state government tweeted that the crosses represent bavarian identity and christian values. opposition politicians were quick to criticize the move as pandering to right-wing voters ahead of upcoming elections. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. it's time to say enough is enough. this is "reliable sources." a look at the story behind the story and how the media really works and how the news gets made this hour a rare interview with a former trump aide who sat down with the special counsel. we'll find out what he lerarned and what he wants the president to know. new revelations cbs managers were warned about charlie rose's behavior. one of his accusers is here for her very first tv interview. and later we're heading to kabul where world press freedom day was absolutely trajics. ten journalists killed in afghanistan this week. we'll talk with one of the reporters who had to bury his

friends. but first, back here in the u.s., enough is enough. the lies, the deceit, the fear mongering. journalists increasingly are feeling empowered to call out the trump white house's lies. because the evidence is right on tape. it made me wonder at the end of a long week was this a lie, too? >> i will never lie to you. i will never tell you something i do not believe. i will never put anyone's interests ahead of yours. >> that was from the campaign. but this now, the trump presidency, this is what a crisis of leadership looks and feels like. every week another scandal. every week another cover-up. this week it involved rudy giuliani. you see him there on "hannity." he was talking about stormy daniels and the payoff and questions about when she was really paid off and how, when did trump know. were laws violated?

and were there other stormys, too? he didn't rule it out. this week i have to admit i chuckled at some of the headlines calling this a white house credibility crisis. i mean, that is true. that's objectively true. it is a crisis, but it's been true since day one. reporters are always trained to cover what's new, what's different, what do you have? what's happening? trump's fibs are not new. he's been behaving this way his whole life. heck, trump entered politics on a lie about president obama. so what is new? i've been thinking about that, trying to figure out what is new. i think the answer is the reporting. reporters are revealing trump's lies one by one. stormy daniels made a cameo on "snl" last night but is only a household name thanks to reporting by "the wall street journal" and other outlets. the same for the president's

former doctor. nbc got ahold of him recently and he revealed his office was, his word, raided by trump's bodyguard and lawyer. he told cnn this hyperbolic letter attesting to trump's health was not truthful. quote, trump dictate that had whole letter. i didn't write the letter. i made it up as i went along. let's sit with that for a minute. trump attacked hillary clinton's health during the campaign, but he made up his own doctor's letter? enough is enough. yet there are people out there, a lot of them, who the press should not be covering the president this way who say we should not call lies lies. >> the journalists shouldn't be the ones to say the president or his spokesperson is lying because what that does to 50% of the country it makes them feel they're not credible to listen to. >> this shouldn't be about feelings. this should be about facts. let's bring in someone who has

lived through this before. karl bernstein, one half of the duo that broke the white house wide open. follow the money, follow the lies. but how do we keep up with all the lies? how do we know which ones to follow and how to prioritize them? >> i think we need to consider context, which is a big part of the best obtainable version of the truth and how we report the lies and how we follow the money and what we judge is important. we have to remember there is an unprecedented investigation going on by a special prosecutor who is looking into the question of whether the president of the united states has knowingly or unknowing lly colluded with or been aided by a hostile foreign power during an election. and there are indeed suggestions that keep turning up in these lies by the president of the

united states that there may be some truth to those allegations. there may not be. what's clear is there is an investigation that needs to go forward and that the president of the united states and those around him are trying to get the american people and the press and the country and the political system to ignore what really needs to be looked at here and, instead, conduct a cold civil war against the truth. and all we are interested in here and should be is the truth. >> but the point i think that matt was trying to make earlier this week, using the word lie, covering this administration so aggressively, it turns off his fans. is that a point the press should reckon with? >> yes. it's a point we should reckon with in terms of there's no need for us to be prejorative. but when a lie is significant

