Repealing and replacement of obamacare. What that would look like and will moderate Senate Republicans even back the idea . We start with President Trump and republicans trying to get back to business, trying to demonstrate unity and resolve after the president engaged in that twitter war with a cable news host that drew condemnation from both sides of the aisle. As he meets with south koreas leader today and talks unity in the face of a longstanding conundrum, north korea. Hes preaching the exact opposite when it comes to longstanding republican frustrations over Health Care Reform. Today, the president tweeted this. If republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date. Now, you might remember this is the exact opposite approach from just six months ago when he was telling republicans the two have to happen simultaneously. Lets start with Kelly Odonnell at the white house, kasie hunt on capitol hill. Ke
Shortly to address whats taken place over the past 24 hours. Here are the tweets from the president of the United States posted yesterday i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me, dont watch anymore. Then how could low i. Q. Crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve and insisted on joining me, she was bleeding badly from a face lift. I said no they stayed home to lay lou and i called and asked them to come in this morning to address this, to talk about the tweets and the reaction to them so they agreed to do so. They will be here at the top of our 7 00 hour before they do go away for the holiday weekend. Thats coming up in less than one hour. I asked mika to come in in particular because she does not need me or anyone else here to defend her, trust me, as anyone who knows her knows. Mika is smart, shes strong, she makes people in power uncomfortable and she fears absolutely no one. Youll be reminded of all that when mika and
A video of him from wrestlemania with the cnn logo superimposed over the person hes fight. The twitter handle shared the video making it part of the archived official record. Cnn released a statement that read in part its a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters. Hes involved in juvenile behavior far lowe the dignity of his office. Despite President Trumps previous comments including how he would like to punch a protester at a rally the White House Deputy secretary made they comments just on thursday. The president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence of anything. Quite the contrary. Speaking at President Trumps surrogate, he had this to say. My first reaction is the same as any of president s tweets. Theres many cable shows that reach to viewers and they are not always fair to the president. Im proud of the president for developing a twitter and social platform where he can talk direct try to the american peo
Like were living in the twilight zone. They do this day after day after day and the president responds and defends himself and everybody is appalled and blown away. Theres always one. Yes, it is like living in the twilight zone, the president should be ashamed of himself. But hes not. He apparently thinks he is proving what a tough guy he is, but he is actually embarrassing himself, his party, and america. In fact his actions show that he apparently doesnt care about you or america or the dignity of the office. The office of the presidency should be respected not only by we the people but by the person who is in it. You get what you give. So republicans who are condemning him today who have condemned him before but went on to support him, how many times will you look the other way . How can you look at yourselves in the mirror . How can you . You should know that donald trump does this because he can because you allow him to because you wont hold him accountable. Mark my words, hell do
Well, the president denied that happening. This is what the president tweeted in response. Watched low rated morning joe for the first time in long time, fake news. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no. Bad show. And the administration is saying more. Lets go to cnns Jeremy Diamond who is at the white house. We know the briefing wrapped. Its my understanding not much of this came up there, but we did learn that a this is from jim acosta that a white house official is backing the president s tweet saying it was scarborough who did the calling. Thats right, brooke. A white house official telling our colleague, jim acosta, just a bit ago that Joe Scarborough called Jared Kushner, at least, about this National Enquirer story so confirming that detail from what Joe Scarborough was talking about this morning, but that official also said that there was no discussion of any kind of a quid pro quo, which Joe Scarborough was alleging this morning when he said that essentia