here now is the year in trump tweets. >> are you going to be tweeting and whatever you're upset aboutthere this. >> i'm going to be very restrained, if i use it at all. >> he tweeted yesterday. he says if chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage, i will send in the feds. does he ever sleep? the answer is no. this isn't going to be a one-off. this is going to be every day with him. >> first, it's not a travel ban. >> that was president trump's tweet yesterday. if the ban were announced with a one-week notice, the bad would rush into our country. >> he's using the words with media is using. >> the president tweeting he will be announcing his supreme court selection. >> tweeting around 10:00 last night, the obama administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from australia. why? i will study this dumb deal. >> let's go to donald trump's tweet. >> iran has been formally put on notice. >> at 8:12:00 a.m., the opinion of this so-called judge. >> president trump is tweeting about john mccain. he's been losing so long he doesn't know how to win anymore. >> the president of the

korean leader about the fact that he has a nuclear button on his desk and we know about donald trump's tweet in response but now we do see that donald trump is taking credit for the fact that south korea and north korea are talking now people are still reacting to donald trump's tweet about nuclear button being bigger and such however you know donald trump at this point is saying that he takes credit for north korea of south korea talking and now we hear this report about the suspension of the games during the olympic games of the suspension of the military drills during the olympic games so it's quite an interesting turn of events of the world is looking at the korean peninsula and waiting to see what happens next artie's kill my pain live from new york city bring this right up to date on that thank you. well donald trump's twitter also provoked a furious response from pakistan's foreign minister he's blasted the u.s. president for claiming that islam about has been an unreliable partner in the war on terror well samir account joins us live now with the details samir what brought about this

yesterday before his button size tweet, president trump seemed to respond to these diplomatic overtures, tweeting -- . >> as nikki haley discussed possible sanctions yesterday at the u.n.. >> we won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in north korea. we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don't think we need a band aid. we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. we think we need to have them stop nuclear weapons and they need to stop it now. so north korea can talk with anyone they want. but the u.s. will not recognize it pr acknowledgment knowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have. >> joining us now from london, live, nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely. you spent time in north korea and south korea. how easy would it be for kim jong-un to drive a wedge between south korea and america to washington's detriment in this negotiation? >> reporter: well, i think that is what he's been trying to do and that was in a way the tone of his new year's message, conciliatory towards south

i thought it would take something to eclipse donald trump's tweet about kimjong on. eclipse donald trump'sg on. it eclipse donald trump's tweet about kimjong on. it now eclipse donald trump's tweet about kim jong on. it now seems that the president and steve bannon are engaged for who has the biggest bite and in the most powerful one. let me read you a little more of what the president has said about his former chief strategist. steve had little to do with our historic victory. he does not represent myspace. he is only in it for himself. he was rarely in a one—on—one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influenced a full a few people. this is an unprecedented statement from president. so why the van? firstly because steve bannon has gone after family and secondly because it makes it much more difficult for donald trump to deny collusion with the russians when you have someone who was on the inside talking about treasonous and unpatriotic behaviour. there is one source of comfort for the white house, steve bannon continuing to be an influence after he was fired. no longer. he has n

harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trumps tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converged for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically enough it seems to have united the country's warring factions for example imran khan chairman of pakistan's they have taken soft party had a pretty interesting reaction calling truck mentally weak now the u.s. has even placed pakistan on a special watch list for allegedly violating religious freedom but with all that being said the war in afghanistan is far from over and the u.s. has already lost thousands of lives and spent trillions of dollars but without its neighbors support it's unclear how far the u.s. can really go down this time is continuing to face a islamist insurgency on thursday i still claim responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed fifteen people and injured many more local journalists warry told me what happened earlier. it was an operat

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>>> breaking news, during the commercial break, donald trump tweeted i authorized zero access to white house, actually turned him down many times for author of phony book, exclamation point. i never spoke to him for book. sources that don't exist. look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and

charles: president trump tweeting about ending chain migration. new report from doj and dhs shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are

trump tweeted, the single greatest witch-hunt in american history continues. there was no collusion. everybody including the dems knows there was no claugs. russia and the world is laughing at the stupidity they are

president trump tweeting about it just now. dow crashes through 25,000. congratulations. big cuts in unnecessary regulations continuing. we'll continue to keep an eye on the dow which is up more

president's successful agenda, especially on taxes," but hours earlier trump tweeted "will be going to pennsylvania today in order to give my total support to rick saccone running for congress. rick is a great guy, we need more republicans to consider our

trump tweeted the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $30 billion in aide over the last 15 years and given us nothing by lies and deceit. thinking of our leaders as fools. gave safe haven to the

