that would be a pretty significant change if all of his tweets have to be vetted by internal lawyersal attorneys who are being brought in to help him. >> my question is one of those lawyers going to take up residence in the white house residence because that's the biggest issue for the white house staff when they are tearing their hair how the looking at these tweets that don't come from the potus account but come from trump's personal account, at odd hours when he's watching cnn, which he does do and other news stations when he's getting worked up about whatever he sees or hears and also hat night and that's the biggest problem that they have is sort of in the off hours when he kind of, you know, gets himself worked up into a frenzy so the question is whether or not that can really be stopped, and so this isn't so much about the white house in setting a white house structure. this is about setting a structure for one man and that's the president. >> why are they just thinking of this now? >> it goes down to whether or not the president had signed off on this. i mean, his advisers ca

there continues to be a literal interpretation of his tweet. the president's tweets stand for themselves. i think the president's tweet speaks for itself. i think the tweet speaks for itself. don't read too much into it. he stated the fact the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. i think what i said speaks for itself. >> more about risks president trump is taking in communications as new report reports he asked world leaders to by pass diplomatic protocol and call him on his cell phone. associated press reports trump has been handing his cell phone nuer to world leader urging them to cal him direcy on it. former and current u.s. officials tell associated press trump extended the offer to leaders of canada and mexico. officials say only the canadian prime minister has taken him up on it. neither the white house nor trudeau's office responded to requests for comment. report quotes a french official claims trump ex-changed numbers with macron when he spoke from his election. dooirg the transition, australian prime minister reached trump when he

he has blocked his tweets, because he is a coward. he has not apologized.e did this on memorial day. i think he is a scumbag. brad trent has a website, if you like. >> he needs one of those apologies like kathy griffin, so the reliever of the giants, drilled washington nationals bryce harper. >> and he hits harbor. and harper is going to go out. and now we have a scene. >> first of all, through some punches, and his helmet. i don't know where that went, but harbor is suspended four games. strickland six. >> he was going after him, by the way. >> and you know what the story is there, buster posey, the catcher, nothing. >> while you lost your one more thing, because now, dana. i just want to say," and putting together something about tennis, a new novel out, his third novel, called "trophy son," even if you do not like tennis, it is a page turner. and i have a picture of me playing tennis this weekend. everybody help me this weekend, and josh was there as well. >> very good tennis player.

his twitter handle. i looked at it right before we came on. over the past two day, of all the tweets about 60% or 70% were about james comey or russia. so if he really cared ab moving on, he would be out there selling his healthcare plan or talking about tax reform. but instead, he's tweeting about comey and russia. and any time the president tweets anything, as you know, melissa, because he's the leader of the free world, that becomes news. he's feeding them. they're asking questions about his tweets. white house press briefing is saying one thing, the president is saying something else. you can't get mad at the media. >> melissa: brie, you wonder about that. this is kind of how he's always operated. >> yeah. >> melissa: this has always been like this. there are times that you wonder, is there a method to this madness? is he distracting from something else? do the people that are his die hard supporters see all of this and feel like, oh, it's just the media giving him a terrible time as usual. he's trying to do his business. or is it very clumsy execution? >> i think the bigger stor

during his overseas trip that could include replacing sean spicer as press secretary and having his tweets vetted by his lawyers. and hillary clinton in her toughest attack on president trump since losing the election is publicly now raising the specter of impeachment. in a fiery commencement speech, hillary clinton suggested that trump presidency might end in disgrace like richard nixon's. this hour, i'll talk with democratic congressman ted lu, member of foreign affaiaffairs judiciary committees. first, let's go to cnn global fairs correspondent elise laughin. elise, jared kushner under fbi scrutiny. >> that's right. the fbi hasn't talked to jared kushner yet and it is not clear they will. because kushner was so intimately involved in the campaign and transition, fbi thinks he may be able to reveal information to assist fbi in their probe. tonight the fbi criminal probe of russian interference in the 2016 presidential election now focussing on president trump's most trusted adviser, son-in-law jared kushner. >> the white house could try to get behind a lot of the programs. >> officials t

