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the president, the tweet, there's business to be done. >> lisa murkowski tweeting, "stop it, the presidential platform should be used for more than bringing people down." senator ben sass of nebraska, one of the first to come out strong, "please just stop. this isn't normal. and it's beneath the dignity of your office." others like senator susan collins and house speaker paul ryan criticizing the president for making a remark so ugly not long after saying everyone should be more kind and civil. >> the president did speak eloquently after the shooting of the congressman and others at the congressional baseball game. that's why i was particularly surprise surprised to see him revert to this kind of language. he clearly recognized that he has a role to play in uniting and healing the country. unfortunately, he threw some gasoline on the embers. >> youbl i don't see that as an -- obviously i don't see that as an appropriate comment. what we're trying to do around here is improve the tone, the civility of the debate. this obviously doesn't help do that. >> mika brzezinski herself told the presiden

not only sent a tweet, pu multiple tweets. a supporter of the president, but he's also a legal expert, especially on something like this. you could just see his frustration with the president and support for people in the justice department who are trying to make this case. the fact that he sent these tweets speaks volumes and speaks to what i was saying about the frustration among people who really like the president and want his policies to succeed, that he's undermining them with his tweets. >> when i saw that tweet, i thought, oh boy, i wonder if it the president will take it out on kellyanne conway. because it's not something that is making the president feel good. >> i'm a firm believer in there are a lot of power couples in washington. they should speak for themselves. but my guess is that the president will probably think the same since he saw the person who works for him on tv explaining and defending. we'll see. >> we will see. thank you all. more on the breaking news now. two of the attackers in london are identifie

his tweets represent what he is. i want to have brenda come up and say some more. >> i stand here today at this mic. i am sick and tired of the disrespect that is constantly being displayed from our president of the united states of america. as a democrat and as a woman, and as an african american in this great country that i love i want to fight for jobs, i want equality for women when it comes to equal pay, i want to be able to say that when a woman needs health care she can get it in america. my want my girls educated. i want a country that is reflective of one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. and this is not acceptable. you do not have the right because you have a twitter account to display behavior that i taught my son never to do. i've taught my son and i am respected on so many levels but from the oval office as a woman i am not getting respect. we are here to do the work. these are times when we go home to our constituents, they're not talking about your tweets. they're talking

focusing on and ongoing spat with the mayor of london, focusing on tweet after tweet after tweet aboutll be decided by the courts at this point, is getting in the way of the agenda, of the promises to the american people, like repealing and replacing obamacare? >> well, i think there's truth to that, that the media flurry over all these tweets is distracting a lot of people from pursuit of the things that we were elected to do, like get obamacare repealed and replaced and get tax reform in place. we continue to peel back regulations every day, and the press doesn't talk about the $6 billion of regulations that have been pulled back to help our economy. >> congressman francis rooney of florida, we do appreciate you being with us. i know you'll appreciate we have some breaking news out of paris. we want to give people an update on that. let's get right to melissa bell, who's got the latest details. melissa. melissa bell? melissa bell i'm not sure can hear us now. we're trying to get the latest on the police action outside of the notre dame cathedral, in the center of paris right now. mel

tweeting. who likes the president's tweeting? okay. do you like all of it? >> not all of it, no.ught in the weeds of things but i do like it. >> why? >> it's different. it's fresh. it's using the social media or any technology we have available to us to get right to the people. it's like fdr when he had fireside chats on the radio. obviously, it's not to that depth but it's refreshing to hear directly from him on a daily basis. i come out of the gym and at 6:00, he's tweeting right away. >> the white house says these are statements from the president, take them at face value. he's talked about being able to communicate directly through them. he is not sitting down for many interviews with journalists that are not from friendly networks, if you will. many objective journalists. does tweeting replace that adequately? >> i don't think 100% it replaces it adequately. to a certain extent, a lot of folks what are younger, they like hearing from him. they are on their phones or computer all day long. not many sit and watch television early. >> does he get in his own way with tweets, esp

it's in a tweet. >> another tweet now? this is crazy. >> has there been other to the word to of the consulate has there been official change in policy where vetting is concerned? >> well this is not the obama administration. we don't give away sensitive information, okay? that's up to leakers, that's up to people who thought that you can give away your game plan, like when we're going to attack isis in mosul. we don't do that. we take this stuff seriously. the procedures we are following are followed in the way the bad guys can't gain them. don't ask me to tell what you we're doing on television so the bad guys can game it. that is irresponsible, chris. >> giving information as the president to the russians though about intelligence, that was okay though, right? what's coming out of the white house on a regular basis? >> chris, you are obsessed. this is amazing. just amusing. let's talk about national security, not conspiracy theories. >> sebastian when the president tweets what he wants out of his executive order for trav

