'That looks like a chance': ABC anchor grills Trump's homeland safety adviser on the president's CNN body-slam tweet

Bossert was seeing the video for the primary time. ABC news/Screenshot

President Donald Trump's native land security adviser changed into requested on Sunday to respond to the president's tweet featuring a video portraying him beating up a man with the CNN logo superimposed onto his face.

ABC's "This Week" host Martha Raddatz performed the video for homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert, who had now not yet considered the tweet, and requested him to reply.

"there may be loads of cable information shows that reach directly into a whole lot of thousands of viewers and they're truly no longer at all times very reasonable to the president," Bossert mentioned after he complete looking at the video. "So i'm fairly pleased with the president for constructing a Twitter and a social media platform where he can talk at once to the American americans."

Bossert then praised Trump as "probably the most specific president and most non-baby-kisser president that we now have viewed in my lifetime" and lauded his capability to talk with voters.

"He definitely can talk to the individuals, however I need to ask you: Is that the form of verbal exchange you need, that he's beating up on somebody? That he is beating up on the media?" Raddatz asked. "you are in cost of place of origin safety there. That appears like a threat."

Bossert spoke back that it was "on no account" a hazard. "I suppose that no one would understand that as a possibility; i am hoping they don't," he delivered. Reiterating his outdated statement, he stated Trump "has a correct" to reply to cable information systems that he views are unfair to him.

"You don't think it really is a hazard to anyone?" Raddatz requested. "You don't suppose it's sending a message: 'do this to the media. do that to CNN'?"

"No, I actually do not," Bossert answered. He mentioned the president turned into expressing himself "surely" and that he had been elected by way of people because they discovered him to be a person they could "be aware and relate to."

Raddatz endured pressing Bossert and brought up deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' observation from Thursday based on Trump's feud with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski remaining week.

"The president on no account kind or style has ever promoted or inspired violence," Sanders referred to on the White house press briefing on Thursday. "If anything else, rather the contrary. he is without problems pushing again and defending himself."

Raddatz also touched on closing month's tragic baseball capturing, all the way through which a fervent Trump critic and Bernie Sanders supporter opened hearth on congressional Republicans, critically wounding apartment Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

"You comprehend what took place to Congressman Scalise, and you've got these messages accessible against the media, and the media has had — I hate this to be all about us, however [Trump] is making it about us, or particularly CNN — some people had to get deepest safety guards," Raddatz mentioned. "Is that in fact reasonable?"

When Bossert persevered praising Trump for communicating at once with the individuals, Raddatz interrupted him. "i'm talking about the message," she stated. "no longer how he communicates — the message."

"nonetheless it's a superb example of you or the media producers here finding out what it is that we discuss and what it's we don't focus on," Bossert stated. "And so, with respect, I suppose that it truly is why he should go around you and the producers that handle the message, and directly to the americans ... and infrequently he likes to communicate about those cable classes that are beating up on him unfairly."

here's a clip of the interview:

NEW: place of birth security Adviser Thomas Bossert on Trump's CNN tweet: "no one would perceive that as a probability. i'm hoping they do not." #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/BfrWWt7buM

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