the tweets speak for themself. he was clear in his tweet. the president's tweets stand for themselves. i think the president's tweet speaks for itself. i don't think you have to read too much into it. he's stating a fact. tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. what i said speaks for itself. >> the white house press secretary tactic over the past few months to defend a questionable trump tweet. apparently it speaks for itself. let's not get ahead of our skis now. >> if you watch any of the star wars movies. >> and nick is a big fan. >> you go -- it's rogue one, right after rogue one, remember? >> actually. >> like a spanish soft drink company. >> it was up for what, a good six hours. >> posted at midnight. i think he fell asleep in the middle of it. it happens and -- >> who tweets in bed, anybody? >> well -- i don't know. >> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, may 31st. we have nicholas and former aide to the george w. bush white house, elise jordan and "new york times" reporter michael schmit. what does cofveve mean? >> what does it mea

the president's tweets stand for themselves. i think the president's tweet speaks for itself. i think the tweet speaks for itself. don't read too much into it. he stated the fact the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. i think what i said speaks for itself. >> more about risks president trump is taking in communications as new report reports he asked world leaders to by pass diplomatic protocol and call him on his cell phone. associated press reports trump has been handing his cell phone nuer to world leader urging them to cal him direcy on it. former and current u.s. officials tell associated press trump extended the offer to leaders of canada and mexico. officials say only the canadian prime minister has taken him up on it. neither the white house nor trudeau's office responded to requests for comment. report quotes a french official claims trump ex-changed numbers with macron when he spoke from his election. dooirg the transition, australian prime minister reached trump when he obtained his personal cell phone number through professional golfer greg norman. but concern

they make mistakes when they tweet too. if we make too much of a big deal of this, it's going to allow them to close the ranks even more. >> without a doubt. but you know what, we don't know the nuclear codes. >> that's true. >>> we've got to turn to some horrible, horrible bleaking news overseas. dozens of people are dead and hundreds more wounded after a massive explosion took place in the capital of afghanistan. richard engle is live in london with the latest. richard, i'm relieved to hear that you're in london. please tell us what happened. >> so this was a massive bombing. it was a truck, a tanker truck that exploded in the center of kabul. what's significant about this is the death toll. we're talking 80 people who have been killed, according to afghan officials. over 300 injured. the numbers have been fluctuating, generally they have been going up. but over the last couple of hours they have stabilized somewhat. the other part is the location. this was in the diplomatic quarter, presumably one of the most secure part

the latest tweets. now it is reported that the democrats who asked about carter page about russia don't want him to testify. now he wants to clear his name by showing the false testimony from him. why set carter page, a guy who nobody around trump wants to own as being equal to and better than jim comey and john brennan. third, why is he leaning on reports when he says it is all fake news? >> he retweeted a news account yesterday that made it look better for jared kushner. it was based on anonymous sources. >> it is a story that got debunked. >> he likes anonymous sources. >> why tweet this? why create? >> they have gone to paigns, chris, to say they never met carter page. and he is a thread in the investigation that he is the least close to trump world and really the -- basically the president doesn't know him and he is trying to get in. >> how does he know he can blow their case against him out of the water? how does he know that? >> you are right. he brings himself a world of hurt with the tweets. he

let's start with the tweet. the tweet is a response to a new york times article that the white house plainly disputes the facts within. where jim comey apparently says that he was asked to take a loyalty pledge and he refused. what do you make of this whole series of events? >> melissa, it gets stranger and stranger to me. like so many others out there, i'm trying to listen to the latest reporting and sort through what is true and what sounds or feels like it's false. for me having worked with jim comey, having worked for jim comey and recognizing the person who i knew and liked and respected and still do. the whole thing is astounding to me. the way that a career public servant, a patriot, a good man, an ethical man. regardless of whether you disagree with how he may have handled a press event last year -- >> melissa: let me stop you right there. almost everybody out there who came on television ahead of all the events that happened over the summer agreed with your assessment of james comey. but over time that