the tweets matter.st and unfiltered. >> they matter for a moment. >> i don't know what that means. i really don't. >> he can say that the travel ban is -- that he thinks that muslims should be banned. he could say that. >> it is what happened in policy. hold on a second. that's exactly what happened. and he says he doesn't like that he wants to go back to the original. >> it won't. >> how do i know? >> because the supreme court is seeing the second version, not the first version.

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there is the expectation that if he wants to tweet he is going to tweet. that shouldn't be surprising. it is what we have seen from the president virtually the entire administration. the president has long said he is his own best messenger on this kind of thing so it wouldn't be out of the realm of the ordinary to see the president do his own messaging. >> let's bring in jake sherman. the senate intelligence committee, do you have any idea what questions they will be asking and do we know if he is going to be producing those memos that he wrote about his conversations with the president, james comey? >> so the intelligence community is pretty tight lipped. we know he will be asked about them and will talk about them. i think this is going to be a very backward looki ing hearing they will try to talk about what happened in the conversations with the president perhaps, what happened during the 2016 election. this is political theater probably like we have never seen before on capitol hill. >> the chief investigative correspondent with yahoo news. we know tha

we just got a tweet, president is busy tweeting on the health care bill.t ideological am very supportive of the senate health care bill. look forward to making it really special. remember obamacare is dead. they have problems the republicans. they need 50 republicans. four republicans already saying the version as it stands now they won't support. >> obamacare is dead. long live obamacare. you have a bill right now where you have conservatives who are feeling like it is not doing enough to pull out root and branch repeal obamacare and on the other hand moderates who are worried about the 20 plus million people who are going to be kicked off of medicaid. the president by that tweet i think seeathize broad strokes that he has to get this at least through the senate and get to the conference committee stage or it will look like republicans cannot get this. >> the house version, senate version, future of medicaid. listen to what the president often said during the campaign. >> save medicare, medicaid and social security without cuts. >> i'm not going to cut me

few tweets this morning. jan writes it's hard to listen to caller refer to muslims as these people like we're heading towards jim crow 2.0. twitter is the way president defends himself against so called journalist. rick said, we witnessed such a poor behavior from the so called president of the united states. fred with the tweet this morning, there's a difference between policy change under law versus rejection on the basis of u.s. law. this morning we're talking about the president's responded to tweets. series of tweets about an hour ago. focusing on the travel ban. run through them for you again. the president saying people the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want. i'm calling it what we need and what it is a travel ban. the justice department should have stayed with the original travel ban. not the watered down politically correct version. the justice department should ask for expedited hearing and seek a much tougher version. we're extreme vetting comb oh people come -- coming in the uni

is tweets with this? ms. jackson lee: may i say to you, the president of the united tates, mr. trump, has violated any suggestion that he should be trusted with the oval office. we are members of the united states congress, men and women, who represent the people. the people seek not to have kings or queens, but they seek to have an office of the presidency that can be trusted. today, mr. trump, you have ceased to have the trust of the american people. when you begin to utilize again the diminishing of those who have mental health needs, sikecow, joe scarborough or low i. q. mika, and then you begin to talk about the private issues of women who have before in life have been discriminated against because they are women, blood is wherever, or your face bleeding, do you realize how workplacesshudder in of which we fight for equality, in schools, in their homes with the issue of domestic violence because they are not protected. and then our commander in chief seeks to take advantage of the position that he ho

the tweets matter. they are honest and unfiltered. >> they matter for a moment. >> i don't know what that means. i really don't. >> he can say that the travel ban is -- that he thinks that muslims should be banned. he could say that. >> it is what happened in policy. hold on a second. that's exactly what happened. and he says he doesn't like that he wants to go back to the original. >> it won't. >> how do i know? >> because the supreme court is seeing the second version, not the first version. for policy as it stands right now that tweet didn't matter. >> he also tweeted the doj should ask for an immediate hearing, which doesn't exist and then go back to the original. i don't know how you give him a discount on that. >> it is they matter for a moment and the -- >> they don't vap por rise. the president's words never vaper rise. whether it is any tweet that has gone out there, you can pull that up and you do and they don't vap rise as we saw in the courts. >> i don't remember something crazy he posted a

