. >> he played the racial card with the birther thing. he has been playing the cards on the right. >> american campaign slogan which people point out -- history of that -- here is the critical ings, it's not just this fridge group going mainstream, it's there's been several incidents of that. richard did the hail trump at ball room. it wasn't until "new york times" pushed him to denounce that. >> he plays the -- >> he played some cards to help get him to the white house. if he wants to bring the people together, he has to -- i done thi don't think -- >> i remember thinking this campaign was so ugly, he has to give an address to -- >> by the way, he wasn't against them, right. i'll say it. in his press briefing sean spicer said no matter what the president does his critics will say it's not enough. let's watch. >> he has been for the forceful with his denounceuation of people who seek to attack people because of their hate -- because of religion or gender or color of their skin. it's ironic that no matter how many times you talks about it

he's the birther guy.'t believe the media when it's telling him facts. >> good point. go back to the birther thing, the advent of fake news. >> be elected head crank of the birther theory to presidency and now surprised when he doesn't believe facts presented to him by several sources. just for a second don go with me. imagine all that happened with trump in the first month, obama in his first already would be out of the white house. >> heard someone erin or anderson, heard someone saying this is not out of the ordinary. all accept turmoil in every administration. i have lived through -- i was born when watergate, when the president left the white house on a helicopter. right? so anything is possible. from then on, i don't remember this much turmoil since then when it comes to an administration. >> no. there was nowhere -- just back to obama, nowhere near this much turmoil. obama couldn't make one false step. had to be always crisply dressed. think of trump the first couple of weeks gone to mar-a-largo to

but look, he brought that birther thing on himself. for not wanting to show up and look the media has been very aggressive and scrutinizing him as they should be. but you know, if he doesn't to want show up, don't show up. >> all right. greta, host of "for the record." who's coming up tonight by the way? give us a preview? >> we were talking a lot about north korea. i've been there three times, and they're creeping towards a nuclear weapon that they can miniaturize on a ballistic missile. that's what i think. and you know, president just spoke about it today. and he says he's going to do something, but what? no one has been able to figure this one out. no president has. this is a big problem for the nation and for the world. >> all right. that is for the record, 6:00 tonight, greta, thanks for taking a few minutes. >> thank you. >>> okay, and again, to repeat our top story, this hour on this show, kellyanne conway, counselor to the president, she said, that president donald trump has full confidence in michael flynn. his national secur

these people are putinists, putinism is the new birther movement. charles: yesterday, president trump talked about the attack on the jewish cemetery in st. louis, and today, vice president pence visited that cemetery. let's take a listen. >> there's no place in america for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-semitism. the people of missouri are inspiring the nation by your love and care for this place, for the jewish community in missouri, and i want to thank you for that inspiration, for showing the world what america is really all about. charles: let me get a quick reply from all of you guys what you just thought. katie, again, feels like vice president pence has been a superstar and i felt what he said, if you felt the honesty in that. >> let's hope the left can feel the honesty in that. they've wanted trump to be quote, unquote truthful and njetanyahu said it, trump said it, sean spicer said it, he is not anti-semitic and does not think this is anywhere near a good thing, of course he doesn't. they need believe to that. set the quest

people often go back to the birther thing, which was the advent of fake news. >> and we're now surprisedieve facts presented to him by several different sources. just go with me for a second. imagine all that's happened over trump's last month, during obama's time in office, he would already be out of office. >> some are saying it's not out of the ordinary, we always have turmoil at the beginning of every administration. i have lived through, i was born when watergate when the president left the white house on a helicopter. >> yeah, yeah. >> so anything is possible. from then on, i don't remember this much turmoil when it comes to an administration. >> yeah, to go back to obama, there was nowhere near this much. obama couldn't make one false step. trump meanwhile, the first couple weeks, he's gone to mar-a-lago to play golf. he's going to florida to have a rally. he doesn't have a policy to promote. i just want to see people have a good time. >> the vacationer in chief. he tweeted, the fake news meed is going crazy with conspiracy theories and and blind hatred. so he's calling new storie

it is the birther stuff. the birther stuff, that is what changed it all. you know, donald trump went after president obama, saying he didn't believe the birth certificate was real, he might have been born outside thein country, illegitimate president. when he did that, all of the p supporters, you know, fervent supporters of barack obama, hated him. and that has now expanded. does that sound crazy? >> they oppose the agenda. the open borders crowd, the environment -- >> bill: that is a small part of it. >> i think that is a large part of it.l: you lose on the merits of those arguments with the american people. the easiest way to make him ineffective is to demonize him, calling him a racist and a bigot. he could buy a puppy, he could play hide and seek with barron, he could transition to a woman -- >> bill: if he transitions to a woman, gutfeld knows he would regain some popularity. >> i would marry him. >> they would have demonized>> mitt romney, john mccain -- >> bill: but not like this. not like this. >> if you are a republican, you are evil, not wrong.