the 39 went on to tweet enjoy. think it is an indication that the white house is still not doing much to review the president's tweets. you'll recall there was that published report that team of lawyers was going to be getting together to start reviewing the president's tweets. that is obviously not happened. that is obviously not going to be the case. i talked the a senior white house official who said that they're not planning to do that, and that the president's tweets speak for themselves. but erin, getting back to that press briefing with white house press secretary sean spicer, they called it a gaggle. they said it was on the record. but off camera. and right before the gaggle today, they said that we could not use the audio. and then sean spicer came into the gaggle and said well, you can use the audio after the briefing for gaggle is over. so we're getting all kinds of confusing signals from the white house today on these questions. and it sort of left everybody with the sense that if covfefe is a drink, we

masonwith a tweet to jeff . you can share your tweet at .-span w part of the issue, the president's suites. -- tweets. . [video clip] the president has no further comment on the. -- that. >> why did you come out with information that was later contradicted by the president? can you explain? what were you brought in? clause was involved? why were the american people not given correct information at night? >> i don't necessarily believe that is true. it was a decision-making process. the president explained it. the fbi serves the pleasure of the president. the president made the decision to replace him as he has made very clearly publicly. the president is focused on making sure he finds a replacement that has the leadership qualities to leave the of the eye. tha-- lead the fbi. that is it. host: trump after-hours. spending an evening with president trump on monday. everything is going just great. now, if only everyone else would see it that way. his piece available online at time.com. we check in with him last thursday. you can also listen to

>> i assume you're referring to the tweet. and i've talked to the president and the president has nothing further to add on that. >> why did he say that? why did he tweet that? what should we interpret from that? >> as i mentioned, the president has nothing further to add on that. >> is there -- are there recording devices in the oval office or in the residence? >> as i've said for the third time, there is nothing furthe to add on that. >> does he think it's appropriate to threaten someone like mr. comey not to speak? >> i don't think that's -- that's not a threat. he's simply stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> got jake tapper off the top here. our cnn chief washington correspondent and host of "the lead" and host of "state of the union." jake, good to see you. listen, obviously, i want to get into some of your reporting on this tale of two dinners or really two versions of one dinner. but first, i want your response to the whole, i have nothing to add, you know, non-comment comment from the press se

. >> in a tweet you said there might be tape recordings. >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. if tapes exist it would be very disturb field goal they disappeared. >> i talked to the president. the president has nothing further to add. >> i'm focused on what's in my control and that is what is congress doing solve people's problems. >> loyalty to the country. little to the united states is important. >> this president needs to be impeached. >> no one, no one in this country is above the law. >> some might be subject to the investigation. it looks like an obstruction of justice. >> we don't have press conferences. >> you don't mean that. >> you know sean spicer. he's a wonderful human being. he's a nice man. >> any other questions? >>> good morning to you on a saturday morning. it's 7:00 a.m. so good to have your company. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning. >> the white house looking for a new fbi director after james comey's sudden dismissal earlier this week. issue number one for whom ever gets the job is picking thund

the other tweets.that was fine. that was good. >> it appears as the shake up going on at the white house, that's what appears on the outside, reince priebus, people keep making comments that maybe he's on the way out the doorment i don't know if that's true or not. >> i don't know if it's true either. >> they're not calling you? >> they're not calling me. that's sort of a classic washington thing is to start the rumor that somebody is out of the way -- on the way out the door when you want them to be out the door. i'm not talking about trump. i'm talking about other people who probably have it in for priebus. this is a pretty contense shus white house. they are having trouble getting people to work close with the president. one, he's not an easy guy to work for. two is they could well end up under oath. what did they know, when did they know it. even new coming in, this would be a tough move. this might be a career ender for you to go to work for donald trump and end up under oath. >> i've worked in an

when they say we don't have any comment on his tweets, these tweets speak for themselves. if i were a white house spokesman, i wouldn't want to speak for him either, because every time the white house speaks for the president, things change and they end up looking either dishonest or clueless. so, perhaps it's best to let his tweets speak for themselves. but on the tapes themselves, the notion that there are tapes, and he did put them in quotes, let him release them. i think he should release them to the country. >> phil, what's your reaction to this? i'm not asking you to get into the president's head here. what do you think is going on? >> please don't. believe me, i know this is going to sound facetious. i'm breathing a sigh of relief. you can't take this seriously. you could have taken this seriously from president bush or president obama, from president bush's father, from president clinton. you can't take this seriously. you feel like you've got to give the president of the united states a pacifier and a rattle and put him in the crib. you're threatening the fbi, who

