mr. tapper: i want to ask you about -- [applause] gen. petraeus: great potential as a diplomat. mr. tapper: it was lovely how he said that, wasn't it? we have our own ways of saying it, i suppose. i want to ask you about the president's latest iteration of the travel ban, which is quite different from how it was an unseated on the campaign trail and how it was introduced such illustrated on the campaign trail and how it was introduced such as it was a few months ago. gen. petraeus: the distinguishing feature of these countries is we do not have the confidence in them with either the way they issue passports or biometric data or whatever it may be and so, as has been announced, this list could grow come it could contract depending on how countries do in their responsibilities. i think there is a reasonable logic to this. it's not coming that singles out countries cousin of their faith and so -- because of their faith, so we will see how it evolves. i don't think we are taking huge numbers of individuals from a number of these are from countries to begin with. there is some substance t

mr. tapper: share with us the internal conversations. there are those in the administration i've talked to, mick mulvaney, who wonders whether the white house or any future president might give up the leverage that comes with the debt ceiling vote. others have said that that is leveraged you can find in other ways, and it creates ripples of anxiety domestically and abroad. sec. mnuchin: this is something we want to figure out on a long-term basis. my issue was to make sure the debt ceiling got raised. i'm happy that it got raised until december 8 and that my special powers got refilled. the treasury superpowers, which take us into next year. mr. tapper: how far into next year? comfortable we'm can fund the government into january. i don't have enough visibility beyond that. i am comfortable that we won't be in a situation on december 8 where we default on the government if we don't approve this. i'm hopeful that as part of the december 8 negotiations, and it is critical that the president could have done a longer deal, but wanted to make

is believed under the guise of unflappable neutrality mr tapper has as some have realized in reported been promoting a very particular agenda one promoting america's military industrial complex and washington's and less war machine to discuss mr tapper's record and more we are joined by max blumenthal investigative journalist and senior editor at alter good to be american oh it's a pleasure to have you all know. let you go a few articles a little research at the top or a. you know a lot of the lot of people could have come of this perfect case study in mainstream media. political judgment if you really look at what it what about his background and style makes him the kind of poster boy for the establishment i watched a lot more tapper than any human being should be subjected to zahra both but when i see it's like if it had been inside the chamber and bob graham it would have been appropriate but. i've been watching tapper ever since the trump era began and he's really ramped up kind of a narrative of regime change but this actually started maybe towards the end of the obama era and i'

mr. tapper: give it up for treasury secretary steven mnuchin. [applause] ♪ here we are, andrea mitchell was getting an award last night, saying we are the eyes and ears of the people. the audience can decide. katie, you were plucked out of the press pen, given a nickname as if you were a candidate, little katie. president trump treated you like one. you have a number two new york times bestseller. it takes us from the campaign -- >> i like the smattering of applause. >> it's an unbelievably good read. spoiler alert, trump wins. brieflyatie, take us , andbeing in the press pen in the hallway outside of morning joe, in new hampshire. katie: it's interesting to share that nickname with marco rubio and kim jong-un, who is also little rocket man. 2015, robert,f you can attest to this, not many folks were taking donald trump as a candidate seriously. , ands creating controversy nbc news dropped his news from the network. macy's was dropping him, univision was dropping him. nbc news said we have to have a reporter covering trump's campaign, and i was l

tapper is my beyonce. no. yeah, so it didn't work out the way i guess mr.ed. >> seth: yeah, well i think the problem is, when you tell fox news viewers to go to twitter, there's a lot of questions as to where does that exist. [ light laughter ] >> because they're older. >> seth: is that something, they're older. >> their older viewers. >> seth: do i have to call time warner and order twitter? [ light laughter ] is that on the package? so, but you, and i think this is why -- when barack obama was in office, you received criticism from the left. now with trump in office you're receiving criticism from the right. is part of that because you don't believe it's your job is to parrot what the president is saying, and do you feel like right now we're seeing that a lot from media figures? >> i feel like, yes, first of all our job is to hold them accountable and hold them responsible and point out when they lie, and point out when they say things that can't possibly be true, and be aggressive, we're not supposed to be their friends. you know, it's pretty simple, and

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