brian stelter has information on that. what can you tell us, brian?noting spicer' not the only trump world spokesperson to resign in the past 24 hours. so much news lately, buried a little. mark kerala, spokesman for trump's outside legal team resigned last night. happy said really anything about this yet. he was close to mark castowitz. i'm not saying the two are connected but more signs of dysfunction. you know, look, he wasn't mocked on "snl" the way spicer was mocked by melissa mccarthy, wasn't high profile but another example of this dysfunction. >> and brian, do you have information about steve bannon and reince priebus sort of where they stand on how this is all shaking out? >> and i think we should make the point i think gloria and dana have as well, that according to multiple sources priebus and bannon were very concerned about the idea anthony scaramucci was coming in, taking a big role in the white house nap they fought this decision and ultimately the president went ahead and did it. >> brian stelter, thank you so much. so sean spicer, of

collins, jonathan le mere, also brian stelter and abbey, let me begin with you because i was watching scaramucci, all i kept thinking was of sade and "smooth operator." >> that's actually a great analogy for this moment. look, this is one of the main reasons why he's standing up at that podium today. when i talked to people, they say that in the last couple of weeks, the president has been watching him on television, and he likes what he sees. he sees him going out there, defending him very eloquently, doing it without missing a beat, and he likes the combativeness. it's something that the president wants in his spokesman. it doesn't hurt that scaramucci looks the part for this job. and all of that really matters at this point in time. beyond that, there's a pretty long standing relationship and a desire from the president to really give his white house a refresh. he doesn't think that he's getting the credit that he deserves for what's going on, and scaramucci gave voice to a lot of that today in the

and of course, brian stelter. that's all. just brian stelter.get hungry for uncooked pillsbury crescent rolls. [laughter] and now, the secret tapes that prove donald trump right.james o'keefe secretly taped that they russian story was of baloney. now there's more proof of thickness and there is the register! so now sanders criticized the media and got this reaction from a member of the press corps. >> we asked you questions and you are here to provide answers to what you deserve is inflammatory to people all of the country who want to see once again the president is right and everyone else here is fake media. and everyone in this room is like trying to do their job. [laughter] >> and nice touch with the chewing gum! [laughter] which they finally this guy? sleeping in an abandoned railcar? all of that is missing, pants made of burlap. or maybe a barrel and suspenders. so what is the proper way to handle the white house press corps? we sent - into the line again to show us how it is done. [video] >> what it is? first question. >> a lot of people a

brian stelter in the role of a lifetime as captain tattletale. with -- as laser. twitter justice.ause] >> anyway. if only it ended there. cnn then launched an investigation spending time and money going after a troll, a bad troll. but because he made fun of them. and when they found him, hundreds of the got the right guy. they probably paraded his scalp! but said, they would not name him unless he misbehaves again. basically, they held his future in their hand. seems like a threat. who does that remind you of? say what again! i dare you! i double dare you! >> that is just a joke, that is not real cnn. [laughter] you never know! why is this such a big deal? when joint corporate conference to expose a nobody in order to silence him, that is huge! it's like swatting a fly with a nuke. cnn got hacked for it not just for being stupid with being humorless to be adverse to stupidity. did they not realize that it wasn't real? it is pro wrestling. it is fake. sorry tyrus. but once again, cnn fell for fake news! [laughter] the humorless part, they could have left this up and moved on but no

