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Watched everybody in the world call him everything but a good milk cow. questioned his intelligence, questioned whether he was engaged in the job. and probably for the first time in the history of electronic communications, we have someone who can alter the conversation in an instant in his pocket. and i would submit if any of us were put in that position, we would pull it out and try to alter the conversation. we can debate whether the content helped, but he injected a defense using a communications tool that not other presidents had. >> you think that helped him? it didn't help him. >> the i...

Then you can say what an idiot he is. >> scott? >> i thought a lot about this tweet over the weekend and you think about when it occurred and it was about 72 hours after the news cycle started on this book. and the president, as we know, consumes news coverage for three straight days sitting and watching everybody in the world call him everything but a milk cow. questions about his fitness, intelligence, about whether he was engaged in the job. and probably for the first time in the history of technology, we have someone who can alter the conversation in an instant and it's in his pocket. and ...

>> twitter didn't get donald trump elected, let's be clear. >> i wonder if this twitter episode there are say question more than a comment. but i wonder if the president believes his messages to north korea are not being received. if he believes his secretary of state is not delivering messages, if he believes his government apparatus as it sits is not effectively showing his anger and so he says to himself, what's the most powerful communications tool at my disposal? this twitter account. i don't know if that's true, but i wonder sometimes. >> it is an interesting question. it goes back to th...

If you look at what this administration is doing on russia, you know, last week the u.s. named a lot of russian individuals that are going to be subject to u.s. sanctions at the end of next month. president trump last week approved the first sale of lethal force to the ukrainian military in his op ed secretary of state tillerson said it will never be business as usual if russia continues action ns ukraine. so you know, it's areally hard o separate the rhetoric from reality bull i think diplomats are starting to realize the tweets, while president trump sees it as good communications tool, you ...

Politics and the press. he says he hates the press but the press are important. >> for john mccain. he used to call us his favorite constituency. boy, if i had a nicokel for evey time an aide of trump's said boy, we wish he would stop tweeting. it's not going to happen. he sees this as a vital communications tool to reach his base and he's going to keep doing it for as long as he's president and probably after. >> ashley, as you're all covering all of this, the asian trip coming up, this is a real moment in the young presidency of donald trump. his first big trip to asia. >> that's absolutely ...