the cnn logo. they threatened to reveal his identity. when you hear of a company as big as cnn going after some little guy on the internet. >> it's disgusting. it's a very bad look for cnn and it's hurting them a lot. they guaranteed there will be 900,000 memes of donald trump. jesse: the ratings in the last two weeks since the fake news has gone down for cnn. and it's unfortunate for cnn. >> everything on that channel, that show, it's all attack trump. that gets boring after a while. look at way he shook hand. did you see the tweet, oh, my god, my god, my god. jesse: we had that at the front of the show. jesse: the next time you are in the hollywood walk of stars. >> walk of fame. jesse: if you see someone defacing donald trump's star would you give them a thump for me? >> if i saw someone burning the american flag, they will hear my opinion. jesse: if you see dean cain at the hollywood walk of stars or walk of fame, don't deface the star, he's coming after you. "watters world" gets the coop on wh

cnn went after you and threatened to expose the person who did it. >> cnn is bad and nbc despite theact i made them a fortune on the "apprentice." i think cnn has hurt themselves very badly and has taken it too far. howie: meghan mccain co-host of "outnumbered," ed henry, and mo elleithee. is there something unseemly about president obama ripping the press in a foreign country. ed: he was asked a question and he answered it. how many stories cnn is retracting or running from, people resigning. maybe there was a calmer point in american politics where president's didn't beat up on the media this much. i remember when i was overseas with bush 43 and president obama and mayors didn't go over there to the g-20 summit to give earn alternative view of what's going on, making it seem like he's i am a thiegs with these resisters. howie: did that trouble up at all? meg requirmeghan: i was more imd with him making a speech of and revival of american exceptionalism. i was impressed with his speech in poland. he was asked a specific question he chose to answer. cnn is doing this to themselves. t

but first cnn's response. the strongest statement i've seen from cnn or any news outlet this year in response to the president's attacks. quote it is a sad day when the president of the united states encourages violence against reporters. cleary sarah huckabee sanders lied when she said the president had never done so. instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with vladimir putin, north korea and working on the health care bill he is involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office. the statement from cnn saying we will keep doing our jobs. he should start doing his. and this is day six of trump's anti-media tweet storms. we've been covering this all week long. his offensive tweets about joe scarborough and mika brzezinski took up days of news coverage and those came after days of attacks against cnn and "the washington post." now his target on sunday is cnn again. who knows which outlet will be next. who's going to speak out? are other media outlets going to speak up? i th

i'm not attacking cnn. i am wondering cnn spends -- >> made a business decision to be unfair to the president. what we're trying to do is cover an unusual president and explain what the heck is going on at a white house that seems dysfunctional. >> first of all, that's not fair. i constantly hear this coming out of the mouths of people that never worked in any white house, yet alone this white house. if you want a candid, clear look at the white house, come inside. a two-way street. we don't see that. i'm a very accessible person you'll find with anthony scaramucci and others in humble. we don't get the calls to come in. we turn on the tv and one-way, nonconversation using words that are meant to deny the president his do. i'm here to ask you -- >> you're welcome here any time presidency. >> thank you for the platform. i want america to hear what has been done for them. the forgotten man and woman are not forgotten to us. >> it's not your -- i was just going to say, not our job to do your pr. it's your job.

howie: was cnn's apology enough?ll speak to anthony scaramucci. >> we can't take the bullying anymore. it's undermining the 4th estate, it's undermining the first amendment. howie: sarah palin suing the "new york times" over an inflammatory editorial linking her to a 6-year-old shooting. this is "mediabuzz." mika brzezinski and her fiance joe scarborough have been boosing the president for many months on "morning joe." >> i have lost hope completely and my mind is closed. this presidency is fake and failed. >> he's a nar he's a narcissist. he's not well. >> my mother has had dementia for two years. that sounds like the sort of thing my mother would say today. howie: president trump firing back on twitter. how come low i.q. crazy mika along with crazy joe came to mar-a-lago. >> as soon as i saw the word "bleeding" i flinched. he took it too far. there are ways to get your message across where you don't stoop to that level. >> it degrades the political discourse and embarrasses the country. >> to demean the woman speci