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and a senior media correspondent, brian stelter, reports mr. trump's recent attacks are intensifying the debate over the tone this white house is setting. >> it has often been said that president trump's tweets are a window into his mind. a sense of what he cares about at any given time. and right now that window shows an intense interest in the media. we've seen anti-media tweets from this president in the past six days against the "washington post," "the new york times," the cast of the msnbc talk show "morning joe" and against this network, cnn. the president has been railing against what he says is unfair coverage, labeling all of it fake news. these real newsrooms have responded in a variety of ways. including this statement from cnn on sunday about that wwe video, that wrestling video showing the president punching a man with a cnn logo on his face. cnn responded saying, "it is clearly -- it is a sad day when the president of the united states encourages violence against journalists. clearly, sarah huckabee sanders lied when she said the

steve moore is a retired special supervisory agent for the fbi and brian stelter is host of cnn's "reliable sources." good to see all of you. okay. so president trump, you know, head eight broad while his administration is reeling from this tumultuous week in washington. i want you all to listen to how much of this is being interpreted through the views of the iraqi prime minister. >> the america -- the americans need to speed up to get back to their international power, former international power. >> so, tim, are world leaders second guessing whether this president can be embraced as a global leader with all that seems to be transpiring? tweets, investigations, and all? >> we don't have to engage in a guessing game to answer that question, fredricka. we just have to listen to what not just the vice president of iraq is saying but what angela merkel of germany has said, what macron is saying in france. there is a sense around the world that our president is distracted. and, you know, every day we are reminded of presidential inattention with these tweets. shouldn't care about what's happeni

let's take a look what cnn's host of "reliable sources" brian stelter. a lot happened.nd scaramucci in. how would you describe the decisions to shift the team? >> one of the most difficult week in the trump's administration six and a half months so far. i remember in school the report cards i would get as a kid the grade i feared most was when the teacher would write "needs improvement." not even a letter grade but needs improvement. i think where we are with the communications job after scaramucci and sanders leading the way. a lot of self-inflicted news. the interview with the new yorker being the most prominent example. ryan said he tape recorded the interview where scaramucci went on that rant and labeled it insane scaramucci interview. what is what ryan said. >> i got off the phone and i needed to talk to someone about it because he was, frankly, the most insane conversation i had ever had with a government official. i downloaded the recordings from my recorder into my computer and i haven't told anyone this but i named it insane scaramucci interview because it was

thank you both much. >> thanks. >> watch brian stelter on "reliable source" at 11:00 a.m.astern on cnn. >>> this morning, a military official says a u.s. navy warship sailed near a disputed island in the south china sea. china claims these waters. but the u.s. disagrees. this comes just hours before president trump speaks with the leader of china. >> rick francona says demonstrations like this show power for the u.s. any time is there a claim we don't recognize we generally send aircraft or navy warships into that area. but we are very scrupulous about maintaining the proper international protocols. we don't sail into waters we don't recognize. we are telling the rest of the world and the chinese we don't recognize your claim to these waters and we are going to demonstrate our right to be there. not only our right but anybody's right to be there. we try not to make these provocative but they can be. at times, it has led to military confrontation. >> this is the second time the navy has performed this operation since president trump took office. >>> we know name and seeing

>> let's talk it over with our brian stelter. president trump often praises fox news and is watching "fox and friends." what do you think it means for the white house when you have people on fox news like shep smith and conservative minds criticizing the president and his family how they handled this latest don junior meeting. >> i think shep smith is the exception to the rule. shep smith and chris wallace, there are a number of news anchors and kmerts in the conservative media universe who have expressed real concern about the misleading statements and it is falsehoods that have come out of the white house. for the most part, most of the trump friendly hosts on cable television have stayed firmly behind the president and his family, so firmly that it can be comical at times saying this could be a plot set up by the democrats. how effective would that have been. we've seen a lot of different conspiratorial theories presented by conservative media hosts, explanation for don junior's shifting statements. that moment from shep smith

here's brian stelter. >> reporter: this anti-cnn video from the president of the united states has becomene of his most popular tweets ever. this is unlike anything we've really ever seen from president trump or any american president for that matter. he's taken a video that seems to have come from the pro-trump message boards of reddit and shared it on his own platforms to millions of fans. it is an escalation in his longrunning war against the media. that includes "the new york times," "the washington post." recently the cast of "morning joe" and this network. cnn released a statement on sunday responding to this twitter video saying, quote, it is a sad day when the president of the united states encourages violence against reporters. the statement referenced deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders' recent comment that the president has never encouraged violence in any form. cnn's statement said, quote, clearly sanders lied when she said the president had never done so. instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meet with vladimir putin, deal with north korea and workin

