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>> well, i think they will maybe get that. thats the same assumption theyre going to read the entire report. i dont think everyone was watching this. if i think they were watching it, they wont come away with the same conclusion that attorney general barr reached. it was very pointed, his remarks, in terms of what they found, what their concerns were, but i dont think in the end it will matter nor will it necessarily change the die nam you ca -- dynamics in congress. >> only 38 house democrats c...

. welcome back. did something feel different about the news cycle this week? it was kind of weirdly calm, right? maybe is that because while president trump was on his high stakes trip in asia, he stayed on script and his twitter feed was pretty calm. but then this happened. look at these brand new 280 character tweets. this was the real trump coming out. shocking tweets about kim jong-un and other topics and of course his troubling comments about russias attempts to interfere in last years el...

The company has been testing 280 character tweets with a small group of users since september and interestingly, twitter said that after the novelty tweeting more characters wore off, most people in the test group stopped tweeting the full length, 5% of their tweets were longer than 140 characters. the new limit will roll out to twitter users in nearly all of the 40 languages that twitter supports. look out for the presidents tweets. look out. >> i say brevity is the by-product of vigor, the few...

To not to give it away lets talk about this why is twitter making this change well as you already mentioned sumi this changes coming about after a limited trial also a limited amount of twitter users use the new two hundred eighty characters limit and twitter then released a statement announcing that it was expanding to two hundred eighty characters because it said under the old one hundred forty character limit people were having problems fitting all their thoughts into a single tweet so it als...

American medical association have this to say changes resisted because it is psychologically and physically uncomfortable if your brain feels good when you hold firm to whats known and for miller using science to rationalize why it feels so weird to tweet using two hundred eighty characters. well lets bring in our social media editor all when at to not to give it away lets talk about this why is twitter making this change well as you already mentioned sumi this changes coming about after a limit...

Country thats a strong message, just by being there is sending a strong message. >> its the same convoluted message. hes in a place whose nemesis and fear for incursion is vladimir putins russian. >> right. but i mean -- >> so hes going to stand with them, meanwhile hes not particularly tough on putin. >> he often has it both ways. he talked about well be america first, we wont get involved yet were make sure -- >> the desire not to be bullied runs right up against the america first ideology. wi...

Tapped? >> again, joe, you know, when youre talking about what the president said on twitter, he is only dealing in 140 character tweets. >> tu it to the next level. >> general clapper -- >> lets go to the next level and if he did know what he was talking about, he would have said the fisa court ordered these. im asking you as we take it to the next level, and agree that he was ignorant in what he said in his tweets, if you take to the next level, then just a question about the fisa court. is th...

Country, trump is following through. whether trump goes down this road in the campaign, we saw them coming back and americans were saying yeah, we kind of agree with this. americans are concerned. look at san bernardino. look at orlando. youre not just talking about new immigrants. youre talking about second generation. youre bringing in a man, this is true in europe as well. its not always the first generation of refugees that cause the problem. often, theyre radicalized in the second generatio...

As our overseas allies is that foreign policy so far has been defined largely in 140 character tweets and there is a sense among diplomats in washington, foreign ministries all over the world that there isnt yet an outline of what happens on january 21st. there is a lot at stake. we have 68 allies who are part of the coalition against the islamic state, the isis threat that is -- that most americans believe is the greatest security danger to the united states and a lot of those allies are ones w...

Character tweets. from a lot of experts who seemed less than impressed by the facts that were contained within this report. jeffrey goldberg said i wish there had been more facts. you saw what dan dressler and max fisher said. it was just odd and there seemed to be a lot of padding in there, including throwing in things about russian television shows for russian audience people and spoken in russian and somehow influencing our election. give us your take of the report. what was missing and what ...