go directly to the public with information that he gets from his national security council. not necessarily from an unverified drudge headline. that s still the media, after all. i ll let him be the judge of what he wants to use his communications for. okay. why do you believe that americans should believe this president? given the track record? and i could name a bunch of things that have happened recently. for instance him saying there was terror in the philippines before the philippines could figure out what it was. now they re saying it was a robbery gone bad. there are a number of different occasions where he said information that hasn t quite turned out to be true. i think you can say that about anyone. but this is president of the united states. it is not just anybody. katy, i m fully aware of that. you have never said this about a democrat president. and i think it is just fair that
world. plus, why president trump is once again taking aim at the obama white house. they didn t know what the hell they were doing. this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening. i m katy tur in for chuck todd. welcome to mtp daily. we begin the fallout from the president s frenzied, fuming tweet. after pledging sol dwart the u. krs, the president rimmed into the mayor, he tweeted, pathetic excuse. he had to think fast on his no reason to be alarmed statement. that is the second nile two days that president trump has mischaracterized the mayor s comments that there is, quote, no reason to be alarmed.
can count on the president of the united states to give accurate information. i think that s true that he can t. the president of the united states has another function. that is to be careful and not to say anything that might disclose something that our intelligence is working on right now that might end up apprehending terrorists. so he has to be a little careful with that. do you agree with him tweeting out an unverified judge report headline in response to the attacks instead of, say, pausing? i think you re katy, i didn t know about that so you re asking me something i m not sure of. are you in general supportive of tweeting out unverifieds headline? well, i think what this president has done has gone straight to the people because he was not getting fair treatment from the media. that s you guys. so i can t blame him for doing that. i understand your argument there, and that you were making respectfully, the president can
i don t think anyone ever thinks that s a pleasant experience. a great forum perhaps, but he would probably choose some other forum of his choosing, and if he s watching right now, this would be an excellent one. absolutely. pete williams in washington, appreciate your time, pete. for more, i m joined by the author of that story, that new york times story that pete just talked about, michael schmidt. also nbc national security reporter ken dilanian, who has been doing some remarkable reporting on this on his own. and frank montoya, senior official at the fbi. ken, i want to start with you because you ve got more information about the timeline, when exactly president trump asked the fbi director over for dinner. that s right, katy. in the last hour, i ve heard from a friend of comey s, a former fbi official who was there at the time, who recalls that this invitation came in at the last minute, either on the day of the dinner or the day before the dinner. so that would have been ei
here. now there s a positive side to the fact that it s in the public from the fbi s perspective, the fact that it s public could lead to a greaterle level of tips and corporation that could fume the investigation. talk about why the trump campaign would be trying to distance itself from people like general flynn from carter page, paul manafort who they said had a quote limited role during the election. well katy, you know better than anybody that paul manafort did not have a limited role with the trump campaign. and i just found that extraordinary, and it signals again, there ve been no evidence of, you know, implicating these people, they have denied wrong doing. and they want to distance themselves before, you know, this thing moves forward. and that just was a really telling development, katy. drip, drip, drip of news, new revelations coming out by the day. pay attention to ken delaney,