. >>> president trump tweeted since taking office i have been very strict on commercial aviation. good news, it was reported that there were zero deaths in 2017,

washington post" reports officials are expected to hold a cabinet meeting today to adopt a response to trump's tweet. meanwhile, the white house noted it intends to continue withholding aide to pakistan. already appropriated by congress. that aide has been on hold since august. >>> speaking of president trump, returned to washington last night after a ten day vacation to florida. according to nbc news's count. it was 117th day that the president spent at all trump owned property. including 91 days at a trump golf property. approximately 34% of 347 days in office so far have been spent at one of the president's residences. scheduled to meet with mike pence and alex acosta today. rex tillerson and jim mattis tomorrow. they're going to meet at the capital with senior members from both parties about the deferred action for childhood arrives program. daca, that is set to expire on march 5. upcoming deadlines whether to extend government funding and warns of electronic surveillance. march, decisions must be made on the children's health insurance program and raising the debt ceiling. >> let's talk more ab

trump tweeted. dossier is bogus. clinton campaign funded dossier. his time verify claims in dossier. russia trump collusion. fbi tainted. president added this. and they used this crooked hillary pileup garg as the basis for going after the trump campaign. a "new york times" report this weekend claims the dossier did not bring on the fbi russia investigation. claiming it was instead a night of heavy drinking. a loose lipped trump aide and a staunch foreign ally. four anonymous current and former american foreign officials tell the paper in may of 2016, trump super visor george papadopoulos told australian diplomat they had thousands of e-mails that would embarrass hillary clinton. when hacked e-mails began appearing online a few months later. informed american counter parts of what papadopoulos had said according to the report. joining us now, one of the reporters who broke that story. ss the whole idea it was made up. >>> it was always clear if you were paying attention this was not an investigation that began with hillary clinton funded opposition r

harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trumps tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converge for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically enough it seems to have united the country's warring factions for example iran cancerian of pakistan as they have akin soft party had a pretty interesting reaction calling truck mentally weak now the us has even placed pakistan on a special watch list for allegedly violating religious freedom but with all that being said the war in afghanistan is far from over and the u.s. has already lost thousands of lives and spent trillions of dollars but without its neighbor support it's unclear how far the u.s. can really go. north and south korea have confirmed they're going to meet for official talks next week for the first time in to you is the meeting on the ninth of january will see officials discuss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea but it's also hope will

trump tweeted calling a possible senate deal, quote, a big step backwards. kenneth motin, abc news washington. >>> this morning the mayor of london says president trump is not welcome in the city, while pursuing what he calls a divisive agenda. this comes after the president canceled his visit to london. on twitter last night, trump said he will not be at the opening of the new u.s. embassy there and criticized the president obaobama administration for selling the embassy only to build a new one. people in london will still be able to take a selfie with the president. mada madame tussauds moved his figure outside of it. >>> some with cadaver dogs are back out searching this morning for those still missing following the deadly mudslides in southern california. the grueling effort began again this morning. hundreds slogging through mud and debris for a fourth day looking for survivors. at least five people are still unaccounted for in the devastating update community near montecito. searchers are holding out hope they'll find those missing still alive. >> hear

after the president's big button tweet we talked to about expert on the brain and language about what's really behind president trump's serial tweeting. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. real nonfiction washington, i swear. welcome to "mtp daily" and welcome to a five-alarm dumpster fire for the white house. or should we call it bannon's rebellion? the russia investigation blown nope dramatic fashion. not by the fake news media. not by the deep state justice department, but by steve bannon. and in response, the president is now trying to destroy bannon. in a new book, bannon is quoted calling the trump campaign "treasonous," "unpatriotic" says jared kushner and trump jr. could face money laundering charges and no way the president didn't know about the infamous trump tower meeting, thought it was getting russian access dirt to incriminate hillary clinton. bannon said he told us the president to his face that his defense of that meeting was "insane." and bannon said, using words i can't say on live television i don't know if i can even say it on tape delay

