jim acosta and ted boutros, attorney for cnn. >> extremely pleased with the ruling today. rst amendment and journalism. we're very excited to have mr. acosta be able to go back and get his hard pass and report the news about the white house. i'll turn it over to jim. >> everybody, thanks for coming. i just want to say something very briefly, and that is i want to thank all of my colleagues in the press who supported us this week. and i want to thank the judge for the decision he made today. and let's go back to work. thank you. >> simple, short, and sweet from ted boutros, attorney for cnn. a great day for the first amendment and for journalism. that's a point we have been highlighting throughout the coverage of the story, as we noted, a number of news organizations across the board, news, print, including fox news, supported us because they saw it as a precedent that would affect cnn and other news outlets. i wanted to bring back jessica because the judge in his commentary in there did take down some of the government's, the white house's arguments, saying it was of questi

this week it's jim acosta. they are sub-par journalists at a failing network and they crave attention. let's not put anything else to it other than it's a grandstanding effort by jim acosta. trish: attorney general jeff sessions submitting his letter of as is nation at president trump's request. misty, i know you have a background in sexual assault case, et cetera. what's your reaction to that video that we saw there where jim acosta is sort of wrestling this young white house up turn to keep the microphone. and we just learned moments ago he's no longer going to be able to have his reporting pass to be there at the white house. what do you say about that? >> i was hoping we would have the opportunity to talk about it. i was floored by acosta's conduct. revoking his pass was a necessity. forget unprofessional. that was unbelievable. an outright completely, completely unprecedented. really. that was so inappropriate. he should absolutely be extending an apology to that young lady who was trying to do her job. tr

jim acosta, his press pass must be immediately restored. we have reached out to the white house, haven't heard comment yet. also reached out to the department of justice to get their thoughts on this. we have not heard back yet. but jim acosta, as he put it today as he left the courthouse, he said let's get back to work. back to you. >> and so we do. great to see you. thank you so much. >> let me bring in for more on this, chief media correspondent brian stelter here as well as chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. on jessica's point, do kwee know what that means for acosta today? is he heading over to the white house today? >> the agreement is his press pass will be reinstated immediately. the judge agreed with that interpretation. that's the plan. acosta was supposed to be on vacation this week, kate. what timing for him. he had to be in court instead all wednesday and today. so i'm not sure exactly when he will return. frankly, we need the white house and secret service first to agree to the order and actually reinstate his credentials. th

reporter jim acosta from the white house called the video to the manipulative but others so it is proof of the journalists inappropriate behavior and debate has been raging in the media over whose side to take. it just is it crosses a line you don't put your hands i don't want him a cost to sort of wrestling this young white house intern jim acosta clearly never touched that white house intern that's just a lie and what i saw was a battery not by jim acosta but by the young white house aide if you can use a fake video use a fake video as you go all the way do something like this. so we have sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary pulling the credentials of jim acosta c.n.n. reporter and she then released a video clip of the incident which she called an inappropriate laying on of hands said that because he touched this this staffer of the white house who was holding the microphone this way that it was necessary to remove his credentials that was unacceptable behavior while she posted the clip and now we have people saying that it's a doctored clip the clip is distorted in

i'm not going to defend jim acosta.not the role of white house reporters to express their opinions. it makes other reporters in the room look bad when he's out there expressing his opinion. ask a question, ask a hard question. you know what? what he could have done is say, it's a caravan, not an invasion. howie: let me move on to the media furor over president trump firing jeff sessions and naming on an acting basis this chief of staff, matt whitaker. is the media freakout justified? ari: i think it's appropriate to put scrutiny on i who is going to be acting attorney general. the fact that he wrote opinion pieces. tony snow, the former white house press secretary wrote negative pieces against george bush, then was hired as his press secretary. there is a history of people in washington writing pieces and sharing their thoughts. howie: ari fleischer bringing his per spell tough from his years in the white house past. ari fleischer. the national media are realizing the full magnitude of the most of destructive wildfires

