you know what i m saying? yeah. well, we will talk to you about it. how did this happen? how did it make it all the way to the president? here is national security analyst samantha who served on the national security council under president obama. welcome back. obviously, something that should be in this process to vet these calls either was not there or did not work because he got through to the president. can you identify what that is or tell us what the process is to make sure the person on the other end of the line is who they say they are? this is funnier than a saturday night live episode if the national security risks weren t so big. there are so many hoops that anyone goes through typically to get on the line with the president. so, for example, i ve been on air force one. you send staff with the president specifically for issues like this. so if a call comes in to the white house. now, obviously, a call from a u.s. senator doesn t go through the white house switch boar
us some more colors. here s what the article says, the call to the white house comes after 10:00 most weeknights when hannity is over. he calls the switch board, the operator dials the president who leaves the oval office around 7:00 p.m. and by this point in the evening is almost always by himself on the third floor of the executive residence. the first lady sleeps in a separate bedroom. there are a lot of questions raised by even just that paragraph, so let s start at the beginning, olivia, what do these two talk about most nights? it seems as though they talk about everything. my reporting indicates that they speak in a very friendly way, almost as though the president is not really the president, almost as though he s still just a tv personality. and one source put it to me who knows both of them it was a way for the president to decompress and this was a recurring theme throughout my reporting, that the president kind of lacking a normal social environment in the
attorney s phone calls, that is a story that should melt a switch board. ainsley: we heard that story, we could not believe it really, they are listening to his phone calls? have we come to that point as a country? it turns out they had to make some corrections. that story was fake news. brian: do you know who picked it up? rudy giuliani. four and a half hours we thought was fact because they said they had two reliable sources. he said we think it s going to turn out to be untrue. it s totally illegal. you can t wiretap a lawyer and can t wiretap his client especially when he is president of the united states. guess what happens around 5:30 on msnbc. chuck todd has word he has to change his format. here is tom winter the guy who broke the story, correcting the story. we have a correction via nbc earlier today nbc news reported there was a wiretap on the phones of michael cohen. we have a correction to that now. it s not a wiretap where they are listening in to the phone calls, explai
the secretary warned that asylum seekers will be detained. those who do not have a legitimate claim will be removed. attorney general jeff sessions says anyone whether entered illegally will be prosecuted. president trump is relying more and more on his personal cell phone to speak to outside advisers. the president used to make most of his calls through the white house switch board. it is not the case with the president s personal cell phone. we are told he is using his cell phone to step up outreach to gop lawmaker who mamakers who suppo. kelly doesn t have control over who the president is talking and what kind of security? the first is political. who s ears are listening?
top of mind for president trump these days. a tweet this weekend about a parton for a boxer who died 70 years ago and the recent pardon for a george w. bush aide who was convicted for lying about a leak, scooter libby. pamela brown is outfront at the white house. the president doing this stuff on twitter more and more freelancing, as you re learning more about his state of mind. yeah, that s right. we re seeing some of his state of mind playing out, of course, on twitter. we ve also learned, erin, that the president has been increasingly relying on his personal cell phone, reaching out to outside advisers, congressional allies. just in recent weeks, and sources we ve been speaking with say this is the president wanting to get around his chief of staff john kelly so he doesn t know who he s talking to, because john kelly would then print out if he used the white house switch board, a list of who the president was talking to, so this is largely seen as the president as we ve seen pre