howie: let me tell you what erin mcpike told me it's a reporter's job to push for exclusionives.sked completely and they grante everyone is completely misreading the situation. no one * really knows rex tillerson. if matt lauer got an exclusive interview what they have the same complaint? did you change your mind and release the audio and her interview with the secretary signs was transcribed? >> i want to go back to the beginning of the decision. we received a fair share of criticism and i think that was warranted. we are a newer organization and this was a big exclusive for us. we have a situation in the administration where they are now circumvending the press and they dock that through social media and build their own distribution channels. how * you say the criticism was warrant. how? >> now that the interview is out there and people have had a chance to dig in. the interview, if you look at it. there are a lot of meety subjects covered. erin did a great job. she knocked it out of the park. we transcribed it through the night, put the audio out and re-allowed the press to re

after the break, our colleague erin mcpike is the only journalist traveling with rex tillerson.e: the press is very upset with secretary of state rex tillerson for not taking reporters on his plane on his trip to asia. and the story got personal when the one lead reporter erin mcpike. >> rex tillerson makes stag crucial trip to asia take only one reporter from a conservative website. why is he ditching the news media. howie: let me tell you what erin mcpike told me it's a reporter's job to push for exclusionives. i asked completely and they granted my request. everyone is completely misreading the situation. no one * really knows rex tillerson. if matt lauer got an exclusive interview what they have the same complaint? did you change your mind and release the audio and her interview with the secretary signs was transcribed? >> i want to go back to the beginning of the decision. we received a fair share of criticism and i think that was warranted. we are a newer organization and this was a big exclusive for us. we have a situation in the administration where they are now circumve

erin mcpike and mollie hemingway, and joe trippi. if you said this was the end of donald trump's presidency -- >> i wouldn't lump lawrenceo donnell in with the rest of the media. it wasn't just the media democrats cast it as a huge victory for them. but it was covered and talked about like a football game. healthcare is supposed to be a very personal issue. now you have people in the country wondering what hhs is going to do to implement healthcare and obamacare. we should be asking the rest of the country what they thought about how it was covered. howie: nobody liked this bill in the end. but do you have the sense many in the press are celebrating the outcome? >> that's what it seemed like. it was such a defeat for donald trump because people want to bring them down. but it's good for the media to cover it's just the level of hysteria that goes along with that is a bit much. in november the media coverage tone was democracy is dead. moist's look at these clowns, they can't get a bill passed. it has to do with why people don't take

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defenders of home. >> eric: continuing now with erin mcpike and bob cusack from washington.he big week ahead in washington. bob, let's start with youowh this time. >> i think the big story line is how they pick up the pieces. how do republicans pick up the pieces and what do they do? do they try to do health care i don't think so. i think they moved the tax reform. treasury secretary says he wants to get tax reform by the end of august. i think they can cut taxes by august,, but reforming the tax code hasn't been done since 1986, and there is a reason. it's very difficult. republicans have to pivot. that's "the big story." >> eric: erin, have you to give president trump credit he went from a reallynt big thig in health care to another big thing in massive tax reform. >> tax reform is still going to be difficult. the challenge he might have is instead trying to fight infrastructure which mitch mcconnell is not particularly enthused about. but the administration is and so is the public, so that would actually be a pretty good win they could try to go for. i actually think the

erin mcpike. meghan mccain, a co-host of outnumbered and margaret karl on. is it a problem trump's top aide can't personally vouch for his unproven claim about wiretapping or is this just journalism enjoying the story and pounding every guest for answers they can't provide. >> i think it is a problem you also played sean spicer to get all that information from the president. i think it is his job. he should have access to that information. howie: foxconn firmed the house intelligence committee demanded prove to the committee by tomorrow. the f.b.i. and the cia officials keeps this story going. but no one has been able to point to much evidence. >> we don't know what we don't know. the white house could have a bunch of information on this. but right now we are all in conspiracy theories and what ifs. but we are not talking about jeff sessions recrucial himself. we are not talking about that scandal. this is what donald trump does so well. howie: at the same time look where he has driven it, to all this criticism about him making a charge that at least the jou

from boston, to analyze, james pindell from "the boston globe," and from washington, erin mcpike. erin, start with you. >> i have to admit that i was wrong last week when i thought it was going to be the investigation into the russian connection. it was health care. bob cusack was with me.ea i think this rollout was a huge deal in part because we have seen a lot of chaos over the past two months coming from the white house, a lot more coordination between both the white house and house republicans on the rollout through the entire week. now, it also showed the fissures in the republican party but they are going to have over taxan credits and rolling back the medicaid expansion. we also saw the president try to woo those conservatives rather than try to make demands, and i think we saw them being a little more nimble on the messaging as they admitted later in the week that they had to do a better job communicating, even to rank and file republicans, and how the process would work. >> eric: nimble on the messaging, james, i think that lines up with your story of the week. >> on one l