about foreign policy is nothing new as i said for president trump sometimes called the tweeter in chief his tweets have covered multiple global conflicts that have spanned across many countries we use a tool here on news grid called trump twitter archive where you can put in a keyword and see how many times he's used it since he's become president and since he's come into office so we compared some of. his top foreign policy tweets with other stories now when it came to north korea he mentioned that in eighty one tweets he said nuclear eighty four times he mentioned the israeli palestinian conflict here ten times or ron to seventy and in for the gold here china he talked about it how many times four hundred fifty six just to give you some perspective now george lakoff he's an author and a former professor at the university of california in berkeley and he came up with this map showing how trump tweets he says that trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle they mostly fall into one of these four categories he says starting with preemptive framing he says that trump likes to be t

in a trump tweeted he has a bigger and more powerful button. >> reporter: at first president trump didn'trock know man now south korea for first time, he tweeted. perhaps not. we will see. t south korea's up on the off, the u.n. ambassador ed me seriously until theyo something to ban nuclear weapons. year's tt desk and vowed the nuclear to weapons. they wouldear to be preparations for another test. >> i hope that does not happen, but if we must bring even more measures to b korean >> reporter: they're prepared to test missile as they celebrated in the form of a gigantic ice new years. when it was first tested, real missile reached long enough to hit the.s right direction. if preparations continue, it could be launched by the end of korea and threatened war with the u.s., i playing good cop, bad cop inha a wedge drive between the two allies. r palestinian officials after president trump threatened to cut off aid. the palestinians hundreds of million dollars a year andappreciation abbas said mr. trump had destroyed his credibility mid east peace er speculation that mitt romney will run for the

and i think with every tweet that donald trump offers out there, we fall and other powers rise. and i think that that's something that we have to take very seriously. you know, there's a lot of talk around these tweets where people say, well, the appearances are bad, it's embarrassing. that's not the problem. the problem is how people react to the tweets. how adversaries react to them, how rivals take advantage of them, how allies are made unsteady by them, and that's what's happening. these tweets are like acid eating away at the foundations of american strength in the world. and it could get worse because as we look at this today, we see, well, maybe the reason that trump was doing this is that there is a book coming out and in the book, which was reported in "the guardian" today, steve bannon calls the meeting at trump tower that don junior was in treasonous. he goes to a new level where people within the trump camp are turning on trump. if that's what makes him nervous, if that's what makes him lash out at the world and with mueller on his trail and these other things happeni

of weapons is president trump's tweeting of weapons is wrong, president trump's tweeting of weaponsort to south korea, the us presence on the peninsula that provides a deterrent. good to talk to you. that's tom plant from the royal united services institute. five men from cambridge, and leicester and stockport and a woman from banbury have been arrested on suspicion of being members of the banned far—right group national action. that's west midlands telling us. action. that's west midlands telling us. six arrests action. that's west midlands telling us. six arrests were action. that's west midlands telling us. six arrests were carried out with the west midlands counter—terrorism unit in conjunction with other counter terror units. a number of properties are being searched. the arrests were pre—planned and intelligence—led. no threat to the public‘s safety. that's from the west midlands police. five men and a woman from banbury arrested on suspicion of being members of the banned far—right group national action. more on that as it comes in to us. storm eleanor sweeps across the uk ca

president threatened to cut aid worth around three quarters of a billion dollars a year donald trump tweeted the threat accusing palestinians of not wanting peace talks he also said jerusalem is no longer out for negotiations of relations with the us have plummeted since trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital last month the cuts threaten money allocated to the palestinian authority most u.s. funding goes towards development and not directly to the authority itself also at risk is funding to the united nations relief and works agency or under which assists palestinian refugees the u.s. is its largest donor both measures if they go ahead with cut around seven hundred sixty five million dollars a year in aid to the palestinians have a jump june reports now from the city of ramallah in the occupied west bank for. a mother of three palestinian refugee children a routine trip to the doctor was already riddled with complications. but after hearing the u.s. may decide to cut more than three hundred million dollars of annual aid to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian re

connections the white house press secretary calls the claims baseless and the white house is defending trump's tweet about the size of its nuclear button on tuesday trump warned a north korean leader that its nuclear button is a much bigger and more powerful button and that his button works i don't think that it's tontine to stand up for the people of this country i think what's dangerous is to ignore the continued threats if the previous administration had done anything and dealt with north korea dealt with iran instead of sitting behind doing nothing we wouldn't have to clean up their mess no iran's ambassador to the u.n. is accusing the u.s. of interfering in his country's affairs after washington's ambassador called for out emergency meeting to discuss anti-government protests at least twenty two people have died since saturday a. man maher is marking seventy year sense and dependence from great britain that there has been no mention of the right hand to crisis despite talks of peace with ethnic groups they government says there are ongoing attempts to end decades of fighting with ethnic groups

