institutions like the europe union and nato and ideas like integration and diversity. in other words, vladimir putin understands us very well. the question is, do we? does donald trump really understand him? the power of television on display this weekend. i'm brian stelter and this is "reliable sources." our weekly look at the story behind the story, and how the media really works. n how the news gets made. there is breaking news on trump's legal team, and this news from a shocking resignation letter. it was written by colonel ralph peters, calling fox a propaganda machine. do others agree with him? and this time really is different. the march for our life social security over. what is next? the co-editor of the marjory

stoneman douglas student newspaper is here to talk about that. new leaps about president trump's behavior. we'll talk with eric bolling who thinks he can help plug the problem, the leaks. first, what will president trump do to distract from this? yes, the president's problem with women getting the "60 minutes" treatment tonight. the country's highest rated news program is meeting with stormy daniels who was paid hush money by trump's lawyer before the election. that ten seconds is all we have seen. cbs has not released any clips of daniels speaking. we know anderson cooper taped the interview weeks ago, and he has been finishing the story. we also know it's double the length of a typical 60-minute segment. that's all we know, and daniels has been hyping the interview on twitter and hyping a sequel. it was said, quote, tonight is

not the end. it's the beginning. daniels is not the only woman in the news talking about the president. we all saw anderson cooper's interview with karen mcdougal, another woman who alleged to have an affair with the president ten years ago. also, the "apprentice" contestant that says the president many years ago, groped and kissed her. she is suing for defamation. there is a lot of attention around these stories about these women and their relationships with the now-president. there are questions about how much coverage is too much, and then there is a more practical question. will the president watch tonight's "60 minutes" interview? he is scheduled to get back to washington just in time, and get back to the white house shortly before 7:00 p.m., so if he wants to, he can tune in. we also know that his wife, melania trump, will be staying in mar-a-lago with their son on a pre-planned spring break vacation. there is a lot to get to here. both the sex and also the

substance, so let's bring in our panel. our media critic, the washington correspondent for "new york" magazine, and sara westwood for "the washington examiner." first, the substance on this story. i was struck in the karen mcdougal interview a few days ago how sympathetic she came across. how it wasn't really about the sexual relationship that was alleged. it was about the hurt feelings. what do you expect from stormy daniels tonight? >> you know, i think that partly, the women that's baked into the equation of donald trump, he never branded himself as this wholesome politician, a family man. he was always someone who sorted presented himself as what we know him to be from the tabloids, but even though the media does have a tendency to frame this as a sex scandal, it becomes legitimately

consequential when we look at how they covered this up. >> the finance laws? >> yeah. it's too easy for white house allies to dismiss this as tabloid fodder, but it is consequential consequenti consequential. >> it was said she was physically threatened, and that will be addressed tonight. see what she shares. what about the idea of television's power here? it's one thing to hear or read about an alleged affair involving donald trump and a porn star. it's another thing to hear her speak on camera. >> yeah, and also, brian, to see her speak on camera. don't forget. "60 minutes" pretty much invented the interview, the intense interview, and all of those moves where the camera closes in on somebody's face and gives you this tight shot of the face, especially when they are grilling somebody, but in this case, i think it will have an incredible power to see her in a very personal way, bearing

witness to this story of her relationship with trump. that's a tremendous power, and, you know, there are some great writers in this country, but i hate to say it because i work with words. words cannot compete with that, and especially in the hands of "60 minutes," this interview, and anderson cooper. this is going to be a powerful, powerful moment, and don't forget. you alluded to it. trump is a creature of television. it's not until he sees it on television, and if he watches, he'll blow up the universe. >> basketball is the lead-in, so an even higher rating than usual for this program. olivia, is there too much attention on this? >> no. i think it can look a little bit ridiculous, right? when we're talking about porn stars and play mates nonstop on cable, but i think sarah was correct that there are very serious elements to this story and there is a lot of potential

for it to become an even more serious story, and i think that we need to cover that, and, you know, this whole idea that we're paying too much attention to this, not enough attention to other serious things, we can cover everything. i don't really -- it's not a serious argument that people keep making about the media. it's not as if we're not covering russia. it's getting a lot of attention, and we were covering the march yesterday. a lot of reporters were there. i think we can cover everything. >> there is time for it all. >> i think it's just ridiculous to say that we can't. >> and the suit, it's different than the allegations of affairs because daniels, mcdougal, those are allegations of consensual relationships, and another woman just like before election day, is alleging sexual assault. she was kissed and groped without permission in 2007. she is going after trump for defamation because she can't sue for the assault. there are all sorts of legal consequences to that case which make it a lot more than about