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if you go on cnn there is but cnn means. >> kimberly: what do they say?e trolls. >> greg: if you expose your weakness, if i tell you guys i don't like seafood, the first thing you start doing is eating shrimp in the green room. >> dana: remember when your cousin would hit you in the head saying what he keep hitting yourself? that's what they were doing. if they would've said, well played mr. president, how's your health care bill going? that would've been fine. but the thing that makes -- the punishing of the artist, no matter who they are. i was saying in the green room, remember the benghazi video maker? the obama administration, the government in that case, tracked on this guy who made a video and put him in jail based on some sort of parole violation. and he was in jail forever. >> greg: yeah. instead of blaming terror, blame a video. instead of taking a lump, you go after some kid. it doesn't even matter who does the meme. the meme has a life of its own. you don't know where it comes from. that's the internet. >> jesse: and you don't think trump is g

wrestling cnn. according to the article, the network decided against releasing this reddit user's identity because, "he is aen private citizen" he shook his remark by saying he is taken down all his offending post, and because he said he is not goingg to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. the article then went on to issue what appeared to be a not so veiled threat. "cnn reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change."ul cnn has denied any allegations of blackmail, issuing a statement that read in part "cnn decided not to publish the names of the reddit user out of concern for his safety." joining us now in a reaction to the latest investment of cnn is salem radio nationally syndicated radio host larry elder, and from "the hill" joe concha. when cnn says, we are not publishing his name because we are concerned for his personal safety, but then they turn around and say, but if he's bad, if he does anything like this again, we are going to dock him. tell us what that

called out cnn.g trump assassination play artistic expression but wwf joke is a call for violence." joining me now is the panel. thanks for being here. new developments. you have the tweet from donald, jr., and the meme out this weekend. seems to me and i think the polling and the analysis will back it up that this president has received more unfair, negative coverage than any other president.ei >> something like 93% of the coverage is negative from cnn.hi that's nowhere near fair and balanced and it's been relentless. from when he was elected, even before he was elected but itit goes beyond cnn.as you had madonna saying she dreams about blowing up the white house. snoop dogg did a video where he pulled the trigger on a revolver, a clown dressed up to look like donald trump. kathy griffin holding up the chopped off head. i call it assassination chic and it's not just done by odd people. these are artists, they have been in some of the biggest movies. that sort of thing is appalling and i think it lea

jesse: is a trump cnn video makd you want to do violent to anyone else's cnn?? mac i will crush you. you will learn a n>>ew definitin of pain. the >> of course not. the president has never inspired violence.ma jesse: cnn is now blackmailing the maker of the video is not what you think about that. >> borderline criminal.o tr >> they should be locked up.jess jesse: what is more fake, cnn or russia?je >> wrestling. jesse: wrong. >> professionally wrestling is never fake. >> cnn is totally more fake.he >> is the fraud news network.p] jesse: and i am cnn and take me down. >> i i can't. [laughter]cause jesse: i won't put you in a has not because i don't want to mess your hair out. jesse: i'm waters and this is my world. coming up, treat of the week. noo introducing the easiest way to get gillette blades text "blades" to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order could save money on car insurance.nce you know, the kind of driver who always buckles up... comes to a complete stop... and looks both ways, no matt

it later also cnn fraud news network. >> cnn called the video juvenile and beneath the dignity of theffice of the united states. >> it's intensified the debate over the tone the white house is setting. >> the questions about the president's conduct are coming just days ahead of mr. trump's trip to the g20 summit taking place in jeegermany. here's brian stelter. >> reporter: this anti-cnn video from the president of the united states has become one 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 statem

