for several decades an old friend bill press progressive commentator author host of the bill press show on the young turks network his latest book is from the left of life in the crossfire he's in washington bill i want to c.n.n. for twelve was twenty six years you were there for a lot of those years. i've had donald trump on all way over ten fifteen times he always liked c.n.n. we always had good times together i never heard of anything what's going on and at that rally in temple those people with courage signs and what the hell is going on . you know it's very troubling larry and you know we've got to be careful it's not that we take this personally or we can't take any criticism we in the media i mean but i think this goes as you say this goes beyond just not liking what a particular anchor reporter might have might have to say. but let me just say also getting into this i have to just it may be an aside but what's most ironic about this is that of all people out there today donald trump is a creation of the media or his entire business career he made a point of being in the tabloids

welcome back to politicking bill press is still with us from washington d.c. progressive commentator and author host of the build pressure on the young turks network and we. turn g.o.p. strategist former spokesperson for the california republican party jen joins us from new york all right general what do you make of what's going on at these rallies to see people cursing and screaming and giving the finger to the media jen what's going on. well i hate to say it larry because i love you and i like bill press an awful lot but the democrats started this let's remember it was rahm emanuel top adviser to barack obama who talked about bringing a gun to a knife fight and that's how he wins political battles all of this lip service that michelle obama gave us about we go high they go low it's actually the opposite because democrats are the chieftains of deflecting and they always want to make it look like republicans are the agitators here look no further larry than the twitter feed this morning of the politico reporter for this state of florida he was the one who who

john the republican line, with bill press.aller: i have to say to bill i am sympathetic with his views because i had the same views for 40 years. now i cried when obama got elected. i thought he was going to help the blacks. i worked for obama on the phones. voted for him twice. voted democrat again. but i saw the light. the liberals, the left is not good. here is a point i would like to make. what did socialists use before kindles -- candles? electricity. that is where the democratic party is taking us. host: have you respond? -- do you respond? guest: it is nonsense. , i might pointt you to a previous book of mine. that is a book that -- probably the book most critical about barack obama. ira that book when obama was in the white house. i supported him. i worked for him. i'm a liberal. but i was disappointed in some his presidency. i tried to give him credit for the great things he did but also when over places where he fell short, like obamacare. for medicareing for all, he went for this half-ass system called obamacare. br

coming up friday morning, syndicated radio talk show host bill press with his new book detailing what he sees as the failures of the trump presidency. then the heritage foundation stephen moore talks about the u.s. economy under president trump. be sure to watch c-span's " washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> president trump spoke at a campaign rally in support of mike braun. the is running against senator joe donnelly. the president spoke for about an inr and 17 minutes evansville, indiana. ♪ [chanting] >> usa usa usa usa [applause] pres. trump: evansville, you are very, very special people, and thank you, indiana. thank you. we had great success in indiana, as you know. it was an incredible experience. we really honor you, very, very special people. thank you very much. and i know you well, you love our country. you are proud of our history, and you always respect our great american flag. [applause] [chanting] >> usa! usa! usa! pres. trump: this is a really incredible time for your country. this is a truly amazing period of time. we have t

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tim, the president, and especially bill and the press club for hosting this event. breathtaking offer of for austinmbership especially and for ourselves and we are looking forward to the day he can collect on that. thank you so much. margo. she got a big hug. the other guys did not get hugs. s hereare so many people tonight that we have a special relationship with. i do not want to try to name everyone. it has been a long day and there are a lot of names, but thanks to all of you. thanks to everyone for being here. as margo said and as we say frequently in interviews, videos, articles, the support of the media for one of their own who is in a terrible situation is incredibly important. spreading awareness. we have had a number of officials, senior officials from our government and other governments tell us they are letters, thehe phone calls, the tweets, the articles. it makes them aware that it is not just mom and, the dad and some of their very important and powerful friends making this rallying call. when they believe it is the andic, the american public frankly