over the weekend, he did give an interview to that reporter, erin mcpike, there was some news in it,here's this broader concern about lack of access, lack of availability with rex tillerson. let's talk about it with our panel. lydia, how big a concern is this to you, your reporters trying to cover foreign policy and foreign affairs. >> rex tillerson seems to be under the impression that the immediate where is there to service him. >> you're no longer the ceo of exxonmobil, you now serve the public, and the public has the right to know what the secretary of state is up to. and that's the whole purpose of having a traveling press corps with the secretary of state. big news happens on these trips. this whole flap with him reported as being tired by korean state media, that wouldn't have happened if he would have had legitimate media along. he hurt himself in some ways by allowing this false story to blossom. >> ken, you disagree? >> i totally disagree. i listened to your entire podcast with karen swisher, who hates everything about donald trump. the idea that this administration is not

joining me to discuss are erin mcpike, white house correspondent for the independent journal review and jonathan swan. thank you so much for joining me today. erin, the white house tells us the president will be hitting the road soon to sell the health care bill. is he going to have the message disciplined he needs here? >> so far in the past week he has. i think we've seen a couple of months of chaos come from the white house in particular with respect to their messaging because donald trump himself often throws off the messaging but over the past week they have been quite disciplined on health care from start to finish throughout the week. he was obviously quite a bit quieter this week and let his staff do a lot of that messaging for him. i think they saw some pretty good results. now i would say that he is bending to conservatives in some ways and that might help the effort in the house but then it begs the question, how does he then get to some of the more moderate republicans in the senate and what the deal he cuts with them? it may be seeing momentum from a house fronts. >> jonath

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her name is erin mcpike, she's from a semiobscure conservative outlet called the independent journaleview and she happened to have published a highly complimentary piece about the secretary earlier this month. joining me, anne-marie slaughter, president and ceo of the think tank new america. i've been obsessed with this press aspect of the story because it's hard to communicate why it matters but it does matter that the secretary of state has briefings everyday they that they let reporters in. >> it's the way checks and balances works. the state department talks about what we're doing and reporters ask tough questions and citizens get to make up their minds but it's also important for the world. this is what leading or simply being an enormously important power in the world is about. you have foreign policy and other countries get to sort of see what that is and ask questions, too. >> in fact, john kirby, who is the spokesperson in the last few years of the obama administration, i remember him telling me while preparing for the briefing and how hard it is because there was a reporter

. >> i want to ask you about an interview with erin mcpike of the independent general roouv.said i didn't want this job, i didn't seek this job. my wife told me i'm supposed to take this. how do you dtake that? >> rex tillerson as the ceo of a multinational corporation has relevant skills and enviable understanding of how the world works. he can a successful secretary of state. but i think, you know, where he's had a slow adjustment is, you know, a ceo of a multinational corporation can literally travel around the world under the radar. he has the choice of when to be visible and not. a secretary of state does not have that choice. you know, the secretary of state of the most powerful country of the world needs to be visible and needs to help the rest of the world understand how america sees its interests, what it's prepared to do and enlist the support of the world to try to solve, you know, significant problems. i think this week, you know, he began to grow into that job a little bit. but, obviously, it's been a slow adjustment period for him. >> it's interesting you mentio

the only reporter who will be allowed to travel with tillerson is erin mcpike of the conservative news outlet the independent journal review. it was founded by two republican litical consultants. mcpike has only been working for the outlet for a few weeks, and she doesn't typically even cover the state department. the justice department has announced the indictments of two russian spies and two hackers over the 2014 hacking of 500 million yahoo! accounts. it is the first time u.s. criminal cyber charges have been brought against russian officials. in the netherlands, the prime minister fought off a challenge from the scene of public far right wing politician geert wilders in a closely watched election wednesday. dutch voters turned out in record numbers. showingrutte's party far more than expected by pundits. with 95% of the votes counted, rutte's centre-right people's party for freedom and democracy has won 33 parliament seats. wilders' anti-immigrant, anti-european union party for freedom, whose slogan was "make the netherlands ours again" won only 20 parliament seats. this is prime

. >> joining us now, white house correspondent erin mcpike.ary tillerson during the recent extended asia trip. first of all, what was that like? it was unusual. how did you feel about that? did you feel bad? >> how did it come about? >> it came about because i asked for an interview. i asked if i could interview the secretary of state after he took office, then had another conversation. when i looked at the president's schedule and saw he was on it and had been on the president's schedule a number of times, more than any cabinet secretary. what is the deal here. why is he talking to the president so much. what is he trying to get out of him. in those conversations, i asked for an interview again. they said we'll give it to her. that's why i went on the trip. >> i totally understand. i'm glad you went. glad a reporter was on the trip. what about other reporters being baed fro it? that's unusual. >> we support more access. i would have liked other reporters to be there as well. i talked about this a number of times with mentors and the editor th