story in any way, shape, or form, can reasonably conclude that this whole thing is a hoax. frankly, it matters because we re talking about a foreign power actively seeking to influence the election. whether they were successful or not is important but not the central point. that they did it, that this facebook shows how widespread it was, how advanced and innovative in terms of using social media it was, that s the point here. yeah. that he never, ever, ever gets. sorry, alyson. only because i think that s the bigger point we need to get to. yes! that is the president doesn t grasp or doesn t i guess like. believe or like the pernicious effect that russian troll farms had on the election by creating, yes, fake, the word that he uses, accounts. facebook now says is bigger than we thought. the scale is bigger. and people believed it.
i stopped trying to answer the question that starts with why about this administration. you re right i was out of line. but you make an interesting point. he has sort of never really taken policy seriously. he talks a good game. but he didn t go out really pushing people, didn t travel to states to put pressure on senators. he clearly doesn t grasp the nuances of policy on health care orr anything else. it s hard to lead and put a stake in the ground and say this is what i want when you don t care. i think what s happening in a lot of the states, yeah he is going to joke with people at a lunch. there is a lot of truth to the joke. everybody will laugh in the room. behind the scenes political report earlier this week he is talking with his supporters in arizona about a possible primary challenge to the senator there, senator flake. he is serious about people you know paying a price if they don t get onboard. but in terms of his ability to really make people scared, i don t know if
information that was really owned by the united states and for the president to share this information had come from one of our partners based on the reporting in the region and also based on the reporting, it was highly sensitive information that came from an espionage operation. based on my decade of covering this area, that is code for a human source or human spying. those were among the most delicate and likely to be compromised, martha. martha: thank you very much. we will go back to catherine. also watching with microphone outside the white house for h.r. mcmaster is expected any moment. let s bring in chris stirewalt and judge andrew napolitano. the way that this piece is written, chris, let me start with you, it all is shocking. a quote from a senior official, former u.s. official, trump seems to be very reckless, doesn t grasp the gravity of the things that he is dealing with. there is definitely an effort in
president offered today was little more than self congratulations. instead of answers, we got well worn talking points. instead of explanations we got excuses. either the president doesn t grasp the scale of the law s failures what s your response to that. i think it s very important that we figure out what s wrong with the system and get it up and running. just like you had the governor on a few minutes ago. states that are supportive of the law, that are doing everything they can to make sure they provide insurance for their population, things are going okay. the rollout in california has been okay, there s been a couple of glitches, but as the president pointed out, there s a lot of other aspects to the law for people who are already insured that are extremely important, such as people being allowed to continue coverage if they have pre-existing conditions. so what is broken needs to be fixed right away, but it certainly isn t reason to say we need to scrap the whole affordable
of workers. it doesn t do any good when public employees are denigrated and vilified and rights are infringed on. the governor said the president doesn t get it. the president doesn t grasp really the situation that the state is in and other states as far as that goes. we are struggling to deal with a major deficit. a second deadline is passed to clear the building of demonstrators. you can hear them banging and drums and doing their thengs. capitol police will not use force. but they re not allowing anymore n mike, thank you. qaddafi doesn t have a lot of friends but has one in the u.s. who is that? later in the grapevine . up next, trying to avoid a government shut down. anks to the venture card from capital o,