congressman scalise and four other people. it revised a discredited theory from six years ago when gabby giffords was shot. it said the killer was influenced bizarra palin. the new york times has run a correction. but the editors tried to blame right-wing. the times should have never published that. let us know what you think on facebook and twitter.
investigation into michael flynn. howie: when this happens, you are saying the president s tweets fuel it. erin: absolutely. i think it was probably in poor judgment in this situation for the president to get on twitter as quickly as he did. he might have considered waiting a day or two. howie: when he s talking about badly conflicted people, he s talking about mueller and rosenstein. erin: when he was referring to rosenstein in that tweet, which was clear, he s the one who asked for the memo from rosenstein to fire james comey. howie: erin mcpike, rich lowry and guy benson and michael tomasky. thank you.
politics. it s part of having a robust and open constant argument about how we should run our country. i don t think any of that necessarily leads anyone to go out and shoot people. it just doesn t. the idea these are all potential tyrants seems to me to fall into the media/political warfare techniques. they are not just people, you don t like them personally, but they are evil. they are a threat to democracy, and it would be nice if we could tone that down. but as you say, in the age of twitter, it gets picked up. rich: one thing that bothers me about the coverage. if this had been a trump supporter who committed such an act of violence, there wouldn t have been anything donald trump
had a member of republican leadership fighting for his life after an act of political terrorism. it was two days, then back to russia as the top story. howie: it wasn t two days. the very night of the story msnbc put it on some shows near the top. guy: i m not saying they shouldn t have covered it. but it wasn t the top story. howie: wasn t it inevitable trump would talk to top officials. erin: donald trump himself made it an even bigger story by going on to twitter. i m not one who thinks he shouldn t go on twitter. he s speaking to the people and giving us a lot of material every day. but he made this a bigger story.