host: in fact, let me share with you the tweet, the most recent tweet from the president, wow, @foxnews just reporting big news, source the official behind unmasking is high up, known intel official is responsible. some unmasked not associated with russia. trump team spied on before he was nominated, if this is true, does not get much bigger, would e sad for the united states. >> guest: yeah, and the president says this is big news. i have to say, it's a little hard to know if that's true. this fox news report cites one congressional source familiar with the investigation who says that devin nunes, the house intelligence committee chairman, knows who the official was responsible for the unmasking. i think we have to back up a few steps. first of all, there's nothing necessarily improper with the unmasking of president trump or a transition official. there are any number of contexts in which that's completely appropriate. one says if it's just information that anyone would know by reading the newspapers anyway, those names don't have to be minimized. and also, it's important -- i can und

host: in fact, let me share with you the tweet, the most recent tweet from the president, wow, @foxnews just reporting big news, source the official behind unmasking is high up, known intel official is responsible. some unmasked not associated with russia. trump team spied on before he was nominated, if this is true, does not get much bigger, would e sad for the united states. >> guest: yeah, and the president says this is big news. i have to say, it's a little hard to know if that's true. this fox news report cites one congressional source familiar with the investigation who says that devin nunes, the house intelligence committee chairman, knows who the official was responsible for the unmasking. i think we have to back up a few steps. first of all, there's nothing necessarily improper with the unmasking of president trump or a transition official. there are any number of contexts in which that's completely appropriate. one says if it's just information that anyone would know by reading the newspapers anyway, those names don't have to be minimized. and also, it's important -- i can und

time for my most tremendous tweet-storm yet. okay, here we go. huge tweet. this is going to be a sweet tweet. here it comes! ah, i can't get my tweet up! tweet-us interrupt-us, what am i going to do? >> donald! donald! ( laughter ) >> president nixon! i'm so happy you're here, tricky, i'm starting to get real scared. >> there's no reason to be scared, donny! you just have to flip the script. for instance, i heard that president obama tapped your phones. ( laughter ) just tweet that and the hounds are off your trail! >> obama! i knew he was up to no good. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the big sacred election process? this is nixon/watergate. bad (or sick) guy. and... boom goes the tweet- amite! >> donald, stop! >> abraham lincoln? >> don't listen to nixon! he was the one who tapped the phones in watergate. >> shut up, abe! don't you have tickets to the theater tonight you stupid neckbeard? >> too soon! donald, nixon had to resign for lying. >> oh, damn it! president lincoln is right. donald, you don't want to end up like me. to para

tweeting all day long on saturday. starting in the morning around 8:43 when he tweeted quote, when will sleepy eyes chuck todd and nbc news start with surveillance scandal and stop with fake russia story. 20 minutes later adding it is the same fake news that said no victory for trump now pushing the phony story. around noon starting tweeting parts of a column saying the failing "new york times" getting it. good things will happen. with republicans or dems. >> throughout the afternoon and evening tweeted praising fox news. wow, fox news just reporting big news. known intel. then more around 6:21 p.m. tweeting thanks for a fox segment about consumer confidence. nbc political director chuck todd responded writing for those wondering, i slept well, even though i stayed up watching the upset of u konconn. >> i don't regret anything. nothing you can do about it. every once in a a while you learn it's not so bad. commented this weekend on whether the president's unfiltered comments on social media is having an impact on forei

host: let me share with you the tweet from the president. @foxnews is unmasking biz reporting big news. source, official behind unmasking is high up. notn intel official associate with russia. trump team spied on before he was nominated. if this is true, it does not get much bigger. would be sad for u.s." guest: this foxnews report cites one congressional source familiar with the investigation, who says that devin nunes, chairman of the house intelligence committee, knows who the official was responsible for the unmasking. i think we have to back up a few steps. first of all, there is nothing necessarily improper with the unmasking of names of president trump or transition officials. number of contexts in which that would be completely appropriate. the guidelines on unmasking say if it is publicly available information, just information that anyone would know by reading a newspaper, those names don't have to be minimized. also, it could be important for intelligence officials to know what efforts that foreign nationals were making, what they

