[laughter] well, it was a gift from hemingway intended as a marketing blurb, and hemingway's walter mittyanalogy has a surface be truth to it, but it overlooked the obvious, and that is that the differences in mitty's day dreams, he always succeeded. in george's real life adventures, he always failed. the truth is, george's work had much more to do with every man than mitty which, you know, was always obscured by george's careful, receive depreciating -- self-depreciating prose. george plimpton was not a wimp. above his desk george had a photograph of hemingway walking a country road in winter kicking the can, you've probably all seen this picture, high over his head just days before he killed himself in 1961. in my office i had a photo of george wrestling the gun from sirhan sirhan's hand moments after he had shot george's friend, bobby kennedy, in los angeles in 1968. i was in george's office often, although he was never once in mine. i not at rolling stone, not at esquire, not at "sports illustrated" or anywhere else. this had nothing to do with the arrogance of never going to another

when that story was expanded into george's first bestseller called out of my league ernest hemingway wired george at the mayo clinic where he was treated for depression adding it was quotable he excerpt that is observed with the chilling quality of a true nightmare, the dark side of the moon of walter mitty. it was a gift from hemingway intended as a marketing blurb and the walter mitty analogy had a certain truth to it but also looked over the obvious and that is the difference that in mideast daydreams he always succeeded. it has to do with every man more than walter mitty which was always obscured by george's self depreciating prose. george plimpton was not a wimp. above his desk on 77th street the photograph of hemingway walking a country road, you have seen this picture high over his head. in my office a photo of george wrestling the gun moments after he shot bobby kennedy in los angeles. he was never once in mind. not sports illustrated or anywhere else. never going to a man's office, george was too busy, counter to his reputation for never missing a party,y, and under that pic

joining me now to fill us in on the gaps, mollie hemingway, senior editor for the "federalist."happened here? >> this "new york times" reporter came out under sharing sharing these vicious lies about melania trump. instead of -- he made this week apology. what is interesting to me is how the media are characterizing this. they are not saying that he was sharing vicious lies. they say he said unfounded rumors. it seems like there are no standards for what can or should be said about members of the trump family. you have had high-profile journalists and celebrities say all sorts of things about barron trump, donald trump's 10-year-old son, mocking his abilities, and his character. you have high-profile journalists think that ivanka trump was in an incestuous relationship with her father. now, this "new york times" reporter sharing this, gossiping about melania trump being an actual hooker. we know that if things like this were done about the previous administration, the media would not be hiding the identity of who is doing it and they would not be taking it so lackluster. >> mart

joining us now, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist.mer obama administration official. welcome to both of you. mollie, some perspective on what we just heard. >> michael kinsley famously said that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. i'm really glad that she was trying to say that the media should be holding politicians accountable. but she accidentally said was the obvious truth that we have a media complex that to push narratives with a partisan agenda, manipulating facts. that is the entire problem that we have going on here. we see the differences in how they treated the obama presidency, versus the term presidency. the carrying of the water for the iran deal. the hostility. all of these problems that we see, that is a big reason why we have problems with media credibility. >> martha: why wasn't the motto for "the washington post," marie, during the last eight years, that democracy dies in darkness, as dire and dramatic as that is? >> i agree that the media, parts of it, can be incredibly self-important at time

joining us now, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist.arf, former obama administration official. welcome to both of you. mollie, some perspective on what we just heard. >> michael kinsley famously said that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. i'm really glad that she was trying to say that the media should be holding politicians accountable. but she accidentally said was the obvious truth that we have a media complex that to push narratives with a partisan agenda, manipulating facts. that is the entire problem that we have going on here. we see the differences in how they treated the obama presidency, versus the term presidency. the carrying of the water for the iran deal. the hostility. all of these problems that we see, that is a big reason why we have problems with media credibility. >> martha: why wasn't the motto for "the washington post," marie, during the last eight years, that democracy dies in darkness, as dire and dramatic as that is? >> i agree that the media, parts of it, can be incredibly self-important

mollie hemingway and ruth marcus editorial page editor at "the washington post."e did predict the headlines about ranting and raving. >> the media are playing right into his hands, because top of every newscast was about donald trump going after the media. he's making every single white house correspondents a media reporter. and that means we are not getting to the more important to news. we need to know what he's doing and ask questions unrelated to the media. >> we may be playing into our hands, but isn't he maybe putting himself at war with the media? what people are worried about is jobs and safety. what people are worried about is him fixing the mess he says he inherited. >> i think we are seeing that both donald trump and some of his top aides don't want to answer questions about anything else. sean spicer a week ago deflected a question about sending more troops to afghanistan and said i defer to the pentagon. howie: let's look at the media reviews which i would say were apocalyptic. trump losing a grip on reality. unhinged, unmoored, unglued. a man about t