and we know it's significant, and when readers and viewers will recognize it's significant such as what we've seen in the last week particularly around michael cohen, around stormy daniels, there is relevance to that, and people are smart enough to know that these are lies when it's pointed out by the press. but i don't think we need to engage every moment in saying liar, liar, liar, your pants are on fire. what we need to do is keep advancing the story wherever it leads, whether it's exculpatory of president trump or as it appears to be the case he is becoming deeper and deeper enmeshed in the question of collusion and that is why in the context of what we're reporting we see more lying about everything from the president of the united states, and the most extraordinary thing we keep talking about rudy giuliani because he is now front and center in what he has done,

unlike any of the president's surrogates is to picture the president of the united states as almost a drifter with no interest in anything but conning the american people, with saying as he said today, oh, yeah, there might be more stormy daniels, there might be more hush payments. it's extraordinary what rudy juligiuliani and the picture he presenting of a president of the united states who is totally unconcerned with truth especially about this question of whether the russians have interfered in our electoral campaign since he was a knowing or unknowing participant in what they were doing. >> what we see instead from the juligiulianis of the world are t of projections. it's the democrats who are colluding. let me show you how trump and his supporters respond to media critiques. chief of staff john kelly had privately called the president unhinged at one point.

then 45 minutes later after cnn reported that trump said the press is unhinged. coincidence? i don't know. later in the weeks, all weeklong, coverage of the president's credibility, calling it a crisis, and then on saturday where did fox go? you guessed it. the media has a credibility crisis. that's the banner there on screen. a story you talked about, carl, "the wall street journal" scoop on friday the u.s. was probing michael cohen over cash he built up during the campaign that he had taken out lines of credit to secure access to, what, as much as $7,100, $7,400. here is how he reacted to that news on friday. >> this has from "the wall street journal" account all the appearances of a campaign slush fund. >> you're not the only one saying. i see a lot of slush fund headlines on the web. i don't think it's a coincidence on "fox and friends" diamond and silk were saying maybe it's a

slush fund. we see it time and time again from the president and his supporters. i suppose there's not a lot the press can do except try to point it out. >> i wouldn't even bother to point it out. i think there are times to engage in the press, and there are times to let something go. and that's one of them to let go. just do the story. follow the money. follow the lies. i think what we need to keep in mind here is what this is about. we now have seen how donald trump has succeeded to a large extent understanding the country much better perhaps than the press. by making the conduct of the press the issue instead of his own conduct and that of the russians and what he and the russians may or may not have done in concert, that he is succeeding in making our conduct the issue to a large extent. it appeals to his base. his base has put the republican

party enthral and fear of this president and this presidency and one of the things we ought to be covering is whether or not the republican party is in such that it is willing to give a pass whether or not he's acted in concert with a foreign power and undermine the interest of the united states as a candidate. that's what this story is about underneath it all. and the republicans continue to understand that he has gotten the country to go along with his vision of who we are. he has appealed, as all presidents do, to opposition to the press at one time or another. he has realized that by stoking that fear over and over and over again and crying witch-hunt, witch-hunt, witch-hunt, that we

will take our eyes off the big story and instead engage with him bit by bit, tit for tat. that's not what we ought to be doing. we ought to be advancing this story as "the wall street journal" owned by rupert murd h murdoch, friend of donald trump. it is hugely significant "the wall street journal" has broken one story after another about the president, his lying, his slush funds, all the rest with his lawyer, supposed lawyer, his fixer, mr. cohen who is at the center of all of this right now who was the glue who can give us real answers about collusion, about financial arrangements that seem to be perhaps illegal, that have broken laws. look, we've got a big story to be covering. we're covering it very well except when we get into the tit for tat trenches with the

president of the united states. we need to keep our eye on the big picture. and that includes covering the republican party because during watergate, which really is -- there's huge differences between watergate and what we're seeing here but there is one similarity and that is trying to make the conduct of the press the issue and what the press did in watergate is it kept covering the story, the cover-up unraveled, the facts became known and partly because republicans who were in and willing to engage in a bipartisan investigation as they are not now were swayed by the facts, and i think if we keep our nose to the grind stone and keep reporting the facts as we're doing, there will be no choice eventually but the republicans if they want to remain a viable party in the united states are going to have to say, look, the facts are adding up in a really ugly way, which they are so far, and i go