joining me now, cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter. we also are seeing from the health and human services secretary that he's implying there should be a separation between what the president is tweeting about or choosing to talk about versus the policy that the health and human services secretary, you know, was on "meet the press" and other morning shows, to talk about. that's very difficult to do. >> it is. the president's message is about the media. we would rather not be the lead story. i would rather not be on the first hour, the first segment of your first hour today, but this is the president's only message, according to his twitter and facebook feeds. his only message to the american people today as we are all thinking about the fourth of july, the long holiday weekend. he had that event, spoke of that event for veterans last night. used that opportunity to attack the media in ways we frequently hear from authoritarian leaders instead of democratic leaders and does that last night and just ta poju juxtapose to his video, doesn't

but brian stelter, on substance, yes, he hails the president as successful, though name me one major win in the first six months. i mean, what do we know on substance with him? >> substance is what's lacking today and we'll see down the line if there are improvements in this white house about answers to questions and about action on the president's priorities. for as much as we can say about sean spicer, and why he resigned today, his tenure was check marked or it was checkered by errors, by misstatements, by confusion from the podium, and that is ultimately the president's responsibility. it's the president who sets the tone by making confusing, misleading contradictory statements by sometimes outright lying. so, will that change with the new communications director? i guess we'll see about that. we're at the six-month mark and the sunshine -- the sunlight foundation, which is a nonprofit that studies transparency in government when didn't give obama great marks says trump is much worse. this administration is hostile toward the press and is a secretive government. we'll see if scar

cnn's brian stelter tweeted this photo of mika brzezinksi...en at trump's at a time the claims she was badly". as you can see - no blood.heenan, kron4 ( marty ) president trump responded this morning on twitter. he tweeted: "crazy joe scarborough and dumb as a rock mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their nbc bosses. too bad!" ( marty ) nearly twenty cats were found abandoned near the humane society in the north bay this week. one employee was leaving work when he spotted the cages filled with cats on the side of the road. officials say some of the cats are sick but all 17 are expected to survive. most of them are ten years old or older. the cats are up for adoption and anyone who is thinking about adopting or wants to donate money or food is being urged to reach out to the humane society in ( marty ) the latest homeless census in santa clara county shows an alarming increase in the number of young people living on the streets. at the same time, homeless advocates stepped up their action to defy a crackdown on fee

even sadder, brian stelter asked if trump violated twitter policy. he said this. >> even if some people think it was stunning, i didn't take it very seriously. we will ask twitter that question. whether it violates their terms of service. >> greg: he's like the student who reminds the teacher that you forgot to assign homework. where the dorm ra who called security because you are having too much fun and he wasn't invited. lighten up. the worst part of this is how cnn got taken in again. don't they know that pro wrestling is fake? it's not a real fight. they were play fighting. what is it with cnn? it's as phony as the russian collision story. so they tried to get trump banned from the twitter express. cnn can't stand the competition. meanwhile, do you know what i did when i first saw the tweet? i laughed. i showed it to my brother-in-law who laughed. he showed it to his wife, who laughed. then we had breakfast. that's what normal people do. the media pretends it's the end of the world, the world knows better. kimberly, cnn doesn't realize that this

. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world.iable sources."" our weekly look at the story behind the story, how the media really works and how the news gets made. >>> and the news seems like one long episode of political survivor, starring president trump. for now steve bannon and jeff sessions and robert mueller are all still in. even with new chief of staff, nothing will change unless the president changes. if nothing else, trump is a reliable source of news. consider all of the stories that could have been our lead this hour. we could have led with the fallout from all