ambassador david hale monday to explain president trump's first tweet of the new year.ly monday, trump tweeted, "the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan, with little help. no more!" north korean leader kim jong on -- north korean leader kim jong-un declared his nation a fully-fledged nuclear power monday, sang in a televised new year's day speech he was prepared to launch a nuclear attack against his enemies, including south korea, japan or the united states. >> the entire united states is within range and a nuclear button is on my desk, this is reality and not a threat. amy: kim said north korea would now focus on mass producing nuclear warheads and ballistic meanwhile, kim made an apparent peace overture towards south korea, saying he might send a delegation to next month's winter olympics in pyeongchang. south korean president moon jae-in welcomed the overture, say

but this is a whole new level of trump tweeting about north korea. what do you think the reaction is tonight in north korea? >> well, the north koreans are always asking me to try to decode president trump. they don't understand him. and i think that will add to the bafflement. look, there are plenty of things that could go wrong in 2018. but thing is pretty broad agreement among international relations specialists that the single thing that could be most disastrous would be a war with north korea. and in that context, it's incumbent on both north korea and the u.s. to try to ease tensions, to bring them down. and tweets like this essentially pour gasoline on that blaze. president trump is goading kim jong un to test a nuclear missile again, to prove its reliability to show him wrong. and fundamentally, i think it comes across as two kindergartners who are jostling each other, except that each has nuclear weapons. >> and ezra, i just want to go to you on north korea. we're going to talk about it more later in the program. but one more point on. this k

president trump tweets, jake tapper of fake news cnn got destroyed in his interview with steven millerthe trump administration. mo elleithee what he just -- mo: what he just guaranteed is a re-airing of that interview. there was a clip at the end where capper was trying to ask admiral several questions and all miller would do is lavish the president with he fusive personal praise where tapper said you are only speaking to an audience of one right now and the president verified that with his tweets. howie: there is a white house campaign to hit began noon, hit the wolft book. up a -- the wolff book. up ahead, anthony scaramucci. it's the phillips' lady! anyone ever have occasional constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloating? she does. she does. help defend against those digestive issues. take phillips' colon health probiotic caps daily with three types of good bacteria. 400 likes? wow! try phillips' colon health. mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. but after an electrical fire from faulty wiring, mary's vintage clothing and designer shoe collection were ruined. luckily, th

trump was criticized by iran's president. matt bradley has more on this new wave of protests. >> reporter: in iran, the regime strikes back. after four days of protests and tweets from president trump supporting protesters for finally getting wise, ha saunl rouhani took a swipe rat preside -- at the president. two protesters were killed at a rally last night, officials blaming the deaths on foreign agents. today a fin official warned that they will pay the price. today they are confronting protesters in the street, organizing pro-government counter protests and shutting down instagram and telegram. experts say president trump's tweets won't help iranians. >> his action in terms of travel bans, visa bans, the nasty things he has said about iranians have not promoted goodwill. >> reporter: this has taken on a life of its own. what started as a burst of anger against prices and unemployment has risen. the largest since 2009. some have protested against rouhani. matt bradley, nbc news. >>> president trump is in florida on this new year's eve. and it today on twitter he gave himself high marks. but there are plenty of challenges ahead. kelly o'donnell joins us. let'

harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trump's tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converged for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically enough it seems to have united the country's warring factions for example imran khan chairman of pakistan's they have akin soft party had a pretty interesting reaction calling truck mentally weak now the u.s. has even placed pakistan on a special watch list for allegedly violating religious freedom but with all that being said the war in afghanistan is far from over and the u.s. has already lost thousands of lives and spent trillions of dollars but without its neighbor support it's unclear how far the u.s. can really go. davies a journalist and author believes that washington's move might have a different effect then the one intended. in the past when the u.s. has pressured pakistan to drive militants out of its so-called safe havens. this is not necessarily w

president trump quickly took credit, tweeting -- "since taking office i have been very strict on commercialaviation. good news." trump's boast prompteded astront mark kelly, the brother-in-law of former congressmember gabby giffords, to respond on twitter -- "if you're going to take credit for zero airline deaths in 2017 then you should take responsibility for the tens of thousands of gun deaths, too. #lawsmatter" mark kelly tweeted. and in iceland, a new law that took effect with the new year will see companies that fail to ensure equal pay among male and female employees subjected to heavy fines. the icelandic women's rights association says the pay equity law is the world's first of its kind. under the law, companies employing 25 or more workers will have to prove to the government that they're paying men and women equal salaries or face penalties. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we