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coming up friday morning, syndicated radio talk show host bill press with his new book detailing whates of the trump presidency. then the heritage foundation stephen moore talks about the u.s. economy under president trump. be sure to watch c-span's " washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> presint

i do want to thank all of the speakers we have had especially bill in the press club for hosting this event for their breathtaking offer of honorary membership for austin especially, and for ourselves. we are looking forward to the day when he can come and collect on the thank you so much. again, to all of you, to marco, she got a big hug, there's so many people here tonight that we have a special relationship with. again, i don't want to try to name everyone, it's been a long day and there are a lot of names. but think you to everyone for being here. as marco said and we say frequently and interviews and videos and articles, the support the media for one of their own was in a terrible situation is incredibly important. spreading awareness, we have had a number of officials, senior officials from our government and other governments tell us that they are impacted by the letters, phone calls, tweets and articles it makes them aware that it is not just mom and dad and some of their important and powerful friends making this rallying call, when they believe it is the public, the american

hours after saying he believes in a free press bill diblasio had his bodyguards physically remove newreporter trying to ask a press question about his many meetings with lobbyists and continuing to take shots at fox news. >> you would rather not have the new york post or fox news exist? >> it is a free country. i am saying because we exist we have been changed for the worse. ed: nancy pelosi is blaming the media for the divide over her. >> in bc has been on the jag, priorities to undermine my prospect as speaker. ed: more evidence of the democratic party's shift to the left. according to a new gallup poll democrats view socialism more positively than capitalism. 57% hold a positive view of socialism, 47% viewed capitalism positively which is lower than any of gallup's previous measures of the same pole. let's discuss it with mike huckabee. good evening, sir. >> great to be with you. ed: what does that poll tell you? >> the whole idea about socialism and people who supported only one group of people support socialism over capitalism, the people who don't get up until noon, don't wake t

press. as andrea said, bill clinton loathed the press. >> he really -- it -- >> barack obama had very little use for the press. always thought they got it wrong. that's what presidents do. they just -- like the geico commercial. the guy scores the soccer goal, he's on his knees around the stadium. that's what they do. what presidents do, they hate the press. they can't stand the pres. but they don't try to whip their audiences into a frenzy to hate the press. and point fingers. and do what donald trump is doing. >> well, i mean, he has effectively changed the culture around coverage of his presidency. and you saw it vividly last night on display again in florida. we have seen it every time. it's worked for him. the upsetting factor is that you see the pictures on tv. specifically last night's pictures. from florida. and, this is an administration and a president who has presided over effectively orphaned over 700 children today. who don't know where their parents are. they're here in the united states. because they were separated from the

it is not about the press and the press secretary but about the president of the united states. he devolved in a very personal. >> bill the white house press corps. you brought up a comedian who -- i'm the first press secretary of the history of the united states that required secret service protection. i felt a lot of emotion in her response there yesterday. she was affected by this. >> it's a stretch to say that jim acosta is responsible for michelle wolf's joke at the white house correspondents dinner. she took the moment very personally and not over it, fair enough. everyone has the right to feel that way. >> that's why most americans i think are justifiably fed up with the media because they have this self-righteousness that acosta was beaming with yesterday about how we are above everything and you have to treat us -- forget about it. the press corps sometimes gets down and dirty and sometimes they get it dead wrong. you accept that. you go way back and find out it was even tougher. >> that conversation seems like it should be happening down the hall. >> bill: ivanka trump did an interview. she was asked is the

for all of his dust trust with the press, bill clinton's administration was generally easier to find people to talk to generally relay information. there were scandals and during the lewinsky scandal, bill clinton would tell different aides different things it seemed as if he couldn't quite remember who he told what to. that's a standout. but more often than not, there was a concern among his staff about their own credibility and the information they were imparting to reporters. the bush white house, which i did not cover, has been described by colleagues who did as almost hermetically sealed, incredibly difficult and hard to penetrate. in the day-to-day there was not really misinformation, but a lot of inaccessibility. the obama white house was a combination of these traits. the on the one hand they tried to focus on the i a-- appearance of more transparent administration and on the other hand they did more than they acknowledged. i spoke to an obama white house official who i had approached to confirm a story that the person claimed was entirely wrong simply because one detail was

