Thread by @MattGertz

Oh man.

Left, Fox, 5:17 am

"In France, a police officer being remembered as a hero after offering himself up to a radical islamic terrorist in exchange for a female hostage."

Right, Trump, 6:10 am

Left, Fox, 5:30 am

"With a price tag of $700 billion in defense spending, this is the largest payout from a single defense bill the military has ever seen."

Right, Trump, 6:33 am

Left, Fox, 5:31 am

"He initially had asked the Congress for $25 billion for the border wall in his own proposal, but this bill includes only $1.6 billion for border security."

Right, Trump, 6:42 am

There aren't good matches for the lawyer tweets (and I can't tell if this means that Toensing and diGenova are out or if he's trying to explain why Ted Olson isn't joining the team).

It's possible Trump flipped over to CNN, which was talking about whether diGenova and Toensing were in or out during that hour.

Left, CNN, 7:19 am
Right, Trump, 7:40 am

MSNBC was also talking about the legal team shakeup around the same time.

Left, MSNBC, 7:20 am
Right, Trump, 7:40 am

But CNN directly mentions conflicts of interest as a reason for T/dG not joing Trump's team, so it seems like the best bet (screengrab featuring Toensing with Sam Clovis from 7:25, 15 mins before the Trump tweet.)

"What does Trump not watching Fox & Friends this morning mean for Pete Hegseth's chances of joining the Cabinet as secretary of veterans affairs?" is a real question to be considered in 2018.

It's possible that the president wasn't terribly interested in that program's lead story today.