. >> let me bring in brian stelter right now. he has new report at this eventful day at the white house. >> it's only 2:00 p.m., jake. i was saying last hour, this is the latest sign of dysfunction to have a press secretary resign after only six months. normally, press secretaries last a couple of years. i have a senior white house source saying, no, this is a sign the president is actually trying to eliminate the dysfunction. this source is saying, and take this for what it's ort, spin from the west wing saying that scaramucci will bring great energy, new perspective, he likes the press and the press likes him. hopefully this will take the temperature down a notch. i think that's very interesting because scaramucci's a happy warrior on tv. as you were saying, jake, he's a fighter on television. he likes defending the president on tv. but we'll see if scaramucci can actually take the temperature down and maybe improve relations between the president and the press. >> sara murray is in the briefing room right now as we await the o

brian stelter is supposed to be cnn's in-house expert on the media and now apparently he's going to new phrase anti journalism in a recent newsletter entitled white house versus c.n.n. stelter dramatically talked about how the new president has been attacking c.n.n. for covering him negatively and stelter like everyone else at c.n.n. for whatever reason cannot or will not see that that's true so stelter wrote a section in this white house versus c.n.n. newsletter with the subtitle pro journalism and anti-aging that he started out by talking about people who are pro journalism or pro jay as he calls it people who are pro jay he writes are those who know c.n.n. has made mistakes but will learn from those mistakes and be accountable to them pro jay people know that most journalists try to be fair and right stelter notes these prone people are very staid and rational and they aren't mad at c.n.n. at all sales are totally defines this group of people and explains to the reader what these people think because stilts are apparently knows what everyone thinks including the very evil anti journa

first thought when i saw this was wow what a lucky fish he doesn't have to ever hear justin bieber brian stelter of paul ryan that sounds delightful my second thought which is the one that matters was isn't this planet breathtaking despite all we've done despite all our and pollution despite all our wars of aggression despite all of our crap isn't spaceship earth. it still has the ability to amaze and bewilder there are still species we haven't found and animals designed in such a manner that they they shock us what we've picked for over religion and race and money a figment of our imagination that we're willing to kill for while we bicker over all that this poetic planet is still doing what he does best being majestic and it's our job to create a sustainable future in which we can keep appreciating that majesty and which we can keep having our minds blown by faceless fish. that's a show i got for you but you can get all of our content a you tube dot com slash redacted tonight and i'm madly camp on twitter good night ok bye. i'm going to do just that and you're watching our. poll. i do not know

. >>> bring in cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter on this. brian, talk of a shake-up in the press shop, it's been much discussed for a significant period of time. >> oh, yes. >> anthony scaramucci, he's not a -- he's become a very popular spokesman for the president. >> yes. a fighter on television. something the president really appreciates. we've seen him on cnn and other channels defending the president vigorously, and clearly the president wants that. he's been dissatisfied with the press operation. hard to find a new communications director. this job has been vacant well over a month. sean spicer filling in on a temporary basis. >> unclear, of course, brian. what would make the president -- please the president? >> satisfy him about this? >> satisfy the president in terms of his -- safe to say? >> absolutely. a key job in the white house. we know the names of some of the former communications directors in the bush and obama years. dan pfeiffer, karen hughes. nicolle wallace, jennifer palmieri. visible on television back then and still tod

. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter, it's time for ""reliable sources.""ory, of how the media really works and how the news gets made. right now the news media working overtime to find out what really happened in that pivotal meeting between presidents trump and putin. one big question hovering over all of it is, who should we believe? the russians shared their account on camera, first the foreign minister holding a press briefing then vladimir putin held a press conference at the conclusion at the g-20 summit. but we have no pictures to show