cnn's -- robin, cnn's reporting is that the current and former u.s. intelligence officials had told cnn that u.s. adversaries feel emboldened by the lack of retaliatory response from both the obama and trump administrations going into the meeting tomorrow with putin. do you think this reporting is going to put more pressure on president trump? >> i think it's probably going to put pressure on him to have said something to vladimir putin. you have to remember, this is a half-hour meeting. not going to be time to do much between a photo op, shaking hands and the translations, talking about make 20 minutes. several major issues to discuss, ukraine, isis, most of all, north korea. the united states is looking for something to come out of this. this is the biggest meeting of the president's young presidency and been enormous focus on his relationship with putin. whether he's met him before or not. and that something has -- he has to produce something out of this to look like he is the strongman capable of taking on one of the shrewdest russian leaders of,

once again, cnn fell for fake news. now, the humorless part, he could've last this thing off and moved on but no, they lost it over this. it is not even very good. you can tell that it's not really cnn, it's not real. of course, once you say something bugs you to a bunch of people on twitter, what will they do next? this will make more of it. that's what happens when you tell people what bothers you. they step it up. anyone with siblings knows this. it's why i tell strangers that i hate being tickled. [laughter] of course, that's pretty creepy. of course, the really creepy part was making that veiled threat. now, i've been waiting for something like this to happen for years. ever since i turned right in the '80s conservatives were always painted as humorless and we were the shrill, tight but now we've changed and so has the left. we are now the fun people and there that miserable. [cheering] a decade ago i coined something called the dean wormer theory. it's based on the data from animal house. for so long the right was

slamming the cnn logo.he shared the t video on twitter and went viral. they hunted down the creator and threatened to reveal his identity. when you hear about a company going after some little guy on the internet, how does that make you feel? >> it's disgusting. it makes them look absolutely terrible. it's a very, very bad look for cnn. it's hurting them. they've also guaranteed that there will now be 900,000 meme of donald trump. jesse: if you look on the right now you can find them. the ratings actually in the last two weeks sense this fake news has really gone down for cnn and it's unfortunate for cnn. >> they become everything on that channel, that show, it's all antitrust. that gets boring after a while. if you keep saying the same thing over and over -- if you see the tweets or the zero my god zero my god zero my god. jesse: it was phony. i let it slide. >> i was talking in the green room. jesse: can you do me a favor w contract next time you're in the hollywood walk of stars, if you see someone defac

barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >>> you're live in the "cnn newsroom."ork. a new twist in the scandal that already involves the president's son, his son-in-law and his campaign manager. a british music promoter, a former soviet soldier with alleged ties to russian intelligence and a russian lawyer peddling dirt on hillary clinton. cnn has now learned all of the people as well as at least two others attended a meeting last summer at trump tower. lawmakers are zeroing in on a russian born lobbyist who worked as a counterintelligence officer for the soviet union although he denies being formally trained as spy. the president for his part said he only recently became aware of his son's meeting. he's spending the weekend at one of his golf courses and boris sanchez is nearby. the lawmakers are eager to hear from both trump jr. and this lobbyist.

some are opposing cnn of black male. >> greg: in the spirit of woodward and bernstein, cnn tracked down the dude who posted the trump wrestling video. imagine if cnn went off their violent rioters and looters the way they go after a cruise prankster. apparently the guy posted some pretty bad stuff in the past, but come on cnn, you are starting to creep us out. in an article boasting about their scoop. cnn said they would not publish his name, because he apologized and promised they would not do it again. but cnn added that they reserve the right to publish his identity should anything change. the network pursues a guy up over a joke about them, then after he has spooked, they grant him safety on unless he misbehaves. again, this isn't some violent thug who burned down a bodega, it's a guy who teased the network. why would cnn do this? is this to keep others from making fun of them? in a statement, cnn claims the guy apologized before speaking to the reporter, as if being contacted initially by cnn wasn't the catalyst. then they added conditions based on the guy's behavior. this is sinis

