statements on a number of fronts today and seemed to get out ahead of the people making policy and in the case of the military, actually carrying it out. mr. trump also amped up criticism against the company amazon as well as the president of this network and leveled a new and somewhat baffling allegation against former president obama. so there s a lot to talk about. in short, today the president seemed to reveal more than he has in a long time, a side of himself we and many others have been reporting is increasingly going to be coming out. today, in two press availabilities with the presidents of lithuania, latvia and estonia, and of course on twitter we got a big dose of president trump uncut. here he is speaking about the u.s. military presence in syria which he announced last week he wants to end and he reiterated an idea he used to talk a lot about on the campaign trail, taking another country s oil. i want to get out. i want to bring our troops back home. i want to start rebui
sell the senate armed services committee? reporter: you need only look at two back-to-back press availabilities by the generals chief of shaf, get a sense how much the pentagon wants to actively and pro active counter this story and get as many facts as they have. remember, it s a remote part of the world. as they try to get all the facts out not just to congress but to the american people, but they keep saying, to the families of the deceased. their first priorities. making sure the families have all the information. hans nichols, thank you. up next, a fascinating conversation with six kentucky voters on the future of president trump s agenda, and steve bannon s war on the republican establishment.
defending you. this is also happening at a time when trump himself has retreated from the media. he s not doing as many press coverages or press availabilities. he s very rarely taking questions recently. he has as we shared with maggy s tweet, he s in this bunker mentality. you know how much gulf the obama administration got wen he didn t hold press briefings for a while? can you imagine if the obama administration had done this? i m just saying. absolutely. trump tweeted the other day that the media wants him to get rid of twitter and we re trying to get him to stop using social media. that is not the case at all what did le walk about no i m seriously. the one way we have access to trump these days is through twitter. his lawyers and white house aids want him to stop tweeting. hold your thoughts. we re going to talk about this and that expensive congressional race down in georgia.
i know you want to jump in. i was going to say this is also happening at a time when trump, himself, has retreated from the media. right? he s not doing as many press conferences, or press availabilities. he s very rarely taking questions recently. he has, you know, as we showed with maggie haberman s tweet, he s in this sort of bunker mentality. do you remember how much guff the obama administration got when he didn t hold press conferences for a while? oh, yeah, there was like a clock at the rnc. can you imagine if the obama administration had done this? i m just saying. no, absolutely. the one thing look, trump tweeted the other day the media wants him to get rid of twitter an we re try to get him to stop using social media. that is not the case at all. what would we talk about? seriously, the one unfiltered way we have access to trump is through twitter. social media. his lawyers and white house aides want him to stop tweeting. old these thoughts. we re goin
be speaking in part for the president of the united states as a person, as he relates to the swirl of allegations going on. i mean, the recount by both the gore campaign and the bush campaign had counsel represented before the supreme court and they did press availabilities, but i think that was probably the last two. as we look at the unusual setting of this press club gathering and reporters waiting to hear this response, what does mr. kasowitz speak for? does he speak for the intelligence committee? does he speak for the justice department? does he speak for the white house government? no, he doesn t speak for any of those things, so what he can offer is not so much a deep intelligence or insight, which is not a criticism of his. the lawyering job he has to do today is a tough one. he can speak for donald trump the citizen, and he can make claims and challenges based on