would refer you to the department of justice on some of those points. but one of the things i can tell you is that there are over 300 people that are under investigation that are part of this process, under investigation for terrorist-related activity in our system, and that s a large part of the vetting process that the president has stepped up. you mentioned the president s tweets are four questions. essentially a way to get around the filter of the biassed media that he sees it as an important way to get his message out. it was said before that the media was obsessed with his tweets and they don t matter. which is it, do his tweets matter or is it a way to get his feelings out? i think that he matter in the sense that it gives haim a communication tool. that isn t media bias, but again, i do think the media obsesses over every media.
take his twitters so seriously. take a listen. the obsession with covering everything he says on twitter and not what he does as president that s his preferred method of communication with the american people. that s not true. sarah huckabee sanders, right there in her briefing, you heard it, said it is his preferred way of communicating with the public because he s able to get around what he calls media bias. hallie jackson was in that briefing room, you saw her ask questions of sarah huckabee sanders. hallie, we re focusing on this ban and whether the president is contradicting his own administration, and whether or not his own tweets are going to hamper the argument this administration is going to be putting forward to the supreme court. reporter: so, katy, and let me just kind of run through the highlights here, because i think when you speak with legal authorities, they have one perspective, including, as was brought up here in this briefing, the husband of
about facts, but president trump is no typical president. he reacted impulsively and capitalized on one of his polarizing policies and to advance a personal feud. you re talking about the travel ban. you re talking about his fighting with sadiq khan, the mayor of london, and you re talking about him tweeting out a reaction to the drug report without waiting for the national security advisers who have all the information before he is tweeting it out. instead linking to unverified reports that would be in his own self-interest to promote this travel ban. you re exactly right. president trump has no ability to really control his emotions and his impulses when he s dealing with a crisis like this. and he s creating many problems for himself and for his administration s agenda. and katy, you re no stranger to
talk. if he wants to speak before congress, he can speak as long as he doesn t reveal classified information. the executive order is a fairly complicated doctrine but this would not be a good one for the president to argue. he s taking good advice from his lawyers. he s not fighting a foolish fight. take the last few days. no tweets from trump except a polite and appropriate expression of solidarity with the citizens of london and shock at tehe terror attack. trump would have announced this morning, the trump administration would have announced this morning, what seems to be some progress on the va. he s a va administrator, he s not a partisan. he says they re doing things better there in terms of the records. reasonable investigation into the air traffic control. it may be that we need to improve air traffic control and modernize it and maybe this is a good way to do it. and the terror attack is probably something that politically helps trump s
this characteristic in donald trump. this is how he reacted to terrorist attacks throughout the campaign as a candidate. he would just sort of throw gasoline into the fire and try to get everybody s attention and capitalize on it as best he can to advance his own agenda and his own feuds, but that s not exactly traditional presidential behavior and it s not really serving his administration very well right now. susan, i want to get your take on the news we re getting from politico and how donald trump struck out article 5 language from his nato speech. but hold on a second because we have congressman jim heims from the intelligence committee. i know you only have a few minutes with us, but i do want to get your reaction to today s news, to the president tweeting out about this ban. you could spend hours and hours sort of getting into the carnival that is the communications out of the white house where the president said