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Yesterday, bad optics, i don't begrudge the man a vacation. it's president's day weekend. but to declare an emergency you know in the morning or late morning and get on a plane to mar-a-lago in the afternoon, i think it's an issue. i think it's an issue. up ahead the wicked words for the female governor of michigan, it's all about how she looks in the dress she wore to her state of the state address the reaction will shock you, would anybody ever say the same things about the male politician? >> no. and walking for the world, the environmentally profiting shoes profiting the earth and making a...

Serious issues. >> reporter: today the white house responded. >> proper protocol was followed in this procedure. >> reporter: a furious white house official told cnn the administration understood it looked bad, yes bad optics. they had blocked the american from covering the meeting. the white house released no photos of the chummy looking greetings and nothing of kislyak. the russian delegation had a photographer there but the white house officials didn't think those photos would get out telling cnn they tricked us. that's the problem with the russians. they lie. meanwhile, the russian embassy...

Again. everything you just listed, so it's weird to me that he is focusing on his p.r., which again, like even up until this point you have buzzfeed reporters tweeting about how they are crying about his final speech on what happened between him and joe biden. that is not journalism. can you imagine our great presidents, ronald reagan, teddy roosevelt saying, you know what? instead of leadership, it was bad p.r. you have to take some responsibility for your failed policies in america's reaction to them. >> in the warm up to the interview where he was saying, do you know what i went wrong, i re...

12 months, however long your visa is, then we tap you on the shoulder and say excuse me, thanks for coming, time to go. >> to you both. lennie, your reaction to that? >> he has a valid point with that optics. unfortunately, republicans, we do this way too often. we may have a valid point but when you start comparing people to packages, you start comparing people looking for a better way of life to something that you may have ordered on stub hub, that becomes problematic from an optic standpoint. governor christie does have a point. we have to be able to track people when we go and put them thr...

Your reporting discovered these fake wait lists existed. now we learned that the phoenix va director got a pretty nice bonus last month in addition to last year, correct? >> that's right. i think this is what they call in d.c. bad optics. out here in phoenix they call it disgusting. the director of the phoenix va in april at the very same time the inspector general was out here investigating allegations manage 789 received an $8,500 bonus. this is just last month. the va has explained this to congress as some sort of a low-level clerical error. but, again, it is as i said, brooke, bad optics a...