greenland continues with renditions inside libya's prison when the rebels came to tripoli. so she ended with gadhafi regime it was in the office of spying chief at that time to stash off documents which reveal the collaboration between british and libyan intelligence services on al jazeera. and i want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news phoning the enemy of the people and this president has undermined us from the very beginning he's called this enemies of the people he has told us that we are fake media and he is trying to undermine and drive a wedge between the electorate and us the fake news is creating violence.

if the media can't be trusted to report the news then that's a dangerous place for america what you just did is inflammatory and the public in this room is only trying to do their job they are the same they just go skiing. your. children go to any other they go through. so what do you base your sit down sit down could you please sit down you get one why should . you do. this is the white house welcome to it this is where all of us in spain wretch's and all the television people put together the information that we provided the a look. i work for c.n.n. it's an analyst of playboy i write a column and i cast behind as you can see where everybody does their life shot all the major networks. that. room used to be where we had briefings but we haven't had

a briefing in about 2 months so instead what happens is there's a makeshift podium you see people bringing chairs out here we have 249 chairs and air conditioning 50 feet away. no shit it's just earnest and sarah how do we sanders the press secretary is scheduled to come out here this morning to state run television fox and she'll probably come over and visit with us and hopefully have a few words to say to us and we'll try to find out some information places that place just. in the morning where i live there are you do you think about this asking trying to listening would you give trump's tax returns i think it's hypocrisy at its best can you tell me the president this is replaced what used to be a daily press briefing is now a short 5 to 10 minute gaggle out in the driveway of the white house is there already so they can control the press a little bit better keep the questions and the answers down there right now who has

the wrong question to the distractors this administration has gotten a lot of heat and for its credibility to know what you guys and so i would argue that salary i don't doubt your credibility or an order i'm just asking the question or it's about me so the question is for the sizable portion of the public to believe that this administration has no credibility what is your response to that i think it's real simple if we come out and do the very best job every single day the media is the one that has perpetuated the russia collusion hoax for the last 2 years and i think before you guys start looking here and asking questions about our credibility you should take a real hard look at your 00 credibility isn't questionable the answers as you see are not forthcoming thanks aaron thank you very much shit yeah today's press is under fire but you persevered you do your job you ask the questions that's what you're here to do every day. this is the breed. room when the briefing room is operating you'll get probably

10110 people packed in here i work down this way. so c.n.n. and fox are down here reporters covering the white house do not have contact with the administration and we have limited contact with the actual person that we're covering the president he likes to say he's transparent but he shows up and take questions pretend he can hear some cut other people off tell people sit down shut up and off he goes. this is not how i usually count since historically very much off the rails i mean you get it right all the time he ever did and he had probably the best interactions so there's a a law that the army can't be used as a police force some it's called the posse comitatus act as i went up and was asking folks in the pressure up they didn't really know what the law was and one of the

press aides he started singing a song from the lion king you could've walked up there under the past 3 or 4 presidents and they you know with your tell you would have made lease no more you were talking about and they would've called it the who live and they wouldn't and they definitely would not have sang part of the song for the children's movie on something as serious as sending armed u.s. military personnel to the border to perform a police action on the brain and robert muller. what a stupid question. what a stupid but i want you a lot of us got a lot of stupid price right something can vary so it's not mile hill that he'll start another fire over here today to move us off this fire i think it was monday or tuesday i listed 10 or 11 issues that we went through in the course of one day 11 of them would have been a huge story in a previous administration and some of them get low. last because just you get

rolled under i call it the chaos but yeah and i'm always shocked by the continued shock about donald trump this has been his entire adult life has been run this way and he has read his yeah. will be out in the rose garden where the president is going to appear for the national day of prayer he may or may not take questions he's not going to take a question now but will show up because it might be our only chance to see the president today to get a question to ask. ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states history . people are so proud to be using that beautiful word game. and hiding from me and not to take it. i mean there are different questions in this thread and it's

pretty typically done that way. the last. thing he. would is this white house in historical perspective on the white house is very different and it's because the president is very different and i think we are in a very divisive time period and he got elected as a sharp partisan capture. it wasn't that he created it greta just think the president has not happened experience as a government official and so business experience and the level of information that you have to provide is a lot less than it is once you get into government asking the question if you want to bush was a governor before he came here obama senator they learn that the press is part of governing and then you may. not like it but you have to learn to live with

