giuliani is looking at president trump's tweets so what kind of tweets are we looking at here? >> he's looking at the tweets in particular about his tweets about james comey and jeff sessions, him really attacking the two of them. the president's legal team, rudy giuliani have said well, if the president really was trying to obstruct justice he would have done it in private, so there's no reason to investigate the tweets. however, it's interesting because this -- donald trump in general more than lots of other famous figures has really used twitter to i don't know, dictate how he communicates with people especially in politics and really drive that point across and a lot of, you know, it can be argued that he's used twitter to try to communicate with those around him and to push a message, so he has this abnormal -- not abnormal but a different way of communications with twitter and i think robert mueller does realize that. >> stays with us. we have much more to talk about this morning. >> michael cohen's lawyer speaking out for one of the first times attacking the president fo

trump tweet.ames comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. this is literally days after comey is fired. >> right. >> how would you handle this evidence? is this evidence of obstruction? how would it be used as evidence of obstruction? >> if you look at that tweet and then the tweet that preceded it about comey before comey was fired, that first one talked about how comey or hillary was aided by comey. it was somewhat benign. but now you get into this -- the nastier tweet after comey is terminated and you start putting all of these together to show that, number one, trump is probably putting up some kind of implicit threat. comey better hope there are no tapes. it's even more so if there are no tapes. what if it's just a bald threat for comey to keep it quiet. if it was something to induce comey to remain silent, especially in the face of any duty to speak, like, for example, in front of a grand jury or congress, then these are the kinds o

no single tweet or statement. whether you add it up, does it add up to witness tampering or impeding the investigation. >> demanding the loyalty of comey before firing. or let michael flynn off the hook or he said tell the public i'm not being targeted here. all of those demands we have learned he is doing. they could be potentially be, i'm asking you, obstruction of justice. >> peter is right. trump doing it in broad daylight has desensitized the public. but that won't carry over to bob mueller. he will look at trump's conduct and state of mind. within this statutory framework that exists under law, he will decide whether there is enough evidence to prove some sort of obstruction and that is why all of this conduct matters. tweets that can be attributed to him personally, they run through this course of conduct from the firing of comey torq, to the ef of humiliating jeff sessions. so yes, mueller will definitely try to stitch all of this together and see if obstruction emerges at the end. >> does the fact that he

. >>> tweet intentions. robert mueller is reportedly examining the president's tweets as part of a wide ranging obstruction of justice probe. could the president's twitter habit lead to legal trouble? >>> some conservative lawmakers are pushing to impeach the man who oversees the special counsel investigation. >>> the trump administration faces a deadline tonight for reuniting parents and children separated after crossing the border illegally. why are hundreds still being kept apart? i'm wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the special counsel robert mueller is looking into the president's tweets especially those about the attorney general jeff sessions and the former fbi director. this from the "new york times" which says it is part of a wide ranging obstruction inquiry. and the wall street journal reports a subpoena in the michael cohen case. a source says allen weisselberg knows anything and everything about the trump administration. i will speak with senator ben

tweet fly-by-night. these things are heavily discussed in newsrooms. what's important and what is not and when the president says something i guess i kind of hate when people say it's just a tweet. it's a presidential statement after all. for instance with the iran issue he is obliquely threatening war, maybe even a war that people have never seen before which i guess people can take to think nuclear war against iran. shall we not cover that? this is important. we have to make these decisions even if it makes -- means letting things fall by the wayside. the child separation issue has fallen off of most front pages as of the russian issue. will the russian issue fall off the pages because of another issue? we don't know. it is complicated. host: you are on the frontlines lines of knowing which issues to cover. ayesha: these are presidential statements so they are important. outlets havenews tried to do in the age of president trump is to try to discern when something is newsworthy and when it is not. when

