings, the farewell right to montgomery, the good stuff we've been waiting for. >> looking forward to the trump presidential library. a putting green, a live twitter feed for visitors to post on. a little black book with phone numbers of porn stars. you're in and out in five minutes, just like -- >> we'll save the last one. it went a little downhill from there. >> how can it go downhill from there -- >> it started to get a little chippy. >> my question is, who is forcing the president to watch "snl." i didn't understand that. >> what alec baldwin did with the porn stars, gets right at the heart of something that you know has caused tension inside the white house and perhaps very public tension inside the trump marriage. in our brand

alex baldwin, who is dieing, mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on snl. now saying playing djt was agony for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. you were terrible. bring darrell hammond. much funnier and far greater talent. now alec baldwin responded with this. agony though it may be i would like to hang in there for the impeachment hearings, the resignation speech, the farewell helicopter ride to mar-a-lago, you know, the good stuff we have all been waiting for. josh, we are all giggling about this but we haven't seen him tweet at snl for some time. a lot of people are saying this is hope hicks leaving. this is what it's going to look like. >> presumably there is somebody digging into what exactly prompted this twitter eruption from the president. >> wasn't it fox news? i think so. i haven't looked at the tape but i have seen fox & friends reported on some of the baldwin stuff and the president later tweeted about it. i don't know that it's hicks leaving. i think the president was up, he had to get up early to go to dulles to

alex baldwin whose dying mediocre career was saved by impersonating me on snl and now says playing himagony and alex, you were terrible. bring back darrell hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent. you know the actors name is alec and not alex. was the president saying alex to tweak him or giving him too much credit maybe. also the word dying was misspelled and the tweet was taken down by the president within 20 minutes. and it was reposted with those errors corrected. it quickly earned not one, not two, but three rebuttals from baldwin who taunted the president with the word impeachment and gave ideas for the trump library and ended by saying, mr. president, please ask your wife to stop calling me for snl tickets. we have charles barkley this saturday. we'll wrap things up for this hour. i'm steve kornacki in for katy tur and ali velshi will pick things up. and we have a storm brewing outside and -- >> and inside. all over. i was going to say, i'm not ready. i need a couple of minutes. i can never get fully up to speed on everything going on. >> we started the last hour by sayin

alex baldwin is bad. and gun reform, that's still uncertain. p here's cnn's jim acosta. >> reporter: trump left behind an administration that's by many accounts in utter turmoil. his embattled chief of staff reignited the firestorm over former staff secretary rob porter. who was ousted last month in response to allegations of domestic abuse. while kelly said he is not quitting over the controversy, telling reporters, i have absolutely nothing to consider resigning over, he admitted to reporters that glowing statements from the white house praising porter just as the staff secretary was stepping down were a mistake. kelly said, quote, we didn't cover ourselves in glory in terms of how we handled that on wednesday morning. it was confusing. kelly also tried to clean up the time line of the staff saga, insisting he only learned of red flags in porter's background february 6th. sources tell cnn a different story. that kelly and other white house officials were becoming aware of the allegations last november. kel lei tempted to explain that, saying,

(steve)trump tweeted:"alex baldwin, whose dieing mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me was agony for playing d-j-t was agony for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. you were terrible. bring back darrell hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent!"we should mention... trump deleted this original tweet, and then re- tweeted it with the correct spellings of alec and dying. (pam) baldwin then hit back, tweeting:"agony though it may be, i'd like to hang in there for the impeachment hearings, the resignation speech, the farewell helicopter ride to mar-a-lago. you know. the good stuff - that we've all been waiting for." baldwin wrote that trump's presidential library would include a putting green, a live twitter feed, and a little black book with porn stars' phone numbers. he also mentioned first lady melania, jokingly requesting that trump ask her to stop calling him for s-n-l tickets. in sports -- it's email friday! gary and his lovely wife alicia join us to read fan emails. we'll also give you an update on how the warriors are doing against

the first thought was on "saturday night live" and alec baldwin. alexs him, baldwin who's dying career was saved by his impersonation of me on snl. now saying playing djt was agony for him. bring back darrell hammond. a lot of questions come to mind. how do you start a trade war and wake up with alec baldwin? >> he treweeted and said trade wars are good and easy toreally? >> he will show us how he will win it. >> i will let you handle that. if auto correct forced you to write alec as alex. a lot of thoughts and questions at 5:55. >> there is really dangerous situation developing along the eastern coast. the nor'easter is a life-or-death situation. residents in scituate are urged to evacuate. 1,500 flights have canceled. meteorologist derek van dam has more. >> a deepening nor'easter off the east coast. there are several hazards associated with the storm system. one of which is the extremely strong winds through the course of today and tomorrow. a look out for the windy day for boston and new york and philly and d.c. expecting winds at tropical storm for