what he tweets.says what he says. i'm not here to defend that. isn't leadership about standing up and talking about the checks and balances of how we govern our people. >> it is an important part of our system. and right now we have too many people that feel like our partisan labels is somehow a fundamental part of people's identity. that's not the oath of office i took. i'm one of the most conservative guys on the voting record but i don't start by saying either of these parties are interesting or impressive. i worry about the station chief of different cia installations around the world and at those stations, you want your station chief, you want him to be able to tell those assets a couple of things. one, your work is so important that it is worth you risking your life over because decision makers back in washington need to understand the intel you are going to deliver. and number two, we will protect you. we are concerned about your life and your wife and kids and husband back home. it is importa

confirmed in the tweet. and he said as to the comey and trump dinner that it happened on january 27th and it actually came at the request of the president and that this was a one on one-dinner. now, this conflicts with what we heard from president trump yesterday. he said comey requested the dinner and wanted to keep his job. comey said that's absolutely untrue. here's what james clapper had to say about the meeting, the former head of the dni. he spoke to comey on the day of that dinner. here's what he said. >> it was the 27th of january and the fbi hosted a wonderful farewell ceremony for me which i'll never forget. we spoke briefly before the ceremony and he mentioned he had been invited to the white house to have dinner with president an he was uneasy because of that because compromising even the optics, appearance of independence, not only of him but of the fbi. >> and our sources tell us that during that dinner president trump asked him for a loyalty oath and we're told through our sources that he woul

tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> does anyone in this white house have an audio recording of what unfolded during the january 27th dinner between the former fbi director and the president of the united states? >> i'm not aware of that. >> is the president of the united states currently recording conversations taking place in the oval office? >> i think the point that i made with respect to the tweet is the president has no further comment on this. see you on monday. thank you. good-bye. >> listening devices in the white house, did you ask thement if he installed listening device s? >> and in a new interview out late today, no answers from the president either. >> what about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be tape recordings? >> they can't talk about -- i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest and i'm sure he will be. i hope. >> with me from the white house cnbc's a man jabevs. you were in the room. tell me what it was like when spicer wouldn't answer that quest

>> i assume you're referring to the tweet. i've talked to the president and he has nothing further to add on that. >> why did he say that? why did he tweet that? should should we interpret from that? >> the president has nothing further to add on that. >> are there recording devices in the oval offices or -- >> there's nothing further to add on it. >> do you think it's important to threaten someone like mr. comey not to speak? >> that's not a threat. the tweet speaks for itself, i'm moving on. >> it sure does. we have two of the best reporters on white house beat joining us with, starting with peter baker and nbc's kelly o'donnell on the north lawn. peter, you have news for us. >> sean spicer might be moving on but other people aren't. you have john conyers and ee elijah cummings on the house judiciary and house government oversight government reform committees sent a letter to the white house just now asking for copies of any tapes if in fact there are recordings and they point out very notedly in the letter, they say it's a

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he also tweeted this, and i'll put it up on the screen, mr. secretary. so now it is reported that the democrats, who have excoriated carter page about russia, don't want him to testify. he blows away their case against him, and now wants to clear his name by showing, quote, the false or misleading testimony by james comey, john brennan, close quote. rich hunt! so he has basically in that tweet just accused both comey and john bren', the former cia director, men you know well, of a crime, falsely testifying, misleading or falsely testifying before congress. is there any indication that their testimony was either false or misleading? well, you know, again, i just think that a president tweeting his inner thoughts on these issues is very dangerous when it comes to the legal case that is involved in this investigation. i mean, if he's going to establish lawyers who are going to be the ones to talk about in issue, he ought to let the lawyers do the talking and not him doing the tweet beiing, bec the more he tweets the more implications he raises with regards

this morning he's tweeting exactly that.oining us now, democratic whip senator dick durbin of illinois. there has been debate even with rod rosenstein about whether or not special counsel was necessary. i guess these tweets kind of make that need all the more clear. what is your response to the president calling this the greatest witch hunt ever and saying that all the illegal acts by hillary clinton during the campaign and in the obama administration did not warrant the same? do you agree? what do you say to the president? >> i'd say to the president he should get to know bob mueller as i did. he's smart. he's principaled. there is no doubt in my mind he will put country first when it comes to this investigation. this is no witch hunt. i trust he will come to the right conclusion, whatever it may be. this president has no one to blame by himself for the mess that he's in. things that he has done, things he has said, tweets that he continues to release just made his life much more complicated. >> he just fired the fbi direct

