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On sorbed. social media. what a punishment. >> singer jon legend beg kanye west to abandon president trump. saying: kanye west said he loves legend back. but thats a tactic based on free. the president tweeting again today: , this is a hip hop mella drama. kanye west breaking the mold of black identity politics embracing a republican president. >> bret: the president is skipping tomorrow nights white house correspondents dinner. >> he will be counter programming with a rally in the other washing...

Super bowl. charlie is this a play to increase ratings? whats going on here? >> you know, i think that its absurd and here is why. ive done some reporting on this the average nfl viewer is almost , its almost the identical of the average trump voter. its excused largely white male, skews largely with an income under $100,000 a year, it skews highly more military than the rest of the population and they also hate this one knee controverse chi is why and the nfl knows it theyve crunched the number...

Of the game today. both candidates had major get out the vote rallies last night. >> were up to our neck in alligators. we are up to the neck in people that dont want change in washington, d.c. they want to keep it the same. >> keep their power, keep their prestige and keep their position. and we have got to change that. >> roy moore held a drain the swamp rally where he was joined by lowey gohmert former milwaukee sheriff david clarke and former white house chief strategist steve bannon. descri...

This election for the people of alabama. we dare defend -- >> democrat doug jones did a little counter programming to answer moores rally. he brought in some star power in the form of alabama native charles barkley. he mocked president trump for not campaigning for moore in the state. >> its unbelievable that this guy is still in the race when people in your own party when she say they wont vote for you or support you. >> we started this campaign back in the warm summer of may and somebody said ...

>> thats right. a lot of people asking, will he be live tweeting the event. ive spoken to a number of top republicans who say they hope he does not. however, theyre bracing for that possibility, brian. but this white house also trying to engage in a little bit of counter programming. the president does have a big speech a little bit later on this afternoon. that speech comes, by the way, just as we anticipate the comey testimony will be wrapping up. the rnc is ready with their talking points as ...

Clintons e-mails when a number of them questioned whether he was the right person to serve in that position. theyre going to try to paint democrats as hypocrites and they will make the point a lot of democrats wanted comey to go as well. they will say this was a tough choice by the president but ultimately made it for the good of the country. they are ready with their counter programming and programming at the rnc and white house. >> for folks who might have taken the comey introduction its sudd...

>> theyre doing a lot of counter programming. as you point out the president is expected to make remarks about health care when he touches down, and then he will make remarks about infrastructure. we expect him to call for federal, state, and local governments and private industry to invest a trillion dollars in infrastructure projects. that message aimed as trying to put the know discuss on the agenda, what is one of his toughest weeks yet. the white house behind the scenes digging in in terms ...

The president knows for sure. the white house already taking actions to try to undermine james comeys credibility around washington, some describing as a super bowl of sorts. they have stocked his schedule full tomorrow. counter-programming, if you will. he has a speech scheduled before the faith and freedom group. he has an infrastructure summit as well, but none of that guarantees hes going to be able to stay off twitter tomorrow. this is a president who has been furious, frustrated that his a...

Directing attention to the russia investigation, to president trumps problems, and not to, again, his legislative agenda and the people who are hanging on desperately for some sign of success out of this administration. >> to that point, if they had a really good counter programming plan this week, they could have done a good job of talking about it. this is supposed to be infrastructure week, talking about roads and bridges and things all people want theoretically. they have no legislative plan...

Materialized. the thinking is that they needed to outsource this russia controversy. so that the president and his legislative team could focus on the agenda there. the bottom line is this never gained traction. what are they going to do and how are they going to provide rapid response? they continue to insist that they are going to refer all requests to the presidents outside council. they will of course be monitor ing the pardon me and we have been talking throughout the hour and the day throu...