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Has some obligation to defend its own people, like the news media will defend journalists under attack. youre an elected representative of the united states of america as are the four people who were attacked. republican members of congress have a special obligation to step up now. >> do you think, what i hear kevin mccarthy and senator lindsey graham doing, as i said, redirecting, so trying to get away from the racist comments that president trump said and trying to say these women are socialis...

>> sadly, this is not the first, nor will it be the last time we hear disgusting bigoted language from the president. we know this is who he is. >> this is the agenda of white nationalists and now its reached the white house garden. >> reporter: trump later intensifying his racist clash in another tweet storm calling the congresswomen anti-american, and falsely insinuating representative omar without mentioning her name is pro-al qaeda. as few as 19 republicans in congress denounced president tr...

Back to where you came from cant be understood as the word trope, i dont know what it is. many would be uncomfortable with the idea that the platform could take down the tweets of the leader of the free world. three weeks ago, twitter brought in a new policy whereby they said if a leader like trump is to break our rules, we will label it. we will say he has broken our rules but we are leaving the tweet up because it is in the public interest and people can hold him accountable. even here, we say...

Why they are not acting on it. >> isnt the bottom line, really, that twitter is a sham? >> i think twitter is extremely sensitive towards the claims of perceived anti-conservative bias, which you see from republicans pretty much every week. senator ted cruz is holding a hearing on that very issue today of perceived bias. >> forget democrat, forget republican, forget liberal, forget conservative, werent they going to label falsehoods, and this tweet is rife with inaccuracies. these women are u.s....

>> they hate it with a passion. >> reporter: president trump unapologetic defending his racist twitter tirade aimed at four democratic congresswomen of color after telling them sunday to go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. >> it doesnt concern me because many people agree with me, and all im saying, they want to leave, they can leave. now, it doesnt say leave forever. it says leave if you want. >> reporter: all four congresswomen are u.s. citiz...

Heat builds in, humidity is going to be here. its going to feel over 100 degrees in many cities today. thats going to be the case for the next few days. the air temperature in the shade in d.c. tomorrow is going to be 97. you add in the heat index, that is 107 degrees, guys. the heat is on. it is summer time. so here it comes, getting ready. >> the heat is on. i think i remember that one vaguely. >> yep. >> chad myers, thank you very much. >> youre welcome. what does it take to trigger twitter...

President trumps racist tweets providing a test for twitters new stance to label and down rank tweets that break their rules on hateful conduct. the social network says the presidents latest remarks do not meet that threshold. but how is that possible? joining us now is cnn politics and technology reporter, heres what their written policy is. we prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, content that tends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a prote...

Twitter. and his congressional allies have done the same thing. theyve been asking department of justice officials to turn over paperwork having to do with the start of the russia investigation. of course we know that strzok was fired for sending anti-trump texts during the course of the work that he did with the mueller investigation. peter strzoks lawyer aitan goelman told us that his client being fired, that made an end run around the department of justices own recommendation that he be suspe...

And he tried to bring this practice into his white house. and the important thing to keep in mind is the reason why, which is that president trump himself has long fostered a culture of sort of controlled chaos, of leaks, of infighting, of a work environment where people think recording someone surreptitiously is an acceptable form of behavior. and if you have a bunch of underlings behaving as you are or as they believe you want them to be behaving and engaging in this type of behavior, you can ...

With paul manafort of course on trial for bank fraud and tax evasion charges. and coming up, reality bites. donald trumps former "apprentice" star turning on the president. and now he calls her a dog on twitter and takes legal action in new york as omarosa releases another secretly recorded tape today, promising more to come. stay with us on "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. for your heart... your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of...