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For a minute or two about markets. they're not going to let me talk about markets for another week or so. i think i can hand over to nicolle wallace and "deadline white house" right now. thanks for tharkt, ali. it's just after 4:00 in new york. after a week designed to combat the image of donald trump as depicted in a new book as an incomp tent television addict out of his depth on policy, donald trump today suffered a staggering setback. tweeting opposition to one of the most significant counterterrorism tools, one that allows the government to conduct foreign surveillance on u.s. soil. the...

Intercept communications of terrorists and spies on a daily basis. it gets used sometimes in criminal cases, and the president's tweets demonstrate a lack of knowledge of the different parts of fisa that are at work. traditional fisa is the one that is alleged to have been used by carter page to intercept carter page and paul manafort. what congress is looking at right now is section 702 which is a different provision of fisa altogether. >> i don't have access to any classified information anymore, but when i worked in the white house, part of what we did after 9/11, when people were terrified...

We need the wall for safety. we need the wall for stopping the drugs from pouring in. >> reporter: and the president has spent some time this morning tweeting about the dossier and, in fact, on capitol hill the fact that the house of representatives is expected to vote on extending government surveillance powers in the fisa act. this is the president's tweets. this is the act that may have been used with the help of discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous investigation and others. important because his administration supports passage of th...

A contradiction and cleanup at the white house this morning and it's only 11:00 and it got started when the president tweeted, seeming to go against a bill that his administration had endorsed just hours earlier. the president tweeted, house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. now, that tweet came, it caused a stir because it came less than 12 hours after the white house issued a statement strongly endorsing the r...

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