the whole birther movement and saying that barack obama was somehow illegitimate and raising the ideanot born in the united states and indeed born in kenya was something donald trump got started. he has a lack of credibility. i was glad to see he went to the museum today. it's a powerful place to be and it tells a really provocative story of this country and one we have to acknowledge and he should experience. >> jamaal, do you buy what the president is putting out there? >> progress is good if the president really means it. if he is actually taking this in and feels it and speaking out. the problem is there are so many people that pay attention to this president, not just the word that come out of his words but the tone of the words. he comes out against an opponent in a tough way pu then you ask him questions about anti-semitism and racism but he doesn't come out as forcefully as he should. i hope he spent some toime in te lynching part of the museum. the officials at the time who were sort of supportive of this mob rule, they were undermining the courts and the systems because they

>> frankly, i don't think there should be any thought of damage about the birther appointment. >> do you think this is going to take the heat off of you for appointing her? >> i answered that question. i'm not going to give you a different lead. >> that has a lot to do with it. mr. president, the birther appointment has a lot to do with the environment. >> i gave you my answer, andrea. >> the press secretary put his hand in front of the camera. then they turned off the lights a and then we tried it again. that's the way it was in 1984 over anne. >> he was in high school then. >> he was 17 years old. >> right. and i should say, one of the things that people say about judge gorsuch, whether they agree with his decisions or not, is that he doesn't have any of that killer instinct that his mother had. he's a very polite man. he's polite in his judicial opinions as well, which would be different than justice scalia. >> we did see him in pictures with his friend, tony -- justice scalia. he was fishing with justice scalia. they were very close. he called him a lion of a supreme court. so th

all of those who said nothing when he was pushing his birth , hissm -- birtherism hate mexican hate,se like ryan who called his policies classic racism but then turned around to support a person that you just said is a racist. so we have seen this. i addition to thatn, we're seeing this violent political, violent policies. king once said denying people health care is a form of violence. we are seeing attacks on the poor, tax on immigrants, attacks of people that need health care. it has been attack, attack, attack him a attack. what president has done is he has spent more time tweeting and hurting and denying and lying and spreading hate than he has spent standing up and being a ststatesman. and not only making statements, because even at the african american museum, he was there and said that the museum could heal our division. not change in policies. he was at the museum talking about healing while his administration is lying about voter suppression and lying about voter fraud and not restoring photos -- voter rights. it is a season of hate and political violence. and we who believ

perhaps most nom prominently in 2012 when he led the birther movement. he never during that time provided any evidence of who that source was. today he also said, quote, very few people are covered by obamacare, when in fact since 2010 the number of people who were uninsured has dropped by 20 million. and the president also told the crowd at cpac about a line of people six blocks long waiting to get in. nbc news crews inside found the convention center at capacity of 4,000. crews outside did not see any lines. >>> there were peaceful protesters outside of the cpac venue. they went toe to toe with trump supporters today. but not in the way you might expect. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins live for us in national harbor to show us how the debate unfolded today. >> reporter: we were here just in case there were going to be large numbers of protesters and demonstrators. that's not what happened here. what we f people who were very peaceful in their protests. and then some members of -- some of the folks attending cpac came out, interacted

pick up on the reaction and you tune into the guys that way, that's how trump figured out the wall, birther, good stuff, wars, he picked up on the audience. how is he going to do that as president stuck in the white house. how is he going to keep sin k kraism with the ziet giet. ? >> without seeking discussions, he will be out and about. he loves to going to the rallies. he want want to spend time in the white house. he is moving around. every time he is out meeting ordinary people or important people or people in the media. he is something specific questions. that's his whole modus operandi. ignore some of the stuff he says, he comes from the show biz world, look at what he says, he has executive order to protect american jobs. give lhim a chance. >> thank you for coming on. i want to go back to the group. gene, doesn't pay attention to what he says. reporters -- he write down what we hear. >> you can't do that. you have to pay attention to the what the united states says. you have to of the you can't not pay attention to what the president of the united states says. you. >> you have to ta

