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they are probably sick of hearing about the mika brzezinski tweet.the 4th of july. let us know what you think. "mediabuzz"@foxnews.com. give us a like. i try to respond as often as i can. we have a podcast. go to our home page. we are back here next sunday, 11 eastern. happy 4th of july. we'll see you with the latest buzz. [♪] eric: president trump marking his first 4th of july as commander-in-chief. in a speech last night celebrating our nation's veterans. hello and welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's news headquarters." reporter: the president grabbing headlines with a twitter post. what did president trump tweet out this m

maggie, we were on last night talking about the misogyny of the tweet of mika brzezinski with alleged bleeding about face-lifts. it gets weirder today. >> there are a bunch of different threads coming together and you need to pick them apart. "the national enquirer" issue where joe scarborough and mika brzezinski claim that the white house threatened them with publication of a story unless they gave them more favorable kompbl a coverage, this is the downside to the white house constantly saying things that are not true, that they don't get the benefit of the doubt, because nothing has been shown to prove this. but it does shed some light on how this president, because of his history in business, he had a pen chant for sort of back room avs. he was said to use private investigators. he had all kinds of different ties in new york city and news outlets. so that's one window. i do think that we are at the point now where i think that the swe tweet, what the president did in that tweet was condemnable and not presidential, but i also think that everyone has a habit with trump in particular

president do you redwret the tweet that you sent about mika brzezinski? >> and about the white house press briefing today at which cameras were not allowed, reporters asked when they might have another chance to ask the president all their questions. and let him answer directly. he has not held a solo press conference in 134 days. we are able to play you audio of the response. >> some have suggested that maybe it is time for the president to have another news conference and perhaps answer these question he is himself rather than subject spokes people such as you and sean to questions of about recent controversy. does he plan an actual news conference in the near future? >> i'm not sure if there is one in the schedule. but if there is i guarantee this room will be the first group to be notified. >> just a reminder this controversy over the president's social media behavior and temperament comes during the run up to what may be the most critical meeting he has as president thus far, his one-on-one talks with russian president vladimir putin .man who ordered

under no circumstances watches any please welcome the host of "morning joe," joe scarborough and mika brzezinski! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: nice to see y'all again. >> great to be here again. >> stephen: now -- ( laughter ) what a day. >> yeah. >> stephen: what a day. usually, summertime is a slow news time. >> mm-hmm. >> stephen: what time does your show go off. what hours are you on, 6:09? >> 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. >> stephen: he didn't tweet out his e-mails, donald trump, jr., until 11:00. did that make you mad? ( laughter ) >> that actually gives us a couple of hours to prepare and we have as far as connecting the dots, we'll use that this morning. >> stephen: you license that

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howie: the tweets about mika brzezinski and the face lift were not a good idea.eghan: a good rule to live by is not talk about cosmetic surgery in general. but going after someone who made the wrestling video and blackmailing them and threatening to expose their personal information, that's a dangerous residence. you are going to have national organization calling you saying i'm going to expose your information to the internet unless you apologize to us is very dangerous. howie: some critics were using words like blackmail. he's a user of reddit. he created this wrestling video that trump retweeted. he also put up racist and anti-i anti-semitic posts. ed: it was a self-inflicted wound for cnn. when you go to jim acosta getting some of the facts wrong, how many intelligence agencies came up with his russia assessment. then sloppy with what the president said about look, the "new york times" had to correct that there were 17 intelligence agencies that made the determination it was actually four. it sounds like the president was more right than wrong. i will say som

. >> will you apologize to mika brzezinski, mr. president? >> that doesn't bother me one bit. it does worry me about the country. >> the president targeted them with yesterday with tweets many people found crude and unbecoming a president. >> someone bleeding badly at your door and you say no? it sounds like your health care plan. >> president trump met with the south korean president at the white house about north korea's nuclear threat today. but trump's behavior had many focused on another story. [ applause ] >> will you apologize to mika brzezinski, mr. president? >> master of distraction or master of self-sabotage? politico's made debate whether there's any strategy lurking behind trump's second day of attacks on journalists, in this case our own colleagues who host morning joe. today trump tweeted, watched low rated morning joe for the first time in a long time. fake news. he called me to stop a "national enquirer" article. i said no. bad show. now, that account is widely disputed, and we have a report on the president's actions about all this later this hour. but this u

