day, as well. kaitlan, we ll get back to you in wisconsin. kaitlan collins reporting for us. joining us now, republican senator, jeff flake of arizona. he s a member of both the foreign relations and judiciary committees. do you see the various bomb incidents today were politically motivated terrorism? well, obviously, when you have a lot of politicians attacked and also a news organization that covers politics, it s obviously politically motivated. so i think that that s pretty clear. let me read to you, senator, what jeff zucker, the president of cnn, said. he just issued a statement, and it s very, very strong. there is a total and complete lack of understanding at the white house about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media, the president and especially the white house press secretary should understand their words matter. thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.
for right now, the president says they re not going to be published unredacted and declassified. kaitlan, thanks very much. kaitlan collins reporting. thanks to jeffrey toobin and evan perez as well. joining us, leon panetta. he served as defense secretary and cia director during the obama administration. thanks for joining us. let s get first of all to the report in the new york times , which we ve now confirmed not only did rod rosenstein discuss removing the president from office through the 25th amendment, but he also spoke about the possibility of recruiting other administration officials in that area. do you believe that this and the discussion about possibility using a wire to record the president, are these grounds to fire rosenstein? well, in many ways, wolf, this is not a new story. we ve known about the chaos and erratic kba erratic behavior by the president.
in conflict with the news media over reporting that s done and wants to be able to control the narrative. he does that via twitter. it s something new every day. he keeps returning to the tariffs have come to bite him in a way that i m not sure he expected being so strong from his own party. so certainly that s a veents e one, too, to see listen to me, not to them. generally speaking, this is a prescription that applies to everything and whatever is most convenient for the moment. it s also at the same time he s bashing the media. bashing other people, too. any opponents. talking about stripping their security clearances and the like. also an administration less and less transparent. kaitlan collins reporting just yesterday they ll stop putting out read-outs of these phone calls. often they don t tell you much. president trump spoke to the prime minister of xyz. they discussed mutual concerns and trade relationship. at least it s a democratically elected government providing transp
cleared he had service here in the united states. a familiar attack that the president used often to criticize blumenthal but gives us a insight into how the president spent his morning here in rainy new jersey on twitter and watching tv. interesting, kaitlan. blumenthal responded with tweets of his own. mr. president, your bullying hasn t worked before and won t work now. no one is above the law and tweeted, this issue isn t about me it s about the special counsel s independence and integrity. thank you very much, kaitlan collins reporting for us. discuss this and more. joinings us, david chalian and white house reporter for bloomberg news, shannon pennypiece. let me get specifically, the president tweeted, david, his base is stronger than ever. is that backed up by the polls? no. there s not actually i can t find shred of evidence. didn t just say stronger than ever. he said getting bigger and stronger.
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