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This morning the president blasted, tweeting the house votes on fisa act today, the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. now, we should point out the co-founder of the firm behind the dossier told congress that it is political rhetoric to call it phony. back to the surveillance program. the president apparently tried clarify his initial tweet, writing with that be...

Because you started this morning on "fox & friends" and said this. >> i am scratching my head. i dont understand why donald trump is in favor of thi this. his woes began with unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional domestic surveillance of him before he was the president. now he wants it institutionalized. this is not the way to go. spying is validated to find the foreign agents among us but its got to be based on suspicion and not area code. >> bret: later on twitter, the president t...

Secretary. democrats took full advantage of what they saw as a policy vacuum, saying lets put the bill on hold. >> in light of the irresponsible and inherently contradictory messages coming out of the white house today. i would recommend we withdraw consideration of the bill today to give us more time to address the privacy questions that have been raised as well as to get a clear statement from the administration about their position on the bill. >> nearly two hours after his initial tweet, pre...

Down. the president is tweeting about that this morning saying with that being said i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office. todays vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. the latest tweet from the president, corey. >> we do need our best surveillance capabilities on foreign officials living in foreign lands who want to come and do harm to us here but im gravely concerned. we have seen it has been now ...

Quote: with that being said i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and todays vote is about foreign surveillance on foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. referring to a directive he sent out yesterday to dan coyotes the director of national intelligence to develop a policy when it comes to requests to unmask the names of americans who are caught up in foreign surveillance. of course, thats what we are talking about in terms of the unmas...

E-mailings and other communications of foreigners, even when they deal with americans. communicating with americans. the intelligence community says. nancy pelosi makes the case on the floor. the intelligence community says its crucial they have this. the c.i.a. director said its imperative. today the president tweeted out a question whether it should go forward and maybe not a good deal. then he tweeted a second time and said no, we need to pass this, get smart. so it was conflicting. twitter c...

Administration about the bill. well, the presidents tweeting, he is actively tweeting about this this morning. in his most recent tweet he said house votes on controversial fisa act today, the act that may have been used for the discredited phony dossier to abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. after reaction to that, brett, a few moments later the president responded again on twitter saying with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking p...

Program. and they reauthorized it as is. earlier president trump appeared to complicate the process. he sent a tweet criticizing fisa and then he tweeted in support of it heres the first one. house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. then two hours later he tweeted with that being said, i have personally directed...

Now, financial loss, banks convicted under statutes are barred from handling retirement sta savings. in late 2016, five of the banks were convicted, that were convicted were give an one-year exemption waiver by the obama administration. think of it as a waiver as a kind of financial probation but keeping the institutions on a tight leash. now, this past december, the exemptions were granted, were extended by five years. these were one-year waivers and extended by five years for three of the bank...

>> i think the presidents tweet speaks for itself. hes concerned that the intelligence community doesnt have enough oversight. i think we need more oversight, not less. >> the house scrambled to save the bill. house speaker paul ryan called the president, apparently getting him to relent on twitter, adding, with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and todays vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we nee...