tweeting again. he shouldn't b.publican or otherwise says that the best thing he can do is to stop with twitter and the vn that no one can control him, and he may listen, but he does not follow through, and that is the problem well larger than the typo at 12:00 at night. >> proofread the tweets before you hit that tweet button. >> are you telling me, because i need to do. >> yes. all right. thank you very much, chris. and i will be back at 5:00 p.m. in the situation room, and more on the breaking news, more ton the fired fbi director james comey ready to testify in public. we will hear from sean spicer as well soon. the news continues. >> this is cnn breaking news. >>le wolf, thank you so much. good to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin and you are watching cnn and any moment, we will be hearing from white house press secretary sean spicer as we are getting news on the now fired fbi director james comey. this is what we are hearing is that comey will testify publicly in the senate as early as next week, and his testimo

he tweeted gloria last night around midnight or so. president tweeted this, we will put it up on the screen there. you see it. despite the constant negative press, covfefe. >> trying to say that is violence against english. >> is there a comma? >> up for five hours. around 5:00 a.m. this morning. they deleted it. the president said in a separate tweet, you figure out what i was referring to. it is a little strange, isn't it? >> it is. first of all, at midnight he stops mid sentence. have you it this picture in your mind of an exhausted president tweeting until he falls asleep, right? and doesn't finish what he meant to say. >> he say. there is another clause despite the press coverage, comma, what? we know what he is thinking about. he is thinking of the press coverage. he is alone there in the white house. he is tweeting before he goes to bed. he is watching cable news. maybe something happened that annoyed him, and then he gets up in the morning and goes oops, i didn't finish my tweet. >> or someone mentioned to him what were you twe

>> the tweet speaks for itself. moving on. >> the president said, russia must be laughing watching as the u.s. tearing itself apart over a democratic excuse for losing the election. how specifically is the u.s. tearing itself apart? >> i think the president's comment about the russia collusion have been very clear. with respect to some of the charges that have been made, he's been very clear that it's one thing that he believes that the investigation -- that the notion that there's collusion is a hoax. it's been reaffirmed by several people, including several grassley and others. and he wants to make sure he's focused on what's best for the american people. >> how is the u.s. tearing itself apart? >> i think obviously this has been a subject that comes up of and over again, when it oets been clearly stated on multiple occasions that there's no collusion that along, interfere in the election? >> i have no idea. what i'm just telling you is i think we have made it clear at this podium several times, i think the presid

all of a sudden there was tweet after tweet. today it said russian officials must be laughing at the u.s. and how a lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. this is similar in line to what vladimir putin said today. that tweet said to me that whatever discipline sean spicer is showing at the microphone, the president himself will not be able to show such discipline, which is probably why we haven't heard from him in such a long time. >> the difficulty for sean spicer, as heidi was saying, is when you have the president tweeting things that undercut your message. we've seen that happen often. so sean is also at a point now where you referenced not giving us any information. he will say things like, the tweet speaks for itself. he will just refer back to the president's tweets, and oftentimes those tweets don't speak for themselves. there's a lot of unanswered questions, which is what came up in the briefing today, which is did the president know about the back channel, the alleged back channel

this is what he tweeted this morning."ot possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy." >> i mean in this case this was not due to a fast moving presidency that donald trump's press team did not know what was going on, and the reasoning behind his decision to fire james comey. this was the president's fault for not keemg his team in the loop for telling them what happened and making sure they were prepared to go out and tell the american people what this all meant, so he's making excuses but i think he's tweets speak volumes about what we might see from the press team moving forward. there are reports that sean spicer's job might be -- >> go ahead. >> can i disagree with that respectfully? the problem was not a communications problem. the problem was a substantive problem. he fired the person who was investigatesing him. you can't have a good communications strategy about

