This is just fighting fire with fire. Also this morning, the wall street journal is reporting a longtime republican operative tried to get Hillary Clintons emails from hackers, implying he had some connection to fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn. We have it all covered for you as always. We begin with Boris Sanchez live in washington. Boris, what are you hearing . Good morning, clarissa. The president has already tweeted out twice this morning, first about crime in chicago and potentially sending federal help there, and then about the repeal and replacement of obamacare. These Early Morning tweets very different than yesterdays, in which he went in a very personal direction attacking a cable news host and taking the National Conversation about politics in this country in an unexpected direction. Mr. President , do you regret your tweets . Reporter President Trump silent amid growing outrage over his attack on Mika Brzezinski, calling her crazy and falsely claiming when she visited maralago over new years, she was, quote, bleeding badly from a facelift. Maddening any frustrated. This is beneath the dignity of a president of the United States or at least it should. The vitriol sparking widespread condemnation from republicans and democrats alike. Its blatantly sexless. I was stunned by it. Im not going to defend his tweet. It was ugly. Do the job of a president of all the people of this great country and stop, stop the disrespect. Reporter Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders was quick to defend the president s insults. The American People elected somebody who is tough, smart and a fitter. I dont think its a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire. Reporter casting the president of the United States as a victim of the press and insisting that President Trump has never promoted or encouraged violence despite evidence that proves otherwise. Not the crap out of them, would you . Seriously. Just knock the hell i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. What were trying to do around here is improve the tone and civility of the debates. This obviously doesnt help do that. Reporter the first lady also condoning her husbands Cyber Bullying, despite the fact she said she made combating this problem a focus of her time in the white house. We have to find a better way to talk to each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media. Reporter her spokesperson writing in a statement, quote, when her husband gets attacked, he pushes back ten times harder. The president s outburst the latest in a string of tasteless comments about women. On the campaign trail he criticized his opponent Carly Fiorinas appearance, retweeted this unflattering picture of ted cruzs wife and said this about another female journalist. She starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions, and, you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. We should note, clarissa, some of the har chest criticism over these tweets have come from republican congresswomen who the president may be trying to court for some of their votes in this overhaul of obamacare. Senator Susan Collins of maine called the tweet embarrassing saying she worries about how the president is viewed around the world. Senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska tweeting, in part, stop it, when it comes to tweeting like the president does. Shes not alone. A new quinnipiac poll shows 61 of americans, look at it right there, think the president should stop tweeting from his personal account. The most interesting part of this poll, clarissa is the date. It was taken june 22 to the 27th, well before yesterdays tweet storm. I guess the question is will the president pay any attention to that. Boris, thank you very much. The wall street journal reporting a republican operative tracking down hacked emails from Hillary Clintons server implied he received the help of fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn before the election. Cnns Phil Mattingly is live on capitol hill with the details. Phil, walk us through this. The story which cnn hasnt corroborated yet, done by the wall street journal details how a Republican Opposition researcher, peter smith, believed that Hillary Clintons emails had been stolen from her private server and had been reaching out to hackers and hacking groups in an effort to try to get those emails. According to the wall street journal, some of the individuals he reached out to said he claimed he was working with or corroborating with Michael Flynn, then a senior Foreign Policy adviser to candidate donald trump who eventually became the National Security to President Donald Trump before he was fired. The individual himself, peter smith, is now dead. He did interview with the wall street journal before his passing. He said that never actually occurred. He never said that occurred. Michael flynn never returned call for comment from the wall street journal. Again, cnn hasnt corroborated these details yet. Its an interesting story, certainly something you look at the entire russia investigation. It comes as investigations on capitol hill are clearly ramping up. Senate intelligence committee, weve seen a lot of their work. The House Intelligence Committee also ramping up and inviting somebody that republicans have a keen interest in. Susan rice, former National Security adviser to president obama has, according to sources, told the committee she will testify behind or at least meet with the panel behind closed doors next month. This is obviously important for republicans who care about the unmasking issue. This is something they allege obama officials took away redacted names from intelligence reports. Susan rice has vehemently denied any knowledge of this. This is something they will be focused. Phil, appreciate it. Lets bring in cnn political analyst david gregory, real clear politics a. B. Stoddard and michael smerconish. David, its all on the table. The president s tweelt has created this malstrom of negativity. We got to see him at his worst. This is not something new. We got to see gop people, some vocal, many not. That is Something Else that we have to deal with. Then we have all of the reaction to this from Trump Supporters and people who are antagonistic to trump. Its all negative. Its all counterproductive. How do you use Something Like this to get better . Well, i dont know how you do it immediately unless you have a Political Class that is going to embrace the idea of condemning this kind of crude discourse. We had lincoln at gettysburg, as i said before, we now have trump on twitter. Both masters of brevity. Same office, same country. That is truly a sad reality, that we have those two basis of comparisons. I think what the president has failed to acknowledge because of his own impulsivity is that the presidency is bigger than him. Therefore, hes got to be bigger than some of the grievances he feels from the commentary thats out there about him, which is hard. Theres a lot of scrutiny. It can be about his temperament. It can be about his personality. Ive heard conservative commentators this morning saying we shouldnt be focusing on those. The media is always going to focus on a president s temperament and personality. It is part of evaluating their job performance. The president runs the real risk of having nothing left of his presidency other than a string of ugly tweets because