"he lambasted jim acosta as a terrible person, told the urban network correspondent april ryan to sitown, and deemed a query about white nationalism posed by "pbs newshour" reporter as a racist question." all true, except cnn's summary leaves out important context. april ryan repeatedly yelled out her questions without being called on. watch. >> president trump: sit down please i didn't call you. >> she then appeared too intimate to the president had tried to message white supremacists. >> on the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist, some people thought that was emboldening white nationalist spirit of >> president trump: it's such a racist question. >> the combative exchange jim acosta was over the word invasion, defined by webster's as an unwanted intrusion. >> the caravan is not an invasion, it's a group of migrants moving up from central america toward the border with the u.s. why did you characterize it as such? >> president trump: because i consider it an invasion. >> part of me, ma'am. >> president trump: that's enough. >> cnn stands behind it jim acosta and calls th

jim acosta has the right to return to the white house. the underlying accusation of the case is not decided on. if the white house is not only back or settles with cnn, this could go on for months and months. there will be more hearings in the court. number two, the white house now announced that it will come up with rules and regulations for the decorum in white house press conferences. something like an unwritten code and law for journalists about how to behave. we have to see what the decorum -- what that means. sarah: to be continued. thank you. the number of people missing in california's devastating wiwildfires has doubleded to moe than 600. officialals say the dedeath toll stanands at over 60. the flames produced much of the town of paradise to ash and charred rubble. the week after the boys arrested, , recovery workers are seararchinfor humaman remains.s. firefighters c continue to batte otheher blazes acrcross the sta. the fires are among the deadliest to have hit the u.s. in the century. jason is in los angeles. he is the bureau

jim acosta. being a jerk and not acting professional and i would hope that in those hears would tell him to act professional instead of going in and not through questions which the president will answer he goes then in plain states that's not the fact that it's not even that's true that's not the reporting and so this whole notion if you were about a press of his speech you point and only his point that would be a whiny issue but that's not the case he had and professionally who will argue that there is to be a just that are just it's not who is the arbiter who's the arbiter of jerky behavior is that donald trump donald trump gets to tell me who acts like a jerk on camera is that that's really where we are i think you behavior he let him ask you questions and it was somebody else's turn absolute and ask your question to michael he said no more questions so agree with what you say he will meet jim acosta's does not get out more questions than everybody else because he decides that he gets so if yo

the white house to restore the press credentials of the chief white house correspondent for cnn, jim acosta, immediately. the move is part of a lawsuit cnn find today, arguing that last week's revocation of acosta's press pass violated his first amendment rights and his rights to due process. the trump administration is digging in its heels. let's go to our chief media correspondent, brian stelter. so brian, what exactly is the latest? i know you're getting new information. >> reporter: yes. the judge in this case, judge timothy j. kelly, he's a trump appointee, who was assigned to the case in u.s. district court in d.c. a few hours ago. the judge has just said that he will hold a hearing in this case wednesday at 3:30 p.m. this will be an initial hearing to hear cnn's request for a temporary restraining order. earlier on wednesday, 11:00 a.m. eastern time, that's when all of the defendants in the case are going to have to turn in any of their statements, any of their responses to cnn's lawsuit. president trump has been sued by cnn and acosta, and so have several of trump's top aides, inclu

it's because jim acosta is trying to be the story instead of pursuing stories and viewers are startingom that. trish: you saying - i know jim and we use to work together years ago and he never struck me as so self-serving in that way but in this particular environment joe, it's so nutty and crazy the idea that a reporter thinks they can shout questions to be so aggressive there is a sense of is the president of the united states and the american people elected him. that in and of itself you should show respect for the will of the american people. anyway. >> right. look, during the test conference last week president got 60 questions from 35 reporters. i believe that's to a reporter. jim acosta thought he was entitled to not only lecture the president and then go into a soliloquy around what is an invasion and what is not but then to ask for questions is time to give up the microphone he did not do it. give major garrett credit. he's one of the people who stood up in an interview yesterday went up to me to give up the microphone, i do it. that's what he should be doing but he knew it wo