trump tweeted. the white house denies it's a threat. president's conversationes with comey taped? >> i've talked to the president and the president has nothing further to add on that. >> president trump says there were three con ver sayings between him and his fbi director. two phone calls and a one on one dinner they had at the white house on january 27th. press secretary sean spicer didn't answer when asked if there was capability at the white house to tape conversations. former white house staffers tell us the technical capability exists for the president to tape phone conversations but that's different from a built-in system from presidents kennedy, johnson and nixon. amidst nixon's recordings, how to push back on the water gate investigation. that taping system was shut down in summer of 197 3 at the height of the water gate scandal. >> the press or media didn't know anything about the taping systems. until alexander butterfield, white house aide, in july of 1973, told the senate water gate committee, told the staff, that there was

before he posts those tweets.er social media posts, is that at all realistic? >> i will believe it when i see it. the president doesn't tweet or seem to stick to protocol for a couple of days and everyone thinks we are seeing a changed man. maybe the wifi isn't working so well where he is out in italy. but the truth of the matter, how can you make this work? maybe have you a lawyer with you at 2:00 in the morn org 11:00 in the morning or on the weekend or the golf course. it is matter of president deciding to change his behavior or habits. >> controversial tweets at 6:30 in the morning. a lot of us remember those tweets. susan, the president saying in his own words on these social media, twitter and others, they created legal problems for the president as well. a vetting system that if they do it right now by lawyers outside lawyers, inside lawyers, is it too little too late? >> he will certainly be held accountable for everything he did in the past, causing a great deal of conster nation in the white house. you k

and the dot, dot, dot at the end might mean that there is more tweeting to come to connect to that tweet. nine hours to get the response attack tweet from the president. "the 11th hour" with brian williams is up next. president. "the 11th hour" with brian williams is up next. >>> tonight the russia investigation. fbi director comey about to face new questions on capitol hill as we learn what a key witness may reveal when she testifies next week. plus details on today's phone call between trump and putin. >>> also hillary clinton citing comey, russia, the election hacking and her own campaign as reasons she lost, describing herself now as part of the resistance. >>> and what may be the only voice in the west wing able to say no to the best. new reporting tonight on ivanka trump. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 103 for the trump administration, and the story is back on russia. tomorrow fbi director james comey will face questions from the senate judiciary committee in an open hearing. the hearing meant to be a general revi

the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> i hope you can answer this in a yes or no fashion. is the president of the united states currently recording conversations take is place in the oval office? >> i think the point that i made with respect to the tweet is the president has no further comment on this. >> as you might imagine, democrats on the hill are now demanding to know if recordings exist and, if so, how quickly they can get their hands on copies. they're also calling for new hearings to more broadly investigate comey's firing. a source close to comey told our own ken dilanian that comey would be delighted for there to be a record of what he said at dinner with trump. this source told dilanian, quote, he hopes there are tapes. that would be perfect. either way, the comey pushback is under way on this day 113 of the trump administration because, again, those close to the man with the studied bearing of elliott ness found it so hard to believe that he would have reassured the president that he is someh

here's the tweet. it shows an e-mail sent to researchers at the fda's research center in silver spring. the e-mail address is the reason why internal tvs in the facility were changed from cnn to fox news. the e-mail goes on to inform employees the decision came from the trump administration, and it adds that the tvs cannot be switched back. the tweet got people fired up. rick tweeted we move towards a national propaganda network. this orwellian administration gets more surreal by the day. it turns out the tweet is not true, at least according to the fda. they tell our news partners at the washington post, that quote, there was no directive or memorandum from the administration that went out to employees about broadcast news channels displaying on monitors in common areas throughout the fda's white oak campus. >>> we're told the e-mail posted on twitter came from a customer se from the fda's office of facilities and, again, not from the trump administration. >>> the federal communications commission web

there were jokes going around saying that the reason will be tweeting crazy tweets including the one about being wiretapped on a saturday night was because jared kushner was away for the sabbath, observing the sabbath. having said that, i think people remain confused as to what her role is. she in fact seems to be confused and just figuring things out as well. one day she's just the daughter. the next day she is a close adviser. i was fascinated by your piece about her having welcome backly meetings with the treasury secretary. i think these are things we don't typically see in an administration, disregarding the fact we have a father/daughter relationship in the white house as well. people are puzzled whether or not this is an internship, is that okay to have an internship, an evolving role in arguably the most important position in the white house, having your father's ear. >> rachel, any way she is more of an idiolog than her father? the piece casually mentions her being a democrat and a holder of some liberal social views. >> she never seems to have expressed really strong politi