does his tweet this morning, his series of tweets, help to unify the country? >> again, kristen, i think i've asked -- this question has been asked and i've answered it several times. >> do his tweets help to unify the country, to do what he said he wanted to do in the wake of that shooting. >> i think the president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day after day. where is the outrage on that? you guys are constantly coming and asking, like, is this okay, he does it one time, this is day after day after day and it's not just the president. the only person that i see a war on is this president and everybody that works for him. >> sarah, two questions to follow up on that. one is that i understand your point but he is the president of the united states. they are cable news anchors so he has to stand to a higher standard. one. and two, you talk about criticism. he said that former president obama wasn't born in this country, right? so he clearly was a part of criticizing the past president who was not immune to criticism himself. so i wonder

they may be his most defensive tweets since taking office. the president tweeting early this morning and i'm quoting here, i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me. don't watch anymore. then how much low iq, along with psycho joe came to mar-a-lago three nights in a row and insisted in joining me. she was bleeding badly from a facelift. i said no. remember, the white house has repeatedly said that the president's tweets are the equivalent of presidential statements. republicans are calling for the leader of the free world to simply knock it off and act presidential. and, yet, the president spokesperson had one talking point about the mess. and she's sticking to it. >> and i think that the president has been attacked mercilessly on personal accounts by members on that program and i think he's been very clear that when he gets attacked he's going to hit back. i don't think it is a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire. everybody wants to make this an attack on a woman. what about the constant attacks that he receives or t

up his tweets. his supporters want action and believe these are obstacles. it's the media that is entertained by the tweets and move the ball forward and they press people like bob corker. that happens to be a strategic set back and he thought the same. it is a problem. >> they were talking about trying to mediate this when he was halfway around the world literally with jim mattis. the president cut him off at the knees. how does he mediate now? >> this is a problem that trump is out for trump. is not protecting his staff or the team. it's starting to show in big ways and small. it's thing to under cut staff. it's another thing if a mission is in peril. this is why we have learned in the last couple of days, the white house team and others have reported that the whole idea of a war room fell apart. how can you isolate and protect this guy and form a flank around it if he will say. >> the idea that russia is consuming him, was there a more loyal soldier to donald trump's campaign when nobody else too

or tweets. whooe here's what he posted -- "with all of the electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking, and illegal leaking of information, i have no idea whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make and do not have any such recordings." as i say, he said the other day we're going to be disappointed, the news media, when he tells us if there are recordings because we would have liked to have had those recordings, presumably. this is the president who raised this possibility, and it was seen initially as a threat to comey, you better shut up because there could be recordings. >> maybe that's what it was. i mean, you have to ask the question, why did the president tweet this in the first place? was it as a threat to comey, or maybe there's another possibility. does he believe he's actually being secretly recorded in his own white house? recorded by law enforcement? we don't know the answers to those questions. the third thing to think about he

a tweet away, donald trump.t. >> but, twitter can be a one-way conversation. the president doesn't have to answer reporters' questions on twitter. we've learned he's even blocked people on twitter who have been adversarial. do you ware though, if he's using twitter as his main form of communication, or desires to use it as main form of communication, that it might replace the traditional white house press briefing, for example? >> it's possible. if you'll notice, in the last few weeks the traditional white house press briefing has really, really been down played. sarah huckabee sanders, the deputy press secretary is doing some of them. sean spicer doing some of them. but many of them off camera. that said, the way in which they had evolved in which they really didn't answer any questions, they said, we can't answer that, the tweet speaks for itself, one of sean's favorite lines. at least we are getting insight. i take it to be insight and real -- a real way in to what donald trump is thinking. i will take it at

his tweets represent a weakness and crassness, but it's not just the tweets that we're worried about. his relentless mission to craft policies that fundamentally hurt women, like trumpcare gutting planned parenthood, increasing the number of uninsured women and children in this country. his tweet just represents what he is. and i want to have brenda come up and say some more. >> i stand here today at this mike. i am sick and tired of the disrespect that is constantly being displayed from our president of the united states of america. as a democrat and as a woman, and as an african american in this great country that i love, i want to fight for jobs, i want equality for women when it comes to equal pay. i want to be able to say that when a woman needs health care, she can get it in america. i want my girls educated, i want investment in education. i want a country that's reflective of one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. and this is not acceptable, mr. president. you do not have the right, because you have a twitter account, to display behavior that i tau

