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Because of the implications for the president's credibility and for the fact that he now, as you said before, he's picked fights now with the phish, now picked a fight with capitol hill and picked a fight on an issue that has nothing to do with his core agenda. >> so there are again i'll mention "the washington post" survey, harold, of how many untruths, lies the president has told on an average of five a day. these lies end up on his desk ultimately. do you feel this story at this point and these questions that are just gushing out at this point all land on the president's desk and could put ...

What does he have to lose? >> like i said, i these he'll stick to his guns in terms of, you know, the reason why he believed that. i don't think there is all that much to lose, because this issue, he's just so masterful at stealing the press cycle back when something adverse is going on in terms of his agenda, this accomplished that goal no matter what, and he's got some talking points down that he has some ground to stand on that there was some sort of surveillance going on. turning tail and running away, i just don't think that happens at all. >> credibility? >> credibility, that's the word ...

Walked back on it when it became apparent it was not the whole truth. >> but car, they put somebody in jail for it. they put somebody in jail for it. a filmmaker. i mean, that's unacceptable. >> this weekend's tweets. kelly mcbride heard from trump talking about secretary of state job saying he hasn't made a decision yet. it's been reporting there may be a decision soon that he's thinking about candidates. what do you make of trump's use of twitter and cable news together? he watches cable news, he reactions on twitter and then cable news reacts to him, realtime feedback loop. >> yeah, he has ...

Campaign, handles something like that is when the candidates says i will go back and look, the campaign then follows up and releases a statement to the news organization answering that question that the candidate said he would go back and look at. but in this case, he said he would answer it and now it appears his campaign does not have any intention on following through on what he said. so abc news gets to keep the story alive about him dodging questions, even ones he said he would answer about his tax returns. they get to keep running segments about mr. romney refusing to answer questions ab...

That generates buzz and drives momentum through the convention. however, maybe this summer, since it's sort of the doldrums of the news cycle do it. that would help generate a lot more fundraising if mitt romney in the next couple of weeks were to name a v.p. pick. >> it's not going to happen in the next couple of weeks. >> july. >> if it happened before john mccain chosen sarah palin to be his running mate just a few short days before the convention. fundraising. you have two people that can go out and fund raise. not just one. two different parts of the presumptive administration going out a...