his behavior by saying in relation to the homosexual angle of the fire and began to be pressed by journalists named bill russian status, he was pressed by the journalist about a homosexual and his son was i was not aware of any lack of concern in the community. the roman catholic church in a city so catholic the archbishop was called new orleans denied several catholics who perish, perhaps participating in what were called mortal sins are very rights in some cases and decline to permit the public memorial memorial to be held at st. louis cathedral, the city's holy basilica. then it was the archbishop seemingly moved by guilt did speak up weeks later in a column of the archdiocese catholic newspaper, a tiny paragraph attached to one of his columns on human rights and in the smallest of techs after a page of a 100 words, i couldn't believe it but in 1973 archbishop hannah did speak about the upstairs lounge and he surprisingly revealed the correct number of dead andthe fact that the fire seemed intentional . this was a man who'd been following the news closely . reports of the police inquiry can name a cu

he conceded the failure to get an infrastructure bill which i pressed him on which is something he promisedf his role in the white house, would be a problem potentially if they don't get action on it. so i think he sees himself as a person who obviously has had a big public falling out with the president, but still is a self-proclaimed avatar of trump populism and cultural economic, as he puts it, quote-unquote, war that is going to play out in these mid terms either way. >> we're going to hear more of the interview later. ari, thanks very much for joining me. the host of the beat. make sure to watch the interview tonight. it will be on at 10:00 p.m. eastern. ari is fill in for lawrence o'donnell only here on msnbc. >>> and that wraps up this hour of msnbc. i'm ali velshi. you can find me on twitter, instagram and snapchat. "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. /s >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump today sought to put his base on a war footing against the men and women investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. and for donald trump, th

of republicans agree with the president that the press is out there trying to get him and is an enemy. that's troubling. republican or democrat, what billision for protection its of a free and vigorous and partisan press is absolute in a democracy to produce informed citizens. >> so important. bill you said the "wall street journal" did not participate and neither did the "new york times." they wrote this: the "new york times" decided not to participate. it writes: >> bill? >> i think the "new york times" made an excellent point on that. i think it's a big yawn and in a couple of days it it will be gone. i think president trump would have been on firmer ground if he said the press may be the enemy of donald trump but not the american people. with juan and i have, i am like the good witch. >> [laughing]. >> and there are other ones. people don't always believe that. i think it's a stunt. what i am more interested in it the vigorous defense of the first amendment rights for everyone. >> the president's words. he tweeted this, juan: >> honesty coming from this president. one challenge that president trump has with the press, he will say th

state and presidents speaking out for a free press even when they have been angry for the press, certainly billence, jimmy carter at times, certainly w. bush as well as with perhaps better reason, bush the father, angry. and ronald reagan, angry at us. but they always had news conferences, had organized interactions with the press, not just off-the-cuff interactions when they chose to. and they never barred reporters from publicly covered events as this president has. >> that's right. relationships with other presidents, other politicians, have certainly gotten antagonistic but we haven't seen anything like this. the president is not someone, even when he goes abroad, he doesn't go abroad to export democratic or american values there. the irony, as you point out, of the president really going after the media and really not standing up for them or even the first amendment is that he more than any modern politician is a creation of the media. in a lot of ways, president trump doesn't exist without the media. so as much as he attacks us and, you know, recently barred a reporter from attending an e

. >>> joe lockheart, former white house press secretary under bill clinton is using the national spotlightnt trump and question mr. trump's credibility. this is a guy who worked for bill clinton. listen to what lockheart said on the fake news network known as cnn. >> this has never happened before. we've had great presidents. we've had terrible presidents. republicans and democrats. but we've never had anything like this, where a president, we have a president who is incapable of telling the truth. lou: that's an ironic position for lockheart to take coming from the clinton administration. lockheart apparently forgot about his old boss, president clinton, lied about and later admitted to, well, affairs and that sort of thing. you remember the details. no need to burden anyone with that. >>> joining us tonight, ed rollins, former reagan white house political director, great america pac chairman, fox business analyst and savant. michael goodwin, savant, pulitzer prize-winning columnist, fox news contributor. >> thank you. lou: little irony, michael, lockheart comes out of obscurity to talk a

