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Watched everybody in the world call him everything but a good milk cow. questioned his intelligence, questioned whether he was engaged in the job. and probably for the first time in the history of electronic communications, we have someone who can alter the conversation in an instant in his pocket. and i would submit if any of us were put in that position, we would pull it out and try to alter the conversation. we can debate whether the content helped, but he injected a defense using a communica...

Then you can say what an idiot he is. >> scott? >> i thought a lot about this tweet over the weekend and you think about when it occurred and it was about 72 hours after the news cycle started on this book. and the president, as we know, consumes news coverage for three straight days sitting and watching everybody in the world call him everything but a milk cow. questions about his fitness, intelligence, about whether he was engaged in the job. and probably for the first time in the history of t...

>> twitter didnt get donald trump elected, lets be clear. >> i wonder if this twitter episode there are say question more than a comment. but i wonder if the president believes his messages to north korea are not being received. if he believes his secretary of state is not delivering messages, if he believes his government apparatus as it sits is not effectively showing his anger and so he says to himself, whats the most powerful communications tool at my disposal? this twitter account. i dont k...

If you look at what this administration is doing on russia, you know, last week the u.s. named a lot of russian individuals that are going to be subject to u.s. sanctions at the end of next month. president trump last week approved the first sale of lethal force to the ukrainian military in his op ed secretary of state tillerson said it will never be business as usual if russia continues action ns ukraine. so you know, its areally hard o separate the rhetoric from reality bull i think diplomats ...

Politics and the press. he says he hates the press but the press are important. >> for john mccain. he used to call us his favorite constituency. boy, if i had a nicokel for evey time an aide of trumps said boy, we wish he would stop tweeting. its not going to happen. he sees this as a vital communications tool to reach his base and hes going to keep doing it for as long as hes president and probably after. >> ashley, as youre all covering all of this, the asian trip coming up, this is a real mo...

As president. >> thats his preferred method of communication. >> thats not true. >> its social media. its his words and thoughts. its not an executive order. its social media. please understand the difference. >> minutes ago the deputy white house press secretary gave a different explanation for the presidents tweets. >> i think they matter in the sense it gives him a communications tool that isnt tilter through media bias. i think the media obsesses over every period, dot, as john was a perfect...

Gives him a communications tool that isnt filtered through media bias. i think the media obsesses over every period, dot. >> jenna, should the deputy white house secretary say they matter because theyre not through media bias. it does help if you get the facts right in your tweets unfortunately the president put -- took out of context what the mayor of london said. >> yeah. the white house want to it have all ways when it comes to his tweets. on any given day they tout these tweets as being the ...

Deta details, i would refer you to the department of justice on some of those points. i can tell you there are over 300 people that are under investigation that are part of this process. >> the presidents tweets essentially a way to get around the filter of the biassed media that he sees it as a message to get out. so which is it? the presidents tweets matter or just something the media gets obsessed about. >> i they they matter in the sense it gives him a communications tool that isnt filtered ...

The department of justice. one of the things i can tell you is that there are over 300 people under investigation that are part of this process under investigation for terrorist related activity. in our system. thats a large part of the vetting process that the president has stepped up. >> you mentioned the presidents tweets are -- essentially a way to get around the filter of the bias media when it comes to the tweets, that he sees an important way to get his message out. another top adviser sa...

Come up with the documents for the judiciary committees. >> this is an extraordinary moment that were in, where the president of the united states gets on a modern communications tool, twitter, levels an incendiary charge against his predecessor and then refuses to provide any kind of documentation or backup to support that claim, and then when our fellow colleagues in the white house press briefing room push the white house press secretary, okay, so where is the evidence, they are mute. the pre...