that is most than any of his tweets this month. that a pretty scary. ss. >> reporter: it wasn't even a complete sentence tweeted out by president trump just after midnight. despite the constant negative press, what's that word? >> covfefe. >> reporter: professionals could only guess at how to pronounce it, and the public -- >> that is hilarious. >> i've been saying it covfefe. >> we're pretty sure the president meant to type negative press-curvage, but the covfefe tweet stayed up six hour. and then the president tweeted who can figure out the true meaning of covfefe, enjoy. which the internet did. a make america covfefe again t-shirt. and the white house press secretary only confused things more. >> the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. >> reporter: hillary clinton wasn't a part of that group. >> i thought it was a hidden message to the russians. >> reporter: ask your doctor if covfefe is right for you. >> it sound french. >> reporter: covfefe was turned into an ivanka fragrance. >> what is covfefe? >> a yiddish term for

during our conversation, we will take your calls, tweets and facebook questions on his literary career. watch in-depth with matt ta ibbi, sunday, june 4. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we went to hear your thoughts on the president's first overseas trip. he returned to washington last night after nine days abroad, stops including saudi arabia, brussels, israel and italy. democrats, (202)-748-8000. republicans, (202)-748-8001. others,ents and all (202)-748-8002. melania trump get enough marine one late last night, and returning to the quarters of the white house. president tomorrow will be at arlington national cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. we will cover that live on c-span. let's go to scott in arlington, virginia. go ahead, republican line. caller: i mainly wanted to comment and say what a great first step it is to break in the action from all of the drama that we have been going through and get out on the international stage and me to it coalitions across all kinds of religions and to tryhe world to level the stage been back to our domestic policies

let's in fact recap from the experts on how we are supposed to interpret his tweets. o this. >> you are not going to stop him from tweeting. >> if he says something to me or via tweet, that's what he means. >> i think the president's tweet speaks for itself. >> i wish he would sleep more and tweet less. >> bill, how do you see it? >> well, obviously it's a source of humor. it's a crazy word, et cetera. he clearly fell asleep with the phone in his hand, i guess. and, you know, that's just an innocent thing that just happens. but the country is kind of an edge about a whole lot of things. what was interesting last night is watching a lot of people say, well, does this mean anything? did he have a stroke? people were interpreting in these really outrageous ways, as well as making fun of it. this is a guy that blurted out classified intel to russians in the oval office. the idea he has a phone and he's falling asleep should make some people nervous. wasn't there somebody to say what happened with the president there? it is odd it lasted all that time. >> let's be honest, t

. >> i'm work on a book of his tweets. jesse: you aren't relying on his friends. >> i haven't interviewed any of his friends. we have reports from his biographer. we can read the reports. jesse: authorized or unauthorized. >> both. jesse: you said you diagnosed the president at psychotic through his tweets. if he actually believes he had the biggest crowd size these are delusions. the other option is he's a psychopath i can liar. jesse: he brags about his crowd size, isn't that just politics? he says i have huge crowds, i must be doing better than the polls suggest. >> a delusion is holding on to a false belief despite the fact. >> he didn't have the largest crowd size. but he tells two kinds of lies, those he tells to others and those he tells to himself. in his fantasy world he's the greatest ever. jesse: what about when president trump said when he was going to be elected the sea levels would come down. that's grand yoas, -- grandiose? >> i'm not familiar with that quote. jesse: you say president trump lies. what about p

. >>> his tweets speak for themselves. the president was very dealer in his tweet. >> the president was very clear and i think there's continuing to be a literal interpretation of his tweet. >> the president's tweets stand for themselves. >> i think the tweets speak for itself. >> sometimes you don't have to read too much into it. he stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> what i just said speaks for itself. >> white house press secretary tactic over the past few months when asked to defend a questionable trump tweet. so i'm wondering what his explanation is going to be this morning of the odd tweet that the president put out last night because apparently it speaks for itself. >> covfefe, if you watch star wars. >> i thought it was a spanish soft drink company. >> it's down now, if you can believe it. it was up for a good six hours, five hours. >> he posted at midnight. i think he fell asleep in the middle of it. and they took it down. >> who tweets in bed, anybody? >> well. >> good morning everyone.

