host: how does that apply to the tweet? tweet -- he is a man who got where he is at i fighting.nd if you want to call it eating a bully -- call it whatever you want. he got successful being a certain way. that wes a world leader -- i don't even know what the truth is anymore. to go at theind us world to make america a better way. and we haven't really allowed this to happen in yet. we haven't allowed the voting system to work the way it is supposed to work. we are fighting it like it doesn't even matter. host: ok, stephanie on the democrats line. caller: and is just calling to say that i think the media should stop falling for all of these distractions. that i think trump is intentionally -- president trump -- he is intentionally stirring this up. there are more things going on and happening. and i turn on the different news programs and only hear about is this ridiculous, immature conversation or tweet that is going on. it boggles my mind. and i agree 100% with the caller behind me -- the caller before may about the self-serving biases. because i think we tend to gravitate towa

i think sometimes he doesn't recognize, i don't know what that health care tweet was about. it didn't speak for itself because it was exactly the opposite of what he had been arguing just a few months before and he kind of lobs this grenade in the middle of a very dicey conversation in which he needs to be wooing republican senators to vote for the bill not saying okay, well, maybe there's another way to go about this. so what was that all about? so i think the tweets are both strategic sometimes and really not very well thought through other times. and i don't think any of us -- he talks about us in the media, wanting him to stop tweeting, i don't think we want him to stop tweeting, but i am very confident that the vast supermajority of republican members of congress would like him to stop tweeting. >> if you're secretary of homeland security, the timing could have been better yesterday. apparently he was shown that video in the green room while he was waiting to go on a sunday show and of course he gets asked about it. take a look. >> i want to ask you, is that the kind of

let's look at the tweet. takes seven seconds to tweet it out. it's a little self depricating, showing donald trump doing fake wrestling, which everyone knows is fake. he saw it, thought it was funny. after a week when he thought people at cnn were being unfair to him that had to resign, therefore, he tweeted it out. people are trying to overplay this saying he's inciting violence. it's a fake wrestling video. don't take yourself so seriously. have a little fun with it. enjoy the holiday weekend and not try to make this into something much bigger than it really was. >> bakari? >> the problem with that is that not everyone sees it as just some funny video. like ben may see it or even myself may see t you can't look at this in isolation. have you to look at this in a totality. this is not anything new. this is the same donald trump that was campaigning, doing his rallies saying knock them out. if you accidentally hurt them i'll pay your legal bills, having people punched at his rallies and saying in the old days we used to take them out back. this

it's not the fact that he tweets. for god sake, the pope tweets. there is nothing wrong with tweeting intrinsically. it's what you tweet. kellyanne conway is right. three quarters of 20 tweets is about policy and was doing. that's fine but why does he do the other stuff. i think he is trolling the press. this cnn bit i found it amusing. it was meant to drive them crazy, to get an overreaction, get attention and height in the contradictions, if you want to use a leninist term. solidify the base. there is some strategy here, not much. the rest is a psychological need, and who knows. perhaps this is therapy for him. >> is not just that he has the media as an adversary. it is the entire establishment. people say it's not normal, not presidential. people don't like it. i don't think people realize that's the point. that's what a lot of people like. he was elected in part because he's not going to operate the same way. we have reached past the point where we come to terms with the fact that this man is not a politician. it's the first time we've had a pr

tweet is the same as any of the president's tweet. lot of cable nice shows that reach into hundreds of thousands of viewers and not always fair to the president. i'm proud of the president to develop a twitter and social media platform where he can talk direct try to the american people. in fact he's the most again you opinion president and most nonpolitician president we've seen in my lifetime. he's demonstrated whatever the contents of that particular tweet is or any tweet he's demonstrated a genuine ability to communicate to the people. >> that's what happens when you're homeland security adviser. your boss tweets this moments before your interview. >> on that note good morning. welcome to "morning joe". monday july 3rd. we got washington anchor for bbc world news, katy kay. an msnbc political contributor. senior political editor at the white house and correspondent for the "huffington post" sam stein. chair of african-american studies and in washington columnist and associate editor for "the washington post". good morning everybod

