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Launched a cyber war against the united states interfering on our election process. attack on our sovereignty. this is what george washington warned the country about. remarkable to play out this week and to see over on fox, stay tv, all the excuse making, gymnastics going on trying to excuse trump on this. >> the president, as a candidate promised to put america first. no more taking crap from everything. why is he taking everything in the face from putin, everything. the attacks, the suggestion that they want mcfaul to be investigated.

Said, which is excuse-making, and expectations management. i think this is more the latter. that's appropriate. >> yeah. howie? >> yeah. we can't criticize the president for making excuses for a meeting that hasn't even begun. by the way, donald trump is a master showman. so you had cameras trained on the white house for hours today. the letter being delivered, what was in the letter. when he did cancel the meeting, there was all this criticism about, oh, he's just throwing a temper tantrum, this was impulsive. he got kim back to the negotiating table. even in that breakup letter, he did say, ...

Done, seen, positions he's just changed and so forth. and he's paid very little price. i think that's the fact that in -- this is his modus operandi. most of us assume if you do that over and over and change your story many, many times you pay a price for that. he was elected president of the united states. he is not wildly popular. he hasn't improved the approval rating much as president and held his base. he's got a strong support of republicans on the hill or at least some strong support and grudging acquiesce and fanatical support of his base and some media and unbelievable excuse making a...

Your point is well taken. it would be useful for the american people to understand with more specificity how their information is tracked and used by tech giants. >> bill: for some it may strike them the following way, strike one on russia. now it's big data, big tech. here's the second pitch on how you lost an election a year and a half ago. >> yeah, i think some of this is more excuse making from the democrats. are they happy when their side using it when they were micro targeting voters and was lauded as genius and cbs news reporting evidently the data gathered by this particular firm was n...

Allegiance to parties. george washington warned of individual power rising to the point where it lays on the ruins of public liberty. benjamin franklin said only virtuous capable of freedom. i don't see how any of this excuse making for the idea of maintaining a republican in office is good for america or for republicans. this is coming from me a life long republican. it's shameful and dangerous in the long run. >> you're shaking your head no? >> i don't know what to say. the founding fathers talked about the licenciousness of the press too. that was something that was written about last week....