he was the centerpiece of the birth removed meant -- birther movement and said the president was is illegitimate and not fit to be president. that african-american political power is inherently e illegitimate at the heart of political project of white supremacy. that is reconstruction and a river of blood that is with overthrew the government of first carolina but an important experiment that was overthrown by force by armed men guarding the ballot boxes and 90% in the constitutional amendment vice suspect not. they overthrew the government of the segregated south with a racial caste system after which we are still living with today. but in the 1950's one of the largest travers' came from mississippi were a 14 year-old boy was butchered like a hall of to violate the racial etiquette of the jim crow south this crisis that we are in close a steel answer the question will the defendant of the enslaved ever get equal justice for denying states of america? that is a very serious question mass incarceration. they murderer on film massive inequality. police violence the but it's and is connected to tha

saying they should not be unanimous sources when trump himself hid behind unanimous source claiming birther -- he didn't say who the source was. >> we're getting -- by the way, collecting the phone. i want to -- >> i think he is watched minute by minute. it's a nanny cam. >>> the roundtable will stick around. this is "hardball" where the action is. uhhh- and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy. so can you offer me what schwab is offering? what's with all the questions? ask your broker if they're offering $6.95 online equity tres and a saaction guantee. if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. this is not a screensaver.game. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ >>> i mentioned this before, in the middle of president trump's fight with the media, george w. bush to the rescue. the typically reclusive 43rd president was asked on the "today" show what he thought

they talk about the birther issue -- president obama played that for four years.ocus on the situation at hand. what do you make about what's going on with the michael flynn situation and how it is being handled by the white house? caller: i think they are trying to do the best they can with it. flynn should have been more upfront. everybody says sources say this or that -- if they say "sources, that is fake news. "sources tom cole that is fake news. "sources," that is fake news. you have the judicial system against do, the intelligent system against you, the hard left and hard right and congress -- think about a third-party. you can bring them together but you cannot bring the left and the right. "the washington times" whong it was nancy pelosi aned a tweet sent out by account posing as michael flynn -- from texas, let's hear from gloria independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. flynn lieddo believe to pence. he was following orders from president trump. campaign, there were rumors about the elections and everything. -- also, weas that all know that tr

you say douglas because this is general flynn was a birther. had tweeted some controversial themes. it appears this particular lieutenant general has none of them. >> that's right and time magazine in 2014 picked him as one of the most influential people going out there because he's rethinking the army. he's trying to bring it into the 21st century but somebody not afraid to speak truth to power. we saw that in his book "dereliction of duty." when he was able to go after some of the problems. so this is a solid pick for donald trump. >> general, big challenges. what are the biggest challenges for mcmaster? >> i would say the first thing that had h.r. needs to do is sit down with the president and say mr. president, let's right now determine what are the top three things that the united states must accomplish over the course of your term in office. let's start with the three thorniest issues. those i recommend would be russia, china and what are we going to do with radical islamic terrorism and how will that change over the course of time? let's not boil the ocean. let's really attac

every inch that liberals look down their nose at how so many people on the right wing believe this birtherisms out they're the same conspiracy theorists everyone i is. >> some people say at starbucks. >> what was he doing there, i wonder. >> tom: he is friends with jason bourne. i wouldn't count him out. >> you understand that's a fictional character? you mixed up your worlds. very important to keep those separate. >> mixing up fantasy in the real world. >> i'll tell you what, if i were moby, and my friends in d.c. in the intelligence community were telling me there's all these plots against the president, i would probably ask why they are telling me that. [laughter] that's kind of your job. if someone's trying to take down the president, let's tell buzzfeed. >> tom: people like to talk. in the entertainment business, when you're on the set, there must be people talking about stuff like this. >> a lot of chatter, as they say in the intelligence community. that's one of the problems, everybody is an expert now. we call it a dose -- i'm pretty sure they're using this weird russian term that the

started with birtherism. talked about banning muslims and voter fraud and coded language. where the voting fraud is. this is a dangerous time. added to that, all of the attacks on voting rights which is why our people are marching this coming saturday in raleigh for the march of resistance in raleigh challenging all of these things together. gerrymanderi gerrymandering, muslim ban, the building of the walls. we have to be vigilant. this is a dangerous time for voting rights, civil rights. >> reverend barber, you've couched this as a moral battle, not really a left right battle. i want to read a little bit back to you of the op-ed. you wrote this about donald trump at the national prayer breakfast. you said that millions of americans feel the awkward silence of so-called faith leaders as they listen to a braggart drone on. essentially the world is a mess i'm here to fix this. idolatry is what the bible has a name for it. do you believe they're standing down in the face of trump. >> some are. we've had more than 10,000 religious leaders that actually challenge trump and wrot