that's pretty high, to be tweeting about reporters, to be tweeting about people covering you. i think anything above 1% is probably a little too high for the 39 of the united states. and the personal way he makes these attacks against individual reporters, and then also news organizations that he's obsessed with, you know, it does seem like somebody who is unable to handle criticism. everything he's complaining about is not a personal attack. he's just complaining about bad coverage. you have to understand -- the problem is, i don't understand, and i don't think anybody understands why he cares so much. most presidents don't like the media. they find them nuisance, but they're not obsessed with them to the point that they would try to extort someone to get good coverage. >> jason? >> and i would say this is where we'll have to agree to disagree when we talk about the president pushing back. i personally like the fact when the president is pushing back on erroneous news reports or biased coverage, and a lot of time trump supporters do. that's something where supporter see his p

. >> tweeting.resident's tweeting? okay. do you like all of it? >> not all of it. some of it i think he gets caught in the weeds of things, but i do like it. >> why? >> it's different. it's fresh. it's using the social media where any sort of technology that we have available to us to get right to the people. it's sort of like fdr when he would have fireside chats on the radio. i mean, obviously it's not to that in depth. you have a character limit and all that. but i think it's kind of refreshing to hear directly from him on a daily basis. i come out of the gym and at 6:00, there he is tweeting away. >> the white house says these tweets -- these are statements from the president, take them at face value. he has talked about being able to communicate directly through people with them. he is not sitting down for many interviews with journalists that are not from friend lynette works if you will. many objective journalists. does tweeting replace that adequately? >> i don't think 100%. it replaces it a

that's pretty high to be tweeting about reporters, to be tweeting about people covering you.e 1% is probably a little high for the president of the united states and the personal way he makes these attacks against individual reporters and news organizations that he's obsessed with. it does seem like somebody unable to handle criticism. everything he's complaining about is not actually a personal attack. he's complaining about bad coverage. the problem is i don't understand and i don't think anybody understands. most people don't like the media and find them the a nuisance but they're not obsessed with them to the point where they'll extort them to get good coverage. >> this is where we'll have to agree to disagree when we talk about the president pushing back. i like the fact when the president is pushing back on erroneous news reports or what he sees as bias coverage and again that's something where trump supporters see his push back and they like it? you might view it as being too much. i don't think most of us as trump supporters do. >> i want to thank everybody. is presid

forget who is tweeting silly stuff.ng far more serious stuff, leaving aside i'm not a fan of the president going off message with the tweets, not that i am against the tweeting, just against his tweeting things that do nothing to advance the agenda. but to say these tweeting distractions breed violence, that, that would be news. ignoring the very real violent perpetrated by the left. that would be fake news. good night. >> kat: hello, everyone. i am kat timpf with charles payne filling in for eric bolling and mercedes colwin in for eboni k. williams. we are the fox news specialists. just when you thought the war between president trump and the media had reached a 10, it smashes through two and 11, may be 11.5. unless you have been too busy firing off roman candles and bottle rockets, you have noticed that president tweet out a mock video of himself body slamming the cnn logo. white house officials claim the president's tweet was meant to be a joke but a lot of people in the media are finding it funny. >>

the president unlushed tweets around 6:00 a.m. the same anchor he targeted earlier this week. we take a closer look at president trump's habits when it comes to watching news. >> reporter: you should say president donald trump is always plugged in with flat screen tvs throughout the white house. tv comes first in the morning, notably fox and friends and one of the last things he does before bed. >> i watched this morning a couple of the networks. i have to say fox and friends in the morning, they're very honorable people. >> trump loves sees himself on tv, too. he's been known to shush others so he could hear taped interviews he did and what's being said about him on tv. it is a television obsession like no other president before him. >> you are all better than that. >> nurtured by his own experience in television as a reality tv star on the apprentice. >> we've never had a team lose so badly. you're all fired. all four of you are fired. >> it's a useful tool for him, too. early on during the campaign, he turned to tv to brush up