told that actually the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the way bill much they primarily work with the press it's a professional tool they are using we had a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh on the program telling us the way the helmets were a propaganda organization in truth a man's father is obliged to speak in that way and he's not in total safety under the regime that has announced the assassination of eleven thousand convicts in the prisons over the last few weeks alone he is obliged to speak that way and i understand his position however we know that we have fulfilled our duty when we rescued his two sons from under the rubble after they were bombed by the syrian regime this is our duty and we do not expect thanks from anybody for fulfilling our duty towards our own people in syria as for the other journalists i don't know who they are the journalist that you are referring to those who have come up with such talk unless they are part of those journalists that create propaganda against the white helmets which have become known by the name we do not feel the need to respon

the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the way bill much they primarily work with the press is a professional tool they are using we had a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh on the program telling us the way the helmets were a propaganda organization in truth a man's father is obliged to speak in that way and he's not in total safety under the regime that has announced the assassination of eleven thousand convicts in the prisons over the last few weeks alone he is obliged to speak that way and i understand his position however we know that we have fulfilled our duty when we rescued his two sons from under the rubble after they were bombed by the syrian regime this is our duty and we do not expect thanks from anybody for fulfilling our duty towards our own people in syria as for the other journalists i don't know who they are the journalist that you are referring to those who have come up with such talk unless they are part of those journalists that create propaganda against the white helmets which have become known by the name we do not feel the need to respond

told us actually the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the way bill much they primarily work with the press it's a professional tool they are using we had a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh on the program telling us the way the helmets were a propaganda organization in truth a man's father is obliged to speak in that way and he's not in total safety under the regime that has announced the assassination of eleven thousand convicts in the prisons over the last few weeks alone he is obliged to speak that way and i understand his position however we know that we have fulfilled our duty when we rescued his two sons from under the rubble after they were bombed by the syrian regime this is our duty and we do not expect thanks from anybody for fulfilling our duty towards our own people in syria as for the other journalists i don't know who they are the journalist that you are referring to those who have come up with such talk unless they are part of those journalists that create propaganda against the white helmets which have become known by the name we do not feel the need to respon

bill, always comes in -- coming to the rescue. stop the presses. we worked through the weekend and with the help of carl and bill we got photographs and crucial documents and we were able to fill in a couple more pieces of the puzzle that had been a mystery for 73 years at this point. that was one of several times in the past and it always happened at the end right before they were due. >> all of those things give us something new to make this book the book that tells the whole indianapolis story and that's one example of how that came to be. >> absolutely and we wanted a book with two major movements of the story. one is the exoneration of captain mcvay and the exoneration really occurred in three distinct phases. one was survivors having their first reunion. they hadn't seen each other for 15 years. you may know that world war ii guys weren't out there trying to get on the cover of "people" magazine. they weren't trying to get -- no twitter, no facebook. they risked their lives. many of them struggled. they struggle with alcoholism and struggled h

hours after saying he believes in a free press, new york city mayor bill de blasio had his bodyguardstialed new york post reporter who tried to ask them, yes, a press question about his administration's many meetings of lobbyists. de blasio also continuing to take shots at fox news. >> you'd rather not have "the new york post" are fox news exist? >> look, it's a free country. i am saying that because they exist, we've been change for the worst. >> ed: for the worst. meanwhile, house speaker nancy pelosi is blaming the media for the divide over her leading the party. >> i know they've been on this drag, one of their priorities, to undermine my price, that is despicable. >> ed: more evidence of the democratic party's shift to the left. according to a new gallup poll that, democrats view of socialism is more positive than native capitalism. 57% pulled a positive view of socialism. only 47% view capitalism positively, which is lower than any of gallup's previous three measures of the same poll. let's discuss it with a former arkansas governor, fox news contributor mike huckabee. good even

if bill clinton stood up in the white house press office in 1995 and said, i think janet reno should fire ken starr, we would all, everyone would have had a ka nipgs. it would have been the obvious thing in the world. it is now 2018. this is the equivalent of bill clinton standing up in the white house press office saying janet reno should fire ken starr when donald trump does it to his twitter followers, tens of millions of them, it's the same thing. >> you know, i figured out all the reporting you and your colleagues have done about all of the white house staffers that have gone into mueller's investigation offices and testified to all of what john heilman just detailed. hope hicks has been with mueller's investigators. reince priebus has testified, steve bannon has testified. there are witnesses to everything everyone is talking about. the firing of jim comey, the desire to fire jeff sessions, the desire to fire bob mueller. what is the purpose served? is it simply to sort of play the last card that they're holding or the last chip to carry over heilman's poker analysis and say al