sex. one more point about mcdougal before we move on, she talked about this payment from the "national enquirer," and the idea she was paid in order to protect trump. here's what she said to anderson cooper. >> why do you think they squashed the story? >> back then or now? >> now. >> they didn't want to hurt him. >> do you think it's because of a personal relationship with the guy who runs ami who is friends with donald trump? >> correct. >> this is the idea of catch and kill. the story gets caught, bought and then killed, gets buried. doesn't the interview beg the question about what other stories were caught and killed? we just don't know the answer. >> absolutely, and it does go to the point of the way team trump deals with this, and the nasty team he has, not just of roy cohn wannabes, his lawyers, but

of friends in the media who allow their platforms to become weaponized as tools for him. this is despicable, the catch and kill business. i totally agree. i don't think we know the tip of it yet, brian. >> sarah, is there a sense that the white house really cares about these stories, and that he is paying close attention? is this a big topic or something they would rather just avoid and pretend is not happening? >> the white house knows if they spoke to the stories directly, they're only going to give them more power, so they have really been trying to avoid directly addressing the issue and pushing them to outside legal counsel. so i don't think they are looking to engage this story in any way. the "60 minutes" piece might make that more difficult though. >> right. let's take a quick break and talk about the leaks from the white house. look at what jimmy kimmel said about it. >> the fact we know he is mad about the leak is because someone leaked his reaction to the leak.

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even more of evil in the president's legal team. news in just about a few minutes ago about joe digenova. he was going to be joining the russia legal team. we learned that is no longer the case. the white house confirming that digenova will not be, and he may

be assisting with other legal matters, but won't be one of the lead lawyers. "the washington post" said the president is now facing robert mueller's probe with no lead lawyer. you may recall the decision to quit a couple of days ago. i want to mention digenova because that was a leak that was confirmed and taken back. but this is a report of "the washington post," and the president congratulated vladimir putin on his quote/unquote russian win after being warned not to. he had written on top of the paper, do not congratulate putin. this is shocking even by trump white house standards. let's get back to our panel. olivia, the significance of leaks in a moment, but anything we should read about the digenova news.

the president says lawyers want to work for him, and then he loses two? >> it seems to be president trump's lawyers right now, and things are not going well. it looks like they're going to start going well no time soon. this news was interesting for a few reasons, but it made me think about when mike pence was first announced as the vice president. there were a few hours where we didn't know if that was really going to happen because president trump who was then a candidate obviously was allegedly upset about the leak that he was going to picked as vice president. so sometimes it seems as though the president reacts to the news and it really does change his decision-making process when it comes to personnel or even policy. >> we see on a daily basis, leaks from white house aides or other government officials. some of them it seems to undermine the president, and that's why i wanted to highlight the do not congratulate leak, and it seemed disturbing.

it was said people are stunned by this, and fleisher said, who leak this is? someone is disloyal to this president and each other. is it that bad? >> this is one of the leaks that we actually haven't seen for a long time, since the may/february time frame. in february, there was a leak about president trump's conversation with malcolm turnbull that was embarrassing for the white house, and then in may, we had the leak that president trump revealed classified information to the russians at the white house. those aren't just damaging leaks about infighting. that's classified ffgs that's being given to reporters. that's a whole other classification of leaks and that is something that john kelly in particular had moved to crack down on. the fact that we're seeing another one this week suggests maybe he is starting to lose his grip on the operation of the west wing. >> journalists benefit from leaks and yet i wonder if a do not congratulate type leak where it addresses national security, and if that's the leak that the president gained sympathy from some americans. wait a second. he has these staffers who are

not working in his best interests. >> absolutely. i think you didn't see a lot of people jump to exploit that leak as much as you would the other more gossipy leaks and some people who are critical of trump are defending him in the wake of this leak, and it shows that president trump needs to do a better job of vetting his staff. a president from any party shouldn't have people around him who are actively working against him, but from a journalistic standpoint, these are vital and fascinating. >> how it's working or not working and david, i think some viewers have a gnawing sense that these leakers or aides who whoever they are inside the white house or government, they are trying to protect the country from trump. i know those are pretty bold words, but we have heard this since inauguration day, that leakers are trying to protect the country from the president. do you feel there is any legitimacy to that argument? >> well, brian, i think if you