back to that picture that rudy giuliani is painting of our president of the united states as almost a grifter, a con man, not someone worthy of respect, not someone who speaks honestly. somebody who is looking for the nearest cover-up or cover story and it's rudy giuliani who is picturing him that way not the press. >> it's a tough time. carl, thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. a quick break and then the panel is with me. a trio of authors. we'll talk more about lies and ask this, if he's willing to lie about the small stuff, what else is he lying about? this is a tomato you can track from farm, to pot, to jar, to table. and serve with confidence that it's safe. this is a diamond you can follow from mine to finger, and trust it never fell into the wrong hands. ♪ ♪ this is a shipment transferred two hundred times,

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credibility, et cetera. let's dig into it with a trio of authorities starting with a cnn political commentator and author . former chief of "newsweek," the author of the next book "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels," out on tuesday. and the founder of dcreport.org. what the trump administration is doing to america. amanda, first to you. the president, as he likes to do, tweet add falsehood about nbc. said they probably made up their sources. nbc made a bad mistake but it shows -- the correction shows at least journalists do what the president doesn't do, correcting errors when they come up. >> and this is the problem that poses anyone who tries to take on trump and criticize him whether you're a political opponent or a reporter. you really have to be perfect. he is a player that fights dirty but will exploit any weakness

that you have. it's a really tough dynamic to participate in but it's the truth and especially when he's waging this war on the press if there's any slight mistake that's made, you'd better believe he's going to blow it up. that's not the worst thing because it challenges all of us to be better. >> to raise our game, yeah. jon meacham, you might about mccarthy, the response to mccarthy. i want to put this quote on screen. you wrote, one journalist of the era observed what could i do? i had to report, quote, mccarthy. how do you say in the middle of your story, this is a lie? >> 70 years on, the trump playbook, if you will, on dealing with the media and confronting it, in the way god sometimes does these things we don't have to make that much of a leap because he was the lawyer for both men.

and what happened in the mccarthy era he would attack the media. he would -- he knew exactly when deadlines were. he would call in the afternoon wire reporters with 30 minutes to go and announce a story. it didn't give him time to check it out. they felt that a u.s. senator talking about communism was intrinsically newsworthy and there was a big debate about whether newspapers should actually call out a lie is a lie. >> do you think journalists are getting it right today? >> i think it depend on, to quote bill clinton in a way, it depend on what you mean by journalists. i think there are a number of news outsets which think of as more traditional that are doing a terrific job and it's a golden age. there are some outlets that are essentially extensions of the administration. and i think it requires educated, intelligent consumers of news to be able to figure out

what's true and what's not. >> media diversity is great but people have to know what they're consumi consuming. there have been a lot of folks watching news coverage the last 16 months saying you don't go far enough calling out lies. are you one of those critics? >> yes, and i think the biggest problem, brian, was during the campaign. very few americans know donald had two trials for income tax fraud. lost them both. and most importantly, spent years so deeply involved with a major international cocaine trafficker he did favors for that the only logical explanation is they were in the cocaine trafficking business together. that's not being discussed, things like that. and donald is the master of turning the tables, attack the people who are telling the truth. >> you have to provide the proof. where can people find that evidence? >> in my book "the making of donald trump" and in my current

book i cite the letters donald wrote and show why what he did as a casino owner makes no sense unless they were in business together. donald, if you're listening, sue me if you think i slander you. >> you always call him donald. why do you do that? >> i call all public officials by their first names if i know them. when i was exposing the lapd 30 years ago i called the chief of police daryl gates daryl because we're both equal. donald and i are citizens of the u.s. and we know each other. >> all right. amanda, i wanted to ask you about the title of your book. i know it's still new to some folks. what is the gas lighting phenomenon? is there a great example of the president engaging in this? you wrote feelings, not facts are essential to a good gaslighting. >> the most easily understood is