he is also back to bashing msnbc's mika brzezinski caing her dumb as a rock and co-host joe scarboroughe. all this as we head into the week when thpresident has his first face-to-face meeting since taking office with vladimir putin. >> a lot of people are going to be watching that one. >>> also happening right now, massive cleanup. crews working to contain some 40,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled after a freight train derailment outside of chicago. explosion. and the next thing, i was on the ground. from there it was just trauma and yelling for help. >> reporter: the 39-year-old officer still recovering at university of pittsburgh medical center. >> that's a thing that can happen to anybody no matter how safe or careful you are. it is something dangerous. >> reporter: last year another cautionary tale. retired marine patrick fleenor suffering vision loss after a faulty fuse launched shrapnel into his eye. >> four years of shooting mach.z)ine guns and being in hs way and never even came close to an injury like that. >> reporter: and new york giants defensive end jason pierre paul l

. >>> now to the growing war of words between president trump and msnbc's joe scarborough and mika brzezinski after the president targeted them yesterday with tweets many found crude and unbecoming a president, the anchor pair fired back today accusing the white house of threatening them with a tabloid story. nbc's white house correspondent kristen welker has more on that and how the president reacted. >> reporter: this morning msnbc's mika brzezinski hitting back at president trump 24 hours after he personally attacked her on twitter. >> my family brought me up really tough, but i am very concerned as to what this once again reveals about the president of the united states. it's strange. >> reporter: a war of words, and now a new accusation. joe scarborough claiming three white house officials said they could stop a negative story from running in "the national enquirer" if the hosts scaled back their ongoing criticism of the president. >> and they said, if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike this story. >> they wer

with msnbc anchors mika brzezinski and joe s in) in a washington >> mr.sident, do you regret the tweet that you sent about mika brzezinski? >> reporter: the president ignored a question today about his escalating feud with msnbc average overs. the two wrote white house aides tried to intimidate them with a story in the national inquirer. >> they said if you call the president up and apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. >> reporter: mr. trump is long time friends with david ceo of american media that publishes the tabloid. in response to the allegation the president tweeted it was scarborough who called him to stop the article. i said no. sources tell cbs news scarborough called the president's son-in-law jared kushner in april about a coming inquirer story. at some point in that conversation curber in suggested an -- kushner suggested an apology from scarborough might prompt the president to intervene. through a spokesman the inquirer said, "we have no knowledge of any discussions between the white hou

are his attacks on cable tv news host mika brzezinski, joe scarborough, is that hampering his agenda?not helping, that's for sure. it is odd. he's acting like he's a spectator on this health care issue. and so he's bashing cable news hosts, inappropriate attacks on women in particular, in what he did with mika brzezinski and making it harder to get health care done if you think about it. the very same senators who came down the hardest on him, on the republican side of the aisle, including some female senators who really were upset about those comments against mika brzezinski, including lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collins from maine, these are holdout s on the health care bill. so, yes, there is no way this helps. and it looks like it is doing a lot of harm. >> chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press," thank you. happy fourth of july we'll se. we'll see you later on this morning. he'll be sitting down with tom price and tim carper on "meet the press." we'll be right back. having moderate to severe plaque psoriasis is not always easy. it's a long-distance run. and you have the d

president, do you regret the tweet that you sent about mika brzezinski?>> reporter: the president ignored a question today about his escalating feud with msnbc anchors mika brzezinski and joe scarborough. sk a "the washington post" op-ed headlined, "donald trump is not well," the two wrote that white house aides tried to intimidate them with a negative story in the "national enquirer." >> they said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. >> reporter: mr. trump is longtime friends with david pecker, c.e.o. of american media, that publishes the tabloid. in response to the allegation, the president tweeted it was scarborough who called him to stop the article. "i said no." sources tell cbs news scarborough called the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, in april, about a coming "enquirer" story. at some point in that tinversation, kushner suggested m apology from scarborough might prompt the president to intervene. through a spokesman the "enquirer" said: >> this was a

