tweets. he was responding to a request for evidence bagging up the president s claim. but even the fbi department came up snake eyes on that role. both the fbi and nsd confirm that they have no records relate to do wiretaps as described by the march 4, 2017 tweets. this supports what former fbi director james comey also said in march. i have no evidence of those tweets. the department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of justice and all of its components. the department has no information that supports those tweets. friday night document dems are a tradition for putting out information so you don t pay attention to it. friday news dumps are mandating
he said, i will be going to texas as soon as the trip can be made without causing disruption. the focus must be on life and safety. the president s focus seems to be divided. if you look at what else he has been posting about, what else he has been sharing, promoting sheriff david clark s book. clark, perhaps a fan of the definitely a fan of the president. the president a fan of his. trump talked about his wednesday event to promote tax reform he is holding in missouri. i won there by a lot in 2016. dems, cm is opposed to big tax cuts. the president has tweeted about nafta and the wall. here is a tweet saying, with mexico being one of the highest crime nations in the world, we must have the wall. mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other. we have seen the president repeatedly almost hijacking the news cycle in recent days, most notably friday evening. think back to the news dumps, as
all right. jonathan turley, stand by. we do note that this happened on this friday night during a major hurricane hitting the florida coast, which in some ways is a master class in media management. this is news dump 101 except it s not 101, brian stelter. it s an accelerated version. an advanced class in news dumps. folks who are in texas weathering this storm are not interested in joe arpaio tonight. for the rest of the country, once again, president trump back in the news. i have to wonder if it s because gorka issued a scathing resignation letter. he has a lot of critical words for president trump. he says true believers like steve bannon have been pushed out. this letter comes out. it s leaked to a pro-trump website and then you get news about joe arpaio.
understand that. let me explain it real quick. if police have a description of a guy wearing glasses and a beard and bow tie and they go looking for him, that s okay, that s a description. if the police officer doesn t have that description but sees someone driving by and looks like that and on that basis decides that s who i m going to pull over because they look like an illegal immigrant, that s profiling and that s not okay. once you strip away all of the legalese, it s not that complicated. so let s talk, brian stelter, this is what you do. news dumps? you re a senior correspondent. there s a reason they did a news dump on a friday night, but not only that, but with a hurricane barrelling off the coast of texas. gorka has something to do with this. gorka had written a stinging letter that kricriticizes ivank.
so let s bring in jamie weinstein, host of the jamie weinstein show podcast and contributor to the washington examiner to talk about all of this. welcome to you. thanks for having me. laura: how do you describe the activity we saw out of white house? what s your take? you ve heard of friday news dumps, this was a friday and hurricane news dump, at least i think with the joe arpaio pardon. that s the type of news that probably would get negative coverage in much of the mainstream press, but, you know, with the hurricane and the weekend, it s not getting all that much news. but it is getting news where i think the trump administration and president trump wanted it to get news, and that is in publications like breitbart where supporters of donald trump will be enthused by this pardon. so it s getting kind of pick-up where i think donald trump wanted it to, but with the hurricane and the friday night delivery being the weekend now, it s not getting as much coverage as it would if i