hemingway once said a man can write one true sentence.i started writing about a true war story just telling a true war story not good or bad or anything like that. i really think once i have something to focus on besides something shallow like meeting girls just to focus on it once i had a purpose again and something to go after it really helps me. you have to realize you were in this zone where you have to be 100% on your game all the time. you have to be 100% focus, 100% under game and you are doing something that's purposeful and something every day that's purposeful. you come home and it's what am i going to do now? nothing causes you to be on your toes like that. i think once they have something to chase after and put my full force towards that helped me out a lot. the book called slow by mccaul tchaikovsky, something like that, name. he said we are not our happiest when we are lacked -- relax. we are happiest when we are focused and doing something and that's what got me in the zone. back in iraq i was a now son 20 for seven and you

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hemingway said if a man can write one true sentence that is all me needs to do. i just started telling a true war story. not for good or bad but for the sake of telling something true. once i had something to focus on besides focusing on girls or my misery i think that helped me. once you oversee the war you have to realize you are in the zone where you are to be hundred percent on your game, all the time. you have to be a hundred percent focused and on your game and doing something purposeful. then you come home, and it is what am i going to do now? nothing has the same passion and causes you to be on your toes like that. once you had something to chase after and put my full force toward that helped me out a lot. there is a book called "flow" by someone with a weird name and he said that we are not really our happiest when relaxed but really the happiest when focused and doing something. in iraq, i was in that zone 24/7 and coming back and i am out of t. but writing, chasing and going after something greater than myself to help veterans brought me back to the zo

mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist and charles lane. chris, your thoughts. >> when we think about what an eventful couple of weeks this has been, you could argue nothing is more eventful than the moment we have reached now where one of the central threats to the world stability and world order in iran, we are having a fight over a nuclear program. this gets hot, this gets dangerous very fast and i think washington has snapped its head around to notice this event is taking place and this is really happening early in the administration. >> bret: senator graham from south carolina said iran will be and is testing the new president trump. it is the 3:00 a.m. call we heard about four years ago, perhaps. your sense. >> in some ways, this is new and in some ways it's not. the ballistic missile launch that just happened is the latest of about a dozen that have been done since the deal was implemented. the obama administration did tell congress that if they did these lodges, it would be taken as a violation of the resolution. then once they did

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here to break it down is mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist. good to see you tonight.irst your thoughts on this brouhaha that happened at the white house this evening. how serious a matter was that do you believe? >> i think it is serious and it was a petty move by the white house to exclude these organizations. at the same time the media reaction is a bit over the top. and this is not unprecedented. there have been things that we saw like this during the obama administration. so, it helps that the media just kind of keep an even-keel about themselves and don't flip out over every little thing donald trump says or does. >> martha: have you to wonder because there were certain specific people not included cnn among them, the "new york times." if it was just that the room was too crowded it wouldn't have necessarily targeted those individual outlets which led them to, you know, feel hurt and left out and to lash out. but, at the same time, it also pushed the other story that was our top story about the fbi and russia story sort of all the map. do you think it was intenti

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and charles krauthammer.ng all these tweets that i should have pointed out in the last segment that when it was said it was a muslim ban that is not a muslim ban because of indonesia and other countries, the 40-such countries that are not included in the muslim ban, that is fine. we were talking supreme court pick. just want to clarify. your thoughts on this pick and the back-and-forth that we have heard already. >> this is an absolutely wonderful pick to fill scalia's seat. neil gorsuch is incisive. his writing is so clear. he is very much in the mold of a scalia in that he is delightful to read. he is very good on religious liberty, which is a very important issue we have at this moment. he sided with hobby lobby and the little sisters of the poor in their fight to protect their lead number religious liberty. he ruled that prisons could not violate the religious liberty of prisoners, native american prisoners, very strong on that issue. very strong on peeling back against the overreach of the administrative

mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. susan page, washington bureau chief.es krauthammer. mollie, your thoughts on the message and the delivery at cpac. >> great discussion between reince priebus and steve bannon. we've had so many things coming out of the white house and honestly -- anonymously sourced pay they had a great discussion but it was interesting that he said they would like the support of conservatives. they also need them to hold the administration a combo so that the pressure they are getting inside d.c. is to moderate the t them to the white house and he was asking the crowds to make sure they do what they promised to do during the campaign. >> bret: clearly the fight against the media that he refers to as the opposition party is going to continue. they think that's a winning strategy. >> doesn't seem to like the mainstream media. certainly not backing off from a fight. he said it's not going to get better. it's going to get worse. i guess i think that's right. if this kind of rhetoric persists in persistently attitude towards the press is the