mr unsworth condemned the tweet. calling it a pr stunt. mr unsworth condemned the tweetlj calling it a pr stunt. mr unsworth condemned the tweet. i don't really understand it. obviously it's a bruised ego. at the end of the day, we we re bruised ego. at the end of the day, we were here to rescue 12 young boys. unsworth had travelled into the caves in the first days after the caves in the first days after the boys went missing and helped bring in top international cave rescue experts for the mission. the british diver says he might now sue the billionaire. hopefully get a copy of the tweet later, and not finished. i'll take advice will get back to london. legal advice? yes. the tweet sent out to elon musk‘s 22 million followers has now been deleted but he still says is planning to send his submarine to the now empty cave just to prove it could be done. mr unsworth has previously said the billionaire can stick his submarine where it hurts. the boys, continuing the recovery in

he doesn't tweet about playboy models, doesn't tweet about stormy daniels, doesn't tweet very much about the people he's trying to take their security clearances away. every once in a while he does that, but he tries to do something he did today. but the stuff that scares him -- he doesn't tweet about paul manafort very much, right? the people that are a threat to trump, there has been a lot of panic over the last 18 months. but right now you really feel the walls closing in. i always think when he's tweeting about iran, it is dangerous, so it secures me, but i don't take a word of it seriously because it is the ultimate, look at the squirrel. >> it couldn't be more strange that the place we looked for for encouragement, the encouraging sign of what donald trump's tweet threatening a nuclear attack, the encouraging side of it is, don't worry, the president doesn't mean a word he says. that's where we go for comfort. >> indeed. you know, we saw the fire and fury around north korea and this pomp and circumstance instead of persistence and precision. now we're seeing him show off how strong

, specifically tweets about jeff sessions, tweets about fired fbi director james comey, as to whether or not those are signs of or evidence of obstruction. here's how giuliani sees it. >> if they are looking at his tweets, the investigation is done. we're going to do obstruction by tweet on a president of the united states as an article of i am r impeachment? it's laughable. it's scary. >> does he have any legal ground to stand on there since the white house has said that tweets are the official word of the president? >> absolutely not. no ground to stand on there. the tweets aren't going to be used as a smoking gun evidence on the part of the president ep but they add credence to a theory about an obstruction of justice theory. in terms of pressuring comey, asking sessions to one, reverse his recusal and two, see if he could fire sessions and appoint a yes man in that position to oversee the russian investigation while at the same time he was letting these tweets out which can be seen as witness tampering if he was aware there was an ongoing investigation and had an effort to tamp do

tweet, yeah!ause ) and it understan turns out crooy and the f.b.i. are the real russians. ( laughter ) you just got shamaland. ( laughter ) and if you want to get trump on obstruction of justice, we've covered that as well. you see, we found the tweet where he pretty much confesses to the obstruction of justice. look at that. look at that. go real close -- nuh-uh! you have to buy the book! can't just read it for free on the show! ( applause ) the point is this book is far more than just trump's twitter feed printed out. we've curated more than 400 of the president's tweets, analyzed them and added context to get inside his head. like do you have any idea how much he hates diet coke no matter how much he drinks it all the time? here's the history of donald trump's twitter war against diet coke. i'm not sure it helps your investigation but it's pretty funny. ( laughter ) look, bobby, no time to waste. donald trump could tweet at the time you're fired. buy this wherever fine books and incriminating e

in a series of tweets, he attacked qatar. to his recent trip to saudi arabia, he said that, amidst all the pomp and ceremony, the king had promised to tackle the funding of extremists. and the finger was pointing squarely at qatar. trump's support for the saudis only made the crisis worse. qatar's neighbours then move to isolate it. air, land and sea routes were either closed or disrupted. the economic impact on a small gulf state, sandwiched between now hostile neighbours, was initially devastating. diplomatic and business ties were cut and qataris were told to leave saudi arabia, the uae and bahrain. while president trump was tweeting, there was another computer hack, this time the target was the uae. a group called globalleaks released hacked e—mails from the account of yousef al otaiba, the uae ambassador to washington. soon after, in august, 2017, an online investigative magazine, called the intercept, published a long article based on the e—mails. the hacking war has continued into 2018. e—mails embarrassing to both qat

