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Watched meeting of any at the g20. one of the few the president has spoken to recently who he hasnt actually met. we will come back to that in a second. but the phone calls the president made over the last few days we know he spoke to leaders of china and japan yesterday focussing mainly on the threat from north korea. three european leaders he spoke with this morning, no official read out from the white house on those conversations. of the three i would be most curious to know, what is discusse...

Want to be passing. if you think about it, as many correspondents like myself have said, we are often lectured by the press team to saying you need to be focussing on the policies, not the internal squabblings of the staff and the presidents reactions to things. but the truth is those stories overtake anything they do in policy. if he didnt tweet about mica, we would be talking about the supreme court win. we would be talking about case law. but instead it drowns out other accomplishments, all o...

The president is focussing on and it is important to keep in mind we dont get that opportunity that often to ask the president too many questions. he doesnt appear in front of reporters all that often. so one of the only ways that we have to get a sense of what hes thinking about and what he is focussed on is his twitter feed. and right now his twitter feed is talking about this feud and his distaste of the media. boris. >> all right. ryan nobles reporting from the white house. thank you. lets g...

Of a down period in the russian investigation news cycle. >> do you think its just that, rick, that they are timing it that way? >> im not sure. i mean, im not making the editorial decisions for the "wall street journal" or for msnbc. im just pointing out that they had this information for a full 60 days before it was released. and the value of the information is suspect, particularly for robert mueller and his investigative team who are going to be focussing on criminality, on the actual collus...

Ali, after yesterday all the developments not only on the tweets that were talking about but again over health care. has the president changed his strategy on health care. today he talked about focussing on repeal. is he changing his strategy there? he got a shouted question about that in the oval office earlier today. and he declined to answer that. so thats one of the other big questions. what is his strategy moving forward when it comes to health care? >> the meetings that the president has w...

Women. >> i think everybody should be entitled to their opinion. it doesnt mean he hates women. they really dont bother me the tweets, to be quite honest with you. >> she may be in the minority there, jim. we have spoken to a number of trump supporters. heard about trumps base and how dedicated they are to him and the trump supporters we spoke to still are dedicated to this president, but overwhelmingly they also tell cnn they want him to stop tweeting and they want him to get back to focussing ...

Thing the president cares about is because of the presidents tweeting. the presidents not talking about policy. thats why, pete, seems a lot of republicans felt compelled to to come out, people in the heartland caring about it or not, members of congress care about it. they wanted to come out and speak out against it. lindsey graham, ben sass, susan collins. i mean, isnt this calling something right, right, something wrong, wrong? isnt there some value to that? >> youre choosing what to focus on...

How come low iq crazy mika came to mar-a-lago and insisted on joining me. she was bleeding badly from a facelift. i said no. lets talk about that with mike mccall. thanks so much for joining us. >> very quickly, are you embarrassed that the leader of your party, the president of the united states is spending his time on twitter launching an attack like this rather than focussing in on very serious challenges facing the country right now? >> i think it is a huge distraction from the real issues a...

His security clearance, why exactly he was hired as national security advisor, even as these concerns were being raised. the questions they are focussing on in the 18 days in which michael flynn continued to sit in these classified briefings after sally yates repeatedly warned white house counsel that michael flynn could be susceptible to russian blackmail and democrats say they want records about those interactions. in order to get those records, they need support from republicans, including th...

Health care, lack of an ability by this republican leadership to move an agenda forward. there are a lot of ominous wins out there, if youre a competitive member of congress. remember most members of congress are as likely to lose their seat as a member of the old soviet bureau. for that special category, in competitive races, probably have a nauseous feeling watching this georgia 6 race. >> what happens in the georgia 6 district next year in the 2018 election? will john ossoff try to trump back...