lashing out at joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. >> this is nothing. for me, personally. but i am very concerned as to what this once again reveals about the president of the united states. >> we're okay. the country is not. >> reporter: the president immediately fired back. watched low rated morning joe for first time in long time. fake news. he called me to stop a "national enquirer" article. i said no. mika was bleeding badly from a facelift he wrote. he called her low iq and crazy and scarborough -- today in the rose garden after a joint statement with south korea's leader about growing tensions with nuclear armed north korea, the president of the united states ignored shouted questions about his feud with two cable tv hosts. for his part, he has left washington for the weekend. spending the holiday at his golf club in new jersey. >> thank you. another deadly shooting rampage. this time at a new york city hospital. and the gunman is a doctor who used to work at that hospital. 45-year-old henry belo pulled out an assault rifle shooting one and turning the gun on himsel

<mika brzezinski msbc morning joe> "he appears to have a fragile, childlike, impetuous ego that we'vever and over with women, it's like he can't take it."this is the story the national enquirer ran earlier this month, accusing the couple of cheating on their spouses. brzezinski said the paper hounded her family."they were calling my children, they were calling my close friends..." "you're talking about the national enquirer?"the president has close ties to the enquirer.the tabloid endorsed him during the campaign and has relentlessly attacked his political adversaries.today the paper issued this statement:"we have no knowledge of any discussions between the white house and joe and mika about our story, and absolutely no involvement in those discussions."the president tweeted today that the blackmail allegation was fake news and that scarborough himself asked for the story to be spiked "stop! look, if you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting."republican strategist ana navarro called on fellow party members to confront the president : "listen

jesse: that was former cnbc host attacking donald trump for his tweets about mika brzezinski and joe scarborough. but . even martin brasheer was force nod resign after comments about sarah palin. mark levin joins me now. any toda.mika says the presidena dictator. they have been trashing women like sarah palin for ages. they aren't on firm ground calling the president a sexist. >> what is the point of this program? they claim to represent the people. i don't watch the show. i see clips of the show. i would say this to mika brzezinski, if you believe in women's rights, why do you defer to your husband joe all the time. i would ask joe this. why did you fail at radio. when he left wabc radio, he and she said we are taking a respite to rebuild our radio show, then they wind up on msnbc. it's like cnn. if cnn didn't have airports, they would have no ratings. jesse: you are a trained lawyer. this some audio we are not going to play. but the president was at a fundraiser but he said something like maybe i should sue cnn. cnn has been caught in a few embarrassing sting situations and had to

fierce bipartisan backlash after he attacked cable host mika brzezinski, calling her "low iq crazy mika" and claiming she was, quote, "bleeding badly from a face lift" during a gathering at mar-a-lago. this morning she fired back. >> the president's tweets? whether they're personally aimed at me or aimed at me in some way, that doesn't bother me one bit. it does worry me about the country. he appears to have a fragile, impetuous, childlike ego that we've seen over and over again, especially with women. it's like he can't take it. >> reporter: the hosts also dropped a bombshell of their own. >> we got a call that, hey, the "national enquirer" is going to run a negative story against you guys. >> reporter: co-host joe scarborough alleged white house aides said they could make the story go away. the president and the tabloid's publisher are friends. >> they said, if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike this story. >> reporter: and the president issued a strong denial to that. that came in the form of another tweet

day presidency includes another round of attacks on msnbc anchors, president trump calling host mika brzezinskiumb as a rock and joe scarborough crazy joe. >> all this as we head into a week when the president will meet with the russian president vladimir putin, an event that is sure to get a lot of attention coming as it does in the middle of several investigations into russian meddling in the presidential election. >> our martha raddatz is standing by with all the analysis this morning but let's kick things off with abc's gloria riviera who is in bedminster, new jersey, where the trump family is spending holiday weekend. gloria, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia, good morning, dan. that's right. the president taking a break here in new jersey but taking no time off from twitter. he went back to washington last night, that quick trip, by the way, costing taxpayers $180,000 an hour. but the president believing it was worth it to be with veterans and also taking the opportunity to continue that derogatory diatribe against the press. this morning president trump is back at his new

