in this time period with between this -- that first tweet and the next tweet i'm about to read was about 90 minutes or so. clearly someone to spoke to the president about what the administration's position on this is, because his earlier tweet contradicted it and then the president followed up his first tweet saying with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. but brianna, this is really just another example of the president undercutting something his administration has said is the white house's stance and then the president goes on twitter or on an interview and says something completely different. >> yeah. it is a good example. kaitlan collins at the white house. thank you. has the president thrown a wrench into republican efforts to extend a bill that white house as kaitlan reported has said is vital to keeping the nation safe. manu raju is on capitol hill with this. the president's tweets this morning really couldn't have

do you think it's changed because of this tweet?> i'm inclined to agree with former chairman jcs mike mullen, who said we're probably closer to some sort of an encounter, military encounter with the north koreans than we have been for some time. >> because the tweets like this? >> because of statements like that. having said this, being very old, i was around in 1976 for the tree cutting incident, where north korean soldiers came into the dmz and killed two of our soldiers with axes. i was a young staff officer at the pacific command headquarters at the time. and the sense of imminence of war was more palpable then than it is today. the problem was it was more rhetorical than physical, which it was then. that's a concern, because if we're not careful, we'll talk ourselves into a very serious confrontation. >> i don't want to over or underestimate the risk. because the president has made outlandish threats via twitter and elsewhere before, particularly to north korea. as you said, this is a paranoid regime, they're worried about thei

the president tweeted a rather antagonistic tweet about pakistan.s tweet was followed up with the announcement that the government will withhold foreign aid, $225 million, nothing in the grand scheme of things. past administrations have dealt with this pakistani problem by deciding to keep their toe in the water, as it were, maintain lines of communication and not alienate the government. what is the president's strategy with islamabad as you can see it? is there a strategy or is this all impulse? >> let me start by saying i spent four years as the supreme allied commander in nato in charge of the afghanistan operation. i yield to no man in my occasional frustration with pakistan and their two-sided game on that border. that is real. on the other hand, what should we do about it? as a general proposition, that kind of grandiose criticism, again, back to the tweets, calling out a nation in that kind of language from the white house, cutting the money is less the issue than the pride and the way pakistanis perceive themselves. of course, this has led

out of proportion, that sometimes a tweet is just that, a tweet. >> sometimes a tweet is official communication from the white house, which is what we were told by sean spicer several months ago, so you can blow it out of proportion or not. an official remark from the president of the united states about his big button. okie doke. all of this happening as north and south korea seem to be moving closer to new talks. kelly cobiella is in seoul. any reaction there to the president's threat? ir >> reporter: no, not so far from that tweet. neither the south koreans or the north koreans have weighed in. i do think it's interesting that kim jong-un in his new year's day speech did not mention donald trump once. yes, he referred to a button on his desk but he addressed the united states, not the president personally. really all the focus here in south korea and on the peninsula in general right now is on re-establishing communication. this is really significant. this is the first time the north and south koreans have spoken directly in nearly two years. that hotline which is on the border in the demili

. >> absolutely tweets matter. that's abundantly clear from the first year in office. but also i think this really speaks to the difficulty of this president as a negotiating partner. we have seen this before. public statements or tweets have undermined the administration's official positions. >> what does that say about the people who speak for the president? the people who are tasked with portraying president's positions to lawmakers, to stakeholders here, when you have people like mike pompeo talking about importance and president tweets tweet one this morning we'll call it this morning? >> i think it says to them that it's going to be -- they may get the rug pulled out from under them at any moment. which surely anyone in this administration knows is a possibility simply because of the unpredictability at the top. but i think also this episode, and we don't have a full picture yet of everything that happened in that hour plus span. >> although i spoke with someone after tweet one you should watch for clean up,

button the one tweet.l be announcing the most corrupt media awards of the year on monday at 5:00. subjects will cover dishonesty and bad reporting. joining us is brian stelter. any idea what he's talking about? >> this is something he seemed to propose before the new year, anderson, the idea of a fake news trophy. the rnc then picked up on it. the president wants to create a moment of drama where he will announce the winners. this came a few minutes after the nuclear button tweet. we know what's on the president's mind. 16 tweets to start the new year. some of them deeply disturbing. >> considering how the new year started, what does it say about the year? >> madness. and we should start to call it that. when president trump was inaugurated last january, some column nists started right away to raise concerns about his mental health and fitness for office. in the months that followed, we saw senators like jeff flake bring this up. bob corker, another name that comes to mind. we could apply a test to his 16