. >> the atlantic's molly ball, cnn jeff zellaney and molly hemingway of "the federalist." we're standing by for scott pruitt to address the employees at the environmental protection agency. we'll take you there live when he starts to speak. meanwhile, today's other top stories, the jewish community center association says 48 senators in 26 states and one province received just shy of 60 bomb threats last month. you might recall president trump got testy last week when he was asked about an increase in anti-semitism, but this morning after a tour of the smithsonian african-american history museum, the president spoke out. >> this too is a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms. the anti-semitic threats targeting our jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to rout out hate and prejudice and evil. >> strong words from the president there. even after this statement, some of his critics and maybe some of his critics will nev

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and charles krauthammer.ting all these tweets that i should have pointed out in the last segment that when it was said it was a muslim ban that is not a muslim ban because of indonesia and other countries, the 40-such countries that are not included in the muslim ban, that is fine. we were talking supreme court pick. just want to clarify. your thoughts on this pick and the back-and-forth that we have heard already. >> this is an absolutely wonderful pick to fill scalia's seat. neil gorsuch is incisive. his writing is so clear. he is very much in the mold of a scalia in that he is delightful to read. he is very good on religious liberty, which is a very important issue we have at this moment. he sided with hobby lobby and the little sisters of the poor in their fight to protect their lead number religious liberty. he ruled that prisons could not violate the religious liberty of prisoners, native american prisoners, very strong on that issue. very strong on peeling back against the overreach of the administrati

news & world report," and molly hemingway, senior editor for "the federalist." is this a conspiracy theory? >> it is a bit of a conspiracy theory but it's one that the clinton campaign has propagated since basically a week after the election. it pointed at comey over and over. but let's say john podesta is correct, let's say there were forces within the fbi that wanted hillary clinton to lose. let's say that is true. we still can't say that the letter that was dropped a couple of days before the election cost hu her the 80,000 votes that she came up short. mandy grumwald, one of clinton's top advisers, said there's bunch of reasons, you can blame the russians, you can say we didn't go into michigan soon enough, you can cite the comey letter. but there's no way to prove that one thing cost clinton the election. >> molly, what do you think? >> i think if you don't want a candidate embroiled in shenanigans with the fbi, you don't nominate someone who had the e-mail situation. other people have gone to prison, one man was sentenced to prison for having photos of a s

let's bring in james rosen, tom bevan, mollie hemingway.and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> i would watch a donald trump press conference any time any day. so entertaining. particularly after eight years of these lengthy press conferences where obama would take 90 minutes to get through four questions. this was fascinating to watch. there was a lot of substance on russia, talking about the labor secretary, what happened with mike flynn, immigration executive order. what made it entertaining was the outcome he's rough around the edges. he is imprecise with his language and that's problematic but he's focused on his goals. he is businesslike about that and he punches back. it's interesting. we are coming out of weeks of this narrative that russia was in control of the election and i think for a lot of people the way they hear that is that they are idiots -- the media want them to believe they are idiots for falling for the russia thing. nobody was pushing back on that and he pushes back hard. it was refreshing. >> bret: the suppo

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and charles krauthammer.ting all these tweets that i should have pointed out in the last segment that when it was said it was a muslim ban that is not a muslim ban because of indonesia and other countries, the 40-such countries that are not included in the muslim ban, that is fine. we were talking supreme court pick. just want to clarify. your thoughts on this pick and the back-and-forth that we have heard already. >> this is an absolutely wonderful pick to fill scalia's seat. neil gorsuch is incisive. his writing is so clear. he is very much in the mold of a scalia in that he is delightful to read. he is very good on religious liberty, which is a very important issue we have at this moment. he sided with hobby lobby and the little sisters of the poor in their fight to protect their lead number religious liberty. he ruled that prisons could not violate the religious liberty of prisoners, native american prisoners, very strong on that issue. very strong on peeling back against the overreach of the administrati