how he engaged in a campaign of birtherism against barack obama. it's more than a lie, a scheme meant to distort reality and eventually drives people a little bit crazy. in my book i go through these techniques donald trump keeps using again and again to create press interest in these narratives because the chaos he creates with his gaslighting and these lies is a deliberate form of control that works for him. going into 2018 and 2020 people better stop thinking his lies and gaslighting will do him in. it's what works for him. assume the lies will keep working until someone can go toe to toe with him and confront him. i don't see anyone other than michael avenatti. assume it's going to keep working. >> jon meacham, last word to you? >> i think this is all in the hands of the voters. i think we have a republic here

that is worth defending. the republic is only as good as the sum of its parts. protests matters, resistance matters, and truth will out. >> i did find myself thinking this issue about his lies isn't really about the press. we can identify the lies. we can fact check every hour. ultimately there's not much more that journalists can do. sorry, david, did you want to chime in? >> our job is to make a record. we need to recognize a lot of trump support is visceral. it's not fact based. amanda is right, that's not going to change. >> i appreciate you all being here. great to talk with you. we have a quick break and then sunday morning exclusive with trump's media allies sounding the alarm on the mueller probe. sitting down with robert mueller's investigators just a few days ago. i have a lot of questions right after the break. my day starts well before i'm in the kitchen.

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>> the president should not sit down. >> it's surely a trap. >> it's a trap. >> it's a perjury trap, mr. president. do not speak with special counsel robert mueller. >> and yet today on abc rudy giuliani says i have a client who wants to testify. a former senior adviser to the trump campaign, he was recently interviewed by robert mueller's special counsel team. thanks for being here. >> thanks, brian. >> have your tv interviews been a way of communicating to the president recently? >> i'm just speaking my mind, nobody has orchestrated or even asked me to say anything but i think the president should stay far, far away from the mueller investigation. but i'm speaking from experience myself. >> yes. i had the sense, correct me if i'm wrong, you were pretty

critical of mueller before you went in, pretty dismissive of the idea. when you came out seemed chastened, am i right? >> not chastened as much as informed, in fact. >> informed. >> when you're talking about somebody attacking your president, you tend to be a little optimistic. now that i've been in there these folks are very well prepared. every question they ask me, they already have the answers to. i see a little bit more where they're headed. if the president has to sit in the same kind of situation i was in, i wouldn't think that he would want to do it. >> you had the sense from the questions that collusion is still very much an active topic of investigation, right? >> no doubt, brian. i wouldn't be asked any questions on, let's say, obstruction during the whole comey thing or financial crimes i wasn't exposed to. i was with the campaign from november 2015 to june of 2016

right about the window where the alleged collusion might have begun and so they pretty much focused on that. i can't say that's 100% the focus. i wouldn't have perspective on the other issues. >> you're looking through one straw at just the part you know about. here is what intrigues me. people like you have been saying for months, for over a year, there was no collusion, no collusion. that issue is dead. but it's not dead. it sounds like those commentators are doing the public a disservice by claiming it's gone and there's no discussion about it anymore. >> i can tell you i don't think there was any collusion. i can tell you i believe i shut down a few avenues they were taking trying to pursue it just with my factual answers. they may be still looking for collusion, but i don't believe they're finding any of it. i think they'll end up going another direction with this to try to get to the president. >> here is what rudy giuliani said about this topic last night. >> there is no evidence of

collusion with the russians. gone. there's no evidence of obstruction of justice. >> it just seems to me rudy shouldn't be on tv saying there's no evidence if, in fact, the investigators are still looking for it. >> they may be looking for it but may not have any evidence. i think they're still looking for evidence and i think they thought i could bring some to them. i could not. i think that they were trying to jam me up so they could put me in a position where i would be a more helpful witness in the prosecution than my simple truth would offer to them. >> how would you grade the mainstream media's coverage of the mueller probe? we're trying to see on the inside, relying on leaks from lawyers. you're one of the rare folks who were inside and now talking about it. >> i graduated from journalism school. i went the public relations

