screen is often the most effective way to get a message to him or him to get a message out. you were reporting in the washington post about conflicts already inside the white house between different factions which resolved around some of the briefings, sean spicer s briefings, the saturday statement before his first briefing. donald trump took his management style from the campaign trail and brought it to the white house. he does have the competing power centers and factions who in solid yological ways have different views and different beliefs and we, the biggest way we saw that spill into the public what happened with sean spicer he came out and gave this briefing he was forced sort of by the president who was very unhappy about these images of his sparse crowds at the inaugural to defend him and deliver a bunch of mistruths and fabrications and lies and then of course the president was
the authority of the federal government is being misused to suggest falsehoods, things that didn t happen or suggest falsehoods in pursuit of further changes to the law. the federal government like the state government has to oversee free and fair elections. the concern what donald trump tweeted this morning and sean spicer said yesterday underlimis some of the nonpartisan authority we all need to have faith in the elections. this is serious business. thanks to you, ari,e ll be talking to ashley parker the washington post reporter reporting on the nexus between, among other things donald trump s apparent television viewing in the morning and the tweets that then follow. we are all on guard. thank you. thank you, appreciate it. coming up, the president s next moves that could lift the ban on cia black site prisons overseas. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon joining me next on andrea mitchell reports. per roll
gun violence in chicago was mimicked in a tweet. this morning a today show segment debunking widespread claims in november followed by a tweet from the president calling for investigations. joining us is washington post ashley parker. i guess you can t get him off either twitter or off television. not sure you d want to but it does seem to be interacting. this is the way not only is it the way that donald trump communicates. the world and with the public but also the way he receives a lot of his information. you ll remember curing the campaign sometimes if aides wanted to get his attention instead of talking to him directly they go on tv to make their point. in that way donald trump would pick it up.
the congresswoman joins me now. thank you, andrea, pleasure. we haven t seen the actual wording. we ve seen a lot and reported a lot as to what we anticipate hearing from the president today. what is your response? i think unfortunately donald trump is carrying through on divisive smoke and mirrors campaign promises. he won the election on the back of scapegoating immigrants and i had hoped transitioning to president he would get to work finding a solution for a more complexed and nuanced immigration system which everybody across the country agrees needs to be fixed and there was a bipartisan solution in the senate, 68 bipartisan votes a couple years ago. we need donald trump to focus on those kinds of solutions and not these things that he is going to be putting out an executive order today. your concerns also about the
the scientific cohort of the u.s. government or is this something different than what we ve seen before. best i can tell and i have not reported on this issue extensively, but yes this is a bit unusual, this is typically not something a new president would come in and do in their first several days in office and the real effect it has the country is divided. donald trump won the election but not the popular vote. people were skittish especially in agencies and this sort of has an even further chilling effect in what was already going to be a pretty tough task for the new president to unite the country and unite a lot of the agencies who he is now responsible for. ashley parker great to see you from the republican today thanks so much. thank you. coming up next the first indian american woman elected to the house, an immigrant herself reacting to the president s impending executive orders on homeland security and