when you delegitimize cnn or help cnn delegitimize themselves, they are weaker. less. they are not able to lie about him and his agenda on a daily basis. the democrats have really not been in power since november because they lost pretty much everything. and now the media has really taken on the role of the true opponent. he believes bullying the media serves his best interest. so far, i think it's working. >> kimberly: and then the mika tweets -- instead of talking about republicans not having the vote to get health care done before the fourth of july. the issues going on with north korea, he's very much aware of those things being in play and thought okay, well -- >> richard: i just have two things on that. >> kimberly: strategy. >> richard: i get that, yeah. here's the larger point. >> jesse: larger than mine? >> richard: it's possible. >> jesse: easy. >> richard: i have always looked up to the president of the united states. the question i've always had is what i want my children -- i don't have any now -- what i want them to model donald trump where he makes

today, it happens to be cnn. but it's been "the new york times" and "the washington post" and other networks. who knows who his target will be tomorrowsome >> stay with us. we want to bring in the rest of our panel. jeffrey, let's start with you. there are republicans raising serious concerns about this. here's the congressman from new york. >> when i was 10 years old, we looked up to the president of the united states. we're trying to understand the difference of right and wrong and set our own moral compass to be future leaders. being presidential is being that role model. and i don't believe that some of what he's doing on twitter is setting if right example for my kids. >> jeffrey, is the president setting the right example for america's kids? >> look, i know lee zeldin and i have a lot of respect for him, but i disagree with him. the logic that this could result in violence against journalists, let's just flip this and wonder -- i mean, cnn, and i don't want to pick on cnn. cnn, "the washington post," "the n

with the cnn logo.hat is making a lot of news is morning as we go to paul on the democrats line. : i think it is the -- caller: i think it is the most unpresidential thing i've ever seen. he is a coward. whoill probably talk to jennifer how to set up a state ll-crapia so he can bu his way through the white house. it is unbelievable that people are supporting that. host: what you think of the message? aller: that he doesn't want free press. he did wants us to be a communist country. he lies constantly. outthe free press brings his lies but he doesn't like that because he is a serial liar. and all the people who support him watch fox news which is a line channel. thats the only channel tells the truth. and it is bothersome. host:, ok, let's go to teresa on the republican line. good morning. caller: first of all, i don't even know where to begin. it was a joke. has been hit since before he was even elected. not one of his tweet's has ever outed a republican to go and shoot a bunch of democrats like the med

trump has made cnn look fakery and professional wrestling. what cnn does is they overreact. they look like fools. it reminds you of the older brother, i'll turn this way. it's more appropriate. >> kimberly: and you are older. >> jesse: he goes like that. then the younger brother freaks out, whines, cries, hits his head on the couch and says mommy come of the older brother hit me. and meanwhile he didn't do anything and that is what's happening with cnn right now. cnn has spent years attacking wall street traders, coal miners, everybody they can get their hands on. at the minute someone criticizes a journalist, it's like world war iii. they are total hypocrites too. you can behead him and assassinate him but that's an artist. >> kimberly: a masterpiece. >> jesse: trump doesn't and everyone is clutching their pearls. >> greg: i know you've got a lot to defend here, i'm going to ask a question. [laughter] >> greg: the big criticism is that this is not a presidential. do you think it's not presidential? >> richard: i thought this tweak was a joke. i laughed. it was funny. let's

he apologized supposedly before cnn -- he contacts then cnn.ad heard or sensed he was about to be found out. but now interestingly, his apolo apology, which he then posts, gets removed from rhett did. why? pause they don't want people to apologize for this behavior. they want to be able to defend this kind of behavior. ? that's really notable because this is what i thought was remarkable, chris, was that we saw somebody who was a troll apologize, you know? we wish that they wouldn't do it obviously to begin with. the racist stuff is repugnant, obviously. but it meant to the next level where some humanity snuck in accidentally somehow? >> it wasn't accidental. >> it snuck in. however it got there. so here's what he said. let me read it. i would also like to apologize for the posts made that were racist, bigoted and anti-semitic. i am in no way this kind of person. i would never support any kind of violence or actions against others simply for what they believe in nor would i carry out any violence against anyone based on that or support anyone w

that from cnn. this morning, white house homeland security adviser thomas bossert had this to say at the president's tweet. >> yeah. certainly not, though. i think no one would perceive that as threat and hope they don't but i think he's beaten up in a way on cable platforms he has a right to respond to and does that regularly. >> you don't think that's a threat to anyone or sending a message do that to the media? do that to cnn? >> certainly not. i don't think so. and importantly, he's a genuine president expressing himself genuinely and i think why he was elected. the most genuine person and people find him to be someone they can understand and relate to talk more about all this with our panel. 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

