Andrea Mitchell on Trump’s FISA Tweet:’ This President Does Not Understand the Basic Law’

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MITCHELL: "Well, it also shows, in an incredible way, that he’s not only at war with the intelligence community, but that he’s not taking in the information that they’re giving him. His own favored CIA director is strongly in favor of this. His own White House put out a statement last night, promoting the passage today of the house version of the bill. And this is something that his intelligence agencies have been working on for months and months with leaders in both parties. Against the advice of some libertarians like Rand Paul and some liberals, very concerned about privacy, also, like Ron wyden. But this was strongly supported by the entire intelligence community. And for him to come out 30 minutes after “Fox & friends” this morning did a segment opposing it and appealing to the conspiracy theory, the same conspiracy theories that have driven the president about whether he was being eavesdropped on by the Obama White House, not true, which prompted another tweet that got him into a lot of difficulties, this was basically telling all the leaders on the hill and foreign leaders and our adversaries that this president does not understand the basic law and was ignoring his own White House. I mean, it was an incredible act of self-destruction, if you will, because it set the hair on fire. You had Paul Ryan calling him personally. You had the White House trying to repair it. And then two hours later, getting it walked back. And there was mayhem. John Kelly running to the hill, to the speaker’s lobby right off the floor, you know, grabbing people and saying, don’t go against it. Nancy Pelosi saying to Ryan, let’s pull the bill. You know, we can’t let it go down. This is something they’ve worked on for months. And the president did not understand it."