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That is one thing that they have done extraordinarily well. and i think that's what his base sees every day. i think he's trying to distract washington. don't think it is a tactic. i think this is a person who does not have a lot of self-control. but it doesn't matter. i do want to disagree with the idea that the problem is how popular he is. i don't think his approval rating is the problem. he's not up for election for four more years, we should want a president who's willing to be unpopular in the service of getting big things done. the problem is a lack of effectiveness. the problem is a la...

About how you believe the president is changing the nature of political conversations. my colleague kelly o'donnell and i literally ran into the president, impromptu, unexpected, just strolling into dinner. do you see that off-the-cuff behavior being a benefit it to the president? >> i as president i there is a process in the white house called the staffing process that i had to be within, by which you take speeches and everybody gets to have their input. there's an argument, there's thought and craft that goes into these products. and on twitter that's not happening. and on these kind encount...

Process, the bottom line is the reason for the staffing process is not bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake. it's for someone to say excuse me, if you say this, the reaction will be this. if you want to do that, that's fine, the saudis will applaud, the europeans will be upset. this is the implication of 140 characters at it was 6:24 because i had to update my "today" show report. >> a speech has thought and craft and goes through a process. tweet does not, it has neither. i don't know how effective a tool of foreign policy this will be. >> it's potentially a dangerous tool in the end, because w...

Phone calls to our friends that don't seem to go that well, you understand why a lot of the world leaders right now are sitting back a little bit on their heels not really sure exactly what the next phone call or the next effort will be. >> and it is amazinghe role that twitter is playing now in american foreign poli this is extraordinary, a major change. he tweeted about iran at 6:30 a.m. this morning. normally when a president makes a statement in any white house there's a staffing process. it actually goes through the senior staff, they mark it up. >> maybe the secretary of state would know...

Telling you the secretary on multiple occasions was briefed. his senior officials were briefed. not just briefed. they were part of the drafting process. it went through not only that, but just back up. they get consulted and briefed. it goes through the office of legal compliance. then it gets shipped out to the nsc and the homeland security council. this went through a very, very extensive staffing process. the idea that you can talk -- whether or not he got fully briefed or -- he was briefed multiple times. saw the language. his staff made edits. he came back multiple times. i'm not sure ho...