i m alex witt at msnbc world headquarters in new york. as we approach the half hour, here s what we re monitoring. new reaction to the latest developments in the russia investigation. the president unleashing on twitter against fired fbi director james comey as well as hillary clinton. also providing new reaction to former national security adviser michael flynn s plea deal. in fact, in one tweet, he said i never asked comey to stop investigating flynn. just more fake news covering another comey lie. well, this tweet storm led republican senator lindsey graham to give this warning to president trump. there s an ongoing criminal investigation. comey may be part of it. you tweeting comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril, i would be careful if i were you, mr. president. i would watch this. let s bring in michael steel and bill press, who hosts the bill press show on free speech tv, also an opinion contributor for the hill. gentlemen, michael, when it com
dropped. right. this is something that came out as a presidential statement, just as sean spicer, the former press secretary, said that tweets were meant to do. they were supposed to be a window into the policy of this white house. yeah, this was something that senator lindsey graham was asked about on cbs face the nation this morning. let s listen what he had to say about this tweet from the president yesterday. there is an ongoing criminal investigation. comey may be part of it. you tweet in comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril. i d be careful if i were you, mr. president. i d watch this. jason, over the past many months, we ve seen members of the president s party expressing trepidation, occasionally frustration with the president s tweets. what do you make from the reaction of the senior senator from south carolina? it amounts to nothing because plenty of republicans say they don t like trump s behavior, but they re not willing to do an
former fbi director who worked for democrats and republicans who kept this country safe you can t say you trust bob mueller? you can t say that? i hope they re paying you a lot of money. what is sustainable that a trump surrogate can t say they trust bob mueller. i think one of the this isn t the white house s current position. sarah huckabee sanders took to the podium yesterday and said there are other folks putting bugs in the president s ear. if this goes forward it goes forward in a way the president doesn t like, he already is upset with sessions, upset reportedly with jared kushner for the way this has progressed and the fact it has progress at all. we know that from our reporting. if this goes further, you know, it s possible that he will regret that terminating mueller. there are people that he s listening to who enable those impulses from the outside who say things like, i don t know if i d listen to those lawyers if i were you. you hear what bannon is trying t
the water god is angry, what do we do? you know what the answer always is? we ll control your life. kimberly: i thought we jumped into like water s world for a second there that s so crazy. juan: i m safe. i m afraid he will sacrifice me. kimberly: i wouldn t turn your back on him if i were you. i don t know if your friends are safe this way, either. juan: i have reverend jesse here. what do you think of acosta s behavior and the climate change? kimberly: it s looking at. jim acosta has become the personality of the newsroom. he is in the middle of every story. and he has been parodied on saturday night live , the whole thing. and so now i think, though, he is bringing this up. it seems politically opportunistic and a little
we do? you know what the answer always is? we ll control your life. kimberly: i thought we jumped into like water s world for a second there that s so crazy. juan: i m safe. i m afraid he will sacrifice me. kimberly: i wouldn t turn your back on him if i were you. i don t know if your friends are safe this way, either. juan: i have reverend jesse here. what do you think of acosta s behavior and the climate change? kimberly: it s looking at. jim acosta has become the personality of the newsroom. he is in the middle of every story. and he has been parodied on saturday night live , the whole thing. and so now i think, though, he is bringing this up. it seems politically opportunistic and a little dishonest. these weren t record setting. he is trying to glob them all