this is what she tweeted today. potus on 12/28, quote, in his interview with "the new york times," i have the absolute right to do what i want with the justice department, closed quote. today he slanders career department of justice professionals as deep state, calls for prison for a political opponent and tries to sick doj on a potential witness against him, that would be james comey she's referring to, beyond abnormal or dangerous. do you share her concern the president will try to reshape the department of justice? >> that's my worry, wolf. she's obviously smarter about this than i am. that's what i'm worried about. and i do think this deep state rhetoric of his is linked to that. but what he might have in mind in terms oh what he thinks he can get away with on the skbrarmt and just kind of running rough shot over their processes and the institution in general. i think that's very worrisome. >> on the russia investigation, rebecca, the chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunes, he's focussing in on

how would we cover these tweets?y these are the messages from a person who is not well, from a leader who is not fit for office. >> i mean the counterargument to that is he just has a different style and other presidents have tried more plipmatic language, vis a vis north korea and his supporters will say that didn't work and maybe this is the way to go. >> and certainly on twitter any president, whether it's former president obama now president trump future presidents of the u.s., they can use twitter and facebook and other social media tools to great effect to achieve legislative victories, to persuade the public to come to their side. but i don't think that's what we're seeing with his use of twitter tonight. i've asked twitter spokesman does this violate twitter's terms of service making this kind of threat toward north korea? so far no immediate comment from the company. still waiting to hear. i think they're trying to decide if this kind of tweet referring to a nuclear button that he knows how to use and it wor

president tweeting this morning.ling in every level despite terrible deed made with them by the asbestos administration. have be oppressed for years. hungry for food and freedom along with human rights. the wealth of iran is being secluded. time for change. we heard yesterday from public address referencing donald trump saying that he has no right to show sympathy for iranians after branding them a terrorist a few months ago. can you see him back out of the agreement. what would the impact be? >> trump actually faces a deadline in about three weeks to decide whether or not to renew the waivers that delivered the sanctions the u.s. agreed to under the agreement. so it's very much on his desk right now about whether the u.s. is going to stay in the agreement or back out of the agreement. i think that most of his national security team, secretary tillerson, national security adviser, hr mcmaster and many of the rest of them would like to see trump stay in the agreement. while mounting a kind of more aggressive campaign

if you look back at prior tweets on north korea, the june 20 tweet, the tweet last week, those actuallyion-building messages to build. this one is a coalition destroying message. when the u.s. has been successful when we've gone into battle, it's with a coalition. so for instance the goufl war. that's what we need to do. we need to not only have our allies, japan and south korea, but we have to neutralize moscow and beijing. and a tweet like this does the opposite. he has squandered an opportunity. >> we didn't see that effect with the fire and furry that you mentioned earlier and the rocket man comments before. as a matter of fact, it drew more attention to the issue and the united states stepped up its diplomatic engagements after those comments were made via twitter. and i think most folks are going to say that twitter isn't the best way don duct diplomaccondu. but i think the book's getting rewritten on that. the sound bites are now something that politicians and world leaders are using time and time again. >> i agree with the idea that the tweets before did not have the kind of cat

an eyebrow-raising tweet.id i too have a nuclear button, but it is much bigger and more powerful one than his, meaning kim jong-un, and my button works. joining us now is the president of the eurasia group ian bremmer and phillip mudd. great to have both of you. this is huge, yes? >> it's a break through. another break through. sanctions supported by everyone, including the chinese. >> it worked. >> it had impact in my view. give credit to trump for some of that stuff. >> the sanctions had teeth. kim jong is unis hurting. he needs south korea is's help now. >> yeah. now let's be clear that the south korea is ans are working with north korea more closely, or want to, in large part because they're scared. trump's america first policy is not in any way a south korea first policy. the south korea is ans will be aligned more with china, cut their own deal with pyongyang. >> why is that a big deal? why is a wedge between south korea and the u.s. and south korea realigning away towards china, what's the represent cus