and then comes jim acosta.eer the news conference and argue with the president. >> you have to believe they are little upset, the white house press corps that he has messed it up. >> if i were press secretary the next time acosta pulls that i would say that's the end not only today but for the rest of the week. and his colleagues would have surrounded him and threatened to tar and feather him and kick him out. >> they would had a ball with that. let's be honest. isn't there a time where you have to tell a district court judge to go to hell. the idea that you have to follow the district court judge and create rules and cannot run the white house the way it has been. >> to be fair to the judge, if you look at his ruling from the bench he felt like he was constrained by a private decision. that is idiotic in my opinion. this judge took a case in which you dealing with the nation reporter. it had nothing to do with conduct and decorum. and disrupted a presidential press conference. you guys are the lawyers. >> your

they have changed their argument to, from violence by jim acosta, to disruption by jim acosta.d that, you know, i think it shows that they realize the violence argument was a total loser and simply not true, but disruption is not necessarily an argument that will lose in front of this judge. >> right. jeff, stay with us because i want to bring in abc news veteran sam donaldson. sam, thanks for being with us. you came up in court today, i know you submitted a declaration in support of cnn. can you explain why you think this case is important, especially given your own experience covering path preside presidents? >> sure, anderson. it was wrong. and it's unprecedented. i don't know of a president who's ever threatened, let alone actually pulled a white house pass from a reporter. sure, presidents don't like uncomfortable questions. would you? would i? why did you say that, why did you say that? you saw the testy exchange the other night. jim wants to know why do you call it a caravan, why do you call it an invasion? are you trying to demonize immigrants if front of the elections?

reporter jim acosta asked the president about the migrant caravan headed north and things really heated up i'd like to play this video and then get your reaction there after that it is there we go well if you want as president that this caravan was an invasion as you know i despise your sitter to be that as you know this president karen was not an invasion it's a it's a group of migrants moving up from central america towards the border with the u.s. thank you for to know what why did you why did you characterize it as such. i consider it an invasion you and i have a difference of opinion do you think that you demonized immigrants now there's a lecture known as or i want them i want them to come into the country but they have to come in legally you know they have to come in jim through a process i wanted to be a process and i want people to come in and we need the people here who can paint your campaign wait you know why we need the people because we have hundreds of companies moving in we need people there are hundreds of miles away that there are hundreds and hundreds of model a way t

the democratic side, or perhaps and opinion host or cnn prime time pundit, because that is what jim acosta brian: are you surprised cnn backed him? because they promoted him in january despite all the antics that we have seen in all thesese press conferences, because jim is becoming part of the story and not getting the story, and because he's going viral,oi thas good for ratings, that's good for business. >> here's the thing. cnn is now trailing behind the hallmark channel. in this new cycle -- and they are losing viewers year after year. this is a gift to cable news,ew this new cycle. if you are not gaining in ratings in the trump administration that has beenis unpredictable and quite frankly insane at times, in terms of all the information coming out, thet you are doing something wrong. >> brian: the next chapter was at 8:00 that same night, he goes back to the white house and find out his press pass has been deactivated. he goes back and does an interview with anderson cooper. did the white house hurt themselvesnd by making him moref a martyr than when he left? the story was jeff sessi

the story was jeff sessions not jim acosta appeared in the night ended with jim acosta. >> used the wordat is exactly right. jim acosta is very accomplished at playing the victim, being a victim of circumstance, being in these situations. personally, the white house wins here. they should not have revoked his press pass because it makes him the martyr. in the last to administration under president obama, in president obama's first 36 solo press conferences, do you know how many times fox got called upon? 14 times. the least of any major news organization. what they should have done was come i don't give him the oxygen that he wants in terms of his attention. they should have just blocked him out and to send the message that way. >> brian: thank you so much. meanwhile, it's time for "final exam." can you beat the experts at remembering the most famous news of the last week? that's next. and i've been hitting the road on my book to her. i may be coming to your town. take a look at the next steps. coming to massachusetts this weekend. ♪ >> brian: it is time for the new york edition of the "