he is selfdestructive. And its going to get in the way of actual success, achieving something of his agenda. Finally, we whether its in the media or if its republicans or democrats, have to stand up and say that saying hateful things about women is wrong. It is absolutely wrong in our culture when you have a huge public forum. I think Everybody Needs to take the president to task for that. Its absolutely gross. A. B. , weve seen some of the women who are close to President Trump, whether its Sarah Huckabee, the Deputy Press Secretary, whether his daughter ivanka who has condemned what she calls the vicious attacks against him, whether its the first lady saying, if you hit him, hes going to punch you back ten times harder. Critically, how do you think this defense plays, the idea that hes the victim here and just responding to the attacks . Thats really the most concerning to republicans and democrats concerned about the state of his discourse that david was talking about. Theyre not really focused so much on his past comments about women. Look at the way he spoke about john mccain. He acts on emotion and his impulsivity is really what scares people. A lot of obamas base did not like Rush Limbaugh and the things he and others said about president obama for eight years, but they wanted him doing his job. They didnt want him sitting in the Oval Office Getting obsessed about this kind of stuff and lashing out. People are really concerned not about his unique style as jason miller was calling it last night and his personality. Theyre concerned about the way he cant control his emotions and he acts on them and lashes out in vindictive and destructive ways and that it cant be stopped. All those people around him want better for him, who really are swallowing hard to keep from getting fired, using the defense that Sarah Huckabee sanders, a talented, articulate, inflappable person who is good at her job, the things she said yesterday were things she had to say. Every republican on capitol hill who is either condemning it openly or saying its unhelpful is actually most concerned with his temperament and what it means for the rest of his presidency. As tuesday with all of us, a. B. , obviously Huckabee Sanders has a job to do, but she makes a choice on how to do it. Smerc, how do you see it . Im guilty of it, when his bad behavior breaks into the news, we act like weve never seen it before. A. B. Made reference to the john mccain moment, the megyn kelly moment, the access hollywood tape. We shouldnt be surprised by this vial behavior. He has carefully orchestrated an inoculation campaign. I was flipping the dial last night because i wanted to see just how the reaction would be among our cable competitors. My god, its night and day. Hes fed that. Hes created this war against the media and this war against fake news so his partisans im sorry to say wont be impacted by this. I dont think it shakes the faith of the 46 . But i just think smerc, i think youre right about that, although i think there are some exceptions among typical defenders of the president who will condemn this, but i do think part of the problem is that theres enough of a fear factor if youre paul ryan, you clearly dont agree with this, you want to condemn it. I would assume he does, knowing him somewhat in his public profile. But hes trying to marginalize this piece of it so he can keep his eye on the ball of the agenda. The question is, look, trump seems to exercise some discipline in the helm of Foreign Policy, some. He does show hes listening to some of his top advisers. He doesnt go off like this. When it comes to this part of his personality or criticism, he doesnt listen to anybody. He doesnt restrain himself at all. So are Republican Leaders going in there saying, mr. President , you have to stop, this is wrong. This is just wrong. We have children imagine somebody in middle school, if they were popping off like this, theyd be suspended at least from school. Yet this is from the president of the United States. It is a good point. Some of the defenses you hear of this well, you know, she said it first. You say mean things to him. Hes just coming back. If you heard that from your child in defense of what happened in school, you would immediately cut the kid off and say it doesnt make it right, it doesnt matter what was done to you. Thats with a kid. Theres something to the context here, a. B. Does Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, a lot of the yappers on tv, do they go after him too much, too personally, too insulting . I could make a pretty constructive case that yes, they do. Theyre commentators, thats an opinion show and they say what they want. Even if everybody is right about it being so mean against the president , he is the most powerful man in the world, and it is interesting that those around him dont want to hold him to that standard. By ignoring it, it seems theyve empowered it because the president doesnt hold back at all ever and seems to get congratulated for that by his own. Theyre certainly not going to come out and criticize him unless they want to pack their bags that day and take their hard drive and get out of there. They all know that. Thats why they get up at the moik phones and say things that arent true. Its all about his electoral win, whatever he wants them to say. Im talking about ryan, mcconnell, the big shots in this party. Theyre there to lead. They got voted in. I think it has nothing to do with mika or joe, which is why i brought up Rush Limbaugh. If you cannot handle criticism from talk show hosts, youre in the wrong job. His job is to take this and carry on. If he wanted to hang around with howard stern as a businessman and have some fun, he could have kept doing that. He didnt. So, yes, we can sit here and say, oh, its really hard. If paul ryan could go over to the white house and tell him to stop. No one can stop this. It wont stop. Hes 71. Hes done it before, hell do it again. No one can stop him. Ivanka cant, melania cant, kellyanne cant, Sarah Huckabee cant. No one can stop this. If they could have, they would have. Republican leaders, i divide them into two camps. They openly condemn it which i think is respectful and others hide behind saying its not helpful, a missed opportunity, its a distraction. Behind the scenes what theyre all talking about is not so much that he attacks women like mel ginn kelly and mika, what theyre really concerned about is his temperament. He cant control himself. Michael smerconish, the last word is for you. The answer to chriss question is yes. Hes benefiting from the fact that some of the criticism has been over the top. It gives supporters opportunity to reveal this litany of charges. Bottom line, youve got to pun within your weight class. Hes the president , theyre cable talkers. He shouldnt be responding at their level. Thats the point. All right. Thank you very much. Another heartening conversation about the state of our democracy. But its important. Its important to discuss it. Theres always hope that things somehow get better as a result of it. Senators are leaving. You dont see them on the show this morning. One reason is they have their break coming up. The other reason is they dont want to deal with what the president just did. But how will this affect their ability to make a deal . Will it engender a little reaching across the aisle . 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