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michael avenatti who we know is out of the race. >> i don't do social media, but if there is a 30-person field and everybody is trying to break through with a message, talking about longevity for social security payments going to get it done, or how do you break through? i think that's going to be part of the equation. also there are times when you have to respond to a president's attack on you, and a candidate's ability to focus on their own message when they want to but to instin instinctively hit back the right way without making it seem like it's talking points that you practice talking to 20 times with your constituent who doesn't want to do it off the cuff. here is the perfect candidate, whoever that is, is someone who knows how to do it all. stays on message when he wants to stay on message, hit back naturally in an effective way. it sounds so simple. >> the good news is we'll have
women on that list, which kind of narrows it kwoquite a bit. it's clear that -- i think the first iteration of the short list was very heavily male. if you are looking at two out of five women, that's pretty important. it probably speaks to the fact that he is looking at people like murkowski and collins who are concerned about roe, concerned about abortion. maybe looking to throw a bone to them or at least give the appearance of that at the onset of this process. this president is -- he is inexperienced in politics. but he has a very raw political instin instinct. i think he understands this time around, he has to get the right balance to get the votes he needs and not have any surprises with the two moderate republicans. >> let me read to you quotes from the president aboard air force one a little while when he was asked would you be looking for -- this is the question --
>> so in the early days of the administration there was talk of the president being guided by a group of old hands, experienced hands, tempered voices and one by one they've mostly left the administration. so what does it mean for the administration going forward and who is in the loop? or is there a loop if james mattis is not in it? >> it's a great question because as we've seen the president shift around his national security team he's felt emboldened to follow his own instin instincts, to listen to what he thinks should be done and what his instincts are telling him he should do and then finding people to agree with him and he can do that in any number of ways, you have john bolton who is aligned with the president in certain areas of foreign policy then mike pompeo also aligned with the president on certain issues and with mattis what you saw was it was mattis and john kelly and secretary tillerson,
take anything anyone says on a given day. but we're talking about perhaps the most repressive dictator in the world. and the president, obviously, just has an affection for authoritarians. whether it's duertefli philippines, erdogan in turkey, putin, he just has an instin instinctual affection for leaders who are authoritarians. >> and he seems to have a good personal relationship with emmanuel macron of france. watch some of the body language that was exhibited today. watch this. >> a piece of dandruff off -- >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you.
instin instincts. you doen't know that he didn't say. he admitted he lied four times at least three under oath. criminal referral because he lied about leaking to the media. this is number two at the fbi. this should have everybody concerned. everybody should look at what the fbi was doing and not doing while comey and mccabe were in charge of it. they all thought if not wanted the other person to win the election. that is so colored and politicized so much of their actions and inactions. >> as you know the inspector general is asking to look into andrew mccabe and we are covering that. wbr-id="wbr10588"/> thank you very much. >> thank you. and president trump as kellyanne talked about is touting a major new announcement from north korea saying on twitter north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site. this is very good news for north korea and the world. big progress. that is what he said.
that are there. keep the integrity of that beam. be able to preserve any evidence. >> meanwhile, many questions surround the firm who built this bridge. some of which we have looked into have had violations and there has even been a lawsuit against the construction company for intelligence filed just this month on another construction progress. stories of heroism also emerging as though who witnessed the collapse share what happened. >> i was in disbelief of what i actually was just witnessing. and my in60's kicked in instin. in had one not breathing. we started cpr on him. we had another major laceration to his head completely inconscious. >> just a heart breaking scene overnight. we are expected once again to get a briefing from fbi and osha here as well at 9:00 a.m. local time with
time ago. the president doesn't feel he can let any slight go and this is what he does. >> i get the politics of the nfl, for example. from the president's perspective, i completely get the politics from his base. is this just who he is, he cannot accept a slight, he can't say i'm sorry, he can't even just back down. he can't say, just turn it off and walk away, this isn't a fight worth fighting. does he see something to be gained here? >> i think he might understand instin instinctively in its boiled-down form, it's difficult to have press on a subject, and the topic everyone wants to talk about is his treatment or his interactions with the families of the fallen, it's less time to talk about the nuances and the details of, apparently, a very complicated issue that involves a lot of covert issues and
views clear here i think he doesn't want to be caught by his most right wing supporters, condemning any of their worst instin instincts. >> this is the equivalent to woodrow wilson -- he's pandering to the lower denomination of this nation, not the values we should hold. if this is what it means to make america great again, it's the 1950s versions of it. we have to decide, are we going to be an america that's looking forward, inclusive, i call on his colleagues. his republican party colleagues to denounce his actions. this is something that has been taking place for a while. we started with dog whistle politics. we are open and notorious with supporting individuals who aspouse white supremist notions. it should not be accepted in this america. >> you're so right about birth of a nation. i just saw a documentary on it
the confounding question of this time. why does the president instin instinctively underestimate these terrorist? >> and i think he's having trouble articulating. i think david just articulated more clearly what the president's strategy is let's try someone who covered the white house every day. chris january sen, what's the strate strategy behind down playing? >> reporter: i think yesterday