i wouldn't have tweeted what he tweeted this morning. it is not my style but i do think that he is responding to some very unsavory people that really have been saying some awful things and quite frankly, in some way, i do think that they do deserve it. trish: yeah, but, well, by the president of the united states? i mean, ford, where are the surrogates on this one, right? let them punch as hard as they want to punch, do you really want to muddy yourself in those waters? >> should absolutely be left to the surrogate. let's understand the point sarah sanders was making here. it is real point. the media wound itself. stop reporting the news. it has become full-time trump critics. when the president, talk about beneath digs nil of the president. they have to talk about the beneath of dignity of their own profession. they have contributed a lot to they choose not to focus on topics important to people, what they want to focus on. they're driving public opinion. i don't blame donald trump except this case for pushing back on them. because the

it wasn't worth the tweet. i think the president tweeted this and went right back to doing his job. i think some are over-exaggerating and over-playing how much influence this really had. saw something he didn't like, tweeted about it and moved on. should he have done it based on what's taken away from big things yesterday, no. not worth it. the travel ban, and that's the question he has to ask him before he tweets again. is this going to move my agenda forward or take away from big victories? >> was it below the dignity of the office, ben? >> listen, i said it earlier. i don't think the president should have tweeted this one out. it's a personal spat that's gotten very personal between people obviously he feels were two-faced. be clear, this morning she did say when they were in mar-a-lago they were trying to get an interview with him. i'm sure the president saying, let me get this straight. you're out there behind the scenes asking for an interview, trying to get me to come on your show and when i don't you go on tv and rip me? i can understand why the president would be upset abo

you can always tweet what's on your mind.you'd like to share use the #5@6:30 the tweets could under cut the administration's defense of the travel ban. which he insists it's a travel ban, which the press secretary say it's not. it goes back and forth. the president took aim at the justice department to review the water down measured kelly and conway's husband said the president t won't win. the potential problems it could cause. early this morning the president responded, yep, on twitter. he wrote the fake mainstream media is working so hard trying to get me not to use social media. they hate that i can get the honest and unfiltered message. >> for the record we don't think we hate that you're using it. we're just asking why you use it so much. it's content. if you don't give interviews this is how we get the mess aiblg from you. >> sean spicer told reporters the president is his own best spokesperson. >> the president is the most effective messenger on his agenda and i think his use of social media, he now last a collective

does his tweet this morning, his series of tweets, help to unify the country? >> again, i think i have had this question asked and answered several times. >> would it help to unify the kouchb try in the wake of what he wants to see happening. >> i think the president is pushing back against people that attack him day after day after day. where is the outrage on that. you are constantly coming and asking like is this okay? he does it -- this is day after day after day and it's not just the president. the only person that i see awar on is this president and everyone that works for him. >> two questions to follow up on that. i understand that he is the president of the united states, they are cable news anchors. he had to stand to a higher standard, one, and two you talk about criticism. he said that former president obama was not born in this country. he was clearly part of criticizing the past president who was not immune to criticism himself. how do you make that argument? >> i think i have been pretty clear when the president gets hit he hits back hard cher is

he tweeted about the president's tweets. >> these tweets may make some people feel better but they certainlyoffice of the solicitor general get five votes in scotus, which is what actually matters. sad. it th is amazing george conway doesn't tweet a lot. for him to criticize the president like this is amazing. >> not only is george conway a well respected attorney in his own right and under consideration for some top administration posts but his wife, kellyanne conway, is a top adviser to the president. many people looking at tweets interpreted this as a message from her as well to the president. now he tweeted later that you know, he was simply saying as a supporter of the president what he thought anyone with the president's best interest at heart would say, is that the president is undermining his own objectives, undermining the administration's objectives making it harder for his justice department to defend his executive order before the supreme court and really the question i think many of us are asking is why isn't trump getting advice from in-house counsel, and if he is getting the a

and that's how i read that original tweet. i do think that it really -- it has its place in in a courtroom. i'm not sure it has its place in a presidency because of the credibility issues. that's important for president trump as it is for any president to be believed when he speaks. at least on twitter, i don't think that's the case anymore. >> we have to take a quick break. we'll continue the conversation. also later, who benefits and who suffers in the newly unveiled senate obamacare replacement bill. reaction from the president a short time ago. bernie sanders joins us, as well as the congressman who supports the plan. mone hundredts thousand times a day, sending oxygen to my muscles. again! so i can lift even the most demanding weight. take care of all your most important parts with centrum. now verified non gmo and gluten free. asmy family tree,ing i discovered a woman named marianne gaspard... it was her french name. then she came to louisiana as a slave. i became curious where in africa she was from. so i took the ances

