it may be a new year, but some of president trump s tweets are targeting former enemies. former clinton aide huma abedin getting the latest twitter treatment. she worked for the previous clinton campaign. and in a tweet fired off this morning, president trump appears to call for huma abedin to go to jail. here s the tweet. crooked clinton top aide huma abedin who has been accused of protocols, put classified into foreign agents. jail, deep state justice department must finally act. also on comey and others. now, white house press secretary sarah sanders was asked about the president calling out doj as part of the deep state. listen. does he believe the entire justice department and its more than 100,000 employees are part of this deep state? obviously, he doesn t believe the entire justice department is
let s talk about it all with our panel now. let s start with what was alarmed a lot of people formally in the justice department and the national security apparatus, his tweet attacking the deep state, going after, quote, crooked hillary clinton aide huma abedin. suggesting she didn t abide by security protocols and writing in part, quote, jail, deep state justice department must finally act, also on comey and others and of course this comes just a few days after he told the new york times, quote, i have absolute right to do what i want to do with this justice department. how do you see this all? one, i think the president is still confused about how this is supposed to work. he cannot direct the justice department to arrest people, to jail folks, direct investigations and i think someone should continuously explain that to him. i m concerned about attorney general jeff sessions. we know he s been on thin ice with donald trump in the past. this is his moment to lead, to step up a
in a tweet, the president saying, deep state justice department must finally act. the president adding that hillary clinton s top aide huma abedin should go to jail and implying former fbi director james comey should be investigated. the president finds some of those actions very disturbing and he thinks that we need to make sure if there is an issue that it s looked at. reporter: when asked whether the president believes the entire justice department is part of what he calls the deep state, sanders said this. obviously he doesn t believe the entire justice department is part of that. reporter: for the president, it was his latest attempt to revive an old fight with former rival hillary clinton and her top aide huma abedin. the fbi previously said she was careless in her e-mail habits and handling of information. notably sending messages to her husband, disgraced congressman s anthony weiner s computer. just last week when asked whether he would order the justice department to