>> the tweeting? >> maybe -- >> it started saturday morning around 8:43. >> i always tell you -- >> i was playing your straight guy. >> i always tell you saturdays are going to be excited. 8:43 tweeted when will sleepy eyes chuck todd and nbc news start talking about the obama surveillance scandal. >> can i stop you here? i never got that sleepy eyes chuck todd thing. do you make fun of chuck todd. >> his goatee. >> i'm used to his goatee now. >> his eyes are awake. >> who has really sleepy eyes? >> huckelberry hound. >> there's sleepy eyes. but not chuck todd. why are you saying sleepy eyes chuck todd. if you're going to insult somebody, make it work. >> like paul manafort. >> little chucky todd. >> little miller, tiny dictator. >> okay. about 20 minutes later adding same fake news media that said there's no path to victory to trump now pushing a phony russia story, a total scam. >> and around noon he started tweeting parts of a column about health care writing, the failing "new york times" finally g

he just has to stop tweeting.specially incessantly, compulsively, he has done himself so much damage through this. you know, donald trump has buy mara lago and it is so easy to win over a congressman. you just bring them to do nine or 18 holes, have them sit at the terrace and talk about policy. they go back and say that the president asked my point of view, it is so much better than insulting people in tweets. calling us "fake media," making fun of chuck todd's sleepy eyes, yes, it is funny, but look at his popularity. it is really hurting him. look at obamacare, the effort to get rid of it. it is hurting him. and eventually somebody needs to take that blackberry or whatever he is using out of his hands. >> jon: you said that it is not helping him with his base, but doesn't his base agree with him on much of what he tweets out? >> it does. and i think that the base agrees with him, but in the fight that we just had over the health care reform bill, the base was really not able to rally support. any of the members

in the last hour rachel read you tweet upon tweet upon tweet from donald trump saying do not go into syria. do not go into syria. of course the president was prepared to use force in syria. it was congress that refused to authorize it. but president had plenty of free time on his hands today to actually speak about syria, say something, or even tweet about it, but this is what he was doing instead. >> they would say, there's no way to 270. but there was a way to 306. but wasn't that an exciting one. huge disadvantage electoral college, very tough. they say almost impossible for republican to win. >> here is what candidate trump said about containing north korea's nuclear ambitions. >> you look at north korea, we're doing nothing there. china should solve that problem for us. china should go into north korea. china is totally powerful as it relates to north korea. when they made that horrible deal with iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to north korea. >> of course, he'll be saying all that this weekend in his summit with chinese president. a

she tweets in, last week she tweeted twice and it was repeated on this program. she called once and got through. on then steve took her sunday. pedro cooker yesterday -- pedro took her yesterday. oates ands carol she tweets in and you pass it right on through. fromss she is the replacer down south someplace. host: you mean we show her tweets on the air? caller: she tweets on the air and you read it. every morning. now, sunday it was read by steve. i think pedro was on yesterday and he read it and you read her tweets on the air twice last week and then she got through on the phone. again, i'mr name up going to pull what little hair i've got out of my head. host: we will try to be mindful of that, tom. we use twitter and the phones. people write in with their comments or tweets every day. it is used to propel the conversation forward. we will be mindful of the particular individual. in oklahoma, go ahead. caller: one of your colors a while back mentioned the bretton woods accord. as i understand as part of that accord, it left the dollar be the standard of exchange

hours ago the president fired off dramatic new tweets on surveillance and his presidential tweet once again. the source of cable news, fox news in this case, and he's quoting a report that cnn is not verifying. he also suggested that he may just work with democrats on health care. i want to bring in cnn's ryan noble at the white house. we begin with the russia investigation, the latest there. what are you hearing about this meeting apparently last night between the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, and the president himself? >> reporter: this is a pretty significant development, ana. adam schiff is very critical of the way the chairman of the house intel committee devin nunes conducted after he received this new information that backed up donald trump's claim from a couple weeks ago on twitter that he was under surveillance by the prior administration. well, schiff came here to the white house grounds friday night and was told that he reviewed the same exact material that nunes did. he seems to have a different impression of that material than nunes has.

