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. >> this has been going on since about 1969 with vice president spiro. the american people do not have a lot of confidence in the media and i think it is a good thing to have a discussion about it. >> but what does that do to democracy, jeffrey, to come out and continually call the media fake news? there is also the argument made by people that whenever the checks and balances, wherever he feels like they're threatening him, he attacks them. you saw what he said about the judiciary when it put a halt on his travel ban. you see the way he treats the media when we write stories or broadcast stories that he is not happy with. so what does it say to you? do you see that perspective or argument as well, jeffrey? >> sure. but he's a counterpuncher in terms of president trump himself but you have to say that for context, for example, this whole notion that the white house is in turmoil. i personally went back and took a look and found similar stories about the obama white house, the bush white house, the reagan white house and the media saying the same thing. m

spiro agnew called the press the mattering nabos of negativism. and nixon had his own view points. here is his answer. >> what is it these past months about the television press that has so aroused your anger? >> don't get the impression you aroused my anger. [ laughter ] >> reporter: i have that impression. >> one can only be angry with those he respects. >> that was previously thought of as kind of the lowest, right? the most direct public attack on the legitimacy of the american press by an american president. that was the bar before today but now the press is the enemy of the american people. it's not just the insults to the press, insults to individual reporters, calling the news media fake, it's also the way they're running their press operations in the briefing room. we got news this week, for example, that the administration has started giving white house press credentials to random pro-trump blogs. do you remember during the republican national convention there was a deliberately controversial, deliberately provocative anti-islam event held in the sidelines of the republican convention under the banner "gays for trump"? and you might remember some of the visu