i'm brian stetler. a team visited the white house to be an off the record meet and greet with president trump. but the reporters had lots of questions and they persuaded the president to go on the record so they could quote him for the majority of a 50-minute long interview. what an interview it was. trump said he regretted appointing his own attorney general jeff sessions. and the president seemed to warn robert mueller not to look into his finances. there was so much news from this interview and so much intrigue about how and why it happened. back with me now, the panel, tara, dan, mike and scott jennings. scott, first to you on this "new york times" interview i would like to see the president giving more interviews and holding more press conferences since he hasn't done that since february. was this ill advised because of all the comments he made about the russians investigations? >> i'm not a lawyer, but if i have to imagine what the president's lawyers are thinking about it, probably cringing a lit

alternative facts, brian stetler. glass half full/glass half empty. everybody knows what we meant and there are hiccups in the media every single day. they wanted to look at it through the most negative lens possible. they know what sean spicer meant by that is that you now in 2017 have people looking at the inauguration up close and in person and people watching on their screens, which they couldn't do ten years earlier. you have people certainly watching on tv, listening to the radio, multi-media way of doing that. but i also said on all the networks that day i didn't think it was a particularly important piece of information because it doesn't matter. what matters is if the president is able to move the needle economically and through national security. indeed, since january 22nd, he has. that's not an alternative fact, that is a fact. over 800,000 jobs and tax reform after that. but alternative facts. let me just repeat for those at home, partly cloudy, partly sunny. when cnn says it's got the highest rated show and then a competitor says, we do,