told us actually the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the way bill much they primarily work with the press it's a professional tool they are using we had a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh on the program telling us the way the helmets rip up again the organization in truth a man's father is obliged to speak in that way and he's not in total safety under the regime that has announced the assassination of eleven thousand convicts in the prisons over the last few weeks alone he is obliged to speak that way and i understand his position however we know that we have fulfilled our duty when we rescued his two sons from under the rubble after they were bombed by the syrian regime this is our duty and we do not expect thanks from anybody for fulfilling our duty towards our own people in syria as for the other journalists i don't know who they are the journalist that you are referring to those who have come up with such talk unless they are part of those journalists that create propaganda against the white helmets which have become known by the name we do not feel the need to respond

bills. the press doesn't like to talk about that.as strong on the fact that they had to pay. i said no, the united states is not going to be paying your bills. with that i'm having a good time. ainsley: guys, what's your take away from that. brian: a couple things. everything is describing is not about him it's the country. trump organization doesn't get bigger. they don't get anything -- what he is like to do is make it safer, grow the economy, is he trying to make our allies act like true allies. partnership. we are on the threshold of cutting a deal with mexico. canada has been watching. nafta deal. china is here trying to renegotiate. ask yourself, what's his benefit? none personally, he gave away his salary. is he doing it to rebalance american trade. that's what people like. steve: you look at all that good news that he feels is not being covered and that's why he feels like -- that's where fake news came from. in people. interesting to describe that chunk as 80%, which he apparently thinks is fake news. is not accurate. is not

might recognize that last name from last month's helsinki summit when putin singled out bill browder during his joint pressmp. also russian dissent, vice chairman of the pro democracy group open russia. this is not a topic the three of us noernlally tarmally talk abo think it's important to understand a new angle to john mccain. bill, when you were looking to get the magnitsky act first passed, you gravitated to john mccain because you thought his history, having been tortured, as was sergei magnitsky, might make him a natural ally. >> in order to get a law passed in washington, you need a democrat and you need a republican. senator benjamin cardin, democrat, agreed to co-sponsor the bill and he said find me a republican. so i looked down the list of republicans and john mccain's name just jumped off the list. he had spent five years being tortured in a vietnamese prison camp. i thought if there's one person who would sympathize with sergei magnitsky being tortured for 358 days in a russian prison, it would be john mccain. sure enough, when i sat down with john mccain and i took him through the story, i ha

press. >>> up next we visit the home where bill and hillary clinton were married in the ozark mountains and learn how this house helped kick-start the career of america's 47th president. >> welcome to fayetteville, arkansas. we're at the clinton house museum just a little south of the university of arkansas campus. this house was built in 1931 by a local man named scottie taylor. would have been on the outskirts of town at that time during the depression, so this would have seemed like a fancy house for that era. the clintons actually bought this house in 1975 and did a little bit of remodeling, but for the most part the house is entirely original to 1931. the house became a national historic register property in 2010, and the street became clinton avenue in 2010 as well. this is the living room. this is the famous room where bill clinton and hillary rodham were married in front of this big window in 1975. bill bought this house while hillary was out of town, actually, and surprised her with it. she came back from visiting friends and family for six weeks, and he said, i bought that house y

one senior white house official, who indicated communications aides, including press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and bill shine, the newly names deputy chief of staff, have discussed the optimum times to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycles. wednesday trump canceled the security clearance for former cia director john brennan, one of his harshest critics. brennan joined rachel maddow this evening. in a moment we'll show you his reaction to trump's latest moves. brennan, who is a senior national security and intelligence analyst for msnbc and nbc news, was one of the first officials to sound the alarm on russian meddling in the 2016 election. this week the white house also threatened to take away security clearances for several other former top intelligence and law enforcement officials with links to the russia investigation, raising concerns trump could make a similar move against special counsel robert mueller. this morning the president again expressed his frustration with the russia inquiry. >> look. i say it, i say it again. that whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a t

