-Yes?
-Has the President
seen the letter
that Lori
Klausutis' husband, widower,
sent to Jack Dorsey,
Twitter's CEO,
saying that his tweets were
emotionally traumatic for him
and for his wife's family?
-I don't know if he's seen
the letter,
but I do know that our hearts
are with Lori's family
at this time.
-Why is the President making
these unfounded allegations?
I mean, this is pretty nuts,
isn't it,
the President's accusing
somebody of possible murder?
The family is pleading
with the President
to please stop unfounded
conspiracy theories.
Why is he doing it?
-Well, you know, I would note
that the President said
this morning that this is not
an original Trump thought on it.
It is not.
In fact, 2003,
on Don Imus' show,
it was Don Imus
and Joe Scarborough
that joked about
killing an intern --
joked and laughed about it.
So that was, I'm sure,
pretty hurtful to Lori's family,
and Joe Scarborough himself
brought this up with Don Imus,
and Joe Scarborough
himself can answer it.
-He's the President
of the United States,
and he's accusing somebody
of possibly murder.
I mean, this is different.
He's not a private citizen.
He's the President.
-Yeah, and Joe Scarborough,
if we want to start talking
about false accusations,
we have quite a few we can go
through about Mika asserting --
Mika Brzezinski --
-I'm asking about
the President's allegations.
-And I'm replying to you
and saying,
this morning, as recently --
I believe it was this morning
or yesterday,
Mika accused the President
of being responsible
for 100,000 deaths
in this country.
That's incredibly irresponsible.
They've dragged his family
through the mud.
They've mad false accusations
that I won't go through,
that I would not say
from this podium,
against the President
of the United States.
And they should be held
to account for their falsehoods.
Joe Scarborough should be held
to account
for saying people will die
by taking hydroxychloroquine.
Never mind the millions
of Americans
and people across the world
who take it for rheumatory
arthritis and other reasons.
There are a litany of false
headlines, like Mika --
-Does that justify the President
spreading a false conspiracy
theory that suggests that
he's responsible for murder?
-I would point you back
to Joe Scarborough,
who laughed and joked about
this item on Don Imus' show.
It's Joe Scarborough that has
to answer these questions.
Yamiche?
-I've got to read something
really quickly.
Timothy Klausutis wrote,
"Conspiracy theorists,
including most recently the
President of the United States,
continue to spread their bile
and misinformation
on the platform disparaging
the memory of my wife."
Why won't the President
give this widower peace
and stop tweeting
about this conspiracy
theory involving his wife?
Why can't this widower
get peace from the President?
-I've already asked
and answered this question.
-You did not ask and answer
the question.
-And our hearts are with Lori.
And I think the onus
is on Joe Scarborough
to explain his interaction
with Don Imus
and his laughing on this
very matter on Don Imus' show.
Chanel?
-Excuse me.
The widower is talking
specifically about
the President.
Are you not going
to answer that?
-Jen?
-So, going back to
the Klausutis family --
I think you pronounced it
the Florida family --
they have asked the President --
the widower has asked
the President in that letter
to stop talking
about this and for Twitter
to take down those tweets.
I just wanted to ask you,
is the President asking
for someone from law enforcement
to reopen this cold case?
Is that what he's intending?
Is he going to ask the DOJ
to reopen something?
What is he asking for when
he talks about the cold case?
-I don't have any
future announcements
on the President's action,
but I would just refer everyone,
for those of you
that haven't heard it,
go back and listen
to the Don Imus sound bite.
It was very callous,
it was very cruel.
And I think laughing and joking
about the death of an intern
is really uncalled-for,
and I think that's something
we can all agree to.
Thank you all very much.
-Just for clarity,
is the President
going to stop handling --
just for clarity --
