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Hes inciting violence. i dont think any american, most americans, excuse me, certainly some, most americans out there believe hes inciting violence from wwf clip. >> right, so -- >> here you are, hold on a second, i watched your segments and you keep talking about this. there is tons of news out there. lets talk about real issues. >> yeah. we have been told these are official presidential statements. is the twitter account of potus an official statement or not? >> i know there are two accounts t...

Information from voters including virginia. what is your response to the secretaries of state saying, no we dont feel like turning over private information of peoples social security numbers and addresses and the way they voted in the past? >> well, i think there is two things here. number one, i believe in states rights, of course. so if there is something -- states -- because we control elections of the state level, and if there is legal information, private information they dont want to discl...

Xfinity gives you more to stream to more screens. i think no one would perceive that as a threat. hes a genuine president, expressing himself genuinely. >> it is not going to do any good for me or anyone else to come in and just comment on things we might not like about his twitter behavior. >> well, a type of response from the administration following president trumps latest tweet, which included a video clip showing him wrestling and punching someone with the cnn logo super imposed on their ...

Mississippi and saying they do have a duty to protect the privacy of their citizens and the integrity of their own elections that states run. again, via your reporting, not yours personally, but cnns, it says from the request was public information, that doesnt run against state law. >> but to what end? why does the -- just so im clear, how does that help cut down on voter fraud? why does the white house need that? >> you see that the folks that are on the commission are actually from the state ...

>> good morning, alisyn, how are you? >> im doing well. lets talk about this tweet, the president retweeted this wrestle mania stuff of him punching somebody with a cnn logo on their. it appears the origin of the video was from the reddit account of somebody with just sickening anti-semitic and racist rants on their account. what is your response to this? >> well, i dont know anything about what you just said in terms of whose account it was or anything like that. i have no idea. i have been cri...

Condition protects, as long as there was at least one plan in every state that did offer those obamacare protections. is that a safe option? >> no, it is not. what youre going to do is get very, very high risk pools which makes those premiums not affordable for the american public. thats why we need to do this together. and thats the -- thats the concept of the affordable care act, it is law, that allows all of us to join together so that someone who has a serious illness, women who will need ob...

Europe for the g-20 summit and also have a face to face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. john, alisyn? >> suzanne, thank you very much for all of that background. lets discuss it with our panel, david drugger, cnn political analyst and correspondent for the washington examiner, jeff mason for reuters and the president of the white house correspondents association, and carun demergon. lets talk about what the president is doing here with retweeting things like this and continuing, e...

I get it. i share your feelings sometimes. what is confusing is when the president of the united states focuses on this. ill show you how many tweets hes put out that are media attacks, 94 versus 29 on the military and what is happening with our veterans. where is his focus? >> well, i think thats interesting. if you look at the media coverage and i didnt come here to defend the president. but you ask -- >> im asking your opinion? >> im going to tell you. you look at your focus, and the medias f...

>> well, yes and no. it is private information. but some of it is public. and the -- >> no, if it is available -- what the statement said, via cnns story i read, was public information that doesnt run afoul of state laws. i dont have an issue with that. if it did, private information like you said, that ran against state laws, i would not support it, of course. >> got it. here is why it is confusing. let me read what mississippi secretary of state says about this request. quote, they can go jump...

Has a right to respond to. >> reporter: the president tweeting a barrage of anti-media attacks over the holiday weekend. and defending his use of social media as modern day presidential. trump even unleashing a verbal tirade at an event meant to honor americas veterans ahead of the fourth of july. >> the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house. but im president and theyre not. >> reporter: this with the white house already on defense for the presidents crude attacks on two msnb...