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Us if one is quoting someones words, referring to a poem or an article, being sarcastic or using the slang that all the kids are using these days. so lets see if that helps us understand trump. at 6:35 a.m. on march 4th he tweeted that obama, quote, wiretapped trump tower. now, there are quotation marks so is it slang, is it figurative, is it unclear? 30 minutes later he said obama tapped his phones specifically. he misspelled tap, dropped the quotes. confused yet? so is your elementary school g...

And trump demonstrates somebody who isnt president of the united states rather than someone who is unevolved. not going to say that. when he says wiretapping, what he meant was somebody was listening in on him in some capacity and he has vague reason to supposeto so, never mind any of the sources hes using. thats another aspect of unevolved. he does have some sense he might need to qualify the things he might realize are a little outrageo outrageous after he sends the tweet. a little. i dont kno...

Items coming to the forefront in next two weeks. >> is he trying to change the meaning -- examine the language. doesnt mean hes telling the truth or trying to change what he said. is he trying to change it or not telling the truth? >> what hes trying to say is what your guar olous uncle would say, i was just talking. doesnt mean no content. means not being precise. not something he does. he felt he was overheard and surveilled and people ask exactly what do you mean, do you mean president obama ...

Put something in quotation marks. >> okay. >> irony is a nice way to indicate you didnt really mean something. his is more -- allows him to get away with having just erupted with a yul up. >> you dont think its something he went back, i meant wiretapping in quotes. and specifically wiretap my phones at trump tower. and he said that twice. but then 11 days later, the president offered this defense. watch this. >> ive been reading about things. i think january 20th a "new york times" article talki...

Ordered, et cetera, et cetera. then he has to say, well its just in quotation marks. what he means is i wasnt being pri pre size and speaking in a very general way. >> but what is extraordinary, as president of the united states his words mean a lot and has to have people come up behind him to cover it up or explain what they think he meant or what he says he meant or just to try to fix what he said. case in point sean spicer at a press briefing this week. >> are you saying that the president st...

Why not wait to tweet about it until you can prove it? people value your words -- >> "the new york times" wrote about it. not that i respect "the new york times," i call them the failing "new york times." other people have come out with -- >>me tucker: you are the president, you have the ability to gather all the evidence you want. >> i think we have a lot right now. if you watched bret baier and what he was saying, what he was talking about and how he mentioned the word wiretapped, you would fe...

Minds the spotlight. hes sort of used to it. what situation does it put him in? >> in a situation where he has to either say his boss was wrong or some kind of investigation that we havent known about that involved surveillance of trump tower. theres been no evidence of that so far. i think president trump is running into the reality of being the chief executive where every word matters. he cant make a charge like that and expect it to go away or people to lose attention or stop pursuing evidenc...

This is nixon/watergate. bad or sick guy. no quotation marks in this tweet, but he did have it in others. but this is a different version, the president now clearly shifting his story now that its under scrutiny from democrats and republicans, dave. >> thats right. the thing about this is, this is a guy, this president is somebody people put a lot of faith in. he told them he could bring back jobs, bring back the coal industry. instead of doing any of that, this is what president trump has chose...

Issues. there are so many. lets talk about obamacare. words matter when it comes to wiretapping. take a listen. >> but wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think youll find some interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. >> so many issues, obamacare, wiretapping. lets talk about that. words matter. but only if theyre in or not in quotation marks? . >> on the wiretapping thing, he said that obama is a sick guy who was wiretapping the phones at trump tower. now hes t...

something really morally significant about him doing that and the danger, if he continues to sort of riff around it which is what you saw happening on the friendly interview he had with tucker carlson about this, tucker trying really hard to give him an open space to perhaps say i misspoke which would be a lot better for our country. can you explain why that might be better, especially in terms of how the world views this president? >> the president in that interview with tucker was clearly t...