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legal challenge. ethics lawsuit gaclaiming he is hiviolating the constitution. the president refuses to release his taxes and now there's a question about whether to release them eventually is just a sham. we have it covered. let's start with athena good morning. president trump has a jam packed first monday in office starting with a business session with leaders and later meeting with union workers in the afternoon and tonight he hopes congressional leaders at both sides of the aisle at the white house. this at sometimes a rocky first weekend. president donald trump has a lot on his plate this week. from getting his cabinet nominees confirmed to signing a series of new executive orders. the president also prepping for his first meeting with a world leader at the white house. british prime minister theresa
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may on friday. after setting up meetings with mexico's president, israel's prime minister and canada's prime minister. >> i've never seen anyone work harder. >> but the president and his staff distracting by fixating on the size of his inauguration crowd. side by side comparisons upsetting the new administration. in his signature campaign style the president blasting the media. >> i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. >> former cia director john brennan and congressional democrats criticizing the president over his visit to the spy agency's headquaters saturday. at issue, his political comments made while standing in front of the cia's memorial wall honoring those killed in the line of service. >> i made' speech. the looked out and the field, it looked like a million, million
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and a half people. they showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. >> continuing the fight, trump's press secretary grossly exaggerating the inauguration crowd in a combative statement to the press. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. >> his claim, totally false. >> answer the question of why the president asked the white house press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. >> the president's counselor kellyanne conway defending the fabrication. >> don't be so overly dramatic about it. you're saying it's a falsehood and they're giving our press secretary alternative facts to that. >> alternative facts. >> conway also saying trump will never release his tax returns. >> he's not going to release his tax returns. we litigated this all through the election. people didn't care. >> late sunday walking back her comment asserting the president
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is still under audit and has been advised not to release his taxes but still did not clarify whether they will ever be released. this as a prominent ethics group says they're going to sue the president. the conflict of interest lawsuit alleges mr. trump is violating the constitution by receiving illegal payments from foreign governments. >> now trump also addressed massive protests across the country on saturday but sent mixed messages. first tweeting watched protests yesterday but was under the impression we just had an election. why didn't these people vote. celebs hurt cause badly. then saying peaceful protests are a hall mark of our democracy. i recognize the rights of people to express their views. we'll be watching to see what he tweets today. >> thank you for all of that. we have a lot to discuss. let's bring in our panel. senior congressional correspondent and from bloomberg
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politics, jennifer jacobs. david gregory, i want to start with you if this weekend's press conference at the white house, what are we to imagine for the next four years about the relationship between the press core and the white house? >> it's going to be rocky because the press is going to be tough and the press is going to call out credibility problems. undermining his credibility as white house press secretary he's going to have a hard time because credibility counts. credibility counts for the president as well. president trump needs to think about leading the country and solving the problems that he outlined. a focus on crowd size is small ball. it's small insignificant issues and it's a shiny object that he's allowing himself to be distracted by instead of focussing what he's got to do.