tweet. this is an interesting one. he said basically here that he talked about the fact that kim jong-un was saying how he has a button and his button was at the ready. the president in his tweet clearly making it plain and clear that he's got a button and his button is bigger. so let's get down to the brass tacks. a lot of people feel like the message was clear and that's what the president was after. here's kellyanne conway. >> the president's position, our position on north korea has never changed. he continues to apply maximum pressure. north korea must denuclearize the peninsula region. we're happy that there seems to be a more unified international effort in this regard in that pursuit. >> others, however, as you can well imagine have criticized the effectiveness, if you will, of the president's bombastic style. >> where we have serious issues to address abroad, president trump seems happy with macho boasts and belligerent threats that get us nowhere. president trump's foreign policy b

tweet a backpedal, of course. the president following that initial tweet with this one almost two hours later. quote, with that being says, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. okay. the house of representatives passed the reauthorization of the fisa act on a vote of 256-164. and now it goes to the senate for its consideration. we have assembled the best of our reporters and friends. with us from washington, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian, white house bureau chief philip rucker and barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she prosecuted the so-called underwear bomber case and chaired a national security subcommittee for the justice department. she's now a law professor at the university of michigan. and let me start with you, barbara. le

curious to see how president moon reacts to the tweets. but how significant is this hot line reopening? >> well, it is significant. the north and south koreans are now back in contact since february 2016. so we had a readout of the call that happened just hours ago. we're told it was really a logistical communications check to make sure the line still worked. the readout was very short. they took out the names for security reasons so the north koreans called the south koreans, said this is x. the north koreans said this is x. that's all we know, but what we do suspect, they're waiting for a second call either tonight or tomorrow from the north koreans. they will be calling to talk about whether or not next tuesday works for them to have these high level talks about north korea's delegation to the pyeongchang winter olympics with south korea has suggested. so the fact they have made contact is significant in itself. as for the tweet we are very unlikely to get an official reaction from here in south korea. i asked the president a couple of

but, yeah, we saw that tweet right there. jong-un. he's trying to take the high road here... are they still trying to seek something out? are they gonna go on a camping trip or something? >> i like the passive-aggressiveness of that. >> that is good. that is good. >> that's well formed. that one, that's a good tweet. >> a lot of people were wondering if he was actually diplomat in chief, and i think that was very diplomatic. >> [ laughing ] it was. >> very much so. it was an olive branch to the short and fat leader of north korea. >> "rocket man," "dotard," whatever. >> they don't get twitter there. >> that's what i was curious about. this one here -- well, of course, he said -- when he gets all this criticism, he said... >> can't argue with that. >> yeah, it is now presidential. >> well, i mean, he said -- and give him credit for the fact that he found this way to leverage twitter in a way that you can get right through the media, get your message out there. i don't think, all the time, it's not necessarily on the plane of w

a lot of people don't like the tweeting.hey don't like the mood, they don't like the spirit of things. and they don't think that they're getting that much out of -- now, if there is a big economic boom this year and the tax cuts seem to be working, people will be in a better mood. however, i still think you're looking at a wave coming in november of 2018 and the real machiavellian thing to do for ryan and mcconnell would be to sit down and say, what can we get done before we can no longer get anything done, whatsoever? >> yeah. >> that's why ryan wants to do entitlements and mcconnell says he doesn't, because mcconnell is in a position he can defend his senate majority and doesn't want to do anything controversial. ryan's like, let's roll the dice and try to do something on entitlement reform before the wave hits and we no longer have any power. >> it's echoes of democrats in 2010, if that massachusetts special election -- now or never on health care. and they got it done. the roundtable is staying with us. up next, some thi

tweet against all odds. what you saw is the president in many ways especially on issues he doesn't know quite as well is an empty vessel on policy. and on the one hand that can be a benefit because it can make him more likely, as he said in the room the other day, to sign whatever good deal arrives on his desk. on the other hand, not understanding the nuances or even the broad specifics can create something like what happened this morning where the white house had put out a statement saying they supported the fisa bill, and then the bill undercuts it based on, best we can tell, based on something he watched on television, then aids, members of congress have to walk him back on that tweet. it's a double-edged sword that's sometimes more sharp than they sometimes hope. >> peter, was john kelly expected to go to the hill today? >> that's a good question. one we'll be posing to the white house. the president met with democratic and republican lawmakers in the oval office today before a roundtable that he just he