he has never used that phrase or "i think" in his tweet before. ink of these are low energy tweets from the president. we know the president aor the lawyers are going to be looking at his tweets. the nightmare is not the -- you have the family and finances. we are not talking about drip, drip, drip, anymore. it is a torrent. the difficult of this white house dealing exponentially raised by the fact that it is jared kushner and listening to the folks you had on earlier, the reluctant of republicans, remembering of the administratio jared kushner because this is family. this is one of the reasons why you avoid nepotism generally because he's the one guy that you cannot fire. he's so close to the fire. this raises the threat level exponentially. >> i think we are having a discussion that's divorced from reality this week. it is a stonishing. >> 2008, we are having an election. candidate obama since william miller -- this is a private citizen going to foreign soils to evade u.s. intelligence monitoring and6wváup!lishing bak channel with a sworn enemy o

but in the meantime the questions seem to keep being churned out by his tweets.s retired his tweet account -- twitter account during his overseas travels. >> what about the report that there's someone in the white house -- you know, all of these headlines coming out that maybe somebody in the white house is under criminal investigation? >> well, that's a rumor, but it certainly goes to the very top of the trump administration. so, again, i think mueller is the right person to pursue those leads. let's find out if there's any substance there. let's not jump to any conclusions. >> i told you i was talking with ted lieu a little earlier and he used the word "chaos." i'm sitting here and looking at you and having a moment. 17 years ago my first job was in springfield, illinois, your stomping grounds there. i remember covering you and you had such a busy agenda. we always talked about what was going on in washington, things were just so busy with the news of the day. and now here we are almost 20 years later and we're talking about, you know, the word "chaos" and what

he's never used that phrase or i think in his tweets before since so far going back as president. >> t almost think that these were low energy tweets from the president. but it does look like we know the president has lawyered up. are the lawyers now going to be looking at his tweets? the nightmare here for the white house is this is not alignment of the planets. it's a collision of the planets. you're now having the russian investigation, the family, the finances. we're not talking about drip, drip, drip. it's a torrent. i think the difficulty of this white house dealing with this is going to be exponentially raised by the fact that now it is jared kushner. listening to the folks you had on earlier, the reluctance of republicans or members of the administration to criticize jared kushner because this is family. this is one of the reasons why you avoid nepotism generally in business and politics because he's the one guy you cannot fire. he's so close to the president. this raises the threat level exponentially. >>. >> we are having a discussion that is divorced from reality this week.

they had the president undercutting his own communications staff, undercutting his own vice president, tweeting out this morning that his press secretary can't always be trusted to give accurate information. and you have all of this when they could be pushing health reform in the senate, when they could be laying the groundwork for tax reform, when they could be preparing the president for his foreign trip. instead, we had another week consumed by russia, and with this "wall street journal" report you're referencing tonight, it's more of a drip-drip. we know the president hates this story, but it's just not going away, and it doesn't go away when you fire the person leading the investigation. >> as one wag facetiously put it tonight, how many coal mines were reopened today? zero. peter, among your travels covering four presidents, you are also the former moscow bureau chief. how much of this, given what you learned about the soviet and then later russian mentality -- how much of this is deja vu and how much does it inform your reporting? >> well, it is deja vu. look, this is not surprising that

the presence tweeted this, this is the peril of using social media to get out the message. it shows what a mess he has made of hisof the president on twitter? yes. thank you very much. and you will hear more from the president tomorrow morning when he tweets again. i will see you tomorrow. quite a bright day right now, most of us have seen a decent start to the day with some rain around in some areas. but not a lot. here is the satellite picture, it was wetter earlier on in northern ireland and western parts of scotland. this crowd will be pushing further north and east. to the south, just a couple of showers and that is pretty much it. so right rather than funny this afternoon with temperatures getting up to around 20 in london. for most of us around 15, 18 celsius. some rain across parts of northern england. a pleasant afternoon in northern ireland and the western isles. rain across the far north of scotland. through the course of this evening it is a case of clearing skies across many northern areas. a pleasant end to the day and to the south of that turning a little bit more cloudy with some mist around the c