that tweet that trump tweeted with body slamming, the cnn logo, it is by far his most retweeted, mostweet i've seen in probably i checked had 100,000 retweets and even more likes. his normal tweets get maybe 10,000 to 20,000 retweets. this is resonating with a lot of people. the thing is with his base they support him no matter what. this might help his base or help the president feel good that he is fighting back. it's not helping him legislatively get anything done and instead of tweeting about health care since june 30 i think he has posted one tweet about health care and a lot more about the media. this is not helpful. i'm sure the white house will talk this away. the president has never advocated violence. if this video is not advocating violence against reporters then i don't know what is. >> this has been retweeted 152,000 times and liked by 236,000 folks. great to have you on. have a good holiday weekend. hope you enjoy some time off. what foreign spies are seeing from the president's twitter feed? a former cia operative will join me next to talk about that. it certainly makes

ben, last night the president tweeted out that his tweeting is modern-day presidential. so is posting this doctored video of him wrestling with a new organization presidential? >> i think it is a little bit fun. i think it is pretty funny, actually. i think that some people are taking this just a little bit too seriously when the reality is it is clear the president is not a big fan of us at cnn. i think he was referring to a story that was he feels like was a hit piece on him that a couple of people had to resign over. so he decided after he saw it to tweet it out. i don't think this is insigciti violence. i think people who try to imply such are stretching a little bit here. the fact is this was a tweet from the president. would i have sent it? no. is this donald trump's style? yes. is he going to stop? the answer is no. let's put this into perspective. this clip shows the president in a pretty funny light when he was doing fake wrestling. before you act like it is over the top or this is inciting violence remember this is showing donald trump doing something that was

tweeted more. it is defiance, him showing he is not listening to the preferences of the most of the american people. polls showed that a lot of his supporters and detractors, all agree he shouldn't be tweeting so often. by the way, the tone of his tweets today very conspirator l conspiratorial. all his tweets this morning he shared from bedminister where he is this weekend, all spoirl. why are they halting the voter rolls? why is joe and mika being told by their bosses what to say? all has this tone that's very menacing. kind of uniting all of his tweets. >> here's kind of a microsoft come of the criticism coming from within the republican party about why many leaders feel like the president should just stop this behavior. listen. >> that's a tweet that's not even becoming of a city councilman. i >> i'm not going to defend his tweet. it was ugly. and i personally do hold the president of the united states to a higher standard. >> this is maddening. it's maddeningly frustrating because this is benea

he's fired off several tweets again today. >> that's the thing. up to this point.ublicans are starting to kind of get used to the unpredictable tweets that donald trump was sending out. not necessarily defending those tweets but, you know, having an answer ready to give to reporters. this time, however, it was interesting to talk to republicans who would normally defend the president telling me no, this is not defensible. in addition, it was very distracting the as it took away the message to the house side where they were dealing with two immigration bills that trump basically pushed throughout the campaign and helped him really solidify support in the four blue color states that voted for him. so they were very frustrated by that. >> is there any sense of regret, molly, on behalf of the president? he tweeted out something today that suggested dialing back a little bit and i know he was asking, reportedly asking those in the white house, you know, how did i do with this tweet, as if he was uncertain? >> i have to tell you one thing. the one thing i haven't seen fr

tweet.undreds of thousands of viewers and not always fair to the president. i'm proud of the president to develop a twitter and social media platform where he can talk direct try to the american people. in fact he's the most again you opinion president and most nonpolitician president we've seen in my lifetime. he's demonstrated whatever the contents of that particular tweet is or any tweet he's demonstrated a genuine ability to communicate to the people. >> that's what happens when you're homeland security adviser. your boss tweets this moments before your interview. >> on that note good morning. welcome to "morning joe". monday jul

in fact, he could tweet any moment.tches us and other morning cable fair and looking to attack whatever he does not agree with. is it effective? it depends on how you measure it. the country at large according to a large abc news "washington post" poll, a full 57% of you disapprove of his twitter use, the words used to describe it most often are insulting, inappropriate. it's clear his tweets are to fire up his base, and it works. but it is that effectiveness that raises concerns. most tweets pander to cynicism and rejection of institutions. they do frankly what the president does most, attack whoever opposes him, judges, lawmakers, of course the media, anyone who seeks to check power or speak truth to it. any suggestion of his legitimacy. he has slipped hillary clinton a full 32 times over twitter since his inauguration bringing back the old familiar theme of trying to prosecute her just days ago. remember, the president often says the media keeps bringing up his election, but the numbers tell the story. it is, in fact