and then lastly, look, the president always calling on j-- jim acosta. exchange. i think of he thinks the base likes it. this is all a silly process. >> well, certainly news breaking now. seen as welcomed to not just the white house correspondents association but to many news organizations including nbc news who signed on to that friend of the court brief in support of our competitors but in this case colleagues over at cnn. i want to thank everybody that you just saw in those boxes. dylan, pete, al, nancy and lee and jeff, thank you all very much for rolling with all this breaking news. much appreciated. >>> coming up after the break, we're going to stay on top of this story and altalk about a different one. how much does 24/7/365 arms protection for the secretary of education cost? think big. now think bigger. where betsy devos says that cost is ligit and why that has swamp watch sirens going off. watch sirens going off (honking) when your craving strikes, you need your wing nut. ( ♪ ) no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut. no

lou: let's talk about serious lawsuit, cnn suing white house over jim acosta. language of this thing is is amazing, they misstate the facts of the case, and ignore acosta's egregious conduct in a presidential press conference. and you know, just goes on. they have no concept -- >> i read that lawsuit, factualy it is a pack of lies, that is jeff zucker, don't let facts get in way of a good story, his mantra. everyone in cnn is embracing it they claim his constitutional right of free speech is abridged, it not, being at white house is a privilege not a constitutional right, if you are a reporter you follow certain rules, he did not follow those rules, therefore his credentials were revoked. it is simple as that. lou: just another instance of fake news but fake law? >> it is a little bit of both. it not a surprise it comes from jeff zucker, cnn. lou: thank you so much gregg jarrett. >> my pleasure. lou: hop pope francis warned yesterday. he must have assumed they knew little about. pontiff urging act dem to do all they can to assist in irk minceg crisis of climate

that white house reporter wasn't jim acosta. i don't hear anyone calling jim acosta a heckler now.esse: real news that you probably didn't hear much abouting this week. and later a titanic clash between donald trump and michelle obama. wow! federal funding to help the victims. i am eboni williams, now back to. "watters' world." jesse: politics has dominated the headlines so we wanted to share other news you probably missed. joining me is ed henry. remember the beau bergdahl trade out of gitmo in exchange for bow bergdahl? president obama assured us the taliban five were being closely monitored and would not return to the battlefield. it has been confirmed they all five joined the ranks and returned to afghanistan. ed: i was at some of the news conferences, covering president obama saying this is not a big deal, they are going to be monitored and they weren't going back on the battlefield. no, it turned out to be a bogus deal. the obama administration misled us about beau bergdahl. jesse: next one, we have china. the big trade wash with the chinese. china blinked. president xi promi

that's why he calls on jim acosta.wants that blowup because he knows attacking the press is going to energize his base. >> yeah. you said that. i didn't. i just want people to know that. so, listen, i want to switch gears, now. susan, i want to ask you about this. this is what a senior administration official told our jake tapper about sending u.s. troops to the border, okay? he says, it's a paper tiger, a total joke of limited operation utility and a waste of our troops' time. mattis knows it. nielsen knows it. kelly knows it. but the battle was lost with the president. he was hellbent on troops. >> that's one of those things people are joking if you get somebody to say it on background, it's a big scoop, but actually it's already been said publicly. i don't think there's anyone, right, left, or center, who hasn't seen pretty transparently through this decision to send almost 6,000 u.s. troops to the border for an operation that nobody knows what it is. now, by the way, it looks like just tonight, donald trump has fin