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and getting talked about an on going war with the press as misguided if not offensive and these are the kind of things that are going to undermine his effectiveness because they betray a complete lack of focus as president and i'll say something else. the press got a job to do. the media should be held accountable by the government and by the people and that happens every single day because people make decisions about what they're going to watch. what they're going to read. what they're going to listen to but i wonder what president trump means when he said publicly that the media is going to pay a tremendous price. is that a threat? and again it's going to underline how the media is going to be covering this trump administration. and also you get into the issue about what the president needs from the people around him. yes he's the most powerful man in the world. yes he is the boss but we all know that great men and great
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women help them be great and didn't interview with david axelrod and the issue of what would you do if you were told to lie as press secretary to the president came up? here's what he said. >> you have your integrity. i can't comment on something or i'm not able to discuss it but i never lied and i don't intend -- i would argue that anybody that's an aspiring communique to adhere to that because if you lose the respect and trust of the press core you got nothing. >> our reporting at cnn is that that is exactly what happens. if the president said go out there and talk about crowd size. i don't like what this perception is. he went out there and made stuff up. what is your take? >> well, the rule i have with press secretaries and people that work with politicians is i
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expect you to make the most favorable case you can for your boss. just don't lie to me because i'll look like an idiot. when we are talking about a press secretary. it's not somebody that is a free agent. they're speaking on behalf of the president and the way the west wing works is they have been talking with senior staff about what are we going to do. so i think in some ways a lot of this is falling on him and it's not fair in the sense that he din decide to do this on his own. this came directly from the top because that's how the white house works and i think what the white house has to decide is how much -- what worked on the campaign trail and that is keeping everybody guessing about the press and using our lack of credibility so that they're never wrong because if there aren't any real facts then there are no facts and they can decide what's right. and they work in the campaign
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and it may not work the same way now that he is the respect but they feel like they will. i don't think this is about crowd size. it's the idea that if the press is never credible then when we're dealing with more important things we'll be more on the defensive and more on offense and looking less on the defensive when we're being questioned over much bigger things. >> so there are facts and there are apparently alternative facts. that is the phrase that took hold this weekend. let me play for you and our viewers and the genesis of what kellyanne conway said this week. >> the president asked the white house press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. why did he do that? it undermines the credibility of the entire white house press office. >> don't be so overly dramatic about it chuck. you're saying it's a falsehood
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and they're giving -- our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. >> alternative facts? >> maybe those are what you use in alternative universe. how do you see what that exchange says? >> well, listen, donald trump has been sensitive about his crowd sizes for years. he has attacked the media, me included, for what he says is underestimating his crowd sizes so, you know, it could have made this very simple by just making that point. listen, the d.c. area is very democratic. it's always going to attract more democrats, more liberals to inauguration ceremonies than for any republican and also, you know, he did his best to make his boss happy. he was trying to make the point that around the globe there were more people that were witnessing this inauguration and how do we know how many people around the globe are witnessing this. he did his best on something that trump is very, very
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sensitive about. >> let me just say he made a decision, perhaps got dictated by the president that he was going to come out there and make a series of statements that were not true and then not take questions, okay? his job as press secretary is to be responsive to the press. answer questions to the press. they are working in the people's house. that is the purpose of his job. so not a great way to get started and not a great way for the president to set up his press secretary but here's a larger point. there is not a war on the media. the media is going to do its job and if the president is going to be guided by and thrown off by the idea that he wants to be at war. come out and argued about the press reported certain things and he is not getting a particularly rough ride. he is getting plenty of push back on things he said and things he does.
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they say watch what he does. that's what we'll do is watch what he does and watch what he says and kellyanne conway that wants good relationship with the press and you do have fights between the press and the administration. any administration. she had no defense in the interview i heard. and the press should move on too. and back on forth on stuff that doesn't matter. crowd size doesn't matter. much bigger issues. >> we talk about what works with his base. chuck was really exercised about it and a got you moment. sometimes a reporter gets super excited in a moment like that. don't overly drama tiez it. and it's coming clean. people dismiss it and say it's just politics in play. but let's remember why these lawsuits are really possible.
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it's foreign business and hotel payments. and it's lack of transparency and she eventually came back to say our position hasn't changed on this but even the initial position we're under audit. no proof of audit. we can't put out the taxes because we're under audit. not what lawyers will always say i don't want you to talk to anybody but there is no legal responsibility to keep it quite. this is about our vail of mystery around his affairs and now it seems that these taxes aren't going to come out and is that a big deal or not? >> i think the price of admission has been built in for trump in that people see him as somebody that isn't necessarily transparent that has a lot of business dealings and didn't do things most politicians do when they ran for office and while most americans prefer he release his tax returns, i think that at the end of the day it's going to come down to whether or not he produces for them. whether they feel he has made their life better. i wish he was more transparent
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and maybe say one thing about his tax returns and then do another but my life is better. people will look at his business ties and how his family is still involved in his business and how his hotel is making money off of his presidency and he'll decide it's a problem and then he'll have to figure out what to do. >> thank you. stick around. we'll have more questions. >> president trump is hoping to get two more senior members of his administration today. they get voted in by the senate. we do know that the senate is set to vote later today on the confirmation of secretary of state nominee rex tillerson and cia nominee mike pompeo. with only two cabinet members confirmed so far it's about timing. when will the president get his full team. live on capitol hill with more. just got a big boost from mccain and graham saying that they will vote for tillerson.