these tweets do not help with that. the president could use his megaphone to rally support for repeal and replace. could be replying to individual americans helping them with their problems but he's not doing that. >> so the president -- sean spicer has even said, that the president will continue to tweet. >> yes. >> sarah huckabee sanders, he'll continue to tweet. this is his stream of consciousness, a display of transparency. >> uh-huh. >> but then there's the issue of responsibility. from a number of your guests including carl bernstein this morning who said once you become president if you're campaigning, one thing. once you become president, perhaps this is not the greatest tool of communication? >> right. the campaigner in chief, and we've seen that continue even after inauguration day. i thought it was telling last night at the veterans event. he said, i'm president and you're not. direct tlag to the media. i'm president, you're not. >> almost a need to continually remind people. >> indeed. with regards to the ea

he sent us back this tweet. we don't think that's responsible or professional, frankly, for such a serious investigation. i wish we could just take the word of a president, but because of his record and obstruction in the investigation from the claims president obama and wiretapping to other claims about james comey, i think we need to corroborate whether or not there were recordings in the white house. >> sir, is this fight of tapes over? seems like the president left the door open, didn't he, saying i don't have any recordings, but i don't know if anyone else was recording our conversations. >> right. i think the wording of that was a little bit cryptic in there, that there's been a lot of armchairs pouring over the words, seeing what he meant, but they view this as a witch hunt. that's not a political line from the president when he says that this is the greatest witch hunt in all of political history. the president truly believes that there is no legitimacy behind the investigation, that it was thought up by

>> our focus cannot be on the tweet. our focus has to be on that kitchen table family paying 20, 30 and $40,000 for their premiums, wondering how they're going to make ends meet. their child might be addicted to opioids. we in washington, we in the country cannot be focused on tweets, we have to be focused on answering that family's problems. and i get so frustrated when we get focused on tweets. we need to think about these families with this incredible human need. >> why aren't you frustrated with the president? >> because if you think about what he's saying on health care, he actually wants something better. >> but you say you're frustrated on the tweets. it's the president tweeting. >> but the president doesn't make my life. i'm a conservative. i wake up in the morning and read about the lsu tigers, i don't read about the president's tweets. i think we need to have more of a focus on that family, not on the president's tweets. >> does the president make it harder for democrats to work with the other side? >> he makes

tweet, his second most re-tweeted tweet itself and a cycle in and of itself and he can say, look, the fake news isn't covering all these other things. >> let me play something from saturday night. president trump was giving a speech to a group of veterans organized by evangelical calls and the conservative salem media group. look at what he did at this veterans event. >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. because the people know the truth. the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but i'm president and they're not. [ applause ] >> sounds a little bit like chris christie, i get to go to the governor's mansion because i'm governor or the governor's beach house. they're not president, i am president. is that how a president runs a country, by saying the ones that aren't with him, he doesn't need to represent? >> this has been his strategy since day one, it targeted his base and supporters. the media, we are very easy foil, not terribly well liked in some corners. president trump has been harping on this over and over again because it's

and in his tweets, his tweets have a structure.ple think he's crazy and does crazy things at night, the opposit opposite is truth. he has four types of tweets, one of them is called preemptive framing. he tries to frame his issues first and he tries to get people to believe it his way before they got a chance with anything else. >> we saw that of comey and a lit a litany of things. preemptive framing. >> the second thing is diversion, the russian thing is getting closer to him so he had to attack somebody in the media, mikah and he creates a diversion and then there is attack of the messenger, somebody saying something of him being awful along and here he comes back ten times as strong and attacks the person who says it and that can be the media. if the media reports honestly on something that does not fit what he says and suggest that he's doing something illegal or immoral then he comes back and attack the messenger. the fourth is trial balloons. oh, everybody should have nuclear weapons, lets see if that one works or whatever, s

the president's latest tweets storm. ma is it possible that it is the other way. playing ] it's here, but it's going by fast. the opportunity of the year is back: the mercedes-benz summer event. get to your dealer today for incredible once-a-season offers, and start firing up those grilles. lease the e300 for $569 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. i wneverever wash my hair again now, i fuel it new pantene doesn't just wash your hair, it fuels it. with the first pro-v nutrient blend, making every strand stronger because strong is beautiful. fixodent plus adhesives. there's a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening. just one application gives you superior hold even at the end of the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. ...i got what you need.♪.. ♪i'll be your i'll, i'll... sarah? cleaning up. >>> welcome to hugh hewitt, host >>> welcome back, our panelists here. all right, i want to get on specific of healthcare, this is your beat. give me the next when the se