you have to think before you tweet. >> the more he tweets the more he gets in trouble.ot into legal trouble. on the executive order travel ban they cite some of his tweets. he's going after the freesm caucus. dagen: the tweet about hillary is one of the latest in a long line of opinionated tweets from donald trump. in a recent interview he asked if he regrets any of his with treats and he said the following. he said i don't regret anything because there is nothing you can do by the. if you issue hundreds of tweets and every once in a while you have a clinker, that's not so bad. he got elected because of twitter. >> this is lining the new administration. you can't because it on let's look what obama did or let's go back to clinton. this is how he got elected. this is why he got elected. we want to continue seeing this. he's throwing fire balls all the time. >> if it works. if you are waking up in the morning as a citizen of the united states and saying, worried about the powers this man wields. would you not react to that tweet. but the thing is, most people con seusm po

it's time to talk about the tweet.ers and applause ) yeah, yeah, yeah. >> we started with 64 trump's most trumpy tweets, and over the past three weeks, over six million votes were cast. >> and the winner for third-month mania... >> the greatest trump tweet of alm time as chosen by the viewers is... >> "are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?" >> amazing. wow! >> wow. >> nobody said we could do it. we did it. >> started from the bottom and now it's here. it may not be the meanest or the most racist. >> but it is the one tweet we will get the answer to in the next four years? >> yes. >> what a wonderful tournament, bro. good times. >> guys, we haven't announced this before, this is new-- the winning tweet is also being presented this check for $1 million! >> unbelievable. >> do you guys believe it. >> a million dollars. >> trevor: whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait. i'm confused. who are you giving a million dollars to. >> pay attention man, the money goes want to tweet. >> trevor: but who actually

tweets, but 8:00 a.m.weets, a series of them from president trump talking about an appearance on "face the nation" this morning, reviewing the excitement he felt at last night's rally and hitting democrats for being obstructionists, as he claims, and talking about obamacare. a series of tweets from the president this morning. interesting, tom, he told an interviewer and that rally crowd that maybe next year he will attend that dinner. we will see if the president's mind is changed. the idea is to celebrate journalism, give scholarships to up and coming journalists and have a pleasant evening in washington in what is often a tough town. he skipped this year. >> the star last night was manaj. >> he pobed fun as all of us, too, right? >> there was nobody safe in that room. it wasn't just the oval office. kelly, thank you very much. joining me now, gabrielle, political reporter for u.s. news and world report and molly, reporter for the hill. great to have you with me. it was a great night. i'm very tired today

it's a whole new level that he's tweeting at 6:00 a.m., he's tweeting at 11:00 a.m. and we are often reporting outour stories overnight. literally, until midnight, 1:00 a.m. in the morning. you always have to be prepared when you're walking around that white house. honestly, he sometimes invites reporters into the oval office. i was invited invited into an impromptu meeting with him and you have to be on your toes to make sure you're getting the best information, pushing the headline forward. >> i mentioned some of that back and forth. jim, has that involved since those first exchange ? >> i have not been invited into any private meetings at the white house. perhaps you can figure that out. [laughter] we had that news conference where we had that back and forth which by the way back in january was only the news conference during the transition. the president-elect only had one news conference on january 11. nine years later during the inauguration i was positioned on the north lawn right in the middle of the white house and they walked past me and i threw a question

live by the tweet, die by the tweet. he has not died yet. , io wonder at some point would love to talk to him at the end of his administration, what he thinks about these tweets. honestly, they have gotten him in so much trouble. this issue of tweeting at -- that president obama wiretapped him, going back to watching spicer, one of the most excruciating things we have had to watch over the last couple of weeks is the white house trying to explain and justify the president's tweet, which is a misstatement of the facts that president obama did not wiretap trump tower. he says, we are talking about surveillance, it is a surveillance thing. cnn is reporting that by talking to folks on both sides of the aisle and the intelligence communities and their staffers that no, the intelligence tells us at this point there was not even any unlawful surveillance going on and that susan rice did not do anything wrong, or conduct yourself in an unlawful way. these verbal gymnastics, i can understand why yesterday happened. the exhaustion

he responded of a tweet of his own. he used the new term called "trump establishment" to describe the way the trump administration conduct themselves. it is important to point out that amash has never been a trump's supporter. he was a ted cruz's supporter and publicly stated that he was not going to vote for donald trump. this is someone that's not venturing out too far. it shows us how divisive things are in washington. we don't know where his partners are. >> we shall see ryan nobles. david, yesterday and last night we know the ranking members of the house adam schiff went to the white house where he saw the documents that were also, the documents in nunes, he had taken to the white house before briefing members of his committee. after the meeing he put out a statement saying yes, they were the same documents and washe wa able to verify that. we learned that he met the president himself while he was there. >> what's your take on these new development sns. >> i did not know he met with the president. he was not fully