this president doesn't seem to want to live with it and. listen so this week following up on the mother stuff and if we send anything off to anyone else that that's the stuff that we should do because all that stuff that happened in the last 24 hours. recently did feature going back to the border interviewing drug dealers and illegal immigrants so what i'm writing now is basically act 2 of the muller investigation. there are stories that i have covered that stick with me this was a spot news story we did about a shooting of a police officer in san antonio and it's because of that story that i went to jail i had a source and i kept that source confidential. a reporter really only has one thing

your credibility. this is my 1st station id and i was covering the reagan administration business from the gulf war george bush the 96 democratic national convention clinton obama administration is not as candid is they claim to be but i'll be honest with you i don't like any of them. it's their job to put their best foot forward it's my job to find out what they're actually doing this president are you worried about indictments coming down the stairs so it's an adversarial relationship but it doesn't have to be person i say or watch c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself i mean you working for them you are a rude terrible person i always thought that all of them up until trump i could i could stomach and i i respected all of them and i don't necessarily respect from the fake news is creating violence and i'll tell you what if the media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly you would have all. a lot less

violence in the country you can call me the enemy of the people and call me fake news and have threats made against me and me respect what you do below the was people feel like it's ok to threaten a reporter. because the president has threatened reporters. i had my window of my car bashed i've had people call me and say i'm going to kill you. i've had to call the police a few times because of threats i know other reporters that have bodyguards you don't get to threaten the crowds were not the enemy of the people we are the people i think it's that constant barrage of fake news directed at this president if the media can't be trusted to report the news then that's a dangerous place for america in one of us if we don't get it right the audience

has the opportunity to turn the channel or not reduce the 1st class i had with sarah sanders was about 6 months into this administration were i think as you just run your to provide the answers and what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look and say see once again the president's right and everybody else out here is fake media and everybody in this room is only trying to do their job but i think if anything has been inflamed it's the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media and then another 6 months went by and she's talking about how the administration is doing such humanitarian great things on the border when they were putting kids in cages now that one affected me personally because i've seen what happens to children on the border come on syria if you're a parent don't you have any empathy for what these people are going to have less trying to cast. to settle down it's like sorry i'm trying to be serious but i'm not

going to have you get a lot of furniture really isn't so low and the have these people have nothing they ran i know you have to get some more t.v. i mean that's how you serve us i want to read you know this request go ahead real honestly it's good because it is a serious question and these people have nothing they come to the border with nothing from children you just hear of your town again the children in the end of the book they go through feel that it's ok for them to spend i do not expect you to lie to me all the time on everything that you say thank you mr president i'm asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the d.n.a. crimes reporting statistics that we seize show the drugs are coming across at the ports of entry that illegal immigration is down and the violence is down so what do you base your lack of them come on let's go so he's got the same facts i've got his government keeps the facts and none of the government facts showed and still don't

show that there's a crisis on the border and secondly out of the what you go on you get one with a set your sights and wait sit down sit down could you please answer down you get when i why should the press is not after donald trump. the press is after the facts so your own government stats are wrong or you say oh no i used many stats and then he said it was us let me tell you you have stats that are far worse than the ones that i use. my job is to press and ask questions and ultimately the president will say what he says and people can decide whether or not he speaks the truth. the president when you had the arms embargo on you were asking other nations our allies particularly to observe it publicly but at the same time i believe you concede you were authorizing breaking that embargo by the united states how can you justify

this to the city. in front of this crowd my son and. it is good to see my. you don't find find out about this place i don't know about this place. i enjoyed my time in the white house as a reporter when you come back no i would never come back it's a young person's game it's for you it's for people with a lot of energy i never had to contend with what you have to contend with today with this president and this press secretary in this administration i've dealt with people who they dodge they weave once in a while they would tell untruths but not regularly not so that everybody falter. so could you take them or you could i do any better than you can no no not at all i think you and the others in the press room asking the right questions failing but not because you're not trying not because you're not thinking about what the

american people want to know or should want to know about the their president or his administration i never had to worry about that people wanted to know and they want to facts no one said they were alternative facts no one said it's the press it's. news. we make mistakes we try to correct more we always make mistakes are human right. now day 85 i feel very. close just like the sound bites. they like and they feel like a. 3 to one so welcome back to just ask the question today it is a treat to have my mentor on this show sam donaldson who for years covered the white house for a.b.c. what's wrong with the white house today going to take dumb to trump is what's wrong with the white house i mean donald trump is basically ignorant about things other than his cunning ability as a con man right he started at the roy cohn colmes philosophy clearly was we can