so kathy griffin's tweet is excessive and dye tracts but yet president trump's tweet with the wwe is>> well, i think what you've seen from the media from democrats and a lot of president's critics is shock and outrage and surprise every time president trump tweets something that you might not expect from a typical u.s. president. his supporters love and that's exactly what we always could have expected from president trump but each time he does it. there's the new wave of outrage and surprise when, in fact, this is something that president trump has been a part of his personality for years. heather: it sure has. >> it's exactly what we should have expected from him once he became president. heather: sarah, thank you is for joining us. todd. todd: 19 minutes after the hour, pulling a fast one over republicans, brand-new emails giving former president obama giving supreme court pick, showing that it was politically motivating and this is important, people, one of your favorite fourth of july hot dogs just got healthier, don't forget this fourth of july we want to know what makes you a

tweets from the president today. he was on calls with italy, france, germany, saudi arabia, all the above, you keep going, but there are only a couple tweets criticizing the media. should we take this as the president has learned the lessons from the weekend of his weekend rant? >> okay. i pledge during the 2016 campaign to not make anymore predictions, but i will break that pledge to make this prediction, kate. this is in no way, shape, or form, any new leaf, any trump 2.0. there is no trump but trump. donald trump is a 71-year-old man who's had a lot of success in his life, both in his life as a businessman and now in his life as a presidential candidate, and now president. he is not going to change who he is. we are 96 hours removed from attacks on msnbc hosts. we are less than that removed on our network using a prowrestling video. this is who donald trump is. it can be a week -- it really can be a day, maybe it can be a week. he will return back to who he is. this is what animates him. if you want to look for a

there's one thing of what the president tweeted and there's another things of why the president tweetedyou know the tweets speak for itself. he goes on twitter is they are morning and tweets, james comey leaked all caps classified information to the media and then ends by saying that is so illegal. now, the fact that comey leaked this memo comey university is not news. and testified before the senate intelligence committee. comey at that hearing was asked whether or not he considered that classified information. he said it did not. he also was asked if this was the first time he had done this at that time he testified in fact it had. the question here is are memos that jim comey wrote down because he was concerned about how the meeting was going to be talked about later by the president considered classified information? and if the fbi was in fact conducting an investigation into russian interference into the 2016 election would those notes in and of itself be part of that investigation and would the details that comey went into be classified. and now, when we get neat situations like w

are his nonstop tweets inciting violence? also tonight chris christie gets burned. >> i didn't get any sun today. >> quijano: but the camera shows the new jersey governor relaxing on a state beach that he closed to everyone else. british courts have ordered a baby taken off life-support against his parents' wishes. tonight the president and the pope weigh in. underwater gardeners are trying to rescue florida's dying coral reefs. >> looks like we got two. ack uijano: back from the brink, the eagles fill the sky once more. this is the "cbs evening news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano and this is a western edition of the broadcast. president trump spent much of this day on the phone with european leaders preparing for his upcoming trip. but he still found time to fire salvos at the media. among his tweets at some point the fake news will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success with isis, the border and so much else. as chip reid reports, there is no ceasefire on the horizon. >> reporte

these are not just tweets.se are official communications from the president of the united states. >> cruelty aspect. i guess he's back on trashing cnn. which inexplicably, aides are upset he picked a fight with mika brzezinski because it was taking away from a successful fight with cnn. >> i think we've never really consumed something like this, where someone has taken, yes, when that video was filmed, he was an entertainer. now, he's the president of the united states. and the reality is you know, the media, okay, they've used the logo in that case, cnn, but it's made up of people. every single day, you know. i go up to capitol hill. i ask questions of people. yes, i represent nbc news every day. >> you're a three dimensional figure. >> i am. >> yes. no, no. >> that's what makes that video sort of striking. >> and the fact we had sarah huckabee sanders this week coming out in the white house and for a rare briefing saying that the president has never cop doned or encouraged or promoted violence. that is what h