his iphone. if he's over there and just so busy or too tired to tweet, this could be a positive thing because i heartion? >> stephen: yes, his people came to him and said, sir, you're going to paint yourself into a corner if you keep doing this and he's been quiet for days now. >> whenever the tweeting quiets it, we think it's a change, but it comes back. >> stephen: do you scratch, like, i've got spiders on my skin? is it cold in here? >> this trip, the "the washington post" announces friday night there's a significant person of interest working actively in the white house as a senior advisor to the president. and now we're trying to figure out who the person of interest is in the f.b.i. probe currently working in the white house and is it one of the people on the trip with him and mysteriously reince priebus and steve bannon got sent home early. what will they be doing? i don't know but mike pence is pleading the fifth. i don't feel they get to make their own news anymore. once you're president, the first president in history under counterintelligence investigation to the f.b.i. and bragged about

president of the united states in my opinion. >> show of hands, how many people are bothered by his tweetsou are bothered by tweets. >> what we love about him is he is not a politician. we hate that is he not a politician. >> you gave president trump an "a." is there anything in the past four months that has given you pause about the presidency? >> i think because i'm in that 70 year age bracket that i had more understanding of somebody just being real. i want people who are real. no matter what anybody says, he is most truthful than anyone running the campaign. >> what about the things he clearly changed his tune on? what about where he said, china is a currency manipulator? nato is obsolete. he said i will save medicare and medicaid without cuts. the budget has been released. >> he will make mistakes. when you are put on the spot like i am right now. i may not say something that i would say later. >> you are not president. >> no. he is not perfect. >> you give him a b minus? >> yes. >> what is the moment that turned from the a to the b minus? >> healthcare reform. i think obamacare is th

. >>> on top of the president's cell phone habits, his tweets usually provide the clearest view of his thoughts but the midnight tweet has many wondering what is meant by this. despite the constant negative press, cavfefe is now trending and has become one of the president's most recent retweeted in months in the four hours since it's been posted. >>> the pentagon has tested a defense missile system. the in ter scepter missile blasted off from the air force base in california. it maneuvered in the path of one destroying the target with a direct hit. until now it's not been tested. >>> a nearly three-hour standoff at the orlando airport when a mansur rendered with a fake gun. police surrounded former marine michael pettigrew. he was screaming "shot me, shoot me." >>> and in portland, oregon, the suspects of the two men twho tried to stop his anti-muslim outbursts against two muslim women was defiant in his court appearance. jeremy joseph christian has a history of white supremacy issues. >> this is america. get out if you don't like free speech. >> a series of outbursts in a courtroom f

[laughter] >> i feel like his tweeting in general needs to stop.i feel like he's still in reality show mode. and i enjoyed it at the beginning, it was funny and humorous and entertaining. but it's kind of like, you know, if i go to costco and i buy a six-pound bag of jolly ranchers and i like it, but it's really bad for me. and i think it's just bad for the presidency, and i think somebody's got to go in there and take his phone -- >> three pounds of jolly ranchers? >> it can be done, kat. greg: i had a hell of an evening with a jolly rancher during my time in wyoming. [laughter] you know, the one thing i'm tired of people going after trump about this, like, threat that he threatened james comey in this tweet. i don't believe it's a threat if you do it publicly on twitter. i mean, it's not deceptive. if you're going to threaten somebody, you're going to do it, you know, privately -- >> it's not a dead fish -- greg: exactly. >> half the internet publicly threatens me on a regular basis. greg: that's true. some people here on this floor do that. >> t

i think the president made clear in his tweet that he was referring to the fake news. i will say the president has tweeted about this and is clear he believes there is surveillance. i think the tweet speaks for itself. sometimes you don't have to read too much into it. referring to the tweet. the president has nothing further to add on that. he simply stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> just today comedic national treasure melissa mccarthy was spotted driving her sean spicer podium all over the streets of new york. it is clear she is hosting saturday night live less than 24 hours from now. that is it for us for tonight. happy mother's day. we will look for you here on monday and good night from new york. since the president fired the director of the fbi, james comey, three days ago now, we've now got multiple reports that the fbi's investigation of the russia issue, the russian attack on the presidential election last year and the question of whether or not the trump campaign was involved in it somehow, we now have multiple reports that at the