i hope he does tweet about it.think the administration needs a plan to rally our allies together. grounding as much as the assad air force as possible. punishing strikes to make it clear that the cost offer using chemical weapons far exceeds any perceived benefit because it is going to cost you buildings and tanks and assets. that is the beginning of using the military instrument of power to back the diplomatic instrument of power. we have to quit pretending this is going to burn itself out. it isn't. this is an apartment on fire. it is not a house on fire in an isolated neighborhood. >> thanks so much for being on new day. >> thanks for talking about this important subject. >> a lot of this comes down to messages and from the white house we seem to be getting mixed messages. the white house says the clock has run out on north korea, while the president's top diplomat issues a nonstatement. are they on the same page on syria's assad? you saw one part of the party's perspective. that's different than what's coming o

david has this tweet, send us a tweet at c-span the bj. "moving the goalposts as he cannot score victories within his own target." this is a tweet from the president late last week. the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, it has been a lot including sc, the media will kill." that is a reference to the supreme court and the nomination, neil gorsuch. from philadelphia, milton is joining us on the democrats line. is it a fair measure, the first 100 days? caller: thanks for taking my call and good morning. yes it is. said "the first thing, i will get all of these things done." then he said during the swamp. but he put billionaires and people tied to wall street. he is hypocritical. everything on president obama and takes no responsibility for his actions. he hasn't gotten anything done except trying executive orders but the republicans have any excuse to excuse this guy. i'm getting sick and tired. in there almost 100 days and what have you done? nothing. thank you. host: thank you. more tweets from bc bennetts, saying "100 days was his

he you this would happen because years ago he tweeted this. >> trevor: he tweeted can you believe withs and difficulties facing the u.s. president, obama spent the day playing golf -- wow! i get it! he tweets that the president shouldn't play golf and now all he does is play the golf! >> you can't do the accent! only i can do the accent! >> trevor: oh. >> i do the accent! >> trevor: is that for jamaicans? >> for fortune tellers. aim professional. you want to do the accent, you do a ball and globe, you go rent one off ebay. ( laughter ) now, where was i -- (jamaican accent) yes, mon, the tweets, the system is perfect. look upon syria. past trump say what now trump do! >> trevor: oh, trump said do not attack syria, if you do, many very bad things will happen! >> mmm, african boy. what trump do now with syria? boom drop a bomb! boom drop a bomb! boom boom boom boom! >> trevor: roy, roy, i get it, man. i get it, roy. >> stop calling me roy! ( laughter ) i'm sir ahnrop! >> trevor: sir ahnrop? is that like saran wrap? >> it was in the kitchen when i was thinking about this. it was either tha

each and every trump tweet goes up in smoke, with a message to @realdonaldtrump, i burned your tweet.empty the ashtray? >> about once a day. >> reporter: daniel says he's giving trump's tweets the attention they deserve. he found himself annoyed by them, to him the burning is cathartic. he specializes in making goldburg like gizmos that solve problems in difficult ways. like this oreo separating machine, that separates the cream from the cookie, or the bottle cap remove activated by opening the refrigerator door, or the mannequin. where do you keep a tweet burning robot. it's got to be someplace low on the flamability scale. >> it's in the bathtub. >> reporter: and while trump rails against the failing "new york times," the tweet burner itself sometimes fails, missing the ashtray or burning its own arm, it's cheap toy shop lighter failed to light. he then gives the command to burn, rub-a-dub-dub, presidential tweets burned in the tub. when the president tweeted about a witch hunt, little did he know his tweet would end up burned at the stake. jeanne mos, cnn, new york. >> look at the

his counsel had this very interesting tweet. back in november tweeted the following. a prediction. donald trump will make novel and unusual use of the president's pardon power, an underutilized tool of political power. that may mean nothing at all. but what do you see in this very preemptive request for immunity from michael flynn? >> well, look, it's really hard to say at this point. because michael flynn has potential exposure on multiple grounds. many of which are not directly related to the central focus of this investigation. his work for turkey, which he retroactively registers with the justice department only in march for work he was getting paid half a million dollars with starting in august. you know, there are potential foreign agent registration act issues there. there is the whole question of the money he had gotten from rt and russia when he went to moscow. did he disclose all that? did he disclose it as part of his security clearance form? we don't know whether this request for immunity is because he is concerned about something involving his conversations with kislya