we're going -- brother. >> i wonder if sometimes the tweets, intentional or not, all the barrage of tweets started when the senate went on their vacation hadn't passed health care as was the plan. sometimes he wonders doing it to distract from things not happening. neil: too clever by half? i think we're over analyzing this guy. i want to thank you both. have a safe, happy, 4th of july. two voices of reason on the left and right. you sometimes find that. not all the time, in middle of texas democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee, a guest on this fine show, talking about president trump, saying those tweets, they alone are reason, to resign. i said on this air, elsewhere, i think tweets particularly off subject and gets personal, punches down i think they're bad news. >> he constantly -- neil: congresswoman, that doesn't mean, you're out as president. let the american people decide that. >> the american people decided. his polling numbers are down under 40%. 36 or 35%. neil: i remember when ronald reagan polled in the 30s, congressman. >> ronald reagan was a commander-in-chief and was

previously tweeting, "we must work to close the gender pay gap." however, the trump white house is not the first to pay women less than men. past administrations including that of former president obama also had a gender pay gap. >>> run for governor, and you can use beaches even when they're closed. that's the message from chris christie as new jersey grapples with the government shutdown. can they get parks and beaches open in time for the fourth of july? >>> governor chris christie convening both houses of the new jersey state legislature this morning in an attempt to end a disastrous budget impasse. this day three without a budget for the state. that has 35,000 workers furloughed for the holiday. all state parks remain closed, ruining july 4th plans for thousands of beach-goers. but the governor and his family, they got to enjoy the sand and surf. the christies had full run of the beach where the residence is located. christie shrugging off criticism telling reporters, "it's just the way it goes." >> it didn't -- go ahead. i didn't get any sun

he tweets about cnn or "the washington post." he doesn't often tweet about jobs or the wall or isis. he tweeted about that this morning, but only to say the fake news media isn't covering these things. that's what's really on his mind day in and day out, whether it's illegal votes, hillary clinton and the rigging of the election, whether it's the media, whether it's the wiretapping still unproven of trump tower. that's what animate me. yes, we pay attention to what he says and what he tweets. >> amanda, what do you make of this, and where is the republican outrage? >> i am intrigued by this tweet. hi 'employs one of his most youthful rhetorical devices. he puts on the something, and then denies he ever said it. he's punching cnn in the face, but it's not really real, because it's fake wrestling, so everyone's asking, will this gin up violence? we don't have to ask that. he already has at a rally in kentucky on the campaign trail, some trump supporters filly assaulted a black woman. do you know what their defense in court is? esse

there was a lot of talk on that tweet. we're going back to the tweets. the tweet about micah bra zin can i. how will that be construed by some female republican moderates like lisa raised tonight scow can i which are crucial votes. we have to win these senators over. a. i don't think anybody, whether you're male or female or whatever really likes to see a politician criticize someone else based on their appearance like a face lift. especially here in northern virginia. i think people prioritize wanting to have constructive die lg and people working together smg that's what i heaal why can't people work together like it used to be. certainly if you're tweeting about whoever your political opponents are and trump decided his political opponents are folks in the media. i think people would prefer it not to be so personal criticize morning joe's content do we have to get into the face lift stuff? do we have to get into the personality of people in i think trump can be very creative with the way he criticizes policy and using very simple tactics. there's some

, in case there's any am gooty in the tweet i can -- >> but then scaramucci deleted the original tweet and followed up with this. wrong, tweet was -- to leak that all officials are helping to end illegal leads. joining us now democratic and cnn political commentator john tom months. john, we'll start off with you. what's going on? it's like 2:00 in the morning in the white house. what's happening? >> first of all, the idea of just putting reince along with the other sister staff doesn't make any sense. this clearly was a shot across the valve. this was authorized by president trump himself. it's not surprising because we've heard around the rumor mill that reince was next on the chopping block. >> the original one -- >> all i can figure is reince saw it, called up the president and said you tell him to delete this. >> speculation but that makes sense. >> this, we've heard through the the last couple of days ks took week in fact, so much talk about loyalty and leaks and leaks. what's the point of him tweet g if he's going to retract it. >> we're certainly getting whiplash but i'd agree