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>> and the key senators, and making some progress on the key nominations but they certainly have a lot more work to do. first trump cia director nominee will get a full vote in the senate tonight. six hours of debate which was important to democrats and then he is expected to pass tonight but the big question certainly still is rex tillerson on trump's nominee for secretary of state. today the senate foreign relations committee will vote on that and the big question is how senator marco rubio will vote. he has not indicated one side or the other whether he will vote for or against him but regardless of if he does leaders have already indicated that regardless of how rubio votes or the committee votes they will bring tillerson before a full senate vote later on and as you said senator mccain and graham indicated over the weekend that they will support rex tillerson so that likely paved the way for him to be approved by a full senate going forward.
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>> thank you very much. meanwhile, president trump's foreign policy agenda already stirring controversy in the middle east. our panel will discuss mr. trump's plan in israel, next. the newly advanced gle can see in your blind spot. onboard cameras and radar detect danger all around you. driver assist systems pull you back into your lane if drifting. and will even help you brake, if necessary. it makes driving less of a production. lease the gle350 for $579 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.
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>> she is going to head to washington to meet with the president on friday. this comes as the president the setting up a series of meetings to start work on his foreign policy agenda up at the top of the list renegotiating nafta. let's bring back our panel. theresa may. common ground. the u.k., a huge u.s. ally traditionally at the top of the list of meetings with presidents right off the bat. >> that's a big deal. the trump administration has been taking that really seriously. the transition team was starting to meet weeks ago, months ago with her top staff defenseman and foreign ministers so they think they can begin to lay the ground work for a trade agreement between the u.s. and the u.k. after the u.k. leaves the european union and they're focused on that and they can get a lot of work done on that this
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week. >> the canadian prime minister as well as mexico's to renegotiate nafta. >> they're going to be a bit tough. this is where the new administration was going to lay down markers about what they think a new renegotiated treaty looks like between canada and mexico. those things are particularly important and gauge what that reaction is and there will be a lot of people that are even free traders that think the president may be on to something. why not renegotiate on more favorable terms. it has got to have the capitols of both countries very nervous. the thing about the prime minister is its going to take awhile for britain to leave the european union and figure out what that deal looks like before the united states can look out
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when a trade deal would ultimately emerge between the two countries. this is a long-term enterprise. >> david drucker. gregory's analysis applies to everything. that's part of the problem. you want quick wins out of the box. how long did it take george h.w. bush to negotiate nafta in the first place. what do you think the state of play is within his own party about how quickly and how extremely he can renegotiate. >> it's very interesting obviously that donald trump is having different ideas on trade in the rest of the world as do most members of his own party in capitol hill and what they're trying to do is come up with policies that could give him what he wants. that's what this is going to be in the public tax reform plan. it's a way to say here's how you can renegotiate our relationship
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with other countries and create a more favorable environment for american manufacturers without actually going forward with tariffs and getting involved in those fights and i think that's what republicans are intent on doing. finding a way to give trump what he wants without really giving him what he wants because there's a huge concern on the right outside of trump's circles that you get involved in a trade war with other countries. prices of goods in america go up and exports don't actually increase and the economy ends uptaking a big hit so that's what i'm really watching for here is how does his relationship with congress as it relates to these negotiations around the world, how do they translate on the hill. >> let's talk about israel. president trump announced he'll be meeting with the prime minister of israel netanyahu next month and they're interested in moving the embassy to jerusalem. how is all of this going to work. >> there's so much speculation about that and it does seem like
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trump is interested in moving that to jerusalem and it's very controversial. how soon is that going to happen? trump wouldn't answer that question about that yesterday. there's a lot of speculation about that creating some tension. >> it goes hand in hand with israel's announcement is putting more settlements in east jerusalem. obviously people understand this issue have to do some homework. you have to understand why jerusalem doesn't matter to muslims, jews and christians but different varieties of christians. but the politics here have evolved over time and that this is more than just putting a building in a different place. >> right and as a matter of foreign policy the incoming trump administration is going to do a lot to strengthen prime minister netanyahu's hand and the conservative elements of the israeli government that could be talking about the very end of the peace process as we have known it which has been more for
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a long time but in strengthening his hand a couple of things are going to happen. the idea may completely fade away and there may be ramifications about that in the region and the president is going to deal with the fact that i can tell you firsthand that the jewish community in america is very polarized. it's polarized over israel. and the president will have to become involved with. and reflect that polarization. >> it negates the possibility of the u.s.'s interest in a two state solution. there isn't any talk about a peace plan that doesn't involve the two state solution from over a decade. >> the new ambassador also has some controversial thoughts on that. let's talk about this 600 pound gorilla in the room. i knew you were going to work in ava nilla gorilla reference.