his counsel had this very interesting tweet. back in november tweeted the following. a prediction. donald trump will make novel and unusual use of the president's pardon power, an underutilized tool of political power. that may mean nothing at all. but what do you see in this very preemptive request for immunity from michael flynn? >> well, look, it's really hard to say at this point. because michael flynn has potential exposure on multiple grounds. many of which are not directly related to the central focus of this investigation. his work for turkey, which he retroactively registers with the justice department only in march for work he was getting paid half a million dollars with starting in august. you know, there are potential foreign agent registration act issues there. there is the whole question of the money he had gotten from rt and russia when he went to moscow. did he disclose all that? did he disclose it as part of his security clearance form? we don't know whether this request for immunity is because he is concerned about something involving his conversations with kislya

the president tweeting again. the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and the dems in 2018. it's hard for the press to hold back when the press uses that language. >> the president's tweet tally. he tweeted he thought it was direct for mike flynn to ask for immunity. this fuels the story. the whole thing is this morning the tweets that you read over the weekend as well as the tweets during the week. the president is playing a major media role. he just has a more direct connection. according to polls most people think he should stop. howie: going after the freedom caucus the press is full of republican civil war. is the president too quick to call this a republican civil war or is this too bloody? >> you just put the tweet up there. his social media director came after a specific member from michigan saying let's primary him. another guy from idaho came to his defense tweeting back at the white house. i think the media loves to stoke the e

this morning rage tweeting. he is now accusing president barack obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. >> there was no such wiretap activity. >> will the president apologize to president obama? >> let's not get ahead of ourselves. >> i have no information tha >> it raise as profound question why they were not directly provided to the white house. >> michael flynn is asking for immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony in the russia-trump scandal. >> this morning tweeted mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is the a witch-hunt. >> is the white house concerned that general flynn has damaging information about what occurred during the campaign a with respect to russia? >> nope. >>> no. we'll see. >> good evening. >> good evening. i'm joy reid in for lawrence o'donnell. welcome the our special edition of "the last word." march madness, the month it was. a new poll today found literally 1/3 americans give donald j. trump an f for his performance in office in the first 71 days. m

about an empty joke book, tweeting about the media and he is tweeting about the electoral college. mean, what else can you say or do that would suggest this is an unorthodox potcy presidency toe least. >> when it comes to transparentally what is your take on the who cares, taxes or the white house. i get the hypocrisy. i get it. >> yes. >> anybody who googles the situation will be smacked in the face by hypocrisy. does it matter and if so to whom. >> if you mean will it move a lot of votes or opinions about him, no. go ask the person if they know white house visitor logs exist and they'll tell you no. the one thing that bothers me in one of trump's tweets yesterday the idea because he won the election the tax returns don't matter. those two things are not the same thing and i think he just allies them on purpose for political gain. >> very pithy from our editor at large. >> really want that title don't you? >> i'll never get it, i'm not worthy but i love you have it, cillizza thank you for being with us. >> chris thank you. >>> what are the challenges of reporting when you go abroa

i would literally, you know, stop tweeting, you know, and start focusing. the words of a president matter. they have enormous, enormous, enormous reverberating sounds around the world. >> by the way, that's penn president amy gutman there. biden delivering those words of wisdom at the biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." house intelligence chair devin nunes repeatedly denied that his source for those intelligence reports on government surveillance of the trump transition team came from the white house. but reporting from "the new york times" and washington post has contradicted the chair's explanation and forced him to come clean. following president trump's tweet claiming he was wiretapped by president obama it now appears as nunes himself was chosen as the laundry service for the white house. this mickey mouse operation was the vehicle by which nunes was handed the job of getting rid of the dirty laundry. according to "the new york times," ezra cohen, the senior director for intelligence at

