this is what s missing in washington, is an appreciation that people can look at a set of circumstances and say that they just see it differently and not that they re in donald trump s back pocket but you heard republicans throughout the day, we all sat here and listened throughout the day gift multiple reasons where they didn t think that the evidence proved the case. and everyone here just dismisses that as not true. it s a litany of untruths. it s not a litany of untruths. it really was. they repeatedly say things that aren t true to defend the president. we ve unpacked them a million times. this idea that they got the aid. they got the aid because there was a whistle-blower report. so everything is kind of, you know, massaged to make it they got the aid because there was a provision in the appropriations room that was going to force them to do it. if the president hadn t gotten caught and there hadn t been a whistle-blower report, none of this probably would have
not at all. the president has created his own television channel on twitter. it s video, it s text. it s everything he wants to do. the funny thing about it is when he first started tweeting when he was running for president. too much tweeting. too much tweeting. you will never get okay you got elected president. now you need to stop. then he just increases his tweeting. i think historians okay that tweeting was a really good idea. it bonded the public to him without the middle man. and i think even the typos end up working in his favor because you know he wrote it. that makes it feel personal and you feel connected to your leader in a way we never have before. ainsley: it s being reported that some of his staff wanted to restrain him. they wanted to read the tweets before. brian: 15-minute delay. ainsley: exactly. that would have ruined everything. i think you can tell a massaged tweet vs. an original. you look at it and go oh yeah he wrote that one. ainsley: the people who do s
powerful in terms of the amount of energy released during the earthquake. it is being released over a larger area. and a longer time, and i think that is folks here in the la region can attest to that th ground shaking was pretty long. we would estimate that the actual rupture for this magnitude 7.1 havlicek between 15 and 20 seconds for it to rupture to start at the epicenter and then propagate across the fault. until we get a chance to look a the data in detail we can t be more certain about that. 5-10, we have some data that showed it was a little on the slow side. this is probably about the same, the data needs to be downloaded and massaged, and it s friday night. the one question i find fascinating everybody talks
information. people who were sidelined in policy conversations and the second, i think that s what happened here and people who disagree with the policy direction or disagree with people taking the policy direction. people who leak have a reason for doing so. they don t like what somebody is doing, or they don t like the fact that their ego hasn t been massaged. in my judgment, this is one of the categories but my guess, somebody who doesn t like what they saw out of rosenstein, declined to say the fact he was laughing when he said it and going to smear him. i suspect whoever who said it has an ax to grind. could it be andy mccabe? i don t think andy leaked this. i know andy personally, so let me confess that up front. he was a serious dude. he is smart as you want to get.
but it doesn t. betsy in your report, i don t see in here that you re insinuating that john dowd called for the firing of bob mueller. that s correct. the initial headline written by an editor did use the word firing. we changed that headline and they get sort of massaged over the course of the story. in the text of the story, obviously, about in the text of the quote that dowd gave us, he calls for an ending of the mueller probe. honestly, i think you could use the word firing here, depending on the way that you intend to use it, as kelly said. this is a bit of hair splitting. the reality is that the attorney for the president said the mueller probe needs to be shut down. is shutting down identical to firing and identical to termination? it become a philosophical distinction. it s understandable that the distinction that dowd cares about. our headline doesn t use firing. what kelly is say something