here s the president s response to the attack tweets. mr. president, do you regret your tweets this morning at all? mr. president, how are you getting china to cooperate with north korea? mr. president, no regrets over your tweets sent out this morning? no reply. joining us is maggie and kirsten powers. maggie, i don t know where to begin on this, it s tough to overstate the mess the president created for himself today. again, it overshadows all the stuff he s supposedly trying to do. it really it s hard to find the words. it is not funny. his folks will say, you know, he s hitting back, he gets attacked, he s counterpunching, this is a television show where
talking about 2 president s attack tweets. his spokesperson which is that he is the real victim. no one is defending him. here is what he told me earlier about their impact. it is unworthy of the office of president of the united states and i m concerned about how we look in the eyes of the world as well as our own citizens. back now with the panel. you were we were talking about why is it okay for people to sit on a television set and call the president crazy. that is it s very heated type of rhetoric. it is certainly advisable. people say they should not diagnose in the media. that s all fair. part of becoming president is that you get criticized. that s what comes with the job.
journalists were killed worldwide in relation to their work. they are most definitely not the enemy. trump calls press enemies of the people which is what my reporter parents were called in soest run hungary and they were jailed. dark times. what are the lessons of history and what can we learn as these attack tweets continue? enemy is a strong word. but president obama is not subtle. reporters, some of them can be thin skinned. if you are going to dish it, you have to take it. that s the beauty of the first amendment. they can attack the president and the president can attack back. this is part of what trump is doing to washington. we have never seen anything like this. his press conference was unusual. but was it unusual for trump? not so much.
as we said at the top of the broadcast, president-elect trump was making headlines for statements on health care, russia, nato and more. as he prepares for his swearing in. he fired attack tweets at john lewis. congressman lewis said he did not consider mr. trump to be a legitimately elected president. a war of words between the two played out throughout the weekend. there s no end in site. more on that from jim acosta. reporter: on this mlk day, donald trump met behind closed doors with martin luther king, iii. certainly, he said that, that he is going to represent america. he said that over and over again. reporter: it was a brief reprieve from the controversy swirling around his inauguration. the incoming 45th president is slamming angela merkel for allowing syrian refugees into
statements on health care, russia, nato and more. all of this as he prepares for his swearing in on friday. back home over the weekend, he fired a string of attack tweets at georgia democratic congressman john lewis. congressman lewis said he did not consider mr. trump to be a legitimately elected president. a war of words between the two played out throughout the weekend. today, four days before the inauguration, there s no end in sight. more on all of that now from our jim acosta. reporter: on this mlk day, donald trump met behind closed doors with martin luther king, iii. the son of the civil rights icon. certainly, he said that, that he is going to represent america. he said that over and over again. reporter: it was a brief reprieve from the controversy swirling around his inauguration. the incoming 45th president is slamming german chancellor angela merkel for allowing syrian refugees into her country. i have great respect for her. i felt she was a great leader. i think s