and i tweeted. i tweeted. can you believe? >> of his thousands of mean tweets, there is atregrets.k came out of seclusion to appear at the 2014 oscars. having a real hard time watching the academy awards. kim should sue her plastic surgeon. friends say the 81-year-old was so devastated she didn't leave home for months. >> i said why did you do this to kim novak and his first response was i didn't get into any trouble for it, did i? >> after announcing his run for president, trump eventually apologized. >> the fact that i caught him bothered him. and he had to talk about it quite a bit and eventually say, well, you're right. it wasn't a very nice thing to do. now, i think it was sensitive to being called out. >> tweets. >> i don't see that as an appropriate comment. >> i'm aappalled. >> there is no shortage of voices calling for the president to cut back and tone it down. including his own voters. >> and how do you think he's going? >> it is kind of crazy. we have a twitter president. i wish he would tweet less. >> is it a risky way to communicate? >> in a summer poll 7 of 10 americ

that is until the president started tweeting. the president had backed the extension but chaos broke out on capitol hill after this tweet. this is the act that may have been used with help of the discredited and phony dossier. this came moments after this aired on fox news. >> i don't understand why donald trump is in favor of this. his woes began with unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional domestic surveillance of him before he was the president of the united states. and now he wants to ins institutionalize this. mr. president, this is not the way to go. >> nearly two hours of the fox inspired comment put everything in flux the president was tweeting again. with that being said, two hour space, with that being said i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process. we need it. get smart. >> we've learned house speaker paul ryan spoke to trump between those two tweets perhaps clarifying the matter. >> the white house made the puzzling claim there was no contradiction in the two tweets. the entire episode lea

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. >> you have a president just tweeting out utter madness. >> in a tweet the president blasting the doj for what he calls the deep state. >> his tweets will be taken as official policy. >> it's not good to address international engagement issues on twitter. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> it's january 3rd, 8:00 in the east. turns out north and south korea are talking on a border hotline. it has happened twice. this will be the first time in nearly two years the two sides have been talking. kim jong-un reopening the communication line after offering to send the delegation to the olympics that will be in south korea. >> president trump raises the prospect of nuclear war and talked to kim jong-un in a sort of juvenile fashion tweeting that his nuclear button is much bigger and powerful than kim jong-un's and it works. raising questions about his mental and mind-set. paula, what is the latest from seoul? >> reporter: alisyn, we know north and south korea have spoken in the demilitarized zone, and the dialogue was limited but the fact they spoke is significant.

he hasn't been tweeting about his legislative agenda but tweeted about just about every other topic. clearly russia continues to get under his skin trying to divert attention away from the russia probe by calling on the justice department to investigate some of his political rivals, hillary clinton in a tweet saying justice department must finally act also on comey and others. that tweet references e-mails that the fbi said it was looking into in the final weeks of the campaign and determined did not break the law. the president reviving that issue again apparently as a way to turn the page on the russia probe. the president also tweeting about the situation in north korea saying sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have a big impact on north korea. soldiers are dangerously fleeing to south korea. rocketman now wants to talk to south korea for the first time. perhaps that is good news, perhaps not. we will see. reviving that nickname of rocketman that so many foreign policy experts suggest it could ramp up the tensions between the united states and north korea. when we do h

now, as for that tweet from the u.s. president, we're not going to get an official response from that from south korea. certainly not from the president moon who has welcomed the new year's day suggestions of peace between north and south korea, but we could get something from north korea. we have seen in the past that kim jong-un has responded almost directly to the u.s. president when he is being rebutting any threats or anything against him so we'll have to see if he says anything this time. >> indeed we will. the world awaits a month ahead of the olympics. >>> president trump also weighing in again on the deadly anti government protests in iran tweeting the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt iranian regime. all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets. the people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. the u.s. is watching. nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. echoing her boss's sentiments. >> we must not be