. >> joining us now cnn senior r correspondent brian stelter.ve seeng a number of peopl go into the media. he just showed those clips of sean spicer going after the mainstream media. could he make the leap and have credibility? >> i think he will make the leap. this time is different from those past administrations because of this administration's anti-media attacks. heck any high profile trump administration official that leaves the white house, leaves the government is going to consider or be pursued for a television job. because of those fake news attacks it makes it more curious. spicer was having meetings with most of the major networks. our viewers might be interested to know cnn management said we're not interested. the network didn't say why but you can probably connect the dots. sort of inaccurate and false statements from the podium. he was meeting with fox and nbc and other networks. i think it's likely we'll see spicer in one of those jobs as high paid, six figure salary talking head. >> we just saw reince priebus be shown the door o

but first, we start with the host of "reliable sources" brian stelter. there's been quite a bit of reaction on both sides. what have you seen? >> some trump supporters saying this is funny, others taking it too seriously. we've seen journalism advocates saying right now the target is cnn. the common thread is that he's trying to intimidate journalists. we heard from the radio/television news directors association saying journalists should not be intimidated right now. you know, what happened, he apparently found this meme or found this video on reddit, which is a message board. this video emerged there from a few days ago. >> a racist troll. >> he posted racism, but this guy, we don't know, he posted this video a few days ago and a version made its way to the president. a lot of questions you might have about that. for example, is this taxpayer money being spent on the president's tweets? is this the kind of thing that he can face issues with twitter with. twitter says no, it's not a violation of terms of service. this is the second most popular thing po

. >> abby: a brian stelter outlining president trump for america's distrust of the media. president needs to do some soul-searching about their unpopularity. he also points the finger pretty firmly the president, watch this. >> partly, these are self-inflicted wounds, but a lot of the reasons for the distrust of the media have to do with politicians like president trump telling people not to trust the media. you could do a better job telling our own story and understanding what's real and what's fake. >> abby: gallup polls show america's trust in the media has been dropping. it's been dropping for years even before president trump came to the political scene. any new released poll show more trust the trump administration than they do the media or even congress. take a look at that. the media, 30%, congress 29%. they are pretty much neck and neck. i'm going to you first. are you surprised at all? when you look at much of the media today, i've been saying this for a while, there's not a lot of difference between the tabloids and the media. we were talking cnn, use the cover

. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world.fter a seismic shift in the white house communication team. you know by now sean spicer in and anthony scaramucci in. where does that leave kellyanne conway? i'll ask her in just a moment. the bigger question is this. what, if anything, is going to change? can president trump solve the crisis of credibility that imperils his white house? we have an all-star panel standing

cnn senior immediate correspondent brian stelter, and politics commentator kayleigh mcenany and sally cohen. good to see all of you. i would like to hear your response to president trump tweeting that smackdown of cnn. what do you think? >> look, i think it was intended as a tongue and cheek satirical video, nothing serious and might have made people in his base laugh, but one of the most effective things that president trump could do to win over kind of those moderate middle of the road voters, who, by the way, don't trust the media. the lowest approval rating ever in gallup recorded history, the way to reach those people. with facts. friday night the associated press had to roll back a story and did it conveniently right before everyone went off, reported on a fake meeting with the epa and dow chemical. they put out a clarification and lawyers another story conveniently right before the holiday weekend. using facts is the most effective way to bring this fight ounchts yt. >> you believe that's the impetus for the president sending out that video in this, you know, you want to call i

. >> so hear to discuss now, brian stelter, april ryan. good evening to both of you. eresting times you covering here as our media correspondent and you covering from the white house april. brian i want to start with you, because we heard the lavish praise of the president. it's sure to please his number one viewer, that is the president. but the question is, can he help get this white house out of this crises mode? >> no, i don't think any smooth talker, no matter how smooth, or slick can get the white house out of this crises that it finds itself in. if skair mutual can help this administration be more honest, don, to top making misleading and false statements that could be an improve -- >> so you're saying this is beyond messaging? he's charge basically messaging right, the problem you think the white house has goes way beyond messaging? >> way beyond. i think we do see scare mutucar the now president, then the campaign boss be who he is. and that's what we're going to see scaramucci encounter the president to do. go out give more interviews, stay what you want. i t