take a highlights. >> and i put out a tweet and i put reince's name in the tweet.hey're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are so if reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that. but the white house leaks are small potatoes relative to things that are going on with leaking things about syria or north korea or leaking things about iraq. those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago people would have actually been hung for those types of leaks. >> reporter: yeah, and the leak that did start all of this was pretty small. it was a leak about the fact that president trump was having dinner at the white house with sean hannity and bill shine a former fox news executive but at the briefing today with sarah huckabee sanders she really stayed close to the vest. she did not say much asking if whether or not the white house believes reince preibus is the leaker she deferred to anthony scaramucci. but she did give us a little insit this topic. she basically said that the president really

attacks on the media, 94 tweets, more than jobs and the military combined. kyle, what does that tell you about the president's priorities at this time? >> it goes to show that this is a constant campaign for the president. as much as he could be talking about policy, talking about the health care bill, and talking about real wins that his administration had last week with kate's law going through the house, or the travel ban being in part approved by the supreme court. he's talking about "morning joe" on msnbc and talking about cnn. he's not talking about these real policy issues. he's talking about the media. that just shows that he enjoys playing the victim. it plays up to his base. ends up just ginning up the support, as if he was still running for office instead of governing. it shows that really the president is more concerned about being approved than he is governing, you know, and running the country. >> i don't know about you, but my social media feed is filled with trump supporters who not only are okay with this but like these tweets and want more

of course, there is a difference between tweeting and tweeting specific messages. think that donald trump still has a high degree of confidence that his tweets are effective in mobilizing a certain part of his base. there is data to suggest he is holding on to a certain part of that base. remember, the strong approval ratings for donald trump have come down to around 20%, which is much lower than they've been for other presidents at this time. never mind the overall around 38%. but the tweets are problematic, even in his inner circle, they are concerned. occasionally, they'll able to restrain him. the republicans are, i think, concerned about twitter, as are many americans. but the question of decency and dignity reached an all-time low this week with his tweets about the anchors on "morning joe." i think the question is how to respond. what we haven't seen yet is those people around him, those in congress and the broader public, having a clear strategy on how do we respond? does one ignore the tweets? does one name, shame and call them out? this is a difficult que

had you mixed tweets but had a number of hate tweets.this one i'm not saying you shouldn't love your country. i'm saying you shouldn't love trump. what did you make of that? i think you represent a lot of people out there that whenever they do anything or say anything that might be complimentary to president trump they get attacked for it? >> i think we should have more respect from both sides of the aisle. and i was blown away by how much disrespect that i got, how rude people were to me for a simple act of cleaning up our president who is the highest office in the land. he should be respected whether it's hollywood star or talking about him in public. pete: makenna, if you were walking in hollywood and saw a star. i don't know what your political background is. if you were walking up on a president obama star, would you pick up your sharpy and cross it out and start putting explicittives on it? what motivates someone to say i'm going to do that? >> i can't imagine doing that. that's not how i was raised. i was raised to respect things

back to the pardon tweet. >> not the pardon tweet. where this one from 20 minutes ago where he talked about schumer saying that democrats should blame ourselves not russia. in this instance, the president is reporting accurately. in fact, schumer's quote over the weekend in the washington post, very interesting as the democrats have put out their new agenda and slogan, this was a schumer quote over the weekend. worthy of discussion on the show later today. when you lose to somebody, this is smumer. when you lose to somebody, referring to trump who has a 40% popularity, you don't blame other things, comey, russia, you blame yourself. what did we do wrong? people didn't know what we stood for, just that we were against trump and still believe that. senator schumer taking a pretty strong shot there, i think, in a not vailed way to hillary clinton. the president's tweet on schumer, accurate. >> okay. bob costa, republicans trying to navigate toward the midterms. take it. >> mika, to build on josh's point, this perhaps is not only about ru

here are the string of tweets.resident sent out this morning, he wrote after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical cost and disruption that that transgender would entail. those it's a big major reverse value. transgender had been able to openly served since last year when ash carter ended that ban. >> the bottom line this morning, the numbers have gone around how many transgendered individuals are serving in the military. people got up this morning and found out by way twitter that the president of the united states no longer requires their services. these people serve and our military, voluntarily, is this a draft, a voluntary military in this country >> it's confusing, there's a lot of questions about, so what happens to those who are serving r