and tweets like this essentially pour gasoline on that blaze. president trump is goading kim jong un to test a nuclear missile again, to prove its reliability to show him wrong. and fundamentally, i think it comes across as two kindergartners who are jostling each other, except that each has nuclear weapons. >> and ezra, i just want to go to you on north korea. we're going to talk about it more later in the program. but one more point on. this kim jong un had issued a statement that included some positive indicators of opening of possible talks with south korea all around the olympics and the possible participation of north korea in the olympics. so that was a very positive element to what he said. he also said that thing about his nuclear button. so the president of the united states decided to react to the negative line and to ignore the positive -- the possible positive opening here. >> i don't even know i would call what donald trump did here decided to react. this is not a reasonable form of reaction no matter what part of kim jong un's sta

what do you make of this tweet tonight? >> anderson, i'd suggest that it's not good to address complex international engagement issues on twitter. diplomacy is not meant to be done on that kind of a device. especially when you're talking about posing the world's most powerful man, president trump, the leader of the free world, with a guy who's really a third-rate dictator. you're putting them on an even keel and allowing them to be seen by the entire world going at this schoolyard bullying fight. having conducted exercises on the korean peninsula, if this comes to a catastrophic war, or some type of conflict, it's going to be like nothing we've ever seen before, especially if it's some type of nuclear exchange, which is what's been in these tweets. so i don't see any of this as contributing to a diplomatic solution or some kind of peaceful solution to what's going on on the korean peninsula. and that's my primary objective as a soldier. >> many of the president's supporters will say this is a sign of strength by the preside

his tweet was coninterest dictly. how do people need to trust -- not us, reporter -- stakeholders, people representing the president's position actually are? sarah: i think that the premise of your question is completely ridiculous and shows the lack of knowledge that you have on this process. i tried several times. i'll do it a 10th time here. look, the president supports the 702. but he has some very strong concerns about the fisa program more generally. again, this is why he put out a memo last week outlining such and why the d.n.i. director put out a new policy this morning. i'm not sure what the confusion is there. [inaudible] reporter: the president's tweet this morning was in your view not at all confusing and not at all contradictory. do you think that's an accurate statement? sarah: it wasn't confusing for me. i'm sorry it was for you. reporter: a lot of questions what's happening in florida. there have been other states that pointed the administration has exempted florida saying they would also like to be ex

the great new year tweet president trump tweeted after there were many other interesting tweets, including calling all african countries shitholes, but that's not what we're discussing right now. as i said it does not take a genius to understand basic mathematics. he talks about $33 billion pakistan received from america in terms of assistance. pakistan has received somewhere to the tune of $4.8 billion under the head of military assistance and somewhere to the tune of $5.2 billion in the realm of civilian assistance. and i'm not one who believes pakistan has not had its own faults. we've had many, many faults. giving space to terrorist for pretty much in every military regime almost has not been something that has -- that has done pakistan any good. i think the relationship that pakistan and the u.s. got on the invasion was one that the pakistan and the u.s. got out of, and the loss was ours to bear. because all the majority which had been trained on our soil, all the infiltration of terrorist extremist which was left in our peoples minds was left for us to deal with. and america was happ

willing to talk peace why should we make any of these massive future payments to them a couple big tweet there from donald trump ok so we can start with a reaction to that from both sides in a moment she hunted b. who is israel's minister of regional cooperation first though one assuredly from the palestinian liberation organization. i would say that palestinian diets are not for sale and we will not succumb to the acme that imperatives and the climate for peace and unilaterally president campaigns this story done it has a very sabotaged out assets at that evening and just peace and getting freedom and dignity for the palestinian people by that good nice thing occupy jerusalem as the capital of israel he has not done it disqualified himself as a piece of real courage only mediated by taking sides and by becoming complicit in this is occupation he has a job so don't give me some but there is yes totally this story developing foundations are feast is it in trump is absolutely right it is impossible to wait and wait and wait for so many years for the policy views to go forward and renewed t