it's interesting, you said, douglas, this is general flynn, was a birther, tweeted some controversial things. it appears this particular lieutenant general has none of that. >> that's right, and time magazine in 2014 picked him as one of the 100 most influential people going out there. why would they pick him? he's rethinking the army, trying to bring it into the 21st's century, someone who's not afraid to speak truth to power. we saw that in dereliction of duty, when he was able to go after the problems the u.s. army had during the vietnam war about this is a solid pick for donald trump. >> what -- big challenges. what are the biggest challenges for mcmaster that he faces in this new post. >> i would say the first thing that h.r. needs to do, he needs to sit down with the president and say, mr. president, let's determine what are the top three things the united states must accomplish over the course of your term in office, let's start with the three thorniest issues, those i recommend would be russia, china and what are we going to do with radical islamic terrorism in the form of isi

but i do want to reiterate, our president was a birther, which is racist and un-american, and we have the white house, and they've conflatted refugees with terrorism, and they are picking on transgender people, and it's not a joke and it's very upsetting. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: i can tell. i can tell. i agree. this is how upsetting it is -- i want to point out, in the last 24 hours, 24 hours, bradley whitford, you have posted 70 political tweets. ( laughter ) which i believe you can get a prescription for. here's one you posted. afraid you might be share ago public bathroom with person? you're not a patriot, you're a coward. ( applause ) trump is like having someone pilot a jet who has never flown before who thinks planes are stupid. ( applause ) just breathe. breathe. you haven't tweeted during this interview yet, have you? >> i'm tweeting with my thigh. >> stephen: wow. how do you do that? that's a very talented kegel you're doing. ( laughter ) now, you were deputy chie chieff staff josh lyman on "thw west wing." >> yes, i was ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: what do

>> my point to birtherism and say he did come out before election day and said president obama was bornhat's the only example that comes to my mind of a statement that he corrected. >> that's true. if you saw that press conference, it was incredibly reluctant, rushed and immediately followed by another attack. >> do you worry that talking about his psychology, do you worry it further causes divisions in the country. makes it impossible for the people who voted for him to want to hear you out? >> of course they do. god knows i wish i weren't here having to say this. no one wants to be here saying this. i don't want to believe the president of the united states just delusional or cannot accept reality. of course not. it pains me. it gives me great pain and concern about distress. at some point being a writer or journalist requires one to say what one is seeing in front of one's eyes and sometimes you have to say that in plain english. >> you don't see any alternative explanations for his behavior? >> well, i do think his ego is involved. he wants not to seem as if he's gotten something wr

. >> no love lost at that point in time because donald trump, one of the original birthers, spearheading that effort to get president obama to release his birth certificate. so, ryan lizza, what do you make of this? it almost seemed as if there was no way that donald trump, if he really did want to put the press in this role as being so in opposition to him, it didn't really seem that it would make sense for him to attend this dinner. >> yeah, i was in the room that night and that was one of the most vicious roastings i've ever seen. it was one of the reasons i thought that trump my want to go this year is to return to that dinner and sort of come full circle as the conquering hero of the dinner. look, after the last month of trump's statements about the press defining the media as the enemy of the american people, mocking the first amendment this week at cpac, as you pointed out, brianna, accusing reporters of making of sources with no evidence, i don't think that that dinner was the appropriate forum for the president and the president. there's a moment in that dinner where everyone st

we just heard from the president himself about now bussing people across state lines to -- back to birthere is this coming from? there's a lot of very strange stuff going on and that's a real part of the story. >> carl is asking people to be objective and look through -- that's tough when the country is so polarized right now. i'm sure many, not all of his supporters, will say he's had a great couple of weeks but objectively, a lot of missteps. it's hard for people to do that in this environment. >> it is. any unbiased observer would say at very least been chaotic. but at the same time lot of his core voters sent donald trump to washington to break it, reform the system. lot of the controversies that seem chaotic if you follow the day-to-day news cycle actually look like evidence of a president getting pushback for intense reforms. >> but they didn't send him his surrogates and national security adviser to possibly -- or wrongdoing -- didn't send him to lie and tell falsehoods and make things up. >> absolutely not. if it turns out to be the case that general flynn did tell a lot of falseho