win at any cost and never mind whether it's legal or not never mind who you heard or not you we've. got a truck has a doctor that philosophy he's think trump has your relatively harmed a the united states and b. our profession i think he has harmed it greatly i do not believe it's irrevocably harmed i think quoting lincoln in the good sense of the american people will ultimately prevail i think the majority of people in this country want the morays want the ethics wants the morality all of the standards that we all grew up with their parents their grandparents we're a country built on standards yeah he's harmed them in every possible way but i don't think he's destroyed them up we'll see in 2020 what about our profession. i think we were harmed in all of these multiple ways that people can get their news

fox news very disturbing murdoch rupert murdoch has done great harm to this country yes he had roger ailes god rest his soul i want to address the idea that every time i'm told that he's the most transparent and assessable present. but you know he is anyone who's actually watched him listen to him or read his tweets either directly or in the news those yes anyone who has his or her eyes open has got him cold i'll tell you sam in the white house today there's very little humor that's why how can there be it's so grim and i don't remember it the same as when i 1st knew but there well i hope it gets that we can do this although you go to the name of the show is just ask the question will catch you next time.

today is the nerd prom as they call the white house correspondents' association dinner right and i need to know why i am the last 3 years president trump hasn't shown up and this year he's banning any one of his staff from showing up as well. by the way and i'll hold it for. when that thing went down with you and you came out only did. not understand. what you did shawn you stood up and was man and i love you thank you but you later . i always give him shit but i love him. i had a horrible relationship with think all of me but you know i gave him grief took a lot and then left. but i thought in the end game he was a man of principle and. appreciate that i don't think sean was ever

a true believer in the trump agenda and i believe that sarah is and that's the difference between that and that's all the difference in the world. celebrates the 1st not been 6 months since the mother. and the press this is something that's in. the city because. they brian i watched her get up i mean you talk about somebody that's a loser she doesn't know what the hell she's doing targets. and you. have to find out the facts as you know. i'm not the enemy of any limits. police say the shooting that left 5 people dead on thursday was a targeted attack on a local newspaper the capital gazette journalists caught in the violence described

the scene as a war zone with one crime reporter tweeting there's nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload asked to comment on the journalist slayings president donald trump who earlier this month labeled the news media the country's worst enemy walked away but tweeted his condolences as a precaution police deployed to guard the entrances of the new york times and other large u.s. media organizations an ominous sight to mark uncertain times. nearly a year ago friends and coworkers members of our professional family ripped from us in a day none of us should ever forget one of those people was my friend when he went to use. that incident also figured in the recent reporters without borders assessment that now ranks the united states as only the $48.00 freest country

for journalists and places us in the troubled democracy category you shouldn't have to worry about die off covering news unless it is ancillary to covering the news. the 4th this day has meaning and you breathe life into it every day as they did. i love every one of you a special love for the we have a capital because. when the. dear old job they wanted to point out was right what was wrong and what we could do better so the members of my staff. enjoy the credible about. to return to work if you want. i am proud. to work among the giants.

so i'd like to thank you and i think to thank. them for the go through. i think most of them told. me. when it happened. that i was just in shock the 1st thing i thought was i hope that it doesn't come out that the shooter had a vendetta against specifically did he survive i hope it's just something random working decided to go into the 1st place. and it was specifically targeted and he's . and that that was really really scared the hell out of. what happens if i write about somebody who really doesn't like claire ordered on now is he in jeopardy of getting shot.

i don't think i was prepared for what we've actually seen i was going to start with a recap of the inauguration but i think we've covered that pretty well from the day one when they showed 2 pictures of 2 inaugurations and said listen donald trump had the largest inaugural numbers of anyone and you could see. by the picture that that wasn't true you knew where this administration was heading. don't believe your eyes believe me any credible progressively worse with sarah sanders tough but she's good you know you also have tough and bad right and of course she and spicer and elbowed gone. everything is deflection with this president he doesn't want you to look at what the left hands doing want to watch this and so he's lying to us and filling us full with smoke so he can i was actually going on the cutting of taxes for the ultra rich the robber barons running free cutting regulations and that's

the thing that donald trump doesn't want you to see donald trump doesn't do anything that doesn't benefit donald trump. the real problem for the us with trump is their autocrats all over the world and despots who listen to the president the united states the leader of the free world and figure it's ok to jail beat up and kill reporters. so for the press it's never been a more tenuous time and that i fear will continue if he is reelected. the old saying is that once there was a dream that was wrong once there was a dream that was the united states the constitution the declaration of independence are 2 of the most beautiful things ever written by man to explain how we should govern ourselves and not be at the throat of a despot. and that's what's at stake.

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