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The medium. lets review. this is a president that came to washington and promised to be a disruptor, more transparent and accountable. but hes running into - - at the head of the fbi. leaking, lying. jim comey, who takes all of these notes in the vehicle when he exits meetings with president-elect and president trump cant remember when hes asked by jake tapper, not even under oath. hes asked, i dont remember . >>jesse: he never took memos when he spoke to president obama, loretto lynch. >> speak...

A way to just. make it. has no desire to experiment with other materials shes already found her ideal medium with paper her ideas blossom. ok time now for brief roundup of other stories making headlines on the culture seen in todays express. do plants respond to human feelings. the florence experiment a political strategy seeks to find out. the installation by german artist coston henna an italian biologist stefano man who so comprises a pair of intertwined slides that spiral visitors twenty met...

Him during the campaign, could be volatile and im about to talk to him about allegations that he was involved with prostitutes in moscow and that the russians taped it. >> how weird was that briefing? >> really weird. it was almost an out-of-body experience for me. i was floating above myself looking down saying youre sitting here briefing the incoming president of the united states about prostitutes in moscow. >> the president firing back on his medium of choice, twitter. james comey is a prove...

>> its also interesting that he said to you about possibly firing, getting rid of ty cobb, the president does not have a ton of attorneys around him at this point who have been with him for a long time. ty cobb is one of those who has. >> right, and hes had -- hes had trouble finding a replacement for john dowd, you know, essentially alan dershowitz seems to be working as pro bono volunteer legal counsel for donald trump, you know, through the medium of cable television. so trump is already, you...

I dont think anybody can look at those images of women, children and innocent people being gassed and not say that its only the united states of america thats probably capable of putting into it. >> this president has said that hes trying to learn the lesson of the previous president who put out the red lion syria but did not enforce it. its one thing to have rhetoric. you have to follow it up if youre going to leave that redline out there. this president did it last year after the chemical atta...

Children, and innocent people being gassed and not say that its only the united states of america thats probably capable of putting into it. the only thing that will work as a militaryof force. but in no way is this nation building. >> this president has said that hes trying to learn the lesson of the previous president who put out the red line in syria but did not enforce it. its one thing to have rhetoric. you have to follow it up if youre going to lay that redline out there. this president di...

Tomorrow but certainly in years come when we have proof of record to be able to declare assad and his cronies as war criminals and take them to the international criminal court. beyond that, i dont have much hope for something like authorization of force or anything like that. >> bob scales, this is an interesting discussion because yesterday esaw jim mattis going to the white house. and after president trumps tweets we thought we might have been in the final stages of the plannering to for an a...

Worry of us. he said this was an attack on the country. so the idea that he would respond to someone saying you are too smart to do this seems to underplay what is really a visceral response to the fact that he is caught between the hairs. >> but isnt that the way it is working? you have to figure out how to play mind games with the president through his favorite medium which is television, you have to send him a message through tv. he is getting legal advice through fox news, from chris christi...

See what kind of yarns they are going to spin. >> but they are public statements. those statements will unquestionably used later if they tell a different story under oath later on. thats the important part. ainsley: we talked a lot about twitter. and twitter has gotten a lot of flack for shadow banning conservatives when they tweet so that other people cant see them. now the ceo, he likes an article that was on twitter from the -- from a publication called medium. the ceo jack dorsey, he liked ...

Sort of the -- you know, most people who go into -- particularly in local news and who stay in it, the folks that i know, the anchors that i worked with in miami, they really do have a mission in their mind to cover the news without fear or favor and to really make sure that the local issues that are important to that market are heard. thats not what we do here in national cable news. are you worried about the medium at this point if people, very wealthy people even cee lo call tv news as just a...