we didn't know how to deal with these tweets. we asked sean spicer should we take things seriously or not. spicer said every tweet is a presidential statement, take them seriously. the president of the united states is going after sessions or comey, i think it does raise an issue. howie: another story there was a lot of coverage of. 11 house republicans introducing impeachment for rod rosenstein for allegedly slow-walking requests for documents. it got a lot of coverage to compete with the 4.1% jump in the gdp. morgan: i think the tea party wanted that coverage. they are frustrated with a slow-walking effort by the doj getting these documents out. and they were frustrated with the amount of redactions. howie: particularly like the "new york times" lead story on trump's tweets, why don't you view that as a distraction. they don't have the votes in the house to impeach rosenstein. morgan: this is what the tea party wanted. you saw jim jordan announce for speaker this week. for republicans in vulnerable districts, i don't think thou

be a dozen people can create the impression all anything between twenty and forty thousand tweets in iowa they can then push that hashtag into the trending list and so it throws a smokescreen over the whole idea of one man one vote somebody who controls ten thousand votes or one hundred thousand votes controlling one hundred thousand voices and they distort the debate. to disturbing use of twitter to mislead the public was demonstrated after a mass shooting in las vegas last year and another at a texas church. google searches prioritised false stories spread on twitter and facebook that the shooters were progressive democrats. most of them converts and members of anti from her radical anti fascist group all of the social media portals that we're speaking about are intimately connected in terms of how information flows. occur across all of the platforms and bought story a bill to sort of manipulate this flow of information sam will use head of the digital intelligence lab at the institute for the future and was research director for oxford computational propaganda projects his work wi

why are we tweeting? >> so let's talk about -- >> i mean, most presidents would -- if you want to communicate with the public, communicate with us. >> right. so let's talk about sort of this pr blitz and getting ahead of the bad news that's out there, and let's talk first about these cohen tapes released this week. also about cohen getting this information to cnn, saying he would meet with mueller and talk to them about the fact that president trump knew about the trump tower meeting with don jr. before the actual meeting took place. rudy guiliani was on "face the nation" i believe earlier today talking about this and fox news. let's take a listen to that. >> cohen said that he was present at two different meetings. present at a meeting with donald jr., jared, a group of other people, in which they talked about the meeting two days later with the russians. then he says he was president of the meeting the day of the meeting in the president's office, in which either donald jr., jared or a few people came i

mueller is looking at his tweets. what does he do? he tweets. tweets threats to the special prosecutor. tweets about lying to get rid of the attorney general because he wouldn't do his bidding on recusal. the interaction of the tweets, the actions and the behavior of his surrogates and his allies is something that mueller is putting together in the mother of all time lines. and you're going to see i think at the end of this a compilation of every comment trump was saying publicly, what he was saying privately. the most stunning thing that i found is on the day that donald trump, jr., gets that e-mail, do you want to come and find some dirt on hillary clinton, and he e-mails back, i love it, trump goes out and makes a speech about seven hours later, i am going to have a speech on hillary clinton, you're going to get all the dirt. you can see how the network works back and forth and those e-mails and tweets are going to be the corroborating evidence. people say, well, michael cohen could be making things up. he could be lying. you know what? there

it was a weekend of all caps tweeting from president trump who tweeted dozens of times in just the last 24 hours alone. especially over the weekend while he was at his golf club. that remark from the president in all caps directed at iran came after the iranian president issued a statement in remarks saying essentially that any war -- any conflict between the united states and iran would be the war to end all wars, essentially. very strong language coming from him. and, of course, brook, this all comes, you can't ignore the backdrop. in may the united states withdrew from the iran deal. that meant the sanctions were reimposed. we are weeks away from strict banking sanctions and in november there will be tougher sanctions as well. that is all the backdrop. the president's tweet specifically came after pompmik pompeo delivered a harsh statement at iran saying this. >> the level of corruption shows iran is run by something that resembled the mafia more than a government. it's like an iranian unicorn. sometimes it seems the world has become desensitized to the world's authoritarianism aroun

