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This would start a new task for american leadership under donald trump. >> jon: you let off your playbook this morning with the tweet from the president, the tweet heard round the world. the president wrote this. despite the constant negative press covfefe, then it stopped. then the president wrote who can figure out the true meaning of covfefe? enjoy. >> if we can take one interesting thing away from thi this, the reports are true, we've all been reporting for the last couple months is that donald trump is up late at night with his cell phone firing off tweets. it's a new style of leadership ...

Need for us to change the senate rules. the rules already allow for us to do what we need to do. >> president trump tweet about health care this morning. hope they were public and senators, good people all, can quickly get together and pass a new repeal and replace health care bill and save money. sean spicer was asked yesterday about potentially spending more to make sure what's next is great. >> there is a lot of savings that are coming out of the repeal and replace effort right now. we're at $119 billion that we saved it to the president's efforts. health care has been summing up the presid...

Thanks to both of you for being here. do you see a smoking gun somewhere in all of this talk about russia meddling in the election? >> i think it's why there is an investigation. i'm trying to be very deferential to the investigation. we know all the investigations are being led by republicans. attacking democrats seems a little bit odd because we are not actually couldn't control of any investigations. my hope is that these investigations go on and the chips fall where they may. i don't know what happened and that's my hope these investigations get done quickly so the american people have a b...

>> jon: is a lunch break becoming a thing of the past? last year americans went out for lunch more than 400 million fewer times in the previous year. what's behind that trend? lawrence amenity is here with more. >> they figure the average lunch, $7.38. it seems like we are hanging out lunch the same way we do the fax machine and tape recorder. we're trying to save time and money. that seems to be the new trend and attending the restaurants, whether it's the casual chains or counter restaurants, even the food suppliers, all feeling a pinch here. six dollars will get you lunch at chili's, seven ...

The afghan security forces are not up to task to protect the diplomatic area, but also the larger city of kabul. this is what the white house is struggling with right now. there are talks about sending more u.s. troops. the pentagon is pushing to send roughly 5,000 or so more u.s. troops into afghanistan. the white house is weighing this offer, this contemplation. there are reservations for what these u.s. troops would do if they were there and what impact they have on the battlefield against the taliban? today's attack only makes that distinction and that decision much more difficult about wh...