this morning the president tweeted, alex b d baldw baldwin whose dying mediocre career was saved by hisersonation of me on "snl" now say says playing djt was agony for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch, you were terrible, bring back daryl hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent. he deleted that tweet and then changed it to alec baldwin. >> apparently the whole of the white house staff has not left the building. there's one proofreader and copy editor. >> so joe in the midst of all the things we've been talking about, what was on the president's mind at 5:45 a.m. was alec baldwin's impersonation of him. >> and willie the stock market had a mini crash yesterday. i'm not sure what the word would be but a lot of people lost a lot of money and in large part it was because of a reckless policy he put out there without saying anything to anybody. i found it so fascinating we had james stravidis, you asked him what his biggest concerns were and he said donald trump moving america from the system that we have profited from that made us the most rich, powerful

brian: really thanks to the cartoon president on showtime and thanks to alex baldwin a lot of peoplerecognize you because you look a little different on "saturday night live." ainsley: let's read more of your headlines. president trump hosts israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house. they will discuss north korea, syria, the mid-east peace agreement. moments ago, mike huckabee praised the president's commitment for to israel. >> here is man who finally after 70 years, recognized the jerusalem as the capital, will move the embassy, really standing with israel in its battle to constantly stay independent, free, democratic and to allow full rights for everyone, including its women. ainsley: netanyahu is expected to invite the president to the opening of the new embassy if may. a u.s. embassy shut down over security threat in turkey's capital. americans in ankara, that is out we say it, warned to avoid the building. stay away from large crowds, keep a low profile they say. u.s. officials have not said what the sergeant threat is, but turkey suspects there might have be

. >> alex baldwin as the president. >> those three seats in texas may not flip in this election but makein this country is changing. this doesn't get covered much because hillary clinton lost but she came closer in texas than she did in iowa. a lot of these districts we're looking at have the same characteristics as suburban districts outside minneapolis. >> we think in the past, rick, i remember seeing maybe a month or two ago donald trump's approval ratings down in the 30s in texas and was shocked. >> yes, the problem the republicans have this cycle is you have the rank and file republicans who trump sort of criticized and they're, like, not showing up for the party. trump supporters are supportive of the president but they're not going to show up for anybody else. we saw that in alabama. so watch these special elections and these primaries and look at turnout and that's an indicator of who's going to show up. because usually these enthusiasm rankings hold for the cycle. >> they really do. i remember back in 2008 looking at the extraordinary democratic turnout in 2008 and all of the pr

this morning his basically first tweet of the day was about alec baldwin. >> alex. >> and he was exercise said enough that he forget how to spell the word dying. and he's talking about his impersonation of him. >> darrell hammond is better. are you going to disagree with that? >> i don't feel i have enough of a fine-tune bit of reporting on that. >> it shows where his head is. >> it is always what matters to him. who knows why he is doing this? did he just see an alec baldwin interview? i don't know. he tosses out these things. to your point, this is why as difficult as his twitter feed is for his advisers and as problematic it has been in terms of policy and comfortable people around the world, it is a rare x-ray vision into a president's brain. >> he did delete that and resubmitted with spelling corrections. maggie, thank you. thank you for sharing the reporting with us. >> the president's move to impose tariffs on aluminum and steel is sparking worries of a trade war. a congresswoman from michigan next. ain coffee roasters sumatra reserve. let's go to sumatra. the coffee here is amazin

the president takes on alec baldwin or is it alex? let's go outfront. good evening, i'm erin burnett. tonight, john kelly. just can't get it right. the president's chief of staff, tonight, with an explanation that stunned even his white house colleagues. some say, point-blank, kelly is not telling the truth. kelly saying he learned about a serious accusation of domestic abuse against porter february 6th. that is the day the daily mail asked him for a response. the allegations, of course, were about verbal and physical abuse against porter by both of his ex-wives and a girlfriend who lived with him. get this, the chief of staff says he never thought of putting over the handling of the debach l saying i have nothing to consider resigning over. okay. it's no surprise that that's the statement or white house staffers say kelly isn't telling the truth because cnn reported they were aware of the allegations early last fall. none of this february 6th or 7th business, whatever it is. the day after it broke, the defense wasn't that he didn't know, it was that he

