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Workers union, a key endorsement for her struggling campaign, especially in the midst of the growing list of democratic presidential contenders. due l val patrick officially entered the race on thursday and billionaire former new york city mayor michael bloomberg took first steps at a presidential bid. he filed paperwork to become a presidential candidate in arkansas democratic primary on tuesday. he also qualified for alabamas primary last week, drawing sharp criticism for missing out on months...

Event? is this the lowering of the rhetoric? >> clearly not. this goes to the difference between what members of congress were feeling very genuinely because it was an attack on their fellow members of congress versus what the president seems to have said and then forgotten about several hours later. but going back to another point you were just discussing with april, i think that this is -- the president is doing this and hes directing his fury at the media with punches in this video, as weve s...

Of partisan and divide place. but when it comes to sort of the basics, were pretty united. why the president can go from calling for civility shortly after the shooting of steve scalise to disgustingly characterizing mika brzezinski and then, of course -- i feel like im in a roadrunner or bugs bunny cartoon, putting up that video. this man is the most powerful person in the world, president of the united states and this is what he is doing? ill tell you, that unites congress more than it divides...

Look at this specifically from one issue. was it worth it? are these tweets worth it when it comes to pushing your legislative agenda? certainly you could make the argument that its not worth it because it takes the focus off the things that the president has been accomplishing over the last week. i will say this. sometimes people actually need to have a little bit of a sense of humor and not take themselves too seriously and overreact and try to turn this into a bigger issue than it really is. ...

Themselves too seriously, think theyre more important than the average american person. the fact is this was actually kind of just funny. and people need to learn to have a sense of humor in politics. dial down the crazy and not overreact to something that is fake wrestling. thats what it is. its literally fake wrestles. >> it did stem, this video, with the doctored thing, with the cnn logo stemmed from an account, a man or woman with anti-semitic tweets, anti-muslim tweets. thats where the vide...

Destroyed themselves because they went too far. instead of being subtle and smart, they used a hatchet. and the people saw it right from the beginning. >> that was a veterans event over the weekend, by the way. not long after the president accused of media of using a hatchet, he showed himself a video as part of the escalating war on the media. how far is too far? ben ferguson, media stars in their own right as far as pro wrestling officials. ill start with this question, ben. how does what the ...

Republican health care legislation or other polishes but rather to ramp up the attack s on the media. >> the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. >> president trump escalating his ongoing war against the press, tweeting out this doctored video of himself, pummeling a man with an edited cnn logo over his face. the video drawing sharp, widespread condemnation. >> it is an incitement to violence. >> it is very disturbing. theres nothing lighthearted about it whatsoever. >> ...

A reason. which is that media is an important thing. dictators attack the media. just the outrageous, divisive, quasi nra video we saw come out, i question where is this country going? does it have any leadership that has any idea what the real meaning of freedom and liberty is? >> have the calls for unity so prevalent after the terrible steve scalise shooting, the calls for ratcheting down the rhetoric, have those gone way in congress? >> they havent gone away in congress. remember, when the pr...

Of picking and choosing what they want to respond to that the president says. laughing off certain kinds of things, condemning the tweets last week about mika brzezinski, saying very little over the weekend about the video that was tweeted that was, in some ways, much more violent. but thats not a luxury that the media has. frankly, i dont know that its a luxury that republicans have indefinitely. when you see poll after poll showing voters think is this is harmful to the president, bad for the ...

It may have reached land, at least one of these missiles. thats raising a concern. >> reporter: its raising a lot of concerns. good morning, chris. top worry here at the pentagon this morning is what north korea may have planned next for its missile program. u.s. officials are saying they do see as they expect, additional signs of testing, of components that additional missile launches could happen as always. u.s. intelligence keeping a close satellite eye on the underground site where north kor...