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President seemingly cannot resist slapping someone down on twitter even if that someone can hold that political fate in his hands. the president can't seem to let a slide go even when it concerns storm victims. he's known donald trump for decades. also with me maggy habermann who knows the president better than most reports. maggy, the president does seem to have this habit, particularly on weekends of getting on the twitter machine and going for it. >> yeah it's usually times when he's isolated by himself in the residence for what ever reason. when there are fewer people around and fewer act ...

Decades. also with me maggie haberman. >> maggie, the president does seem to have the habit particularly on weekends of getting on the twitter machine and going for it. >> yeah. it's usually times when he's isolated either by himself in the residence or whatever reason or if he's at work, but when there are fewer people around, fewer activities. in this case it's not clear precisely what set him off, but most people in the west wing think it was some combination of watching fox news on sunday where there was some reference to corker and tillerson and this was a front page "washington post" sto...

All the ad purchasing is automated. i can create a facebook page and i can start running ads and they have no idea who i will. you're dealing with companies who are operating on a scale. and with a level of influence into our attentional spectrum that is unprecedented in human history. that's the case for facebook. what we're seeing in some ways is the ungovernability of that. >> wow! >> so then you talk about scale. here's the new report from twitter's statement. twitter is the source that r.t. spent 274,000 on these american ads. that of course is a group that is now being fingered by u.s. i...

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Says he'll sign any obamacare bill. but so far this theiry congressional republican there's lead is failing under donald trump. to assess this, we have the ultimate paul ryan guest, the house speaker's former chief of staff and ron clain, chief of staff to both vice presidents biden and gore. gentlemen, good day. >> ron, does this show that grover norquist digit pen theory doesn't work? >> i think he thought trump would use his digits to work the twitter machine. it is very hard to pass health care legislation without presidential leadership. hard to do tax reform without presidential leadersh...