kirk also accused trump supporters of booing astro snawt john glenn at a rally. here is his tweet. fake news, curt. trump supporters weren't booing glenn, but booing protesters who were heckling the president. curt was forced to remove the tweet before it had already been reposted. he then went with viral after he claimed donald trump was institutionalized in a looney bin years ago without any proof. tucker carlson challenged him to back it up and he couldn't. you said he was in a mental hospital in 1990. >> if you don't like the answer don't have guests. >> it's a simple question. was he in a mental hospital like you claimed or wasn't he. would you like me to answer the quellet me know. if not, say so. you are trying to stop me from giving the answer. jesse: that actually went on for nine minutes. this so-called journalist crossed so many lines this year, it's so hard to count. but here are two very egregious examples again, i rarely curse on this feed. but kellyanne conway telling critics to be careful with what they say. f you, kelly, this is america. nobody tell me how to feel.

now, the next line in trump's tweet was interesting because it makes trump's foreign policy on jerusalem a bit unclear. he said jerusalem is no longer on the table. that contradicts what he said a month ago when he said jerusalem recognition as the capital of israel does not contest borders. so as with so much of the trump peace plan or whatever plan trump is working on, this point remains unclear. it's worth pointing out that israel just enacted a law yesterday that makes it harder for israel to negotiate jerusalem. it tightens israel's grip on the city by requiring an even larger majority before seating or giving up any of the holy city before a foreign entity. dave, as for where trump's peace plan stands it looks more remote than it did just a few weeks ago. >> that's why jerusalem could have been part of the peace process, not preceding it. >>> all right. president trump's new year twitter feed also focused state side, again targeting his own justice department. the president going after former hillary clinton aide abdean saying the quote, deep state justice department must finally a

. >> reporter: president trump got the word out more than 2400 times during his first year in office. his tweetstalking points to his supporters and heartburn to his critics. >> look up at real donald trump. all right his tweets give us in the media a lot to talk about. >> this just in, the tweeter in chief has fired off a new one. >> reporter: it's a real time sense of what the president cares about, what he's doing and what he's watching. >> he sort of live tweets the morning shows. >> reporter: or what he wants all of us to focus on. >> he is in in a twitter storm again! >> reporter: are his tweets distractions? maybe sometimes. but his words carry power and shape policy. his use of social media is taking the presidency to a new more divisive place. trump reacts to perceived slights in real time, targeting other world leaders like british prime minister theresa may and his on own cabinet members like rex tillerson and jeff sessions. including the mayor of san juan, nicknames abound. on the left, there is dicky durbin, sneaky dianne feinstein, crying smoochuck schumer. on the right, little bob

trump locked the competence and stability to be president, well, it's now a topic that donald trump tweets about. the stakes higher than ever for his presidency with nbc news reporting today that initial talks are under way about a trump interview with special counsel bob mueller as part of his inquiry into whether trump's campaign colluded with russia. against that backdrop, trump spent the weekend firing off missiles like this one. now that russian collusion after one year of intense study has proven to be a total hoax on the american public, the democrats and their lapdogs, the fake news mainstream media, are taking out the old ronald reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence. ronald reagan disclosed in 1994 that he had been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. trump tweeted about reagan a second time over the weekend writing, quote, i've had to put up with the fake news from the first day i announced that i would be running for president. now i have to put up with the fake book written by a totally discredited author. ronald reagan had the same problem and handled

president donald trump has tweeted saying a new book about him as full of lies fire and fury and the white house paints a highly critical picture of the administration the author michael also suggests that trump was mentally unfit for the job of. being released ahead of schedule a white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders has spoken out against the. it's described as four and laughable if you was unfit he probably wouldn't be sitting there wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the republican party has ever seen. north korea has accepted the south proposal for high level talks on tuesday discussions will focus on pyongyang's participation in next month's went to an impact from the south the announcement came after the us said it's agreed to delay annual joint military exercises with south korea until after the games. perot's former president alberto fujimori has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president. on health grounds triggering days of protests for joy was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights

president trump is tweeting his support for the iranian people quoting, it's time for change in iran. now the iranian leader is blaming the uprising on his enemies. >>> infrastructure bill, plan for the nation's d.r.e.a.m.ers that needs to be hammered out by congress. cnn covering every angle of this, starting with joe johns live at the white house this morning. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, john. the president back here at the white house after the long holiday break. his administration and congressional leaders now confronting many of the domestic issues they had to postpone in order to hit the road in december. however, it is the international issues that have been dominating the president's twitter feed so far this year. president trump returning to washington with a large legislative to do list and a range of international issues on his plate. >> everybody is going to love what's happening with our country. we're taking this big, beautiful ship and we're slowly turning it around. i would like to do it faster. >> reporter: mr. trump weighing in multiple times over

i understand people's apprehension about president trump's tweets. president trump can communicate that we are not bluffing and we will use military force to eliminate their nuclear program if north korea doesn't do that on its own. that gives us credibility. >> harris: is it important for us to acknowledge that the president might know more about the situations with north korea. we are not privy to the intel, he sees every day. >> that's right. hours before he made headlines, he tweeted something else and said perhaps, the pressure campaign was working and alluded to the fact that north korea was willing to talk with south korea and hours later. a tweet on a heated tweet. our surveillance is very good and we know that the intelligence community is watching what the north koreans are doing. the president has multiple audience. one is china and one north korea. >> harris: we love free speech. critics are saying that national security situation about the president trump's tweets making him the real nuclear threat and you say that is preposterous and als

another trump tweet.his one came on monday and said the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as fools. they have given a safe haven to terrorists. we hunted afghanistan with little help. no more. the administration announced it was withholding almost all security aid to the nuclear tip nation. will that stop pakistan from offering terrorists safe haven? joining me are jane, richard and dan. dan, you had to deal with this even in the iraq situation. pakistan seems to be a problem with no solution. you give them money, they help jihadis. you don't, they help jihaddies. >> they not only continue to help jihadtys but start moving to china and you lose less influence inside the country in dealing with the government. there's a rational for doing what the administration has done and the rationale is always obvious. i feel like in this moment i spoke to someone from the white house

so trump's north korea tweet got all the attention. but it was only one, one part of yesterday's foreign diplomacy roast. >> president trump calling out a lot of fore ennations by way of twitter over the last 24 hours. most recently threatening to cult off financial aid to the palestinian authority tweeting this. >> we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars a year and get no appreciation or respect. they don't even want to negotiate a long overdue peace trety with israel. we have taken injury us lum, the toughest part of the negotiation off the table. >> trevor: again, the appropriate place to tackle one of the toughest geo political problems in history is not on the twitter. and this one doesn't even make sense. like you listen what trump tweeted. he says he thinks palestinians should be happier to negotiate now that he has taken jerusalem off the table. jerusalem was one of the main things that they wanted to negotiate for. like this reminded me of another story from the holy land. remember king solomon and the baby, yes

president trump tweeting this morning, iran is failing at every level. despite the terrible deal made with them by the obama administration. the great iranian people have been oppressed for many years. they're hungry for food and for freedom. along with human rights, time for change. iran's president acknowledging the tweet and fledgling economy. kim jong-un ups the ante on his nuclear threat, claiming he has, quote, a nuclear button on his desk at the same time kim is making overtures to south korea, including a delegation to south korea for the winter olympics. kelly cobiella is in seoul and ali is in iran for us. kelly, i'll start with you. what's been the reaction so far to kim jong-un's remarks? >> reporter: officials expected kim jong-un to come out in his annual new dear's day speech saying his country was nuclear capable. they have a working nuclear arsenal. south korean military officials sort of questioned that claim. they say there's no proof the north koreans have perfected that. that said, most experts do agree after that launch in late nove

first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate, unhelpful. >> trump tweeted a possible deal onhe dreamers was quote a big step backwards but pairs that bipartisan group of congressional leaders will keep working on a deal. kenneth moton, abc news washington. >> a swimmer bitten by a sea lion in the waters off san francisco's aquatic park yesterday says it was not her first run-in with one. iran chan swims daily in bait. she said her first brush was three months ago when one bumped her. but yesterday a sea lion attacked her, biting her on the knee. chan is okay but is wondering why she became a target. >> i can't eanimal. this one become so mean to me. >> several sea lion attacks happened in the last few months. the park service said the swimmer should go into large groups and stay closer to shore. chan says she plans to swim again as early as next week. >> the world's biggest wave surf contest could return on tuesday. the world's surfing league announced today that conditions are looking perfect and an official announcement would come tomorrow. organizers briefly considered mon