let's bring in brian stelter, cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources." the point a few minutes ago, brian, the president has shown an affinity for the statements via twitter but not a replacement for a news conference which is what we saw from the other world leader at the g-20 and this could have been cleared up. >> that's right. we are not hearing him actually address this. we can't see him, hear him. and we can't see journalists try to follow-up on these things when we get thing via twitter. we mentioned earlier and i think worth the context now we are hearing from the president normally at the end of a g-20 summit, there is a press conference by the american president answering questions from journalists. obviously, at a press conference taken place this weekend there would have been many questions about this meeting about what exactly president trump said and how putin responded. since there wasn't that press conference, all eyes have been on his twitter account and his twitter feed. notable the past few minutes he has weighed in. the four most impor

. >> i also want to bring in brian stelter, kirsten powers. brian, there's the whole question of where these leaks are coming from. >> right. >> who it is who had access to these e-mails, and was able to give them to the "new york times," and even tell them earlier about this -- about this meeting. >> there's an implication here that at least some of these leaks are coming from within the white house or right around the white house. and "the new york times" has said as much. advisers to the white house. >> that's how the times described it. >> just four days in a row of bombshells to the "new york times." we hear president trump praising his son as being transparent but as y'all have mentioned, it was only because the times called and asked for comment that the son released these e-mails. we've talked about the white house having a credibility crisis. so i'm struck by how many people are taking the president's lawyer at his word when the president's lawyer is saying, no, the president had no knowledge of this meeting and was not invve in this m

here's to discuss brian stelter, matt lewis, tara palmieri and a former spokesman for breitbart news. this is juicy. let's talk. joshua green's book is full of anecdotes from the campaign. here's what he told anderson cooper about how chris christie got chewed out on election night. >> he had been irking people in the inner circle. christie was smothering the president and on election night christie arranged with obama's people if trump won, obama was supposed to call christie's cell phone and he would hand it to trump and trump didn't like that christie was inserting himself in this pivotal moment and he's a germophobe and lashed out at christie. he disappeared pretty quickly. that moment in the days that followed he wound up going from being in charge of the transition and maybe ticketed for a job like attorney general to being completely on the outs, sent back to new jersey. >> chris christie was trying to dominate the moment and the offering of a germ-laden phone to a president who doesn't like germs. >> this explains the mystery around christie, putrump and afr election night. jo

. >> joining the conversation is brian stelter and michael deantonio. watches? you mentioned last night he has an enormous tv in a room right next to the oval office. >> in the little dining room. i don't want to put a hard number on it, but that five-hour number in aggregate doesn't sound wildly off. you can also just look at his tweets and look at the time when he's clearly watching television. >> he also tivos stuff and records it. >> there was some issue around the comey testimony where there were some staff members trying to get him to not watch it in realtime. look, his staff is really projecting out just a lot of what he is seeing and feeling, but what happens when people get very close to this president in his circle is they start to just take on certainly some of his characteristics but also his sense of grievance. that's what's happening here. i don't think -- i can't think of another president who has watched this much tv himself. i think we've had presidents whose staff members have watched tv. certainly president obama's team was pretty att

brian stelter, this is all happening. look at our full table. all the news happening here.is gone. to you, what do you make of all of this? >> scaramucci helped prompt sean spicer's exit, ryan priebus's exit, if you look at the chronology, he went from being the most visible man at the white house last sunday eight days ago to being invisible this sunday. no more interviews, no more press, all of a sudden scare mariuccii disappeared, so maybe that was a signal of what was to come today. this doesn't tell us anything about the press strategy. there's no clarity about what the press strategy if there is a press strategy watt all. >> main brig the cameras back. the carrot and the stick by allowing the cameras. >> sarah huckabee sanders is now the leading force as the new press secretary. she is now the only person there that we've had there all along, now that spicer and scaramucci are both out. >> i wonder if spicer is having second thoughts with scaramucci out of the thoughts. >> interesting. >> according to i believe kevin liptech, our white house reporter, upper press, peo