>> well, the tweets are obviously ridiculous. but they're also really dangerous, when you stop to think about the fact that there are millions of lives at risk on both sides in this conflict. and we have to take a step back and try to think about, what's the end game here? our end game should be, aside from these tweets, trying to prevent a scenario whereby either side, whether it be the north koreans or the united states try to prove that their nuclear button is bigger. we want to avoid nuclear war, not encourage it. >> so you see the president's tweet goading the north koreans? >> i think that the president's tweets are definitely goading kim jong-un into another test. when you look back over the last year, we've seen an escalating cycle of tweets and tests. we have inflammatory rhetoric by the president, including insults over twitter. and we have kim jong-un launching more missile and nuclear tests. it's an escalating cycle. and the fact is, as richard points out, we haven't seen tough language defor kim jong-un from his beha

a tweet on a heated tweet. our surveillance is very good and we know that the intelligence community is watching what the north koreans are doing. the president has multiple audience. one is china and one north korea. >> harris: we love free speech. critics are saying that national security situation about the president trump's tweets making him the real nuclear threat and you say that is preposterous and also some what dangerous. it is free sweech. but the world gets to see us going back and forth on this issue. >> americans like to debate with themselves and a lot of people no matter what the president or republican president does they will say nasty things. and it goes the other direction at times. hillary clinton when she was running against president trump, a man you can bait with a tweet you can't trust with the nuclear button. what about kim jong-un? he has massive prison camp and we can't allow kim jong-un to have a nuclear weapon's program with icb's going to american cities. no one wants war in united

i disagree with the tweeting. ip know he likes it, because he's got the opportunity to talk with the american people every single day. >> let me interrupt you. do you think he understands that you can make a case that one of the reasons he's so unpopular with a large majority of the country is his personal behavior in the office? >> i think -- i think he has a sense that there are people out there that are very loyal to him, because he's in constant communication with them. and he thinks that they appreciate the fact that he's different and that he's a disrupter. and that he's not going through and having regular flus conferences where everything is interpreted. but i think, also, when he continues the way that he is right now with one message after another after another, some ofwich are not presidential in stature, i think that hurts his ability to get the job done. i think this man has got the right focus in terms of policies. i think the defense and the taxes and so forth, he's right on, but when it comes to us

going to tweet the way i want to tweet. any consideration that tweets like the one on north korea actually don't advance the agenda, meaning working with other partners in the region? >> i think what didn't help was the complacency and silence of the previous administration. this is a president who leads through strength and he's going to do that and he's going to focus on everything that he can do in order to keep americans safe and he's not going to be pushed around by the leader of north korea, or policy with north korea. it has not changed. we're fully committed to continuing to ally maximum pressure and working with all partners in the region including south korea who we have a better relationship now than ever before. we'll keep working with them, pushing forward and hopefully north korea will start making better decisions. kristen? >> you just said that people should question the mental fitness of kim jong-un. isn't it dangerous for the president to be taunting him on twitter? >> i don't think that it's tauntintaunt

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i'm not sure tweeting makes a lot of sense. what i would do is quietly peak it clear our support for pakistan is going to be conditional going forward, our military support, based upon specific behavior, against terrorism. but to put it auto publicly now forces this pakistani's response, it makes it difficult to arrange anything behind the scenes. >> that is plenty difficult to begin with. >> pakistan, north korea, iran, all countries that have confused, being -- been problematic for an american president for decades, you've written the book on this, it certainly looks like it's a world in disarray, but when you wrote this a year ago, i wonder if you knew how much the disarray the world would be in, gamp year after the trump administration, who is controlling this, who is the hand of god looking at the world and saying we are the leaders, we will fix some of these. >> i have been called many things in my life, never an optimi optimist. this is new to me. i think the alternative to a u.s.-led world the sort of world we've seen f

. >> you just can't tweet here. you have to lay out a plan. >> today with trump kicking off his first full year as president, trump trying to stay focused on the highs, even though there are new reports about one of the lows. how a member of his own campaign team triggered the russia investigation. i want to start with garrett haake who is in west palm beach with the president. if twitter is any indication, president trump focused here over the last 24 to 48 hours very much on foreign policy. >> reporter: that's right, david, good morning and happy new year. the president is starting 2018 much as he ended 2017. he's just arrived at his golf course here in palm beach for the last time before he heads back to washington, d.c., later today. you said it, this morning he's engaged on twitter on two different south asian hot spots tweeting about the protests in iran again today and also tweeting about pakistan. this was the first tweet of 2018 and could be a consequential one. the president writing the united states has f