and scaramucci is deleting tweets.transparency. i'm deleting old tweets. i serve the potus, his agenda and that's all that matters. delete dg tweets in the name of transparency, really? >> yeah, i mean that kind of is the trump administration in a nutshell, right? we're going to get rid of the evidence and that's transparency. >> that was a good one. that's a good one, anthony scaramucci. i'm going to delete the tweets. go on. that's pretty good. >> i'm kind of starting to feel like new guy like if kellyanne conway were a more believable liar, it would be this guy. so yeah, i guess if the job is to go out and keep doing the same lying that the president's doing all the time but do it better than other people, he's probably going to be a knockout at this job. >> let me read some of the tweets. okay? this is 2012. he said we the usa has five 5% of the world's population but 50% of the world's guns. enough is enough. it is just common sense to apply more controls or how about this one right here. it says if hillary clinto

is focusing on this tweet yesterday. it's not immediately clear who trump was referring in the tweet but all signs point to his gop rivals. both have been on sunday morning shows talking about the matter and both were on the ballot in november. this morning we want to hear from you. should elected republicans do more to protect president trump. if you are republican only we want to hear with you in the first 30 minutes. the lines are open. >> caller: the morning, thank you c-span. i think president trump is a little lacking in some experience in politics and government and i think what republican leaders really need to do is to sit them down and tell them the truth and tell them how it works and try to straighten them out. he is wild on the tweets and i think he still thanks he can control his image in the image of the white house and i don't think he can. i think the new guy, the communications fella, i think he looks to slick and i think the republican seniors that are there now need to set them down and tell them the

the president is spending much of this holiday weekend tweeting, and he says his tweets are not presidential. in fact, his words, they are "modern presidential." today cnn, this network, responds to trump's latest tweet this morning of a doctored video from his wwwe days suggesting pummeling cnn is what he would rather be doing. slamming an opponent with the cnn logo there. superimposed on the person's head. this is old video, but he's made it new again in his tweet. this comes three days before the president of the united states heads to europe ahead of the g-20 summit. the president is at his golf club in new jersey. he took time out to honor veterans last night in washington, d.c. before heading back to new jersey, but he also used that moment in d.c. to say this -- >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. because the people know the truth. the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but i'm president and they're not. >> so after that moment in d.c., it was this morning that all eyes saw what the president tweeted, showing this kind of doctor

david: obviously the tweet getting a lot of issue, but one thing missed on the focus of the tweet wasent so far beyond anything donald trump ever tweeted. he was talking about how trump and mussolini were similar and that led him to say the following. >> so the son-in-law, one good thing mussolini did was kill his son-in-law. that was an extreme measure, but this is a strange situation. david: he was talking about mussolini's son-in-law, and murdering him. >> if you listen to the end of that tape web said the was an extreme measure. kathy griffin did it. johnny depp did it. stop talking about killing people, it's not funny. i hope his producers were behind the cameras with their heads in their hands. david: i almost went in the direction of not doing the story because i know they wanted the publicity. but it was so outrageous -- but maybe it's impossible to shame these people. maybe they reached a level that shame even through the worst examples of egregious behavior, they can't be shamed. >> i'm from philadelphia, chris ma these is from philadelphia. but there is nothing in the water

but then hours later trump tweeted this.act that vladimir putin and i discussed a cyber security unit doesn't mean i think it can happen. it can't, but a cease fire can and did. trump's reversal came after backlash from some top senate republicans. >> i am sure that vladimir putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he's doing the hacking. >> it's not the dumbest idea i've heard, but it's close. tillerson and trump are ready to forgiver and forget when it comes to cyber attacks on the american election of 2016. nobody is saying mr. president, the russians changed the outcome. you won fair and square, but they did try to attack our election system. they were successful in many ways, and the more you do this, the more people are suspicious about you and russia. >> the panel is back with me now. mark, first to you. why did the president change his mind? >> that's an unfair question to ask. for us to actually get inside president trump's mind and try to figure out what he's doing -- i don't know other than than