. >> let me bring in brian stelter here on all of this, you know, brian, with earp talking -- i'm losingrack of the time frame. i don't know if it was weeks with sean spicer announcing, knowing that scaramucci was coming in and the president wanted to keep him, he says no, i'm going to leave by august. is there any chance that spicer might stick around with scaramucci out? >> i have asked him. he has not responded. he hayes declined to other reporters asking the same question. i think it's unlikely, but let's not rule anything out on this edition of "white house survivor." i would suggest an alternate scenario, that you see scaramucci give this interview that's shocking, it's possible the president wants this to happen, he wanted scaramucci to shake it up and cause priebus to be leaving. who knows exactly. we'll see if the president tweets about this, but it's quite possible that he was doing some things the president wanted, even when he called ryan liza, by not saying it was off the record. it does seem like the beginning of the end by scaramucci. he was barely visible after that inter

. >> joining me right now, brian stelter. on the phone with us, senior cnn white house correspondent jim acosta. glad you could both be with me. you've been among the dogged reporters in the white house. here this fourth of july holiday, the president is tar t targeting cnn in this way. we heard from the president in d.c. at that veteran's event where he says the media is trying to silence. is it the other way around. the president by way of his video today trying to silence or punish the immediate why. krng condition in particular. >> i think our statement really sums it up. you know, there are two approaches to this. one is, we can just sit back and be silent and take it. there are some people who say don't take the bait, you are going to encourage this behavior even more. i think we're well past that now, i think we're at the stage where we have to try the other approach, we have to stand up to this. we have to confront this and say that it's wrong. i speak for myself, i can't speak for everybody -- donald trump since he w

with me now brian stelter, cnn senior media correspondent and also jessica snyder.r just from his testimony that james comey did not believe that there was any classified information in the memo he gave to his friend. have we heard from the friend about whether there was classified information in the memo? >> we did just hear from his friend, daniel richmond. he says he doesn't believe that the memo he was given from james comey contained any classified information. his statement is the memo whose substance i conveyed to the times was not classified at the time, and to my knowledge is not classified now. here's what the hill is reporting. the hill didn't report there was classified informing in the memo. you heard him stress it contained his own personal recollections and not anything classified. the hill reports this. according to their sources the fired fbi director wrote seven memos detailing nine conversations with president trump. four of those memos according to the hill had markings to make clear that they contained information classified of the secret or con

. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter, it's time for ""reliable sources."" this is our weekly look at the story behind the story, of how the media really works and how the news gets made. right now the news media working overtime to find out what really happened in that pivotal meeting between presidents trump and putin. one big question hovering over all of it is, who should we believe? the russians shared their account on camera, first the foreign minister holding a press briefing then vladimir putin held a press conference at the conclusion at the g-20 summit. but we have no pictures to show you of trump's press conference because he did not hold a press conference and secretary of state rex tillerson only held an offcamera audio only meeting. just a few hours ago trump tweeted i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election, he investmently denied it. it's time to move on here, maybe it's even time to partner with russia on a cyber security unit. is this a case of keeping your friends closing and your enemies closer? perha

. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is ""reliable sources."" our weekly look at the story behind the story, how the media really works and how the news gets made. >>> and the news seems like one long episode of political survivor, starring president trump. for now steve bannon and jeff sessions and robert mueller are all still in. even with new chief of staff, nothing will change unless the president changes. if nothing else, trump is a reliable source of news. consider all of the stories that could have been our lead this hour. we could have led with the fallout from all of his tweets. or the government's lack of answers after trump's surprise tweets saying transgender shoulders would no longer be able to serve in any capacity. and he appeared to publicly endorse police brutally the other day. or the story that will take up entire chapters of trump history books. all of those could be the lead, but right now the biggest media story is new communications director anthony scaramucci, this time last week, he was the