can the president be charged with a crime over his tweet?an be charged but not very convincingly. if you are charged to stitch together tweets for some criminal mosaic then you really are reaching the evidentiary dragons. a subject does not surrender their first amendment rights to speak out in their own defense. the president is frankly someone who seems to play poker with the cards faced outward. that helps in many respects, and he's not just issuing these tweets with regard to special counsel, he's doing it on trade and republican and democratic critics. he is someone who communicates through tweets and it tends to be visceral in his responses. i don't see how you could possibly base a convincing criminal case on that type of social media social media. >> sandra: if this is it the case and we are going off of a report here, and the special counsel is looking at the president's tweets, particularly about sessions and comey, what does that tell you about robert mueller and his investigation? >> that would undermine his good ability and that

but over time in tweet after tweet after tweet to build a narrative the president really did not likehe russia investigation and really wanted the russia investigation to go away, the tweets that he sends late at night and early in the morning and often out of anger i think go? way to filling what his state of mind was. and to prove obstruction, whatever context, in a criminal case or in a congressional proceeding, you have to show state of mind. and the tweets are relevant to that. >> as you know, the president's lawyer rudy giuliani told "the new york times" and i'm quoting giuliani now, "if you're going to obstruct justice you do it quietly and secretly, not in public." what do you make of that? >> well, yes. what rudy giuliani says is the norm. this president likes to break norms. and maybe he likes to violate the law in a way that breaks norms as well. but it's also true that lots and lots of things are done quietly and secretly and the president in this case, some of the things he's doing are out in the open. sometimes bad conducts can happen out in the open because you think th

tweet. recently on her youtube page she had this to say about her tweet. we'll ask her about that. >> i'm trying to talk about iran, trying to talk about the iran deal. >> you told me this 300 times. >> that's what my tweet was about. >> you have explained this. i [bleep] why! [bleep] >> sean: such a short time ago i sat down with roseanne. we begin with part 1. she needs no introduction. roseanne barr is with us. thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me, sean. >> sean: you sent this tweet out. >> yeah. actually, i was hacked. no, i'm kidding. >> sean: you haven't lost your sevens humor. i want to talk about your background and everything. i want to get to it. muslim brotherhood, planet of the apes, you are talking about valley jarit. obviously, what were you thinking when you said that? i know you said people shouldn't defend you. >> i just didn't want to get into the whole game of it. that is a political tweet. and, you know, i have been on twitter for a long time, i'm always, let's put

he's tweeted at james comey before. story says after several tweets against sessions, an aide to sessions said they wanted one negative article in the media about comey every day. the question for bob mueller, is that the president trying to pressure the fbi director to do something that ends up getting in the way of investigation, or is it, as rudy giuliani would say, the president has every right to fire people who work in the administration, so what. >> going back to the idea of an interview, it seems like there's very little he could be asked in an interview that he hasn't already come out and commented on in public, often in mind-blowingly inflammatory or revealing ways. this is why every lawyer who tells a client under investigation, shut up. don't say anything. don't comment on the case. don't talk about it, even to your friends, much less to the world. but that is not donald trump's m.o. that clearly could come back to bite him. to say that because he didn't do it in secret, it doesn't count, that's like the guy

when you look at what happened with this tweet, this all caps, very aggressive tweet in the middle of the night from president trump, i think there's two ways of looking at it. one, you talk about his temperament. there's always a lot of focus on the kind of person, the kind of president that president trump is, especially now as he is finding his stride, as he's really feeling quite confident. he went to helsinki. he had the summit that a lot of people criticized. on the back of it, he said, i'm going to invite vladimir putin to washington, and i'm not going to tell anybody about it. >> right. >> reporter: he's fieeling his stride. on a temperament point of view, you can say, well, this is the president we always for rworrie about. someone waking up in the middle of the night angry and threatening a war with another country. on the other side, you can look at policy. look at it as not just an emotional response, but as this administration, the trump administration, which is full of iran hawks, making the case for some sort of conflict with iran down the line. >> end goal, end game he