and this isn't about cnn and jim acosta, really.t's about the american people's ability to get information about its government, and one of the big arguments we make in our case is that the d.c. circuit, the highest court of appeals in washington, has held many years ago, regarding press credentials at the white house, there needs to be a process. you can't just take them away because you get mad at what a reporter is asking, because you don't like the content of the news. so it's a very important principle that goes far beyond this particular dispute. >> now, look, the president loves this sort of thing, okay? and he has in particular singled out jim acosta many times. he's called him crazy and he's also said things like this. >> i'll tell you what, cnn should be ashamed of itself, having you working for them. you are a rude, terrible person. i think jim acosta is a very unprofessional man. i think -- he does this with everybody. look, i don't think he's a smart person, but he's got a loud voice. >> do prior comments like those abo

that's an ask one of the other folks that's a tough for me ma'am i protested enough for me ma'am i'm jim acosta the c.n.n. reporter recently had a heated exchange with donald trump at his press conference acosta kept asking follow up questions until dol trump called him fake news and an enemy of the people then a white house staffer tried to take the microphone away from acosta but he wasn't having any of it sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary says that now she's taking away his press credentials she stared a video in order to make her point we stand by our decision to revoke this individual's hard pass we will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video that's when the internet and the media went wild we have people saying that it's a doctored clip the video was posted originally by paul joseph watson who is the editor of the right wing news outlet known as info wars now paul joseph watson defended himself it isn't don't say that it isn't sped up it isn't slowed down all i did was look at it again is this an example of symbol don't ring to clip t

host: here is some news on jim acosta. this is a tweet. the president of the white house correspondents association, he had been in reuters, says, white house press secretary says it is suspending jim acosta's white house credentials, called a hard pass, after today's press conference britt we will show you that momentarily coming up at 8:00 eastern. we will get a few more calls and we go to tennessee. this is jd. caller: yeah, i just really am so thankful that the midterms are finally passed us. thatso amazing to me america has to put up with the amount of money that is spent on these campaigns when every time you turn around, you're hearing what sounds like immature children on the tv bashing the other candidate over and over and over again. knowsblic never really what the candidates are standing for because of all the negative ads, the lines that are told -- lies that are told. if the country doesn't, if we the people don't stand together and do something about campaign spending, it's just so out of hand. think of all the money that is

that white house reporter wasn't jim acosta. i don't hear anyone calling jim acosta a heckler now.real news that you probably didn't hear much abouting this week. and later a titanic clash between donald trump and michelle obama. wow! with my bladder leakage, the products i've tried just didn't fit right. they were too loose. it's getting in the way of our camping trips. but with a range of sizes, depend fit-flex is made for me. with a range of sizes for all body types, depend fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. saved an average of $412," syou probably won't believe me. but you can believe this, real esurance employee nancy abraham. look her up online. esurance, it's surprisingly painless. >> live "america's news headquarters". i'm eboni williams. northern california campfire is the most instructive in the states history and may soon be the deadliest authorities have said the 25 or three people have died in the fire 14 bodies were discovered today, 25 people have died in the wildfires rating across the state. at least ten races remain undecided after tuesday's his

he doesn't need to call on jim acosta. do bleach you need to treat the president -- i do believe you need to treat the president of the united states with respect. the american people elected him. if you respect the american people, respect the president of the united states. if i did an interview with president obama or even today:president barack obama. whether it's obama, whether it's trump, whether it's clinton, whoever it is. nick who has been the president -- anybody who has been the president of the united states deserves some decorum. you don't shout and grab the microphone and not turn it over when someone tries to take it from you. that is not acceptable behavior. these are things that these reporters should know. but if they don't, perhaps he needs to train them a little. if things get wild, say okay, i'll come back tomorrow. marc lotter and mallory hagen. mark, what do you think of this? do you agree with what the president is saying? this is not over. we'll see how it plays out. but there is a certain kind of