they make some people feel better he tweeted.ey certainly won't help the solicitor general get five votes in the supreme court, which is what actually matters. sad. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> let's get perspective from dana bash and david gergen. the idea that the american public should discount the president of the united states's own words shared directly on social media in favor of spin from his staffers making the morning show rounds seems ridiculous, particularly in light of the fact that for months they have been extolling the virtues of his direct access to the american people, extolling the virtue of his ability to tweet. >> absolutely. i don't know about you, but -- do you have the sense the president is becoming more irrational in his tweeting? sort of busting loose whenever he can? >> this was all about infrastructure and he is not tweeting about that. >> exactly. threatening his own case before the supreme court. that's perhaps the most serious part of this by the tweets on the travel ban. he is disagreeing

host: ben sass tweeting out this. this plan proposes a one-year delay after voting on repeal before it is effective. i want real repeal and real replace as we promised. guest: that would be different from -- that would change the game somewhat from what the president's tweet was this morning. host: getting to you sit here and putting you on the spot a little bit. reacting to tweets as they're happening here in real-time. is there an option c? i want to show our viewers here what senate minority leader chuck schumer had to say yesterday. >> let's start over. drop this fundamentally flawed approach, abandon cuts to medicaid, abandon tax breaks for the wealthy, and we can discuss the problems that are -- that americans are actually concerned about. the cost, quality and availability of health care. i suggested that president trump invite all senators to blair house to begin anew, on a bipartisan approach to health care. unfortunately the president said, i wasn't serious. mr. president, try me. the minute you make the inv

as the president fires off tweets about the middle east, his travel ban, terror and tweeting, the white house does a 180, now proclaiming that tweets are official statements even as the republicans claim that the tweets are stalling his agenda. >>> new details emerging about the federal contractor accused of leaking classified information about a russianer cyber attack on the u.s. election. reality winner, a 25-year-old with a top secret clearance, did not hide her disdain for president trump. in a tweet just before getting her contracting job, she called the president an orange fascist. and she re-tweeted her liked social media posts on hacking and leaking. i'll talk to senator chris coons of the foreign relations and judiciary committees and our correspondents, specialists and guests are standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with the breaking news. president trump today commenting directly, if briefly, on the upcoming testimony by the fired fbi director james comey. let's go to our white house correspondent sara murray for the very latest. what are you l

he went on a tweet storm.ndsided by the president's speech in brussels late last month for what he did not say. he made no mention of the u.s. commitment to article five of the nato alliance which says an attack against one member is an attack against all. politico said it was in the speech but president trump did not say it. that surprised mattis along with nshl security adviser h.r. mcmaster and secretary of state tillerson. just moments ago vice president pence spoke at dinner telling the crowd that now is the time for nato to stand united and stand strong in the wake of the terror attacks. david gergen is back with us. you worked for a lot of presidents, seen many national security team come and go. have you ever seen top advisors having to do this much damage control so soon? >> no. and this whole story about having the speech change at the last minute, the sentence dropped. it's been very disturbing on several levels. first, it has badly hurt u.s. relationships with nato. the administration was trying ve

the tweeting doesn't help, but congress is more broken than just his tweets >> reporter: president is rejecting all of the criticism tweeting the fake mainstream media is working so hard to get me to the to use social media. they hate i can get the honest and unfiltered message out. >> the same people who are critiquing the use of it now critique it had during the election and it turned out pretty well for him then. >> reporter: as for his son-in-law jared kushner who is now of interest to investigators in the russia probe, the president joked just a few moments ago that kushner has, quote, become more famous than me. oddly that's something that the president once said to james comey. later tonight the president is the having dinner with a number of senators including marco rubio and tom cotton. we should point out both rubio and cotton sit on the same senate intelligence committee that will be questioning comey on thursday. i talked to a key gop operative who wondered if it's a good idea for rubio and cotton to be with the president at this the dinner tonight. jake? >> jim acosta. >>