"cnn newsroom" is next.ontinues right now. >> the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house. but i'm president and they're not. >> the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment. >> the president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. >> we're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, registration fraud. >> this isn't about party, this is about personal privacy of voters. >> president trump working the phones ahead of this week's g-20 summit. >> the potentially historic meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> trump has chosen to focus on ukraine and syria instead of the russian hacking allegations. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your new day. chris is off this morning. john berman joins me. great to have you. >> great to be here. >> we begin with president trump, targeting cnn in his escalating war on the media. the president posting a weird wrestling video t

but cnn is using its resources on this. dagen: cnn had to issue another statement.ublish the name of the reddit user out of concern for his safety. user who is an adult male, not a 15-year-old boy apologized and deleted his account before speak with our reporter. cnn never made any deal with the user. the fact it was a joke. why are we treating this like it was some threat to the safety of our nation. >> i think it was embarrassing that president trump tweeted that out. that's the story the way the president behaved. that somebody made something stupid on the internet is not a story. that cnn defends him is misleading. at least it conflicts with what we saw saying the apology came after cnn contacted them. it all came down, then the guy responded. if you read the last line of that cnn piece, it clearly read like a threat. we reserve the right to publish his name if he acts up again. this is why people go along with donald trump's tirades against the media. but now people actually fear the media, that the media will come after them if they criticize the hide yeah or

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cnn. we'll play you what the president said today. first an nbc reporter was told by polish officials, you're only allowed two questions, but u.s. media overreacting yet again. we'll play the full exchange after this. >> thank you very much. >> having anger. >> thank you very much, we must go. >> very briefly follow up, mr. president. >> thank you very much. ♪ [vo] progress is seizing the moment. your summer moment awaits you now that the summer of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the summer of audi sales event. . >> will you once and for all, yes or no, definitively say russia interfered in the 2016 election? >> well, i think it was russia and could have been other people and other countries. it could have been a lot of people interfered. the thing i have to mention is that barack obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were russia, found out about it in august. was told in early august by presuma

but once again, cnn fell for fake news!hter] the humorless part, they could have left this up and moved on but no! they lusted over this. [video] >> it is not even very good. i mean you can tell it is not really cnn, it's not real! but of course, once you say something bugsy to a bunch of people on twitter, what are they going to do next? ill just make more of it. that is what happens when you tell people what bothers you. they step it up. anyone with siblings knows this! [laughter] it's why i tell strangers that i hate being tickled. [laughter] that is pretty creepy. of course the creepy part was making the threat. i've been waiting for something like this to happen for years. ever since i turned in the 80s conservatives were always painted as humorless. we were the shrill tight - but we have change and now has the left. so they are now the miserable's. i coined something called the dean wormer 's theory. my deal was to make us the pranksters but then the left the dean wormer spirit than they did themselves by embracing vi

julian is a cnn political analyst, historian at princeton university and tim is a cnn presidential historianmer director of the nixon presidential library. good to see both of you. >> great to be here. >> and it's good to be with you, actually. instead of always talking via satellite. julian, you first. this effort by at least nine gop lawmakers who say we should just shelf the august recess and work on this health care 20 -- 24/7. >> this was a big defeat this last week and the president can tweet all he wants, but a lot of republicans are going home upset they don't have anything to deliver and feel they need time. look, there's only a few weeks left of legislating, if you have the recess. there's also many senators who don't want to be in their districts or states because they're facing angry constituents and protestors. >> bill cassidy saw that in la lanch lalouisiana. >> maybe it doesn't look right to constituents saying, why are you home? why are you off when there's still work to be done? >> it doesn't look good and also wouldn't look good at all to repeal and then say, well -- >> we