. >> bill maher takes the "meet the press" talking heads around a table and says the [ bleep ] that no to say and does it in an entertaining way. >> let us know which one of these bloated ticks on america's hide needs to be burnt off with the mighty cigarette of democracy. >> mostly comedians try to stay in the middle so they can appeal to both sides, but bill is fearless. >> i think colin powell could be the guy, if he wanted to, to run against obama, boy, that would make russia's head explode, two black -- >> he's got a point of view. it's not a straight line. he's not just a straight up lefty. he does criticize both sides. >> sweet grandma hillary, she would have done fine in 2008, but this year, the voters respect in the mood for steady as she goes. they're pitch fork angry and they don't want america's nicest grandma. >> you've been tough on president obama, too. >> yeah, that's my job, to hold their feet to the fire no matter what party and who is in power. >> he is as loved as he is hated. he's doing it right. >> jon stewart changed the face of late night comedy in america. and

--now everyone will hate me i was a serious bill clinton supporter. pressputhe on the republicans for the impeachment of bill clinton reflected, he ended up 62% approval rating, they could backfire on the guy. a little more low-key on the impeachment. get into office and then taken down. -- take him down. cap the from north carolina, i applaud you, she is right on the money -- kathy from north carolina. host: andrew is in white plains, new york. caller: i think there is no way we can avoid it, trump has associated himself so completely with the populist wing of the republican party -- this midterm election will be a referendum, as well as the direction of the republican party. there was a previous lady from alabama making an issue about kids being taken away from the parents and trying to compare them to people in this country going to jail. people in central and south america coming up here are trying to get away from all conditions of crime and oppression, trying to find a better life for themselves and their family. to make that kind of comparison is so

bill and hillary clinton were skeptical of the press. they found themselves under the scrutiny of the press through the campaign continuing the , white house, and as i said, it is probably a symptom in terms of the frustration of the media as well as the investigation s that began and it never stopped. their complaints, while aggressive, were a little more routine. acknowledgedmately -- i do not know whether they believed it or not, but they said it -- the advantage to the role of a free press of a democratic institution, the importance of it. the bush white house does the same, and so did the obama white house. although, i think it was problematic. all presidents think that the press is undermining them it is , an adversarial process. mr. trump believes you can choose your own news cycle, you can choose your own newsfeed, you can decide what you are going to get, because we have not necessarily helped him along the way. but we have never had a president who has characterized the press as not just disliking him, but not liking america. w

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press. >> as a senator, senator john kennedy appeared on the tonight show. bill clinton appeared on mtv. and richard nixon is here on 1968. you wrote about that. why was that a significant moment in pop politics? >> it is significant we put in context of richard nixon's evolution. in 1960, he saw bobby kennedy as appearing on television show in a talk show format. is i'm hobnobbing with hollywood celebrities. it is how he prepared his campaign. he turned his celebrity to gain political power. he was able to do that on the primary chair -- trail. and stayed with him throughout the 1968 election. nixon actually used that tactic against kennedy. he said that he was perceiving g publicity. when nixon lost the 1968 election and then years later, the governor's race in california, he took some time to figure out why. what went wrong. he studied what he had done. he also studied ronald reagan and in the nixon library, their boxes of research that he did on ronald reagan. he observed that reagan was really effective at using television to connect it to the emotions of voters. there is a really c

you are a multinational company that does business in the u.s., you will be hard-pressed to take the risk. thank you, bill up next, president trump takes a swipe at attorney general jeff sessions in a heated tweet. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets balance of power. of major: a check averages. u.s. stocks trading at session lows. the s&p 500 is down .3%. and industrials are leading to clients. the nasdaq is down .2%. markets still weighing the crisis in turn it as it spreads and we are seeing market to market currencies taking a hit. >> president trump continues to criticize his attorneys general over the weekend saying jeff sessions is scared stiff and missing in action. we welcome a republican strategist who worked at the presidential campaign. today from us lancaster, new york. good to have you here. why is jeff sessions still running the justice department? the president has the right to dismiss him and he keeps tweeting about how unhappy he is with him. >> i look back during the investigation of bill clinton the criticisms leveled by the white house and their surrogates outside th

