she was bleeding badly from a facelift. i said no. despite the nature of the tweets, the president s backers lining up to defend him. chief among them, first lady melania trump who is said to be combating cyber-bullying. that s part of her white house platform. a statement from her office, as the first lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back ten times harder. the president s strategy is unclear as the tweets pull focus off some very important issues central to his campaign. it also forces lawmakers to once again answer for the president s social media habits. we have more now from brian stelzer, eugene scott, and cnn contribute on, reporter for the washington examiner, columnist for the new york post. selena, we ll start with you. look, i mentioned this to brian in the last hour most trump supporters my social media feeds
supposed to be energy week. the president s off-color tweets are what set senators on fire yesterday, even members of his own party said the president went too far and was out of line. now since then, senators have left town, and president trump is not far behind them. he ll be leaving today for bedminster where he ll be spending the weekend. how many times did you hear the words beneath the dignity of the office yesterday? almost universally. the wall street journal agreed with the words, republicans, democrats. as i ve said, i think this is below any office, not just the office of the presidency. to help explain where we go from here, we re joined by senior media correspondent brian stelzer, the host of cnn s reliable sources. thanks for being in so early. good morning. where are we, almost it 4 hours after almost 24 hours after the story broke with another despicable tweet from the president? wouldn t we normally be talking about an apology at this point? for anyon
roy cone taught him, always hit back. that s trump s mentor. brian stelzer, enough steeler for reliable sources as usual. see you in a half hour. and melania trump says he will punch back ten times harder. 40 minutes past the hour. blistering sell-off in tech stocks. apple, google parent, alphabet, microsoft tumbled, pushing the dow down 168. the nasdaq fell sharply, too. can i tell you, it has been a wild week for the nasdaq. look at this chart. it slipped tuesday. then it had its best day in months wednesday. what s going on? a few things. the dollar had the worst quarter in seven years. bond yields are rising. global banks raising interest rates. that has investors moving money into things like bank stocks. they have seen a jump after the fed allowed them to give generous payouts to shareholders. and wall street is holding out for tax reform. another wrinkle in the ugly day yesterday, gop senators said they are considering an obamacare tax on investment income. that s a key
combating cyber-bullying. that s part of her white house platform. here is the statement from her office, as the first lady has state publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back ten times harder. the president s strategy is unclear as the tweets pull focus off of some important issues and force lawmakers to once again answer for the president s social media habits. let s break all of this down with senior media correspondent brian stelzer. senior politics reporter eugene scott, and politics reporter selena zito. good morning. good morning, guys. brian, we knew this would be coming, that there would be a washington post op-ed from mika brzezinski and joe scarborough. it just landed and says, donald trump is not well. and says, president trump launched personal attacks against us thursday. our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far behiyond the personal. america s leaders and allies are asking again pregnanter this man is fit to be president.
support the comments in the wake of this. i don t know how the president could have time to be irritated by cable news hosts. he should be running a country with major governing issues. i don t know what it shows about his priorities and attention span honestly. we ve said enough, but we will have guests throughout the next couple of hours, brian stelzer joins us in the 4:00 hour. great. a reminder, this was a pivotal day for the president because the travel ban is now in effect. there s a last-minute change on who can enter, a last-minute legal challenge on the rules.