let's start first with jim acosta and his behavior that day. your thoughts. >> i think there is no doubt that jim acosta was rude. he violated every kind precedent in terms of decorum. he was disrespectful to the president of the united states in the very building where the president of the united states preside. i thought it was a shabby showing. the problem is in revoking his trespass, in revoking his trespass. someone is speaking in tongues in my ear. in revoking his -- i'm so sorry. this rarely happens. trish: tell me what you think. that's a better idea. in revoking jim acosta's trespass, the white house's legal position is that they have the absolute right to revoke anyone's trespass based on anything even if they don't like the reporter who is doing the speaking. so the news organizations, including fox news, have jumped in and they have said, wait a second, this is a first amendment issue, not an issue of decorum. trish: and i hear you. and i ema these with this. and i agree not just because i work here. i agree with our position on it.

kennedy: damn skippy, thanks, trish, the trump administration banning cnn's handsy reporter jim acosta from the white house after a questionable incident in today's press briefing. more in just a moment. >>> another huge shake-up in our nation's capitol. attorney general jeff sessions, gone. officially he resigned but the truth is the president pretty much fired him and a whole new battle front has emerged between democrats and the president. sessions was one of the president's early supporters, way back during the campaign, the president rewarded him with the prime a.g. title but fell out of favor after recusing himself in the russia investigation. president has been openly chastising him ever since and today with the smoke barely dmreerd last night's midterms, the president pounced earlier today on special report, house oversight committee chair trey gowdy said it was only a matter of time. >> it was going to happen, i knew it was going to happen after the election. i did not think it would happen before all the votes had been counted. but he's a better proverbial dead man walking fo

case about jim acosta does he have the right to have a press pass in the white house. so it is not a fundamental right to have a press pass through a speech and well that's the question right so if the if the white house had said what they said today about why sarah sander why there why they revoked his press pass which is his conduct and he wouldn't let go of the mike and he wouldn't let other people ask questions and he wasn't asking questions he was making statements well you know what there's an argument there that did white house get out of the matter that the events of the first argument was well he actually physically hit the internal no he did that's not true and then the president comes out on friday and the president says well he's a disgrace and the white house is a sacred place. again that's not quite good enough serious that the current explanation has got to be the one they stick with because they're not an easy spot it feels like they're going after a cost of because they don't like his questions but there are restrictions that can be placed even on memb

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it is aimed at restoring our jim acosta's suspended white house press pass. hearing just wrapped up in a federal courtroom here in washington just a little while ago. the federal judge says he will issue a formal ruling tomorrow afternoon. our justice correspondent jessica schneider was inside the courtroom for us. jessica, tell us more about what happened during this hearing. >> reporter: well, wolf, a two-hour hearing with quite a vocal and inquisitive judge. this judge will decide by tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 p.m. whether or not he will issue an order that would reinstate our cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta's hard pass that would allow him full access to the white house grounds. of course, cnn filed this motion for a temporary restraining order to get jim acosta's hard pass reinstated or in the alternative to get some sort of hearing for jim acosta so he can make his case that his hard pass should not have been revoked. in the alternative, the government in this courtroom today made quite a broad argument here. they said essentially that no

and, you know, jim acosta has some responsibilityhere too. bad for him, and if he wants to behave like an adult, then he can wear his big boy pants and go back to the white house and have a great time with everyone else. but until then, you know, he's got to go back to -- we have to go, but i love you tremendously, and i would like you to come back in person so we can have great times. >> i'd love to do that. i would like to make great time. kennedy: absolutely. thank you so much, sean spicer. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: coming up, amazon just announced they're building two new big headquarters they say will create tens of thousands of jobs, and that is fantastic! but the new venture could actually cost taxpayers millions, maybe billions of dollars to make it happen. talking about the pitfalls of crony capitalism in my monologue next. ♪ ♪ (♪light musical cords) [music playing backwards] of hunger and poverty [music playing backwards continues] starts here. your gift of an animal from heifer international can help a family with food and incom