machall and putin are scheduled to meet for what is billed as extensive talks at the german government's guest house near violin the two leaders meet the press only before not after their meeting just another indication that no real breakthrough is expected on any of the topics on the agenda at the same time there's a recognition on both sides that with donald trump in the white house shaking up the rules of international politics they need each other even more than they used to. suck it is now and the german cup kicks off this weekend giving lower tier teams the chance for glory against the big name side the first round features one such match up. who were once one of the good champions but are now languishing in the third division take on top tier heavyweights hoffenheim and they're hoping for a very big. these players are kaiserslautern legends they were all part of a powerhouse club and part of germany's world cup winning team in one thousand nine hundred fifty four nowadays the squad has players with the best second division experience more than twenty players left when kaiserslautern dropped into the third tier the end of last season i

bill: make sense of these headlines. one of them. "new york times." president admits focus of trump tower meeting was getting dirt on clinton. "new york times." "washington post". have another one from the associated press. trump acknowledged purpose of

andso bill, always coming to the rescue, went over there and called -- star remarks stop -- sara, stop the presses so we worked through the weekend, with the help of carl and bill, we got photographs of crucial documents and were able to fill in a couple 0 more pieces of the puzzle that had been a mystery for 73 years at this opinion, and that was one of the several times this happened, and always happened at the end, like right before things were due. and we were like, we have three months. >> yeah. >> so, we -- all of those things -- we prayed for, give us something new to make this book really the book that tells the whole indianapolis story, and that is one example of how that came to be. >> absolutely. and then the way we wind up the book with two major movements of the story. one is the exoneration of captain mcvay, and the exoneration effort really occurred in three dink phasesment one was the survivors had their first reunion in 1960. they not seen each other for 15 years, and many of you may know that world war ii guys weren't out there, trying to get on the cover of "people" magazine, th

of this country knew about biased press and wanted a free marketplace of ideas and it was so important to them that it was the first thing that they wrote in the bill of rights was the the rights of the pressure not be infringed the president is free to criticize the press all he wants but to label them in a domestic threat it is unacceptable this is a message that from the president of the united states is going to resonate in beijing in ankara and moscow and you know every capital around the world that it's ok to treat the press as as a domestic threat and that that's unacceptable and want are you what is the boston globe hoping that today's coordinated action the editorials across the nation defending press freedom what are you hoping that this is going to achieve. well we're definitely not going to get an apology from mr trump nor are we expecting one wasn't this is already succeeded beyond our wildest expectations what it's done for us is several things first it's really put a granular nuanced view of the first amendment in the united states if you read through his editorial they all come from small towns and cities some bigger cities as well

machall and putin are scheduled to meet for what is billed as extensive talks at the german government's guest house near violin the two leaders meet the press only before not after their meeting just another indication that no real breakthrough is expected on any of the topics on the agenda at the same time there is a recognition on both sides that with donald trump in the white house shaking up the rules of international politics they need each other even more than they used to. well found more on this now as a political scientist at the institute for security policy at germany's q university specializing in russia relations and he joins us here in studio for more on these talks now as we know i mean it seems like it's pragmatic politics and actually you don't necessarily have to like one another to work together is that a fair assessment. of the question arises. why this the summit is actually taking place at all since everybody seems to agree that no a breakthrough or no significant agreements are going to be concluded and the answer i think it to that would be twofold one is that the german government wants to be seen to be gauged in di

bill: elon musk a in his last press conference when he asked about not receiving quarterly per turns -- returns, he does not want to be held accountable for the targets people think he should have. i think, frankly, tesla has been a company that has been a hope and financed by dreams and true believers. that might not be the best example any -- example of companies that need to have cover from the pressure of stock price volatility to carry out plans. one thing we realize is that there are a lot of initiatives talked about in a few days ago in the wall street journal that say we need to have a fair share were corporate boards have to have representation of workers and to make sure companies do more than maximize profits for the shareholders. those are the instances where companies are starting to say that is in the best interest of what we are able to do. more and more companies are saying no, we don't want to be in the public eye. many can run their companies much better without the pressure of the markets. scarlet: i hear what you're saying. if the sec changes something and makes i