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slid putin. >> we're all waiting to see what kind of a line president trump takes toward russia and putin. you have teen the last two presidents trying to create a friendly relationship with vladimir putin. believing they can create it on national security and economic issues and vladimir putin hasn't been interested in any of that and george w. bush and barrack obama. and he was in a sense believing that he could do with vladimir putin what his predecessors could not accomplish so let's see what he does. does he try another russian reset or take a harder line than his predecessors and try to put putin in the box and reassert influence in the middle east. >> would b people be thrown if putin comes to america and doesn't have a shirt on just like the saturday night live
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guy? we are being bombarded with that image. >> we will see. >> we have to be watching that all the time. >> we'll see if he likes it or doesn't like it. thank you very much. right now there are deadly tornadoes carving a path of death and destruction in the southern part of the u.s. the threat continues today so we have a live report for you in your forecast next.
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devastation. people here losing more than just their property. we understand at least 7 people now confirmed dead here at the sunshine acres neighborhood and mobile home park that saw much of the devastation as incredible as some of the pictures are we're hearing the remarkable stories of survival including the 24-year-old father that road out the storm in the bathtub with his wife and infant daughter. not long after he road out the storm he went out to survey the damage and joint rescue efforts. today he is likely to return to the neighborhood hoping he could finally be able to see what if anything is left. you see many people have not been allowed to ener the region here and they offer a pretty reasonable explanation. with at least five people still missing and very little to no hope of any more rescues then the concern is if people start going through the debris they could find more than just their damaged belongings and that is the reality for many people here in southern georgia. >> we know you'll stay on it. also let us know about the need
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so we can get out word about how people can help. thank you and stay safe my friend. how long is this threat going to last? let's bring in chad meyers. what do you see? >> i see wind going from 60 to 70 miles per hour, chris. i see big snow in upstate new york. now the severe weather and the tornado threat is over but 41 tornadoes over the weekend killed more people in that weekend than the entire year last year of 2016. we only had 16, less than 2016. so this is a deadly weekend with tornadoes on the ground. large wedge tornadoes on the ground and whether you're in a mobile home or a real home those are going to do a lot of damage there. the storm has moved up to the northeast. the good news is its not far enough off the coast. it's close. it's going to make snow for new york and new england and atlantic canada but this could be a foot maker or more if it was farther offshore. it's through the buildings of new york city today and the
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winds could gust at 70 miles per hour. >> it's a strong wind already started and thank you for keeping an eye on all of that. women's marches drew millions of protestors around the globe but what did they accomplish? we discuss that next. ery dollar. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line. what's in your wallet?
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>> hundreds of thousands of people packing the streets of downtown los angeles as well as other cities and the march on washington drew at least 600,000 people according to metro ridership numbers there were more than a million rides. our next guest started marching on the nation's capitol and ended at her home state of michigan. that's a long walk. she joins us now. wow, i don't know who wrote that correctly. >> i might have flown but it was incredible. do you know we had 20,000 people on saturday afternoon. i was so glad that i went home because i just, i can't tell you
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how emotional it was. >> let's talk about the message because i was in washington d.c. covering part of this and i saw lots of signs. lots of creative signs. some of them not appropriate for morning television but it seemed to be a different message. everybody had their own agenda. what was the message of the march. >> i would actually say that everybody is so busy trying to analyze this and put everybody into factions. what i said in ann arbor is we're here. we're united. and our voices are going to be heard. i think what people want and are saying is that they're for fairness and they're for inclusion and they're for quality. and everybody -- i think people will remark, different women were there for different reasons but they were all there to make sure that their core american values are going to be protected and i think many people like me were there for positive reasons.