reporter jim acosta some claim the material. order to justify the journalist from the white house. posts a tweet in support of the yemeni children. tens of thousands every year as a result. of the program this hour the syrian army rescues over a dozen hostages from the. state while a u.s. report reveals american aid money is ending up in the terrorist pockets there. nato marks its territory with a sinking ship by. public places host nation norway complains the alliance has left the country only following. their. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neil alone welcome. president to his say c.n.n. journalist accused of inappropriate behavior in a white house press conference he defended a twitter post that apparently shows reporter jim acosta pushing the arm of an internal tries to the president follow up questions the u.s. is split over the issue with some claiming the video was being doctored in order to justify bombing from the white house the video has been posted by you. press secretary service saunders shows a close

remember, cnn and jim acosta's lawyers are asking for a temporary restraining order, and a preliminary injunction that would have the effect of returning acosta's press pass right away. cnn's argument is that every day that goes by when he's been suspended from the white house, that's a day that's causing damage and violating his first amendment constitutional rights. so cnn is seeking an immediate relief from the court. and that's what the judge will be considering. we expect he will issue a ruling sometime tomorrow and will reconvene court at 3:00 p.m. eastern time to share his decision. >> so during this two-hour hearing, brian, the lawyers representing cnn, they made their case. the lawyers representing the white house, they made their case. the federal judge, i assume, was asking questions. did we get any indication in which direction the federal judge might be moving? >> reporter: he asked some skeptical questions of the cnn lawyer. he also spent a long time talking with the government lawyer. eric wempel said he couldn't tell which way kelly was going to go. cnn's reporters were

headlined "let jim acosta do his job." what kind of job is he doing? ta, in my opinion, has been carrying on his usual hit job day after day against the president. and he was hired to do something quite different. the white house should suffer such fools in my opinion no more. the hostility of the white house press corps is now overwhelming, briefings and press conferences. the national media often a source of constant insult to civility. the very same civility they urge be returned to the political debates. here is more to the press corps at work. cnn it will call analyst april ryan, pbs sydor. run-in with the president of the united states. apparently they think they have license to insult, debate and dismiss the president. not simply report on him in the interest of the public. >> you just have -- sit down, please. i didn't call you. i didn't call you. i'm not responding. i'm responding -- excuse me. i'm not responding to you. i'm talking to this gentleman. will you please sit down. excuse me. excuse me, sit down. please go ahead. no, you rudely inte

it gives way much power to jim acosta. these are the white house press briefings. not jim acosta.hite house needs to take control. i agree with you and you cannot just throw people out of the briefing. but the white house must come up with very predetermined decorum for report is present if they break the rules you can throw them out. animals can be simple. for example if the president calls on a reporter, whoever asks the previous question must stop talking. solve all the problems right there. liz: the problem isn't reporters get emotionally involved in the story, that is what critics are saying too. emotions block them from asking all the questions they could. if they were this passion. it comes with advocacy and personality and asserting themselves in a story then they become the news. >> liz, i completely agree. and kristin makes great points. whenever the reporting becomes a story is not a good thing. listen, it was a victory and i know it is a victory because donald trump is downplaying it. if he wasn't then, that would be something different. but i think one of the unique t

reporter jim acosta some time the material was doctored in order to justify the bombing of the journalist from the white house. saudi arabia a tweet in support of yemeni children where the u.n. warns tens of thousands die every year as a result of the saudi bombing campaign. and the syrian army rescues over a dozen hostages from the grip of islamic states while u.s. report reveals american aid money is ending up in terrorist pockets. and you're watching altie international with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. the french president has a womanly trump and paris ahead of celebrations commemorating the end of world war one appearing in front of the press and money on try to show through body language that the bromance between the two heads of state is still alive. but there was some tension up to the presidential tete a tete just hours before. the story. president struck crowd i've always been fond of emphasizing their close personal friendship was well as the importance of the transatlantic alliance that was very much emphasized during my visit to the united states back in twen