. >> and matt, you know the president was tweeting today, tweeted in one respect talking about, you know all of the investigation about russia and once again calling that fake news, he also tweeted today about healthcare. lets pull that up if we can. renewing his willingness to work with the democrats. he's saying the failing new york times finally gets it in places where no insurance companies offering plans and there is no way of obamacare partners to use subsidy and in other words, obamacare is dead and good thing wills happen and with republicans. another mixed message but also saying working with the democrats are going to be the way in which he helps to get there, matt. >> yeah, i am still skeptical of this. i really am. democrats have cast donald trump as someone who's a threat. the idea that you would help him out, even if it is something that liberals may otherwise liked, i just don't buy. i think their strategy is going to be obstruction and by the way, the notion that because of obamacare starts to fail that barack obama will be blamed or that and not donald trump. i think tha

time for my most tremendous tweet-storm yet. okay, here we go. huge tweet. this is going to be a sweet tweet. here it comes! ah, i can't get my tweet up! tweet-us interrupt-us, what am i going to do? >> donald! donald! ( laughter ) >> president nixon! i'm so happy you're here, tricky, i'm starting to get real scared. >> there's no reason to be scared, donny! you just have to flip the script. for instance, i heard that president obama tapped your

i look forward to those tweets so much.i think this is going to become a national fight because it's the only game in town. this is the race that everyone's focusing on. and to expand on a point that you made with dillen about taking all of his money from california and all these hollywood stars, this is a republican district in georgia. taking more money from jane fonda is not going to help you without the veterans unless they're part of the vietcong. >> we're not going to go there. >> let me just say just being antitrump is going to carry the democrats farer? and i'm not -- a lot of these democrats are not going to need a new vision except to be antitrump. let's remember he's about the least popular president a president has ever been at this stage. i think the democratic party is in pretty good shape. when we're talking about the house election next year, the enthusiasm is so high and the money is so enormous. look at how much the congressional hispanic caucus is raising. the democrats are in good shape just being antitr

if trump insists on tweeting on this -- look, i've defended his practice of tweeting, but i think this does not help this time. he's creating trouble for himself. tom: you're not the first person to say that, fred. >> i know that. tom: but i don't think he's listening to you because -- you know, he was a tool that helped him get elected. so i'm not sure he's willing to walk away from that very quickly. >> no. i'm sure he is not willing to walk away from it, and i don't blame him. look, adds some value to him. he can get through to 25 million people without the press interfering and interpreting his remarks and so on and so fourth. so it's worth it. i agree with mitch mcconnell. republican leader in the senate, what he says is he doesn't mind trump tweeting. it's what trump tweets that causes trouble. tom: yes, if he would just give time and temperature, it would help a little. listen, let's talk about the -- i don't know what you want to call it. but the fact that the president gave kudos -- he wasn't blaming paul ryan, he wasn't blaming the freedom caucus, he wasn't blaming anybody fo

trump initially came out with this angry tweet tweet said michael flynn should definitely testify and get immunity because this is a witch hunt. for the rest of that day on friday, trump not only was quiet about the issue but walked away every questions about it. i think he's not sure how to handle this specific issue. on the broader issue, as long assing this russia issue dominates the headlines in combination with the failure last week to repeal obamacare this administration is looking almost paralyzed. how do you push through tax reforms and go the your budget through and make sweeping is foreign policy if the dominant headline day in and day out is whether you're compromised or even worse by links with moscow. >> we know about flynn, we don't have the answer to the questions you poses. he called it a witch hunt and he seemed to get angry and walk off when someone tried to ask him more about it. but could it it be a witch hunt at had point? we really don't know the. >> look, it's an investigation. it is an investigation which has not reached any conclusions as you know the right no

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that's not the only tweet raising eyebrows today. he also suggested that he might work with democrats on health care. president trump wrote this, the failing new york times finally gets it. places where no insurance company offers plans. there will be no way for obamacare customers to use subsidies to buy health plans. in other words, ocare is dead. good thing. good things will happen, however, either with republicans or with dems. i want to bring in cnn's ryan nobles at the white house. ryan, what are you hearing now about another swing in the obamacare repeal and replace idea? >> reporter: it is interesting because we have been getting mixed signals about the white house about what the next big agenda item they take on will be. there's been some suggestion they will put the repeal and replacement of obamacare in the background and work on something like tax reform or perhaps infrastructure improvements. but it seems as though the president and the vice president are talking more and more in taking another crack at health care refor

