reporter: minutes later, the president took to twitter using the exact language that appeared on fox and friends. house votes on controversial fisa act today. he said, this is the act that may have been used to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others? the president s tweets seems to contradict his own policy. the white house supports reauthorizing fisa, the program that allows the government to conduct warrantless surveillance on suspected terrorists overseas and on u.s. soil. cue the chaos on capitol hill. a flurry of calls between the president and confused lawmakers. speaker paul ryan spent half an hour on the phone with him. after those calls, the president appeared to backtrack. in a followup tweet, today s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. the bill is passed. reporter: ultimately, the house did vote to reauthorize the law. did he not understand what bill yo
this morning the president blasted, tweeting the house votes on fisa act today, the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. now, we should point out the co-founder of the firm behind the dossier told congress that it is political rhetoric to call it phony. back to the surveillance program. the president apparently tried clarify his initial tweet, writing with that being said i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. moments ago white house press secretary sarah sanders denied the president s tweets contradicted each other. watch. secretary sanders: we don t think there was a conflict at all. the president fully supports the 702. and was happy to see that it passed the house today. but he does have overall concern
because you started this morning on fox & friends and said this. i am scratching my head. i don t understand why donald trump is in favor of thi this. his woes began with unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional domestic surveillance of him before he was the president. now he wants it institutionalized. this is not the way to go. spying is validated to find the foreign agents among us but it s got to be based on suspicion and not area code. bret: later on twitter, the president tweeted: house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others? a short time later, an hour and half. with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it! get smart!
administration about the bill. well, the president s tweeting, he is actively tweeting about this this morning. in his most recent tweet he said house votes on controversial fisa act today, the act that may have been used for the discredited phony dossier to abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. after reaction to that, brett, a few moments later the president responded again on twitter saying with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it, get smart. bret. both of those tweets have inaccuracies in them. the first one was the one i referenced having people pull their hair out in the gop leadership and intelligence community because they ve been working to pass this authorization of 702, reauthorization for months. and they think it s crucial.