direction. i remember my ethics classes. i remember them very well. i can tell you i think people are in a race for headlines in the modern media world of the immediate headline. they're leaving things like facts and ethics behind. for example, we all know now that dan jones, whose company is named the penn quarter group, is raising money according to his own words up to $50 million to continue investigating the dossier that was the basis of so many things that have gone on so far. i believe they're not reporting on it because reporters are still getting information from fusion gps and we all know, if you write a negative story about fusion gps, you never hear from glenn simpson again. i think reporters should consider their sources and also report on their sources. if their sources, for example, glenn simpson and dan jones are still working with russians to try to confirm the

unconfirmable. >> if you're burned by a source you should be more careful of that source, maybe even out them. i agree with you. we have to be very careful. >> i think that's what happened to nbc, by the way. i think that's what happened to nbc. i think that comes from fusion gps and dan generals, and i think reporters should be really careful about the information from that cabal. >> michael caputo, thank you for being here. i'd love to have those folks on the show as well. up next the me too reckoning. did executives know about charlie rose's behavior and look the other way? a former staffer will speak out in her first television interview right after this. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything

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accusers of rose. one of rose's assistants worked on his show for pbs is now the co-founder of a group called press forward. it's an organization that says it wants to change culture in news rooms. she spoke with me about what she experienced and what she's trying to do to make sure it doesn't ever happen again. i really appreciate you being here. i know you haven't spoken on television about this before. i wonder if you could help us understand what happened between you and charlie rose, what that harassment was like and then how it affected your career. >> i worked for charlie for around a year and a half on the pbs show. i was his assistant. the beginning was beautiful and exciting. he's talented and amazing. but within a few months, the stories that i talked about at the "washington post," this behavior of beratement and groping continued until the day i left. >> did it affect or hurt your

career, did it change the way you viewed your role? >> i did decide i didn't want to work in journalism. i'm very happy with what i do today. >> as one of the organizers now of the press forward organization, what do you hope people take away from this follow-up "washington post" investigation that focuses on who knew what when. >> i hope people are focusing on fact we're dealing with a fairly severe institutional issue of sexism, sexual harassment, and rape culture in the united states. i'm glad we're focusing at this moment on what's happening in journalism but this is happening across the country in all walks of life. >> do you have reason to believe others at cbs knew about his behavior and looked the other way? >> i can't comment on what happened at cbs but i can tell you that after leaving "the charlie rose show" for the next 13 years, anyone who knew i worked for charlie, the first thing they would ask me if the rumors about him were true. this was a secret that was wide

open. and i would be surprised if the people at cbs didn't know. >> and of course folks at the program you're working on, this is the charlie rose program, essentially an independent and then broadcast on pbs stations. who within that organization knew what was going on? >> everyone. everyone. that part wasn't hidden. >> what has to happen now to ensure that your children, my daughter, this does not continue for future generations? >> this is something i think about a lot. i believe we're at a moment in the united states where the lens has shifted. part of the reason the issue is so pervasive we weren't looking at sexual assault in this way before and right now we all have to re-assess where we're experiencing this in our own lives and where our community is experiencing it. >> you wrote a column for cnn.com saying shouldn't call charlie rose a villain. that it's important to make men a part of this conversation and not try to treat men as completely the enemy.

is that what you're trying to get at? >> it is. i'm also trying for people to see that you can be multifaceted. charlie is brilliant and kind and talented. he's also a predator and has some abusive qualities about himself. it's possible to be more than one thing. and i was hoping with that article to allow people to identify where they're out of alignment and do their own work. >> one more question. there have been stories recently about a possible comeback for charlie rose. page six said he was plotting an idea for a tv show. i think it's ridiculous. more importantly, what do you think? >> i think he hasn't been put in time-out for coloring on the couch. i think that he's in a position right now where he has an opportunity to do a lot of work. he has time. he has privilege. he has resources. instead of using that time to work on himself and find out why he'd been displaying this behavior this entire time, he's been trying to figure out how he

can come back. i think if he did the work that america would welcome him, to be completely honest. i think that would be wonderful. but i haven't seen -- i haven't seen any shift. >> you can learn more about gottfried ryan's group at pressforward.org. a vow not to forget the forgotten war in afghanistan.