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here to discuss, cnn's senior media correspondent, brian stelter. political commentators, charles blow, op-ped columnist for "the new york times." matt lewis, senior columnist for the "daily beast." mike shields, former chief of staff to reince priebus at the republican national committee. good evening to both of you. my first question, brian, at the president's news conference today, was focused on his attacks on cnn. take a listen. >> since you started the whole wrestling video thing, what are your thoughts of what happened since then? cnn went after you and threatened to expose the identity of the person they said was responsible for it. i'd like your thoughts. >> yeah, i think what cnn did was unfortunate for them. as you know now, they have some pretty serious problems. they have been fake news for a long time. they've been covering me in a very -- very dishonest way. you have that also, by the way, mr. president? cnn and others, i know nbc is equally as bad, despite the fact i made them a fortune with "the apprentice" but they forgot that, but

cnn's brian stelter tweeted this photo of mika brzezinksi...ays it was taken at president trump's florida home - at a time the time president claims she was "bleeding badly". as you can see - no blood. catherine heenan, kron4 news. (steve) happening now: renewed hope in the search for a young man from montara... who has been missing now ... for more than a month. yesterday -- a woman found 22-year-old richard moss' triple-a card... in the sand at montara state beach, behind la costanera restaurant...(oncamááá and, that's where kron four's philippe djegal reports -- volunteers searched today. (philippe) with rakes... nats- raking metal detectors and their bare hands...dan stegink/family friend- "we're gonna keep searching until we find him." close friends of richard moss' family, like dan stegink (stuh-jink)...dan stegink/family friend- "it's, uh, something that can happen to anybody's kid." and, complete strangers scour montara state beach -- looking for any signs of the missing 22-year-old electrician, described as a passionate skateboarder an

principal is doing what he wants to do, he can meet with the "new york times," meet with anyone, brian stelterth you, but when he continues to defeat himself, there within lies the problem. you can spin, you can send a message out, but when you continue to do the same thing over and over again, you defeat yourself. >> brian? >> i think april would make a great communications director. i think a lot of reporters have this same sense. sitting in the brief room every day, feeling frustrated by the non-answers and by the spin and the nonsense. i think a lot of reporters are wondering, can it improve with sarah sanders at the podium and scaramucci behind the scenes? i'm very skeptical. skeptical this can cause improvement to the message. >> can i ask you and april something? we all knew sean spicer. we all interviewed him. he had a lot of political capital. he had a lot of -- he'd garnered respect from the media. all of a sudden, within a day -- >> right. >> -- it was gone. what happened? >> trump happened. >> the first day -- >> trump happened, right, april? >> hmm. >> what happened, april? >> yes

. >> i'm brian stelter and this is reliable sources. the news gets made. today we have a special program for you. as president trump's war with the media gets even more personal. the president is grappling with senate republicans who missed a self-imposed deadline on health care. he's preparing for a staredown this week with russian president vladimir putin. but on twitter he's wrestling with -- us. look at this video from his twitter account this morning. this is a wwe wrestle mania video from years ago when trump

let's discuss now, cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin, and senior media correspondent brian stelter. jeffrey, i'm shocked that you're still awake. we're glad that you're here. >> hey. >> did something happen with o.j. simpson today? >> we're going to discuss o.j. we got this breaking news. i want to get your -- your response to the president asking about pardons already. >> well, look, i mean, it's obvious that he is full of rage about this investigation. he thinks he -- you know, he thinks it's unjustified, inappropriate, perhaps overexpansive. so he's looking at his options. you know, i think we have to be careful about, you know, getting too excited about some of these things. you know, he suggested or some people in the white house have suggested looking into the backgrounds of some of the people in mueller's staff. you know, when i covered ken starr in the late '90s, i looked into some of the people on starr's staff and found out that they had very conservative views and i thought that was newsworthy and people in the white house thought that was newsworthy. and i see no reason