listen to some members of the intelligence community and former members of the intelligence kmucommunity, even cable tv talk shows, there is a sense of that. and olivia used the word debased for being a lawyer for trump. he treats people badly. he is doing a terrible job at setting up a team, and he is terrible at managing this. but worse, i think there are people and, you know, he would say it's deep state i would suppose, but members of the intelligence community who are true patriots, who have gone foreign places and put their lives on the line for this country, there are people in the state department who have done this for this country and they see this guy with his helter-skelter crazy watching type of style tv leading this country what some people see in a direction that's going to take

it off the rails and they feel they have to that sense, a leak is a way to do it. it's a courageous thing to do in some cases and i absolutely think that members of the washington -- i suppose he would call it the swamp although i don't know if they got that from cambridge analytica, but those leaks are important to us. right now they are one of the most important elements of this democracy i believe, and god bless the journalists like the two washington correspondents we have who have to figure out who they can trust in this crazy white house. you know, these with people who say one thing at 10:00 in the morning and another thing at 10:00 at night. you go to press with that and you can be in trouble. i think the press should be praised for what it's doing. the people who are working these leaks for us. >> i love the realtime viewer feedback. here's the feedback from my father-in-law, okay? he says, brian, they are not leakers. they are whistle blowers.

to liolivi olivia, is my father-in-law right? >> he is right. i think everyone here is right to a degree. it's not as simple. not all are patriots and trying to help the country and they are doing something courageous. some leakers are just gossips and some want to feel important by giving reporters information. i'm all for that. i'm pro-leak whatever the reason for the leak, but some of these leaks are, you know, people trying to protect the country or people trying to undermine the president or as sarah was talking about, being disloyal to the president and not wanting to help him in his agenda. >> what about the leak about nondisclosure agreements and he had staffers sign them to prevent leaks? we learned about that through a leak. some of this is comical, and you talked to hope hicks for "new york" magazine, and it came out

monday on newsstandenewsstands. did you get a lot of leaks? how leaky was the white house in your case ? >> the white house is very leaky in my case, but some of this is people wanting to give you the full story or context that if they were truly just working on behalf of the president and his agenda, they wouldn't be giving to a reporter. leaks in a broad sense were useful for my reporting and for everyone who is covering the white house right now. it's not so black and white where, you know, every leaker is a patriot trying to help the country, even if it means fighting with the president and, you know, everyone who is trying to plug the leaks like john kelly is working for his agenda. i don't think it's that black and white. >> one more note. the president said he would hold a news conference to ram against the bill he had signed and then it wasn't a news conference, right? what was it like at the white house when we were hoping to ask the president questions, and it wasn't not to be?

>> we were gathered outside the press office behind the briefing room waiting for details of when and where the news conference would take place. >> the surprise news conference. yeah. >> minutes before it was supposed to start aides didn't seem where it would be, who would go, and press would be vi invited. it was after the staff put together a press briefing at the same time. >> does he not know what a news conference is? when he says news conference what he means is i'm going to talk to the cameras. >> he seems to have used the words news conference interchangeably to be any time he appears. >> to make news. >> he might just read from a script like he did on friday, so i don't know that he is trying to mislead people as much as he just genuinely doesn't understand what the term means. >> thapnks for being here. great to talk with you all. let's take a quick break and then bring many my next guest who wants to be the next fox newser to join the president in

washington. eric bolling here for an exclusive sitdown right after this.

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military advice right now? >> well, i watch shows. i mean, i really see a lot of great, you know, when you watch your show and all the other shows and you have the generals and certain people -- >> is there somebody who is a go to for you? >> i like bolton. he is a tough cookie, knows what he is talking about. >> that's foreshadowing because the revolving door between the white house "situation room", and the fox green room is going to collide. the fox news analyst and former u.n. ambassador is set to replace h.r. mcmaster as security adviser. he has been on fox for a decade, and my next guest might be going down the same path. eric bolling, great to see you. >> thank for having me. >> are you in talks with the white house? >> about a job? >> about a job. >> no. donald trump is any friend. celebrity jump, as candidate trump and as president trump and i have a lot of conversations with him one-on-one sometimes.

sometimes oval office with other people. and it really has surrounded the opioid crisis recently. the day after our son passed, we were having a hard time, and it was president trump who said, i can't imagine what you are going through. just understand that i'm with you. i'm here to help. he also called on thanksgiving day. we were about to sit down to thanksgiving dinner and it was donald trump again. we talked about the opioids, what took our son. it was an accidental overdose, and i realized he cared about this crisis. it was something you could feel. he had empathy and compassion for it, and it's something you don't see him showing on tv quite a bit. so i said, would you mind if the next time i'm in d.c., we could sit down and talk? we had a few one-on-one conversations and a couple of phone calls. and it's always been around the opioid crisis, some policy stuff, and we had great ideas for infrastructure.