which inexplicably, aides are upset he picked a fight with mika brzezinski because it was taking awaym a successful fight with cnn. >> i think we've never really consumed something like this, where someone has taken, yes, when that video was filmed, he was an entertainer. now, he's the president of the united states. and the reality is you know, the media, okay, they've used the logo in that case, cnn, but it's made up of people. every single day, you know. i go up to capitol hill. i ask questions of people. yes, i represent nbc news every day. >> you're a three dimensional figure. >> i am. >> yes. no, no. >> that's what makes that video sort of striking. >> and the fact we had sarah huckabee sanders this week coming out in the white house and for a rare briefing saying that the president has never cop doned or encouraged or promoted violence. that is what he has just done. >> i think he would argue no, he's promoting fake violence. because it is wrestling. >> they say i'm not presidential, but i'm modern day presidential. did he say that in a tweet? >> what's important to remember, i

. >> many people in the senate condemned the personal attack on mika brzezinski and attacking on her looks. you had lindsey graham saying it was beneath the office. ben sass, this isn't normal. susan collins begging, this has to stop. lisa murkowski begging, this has to stop. does his behavior bother you? >> what i'm concentrated on is the job he's given me, and that is to make sure we fulfill the mission of the department of health and human services and that is the health of the american people. there is a whole array of activities we're undertaking. one of them is this piece of legislation in the senate right now, but my job is consumed with making sure we fulfill the mission of the department. >> i'm asking as a father, if your son tweeted to a woman like that, what would you say to him? >> chuck, this is really remarkable. we have incredible challenges across this nation, incredible challenges around the world. the challenge i've been given is to address the health care issues, and your program, a program with the incredible history of "meet the press," and that's what you want

. >> reporter: engaged in a war with the white house, mika brzezinski and joe scarborough say this. >> they say if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. three people at the very top of the administration calling me. >> reporter: they first lobbed the accusation in the washington post column friday morning. >> he appears to have a fragile childlike ego, especially with women. >> reporter: this is the story the national enquirer ran in june. the tabloid hounded her family to get the story. >> they were calling my children. they were calling close friends. >> the national enquirer. >> reporter: the president has close ties to the enquirer which endorsed him during the campaign. president trump and the national enquirer publisher are close friends and allies. the editor in charge issued this statement. at the beginning of june, we reported a story that recounted the relationship between joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. we have no knowledge of any discussions with the white house and joe and mika abo

. >> reporter: publicly lashing out at the media, amid backlash to his attacks on mism -- mika brzezinskialling them crazy joe and dumb as a rock mika. >> the media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but i'm president they are not. >> reporter: his latest act of president tweeting it's not presidential it's modern day presidential. on the radar, voter fraud the push for states to turnover data including voters scattered showers numbers and party -- social security numbers and party affiliation. more than two dozen refusing to comply. the president taking to twitter saying numerous states are refusing to give information to the distinguished voter fraud panel what are they trying to hide. the president staying silent on the senate healthcare battle as republicans spend their recess struggling to find common ground. >> i'm sitting there with a rubik's cube trying to twist the dial to get to 50 to replace this with something better. >> the 4th of july weekend was off a soggy start, but did not stop the people from hitting the boardwalk in ocean city. no boardwalk is complete wit

this after the president attacked mika brzezinski and joe scarborough last week.edia assault saturday night. >> the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house. but i'm president, and they're not. >> reporter: president trump says his use of social media is modern day presidential. but some republican lawmakers are again calling on him to lay off. >> it's unfortunate. the people are begging the president not to do this. and he has to stop doing it. >> reporter: as dozens of impeachment protests are held around the country sunday, the white house denies the president is distracted, and is working on getting the stalled gop health care bill passed. >> the president's held multiple meetings in the white house itself, with small business groups and other folks who are harmed by obamacare. >> reporter: but some republicans can't vote for the plan they say because it's too much like obamacare. >> the bill is being it will up like a christmas tree, and it's not repeal. >> reporter: the president says republicaning should consider repealing obamacare now and