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sometimes he tweets with silly things.h my politician you mary beth it based on the context. now, jeffrey, he has a strong legal case, constitutionally in terms of practice executive gets a lot of broad discretion when it comes to immigration. he should have measure of confidence going into the supreme court. maybe george conway, kellyanne conway's husband is right, that these tweets go so directly to the intentionality, not only does he say it's a ban, but he says he wants the original ban, that to common sense and courts have very clear intention of blocking muslims, giving carve outs for other religions. could he have compromised the case? >> i certainly believe these are president trump's words and we should take them seriously as we take any statement seriously. i don't think that this statement was so devastating to the case in the supreme court. the real issue in the supreme court is whether the administration engaged in religious discrimination against musli muslims. if he said this is a muslim ban, that would be a

you argue that it's a good thing that he tweets. but can he tweet off message?t what happened here? >> the book came out on tuesday. right? on sunday, we find out that bernie sandsers, the socialist, who says everybody deserves their fair share, he and his wife are being investigated for corruption. the book is about corruption. the second part of the book is what donald trump could and should do to drain the swamp. one of the first things i mentioned is continue to tweet. now this happens here. look, i think -- i would love to see everything that the most powerful human on the planet, the leader of the free world, what he thinks on a morning basis every single morning. i hope he continue to tweet. a lot of friends on the right say this is terrible advice. tell him to stop tweeting. i don't want him to. continue to tweet. >> i think it's fine. some sort of controversy when i said stay on message. tweet about the things that will advance your agenda. don't get side tracked and punching down with tv anchors. >> i'm friendly with joe and mika and friendly was presi

>> the personal lawyers were aware of the tweet and the white house counsels vetted this tweet. you can interpret the language in a number of different cways but it's not as though it didn't go through the legal staff. it's not case of him doing it in an impromptu way. it was thought through and the result of an internal debate. >> there are no tapes. the fact that you've got to go to your lawyer, why the big debate? >> well, you know, one of the reasons i think there is a debate and why the lawyers want to be interested in the language of the tweet is that the original tweet, the tweet that set this all in motion, the one where he warned james comey about the possible existence of tapes, that's a tweet that could actually be used if there were ever a legal proceedings on an obstruction of justice charge. that woild uld be evidence that president was trying to obstruct. by leaving that doubt of whether there were tapes, it would be an effort by the president and his lawyers to say we weren't really trying to obstruct james comey by saying the president was taping him. he were po

tweet positive things, not negative. and another tweets, nice rant on potus today.again? you caught me. mark. obvious why trump refuses to give cavuto an interview. and mark says neil, do you think he watched. if he did, you think it registered? time will tell. good job. hope it did, mark. a lot of the president's ideas and tax cuts are indeed promising if they ever get out of the gate. the distractions don't help and make progress on that agenda tough. senators have been saying every minute that he spends tweeting and talking about the london mayor and the fbi investigation is one minute less devoted to the issues that matter. and then there's another one, the tweets make the media irrelevant. that's the biggest reason you just won't admit it. this isn't about making me relevant, though i think i am. just the president sticking to tweets that are relevant. another says, you need to get off of your high horse and criticize those that need it. ricky. please don't give up on cavuto after his commentary today. i saw it as a genuine attempt to help. we need president tr

are these tweets tough? >> there's a lot of things just factually wrong with what sarah huckabee sanders said and one of those is that he never promoted or condoned violence which is just factually inaccurate. but, look, tough people in my experience, don't go around talking about how tough they are and they don't cyberbully someone on twitter. i mean, that's what this is. i don't know any other way to say it. the frustration i have here is that this is being treated like a -- on the one hand democrats say this and republicans say that. no. >> this is not what it is. >> this is not a political issue. and we talk about political issues rightfully so many, many times but that's not what this is. this is, do you want to live in a society in which this is condoned? and, defended and made acceptable. if barack obama told you the same thing i would tell you the same thing. if george w. bush tweeted the same thing i would tell you the same thing. this is about what kind of community we live in and what we want to s

he withdrew, but he tweeted this. these tweets may make some people feel better, but they certainlien won't help the general get five votes in the supreme court, which is what actually matters. sad. i wonder if he ran this tweet by kellyanne conway, who is part of the administration before he sent it out. >> that would be interesting. what george conway is hitting on is the criticism tr many people who support donald trump, which is he does everything with his heart and nothing with his head. donald trump knows the ninth circuit court of appeals used some of the language he's used on twitter and in rallies against him as he tries to say the travel ban has nothing to do with muslims. he knows that words have consequences. i don't want to be too dismissive, but you have to say this. you do not get to have your cake and eat it in politics. either donald trump's twitter feed is the sort of most important way that his supporters can hear from him ask he cherishes it and never get rid of it, or it's not a really serious thi