that's what my tweet was about. [bleep], [bleep]. >> sean: i sat down with roseanne for her first national tv interview since her show was cancelled. we begin with part 1. roseanne barr with us. thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me, sean. >> sean: you sent this tweet out? >> yes. actually i was hacked -- no, i'm kidding. [laughing]. >> sean: you have not lost your sense of humor. i want to talk about your background. muslim brotherhood, planet of the apes. talking about valerie? >> yes. >> sean: and obviously what were you thinking when you said that. i know you said it. people should not defend you. >> i just didn't want to get into the whole theme of it. that is a political tweet. i have been on twitter for a long time. i am always -- let's put it this way. i walked away in 2012 and ran for president of the socialist party. i thought for myself it was not where my values were at afterall. i began to read more and expand the tiny bit of news i used to read. i read alternative opinions and learned more. i corr

after he tweeted about that, he went back to tweeting about putin and his meeting. if he was hoping to distract from vladimir putin, he did not do a great job because he started talking about it again. >> benjamin, back to carter page and this fisa warrant. the republicans want to say that the fisa warrant was gotten not incorrectly, but under nefarious circumstances because they say the investigators involved didn't reveal all of the information necessary to the courts, to the judges. they didn't say that it was relying on the dossier. they didn't say who was paying for the dossier. i know you have been focused on this quite a bit over at law fair. can you walk us through what is wrong with trying to claim that even still today. >> yes. so, first of all, one of the interesting things that about this actual fisa application, as opposed to the memos about the fisa application, is that you see that the government was quite careful to not include the names of u.s. persons and entities, including, by the way, donald trump, who appears in the document only as candidate n

a tweet is just a tweet except when it isn't. that's donald trump's new reality today. brand-new reporting in "the new york times" reveals that special counsel robert mueller is examining donald trump's tweets and public attacks on witnesses in the obstruction of justice investigation. special counsel is stitching together details of the president's private conversations with witnesses such as ousted fbi director james comey and embattled attorney general jeff sessions to see if the private harassment of both men combined with the public abuse of them paint a clearer picture of obstruction. the times also reports that the special counsel's office is examining the president's tweets under a wide ranging obstruction of justice law that was beefed up, their word, after the enron scandal. from that times reporting, kwoelt, the investigators did not explicitly say they were examining possible witness tampering, but the nature of the questions they want to ask the president and the fact that they are scrutinizing his actions under a section of the united states code titled, q

doesn't tweet about cohen and manafort as much as he tweets attacks against the mueller probe and wer as much from the podium about cohen or manafort, but that behind the scenes both men, cohen probably more than manafort, created a lot of potential legal peril, a lot of anxiety for this president. news today there are 12 more tapes, 12 more recordings in the hands of federal investigators from cohen. what do you make of the president's 22-tweet weekend as sort of unraveling and the fact that manafort and cohen are on their way into the electrical socket? >> i think it's remarkable. if the president was on message and he figured there wasn't anything to worry about, we wouldn't see a meltdown. i also think it's interesting frankly he's even willing to talk about this. really what would be the smartest thing for him is to talk about jobs, but he can't help himself because he's so anxious about it. so i just think this kind of has snowballed and gets bigger and bigger. if you remember we go back to the papadopoulos episode, nobody had ever heard of his name either and that was one of t

since the tweet there is no collusion. the robert mueller witch hunt headed by 17 angry democrats paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc. therefore, the witch hunt is an illegal scam, closed quote. let's go to jim acosta. the president taking great pains to call robert mueller's investigation a rigged witch hunt and he names mueller specifically as part of that evil doing, if you will. >> reporter: that's right. >> we have to expect that the president probably will be asked a question about this when he answers reporters' questions coming up fairly soon. >> reporter: i think that's right, wolf. even if the president decides to call on friendly media conservative reporters, within the next couple of hours, that it's very likely that the president will be asked why he is being so pointed in going after mueller by name in these tweets this morning. of course, this is sort of a rapid fire effect we're seeing from the white house all morning long. not only is the president going after the special counsel's investigation, you'r