live by the tweet, die by the tweet. he has not died yet. i do wonder at some point, i would love to talk to him at the end of his administration, what he thinks about these tweets. honestly, they have gotten him in so much trouble. this issue of tweeting at -- that president obama wiretapped him, going back to watching spicer, one of the most excruciating things we have had to watch over the last couple of weeks is the white house trying to explain and justify the president's tweet, which is a misstatement of the facts that president obama did not wiretap trump tower. he says, we are talking about surveillance, it is a surveillance thing. cnn is reporting that by talking to folks on both sides of the aisle and the intelligence communities and their staffers that no, the intelligence tells us at this point there was not even any unlawful surveillance going on and that susan rice did not do anything wrong, or conduct yourself in an unlawful way. these verbal gymnastics, i can understand why yesterday happened. the exhaustion, the level of exh

he tweeted then, obama should save his powder. do not attract syria. this one to veteran donald trump was a clear sign to donald trump that his supporters have lost faith in him. no more regime changes, no more american dead, more no nation building, it's what you wan on. some of donald trump's alt right base were selling the idea that the syrian chemical attack was a hoax. info wars began returns to the attack as a false flag, suggesting it was only meant to draw the united states into a war. the hash tag syria hopes was only an attempt to convince trump to stay out of syria. when he didn't, blogger mike cernovic stayed online for 11 hours, slamming trump's decision. >> i'm moving to argentina, if trump is going to bring us to war, then there's no hope for america. >> reporter: no hope for america or no hope for alt right trump supporters who may be wondering if their president is a dove or a hawk. >> randy joins us, was there any blow back from is some of these reporters turning around and saying these things online? >> reporter: there was, anderson,

["what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted." we mentioned our guest is the former human services deputy secretary. all this being said so far how is the president doing after 100 days? tevi: that's a great question and what's fascinating about this administration is that there are really two completely different narratives, both of which have some basis in fact and reality. so one narrative which i think you'll hear in most the newspapers, flipping through my "new york times" and "washington post" is it's a legislation in delay and they lost a number of high profile people like the national security advisor and the nominee as the labor secretary nominee is now the secretary so there have been a lot of problems and issues and some of the tweets were intemperate and caused issues like the one of president obama attacking his wires. that's narrative one. the second narrative you hear on the republican side and the conservative media is goat neil gorsuch confirmed, the second fastest confirmation of a supreme court justice in histor

tweet being judge gorsuch on this confirmation week. hillary clinton ever apologize for receiving the answers to the debate? just asking." >> i don't think that's going to come one xi jinping. >> i don't think so and i'm just asking how does that help one single american, doug, what do you make of it? >> i think it does help one single american, donald trump. he can steer the conversation to wherever he wants it to be, even if it doesn't necessarily make sense to you or i, and so we know if the meeting with china doesn't go well, we'll be talking about the latest thing that donald trump tweets, the latest outrage du jour and not focus on a meeting that didn't go well. if you look at the meeting with angela merkel the chancellor of germany, it didn't go well and what we saw from the white house was ttempts to distract and they're successful at those attempts to distract. >> prophylactic tweeting i which is what doug heye is saying. >> i did not use that word. >> i'll use it. david gergen, i want to talk about this week the importance of

"when i tweeted earlier that people shouldn't be surprised byjeremy corbyn‘s approach, as it was the as being pejorative and evidence of establishment sneering. i meant no such thing. my point was that the labour leader is doing what he has done for decades, and what brought him huge unexpected success in his party, so no—one should expect him now to change his approach. i, on the other hand, will read my tweets twice to check they don't read as if i mean something i never intended." meanwhile, the current bbc political editor, laura kuenssberg, also faced criticism after tweeting as follows on monday. "corbyn in scotland today, may not on the stump. seems tory strategy this morning to let labour stew in its own juice." hugh yeager was one of those objecting to that wording, commenting, "balanced reporters say theresa may hides while jeremy corbyn campaigns. laura kuenssberg's pro—conservative comments personify bias at bbc." so, is there a danger of tweets like this from bbcjournalists, with their requirement for brevity, infringing the corporation's guidelines on fairness and balan

is what set off an entire government looking for the evidence to support the tweet. and there has been nothing that i have seen or heard to suggest that this effort inside the white house to search through intelligence is anything other than that. kelly: perhaps the michael flynn quote that unsealed his conversations with the russian ambassador is a bit mixed in there as well. but you do get the sense that there is a search mission to find something that would support the tweet. robert: everyone wants to learn more about what general flynn has said. i love the line from the lawyer. he has a compelling story, quite the story to tell. we'll see if he's able to tell it. but the cloud of russian intrigue isn't the only thing distracting the white house. the failure of the g.o.p.'s replacement healthcare plan last friday has left the president frustrated especially with the house freedom caucus. he put them on notice as he does on twitter. trump wrote "the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda. if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and