that was just one of the tweets that he put out there. how is his team managing this?id anyone have any clue that he was going to come out and say that mine is bigger than yours? >> no, i don't think that that was something that was the product of sitting around the cabinet table talking about the best way to reach kim jong-un. i was actually told the white house aides have reached out to some who might have influence with the president, especially on national security, to try to convince him that those tweets are just not good for american policy, that they crossed a line that really make him look unstable. now, i don't know, erin, if those messages were actually delivered to the president yet today, so that is unclear, but i also, and this is not going to surprise you, i did not talk to anybody who suggested that the president will ever be convinced to stop tweeting, not at all. >> no, no. dana, thank you very much. the panel's back with me. david, you know, it's interesting what dana says, right, that people are trying to convince him that those tweets could have ma

he was tweeting about this again today. they somehow limited the number of people who can be involved in it, though susan rice was cleared by both parties when she testified. >> let me be clear at the outset to say i don't think there's been any abuse of this unmasking authority, which is the process by which a national security official can ask to know the identity of an american whose name has been masked in an intercept that's been collected in order to understand the context. that's what unmasking is. i don't think there's been any abuse of this, and we have only sketchy details at this point on what the director of national intelligence has just done. looking at it, it strikes me as something designed more to make the president feel good than to really substantially change the process. it is significant in that it's the first time the whole intelligence community has, on one piece of paper, guidance on how to do this. the significant element that jumps out at you is a requirement for the general counsel, that is, the c

reaction to the tweets from u.s. president donald trump and the remarks from u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley from palestinian officials has been swift the p.l.o. executive committee member when i should always says palestinian rights are not for sale by recognizing occupy jerusalem as israel's capital donald trump has not only violated international law but he has also single handedly destroyed the very foundations of peace and condoned israel's illegal annexation of the city we will not be blackmailed president trump has sabotaged our search for peace freedom and justice now he dares to blame the palestinians for the consequences of his own irresponsible actions so as you can see certainly those remarks from bassett or haley in the tweets from president trump every inflamed the situation here when it was already tense now we also spoke to a spokesman for that's the u.n. agency for aid and relief for palestinian refugees in reaction to the remarks from u.s. ambassador nikki haley that the u.s. may cut their funding to he says he has not been informed by the

what was your reaction to this tweet? >> reporter: there is a lot factually to address with that tweet. you dealt with the first issue. that was under the bush administration. the health of the deal is not necessarily a former real estate magnate president trump suggests. the building behind me according to the u.s. state department was built entirely using the funds of the sale of the old u.s. embassy. still also partially in use as well. the old building is in mayfair central london, a plush part of town. it's a listed building but it was sold to a qatar i sovereign wealth funds and they are developing it into a hotel for a project worth a billion pounds, $1.3 billion more than enough to develop what is behind me. this is not an awful location. the apartments around me are going about a million pounds themselves. quite an extraordinary judgment in terms of how london's property market functions. but many i think in london are waking up reading this bizarre announcement that he's cancelling a trip that was never official

tweeting about your mental state. why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning? >> only because i went to the best colleges or college. i went to a -- i had a situation where i was a very excellent student. came out and made billions of dollars. became one of the top business people. went to television and for ten years was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard. ran for president one time and won. and then i hear this guy that doesn't know me at all, by the way, did not interview me -- he said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house. it didn't exist. it's in his imagination. >> today donald trump spent the afternoon to air force one with none other than senator bob corker. the president set to deliver remarks in just a few moments in corker's home state of tennessee. we'll monitor that and bring you any news they make. first to our reporters and guests. with us from "the washington post," white house reporter ashley parker and at the table, chief white house correspondent peter ba