another tweet that's obviously getting a lot of attention, his tweet on iran. warning iran with strong language. effectively saying to back down, to cease its provocations or else it's going to pay, really harkening back to some of the language we heard from north korea. some people, as you indicated at the top of the show, saw that as an attempt to shift the subject away from russia when he's so heavily criticized for his handling of it. >> although he's, by tweeting on russia, he's not really changing the subject himself. this iran roll-out, and we'll talk about it in the next segment, it was all planned. mike pompeo at the reagan library last night getting a vigorous threatening speech against iran, urging the iranians to overthrow their own government and the stepped up sanctions, as you well know, against iran, telling europeans that they are not going to get any waivers, that their companies have to also squeeze iran and get out of iran and try to kill the iranian economy. so to charlie savage, the fisa warrant, we know what the president wanted to do, wh

he's starting the news cycle by tweeting -- >> president trump didn't tweet that cohen had a tape abouthis stormy daniels or the -- >> yes, i agree in that case but a lot of this is driven by president trump -- >> all of these things -- >> north korea or whatever else, tariffs. >> almost all things are in response. >> hold that thought, mr. mayor -- >> i'm going to leave after this one. >> we've scared you away? >> yeah, you scared me away. i look really scared. starting to get useless. really, really petty and silly. >> remember when you said you would stay all day to talk about this. >> okay, i'll stay one more time but you've got to give me some coffee. >> coffee coming up. with safelite, you can see exactly when we'll be there. saving you time for what you love most. >> kids: whoa! >> kids vo: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ new laptop with 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. save $200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. >>> back with us n

we'll take the tweets in kind starting with the first one here. the interest in the tweets. what we can learn about the president and his thinking from his 140, 280-character tweets over the last two years. >> we can learn a lot. we can learn that he's a very focused thinker who's clear about what he's trying to say, right. and who's always on message. what to make of those tweets. >> you had me for about five seconds. >> yeah. coherence is not the -- the strong suit. look, i mean, bob mueller of course will look at the tweets. this is one of the principal means by which the president is signaling things including to people who are involved in the investigation. so if you're thinking about the pattern of activity that the president is engaged in and how that interacts with the obstruction of justice statutes, you're looking at the whole pattern of activity, and one thing that involves is private statements to individuals. one thing that it involves is acts like, you know, firing the fbi director. one thing it involves is public statements like, you know, helping draft the --

what he is tweeting at the time he is tweeting. after the head slapping helsinki moment, he saw his approval ratings in terms of dealing with russia drop. i think that, you know, we have to ask the question of did this have to happen last night? is it a distraction of some kind, and just to prove the point, it is president trump, donald trump, who planted a seed you may need to go half iran if you need a distraction. here are his tweets in 2013. >> i predict that president obama will at some point attack iran in order to save face in 2011, in order to get elected, barack obama will start a war with iran. we know at times it has been on the president's mind, how do you see what came in last night? >> you're right, she a master of projection and also distraction. i mean with any previous president, if you woke up to this all-caps tweet, you would think he belongs in a padded cell. with trump this is business as normal. he had a tough week last week. and i guess it is as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning that he will try

the president tweeting about -- tweeting his threat to iran overnight. it does what?> well, we don't know what prompted it. blood curdling threats of war, which is what he is saying -- unless -- are generally not a good idea unless -- >> if it got north korea to the table despite results of everyone is still waiting for results. >> we had -- iran has behaved as an enemy in many ways without question. we had an agreement with iran that would guarantee them from getting nuclear weapons for 15 years and put an american to stop them from getting nuclear weapons than an american president now. the president after saying that that was a terrible agreement many times -- he never said why it was terrible -- got rid of the agreement. now we are left with military threats only. we're back to where we were without the agreement. with north korea, he is confident there's no threat. with no guarantees, no inspections, nothing, such as with iran. >> very separate topic. when it comes to the government missing deadlines for reuniting children with their families because of the presi

