Pletka: All We’re Talking Is Trump’s Tweets this Morning Instead of Real Issues

CHUCK TODD: Dani?

DANIELLE PLETKA: I have to say something first. Happy birthday Sophie.

CHUCK TODD: You're getting that out there no matter what.

DANIELLE PLETKA: I know. I'm getting that out there no matter what. That's my middle daughter, she's turning 18 today. Now let's talk about what we're here to talk about. Look, I think David is exactly right. All along, what you hear behind the scenes in Washington is, "Eh, there isn't any 'there' there about the Russia collusion, about the Russia investigation."

All we're talking about all the time is Donald Trump stepping on those mines, Donald Trump tweeting, Donald Trump's lawyers and his staff trying to keep up with all of the different things that he's saying. We're not actually talking about what the Russians are up to or even whether the president has the right to fire the F.B.I. director.

CHUCK TODD: But neither does the president.

DANIELLE PLETKA: Yeah, but that's the president--

CHUCK TODD: Isn't that concerning at all?

DANIELLE PLETKA: But that's the president's problem, isn't it? It is that we should be talking about Iran or the USS Fitzgerald, or Scalise, or something like that today. Instead, we're talking about the president's tweets this morning.