the midnight tweet, tweeting this morning about what he calls the witch hunt.d been hearing about a new communications strategy. is this, do you think? >> well, i think that, look, he has 31 million followers on twitter, okay? it was a powerful tool for him during the presidential campaign. i am not one of those who said the president should stop tweeting. i think it is a great way for the president to directly get his message out to the people of the country. i think he should actually use it more and more effectively than he has been and he could do things like periscope live twitter feeds. there is other things he could do to take advantage of that huge audience he's e massed on twitter. >> all right. dan, let's just unpack that. he says do it more and also justin says do it more effectively. i just wonder, you know, when you say a lot of stuff and you put some things out there that aren't even words, how are folks supposed to take the other things they are saying on the medium seriously? >> well, look, i think the problem is not twitter. it is the tweeter.

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he replaced "wealthtrack" this tweet. feeling the social media madness more, "who with figure out the true meaning of enjoy." >> jimmy kimmel tweeting, what makes me satd esz is i know i will never write anything funnier than covfefe. calling it the ultimate tweeting device for world leaders and looking like an old version of an apple watch. >> yeah, right. so that's how you pronounce it. i was wondering when i had my first cup of covfefe when i woke up. >> exactly. >> we are a day away from the nba finals. how the warriors are gearing up today and special show of support at one bay area landmark. >> and let's take a live look outside with our mount tam >>> the warriors and the cavs are gearing up for the first big media day, the finals ahead of tomorrow's tip off of game one. >> sfo is showing its nation. showing the international terminal decked out in blue and gold. both teams will hold practice and speak with reporters closer to noon at oracle arena. tickets are available for game one on ticket master. they're going f

he set twitter on fire with that tweet we talked about and he's back at it this morning with more tweets about the russia investigation. more on that ahead. secret service has responded to kathy griffin after she posted a gruesome photo holding a replica of president trump's head and now apologized. we'll have more on that and it comes as the russia investigation continues to grow and vladir interference in our election. he's calling it fiction. brian ross has new reporting on more trump associates caught in the web of the investigation. good morning, brian. >> reporter: good morning. a showdown brewing today between congress and one of the president's longtime confidants who says he's refusing to cooperate in the russia investigation. >> mr. michael cohen. >> reporter: as his personal lawyer, michael cohen has been one of donald trump's most trusted aides. and now congress wants to know what, if any, connections he had with russian officials during the campaign. >> i think his role in particular is very important. >> reporter: trump came to his defense after the election when the dossie

and briggs loves some third person tweeting. briggs loves those kind of tweets. jimmy is getting upset for you seinfeld fans. >> no surprise russian election hacking did not come up with president trump spoke with russian president vladimir putin in their phone call yesterday. the white house says syria was the focus of the first chat between two leaders since president trump launched missile strikes against syrian airbase, an attack the kremlin condemned. a white house description of the call says trump and putin discussed the need to the end violence in syria. president trump's proposal to create safe zones for refugees. president trump agreed to send a representative to syrian cease-fire talks that begin today in kazakhstan. the two men talked about north korea's nuclear program and a future date meeting on the sidelines of the g7 summit in july a personal meeting. >> president trump stepping directly into the health care fight today. he'll meet with two key republican congressmen. billy long of missouri and fred upton of michigan. both are against the latest

host: some republicans responding by tweet.no we don't need a government we shouldn't change rules on the legislative filibuster." that is talking about changing the rules to make it easier for the senate to make legislation happen. republican line. hi there. caller: how are you? host: time well. good morning. caller: i am all for a government shutdown. i believe it is not just the democrats or republicans at fault. let's look at the republicans hiding donald trump. what needs to happen is everybody works for us, the people, not just the government. they have to understand that and get it through their heads that we put them in office. not themselves. if they don't start doing the right job, when it comes time to vote them out, we need to vote them out and get people in that will work for the people. host: do you think that effort is happening now, as far as looking at the republicans you talked about? caller: yes. look at congress and the senators, all that, that are fighting this. -- it goes right down the line. host: off of