i sent him a tweet. actually, i sent michael cohen 48 tweets.esperate, even a little bit extreme, but you know what? harassing people on twitter gets results. and because of my harassing tweets, the most infamous trump lackey is sitting down with me. suck it, cnn. so, michael cohen. you spent $130,000 to protect donald-- who the (bleep) are you? >> michael cohen. > you're not michael cohen. i've been tweeting at michael cohen the past two weeks. >> i've seen all your tweets. i work for the "milwaukee journal sentinel" and i cover the green bay packers. i'm a sports reporter. >> so i'm been harassing the wrong dude this whole time. >> you're not the only one. >> looks like i was only one of ignorant asholes harassing this dude online. what does michael do about it? >> i just let it go. >> you don't let shit go. somebody hit you with a hateful tweet, you report their ass as spam and you lie and say they sent you a picture of their junk. you got the bomb on these fools and let them know that your twitter page ain't the place for this bullshit, and

tweeted in 2011 and 2012.urner has apologized to him and the organization. turner issued the femlowing stt saying, i am sincerely sorry for those tweets andiz apol wholeheartedly. i think people who know me understand those regrettable actions do not reflect my values or who i am. but i understand the hurtful nature of such language and am sorry to have brought any negative light to the nationals organization, myself or the game i love. > at4:37, coming up, a motivational story to get you moving on this mondaymo ing. cycling to the finish, no matter what. mecan biker clist beats the odds. how he finished the tour de france, despite a majorinjury. >>> first, sudden collap. crowd plummets when a roof caves in under their feet. the stunning video and the story >>> you're watchin 4 "news today." >> a fright iening scene in ind. a shed that was serving as a grandstand collapseg t a big crowd down with it.pl 17 pe are now injured, hundreds had climbed on to the roof to watch the race.ei apparently thet was too much.

since the tweet there is no collusion.

here are those tweets.his is from september of 2013, i predict that president obama will at some point attack iron to save face. in order to get elected, barack obama will start a war with iran. so clearly he understands this. he is thinking of this, it is in his head, so where does that leave us with what he is doing today? >> it is very concerning. you sense in the country already that it has been a long time since 2008 when the country was really repulsed by the consequencing of the war. it was 10, 9, 8 years ago. people forget what it is like to read four, five, or six american names killed in a middle eastern war. iraq was tough, wait until you try iran. they're much more powerful, iran is already working to destabilize the region. my point is that we need to be very sensitive to the fact that this president that doesn't have a very sophisticated sense of international relations regards war as a way to solve political problems. >> what are the conversations that happened. do you start preparing or talk

do you have any idea which tweets? >> i think there is a broad set including the witch hunt aspect of the tweeting from president trump. anything that he said that might tie into an obstruction of justice finding or charge. speaking of the president's tweets, just yesterday hi tweeted that he was not informed ahead of time about the meeting at trump tower with the russian emb meeting. he thinks it would have been bad to have known about it ahead of time, and he is throwing his own son under the bus. >> if you look at what jonathan is saying, the president tweeting about an ongoing investigation into his own campaign, that that would be risky for his administration, was it just a matter of time before they would say "we have to look at the tweets." >> over and over again experts have said the president's tweets could come up in legal cases, they have come up in court cases before, and him constantly, threatening, or seeming to threaten jeff sessions and complaining about him recusing and all of these things, the preside

at obstruction people weren't tweeting. to me i think the president we know he personally tweets and it is fair game for mueller to ask the questions but reinforces why it is important to sit down with the president and get the answers as to what he was doing and thinking as he was doing this entire course of conduct. >> president trump's lawyers have stated that president trump is consistently under attack and these tweets and statements are him simply defending himself. >> that is just the nature of the beast. it comes with the job. having said that i think this is what many people who are supportive of him talk about when they say the president has placed himself in unnecessary political power. words matter. i think the hard truth is that we end up having discussions and having to deal with unnecessary evils with the president can't just put down the twitter fingers and have a conversation about the agenda. >> you know, roosters are coming home to roost. i keep thinking if i had a dollar for every time i heard a legal ex