>> i thought these were job interview conversations. you said you would work for a dollar. >> i was so infuriated when i saw that $1.3 trillion bill, this massive bill, you know, donald trump has wanted funding for the wall. there was a drop on the bucket funding for the wall, and he got pushed and it was thrown on him. and i got upset and i said, you know, you have to do a couple of things. number one, stop the leaks. these are ridiculous. you can't have a conversation without five minutes later, a reaction to a conversation with a world leader, and we're talking about it. i said, plug the leaks and get rid of the people who are leaking in a very, very public way. mcmaster was -- i don't know. i guess he resigned. for me, it would be a little bit more tough if he was, in fact -- i'm not saying he was, but if he was a leaker, go. public with him. have the cameras follow him out so they don't go to another network and go somewhere else and say, i worked for the

president, but i leaked which is very damaging to his presidency and, in fact, the country, and then end up with a better gig later. >> what if you have a boss who is erratic and behaving in ways that are dangerous? you don't think they should leak to warn the country? >> i don't think a private conversation with a world leader -- i don't think anything should be leaked out of the white house. i think that should all be plugged. >> it sounds like communications director is the right job. communications director? >> these are whistle blowers, not leakers. i would beg to differ. you can't run any organization if anything you say will be on the front page of the blog by the time you leave your office. >> i respect what you are saying. are you trying to be white house communications director? >> no. you asked me that. i would never lie to you. i have no conversations with the white house regarding jobs. >> why do you think the president is so inclined to hire tv personalities? bolton this week. >> as a president, you want like-minded people around you. what trump had going against him

going into the white house, he wasn't a democrat so, a normal republican going into a white house has infrastructure of republican followers, a group. what trump had against him was he had half the republican party who didn't like him, and the never trumpers were as damaging as the liberal left was. he enters and clearly you have to put in seat fillers and that's what he did. he did people who weren't on the pro-trump agenda until he figured out who was and who wasn't, and see it the way he sees it. the country the way he sees it. >> do you expect to see other fox newers in the white house? >> i don't, and i don't stay in contact with the fox newsers, but when i sat down with the pat, i had ideas on opioids and infrastructure that i presented to him. and i'm not doing it because i want to go there. i'm doing it because i think the country could be better off with

pro-trump ideological people. cohen, i worked with him, and i was with him. we saw different views of the world. smart guy, but he was not the right guy to put in economic adviser. senior level to president trump. it wasn't. he was a goldman sachs globalist. >> do you miss working at fox? >> i had a great ten years there. fox and i separated about eight months ago ammicbly. and that montage you put up, i interviewed presidential candidates and i have nothing bad to say about my ten years at fox. >> what happened at the end? you were accused of sending inappropriate messages to your colleagues. were you scapegoated, or was that true? >> here's the deal, and when i left fox, i went through a long

and extensive period, and what fox and my lawyers decided to come up with their comments was, we separated ammicbly, i -- >> you can't tell me if you did it or not? >> i'm not supposed to be talking about the lawsuits because things are still pending. >> what about what one of your colleagues said -- >> i was with my wife and 20 years, we are on board on the same page and i have never done anything like that. >> there was a story this week, a cable news contributor, lighting a fire on the way out the door. you saw what ralph peters said about fox. he called it a propaganda machine. he worked there for years with you, but he wrote this, it is degenerated for providing a much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a propaganda machine for a ruinous administration. when prime-time hosts who have never served our country in any capacity, dismiss the facts and empirical reality to launch

profoundly dishonest assaults on the fbi, the justice department and fbi, and the intelligence community, in which i served and not at least a model public servant and genuine war hero as much as robert mueller, i can't be part of the same organization. do you agree that fox is now a propaganda machine? >> i haven't been there for a long time. i used to book ralph peters for o'reilly and hannity, and he would have something provocative to say. ralph peters is entitled to his opinion. again, seven months ago, when i -- eight months ago when i left fox, there were not a lot of pro-trump people at fox. there was only a handful of us. >> not a lot of pro-trump people at fox. >> go back seven or eight months ago, there was hannity, myself and maybe even peiro. here's the thing about any network. i'm sure it's certainly true