his cell phone number out and he could get hacked easily? >> that's serious, but i also get upset when i hear journalists on tv suggesting that he should stop tweetingould keep implicating himself in show his stripes. i mean it. it is a direct connection. it does bypass us but it is telling of his mindset. >> how do you think world leaders view this? for example, h.r. mcmaster and gary cohen america first doesn't mean america alone. we want what's best for everyone. they're trying to put out a message while at the same time the president does things that put him and the united states at risk. >> look, i think his point of view with nato and the other countries contributing their peace is a reasonable one and plenty of people think that's a valid message and one that he delivered in a tough way and that's fine. what caught my eye in that editorial is that they said he had reaffirmed our country to nato five of the treaty and one of the most noted absences was that reaffirmation. now h.r. mcmaster has been in damage control saying, of course, the president reaffirms it. this country stands behind that. so, maybe that's where he's coming from. explicit

the story has to be consistent. >> meghan: i took his tweet as many as a threat to james comey. better make sure i didn't record something that was said. i think most rational people dead. >> sandra: that threat was much different then maybe we should do away with the press briefings. those are two completely different things. as far as press briefings are concerned, that goes back to the messaging that you have been talking about that's coming out of this white house. why condemn the media when there are highly qualified journalist sitting in that room asking questions? he's comparing the media stream and in that room to how they treated the president obama. he's saying they're not getting the message right. you have said they should start looking within and look at the message they are putting out from the white house and how they're doing it and who is doing it. >> meghan: people were conflating two things that aren't usually exclusive. james comey could have been needed to been fired, i agree with that. the white house could also be doing a really bad job controlling the nar

his tweets don't say i shared classified information, but he's certainly not denying he shared thingsot denying any specifics. you sit on the house intelligence committee. do you want to make this part of your overall investigation into alleged contacts between the trm can pain and russia. >> absolutely. i think we deserve to know what he shared and why and whether it will lead to compromising american allies or opera tives themselves. you said earlier that republicans are beginning to walk back from the president and becoming less assertive in their defense of him. my thought, all of their responses were fairly tell pid. and i think if senator mcconnell and speaker ryan were in office during water gate, nixon might still be president of the united states. i want to make a deal with them. have them write down on a piece of paper what it is he could conceivably do to finally cross the line such that they would actually speak up and speak out against him. give me a copy. put another one in the safe. when that line is crossed, take it out and do exactly what he says. do exactly that, sta

when they say we don't have any comment on his tweets, these tweets speak for themselves. if i were a white house spokesman, i wouldn't want to speak for him either, because every time the white house speaks for the president, things change and they end up looking either dishonest or clueless. so, perhaps it's best to let his tweets speak for themselves. but on the tapes themselves, the notion that there are tapes, and he did put them in quotes, let him release them. i think he should release them to the country. >> phil, what's your reaction to this? i'm not asking you to get into the president's head here. what do you think is going on? >> please don't. believe me, i know this is going to sound facetious. i'm breathing a sigh of relief. you can't take this seriously. you could have taken this seriously from president bush or president obama, from president bush's father, from president clinton. you can't take this seriously. you feel like you've got to give the president of the united states a pacifier and a rattle and put him in the crib. you're threatening the fbi, who

his mind. the president tweeting sunday morning that health care plan is on its way. we'll have much lower premiums and deductibles while at the same time taking care of preexisting conditions. but democrats are not so sure. >> he tries to blame the democrats but he didn't need a single democratic vote to pass it in the house. he couldn't do it. couldn't could it twice. >>>. >>> abc news, new york. >> conservative commentator ann coulter spoke more today about the fallout of her cancelled speech at ac berkeley. the two admit they disagree on just about everything but they did agree that college campuses must behavens for free speech. >> lefties are on the side of the thuges. they have taken over universities. i don't think anyone learns anything at college any more. it is a four-year vacation. >> whether college campuses or someone burning a flag or the newspapers having a right to say whatever they want, we cannot toy around with the first amendment. >> rallies for and against coulter remained largely peaceful on thursday. the day she was scheduled to speak at cal. >

neither president trump nor his staff are elaborating on his tweet suggesting that he may have faked his conversations with comey during a visit to the white house in january. democrats and republicans say if they do exist, they want them preserved and turned over to congress. the full senate will get a briefing on thursday from deputy attorney general rob rosenstein. >>> a cyber attack hitting someone on friday spreading to asia. today the malware program is supposed to sell microsoft operating systems. here is how it works. it encrypts files and hackers demand some $300 to decode those fi more than a thousand users have been affected. the security experts say the u.s. did not get hit as hard as some other countries because most people in this country have updated versions of microsoft. let this be a hint not to ignore the software update notices that you get regularly for your device. >>> tonight north korea talking about what it calls a successful test of a new ballistic missile designed to carry a heavier nuclear warhead. the video shows the leader inspecting the launch site and c

