them and perhaps given the strategy here by the defense, prosecutors are now saying, well, why do we need to call them? it could only dirty our case up and, therefore, no need for us to call them. just make our case and prove our case through other witnesses and through a lot of the documents they have now recovered and are using in this trial. that s a good point, wolf. the defense would have to decide if they call them as a witness? a hostile witness? those are to be determined. shimon, thank you. gloria, the president tweeted this morning on this paul manafort case, which is pretty unusual at the start of a federal case. president tweet again. this is a different tweet from earlier. paul manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and many other prominent respect ed people. these have nothing to do with collusion. a hoax. it s pretty unusual. trial starts and he s weighing in on paul manafort. he is. and what s odd about this, to be
ju tthe june 12th meet something. like that old movie casablanca, the great line i m shocked to hear that is gambling in this casino. let s face it, this has been the kim jung-un playbook there time in-memorial going back to his father and grandfather. so pit yourself in his shoes. what he is trying to do and he s been caught doing it is to hide some of those nuclear weapons. and he will try to hold those off to one side, then he ll provide an inventory. we ve got a long way to go here. and the thing that really ought to shock us is not that he is doing that, but what should shock us is that our president came out of that meeting and said north korea s no longer is nuclear threat. that is way far away from the truth. we ve got some serious work to do if we re going to land this thing diplomatically which i still think we can. why did the president tweet that out when it does not appear to be true?
borrowed from one of the producers lacking flare. rachel: it is a big news day. pete: a fox news alert starting out. it s not about ncaa tournament or saint patrick s day it s about president trump tweeting support of firing fbi director andy mccabe. overnight it was announced the former deputy director of the fbi was fired instead of being allowed to retire and receive his pension. president tweet president trump tweeting this yesterday, last night late into the night he said andrew mccabe fired. a great day for the hard working men and women of the fbi. a great day for democracy. sanctimonious james comey was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir boy. he knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the fbi. ed, you were on the air covering this last night. we didn t know if it would happen and at the last minute it did. ed: they were going literally right down to midnight. my understanding from people inside the administration they were trying to ma
her a light weight. but in the remaining tweet also implied that she was a w whrks or wwhore. this is the president of the united states insulting a sitting woman u.s. senator implying that she wants to get paid for favors. and i m sorry, in this moment that we are in right now, the me too movement, the silence breakers coming out and talking about sexual harassment and sexual assault and to have this president tweet that kind of tweet today, right, the day that alabamans are going to choose between a democrat public servant and the republican person who is running for this who you have stated many times is an accused pedophile, i think
new york times thinks there are limits and lines the special council cannot cross. that is not the definition of transparency. i think what he s saying is it s transparent in the sense you know what trump is thinking all the time. you never had a president tweet his inner monologue as soon as he had it. you know what he is thinking. they are doing a lot to go around traditional transparency rules in the white house. they have rolled back a lot of what former administrations have done on this. do you think, alex, yesterday was a turning point when the president sat down with the new york times and spewed multiple big criticisms of everyone in his justice department, including his own attorney general? was that a turning point because you have four republican senators who spoke to jay tapper and all expressed immense concern about that, republican senators. was that a turning point?