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>> reporter: minutes later, the president took to twitter using the exact language that appeared on "fox and friends." "house votes on controversial fisa act today." he said, "this is the act that may have been used to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others?" the presidents tweets seems to contradict his own policy. the white house supports reauthorizing fisa, the program that allows the government to conduct warrantless surveillance on suspected ...

The act that may have been used with the help of the phony dossier to abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. the tweet came after the white house strongly urged lawmakers to reject the amendment, put those limits on tapping communications by americans following the presidents tweet, he and house speaker paul ryan spoke on the phone after that conversation. the president tweeted this, with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to be unmasking process. si...

The earth forever. i really believe that hunters, animal rights movement, all of us, and so its going to take all of "uus to get there. the numbers are extremely bad. what were trying to do is create dialog, something we need in this country at the moment but on this subject its unique because we want to get to the same place and thats what we hope to see on issues like the rhino horn. youre either against or for legal possession, it sounds horrible, but maybe there is an economic model that can...

>> thats a great point. guys, thank you very much. we have breaking news. a new statement from the president where he tries, i think, to clean up the confusion that he himself created over the foreign surveillance act. he said with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office in todays vote about foreign surveillance about foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it, get smart. hes now saying he supports the votes today, just to clear it up....

Endorsing no changes to this amendment to this bill saying in a statement they urged the house to, quote, preserve the useful role fisa section 702 authority plays in protection of american lives. now those things would seem to completely contradict each other, a statement from the white house on the administrations position on this, and then a statement from the president on what the president thinks of this. so then about 90 or so minutes later give or take, the president issues another tweet,...

Democrats have to figure into their messaging. but when you see polls like this showing that people are not willing to give the president credit for it, that figures to play against republicans and you already see all of these retirements coming in that show how troublesome this bigger picture is for republicans. >> youre also seeing news that we just saw walmart is going to give a bonus to some of its employees, increase the wage for some of its employees. its fascinating that so far the presid...

Now in montecito, theres talk of two missing sisters and an entire neighborhood with a colossal lump in its throat as they worry about these sisters. theres just a lot of stories about this. it was just such a quick, rapid, raging mudslide that tore through here. in many instances we know that people just didnt have a chance to get out, john, and theyve also put kind of a number on the scope of it. 19,000 acres ravaged by this -- well call it now the thomas flood. >> paul vercammen out in califo...

Senate this year. joining me is the florida democrat, senator bill nelson. senator, thank you so much for being with us. before we get into the politics, are you happy that there will no longer be drilling off the florida coast? >> well of course if thats real, but secretary zinke just said he takes it off the table. by the way, that was one day after it was published in the federal register that all of the outer continental shelf was going to be drilled. so what does he mean by off the table? t...

Montecito, california. paul, whats the latest? >> reporter: as you look behind me you can see just one of the many homes damaged or destroyed, some 100 homes completely destroyed and 300 damaged by this mudslide just to give you a sense for the depth of it. if i take one little step in this direction, you would see how deep i would sink in right here. this is just a slushy mess and this is what these search and rescue crews are going to have to deal with today, john, when they go through places ...

Needed to go after and kill isis finance minister. >> that wasnt the only talking ryan did. source said after the presidents tweet called the house speaker and that call was followed by this tweet from the president. with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and todays vote is about surveillance bad guys, we need it. get smart. the presidents chief of staff john kelly said this about the tweets impact on the votes, quote, its not more d...