laughing off certain kinds of things, condemning the tweets last week about mika brzezinski, saying very little over the weekend about the video that was tweeted that was, in some ways, much more violent. but that's not a luxury that the media has. frankly, i don't know that it's a luxury that republicans have indefinitely. when you see poll after poll showing voters think is this is harmful to the president, bad for the country you need to draw a line. >> the president almost on cue has been writing about what he's doing today almost as if to send the message i'm working, doing the nation's business. i'm going to be speaking with italy this morning, germany and france this morning. he spoke with leaders in saudi arabia over the weekend, april ryan. they're trying to say look at all these things he's doing. it's hard to separate when what he does with who he is. part of the problem is that we get a window to who he is, the president of the united states, the leader of the free world, with some of the other statements he has been making over the last 48 hours. >> john, yesterday i guess h

on saturday morning he called mika brzezinski dumb ass a rock and joe car bow dumb as a rock. and joe car neil many people are enjoying a nice long four daybreak. tuesday, july 4th we mark america's 241st birthday. this is a live sky6 live hd picture of old city. you can see independence hall awe minks the trees are there are so many fun events in the birth place of america. >> the museum of the american revolution is celebrating the birthday today. you can sing happy birthday at 1:00 p.m. and eat birthday cake. it's marks the 241 sister birthday on -- 241st birthday on the date copt -- continental congress declared they were breaking away from great britain. >> if you're planning your fireworks this holiday, student for a warning from a military veteran about how dangerous they can be. >>> that is not a place to nap, when an annual finds an unusual place to sleep. the guy rivers to leave. >> reporter: what is it a rabbit? looks comfortable to me. temperatures wise we're on the comfortable side. look at the dewpoint number, 71. in order to get things comfortable, the number ha

did you see the tweets about mika brzezinski and -- >> nope, i stay away from the tweet feeds honestly. as soon as it started, i deleted twitter. >> a little juvenile. obviously for a president, but, you know, he's a pit bull. >> it's like the old playground mentality, you know, you said this so i'm going to say this and that's ridiculous. >> i want him to stop, period. he just does not need to do that. >> reporter: and it was on the topic of those tweets where my conversation with governor kasich began. >> you know it's unfortunate, and people are now begging the president not to do this and, you know, he ought to stop doing it, and we'll have to see what happens. it's one of the few things that i think brought republicans and democrats together. they spend so much time fighting then they're all aghast. it's not the way we ought to be. the coarseness is not acceptable. >> you know, one of the things the staff says is that he has a right to fight back at personal criticism he's received. >> look, martha, this is not designed to kind of excuse anything, but it was early in my administra

. >> reporter: a new allegation from the msnbc hosts, mika brzezinski and joe scarborough say they were threatened this spring. hey, the "national enquirer" is going to run a negative story against you guys. if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike the story. three people at the very top of the administration calling me. >> brzezinski and scarborough first lobbed the accusation friday morning. >> he appears to have a fragile, impetuous childlike ego that we have seen over and over again, sfegs specially with women. he can't take it. >> reporter: this was a story the "national enquirer" ran in june accusing the couple of cheating on their spouses. the to be tabloid hounded the family to get the story glchlt . >> the president has close ties to the "national enquirer" and they have relentlessly attacked his political adversaries. the "national enquirer's" editor in charge dillon howard issued this statement. we accurately reported a story that recounted the relationship between joe scarborough and mika brzezinski.

yesterday he tweeted insults calling host mika brzezinski a psycho and claimed she was bleeding from a face-lift. >> for me, personally, but i am very concerned what again this once again reveals about the president of the united states. >> on twitter the president fired back again. nbc's blayne alexander following this feud. this feud going on since last year and joe saying he never spoke to president trump directly but did speak to his son-in-law jared kushner. >> reporter: a lot of interesting back and forth that we have seen between the two host of morning joe and president trump. they have known each other for a dozen years. friendly at first but dissolved as they have spoken and criticized the president on their show. to talk specifically about your question whether he spoke to the president or jared kushner. there was a hit piece that was supposedly coming out from the national enquirer. aides from the president called him personally and said if you call the president and apologizes, he will call his friend and quash the story. so a war of words. but i think what is most impor