why didn't he tweet that?t from that. >> as i said earlier the president has nothing further. >> are are their recording devices in the oval office or the residents. >> as the i said for the third time there is nothing to add on that. >> does he think it's present to threaten director comey to speak. >> i think that's not act fall. he stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> bret: amy? >> and the president himself telling in your first clip in that interview saying i'm not going to get into that either. so, there is that saying about when you are in a hole to stop digging. it just seems to me that every day the story gets bigger or the lather gets deeper based on self-inflicted wounds. and had the story -- it's not that it's going to end tomorrow, but why would you want to make it bigger and deeper by bringing up the issue of recordings. for democrats who already want to make the parallels between this and watergate, to bring up the issue of tapes is only going to make that that much more

the tweet has since been delet deleted.he president seems to have a sense of humor about it typo this morning he tweeted, quote who can figure out the true meaning of could covfefe. enjoy. >> well, still ahead on "eyewitness news". nasa is planning a mission to touch the sun. you heard it right. we'll tell you how they plan to do that coming up next. meisha. >> there's popular convention coming to pennsylvania this weekend and many are excited bun within the convention walls there's an awesome story to be sold told one we can all learning something from. that's coming up katie. >> meisha, looking ahead here to weekend that may once again feature unsettled weather especially leading into sunday. i think right now because that's when our next storm system will be looming but it doesn't mean saturday is out of the woods at least we'll have the warmth on our side with daytime highs in the mid 70s to about 80. much more on this forecast but brighter spots in it? i'll let you know that entire story right after the brea >>> nasa h

the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> and asked one other time ask whether there's recording in the oval, his response, no comment. how is that a "no comment" question. >> he said, "i have nothing further to add" on the taping, which is not a denial. it's a sort of -- >> not a yes, not a no. >> not a yes, not a no. and then on the dinner conversation, on the loyalty -- the loyalty pledge question, he said, flat-out, it was not true. he did not say, as he did in the answer to the other question about taping, that he had talked directly to the president about that. so my question is now, do we always have to say, have you talked directly to the president about this, before we get an answer that can be credible? >> well, as we know, according to the president's twitter, he's a busy guy. and so there's an accuracy issue, apparently, at times with folks who stand at that podium. mark preston, i want your two cents to gloria's point about recording devices in the oval office and sean's sort of non-response. >>

i tweeted at her, where's andrea leadsom? and she's just tweeted a picture of some woods.she's mucking about. we want to interview her, we want to ask questions, there's a general election, she's a cabinet minister. but for the moment, she's. .. it could be any woods in the whole of the west country. was the tweet a sly wink from her, that she's been told to stay shtum? i'm from bbc newsnight, have you seen andrea leadsom? she was in penzance to talk to fishermen. sadly we couldn't find any who'd met her. we've grown used to the idea of message discipline since new labour and its pager culture but disappearing ministers, that seems a whole new level of control freakery. and as for the missing woman herself? we tried our hardest but andrea leadsom was, as the fishermen like to say, the one that got away. inspector sweeney there. and we'll be despatching him to hunt for missing politicians from other parties before the election. we did ask tory central office if they'd told leadsom and others not to speak to newsnight during the campaign but they didn't get back to us. caitl

who can vet those tweets.aw that secret service wanted actually to take his phone away and didn't want him to tweet when he first came to office, so i don't know if he will actually listen to a lawyer and stop himself from tweeting. i mean, there were a number of tweets this morning that i was surprised to see. he didn't tweet very much during his foreign trip. didn't have much to say and didn't really go over the edge, but then when he got back here, he did. i think he will do what he wants to do and probably no one can stand between him and his twitter feed. >> international wifi is so expensive. you've got to call and ask for that special plan and get the thing, then the data charges come in, you know, so now wifi is back on at the white house and he's within range. it's all cool. erin mcpike, niall, thank you. >> thank you, thomas. >>> concerns of another attack. the gesture by thousands in manchester as they took to the streets for a fun run for a purpose. (vo) when i brought jake home, i wanted him to ea