with fox and my experience and likely cnn. no one calls you and said you have to be on board with trump or against trump or pro-obama or against obama or have this political leaning or ideology. we are free to have our own opinions. i'm sure you are. i was never told which way to go with anything, and i never did. the beauty of capitalism in the marketplace, free speech is there is a fox which leans one way. cnn may lean another way. another group may lean in another direction you have choices and that's the beauty of the capitalism. >> but he is going further saying we are assaulting our rule of law by trying to discredit mueller's probe. he has embarrassed to work there. were you ever? >> i have never. he has made provocative statements and for the record, ralph peters never liked trump from the very beginning. he was -- he never thought trump

would win the presidency, and he certainly wasn't a pro-trump advocate afterwards. he is entitled to his opinion, but as i'm sure everyone here, don, and anderson and wolf -- >> but the difference is you're naming -- correct. but you're naming journalists. hannity said these are entertainers and not journalists. i wonder if you agreed with shep, that some are entertainers at this point. >> i think shep has his role. by the way, he has a lot of opinion in his quote/unquote journalism show. but look. he has his role in the opinion -- >> standing up for the facts though isn't opinion. isn't that what you are seeing on cable news? people are trying to stand up for facts and decency. >> but what's the point? you can still have a strong opinion and stay within the boundaries of fact, and i think that's generally what happens. like sean hannity is a good friend of mine, and lauren

ingram. they are opinion naated, but th are within the boundaries of fact, as opposed to a 6:00 news show here, at fox or anywhere, you will get straight you ins. this is what happened today. when you go into the primetime, the primetime hosts are delving further and further into opinion, but staying within the realms of fact. >> a year from now, will you be in the government or on television? >> all i know is at this moment, my goal in life is to save families from the opioid scars that we have been -- honestly horrendously dealing with for the past seven months. >> yes. >> losing a child is nowhere anyone should be, and i'm pushing with the help of the white house, and hoping it will save some lives. i'll let god light the next path, but right now that's my only path. >> i have learned from the way you have shared your pain and in the past seven, eight months. >> so many people have.

it's, like, opioids are touching more and more people, and young people. younger and younger people are being affected by it. if you are under 30, you're most likely to die from an opioid accident more so than guns or cars. >> thank you br for being here. >> thank you, brian. next, a student from marjory stoneman douglas high school. she covered the march in washington. heart transplant... that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. i never felt i was going to die. we know so much about transplantation. and we're living longer. you cannot help but be inspired by the opportunities that a transplant would offer. my donor's mom says "you were meant to carry his story".

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hundreds of thousands of people descended on washington for a march against gun violence. the year was 2000, and the event right here was the million mile march. it was according to the brady campaign, the largest national protest against gun violence in u.s. history until saturday. the march for our lives drew an even bigger crowd, and it derived its power from a new source. the brady campaign said it is passing the title of largest gun violence protest. passing it onto the youth of america. the leaders have been the students from parkland. they have been in a unique position. they have been keeping the gun debate in the national headlines like never before, and yesterday at the march for our lives, a group of journalism students from parkland were writing the headlines and shaping the coverage of their march for their school paper and "the guardian" u.s. website as well. now talking about the day after

is rebecca schneid. she posted this article on "the guardian," and also with me is a senior reporter for "the guardian" u.s. how did this collaboration come about? >> my colleague was reporting on the day of the shooting and one of the things he did was read the website, and he was so impressed and he said, we should collaborate with these students. their voices are important, and everybody loved the idea and we did it. >> i was a high school student paper editor. i love my student papers and even now. i want to know what that felt like for you because i see a lot of parkland students becoming activists, but you as journalist. do you see a difference between journalism and activism in what you are doing? >> i think for me, the purpose of journalism is to raise, you know, the voices of people that maybe don't have a voice, and so i think that in its own right, journalism is a form of activism and i think that there is distinctions for me, you know,