the media's obsessed with the tweets. and again, tweets are not policy. that is exactly what they said. this is also the same white house that says the tweets speak for themselves. 6 when is -- when are tweets poli policy? when are tweets not policy? >> some clever person has created a bo thank automatically takes the tweets and puts them on official white house stationary so that you can look at it as a statement. we've had this conversation in my newsroom, should we call them presidential statements, because that's really what they are. >> they are statements. >> absolutely. somebody, if that's a supreme court argument, is going to say there's not that much different between sending this out electronically to 31 million people and standing up in front of a camera in national prime time. the only difference is, if anything, twitter might reach more people. so, if the president gets up and gives an address from the oval office in prime time, i think we all understand and agree that he's giving instructions to his government, he is talking to the public, h

jeb bush came out with a tweet.the larger picture, charles was talking about separating the politics from a person. in the larger picture, mercedes, you had a lot to grow about vapor the travel ban goes into effect in about an hour. you've got these immigration bills that passed in the house successfully. an energy speech today. all that was part of the campaign but we are not talking about any of it. >> you are right. like i mentioned, it's a huge distraction for the president to be tweeting out personally attacking this anchor. obviously they've had a very contentious relationship, hot and cold. they were best friends and now their enemies. it's unfortunate. i think it's unfortunate for the president. i think he could utilize his time wisely to focus on an agenda that's helpful to americans witches economic and national security. >> bill: in a moment, republicans try to come up with the health care reform bill. where is it? will tell you. >> it's a sense of deja vu. i told senator mcconnell i know how he feels. i

those tweets 60. 60 of those tweets.n of dnc, former governor and msnbc contributor howard dean. and chair woman, guys, thanks very much. welcome back. the white house says we're not talking enough about policy. we talk about policy every single day. most days we're leading the policy t. president also isn't talking much about policy on his own personal platform the white house says is so invaluable to him. jen. >> oh, i'm sorry, i didn't hear the very end of that katie, i apologize. >> don't worry. go ahead. >> yeah, i think i got the gist of it. i apologize, you cut off there for a second, yeah, the president as i said many times over the -- since january 20th becomes his own worsten my, he doesn't blow up the conversation, he distracts everybody from it. >>> the truth, the president has no one to blame for this but himself. it's very discourageing to me as somebody who is a lifetime conservative republican that the american people have finally given us this great opportunity having the house and the senate and the whi

is the president going to tweet or not? >> well, we don't know if he's going to tweet. we don't even know if he's going to be watching the comey testimony. you heard spicer there answer my question. he said the president has a very busy day, but he didn't answer exactly exactly what the president is going to be doing at 10:00. we know the president has an event in the afternoon. i followed up with the white house staff here a few moments ago and asked them if we know anything more about what he's going to be doing thursday morning. they won't provide an answer to that. so, it's possible he will be sitting there in the oval office watching this on tv along with the rest of us. we'll have to wait and see whether he pulls out his phone and starts tweeting some responses. it's certainly possible and it would be unprecedented. >> although not one of us thinking it won't happen. i don't think he can stop himself. actually, this is one i'm not going to bet on. >> these are losing bets around here. you never know. >> could be. jeff, the president said today that when asked abou

i know you say this tweet is clear. but it talks about recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepted, unmasking. is that activity that is being carried out by the cia, the fbi, or other u.s. law enforcement agencies? is that what his reference is to. >> i think those are questions you'd have to ask those law enforcement agencies, whether or not they're engaging in those activitys. >> but the president tweeted this. the president is the one who's actually put this information out. >> i think there's public record that talks about surveillance, that talks about unmasking. we know those practices take place. i think if you're asking about specific instances, you'd have to refer to those agencies. >> can i ask one follow-up on china. the president tweeted, obviously, the other day that the chinese had failed to change the situation with respect to north korea. i just wonder, in light of that, given how he had put china at the center of his north korea strategy, what the next steps are. how does the u.s. bring press

