here's specifically what the president said on twitter this morning. again, it started before 5:30 this morning. he wrote, it wasn't the white house, it wasn't the state department, it wasn't father lavar's so-called people on the ground in china that got his son out of a long-term prison sentence. it was me, he writes in all caps. too bad. lavar is just a poor man's version of don king without the hair. just think, he adds in a second tweet, lavar, you could have spent the next five to ten years during thanksgiving with your son in china with no nba contract to support you. remember lavar's shoplifting is not a little thing. it's a really big deal, especially in china. he punctuates that tweet simply writing, ungrateful fool. this is the latest in a back and forth -- a fierce back and forth between these two men over the course of the last several days. ball earlier this week speaking out, in effect saying he wasn't thanking the president that he had something to do with it but had the president picked him up himself and put him on the plane, then perhaps he would have thanked the president. it is notable right now that the