about the president's tweets and his ongoing war of words with msnbc host joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. who now aallege that white house aides made them go softer and that will kill a story. >> he said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically write the story. >> reporter: a white house official confirmed that sco eed did talk with an official. critics conway described as unpatriotic. >> it doesn't help the american people to have a president covered in this light, i'm sorry, it's neither productive nor -- >> reporter: the president is also disrupting senate negotiations over health care tweeting if republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now they should immediately repeal and replace at a later date. >> what i am recommending is that we give comfort to the american people by repealing the maximum amount of obamacare that we can. but add a one-year delay before that would be effective, so there's an action forcing event so we get to work. >> reporter: problem is, it's not what the president pro

fierce by partisan backlashed after he attacks mika brzezinski, calling her low iq crazy mika and claimed she was quote bleeding badly from a faceliftal mar-a-lago. >> the president's tweet, whether personally aimeded at me, that doesn't bother me one bit. it does worry me about the country. he appears to have a frangile, impetuous child like egowe've seen over and over again. especially with women. the it's like he can't take it. >> the host also dropped a bombshell of their own. >> we got a call that hey, the national enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys. >> joe scarborough alleged white house aides said they could make the story go away. the president and the supermarket tabloid's publisher are friends. >> they say they said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he won't pick up the phone. and basically spike the story. >> abc news, the white house. >>> president trump used his weekly address to call for passage of bills designed to tough toughen immigration enforcement. on thursday, they passed kit's bill, who was shot and killed

fierce by partisan backlashed after he attacks mika brzezinski, calling her low iq crazy mika and claimeduote bleeding badly from a facelift during a gathering at mar-a-lago. >> the president's tweet, whether personally aimeded at me, that doesn't bother me one bit. it does worry me about the country. he appears to have a fragile, impetuous child like ego that we've seen over and over again, especially with women. the it's like he can't take i. >> the host also dropped a bombshell of their own. >> we got a call that hey, the national enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys. >> joe scarborough alleged white house aides said they could make the story go away. the president and the supermarket tabloid's publisher are friends. >> they say they said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he won't pick up the phone. and basically spike the story. >> abc news, the white house. >>> president trump used his weekly address to call for passage of bills designed to toughen immigration enforcement. on thursday, they passed kit's bill, who was shot and

and he is sending devotes out about whether mika brzezinski got a face lift. it's such bizarre conduct it's worrisome to a lot of people. i think it sends a terrible message internationally about the leader of the united states. >> yeah, and the indication here, jay, at least if you read the subtext of this is the president has some influence over what the "national enquirer" publishes. >> it is and it's so interesting -- like with the charges that former fbi director james comey had against him. this is all about what he wants to see in the press, how he wants the narrative to go. when the narrative goes in a way he doesn't like and wants it to change directions that he exerts this influence, exerts this power in any which way he can to try to change things, force people to -- whether bullying them, whether he is threatening them or whether he is trying to sweet talk or pressure them, to change the narrative. and that's really -- that's something that's been the which donald trump has operated since day one. and it really does push the envelope on a lot of le

because the press is trying to spoon-feed us, remember mika brzezinski, she's going to tell us what we ought to feel and what we are to believe. no, that's not the press' job.t the freedom of the press only works when there is a responsibility of the press to be objective and when they start acting that way, they might get a little respect but right now they are about as popular as the zika virus from a mosquito. >> kimberly: absolutely. it's sad because it seems cnn is to blame, the blame lies with them wholeheartedly for this credibility crisis that they are in for the reasons you just spoke of. governor huckabee,cr always a pleasure. coming up next on the special edition of "hannity." >> cnn. [crowd booing] >> kimberly: president trump calling out cnn for its biased coverage. later... >> his actions are contemptible and i will fight every day until he is impeached. impeach 45. impeach 45. impeach 45. >> kimberly: democrats have a new plan to try to impeach president trump. we are going to tell you what they are up to and get reaction. that and much more as "hannity" continues. did y