. >> the president with his tweets this morning has said things that border on intimidation against comey and any others who are going to disagree with him publicly on this issue. >> reporter: in addition, the tweet implies that the president may record his conversations in the white house. now, some members of congress are demanding the white house council turn over any tapes the president may have including any conversation with comey as well as any russian officials with whom had the president may have met or spoken to >> did president trump record his conversations with former fbi director comey >> i assume you're referring to the tweet. i've talked to the president. the president has nothing further to add. >> why did he say that? why did he tweet that? what should we interpret >> president has nothing further >> are there recording devices in the oval office or residence >> as i said there's nothing further to add on that >> does he think it's appropriate to threaten someone like mr. comey not to spe >> i don't think that's not a threat. he's simply state add fact. the tweet speaks

president's action, and demanding an explanation of the president's threatening tweet, suggesting that recordings may exist of his conversations with comey. the white house denies the tweet was a threat. >> it was inappropriate. i'd advise the president not to tweet or comment about the investigation. >> if there are recordings those recordings will be subpoenaed. >> we want to make sure the tapes are preserved. we'll want to look at them in congress. >> reporter: the top democrat on the intelligence committee asserting comey should have the opportunity to address the president's allegations in public. >> i think james comey deserves his chance to lay out to the american public his side of the facts, because how he was treated was pretty awful by this president. >> reporter: some democrats now saying they will refuse to confirm a new fbi director until a special prosecutor is appointed. >> i thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey, because all of the democrats couldn't stand him, but because i terminated him, they said, oh, we get some political points, we'll go against

here is his tweet, his often preferred method of communication with the masses. here's his tweet "we have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in afghanistan. their government has zero appreciation. let's get out." how does this change in strategy? how does it jibe with america first? >> well, clearly it doesn't. but it does jibe with the anxieties that are felt in the pentagon and elsewhere over the pocket that things would not have gone as far wrong in the middle east, particularly with the rise of isis, if the united states had negotiated a status of forces agreement sufficient to keep, say, 10,000 troops in iraq. i'm not taking a position on this, but there are serious men and women who believe that things would be much better if we had left a residual force in iraq. that is now being applied to afghanistan. that there might be some critical mass of american troops that would be a stabilizing force there. the problem is that we all have to ask at all times the question that general petraeus asked when he first became -- began getting involved in ir

. >> the president with his tweets this morning and said things that border on intimidation against comey and any others who will disagree with him publicly on this issue.>> reporter: in addition the tweet implies the president may record his conversations in the white house. some members of congress are demanding the white house counsel turnover tapes the president may have including any conversations with comey in any of brother -- and any russian officials he may have met or spoken to. >> did president trump record his conversations with former director comey? b i'm sure you are referring to the tweet and i talked to the president and he is nothing further to add to that.>> why did he say that, why did he tweet that, what should we interpret from that? i as i mentioned he is nothing further to add. >> are there recording devices in the oval office? a as i said for the 3rd time there's nothing further to add. >> does he think it's appropriate to threaten someone like mr. call me not to speak>> it's not a threat, he simply stated a fact, the tweet speak for themselves i moving on.>>> mea

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president trump, though, in his tweets this morning not disputing that in the tweets that he may have, in fact, revealed this incredibly sensitive information to the russians when he met with them just last week. kate? >> yeah, notably not addressing it in those tweets. we will wait to see exactly what h.r. mcmaster has to say as he prepares to take to the cameras. jessica, thank you so much. so, the reaction from capitol hill this morning? democrats call it dangerous and inexcusable, and republicans, at least right now, they are not coming to the president's defense. here's senate majority leader mitch mcconnell responding to the news on bloomberg this morning. >> well, i read the "washington post" story and i read general mcmaster's response, which tends to refute the story, rebut the story. i think we could do with a little less drama from the white house on a lot of things so that we can focus on our agenda. >> so, another powerful senator, bob corker, the chair of the senate foreign relations committee, he had this to say. he said this -- "the white house has got to do something

