Students with restrictive i. D. Laws and attacking our Voting Rights with surgical precisions, even undermining the Postal Service in the runup to an election thats going to be dependent on mailin ballots so people dont get sick all day republicans have been asked ed to respond to the president s tweet. Some condemning it, others not so much. A senator saying it was joke. Weve become familiar. Just joking when he called on foreign powers to investigate his political rivals or considered buying greenland. When he said barack obama was founder of isis or when he told a room full of cops to rough up suspects or when he talked about injecting humans with disinfectant as a coronavirus cure or recently when he suggested slowing down coronavirus testing, the white house said he was just kidding. And the next day the president told us he doesnt kid. So maybe we should take his word for it. White house correspondent Kaitlan Collins joining us to talk about this. How are white house aides trying