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Safe in paris around notre dame cathedral today. and until we come to terms with the radical extremists, you know, weve got a real problem. >> and i should note, we are watching very carefully whats happening outside notre dame. there is a police action right now outside that historic cathedral. we had dan kildee, democratic congressman from michigan, on yesterday, who had a different take on some of the things that the president has been writing, particularly about the travel ban, particularly ...

Twitter, on two consecutive segments. and were talking about kellyanne conways husband tweeting about tweets, which is pretty meta. the second thing it shows us, though, is that i think that twitter is bad in a sense. its inherently skewed to do a couple of things. one, to be impromptu. a lot of the trouble people get into, its a medium that lends itself to, im just going to tweet right now. >> its bad if you dont have the impulse control, when you would hope that a president of the united state...

Fun. i think this story shows us two things. first, twitter is really big, right? i mean, here we are, on a big important show talking about twitter, on two consecutive segments. and were talking about kellyanne conways husband tweeting about tweets, which is pretty meta. the second thing it shows us, though, is that i think that twitter is bad in a sense. its inherently skewed to do a couple of things. one, to beimpromptu. a lot of the trouble people get into, its a medium that lends itself to,...

Whatever the truth is for that moment. and its dangerous. hes the president of the united states. hes not some guy with a blog. hes the president. what he says actually matters. >> dangerous how? >> dangerous in the sense that hes unpredictable in a way that is not the complimentary unpredictable that hes looking for. hes unpredictable in terms of how our allies see us. hes unpredictable in terms of how we as americans see, and hes supposed to be a leader. hes supposed to exercise moral authorit...

That ban got in was because the courts took a look at his rhetoric, both the campaign rhetoric and concluded it was anti-muslim. hes tweeting again focused on lets not be politically correct. >> theresa mays language enough is enough we have to do more. if youre president trump watching the reaction during last years campaign he talks about the travel ban, critics say you cant use that language. i bet hes sitting there this morning saying "i told you so." >> right, weve seen the president over a...

The committee. i want to know what donald trump is going to tweet if he -- >> the second afterwards. >> i dont know if he has the impulse control not to. this is a president -- >> you mean in realtime? >> well, after the fact. >> or maybe in realtime. >> maybe in realtime. this is a president who has shown a real lack of impulse control. hes been told by his aides, by his lawyers, stop tweeting. this can be used as evidence against you. i dont know that he will, in the end, be able to resist it....

Never want to give it to a counsel, but they wont, but they should. turn it over to one person, man or woman, and say, okay, im going to lead the questioning of this guy. i just hope it not show boating by the senator. i want to hear exactly what you heard from the president verbat verbatim. >> im going to go out on a limb here. what im looking for actually is not going to come from james comey or any of the senators on the committee. i want to know what donald trump is going to tweet if he -- >...

I mean it does -- the optics are not just bad, the optics show a measure of how can i put it, a measure of obsequiousness to moscow that no president would want. >> hes dominating scrabble words today. whats your take? >> somebody said to me a couple weeks ago during all this, if theres anyone in the world capable of generating this much smoke without there actually being a fire it might be donald trump. and i keep that in the back of my mind every time we have one of these revelations. there ar...

Political contributor. whats your reaction to this? >> its astonchishing a guy with 24 hours left before an election lacks the impulse control to not assault a reporter. >> hold on. take the election out of it. is it not astonishing a human being would do this to someone else? >> yeah. and theres cameras there. theres a fox news team whos reporting, too, from there, has been pretty stunning. they said he put his hands around ben jacobs neck -- >> i have the quote. >> i want to share the quote. t...

And mike pence in the hot seat, if elected, they sort of have to answer for this? >> actually yes. it does. paul ryan will be faced with the decision -- >> pac raised $2 million. >> will he seat him? i mean, the speaker of the house has discretion about seating new members and if enough people are angry with that and think that you cant have -- youre in congress, youre going to get microphones in your face every day. >> every single hallway. >> paul ryan could say, i think youre unfit? >> yes. h...