>> the president is trying to tempt down with his tweets today and redirect the narrative on that front. i do think we see signs at the white house wants to get on with his other agenda and has been derailed from these activities. there are two friends, they are battling on in that regard. they want to continue at their own agenda and make sure that it does become a distraction or eliminate or create some challenges, i should say, and the public trust. which is one of the great risks when you have this narrative going on. >> jenna: bottom line, very light and facts when it comes to the investigation. i want to remind our viewers of that because we can talk all day about it and still, we are missing crucial facts. great to have your perspective, thanks so much. >> jon: a russian fighter jet takes a pass dangerously close to a u.s. navy aircraft this week. when it means for relations between the two countries and their militaries a day before a top russian official visited washington. plus what we are learning about a shooting at an ohio nursing home that wounded an officer and at least o

and the president is just making that worse with his tweets and probably making it a lot harder for jim comey in his appearance before the committee today. >> elise, did the president go too far here? on one hand maybe this is a setup on his part. if james comey comes hard after president trump today, trump could say, see, he was out to get me. he was getting back at me. we know president trump likes to play that game. >> i just wonder how much it was about comey even and hillary clinton's comments earlier in the day about how close she was to winning the election. i just think the combination, you know, overflowed onto twitter's favorite medium. one thing that i think most americans can agree upon is that please, president trump, just stop tweeting. people are sick of it. that was something that hillary clinton out of all of her comments, some of which i thought she probably would have been better waiting a little more time, the tweeting that president trump should perhaps not be tweeting on foreign affairs i think is universally felt among all americans. >> i can tell you you want to

his experience. he spoke to the president and tweets stand. that leaves open the possibility of these recordings and if this white house is not doing recording or there are some reasons under national security they feel like they can't disclose that, i think these questions will persist until there's more clarity. >> peter baker, i go to bed with the new york times app on my phone and wake up with it. do you have any sense -- i'm picking up from the folks i've talked to in the white house, they want to do more and more of their business over the telephone. are you picking up the tapes add to the growing sense of paranoia that people seem to have in their exchanges with reporters? >> i think there is a real nervousness about your interactions with reporters of this white house, whether it be by phone or email. and that's a shame. i don't think that's helpful to any white house. i don't think it helps you get your message out. the best white house understands that reporters are there to help people -- the american public understand things and th

and his tweets this morning are not going to play out well. >> it is important what alex said there ishinks firing comey was perfectly fine in itself. as someone yelled at by you, you don't necessarily think reporters are always the best people in the world and you often don't like the way that we do things. are the press briefings important? do you think it is important to have reporters there asking questions of the press secretary? >> i always yelled at you in good spirit, don, when you messed things up, which you did with regularity. of course it is important to have these briefings. yesterday i sort of said we might not necessarily have to have these briefings if the press secretary is not going to know or say what the truth is. and if the president is going to continue to undermine them. so it is important to have these, but it is important to have press briefings where they are basing what they are saying in facts and truths. obviously you are going to spin and put the best face on an argument you can. but when you say one thing and 20 minutes later the president goes on nbc and

his tweet that hinted his conversation with comey may have been recorded.ng concerns over nuclear north korea testing another missile over the weekend sparking outrage in the international community. >> the international community is concerned. it's not just us against them anymore. now you're going to see the entire international community isolate north korea and let them know that this is not acceptable. maria: more on the rising threat this morning. new fears over cyber-attacks. at least 100,000 organizations got hit. how hackers are holding hollywood and favorite shows hostage, coming up. why the mass i have fraud may be much larger than anybody expected? on wall street, futures are indicating mixed market. dow up 30 points so far. ftse is up a fraction and the cac quarante and dax are down a fraction. under fire this morning over new deal, reportedly offering patron s for life if they bunch steve bannon, if they punch him. the special delivery coming pizza delivery while stuck on the train. the searm for jim comey's replacement. trump administration re