he understands that cnn is watching him, so that if he were to make another anti-cnn gif, another anti-cnnweet, then they would release the fact that he has got a $500 lien on his home for unpaid property taxes or his car was seen last night parked outside madame fifi's bondage parlor. this is a ridiculously for a news organization to behave. but the threat of people -- the idea, by the way, of chris cuomo and others cnn anchor is a saying, oh, i'm so relieved. at last, there were physical threats to our safety, and at last, were all relieved because now we've got the goods on this guy and we can sleep at night and journalists are free to walk the street once more. get lost you creeps. by the fifth anniversary of the danish cartoons, i appeared on stage with five other people. of those five other people i was in on stage with in copenhagen for 45th anniversary of the danish mohammed cartoons, one was shot at point-blank range, the other had his events shot up and two people were killed, another was forced out of public life entirely, and the fourth had her family's restaurant firebombed. t

this is "cnn newsroom" worldwide this hour.ell with the headlines we're following for you and some breaking news out of the u.s. state of texas. eight people there found dead, including children, in the back of a semi truck. this in san antonio, texas. more than two dozen others were taken to a nearby hospital. many of the people in critical condition. investigators are treating this case as a case of human trafficking. the trailer was parked in a walmart parking lot, and the driver is presently in custody. we'll have more on this breaking news story as we learn more here on cnn. >>> a bill imposing new sanctions on russia, on north korea, and iran, it could hit the president's desk by the end of the month. u.s. lawmakers will vote on the bill on tuesday. then it heads to the senate. the bill would also curb president trump's ability to water down those sanctions. >>> president trump has the issue of pardoning on his mind, if you look at the tweets he sent out. on saturday, he wrote that he has the complete power to pardon. tha

>> why bashing of cnn is going to help. >> i'm not bashing cnn. >> please. that's all you do is bash cnn. thank you for the ratings but otherwise why do it? >> you want to talk about you -- look. i'm on cnn right now. >> and i appreciate that. it's not easy to get you here. >> the media want to talk about you and i want to talk about americans. do you know why i'm in the white house? i'm there to help the millions of americans who couldn't keep their doctor, who couldn't keep their health care plan, who are struggling with opioid addiction, military spouses who are under employed and unemployed, ivanka trump, my colleague in the white house, lead the way for this country to invest $50 million for the world bank to start a women's entrepreneurship investment fund. you didn't mention that in the last segment. you just tried to shiv her a little bit because she sat briefly at a table where her father, the president of the united states -- >> a very unusual thing to do, by the way. >> something that president abe -- no, it's not. >> to have your daughter sit in

. >> all coming up here on "cnn newsroom." hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states. cnn head quarters in atlanta, i'm rosemary church. >> i'm george howell. newsroom starts right now. >> wherever you're joining us from around the world, good day to you. this week marks six months that the u.s. president donald trump has been in office. >> allegations of russian meddling and last year's election continue to overshadow his administration. in a new washington post abc news poll a majority of americans say they believe russia tried to influence the race. the president's popularity has also plummeted in that poll. he has the worst approval rating of any u.s. president in about 70 years. just three months ago 62% of americans approve of the job president trump is doing. that is now 36%. his his disapproval rating is 58%. >> president trump said that is not bad and also defended his son's meeting. he tweeted hillary clinton can illegally get the questions to debates and delete 33,000 e-mails but my son is being soe

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the victim was the cnn head. i don't think that people found the product itself so out of bounds so much as who is sending it. it's absolutely true that this behavior that we have not seen before, not just from presidents but republican presidents. you compare this way of withnding to media attacks how george w. bush responded, which is to say he did not respond. and how did that work out for him, you can judge that. you can judge his ability to withstand critiques from others. but, it is very interesting. i thought that the line that the -- dr. spalding mentioned was very interesting when he said it's not presidential, it is modern-day presidential. i was talking with a bunch of reporters and they said i guess , he is tweeting in a way and i guess that is modern-day, i don't think that's what he saying. he is saying he is attempting to lead a country where one of the problems is the inability of established order to respond to change and he's willing to punch through the norms and he's willing to fight, do thing