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since 2015 and the deadliest in afghanistan since 2002. by next guest wasn't just reporting from kabul that day, he had to put work aside to help bury his friends. on the day of the attacks, of course, you were reporting on the bombings, but you had to put work on hold to do what? >> to help with the funerals. after we found out the second bomb, most of the casualties of the second bomb were journalists, we knew we had friends among them. so naturally, we ended up at the same hospital, the same morgue that we would go to report from. this time we went there to mourn, to be there with our friends, to be with the families and left the bodies and sort of follow the body to their homes. in this particular case, i was with an a.p. photographer who is closer to me than the rest of them.

we almost forgot about the reporting for most of the day. it was more about mourning the loss of a friend. >> and the photo on the front page of the next day's "new york times" was of that procession, your friend's body on the front page. >> so think about how many photos like that he may have taken, he had covered this war for 20 years. after every bombing, every explosion, he would be at that morgue, that hospital photographing the casualties and families. to think about the hundreds and thousands of photos just like that, of somebody killed eed ae brutal violence he had taken, and to realize one day he ends up like that, he ends up on the front page of the paper. it does break my heart. >> when you see some of your own friends killed in a bombing like this, does it make you rethink your work?

maybe want to leave afghanistan for example? >> there are a lot of afghan journalists who have left the country in recent years. in terms of my own -- i can't say -- i do -- i do want to continue this struggle of highlighting the human toll of this war. this is not just a 16, 17-year war, this is a four decade war that my generation and even people older than me were born into it. the story of how widespread the suffering is still needs to be told, because the war is getting forgotten. >> in the u.s., it is called the forgotten war. i wonder if you feel forgotten there? >> considering the extent of the suffering and the extent of the toll and the casualties, it is a forgotten war. where else around the world do

you have 50 people dead in a day and it gets such little attention? and if it was just one day, if it was just one month or one year, it would be understandable. but this has gone on year after year after year. when you think of the country, 30, 35 million people. every single day about 50 people are getting killed in this country. >> how personally coping with the pain of losing some of your friends this week? >> i guess what helps me cope with the pain is, sharing some of those emotions and sharing that burden as a journalist, that i write it. the emotions that i feel, the loss that i feel, i try to put that into words and share. and i do realize that if i can echo that, if i can echo that pain, it does affect people, it does affect people, people do realize, even if it's for a

moment when they're reading their paper, they cause and they do think about the pain for a little bit. so one coping mechanism for me is that sharing, what i feel as the loss, as the suffering, as the pain is that i have this privilege of echoing that, of sharing that, and that helps me feel a little lighter. >> thank you so much for joining me today. >> thanks, brian. more "reliable sources" in a moment. or is it? this farmer's morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the cloud, and iot sensors down here, for precise monitoring of irrigation. it's a smart way to help increase yields, all before the rest of us get out of bed.

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kanye west in the news lately, president trump has been celebrating this purported increase of support with the african-americans. black male approval for president trump doubles in one week. it cites this reuters poll. in this case, the president talked about it on live tv, so i think we have to fact check it. >> kanye west must have some power, because you probably saw i doubled my african-american poll numbers. we went from 11% to 22% in one week. >> even taking the poll at face value, trump got it wrong. the claim is that it doubled with support among african-american men. reuters told me "the sample sizes for those two measurements were too small to reliably suggest any shift in public opinion." this is why it's irresponsible

to just quote the president without checking what he said. you see how it works now? some websites post misleading stories. reuters say they misconstrued the poll. then someone feeds it to the president. then he further misstates what was said. people on fox then repeat the president's version and on and on and on. some trump fans think that trump is gaining support from african-americans when he's not, all based on a poll that even the pollster says was misused. we'll be back next week trying to find nor reliable sources. stay tuned for "state of the union" with jake tapper. legal disarray. president trump's new lawyer is facing questions. >> fact is, there is no way this is a campaign finance violation of any kind. >> after publicly contradicting the president's own version of events.