the president of the united states started his holiday weekend early saturday by tweeting about mika brzezinskind joe scarborough, continuing his feud with the msnbc hosts. trump tweeting, crazy joe scarborough and dumb as a rock mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their nbc bosses. too bad. the president also went on a twitter rampage accusing the media of trying to get in the way of his social media usage, suggesting that his twitter feed is among the reasons that he is currently the president of the united states. but there are many republicans in congress that are concerned about the president's use of twitter and that it is getting in the way of his agenda, including important things happening this week, like his trip to europe for the g-20 summit and the debate over health care. still, his aids say the president is diligently working on health care. he is expected to make calls to lawmakers over the july fourth recess with the hope of coming to an agreement to repeal and replace obamacare when they return on july 10th. ryan nobles, cnn, at the white house. >>

about mika brzezinski and joe scarborough. and a member of his own party. and there have been many, who have been blasting the comments of president trump. >> that's a tweet that's not even becoming of a city council member. >> i'm not going to defend his tweet. it was ugly. and i personally do hold the president of the united states to a higher standard. >> this is maddening. it's maddeningly frustrating, because it's the beneath the dignity of the president of the united states, or at least it should be. >> none of that apparently has fazed the president. he was again tweeting this morning, saying this, crazy joe scarborough and dumb as a rock mika are not bad people, but their low-rated show is dominated by their nbc bosses. too bad! so does this further you know, aid a divide that is on display between president trump, julian, and members of his own party? >> well look so far, it's not been a very big divide. these kinds of statements have been far and few between. and some people think all of this is sort of distraction by the president, to shift atten

joe scarborough and mika brzezinski are now accusing him of attempted blackmail. a stunning new allegation, in a story that has brought bi-partisan calls for the president to curb his twitter habit... and focus on running the country. as kron4's catherine heenan reports -- those calls went unheeded today. "and they said if you call the president up and you apologize for your coverage, then he will pick up the phone and basically spike this story." scarbororough and brzezinski first leveled the attempted blackmail accusation in a washington post op=ed piece this morning after the president personally attacked the cable news hosts and made reference to her bloody face. "he appears to have a fragile, childlike, impetuous ego that we've seen over and over with women, it's like he can't take it."this is the story the national enquirer ran earlier this month, accusing the couple of cheating on their spouses. brzezinski said the paper hounded her family."they were calling my children, they were calling my close friends..." "you're talki

howie: the president causing a big uproar on twitter after attacking mika brzezinski in for mall terms he has himself lying every day and destroying the country. the president tweets whether they are personally aimed at me or aimed at me in some way. it doesn't bother we one bit. it does worry me about the country's has a

attack on msnbc host mika brzezinski. we go to the white house, shall we? we find suzanne malveaux. the president trying to focus on the business of the presidency, but this is overshadowing a lot, isn't it? >> quite a bit of attention paid to it over the weekend and really into the week here. we know that he is making those critical calls at bedminster and will return to the white house late today, hosting military families for the july 4th celebrations tomorrow. it was over the holiday weekend, fred, that he used the bully pulpit not to push forward republican health care legislation or other polishes but rather to ramp up the attack s on the media. >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. >> president trump escalating his ongoing war against the press, tweeting out this doctored video of himself, pummeling a man with an edited cnn logo over his face. the video drawing sharp, widespread condemnation. >> it is an incitement to violence. >> it is very disturbing. there's nothing lighthearted about it whatsoever. >> we need to protect freedom of the press.

these tweets, even the one about mika brzezinski, there wasn't anybody talking about health care.alking about north korea? no. they were focused on that, and then he doubled down and the video, you have a problem? was it a joke or tantamount to calling out violence against members of the media? >> it was obviously a joke. this is more selective outrage from the left. the liberal media loves to call for civility and unity but they only do that when they can use the sound bites to silence. then they turn around and use divisive rhetoric and violence inciting rhetoric all the time. where was the outrage when kathy griffin held up donald trump's severed head? the hypocrisy is flagrant. the left love saying donald trump tweets aren't presidential. they are right, it's not presidential but that's why people voted for trump. this is no ordinary president. people wanted a fighter, someone who wouldn't be afraid to go to washington, d.c., flip over the table, and stick it in the medi media. middle america has come to despise them. >> kimberly: he did this following cnn having to fire throu