. >> this is birtherism all over again. he said millioany people agreed. that's not true. many have not supported the claim. we'll see how bill o'reilly handled the claim. in the meantime, with a pattern of misleading statements from the white house and the promotion of alternative facts, do television networks have to think twice about how and whether they interview trump aides. good morning. thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> do you think the networks have to rethink how the aides and officials are interviewed? >> absolutely. i've been a spokesperson on various campaigns. what we see is pattern. these are not a series -- this is not isolated incidents. it's a pattern of behavior. take kellyanne ta talking about. she said trump doesn't do personal insults. this is pattern of behavior. the number of visas impacted. all of these things taken collectively undermine our democracy. as someone who held this kind of position, while people exaggerate and some spin involved, these are out and out lies. >> do you agree? live television is hard, even taped interviews are har

this birtherism falsehood. trump himself was using unnamed sources. we saw with the priebus episode exactly how these unnamed sources sort of come about. priebus didn't deny cnn reporting. of course, it's sort of the play-by-play here. so, yeah, this is how white houses operate. they have background briefings. they some officials made available, as, quote, a senior official. >> and it's important to sale every leak is not classified that comes into the press. jack, reconcile those for me. the president saying they should not, speaking of the media, use sources unless they use their names. but we just put up the president, then citizen trump, commenting on an extremely credible source about the president's birth certificate calling it a fraud. >> i think part of it in public office, he gets frustrated on unnamed sources. it's not unique to the president, it's really to everybody in washington. but i do think his point about classified information coming from an unknown source. that's very scary. and it should be to all americans that if we do have with

take any responsibility, especially for president trump and the narrative that he gave birth to, the birtherve, of having the president to prove his own heritage and there was such consternation and the president walked a very fine line of having to balance what it meant to be the first african-american president and it just wasn't the first black president, he was everybody's president. >> he was everybody's president. but he was also a black man. he made a lot of promises to our community. and when mr. trump, donald trump, now president trump did that to president obama, i was very upset with it and i made republicans know that what he did was wrong and we would be in trouble for it. it would come back to haunt us. but we can't just say he was the president of all america, that is true, but he made a concerted effort to tell the community if we did not vote for hillary clinton that it would be an insult to his legacy. but he didn't do anything for us. that's the problem. he didn't do anything for us. and so although he was the president of all america, he used his influence in our communit

he was the leader of the birther movement.he did during his campaign, the way he talks about african-american communities, and he doesn't understand why race continues to be a problem in our country? he needs to take responsibility for his contribution. >> let's talk about the dnc chair race, which is all going to come to a head this saturday. president trump has tweeted, i guess, in support of or at least with a hat tip to keith ellison, one of the candidates in that race. why do you think he did that? who do you plan to vote for? >> well, i actually don't have a vote because i'm not on the dnc, but i have endorsed keith ellison. but let me just say that i think one thing that has been consistent about the president is that anybody that says anything that he conceives as positive toward him, then he has something to say. so, i doubt very seriously he endorses keith ellison. i think he just said keith ellison said he was likely to win the presidency. so, you know, who knows. >> who knows, fair enough. congresswoman bass of cal

for president obama, saw him as trying to delegitimize this president with every effort, with the birther even the other day saying i inherited a mess when when you look at what the former president inherited there's not even close to a mess. what do you say to those folks who say you know what, there's no way on earth i could work with a man who in their estimation has such disdain for african-americans? >> i sympathize. i understand their position. and i think in understanding their position as a republican i think it's critically important that we do what we can to remedy that. i think that's very, very important and i think we will begin to see policy changes that will do just that. >> do you regret writing this article? >> no, i do not. >> you know what? you're the exact kind of person that should be working for this white house and i hope they reconsider. it was a pleasure talking to you. >> thanks, my friend. i appreciated it. >> i enjoyed this conversation more than i've enjoyed a lot on this program lately. >> thank you. >> thank you for coming on. >> thanks, don. >>> up next, th

trump some years ago helped lead the birther effort to undermine the legitimacy of the first african-american president in our history, it was trying to divide us up, and what i say to the american people is stay focused. stay focused. do you want billionaires and wall street executives to be running this economy or do we want economic policies that work for working families and the middle class? where is the discussion about raising the minimum wage to a living wage. pay equity for women. >> let me ask you this, senator. we've seen a lot of anti-trump activism over the last three weeks. once again, every saturday of this presidency so far, we've seen some protests. there's a lot of energy in the progressive movement. but there is a lot of debate about what democrats should do about it. first of all, do you believe this is a tea party for the left and if so, what lessons did you learn in '09 that you think can be learned by the democrats now? >> no, it's not a tea party because the tea party was essentially defunded by the bill air koch brothers families. this is a grassroots uprising of the