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>> some of trump's advisors said if women are dissatisfied that's on the previous watch. we have only been in office for an hour. we haven't been in office and these antitrump marches. some people may have been there for antitrump but if you lead with the organizers their mission, they framed it in a positive way and i was there marching for what i stand for and how i'm going to stand as one united community. one of the things that struck me on saturday a lot of people were trying to talk about, you know, pit women against each other was the younger generation versus the older. i saw women marching for the first time and women that marched for their entire life. stay at home moms and working moms. it was a diverse group coming together united to protect people for fairness and quality
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and inclusion. watch protest. watch protest yesterday and under the impression that we just had an election. why didn't these people vote. what's your response. >> another twitter later in the day. in the interest of complete fairness this is an hour and a half later and peaceful protests even i don't always agree it's harder to know which one. >> i went to the inaugural on friday because it's one of the most visible signs of our democracy. the peaceful transfer of government and i think saturday was also one of the visible signs. freedom of speech and you read all of those signs and there were a lot of different signs but women were coming together united and i'm going to focus on how we are united. you can't put a million women
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all into one same box but i think you did see people united and wanting to fight for progress in this country not going back. >> what are you afraid you're going to lose? >> i think we've got, you know, i'm one of the speakers on saturday said she met a woman in her 60s that marched in the 60s. when i interviewed for my job at general m general motors i was asked why would a woman want to work for general motors and now a woman is ceo. we want to make sure that we do keep moving forward. we worked hard to get where we are and i am where i am because of the women that went before me and opened those doors and we have to make sure that we are continuing to support each other and to make those doors wider.
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>> congressman thank you for sharing your experience with us. great to see you. >> thank you. >> thanks allison. so we got our big match upcoming for the super bowl number 51. do you know who it is? you better. the falcons and the patriots. they have written here in the teleprompter. please the bleacher report is next. are you ready?? you gotta be ready. ♪ oh, i'm ready i mean, really ready. are you ready to open? ready to compete? ready to welcome? the floors, mats-spotless. the uniforms, clean and crisp. do your people have the right safety gear? are they protected? i'm ready! you think your customers can't tell the difference between who's ready and who's not? of course they do. ♪ i'm ready for you everybody wants a piece of ready. cintas, ready for the workday.
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>> super bowl li is set. former falcon wearing his nonpartisan sports journalist suit for this morning's bleacher report. i could hear your girlish screams all the way. >> how about the bet we made earlier in the season. don't you have to shave off those curls now. >> this super bowl is going to be anything like yesterday's conference championship game we're in for points and a quarterback battle of the ages. falcons, matt ryan, never been to a super bowl that has the
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league's leading offense and then tom brady he will have played in more super bowls than any player in nfl history this is a top ten defense making them just look so-so. 384 yards. three touchdowns. two of them go to this guy. patriots dominate 36-17. going to a record ninth super bowl. hines ward caught up with the unlikely hero of the game. >> everyone buys in. this locker room. defense, offense, special teams, and we want to win so bad and we do everything we can throughout the week just to win. >> and earlier in the day the falcons would rise up and beat
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down green bay matt ryan showing why he's the front runner for the league mvp award. five touchdowns in total and what a special day for the city of atlanta. i got to play there. this is the final game ever played in the georgia dome. it's the only facility in the world to have hosted olympics, final four and a super bowl and it ends with an nfc championship and super bowl birth. i got to catch up with some of my teammates after the game. >> we smashed the playoffs and we're going to the super bowl. whoever, man. >> falcons going back to the super bowl for the first time in 18 years. they never won one. hopefully this will be different. >> thanks for that. the war between president trump and the press over what mr. trump's advisors call alternative facts we discuss the battle of facts versus
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a new hashtag has emerged.
