unprecedented. reporter: twitter is where the president goes to take the pulse of his base, analysts say, before he makes a decision. it s also a vehicle to validate his viewpoints, illustrated by his frenzy binges of re-tweeting others. he has all the power that comes with the office and, yet, he s insecure. he s so insecure that he s going to his twitter feed to pump himself up. reporter: sometimes, the sources from which the president retweets have questionable credibility or are downright dangerous, like his 2017 re-tweet of three videos from a british anti-muslim twitter account. what does his twitter dependence say about trump s view of reality? a president who spends most of his time either watching tv or tapping out tweets on his phone is going to have a warped sense of reality. he s not in the everyday existence that the rest of us share. the president on friday touted his use of twitter as a way to circumvent traditional
phenomenal tournament just dominating the field. 13 under par, and he s looking for more history this weekend. the reigning pga champ and also the two-time u.s. open champ, and no one has ever held back to back titles in two majors at the same time. i mean, i would like that lead to grow as large as it possibly can. i m going to go out there and do what i can do. keep putting the ball in the right spot and i should have a good chance of winning the championship. reporter: koepka has a seven-shot lead right now in round three. adam scott is one of those golfers out there, hoping that koepka falters and comes back to the field. this is what he said about koepka yesterday. i know he has won three majors. i know he seems impenetrable at the moment in this position, but at some point, he has got to think about it. well, it has to come to an end
the 2-1 pitch. reporter: you could say this story started way back in 1969 when the new york mets upset the heavily favored orioles to win their first world series. the mets are the world champions. reporter: we could say that, but that was before brian cooney s time. you didn t know about the miracle mets. i was too young. i was born four years after. reporter: we ll get back to the ball game. for now what you need to know is brian is a port authority police officer at laguardia airport. he was also a 9/11 first responder, a guy who knows about going beyond the call of duty. i have always been excited about helping people. reporter: so when he heard a call for organ donors, he stepped up and said he would give a kidney no matter who needed it. there s no real impetus. it s not that anyone was sick or one story. knowing it would make such a big difference is a pretty good feeling. reporter: turns out the recipient was surprisingly a fellow public servant, al
refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for trump s tax returns. boris, how are house democrats responding? what s next? reporter: well, the chairman of the house ways and means committee, richard neal, who had been leading this effort to get six years of the president s tax returns said he wants to see it end in court. he is not taking a route that other democrats, like jerry nadler had before, in holding administration officials in contempt of congress. he says he doesn t want to do that with the treasury secretary. instead, he wants to see this wind up in a courtroom. there are two ways to get there. essenti essentially, neal could have the house vote on potential litigation, or he could have the bipartisan legal action group, essentially the top five leaders in the house, vote on this. democrats hold a majority in both, ana. this is just a formality. this will wind up being another front in fact legal battles between congressional democrats and the white house. boris sa
trump s message to the masses. dan scavino is one of the original and trusted advisers at trump s side. he started as trump s golf caddy. here is brian todd. reporter: for a president obsessed with polls and ratings, there is nothing he loves more than the popularity barometer in his pocket, his twitter account. we have almost 60 million on twitter. reporter: the president has become so reliant on twitter that politico says in a meeting earlier this year, he stopped a conversation with frustrated lawmakers about his decision to pull troops out of syria in order to consult his twitter account. quote, get dan scavino in here, the president reportedly called out. scavino walked in. politico said trump instructed scavino to, quote, tell them how popular my policy is. he took the congressmen through the popular response he d gotten to the syria decision on social