sometimes, his kourgs corrections are messy, rather than apologize for say the birther issue or insulting a judge or apologize to a a gold star family, he stops talking about them. often these pivots take arguably way too long, but he does do it eventually. so ultimately, watch what the president does with this travel ban over the next week or longer. it may not match what he says or said today. i'm joined now by john ewe who served as a deputy district at the department of justice during the bush 43 years. he's a professor at uc berkeley and a scholar at the american enterprise. welcome to the show, sir. >> hey chuck, thanks for having me back. >> so i know that you've been looking at the ruling carefully, i'm curious of what you -- what you think of the white house decision right now. according to our breaking news that they want to instead, okay, go argue the order on the merits. go have a trial in federal court in washington. what do you make of that decision? >> that's good news for the country and the trump administration. it'd be better news if as you said earlier in your lead-in t

producers at other networks, before he'd go on the air he said we're not going to ask me about the birtherright? we're not going to talk about that tonight. the implication was if the anchor asked him about it, he wouldn't be back the next time. that gave him a measure of control. now these networks don't need trump. they don't even need kellyanne conway for their ratings. and i think the idea that she is somehow going to buffalo all these owners into firing a lot of pundits is notwithstanding joe wi george will's fate, i don't think it's going to happen because the countervailing force from trump critics out in the audience is very strong and if they start throwing people on the fire, they're going to hear about it from viewers. >> i'm off next week and i just want the world to know it's not because i will have been disappeared by the trump or putin army that deals with reporters. we're going to take a quick break. we're going to be right back. eat more fiber. flax seeds. yogurt. get moving. keep moving. i know! try laxatives. been there, done that. my chronic constipation keeps coming ba

birtherism. >> you're right. sorry. started with blacks. all of his rallies, recently tl there were people who were handicapped. >> let's go to my point here, how much of he -- how much of him is show? in other words, i wondered about the decision in the ninth circuit to say this is motivated by anti-muslim sentiment. i don't think he has any sentiment about anybody. he's all about trump, getting ahead where he wants to get, biggest guy in the history of -- every table, every restaurant, every kitchen table is talking about him. i think that's his goal, to be the biggest guy in the yuuniver. >> part of me wants to say he's 100% show but i know a lot of folks who know donald trump really well and, you know, i do these check-ins with them, tell me about who he is, what does he believe. >> sure. >> do you think this is fundamental to his ideology? when you talk about liberal causes, gay marriage and whatnot, they'll say, no, he doesn't really care. there is a threat in there about protecting, quote/unquote, america. and protecting the identity

where were sources on birther stuff and thousands of muslims?neil: by the way, the president did sign order, regulatory order and we will go right to it, but do you think that the strategy here is to -- to make people think twice about media, oh, yeah, trump use today say that they were going to focus on the negative. >> it works and steve bannon is behind this. i know steve bannon pretty well. neil: what did you think of him and priebus? >> ihought it was good. neil: i think as far as the two coceo's and now they're get ago long. >> rum or -- rumor that they didn't. neil: which is why they did it. >> i know president trump, i like him, but these are particularly president trump, these are the last people that should be talking about fake news because he -- he indulges fake news. neil: i do think -- maybe what he has to realize, then you have gotten elected when they say you wouldn't. you don't have anything to prove, you know what i mean? >> if he spent more time talking, rubbing it in the media's face that the dow is on a tear -- >> just say t

mainstream media are of the left they are giving more credibility to this than they ever gave to the birtherteve: members of the mainstream media we gave a sound bite to the guy at cnn jim accosta. he says the fix is in because yesterday the president called on cbn and town hall and not him. >> listen, i like jim accosta a lot. they shouldn't be disparaging very tough media that haven't asked tough questions of the president. just noit the questions the mainstream media has wanted. i can't blame the president when so many people in the media are invested of pushing the nazi narrative against him. steve: nazi narrative you are absolutely right. thank you for joining us today. so early on this hours morning. >> thank you u. steve: thank you, sir. meanwhile, in other news, two years after deadly isis attack in capital city isis crawling across the borders. president there took a move out of president trump's playbook. why. dr. nicole saphier is here. ♪ doctor, doctor ♪ wtz y282sy ywty mattress firmness? enter sleep number... she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. you can both adjust the be