doug baldwin, russell wilson, alex smith.ge proponents of it and they are on the coalition. we had 20 top-level division i programs as well. a lot of positive reaction is going on. >> what is a big question people are most concerned about as a former player? with the vision. >> that is a great thing to bring up, alex smith, that is his favorite part, you have 30 degrees more peripheral vision. so the more you see the sooner you can react. >> do you expect to see your guys go harder on the field because they are protected? >> i have already noticed more participation. so in the past parents might not allow their kids to play but already since the announcement, yes they will let them play. >> there has been concern about programs disappearing, the high school programs, maybe not the varsity level but the jv or freshman level so what would you recommend to those schools regarding this helmet? is this the answer for all?>> i mean, this is a helmet that is going to be, it should be offered to every child i think. if the parent has

tweet had to be delete and reposted after he called the actor alex instead of alex and misspelled the word "dying." baldwinback down from a good fight tweeted back. agony though it may be, i would like to hang in there for the impeachment hearings, the resignation speech, the farewell helicopter ride. you know, the good stuff that we've been waiting for. the actor later went on to tweet "looking forward to the trump presidential library. a putting green, recipes for chocolate cake, a live twitter feed for visitors to post on. a little black book with a phone numbers of porn stars. you're in and out in five minutes. just like --" this isn't the first time that trump criticize the baldwin's impersonation of him. >> you think i care about optics. look at me. >> reporter: two months after baldwin's s in, l debut as trump in 2016. trump tweeted calling the show "totally unwatchable and not funny." adding baldwin's impersonation can't get any worse. the tweet ended with trump's trademark sad. despite what the president thinks, baldwin's impersonation is a hit. ♪ when the actor hosted snl, it had the largest audi

the president takes on alec baldwin or is it alex? let's go outfront.d evening, i'm erin burnett. tonight, john kelly. just can't get it right. the president's chief of staff, tonight, with an explanati

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curious about this episode because of that alec baldwin and donald trump back and forth the other way. first, the president misspelled alec agency name as alex "snl." i was curious if baldwin would be there since he is recovering from hip surgery. there he was. he didn't really address the tweets but a bunch of jokes about the week's news. here is a clip of baldwin playing trump and talking about the tariff story and referring to the new movie "black panther." they are all beating up, chinese, japan, waconda. all right? waconda is laughing at us. they have flying cars and people in waconda. i announce the steel and aluminum tariffs and people are going nuts about it. i brought back the steel industry by destroying the oil industry and attacking the stock market. play these male trump ch he's cait mckinnon as sessions. >> sessions needs to go. i call him mr. mcgoo everyone loves it. people around here in the white house say, stop i'm laughing so hard. i can't take it any more. i resign. >> that's very funny, mr. president. but i'm not going anywhere. i'm like skunk stink on the bird dog so i linger. and i just had dinner with all your friends

let's start with alec baldwin on "saturday night live." he was called alex on friday. no clue if we have another twitter feud with the two. here is the joke on "saturday night live." >> i announced the steel and aluminum tariffs. i brought back the steel industry by destroying the auto industry. impressive. >> look at that. both sides hated it. i don't care. i said i was going to run this country like a business. that business is a waffle house at 2:00 a.m. >> the president didn't tweet about that and he did not make some interesting jokes saturday night in front of the d.c. media. including this one about melania. the gridiron dinner. so many people have been living the white house. it has been exciting because i like turnover. i like chaos. it is really good. now the question everybody keeps asking who is next to leave. steve miller or melania. fascinating to see this president laugh at himself. self deprecating is not his strongest quality. would it help if he did more of that? >> i think we are getting jipped. president trump's twitter feed would be good if he had

the president attacking alec baldwin first calling him alex and then misspelled dying.e later tweet and update on the missing mom case, terrilynn st. john disappeared while h were inside. her body found and a suspect has been charged. >>> and taking a look at the annual shark migration under way in south flo on the move and scientists found a dram and w the water. >>> we'll begin, mysterious death, a woman's body found at her boyfriend's san diego mansion. his brother is the focus o a wrongful death civil suit now under way and amy has that story. >> it is bizarre. the death was originally ruled officially ruled as her family doesn't believe it and taking her former boyfriend's brother to court looking for some measure of justice. >> the body of a woman was found hanging. >> a mysterious death at this million dollar mansion left an exclusive southern california beach community reeling. >> 32-year-old rebecca zahau was found naked and hanging from the second story balcony. >> reporter: her body discovered hanging from a>> reporter: 32-year-old rebecca zahau found dead ha

