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President trump this morning making a surprise suggestion about daily press briefings tweeting, quote, as a very active president with lots of things happening it is not 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 handout written responses for the sake of accuracy? obviously that did not go into effect today. press secretary sean spicer was asked about the presidents tweets. >> is the president ...

Concealing payments from foreign governments. >> this man as served for many years. hes a general. hes in my opinion a very good person. >> now, the time line on that dinner between the president and james comey is very interesting. "the new york times" reporting that it occurred one day after the acting attorney general informed the white house counsel that mike flynn had been compromised by the russians. meanwhile this morning, a little bit of news. we have a tweet from the president explainin...

>> he did ask the inspector general to review the fbis action in advance of the 2016 election and now hes asked him to take a look at the circumstances surrounding comeys dissisal. also your invitation to james comey to speak, thats more important than ever. he needs to clear up whether or not there was inappropriate discussions on his part. you always have new day as a platform to discuss our advances of these important issues. thank you, sir. >> thank you. im on it. >> thank you guys. back to ...

That being said, the press briefings are not as much for the reporters. therefore americans, the rest of america to hear his viewpoint. not all reporters are against him. i dont think you should cancel press briefings, but i certainly understand why he feels that way. >> meghan: harris, youve been and a journalist your entire adult life. what you make of the idea that we could get rid of this after 100 years? >> harris: i dont take this as a warning shot across the bow. what i hear him saying is...

Having a memo if you read the entire letter from deputy attorney general it is a devastating letter. >> shannon: it is a long, lengthy, multi-paragraph case he laid out there. the president loves to tweet and has been very busy the last 24 hours. maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy. listen, he knows that there are people in the media who are going to go after him whether he does something good or somethi...

Been focused on is the inconsistencies between what he told lester holt yesterday and what his aides and frankly what his vice president had been saying publicly over the course of the last 72 hours. let me put up some of those tweets quickly. he wrote as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. he went on to write, maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out wri...

Its stories straight about why the president ultimately decided to fire comey. after administration officials initially said it was as the prompting of department of justice officials, now trump says it was his call and says he was thinking about the russia investigation when he made the decision. >> in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election, tha...

Himself. or he also said answer questions in writing. >> well, i can tell you the president has been incredibly frustrated with sean spicer specifically and his press team in general. hes been venting all week privately about spicer. he thinks that hes been poorly served. he views the whole comey incident not as a failure of himself as not giving them enough time, but he thinks their response was incompetent and that he was completely exposed on air. so, thats where all this is coming from. and ...

The president and his advisers is in question as the white house becomes increasingly consumed by chaos in a crisis of leadership. the president is isolated and agitated, associates tell cnn. he finished a full week barely scene at the white house before making this brief afternoon appearance with the first lady. >> hi, what a friendly beautiful group. >> but his views have been heard in a roaring twitter storm. he acknowledged conflicting explanations in the time line of comeys spiralling. as a...

>> lets put the press briefing bit to the side. on the point of accuracy, doesnt the american public deserve facts and accuracy from that podium? >> no matter whos the president, yes. and certainly, past press secretaries have been slippery, sometimes. tried to avoid answering questions or tried to spin people. but its categorically different with this administration. the story of this administration so far is the dishonesty from trump and from his aides. it doesnt start with his aides, it start...