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Continetti.ive never come i have had a chance to be on the panel but never run the panel appears ill try to do my best. so this is not a controversy in the white house anticipated before the rose garden press conference with mitch mcconnell. but as soon as the president referenced how his predecessors handled outreach to families of the fallen i knew they would have a firestorm on their hands. so the back-and-forth went on all week. and included an appearance by general kelly in the briefing roo...

The answer is yes. will that happen? who knows. >> president trump has taken to social media unlike any of his predecessors. coming up, what he has to say about that twitter habit. plus newt gingrich will join us to talk about where the presidents agenda goes from here as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures" right now.

Accurate, and then anybody who questions it is criticized in personal terms, and he has to say not only that he has contacted the family, as his predecessors have done, he has to say he has done it better. he has to suggest that hes better at this than anybody else ever. and that kind of pattern has gotten him in trouble. >> and any customarily when the white house does reach out to family members of fallen soldiers, its not always in the form of a phone call. oftentimes they may get a letter, b...

And thirdly, youre supposed to be -- the current president, the incumbent is supposed to reach out to his predecessors and speak wisdom and advice and in turn they try to help him. >> was this a violation of club rules? >> david summed it up perfectly. its been a situation where the current president hasnt reached out to his predecessors, and i think to just go one step further, i think that certainly in the case of obama but more notably today, yesterday, in the case of george w. bush who was v...

Discuss, cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. so how unprecedented is this for trumps predecessors to criticize him and in this fashion, even though his name was not uttered? >> well, you know, theres almost an unwritten rule that you try not to criticize a sitting president if youre an ex-president. there have been times when of course this didnt hold up. theodore roosevelt famously in 1909 left office and he was republican and he beat up on william howard taft. his hand-chosen successo...

That it was not -- that it was probably not accurate, and there is a suggestion in the e-mails that the reason they needed to gather this information was that so the president could start making some calls presumably to make what was an untrue statement on tuesday morning a true statement as soon as possible. that seems to be the implication from it. i would add -- the only reason that this matters is because the president claimed that he had made contact with virtually all the families. it woul...

On offensive. then that led to understandably real indignation on the part of obama lieutenants and obama staffers and others who were saying that the president was going and attacking all his predecessors in regard to how they dealt with the fallen and the families of the fallen. i mean, thats, you just dont do that.ty for the commander in chief. we are thanking those families for the sacrifice of the rememb members of the family. its about as important a responsibility as any for a commander i...

That rule has gone by the boards as well. >> so michael, to davids point, was this a violation of club rules? >> david summed it up perfectly. its been a situation where the current president hasnt reached out to his predecessors, and i think to just go one step further, i think that certainly in the case of obama, but really more notably today, yesterday, in the case of george w. bush who was very careful about criticizing his predecessors said nothing critical in eight years about barack obama...

Or negative impact on kim jong un in this situation? >> i dont see how it could possibly help anybody to make threats like that. you know other presidents havent done it. for good reason. >> but i guess to the presidents defense, i would say and what those other predecessors of his have done hasnt worked, because north korea has continued to march on a nuclear path and maybe hes trying to out-crazy him. you know hes trying to as between the two of them, to appear to be the more irrational. >> we...

Say, and what those other predecessors of have done hasnt worked because north korea has continued to march on a nuclear path. and maybe hes trying to outcrazy him, you know? hes trying to -- as between the two of them to appear to be the more irrational? >> well, you know, thats possible. but it just seems that trying to outcrazy somebody is not a good way to run a country when youre the most powerful country in the world. you should try to talk to people. you should try to have strength. and t...