president tweets this morning this is all a big hoax, goes back to blaming the media for hillary clinton, you see it right there. i just wonder what his thinking is? i mean bob mueller doesn t think it s a hoax. the bipartisan congressional committees don t think it s a hoax. facebook doesn t think it s a hoax. they re changing some of their strategy. why is the president doing this when his approval numbers going up? what the president is trying to do is reinforce to the american people the part that is a hoax in his mind and the minds of many that support him in this administration is pitting everything related to russia on donald j. trump and the trump campaign. what we know from the facebook revelation is we don t know the depths of what russia was doing as it relates to trying to meddle in this election, but we do know if that if there is going to be an investigation, it needs to be fair and it needs not focus singularly on one particular campaign. look at the totality of what
do that might include facebook, which they re saying it does, it might include hillary clinton s campaign and might include other things but to say it is only donald trump and the donald trump campaign is unfair and i think that s why it s not but it s not what facebook is doing. that s not what s happening. everyone knows russia was involved with hillary clinton s hacking into some e-mails there. everyone knows that the russians were trying to hack into voter rolls and systems. yes, they may have played a role in the donald trump campaign. no one is questioning, it seems like, was there russian involvement in the u.s. elections. what donald trump should say is i am proud to have been elected president of the united states and i will look into any foreign government who s tried to influence our elections. he just would look so much better if he did that. let s remind people it s a special counsel and the bipartisan committees led by republicans asking for these facebook ads
for a publishing company. reporter: including the man tasked with finding new ways to promote donald trump s new book. they were saying, we don t really understand this, so you re the expert. why don t you explain it. reporter: they set up a meeting with the boss where peter explained the basics to the billionaire and then mentioned one hitch, an imposter had claimed the handle @donald trump. that s when i suggested to him that we call him @realdonald trump because he s the authentic real deal and i remember he just kind of nodded because he really liked the sound of that. bill weir joins us. real bill weir to talk about what is really a highly anticipated hour of television, by. by popular demand, posted by storms natural and manmade. let me ask you this, one of the most fascinating aspects about what you discussed is the security concerns, having to do with the president s twitter account. right. started using it way back