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she tweeted this.n 12/28, quote, i have the absolute right to do what i want with the justice department, closed quote. today, he slanders career department of justice professionals as deep state. calls for prison for a political opponent. tries to sick doj on a potential witness on him. beyond abnormal. dangerous. what's your reaction? >> from a national security perspective, i read the president's twitter feed today and thought, wow, putin is having a really good day. ef time trump tweets against the department of justice, he's making the russians very, very happy. there's bipartisan con sensensu that russia attack eed us durin the election and launched a campaign to undermine confidence in our institutions. every time he tweets against department of justice or his political opponent, he's actively participate ng the russian's information warfare campaign and i urge him to read or reread a july defense intelligence agency report that talks about how russia views the information domain as strategicall

here is one of the tweets, exhibit a.ill read it drama lick. >> north korean leader kim jong-un stated a nuclear button is on his desk at all the times. will someone from his deleted and food starved regime please tell him i have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his and mine works. john avlon, first of all, i don't think you should refer to your body parts as a button, number one. >> fair point. >> number two, i don't know what to do with it. >> this is language that would have been rejected from the script from doctors of strange love. this is the president of the united states doing a measuring test about nuclear weapons. we can't begin to normalize this. this is dangerous. this is childish. this is unpresidential. it is not befitting the leader of the free world. inside the white house, as well as the administration, there are two responses. one is a full face palm and silent scream. the other is sycophants saying great job is, boss. you got it. both are unacceptable. somehow we have

a man sent this tweet last night. pick on someone your own size like shamu and he used a word we won't put on tv, brad. it's personal. >> what he should be using is the term prosecution. hillary clinton, huma abiden and others who disseminated classified information and who mishandled it intentionally to thwart the sunshine of the freedom of information act as well as the records keeping act have done things that are illegal. clearly if you or i did it we'd been in jail now. they have been protected by the government. that's not what our government should be. our government should be equal to all. >> bill: one would argue that's a fair point, richard. >> number one, that's a smoke screen at best. >> bill: really? >> the f.b.i. and i.g.'s office the overlooking the comey investigation to see if there was wrongdoing. initially the only people who have committed guilt here are donald trump's national security advisor who pled guilty. >> bill: so what's good for one is not good for the other? richard? >> the point here is

he put his own special sauce on it with his tweets which i'm not sure were great.in fact be telling us, that has been our policy, and it may be working. they've got kim jong-un to at least negotiate with south korea on things like military exercises and other things. so if you're an optimist, you would look at it that way. >> you seem optimistic this afternoon, congressman. everyone stick around, we have lots more to talk about after this quick break. so, that goal you've been saving for, you can do it. we can do this. at fidelity, our online planning tools are clear and straightforward so you can plan for retirement while saving for the things you want to do today. -whoo! >>> we're back with more breaking news and parents if you're watching with children, you might want to mute for the next 35 seconds. the washington post reported minutes ago that today in the oval office president trump grew frustrated with lawmakers discussing immigration when they quoted restoring protections for immigrants from haiti, el salvador and african countries as part of a bipartisan i

the tweets seem to contradict that. ms. sanders: i do not think so. it does not affect the negotiations. we want to continue to have conversations and continue the peace process. we are committed to that and we hope we can continue to push forward on that point. >> what is the pay more thing? the says that israel would have to pay more. ms. sanders: i do not know the details. i will check. >> in light of this book and the back-and-forth, will the white tose reconsider its position release visitor logs. ms. sanders: i do not foresee any changes but i will make you aware. >> two questions. first, during the campaign, the president said repeatedly that entitlements were off the table and he would preserve social security, medicare, medicaid, medicare part d, as they were. now, with the passage of tax reform legislation and the recent statements of house speaker paul ryan that entitlements should be considered, has the president changed his decision from the campaign? ms. sanders: the president has not changed his position at this point. if that does chan

respect they also tweeted they'd taken jerusalem off the negotiating table. the first time in almost two years north korea has reopened communication inside the demilitarized zone with south korea this took place ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday. norway is banning weapons exports to the united arab emirates over its participation in the war in yemen the u.a.e. is a key member of the saudi led coalition fighting hooty rebels in the country. now the u.s. says it intends to withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan to the decision comes after president trump again accused the country of being a safe haven for he called terrorists rosen jordan has more from washington d.c. . the u.s. president doll tromped used his first tweet of two thousand and eighteen to attack the pakistani government trying to accuse the pakistanis of not doing enough to crack down on groups such as the hunt khan the network or the talabani say these groups are destabilizing not just pockets but also afghanistan to the west on tu