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Add, you mentioned the president s tweets about fake news, he was going after fake news all day long today. later on in the afternoon, he accused the news media of new sa of ignoring new sanctions being placed on north korea. we have been reporting on that. general john kelly, he was at bedminster with the president this weekend and this morning, correct? reporter: he was. and he s expected to come in and out of new jersey over the next couple of weeks. he s going to be with the president throughout this time and essentially this raises the question, of course, wasn t john kelly brought in to maintain discipline and bring order to the west wing? all of these tweets that we ve seen so far today, anderson, are an illustration of the fact that the chief of staff can only do so much. he s not the chief of staff overseeing the president of the ....
The president that goes after somebody who was in the military. what doesn t help is blatant hypocrisy. so he s on vacation for 17 days. twice as long as president obama vacationed in his first year in office. he spent 24% of his first 200 days at a trump golf property or resort. he claims that all this golfing is to cut deals. but we ve seen no deals effectively implemented in congress. so you have that hypocrisy, and senator blumenthal should never have misled people, but he took responsibility for that, which the president does not when he misleads people. so you have a draft dodger attacking someone who did serve in the military during vietnam, although not in vietnam. i think this piling on hypocrisy is going to further erode his trust numbers. and that s very dangerous for him and very good for the democrats. i think for me the big thing ....
He has 35 million twitter followers. this is his way to get his message to them. 13 tweets today, the majority had to do with the fake russia story, fake news, and how huge his base is, and how solid his base is. these are messages he doesn t think is getting out through the media, and he s using his twitter following to get his message directly to them. and he doesn t want to be stopped from going after people who he thinks are doing harm to him or to his agenda. richard blumenthal has been in his cross hairs from basically the beginning. there s no stopping trump once he decides that you need to be cut down to size from him doing that on his own. those are the kinds of tweets that when you talk to trump aides, they re like, we could probably live without those. but those are the ones that trump thinks are the closest to his personality. it is pretty emwhether mable ....