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alternative facts to explain the way the white house press secretary was giving false comments on the size of trump's inauguration. let's listen to her first. >> answer the question of why the president asked the white house press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. why did he do that? it undermines the credibility of the white house press conference on day one. >> don't be so overly dramatic about it chuck. you're saying it's a falsehood and our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. >> wait a minute, alternative facts. >> chuck todd giggle. you got one there. always a pleasure. we know kellyanne conway. very intelligent and very good at her job. she knows there are facts and
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everything else but she was in defense mode and with good reason here's what she was trying to defend. >> no one had numbers because the national park service that controls the national mall does not put any out. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. both in person and around the globe. >> all right. this is an example of what we call strong and wrong when it comes to the media. his numbers were off. they are now getting attribution from it. wrong numbers from this one. there trying to make it so that it wasn't that he made it up. that he did it on purpose to be wrong but that he got bad information. >> well, they need to do that because otherwise his first presentation comes out as completely false and you don't want the press immediately to say well i can't trust this guy. you have people comparing him to baghdad bob the first day in office. it's just really bad for the press secretary because eventually he's going to say
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something to the press and say trust me on this. it really is bad for him and for the administration. >> this is a tough one because aren't all press secretaries. they do the bidding of their boss that's what he was doing. where does that leave the press. >> he was doing something more. yes everyone spends and would admit that he would omit impacts. >> that's what they do. >> he used the wrong title for a leader of another country. >> the inauguration set up and let's reason it was sunny when in fact it was cloudy at the inauguration. there's a pattern from the top from the president. and listen he may have had information from the wrong
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people. that's a legitimate issue but it's hard when you get started. >> here's the problem. they have some issues. >> created by the press and not the comments literally put out by him but this administration is undersiege right now from the media. >> and he didn't take questions from the media and the american people and it's about accountability and this also just isn't a debate. a picture tells a thousand words in this one and they're all true. >> here's the picture. >> these are the pictures. >> there is no conspiracy. just let your eyes tell you the truth. >> by the way, this was an asteriks to our coverage. we showed the pictures for a second. this was never going to be our headline. this was never going to be something that we devoted time to. >> some of our viewers thought cnn was too generous. >> we heard it.
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she did a great job and one of the things she was influencing early on was factual. people were being called protestors but they weren't. a lot of them were criminals and lighting fires and we said here's this one pocket of activity at one corner but look at these miles behind us where all of these people are out for good reason. >> we were loudly yelled at by some of mr. trump's supporters calling us names and that's our new normal and we can deal with that but my point to you originally was what is the press and donald trump's version of events. >> what we're doing is to state the facts because even more loudly than he misstated the facts. we talk about delegitimizing the press, a thing trump was doing during the campaign and now we're seeing what that means. it's a word that gets thrown around. >> don't cheapen it. hit him when it matters, okay.
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the alternative facts and here's where you were wrong but there is a point to be made about how much attention. crowd size was never our story but even if he is dead wrong on it how much attention. kellyanne makes good points. how come you never mention that we won more women. these are fair points as well. the media has to remember just because she got him wrong on something does that mean that's all you talk about. >> when he tweets accurate information we should point that out too. we make a big deal out of the falsehoods he posts on twitter. when he gets it right we need to point out everything he is saying. >> when you constantly put out things he's 42%. vaccines caused autism. you have to check them. >> you can't just let that go. >> levity. >> a little snl. let's play a clip.
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>> yesterday we all made donald trump the 45th president of the united states. who ray we did it. today many of you are scared and marching in the streets. you are worried that your country is in the hands of this unpredictable man but don't worry. it's not. >> it's so creepy. >> it's creepy and it's become now the thing. he has to have no shirt. >> he has to have no shirt. he makes an interesting point though about what we covered. they were historic and the people that came together all over this country and all over this world that has to get attention as well. >> underpromised and overdelivered specifically because the crowds were bigger than expected that there was even more press. >> they had one of the biggest fair monitoring events ever in terms of people that went there. >> it's partly because some
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people went in the streets. and there's an interesting moment like that. >> international viewers thank you for watching us. cnn newsroom is going to begin for you in moments for our u.s. viewers. new day continues. let's get after it right now. >> there is an obsession by the media to delegitimize this president. >> looked like a million, million and a half people. they showed a field where there was nobody standing there. >> he went on to say trump's swearing in was the largest audience to witness an inauguration period. that is not true. >> he gave alternative facts to that. >> you have somebody coming on that is extraordinary. >> even the cia. >> people watching us don't be weak when it comes to russia. >> he's not going to release his

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