the president on twitter this morning as well, attacking alec baldwin first calling him alex criticizedersonation of him and then misspelled dying. we have the misspelling up there. he changed it in the later tweet >>> and we have an update on the missing mom case. terrilynn st. john disappeared while her children were inside. her body found and a suspect has been charged. >>> and taking a look at the annual shark migration under way in south florida right now. >> whoa. >> sharks on the move and scientists have noticed a dramatic drop in the number. they say warm water may be the cause. >> stay out of the water. >>> we'll begin, though, with new developments in that mysterious death, a woman's body found at her boyfriend's san diego mansion. his brother is the focus of a wrongful death civil suit now under way. amy is here, has that story for us. so bizarre. >> it is bizarre. the death was originally ruled as a suicide. officially ruled as a suicide but her family doesn't believe it. and now they're taking her former boyfriend's brother to court, looking for some measure of justice. >>

calling alec alex and killing the english language with the spelling of dying, and that tweet was soon deleted with a corrected one. >> trump is going on the tirade against a alec baldwint vladimir putin threating the united states. >> reporter: and in response, to a actor fired back four times being agony to watch. and agony though it may be, i'd like to hang in there for the impeachment hearings, and the resignation speech and the farewell helicopter ride to mar-a-lago and you know, the the good stuff. these two treat each other like -- >> bad hombre, bad boy, and what you going to do. >> reporter: and then what is going to be in the trump presidential library, a putting green, and a black number of porn stars. >> yie-yie yay. >> reporter: and then president said, bring back baldwin, and then in his tweet, he criticized melania. don't expect these two to kiss and makeup and no remote chance of this -- i deep lly apologize >> are you trying to say apologize? >> no, i would never do that. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> all right. thank you for being with me today. i'm fredricka whitfield. and coming up next, "vital signs" with dr. sanjay gupta. >> at the age of 79,

the morning making his complaints about snl when baldwin complained it was agonizing to have to play the role of donald trump. here it is the tweet is alex ball win whose dying mediocre career. he spelled dying wrong, he would correct it later. >> he would or someone would. >> exactly, someone else with access to that account. the bottom line, this was just -- you know, we have been paying attention to this for a while. there are small moments where you see a window of sense here where the president holds off, or he's disciplined in the tax reform. the final days to be on message, that the one win they keep wrapping their hands around whenever they can, but at moments like this the president is all over the map. everything from trade wars to saturday night live. >> ashley, let me give you the last word from jennifer ruben's piece. don't worry, it will get worse, it always does. >> so, to jump off of that, right before i came on, i was talking to someone inside the west wing who was saying that the president is spending at least one night at mar-a-lago this weekend, which is exactly what no one wants to happen because they think exactly w

alex and killing the english language with the spelling of dieing. that tweeted was tweeted and replaced. >> nothing to say about vladimir putin threatening the united states. >> in response to the president's tweet about baldwinfour times, agony though it might be, i'd like to hang in there for the impeachment hearings, the resignation speech, the fairwell helicopter ride to mar-a-lago, you know, the good stuff. these two treat each other like -- >> bad hombres, bad boys, what you going to do. >> in the presidential library, a putting green, black book with phone number of porn stars. in his tweet he said bring back darryl hammond but mel an i don't brought in -- asked, stop calling me for "snl" tickets. >> don't expect these two to work this out. no kissing and making up. not even a remote chance of this. >> i deeply apol lly apologize. >> are you trying to say apologize. >> no, i would never do that. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> howling winds, soaking rain slamming east coas

by waking up friday morning and before the sun came up casting his sights on alex baldwin. or alec baldwin. at 5:42, he sent this tweet. alec baldwin whose dying career was saved now says playing donald trump was ag any for him. it was also agony for those forced to watch. you were terrible. bring back darrel am monhammondh funnier. and today he woke up in sunny mar-a-lago. him worried? so whlhat does he know that tho so quick to use the kcase or sdripter don't? maybe politically speaking none of this matters. after all, he is more popular today than election day. polling expert noted while trump has the lowest apploofl raroval of any president at this point, he is more popular now than when he was elected. the spread between his disapproval and approval has shrunk 8 points. politically speaking, the most significant development was the president's fulfillment of his campaign tariff pledge. it might be economic any in error, but it follow l bolsters the base that put him in office, the same group for whose amusement he a woke yesterday and took on alex baldwin. early in the