he doesn't use his official title in the tweet. it's on his personal.also some guidance from the office of special counsel who is the agency responsible for enforcing this. in a frequently asked question publication, it says that the inclusion of an employee's official title will position on one social media profile is not enough. so, this is not even an official profile. this is a personal profile. >> eric: kellyanne conway got criticized for turning the white house into the home shopping network. shoes talk about ivanka's clothing line. it was literally of 52nd sound bite. people in crazy over it. it was really unnecessary. >> so what would be a hatch act violation against like to see it with us tweet? >> if it's done on the job of summit is being paid by the federal government there using their actual title in part? >> is a personal account. >> another controversy, the former national security advisor wants immunity. his lawyer sent the letter asking him to testify about russia and the presidential election. at least for now they have turn that reque

he tweeted this tonight. he said the following. north korea disrespected the wishes of china and its highly respected president when it launched though unsuccessfully, a missile today. bad. what is going on here. >> what is going on is you are seeing a president who is understanding foreign relations really for the first time. it's not something he understood in the diplomatic context. he's only seen them as business deals before. so he would threaten and bully people into getting to the points he wanted them to. he took a phone call with the head of taiwan, which sent china up into twitter. and after a meeting with china over chocolate cake. >> the most delicious chocolate cake. >> the most delicious. they explained north korea to him. thank god somebody got through about that. now you end up with a complete reversal where he is not going to take another call from the head of taiwan. this is not a president who has any strategic objectives other than well, i was in front of somebody who gave me information that i liked and i under

the president tweeted, put that up on the screen, he tweeted earlier this week on this issue and he saidate so that we can get started early mexico will be paying in some form for the badly needed border wall. i referenced at the outset, congressman barletta the introduction you made in legislation with regard to payment. i wonder by introducing that legislation aren't you in a way acknowledging that you don't think mexico is ever going to pay for that wall? >> no, actually mexico will be paying for the wall. $54 billion, michael, leaves the united states economy and goes to country south of the border. almost half of that goes to mexico. that's a pretty good deal. i was a mayor and, listen, if i could have money coming into our economy without providing any services for it, i don't know what country that wouldn't want that. so, no, they would be paying for it in the fact that all this revenue that would be pouring into their economy without providing services would dry up. >> congressman lou barletta, you are dismissed to head to snaps. thank you for being here. >> michael, i brought a

that a tweet from a white who is official is a tweet from a white house official.rthel: it appears it's a gorgeous day down there. what is president trump up to today? reporter: he's playing golf over at a trump international golf club in virginia. he's playing golf with two people central to the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. i'm talking about republican senator rand paul. he even hand out copies of the art of the deal to members of the house freedom caucus to give them a leg up during the negotiations, and he's playing golf with budget director mick mulvaney. i imagine healthcare and the second attempt to repeal and replace obamacare will come up on the golf course today. as you said, arthel, a pretty beautiful day to do it. eric: there are more developments in the growing investigation of russian influence in the presidential election. the reported ties with russian officials. there are payment from russian businesses to some, the speaking fees, and reported contacts with those in moscow during the presidential campaign. but our intelligence officials c

and another tweet from hamden, connecticut. good morning. welcome to the program.aller: how are you doing? happy easter. about ant to comment trump giving his first year salary to the national park service. he's also proposing millions of dollars to cuts there so to me seems kind of ridiculous. that's all i wanted to say. but you have a good day. host: thanks very much. jennifer is following the trump travels to mar-a-lago and reporting the motorcade went a different route. she tweeted out, we're wondering why the president's motorcade took a longer than usual route from yesterday to -- when he was playing golf to avoid the #taxmarch protesters. there were demonstrations in florida and california in washington, d.c. on tax day demanding donald trump release his own taxes. that tweet from jennifer epstein. stan is joining us from falls church, virginia. on the independent line. caller: i have a comment not only regarding his vacation which is profited. tomahawk nds 59 from northrup grumman. his stock reached the highest point, he and his family profiting from it. yo