now i think these tweets will allow the court to read back through the tweets into the intent of the i add one more thing? we're talking about the ban because the president is talking about the ban. anyone who has done this counterterrorism thing for a living is not drawing any connections with what happened in london and what it is this ban thinks it will prevent. >> there's no question about the president's right and authority when it comes to the constitution. it is about whether or not this is right to do. as you layout. you have two different bases of analysis. first is context of what he saw in the uk of why you need a ban. he says it doesn't match. you look at the u.s. security landscape. what the ban wants to do is is that what is necessary to keep america safe? is that the main threat. people coming overseas and attacking us? the stats don't seem to support that, general. >> it is interesting, chris, as you form your last sense, i'm forming an answer that says statistically you cannot form a connection with the ban and kinds of threats we are facing now. the threats we are f

if there are tapes. >> trevor: i take donald trump at his word when he tweets.donald trump claiming his tweets should be ignored. >> his obsession with covering everything he says on twitter and very little of what he does -- >> that's his preferred method of communication. >> that's not true. >> it's not policy. it's executive order. it's social media. this is clearly observ obsessio. >> i think it's obsession over every detail of president trump's treats. >> trevor: i can imagine trump saying in bible days, people need to stop obsessing over every single commandment! i know they're written in stone but it's not like literally, i mean literally literally. ( laughter ) it's the president. people don't get it. >> are president trump's tweets considered official white house statements? >> well, the president is the president of the united states so they're considered official statement by the president of the united states. >> trevor: thank you, sean. yes. yes. ( applause ) donald trump's tweets are official presidential statements, that's why last week the u.s. m

he tweeted a side by side picture of his wife and ted cruz's wife and the tweet was a picture says a word. it was cruel. >> can we talk about the fact that this actually never happened, right? that's the other thing. he made something up. there is pictures of mika and there's no blood coming off of her face. so what is this? he makes up something? even if there were no pictures i can sit here and tell you she did not show up with a bleeding face. let's use some common sense here. he is making up something, you know shlgs to try to demean her. i don't unts why is he talking about her even -- why does mika even need a facelift? she is a beautiful woman. she looked great a year ago and looks great today. it is an idea that a woman gets to be a certain age and must have to be getting plastic surgery. try to explain that to me, jeffrey. >> i volunteered to be water boarded instead of doing this segment here. >> you're the one who said it was not, so what is it? >> i believe in the equality of the sexes. i think if you're a radio -- a tv talk show host and you're out there saying the presi

you showed what george conway tweeted there and we'll get further tweets from him in just a minute.here's no concern that it could make the case before the supreme court more difficult. listen to this exchange that i had with sarah huckabee sanders earlier today. >> on the president's tweets regarding the travel ban, kellyanne conway's husband pointed out that such tweets are not helpful when it comes to the solicitor general's ability to make an effective argument for the supreme court. is the president concerned that he may be tainting the waters of the legal system by issuing suc. the president is very focused on exactly what that order spells out. that's protecting americans, protecting national security. he has every constitutional authority to do that through that executive order. he maintains that. that position hasn't changed. >> however, george conway is still concerned about the potential legal impact in a series of tweets just a few minutes ago tweeting out "just to be clear and in response to inquiries, i still very strongly support potus, his administration, policies, t

a tweet comey testified he hoped was true. >> i've seen the tweet about tapes. lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: 41 days after that tweet, president trump has finally answered the central question, he himself raised. do any recordings actually exist? tweeting today, with all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking, and illegal leaking of information, i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey. but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. that answer coming after weeks of dodging. >> could you try to find out -- a lot of people are interested as you might imagine. >> sure, i'll try to look under the couches. >> i'll tell you about that maybe some time in the very near future. >> reporter: and frequent calls from lawmakers in both parties for the president to come clean. >> if there are tapes, the president should turn them over immediately, of course. >> you can't be cute about tapes. >> reporter: the meant to clarify the issues are raising questions. sarah huckabe

the tweet was a picture says a thousand words.there was a cruelty to the tweet this morning, too. >> can i say one other thing? can we talk about the fact, i don't know if people talked about this, that this actually never happened, right? that's the other thing. he just made something up. there's picture of mika at mar-a-lago during this time and she looks quite fetching. there's no blood coming off of her face. so what is this? he just makes up something? even if there were no pictures, i could sit here with absolute certainty and say that mika did not show up at mar-a-lago with a bleeding face. let's use common sense here. he's actually making up something, you know, to try to demean her. i just don't understand what the argument is, how this isn't misogynist. why is he talking about her even -- why would mika even need a face lift? she's a beautiful woman, who looked great -- she looked great a year ago and she looks great today. this is the idea he has that i guess a woman gets to be a certain age and they must need to have t