. >> president trump tweeted this evening about the hearing. quote, director clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media knows, there is no evidence of collusion with russia and trump. is that what you heard from clapper today? >> no. it was very, very disturbing when dni clapper laid out the gravity of this atwrark that another country violated our sovereignty and that from the appearance they are celebrating and congratulating themselves to use his words. what bothers me is that this hearing was on russia meddling and over the members on the republican side talked about anything but russian meddling. so we need to get serious about this. there is evidence not only of collusion but there's deep, deep evidence that russia interfered with our election and intend do it again. this demands a serious investigation. >> congressman swalwell, appreciate your time. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> we're back with the panel. jeffrey, we haven't heard from you tonight. is it appropriate for the president of the united states to be calling an

that's a lot of tweets. it looks like it's tweeting on a really particular schedule.four hours, four hours, four hours, all of the tweets are coming up within minutes of one another when we're looking a at it here. and what those shows us is that — there's a couple of things — one, that it's tweeting much more regularly than a person could. and two, that it's tweeting on a very particular schedule. there are fears bots could be used to influence britain's forthcoming general election. many experts believe russia has already used bots to target the french and us elections, a claim russia denies. leading academics say bots are degrading the truth by spreading misinformation online. there are users who can't distinguish between a message that comes from theirfriends or theirfamily and a message that comes from a bot. in a close election, where you need 2% or 3% of the popular vote to make a difference, to push you over the edge, having an automated campaign that can get you those voters who are a little uncertain or don't quite know, getting those small numbers of voters

if you tweet my column, i'll tweet yours. you be nice to me and i'll be nice to you.on an island of your own. you're not part of the coffee clach i love this idea, no more press briefings no more gotcha moments. no more here's my moment for television tonight. >> i completely disagree with you, sean, i think the press briefings should continue, but, big but here, it's got to be altered severely, because, look, when you take away the press briefing, the only people that suffer are the american people because they're not being informed. here are the two ideas that the president should consider seriously. you rotate in different reporters. monday, make it traditional white house press corps. that's fine. then on tuesday, only business reporters are at that press briefing, because, remember, the number one issue for voters every four years is always the economy or its jobs and we never see questions about those items during these press briefings and that would probably be positive for trump right the now when you consider jobless claims are the a 28-year low where we had

. >> his tweet. >> the tweet. i have talked to the president. the president has nothing further to add on that. >> why did he say that? why did he tweet that? what should we interpret from that? >> as i mentioned the president has nothing further to add on that. >> are there recording devices in the oval office or in the residence? >> as i said for the third time there is nothing further to add on that. >> does he think it's appropriate to threaten someone like mr. comey not to speak. >> i don't think he sees that as a threat. the tweet speaks for it self. >> i would like a yesser no. is the president of the united states currently recording conversations taking place in the oval office. >> i think the comment i made with respect to the tweet is the president has no further comment on this. >> as you would imagine, democrats on the hill are demanding to know if recordings exist and if so how quickly they can get their hands on copies. they are also calling for new hearings to more bradley investigate comey's firing. a source close to comey told

so there is a new tweet that deserves our attention. it says there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. democratic congressman joins us now. the context of this, congressman, would be that the president said in his initial letter something that was a bit forgotten in the moment. but wound up being the most relevant thing in the letter. the second paragraph where he said i asked comey and he told me three different times i wasn't under investigation. now, there is information coming out from those who know comey saying they can't believe he ever said that, that at this dinner that comey was pushed up to process his loyalty to the president and the president doesn't like those reckonings and now we see this tweet. what do you think about that? >> all of this is very shocking to the conscious and painfully painful to see what we're going through right now. first of all, for the president to invite director comey to dinner, and i know there is the president saying one thing and director comey is saying an

previously he said in a tweet that it was a wiretap. then he said that the british surveillance intelligence services perhaps were responsible for this and then he said that it was actually about incidental collection and unmasking. so there are three claims, each one was debunked and there's no evidence for the original wiretapping tweet or any of the others. but he still seems to want to generally to be thought that there's something behind it, without actually making any specific claim anymore. because all the other ones have fallen apart. he really gets that frustrated, but he seemed very frustrated that he was pressed on it which to me is a sign he's given up defending this, but doesn't want to actually admit that he was wrong and lied in that original tweet. >> everybody's talking about it, sometimes it's a verbal tick that he uses, during the campaign we heard it a lot. he also said that there should be the number one topic of discussion, surveillance. >> hi, everybody been scratching my head about this one because it's demon str