as a journalist and someone that wants to demand change, but the partnership is the only reason we are able to make a change. >> how is the experience of the past five weeks, the sickening shooting and then the march yesterday, how has it changed your view of your career in the future? >> i think that in the beginning, i was a bit disillusioned because there were some journalists that i think handled the situation a little bit not in the most respectful way, you know, but that's in every situation. there will always be those people, but, you know, throughout the past couple of weeks, you will see how journalism made this entire thing possible. the use of twitter, and social media and publications and allowed us to use our voices, it shows that journalism is necessary to make sure our voices are heard. >> what's your expectation for the rest of the school year and for the fall? what actually happens now? >> now we just keep on fighting. we keep on using journalism to raise our voices because the

second that the cameras go away, people can, you know, forget about us. politicians can forget that we're there, and so now it's more than ever we need to fight for our voices to be heard and not only that, we need to use our right as voters and as citizens of america, we have to use that right to vote out the people that won't listen to us. it's hard to make a change when the people that are supposed to listen to you aren't. >> there is tension in the coverage that i saw in social media over the weekend and people saying that the national press is clearly tilting in the direction of gun control advocates. do you see that? do you feel that? do you think there is a bias in some of the coverage? >> i have said for a long time that mainstream media coverage doesn't understand guns that well. there are small errors in how people talk about weapons mixing up semiautomatic and fully automatic weapons and gun owners see that and they say we might

not understand gun culture. >> they are right to notice when people get terminology wrong. >> but this is a fairly mainstream thing to do. these are tools that many americans have in their houses and not being able to understand that, and see the sensational angle is very dangerous in trying to cover this issue. >> for me, this weekend was so newsworthy because of the intensity gap. it suggested that the nra and guns rights activists have so much more intensity they are willing to go out and vote on an issue, where activists are intense. do you see that gap changing now? >> there are two things that changed on saturday. one was the intensity gap, the willingness of people to vote on this issue, and the second was the empathy gap. the problem for decades has been intensity, and white and suburban advocates said they aren't willing to show up for black and brown children who die

every day. there has been a gap in who you how we talk about this issue, and the students were saying, we are uplifting all voices. we have to fight together. that's incredibly powerful and that's very new. >> lois, great to see you. and hey, rebecca, how do we find your school paper? how can we read it? >> well, we have a print issue that comes out quarterly so that will be, you know, posted and printed out, and it's going to be on issue. and then we also have a website, eagleeye.news, so make sure. >> i'm looking it up. thanks for being here. >> thank you so much for having me. quick break here, and next on "reliable sources," my essay on the denier in chief. and then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk? i asked my doctor. he told me about non-insulin victoza®.

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the commander in chief is also the denier in chief. president trump's tweets about his legal team are the latest xfrm example. he hopped on twitter to announce he was planning to shake up his legal team, said he was happy with his lawyers including john dowd and then you know john dowd resigned. today joe digenova has not joined the team either. one of many examples why it's hard to cover the white house. h.r. mcmaster, is he on the way out, not. sarah sanders said he was there to say. she said it on camera. >> general mcmaster is not going anywhere as the president said yesterday in the oval office to a number of people, he thinks he's doing a great job and glad he's here. >> there was no way he was going anywhere. she and the president have a good working relationship. but as you know mcmaster was replaced by john bolton. according to the new york times, mcmaster confirmed that his departure had been in the works

for weeks. now the most generous explanation is that things are constantly changing in the trump white house, a denial one day is obsolete the next day. that's being generous. another explanation they're just lying and deflecting. >> his staff has gotten a lot of criticism for, you know, we have all written about this one went out and lied. this one went out and lied. some cases people are lying and some cases people are told a lie by him and they don't know. >> this is ultimately about the president, not his blindfolded aides. it's about his approach to the job. his leadership qualities, twist the truth and deny reality. he's doing it right now saying on twitter that many lawyers and top firms want to represent him. but multiple major news outlets have all reported the same thing, trump has been turned down by white glove law firms. something interesting from just this morning on abc's "this week" chris ruddy one of the

president's friends and ceo of news max was on abc saying the president is perplexed by all the reports of chaos at the white house. even though we just talked about all those staff changes here's what ruddy says trump is feeling right now. >> he told me that he thinks the white house is operating like a smooth machine, in his words. >> really? i don't have anything to say. if you think this is smooth, you know, hey. all of this ties together. it's all calls for alarm for the journalists who have to deal with the denials and realities on a daily basis. when we can't take the white house spokespeople at their word and when we can't take the president at his word, what happens then? what happens then? that's ultimately one of the biggest questions of this presidency is the challenge for reporters and a challenge for all of you at home. let me snow what you think, tweet me, look me on facebook, my handle brian stelter. see you back here for "reliable

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