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he also tweeted after the summit with blood in the putin anticipating perhaps the outreach to india you asked about he's from marks there that he sure has confidence in he's intelligence people whole world for it is from his perspective important to look into the future and to improve their relations between the u.s. and russia. so one of the big blocks to normalizing relations between russia and the rest of the world is russia's i mix a sion of crimea what was said that. well it has repeated once again what the russians have been saying since twenty fourteen feel crimea would be russian and to the question of legitimacy of the an exaggeration is absolutely undisputable the russian president mentioned the referendum as is the legitimate basis bases for an exceptional in russia by the way they call it. if occasion with russia not on station put in also said that he knew that the president had a different opinion on this issue but more interesting well not putin they were expected to predict it's much more interesting was the reaction of donald trump who simply said nothing which coul

do we have that tweet? go ahead, evelyn. >> i was going to say unfortunately it's all backwards with this administration. the president is waking the country up at 3:00 a.m. scaring us instead of the other way around where by some other country is creating a real crisis, our president is scaring us and pretending to solve the crisis. >> jeff, at this point is the president just trying to get off the topics of last week? in this tweet storm overnight, he was still talking about michael cohen. he was talking about amazon and the post office. i mean, he was carrying on about different issues all week. it's not a focussed approach to getting us all onto a different topic. >> no, it's not a focussed approach. you mentioned the tweets about michael cohen, about the fisa warrants for carter page. the president also tweeting about north korea the reports that suggest he's upset about the lack of progress in north korea aren't true. i'm told that he has been fuming to aides privately that the north koreans have been

there is some curious tweets. one about this meeting he had with the publisher of "the new york times" that took place on the 20th july. it's not like it happened before he left for this weekend in new jersey. he also tweeted about immigration and the prospects for a government shutdown. he said i would be willing to shut down the government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security, which includes the wall. must get of lottery, catch and release, and finally go to system of immigration based on merit. we need great people coming into our country. this is something we've seen from him before. >> yes. >> we have seen members of his own party react strongly to this rhetoric. i'll put a flag down. we are 100 days away from the midterm elections. how are members of his own party going to process what he tweeted this morning about his willingness to take us to the brink once again? >> there are few republicans in congress who want to shut down the government ahead of the critical midterm elections w

earnings and tweets. earnings and tweets. when the president tweets something that is viewed as being threatening on trade or threatening on oil, we literally do oil does go up industrials go down on threats of trade and so defense stocks do move positively on this kind of thing. we're kind of in a market. okay all caps take action. buy chevron even though they reported on friday if it was lower caps they would have said okay, you know, maybe we'll keep chevron whole halliburton is not moving. they missed a little bit i think the sellers ought to get a twitter account and look at all caps we are in this i don't want to call it a stupid world, but people react to everything that the president does and that's more important, in many ways than earnings. >> but for a short period of time. >> right. >> we find evidence the president's tweets on trade matter fairly little. >> i think it's timing they matter fairly little. initially you're in a zone where they matter a great deal larry kudlow last week, when i i

it can also come with a tweet. as long as the sense is there, you can justify the obstruction of justice statute. for giuliani to be saying they are b desperate if they are going after obstruction by tweet i don't think they are understanding the fact that obstruction can be proved bly many ways. >> can be proved in many ways. how concerning should the tweets be at this point? >> i would be extremely concerned if the i was the president. i think at this point i would be surprised if robert mueller didn't conclude that the president obstructed justice. there is a lot of evidence out there. twoets are one form of communication. tweets are one form of communication. there is a lot of evidence that the president had an been the obstruct or impede the investigation. he did more than just tweet. he fired james comey. he tried to pressure the attorney general to unrecuse himself. he wasn't concerned about conflicts of interest in that circumstances. i think robert mueller should be using all of the president's words and t