with us today they share their reporting and insight, cnn manu raju, molly hemingway and jackie kucinich of the daily beast. vice president mike pence addressing the nation's governors at a big luncheon in washington. we'll take a look at both of those as they happen. plus, an unusual move that could be seen as white house meddling in the fbi's investigation of russia's role in last year's campaign. we'll bring you more duties as well. let's begin around the table with what we just saw at cpac. a 50-minute speech from a president of the united states, a republican president, donald j. trump, who if we go back that long ago, was viewed with hostility by the republican party and the conservative movement. he now leads them both, and he walked into that room today looking not only to sell his agenda and to get support for his agenda, but it was remarkable. we could go through the greatest hits if we want. there were a lot of greatest hits from the campaign. if you listen to the entire speech, this is a new president telling the party and the movement you are going to move my way. move my wa

he is called the hemingway of twitter many times.re so many times that he will give me a message when we are traveling or in the office, and it stops at 139 characters. >> chris: that is during working hours, then there are the tweets that the president typed himself early in the morning or late at night. >> i get a little bang as we like to say, and i get the tweets. and then i will take the tweet and amplify it on to instagram as well as his facebook account. >> chris: this is the trump facebook page filled with an initial -- official announcements, and behind the scenes video that scavino tapes. >> as he is dictating a tweets, have you ever said to them, maybe not? >> there have been times, but not too often. i always believe in, and being with the man from day one, let trump the trump. >> has anybody heard of him, he has become quite famous in social media? >> chris: scavino was one of president trump's inner circle, but he goes back a lot longer than that. they met when scavino was 16 working at a country club in suburban new yo

hemingway once said if a man can write one true sentence that is all he needs to do.i started writing about a true war story not letting -- for good or bad service a hick of his saying something true. once i had something to focus on besides something shallow like meeting girls, once i really had a purpose again, something to go after that help me. once you oversee that war, where in his own where you have to be hundred% on your game all of the time. you have to be a hundred% focused and you're doing something that is purposeful and many come home and it's so what am i going to do now. nothing has the same passion and causes you to be on your toes. once i had something to chase after a put my full force toward that help me out a lot. there is a book called flow, he said that we are not really are happiest when we are relaxed pre-where happiest when we are focused in doing something. i think that is what got me in that zone. in iraq i in iraq i was in that zone 24/seven. writing in chasing something and going after something brighter than myself to help veterans, that

he's been called the hemingway of twitter many times with 140 characters.ll give me a message when we're traveling in the message, and it stops at 139 characters. chris: of course, that's during working hours. then there are the tweets the president types himself early in the morning or late at night. >> i get a little bing as we like to say -- [laughter] and i get the tweet. and then i'll take that tweet and amplify it on to instagram as well as his facebook account. chris: this is the trump facebook page filled with official announcements, presidential musingsing and behind-the-scenes video that dan takes. as he's dictating a tweet either in the campaign or now as president, have you ever said to him, maybe not? >> there's been times but not too often. but i've always believed in and being with the man from day one is let trump be trump. >> did anybody be ever hear of dan? he's become quite famous in social media. [cheers and applause] chris: dan was a mini celebrity on the campaign trail as one of candidate trump's inner circle. but he goes backing a lot

you know the hemingway phrase, you know? 10% is above water, and 90% is below?flip it upside down. you know, we want to show you that 90%, below water, but it's moving very, very slow. you know, it's a patient film, you know. but the character's revealing himself, you know, by these terms, you know, and his expressions. >> reporter: the adult chiron is played by trevante rhodes, a one-time track and field star at the university of texas who only found his way into acting his senior year. >> i think the beauty of the scene is he didn't know. >> reporter: an outgoing and gregarious man, he told me how he approached playing a character so different. >> it was really just about walking around l.a. with the three weeks i had prior to filming feeling as if-- feeling as if i had a secret to hide from everyone, you know? >> reporter: you were walking around feeling... >> walking around feeling as if i had this secret, feeling as if i connected with someone, they would be able to see through me. they would be able to see my insecurities. they would be able to see this ma

. >> meyers: hemingway.ep. >> meyers: and what was the moment you had when you realized you had to go away from that and develop your own style? >> you know, it was -- i wrote this novel, this big novel -- and everything you need to know about is in the title which means, i think, ed's wedding. i gave it to my wife and she responded honestly. i recoil bought that. i knew it wasn't a good book. so i went to work. i was a tech writer and we were having a conference call. i started almost out of angst drawing pictures and writing poems. when i brought them home, my wife genuinely laughed. so like a switch kind of went off. i think, you know, i didn't trust humor. i didn't trust pop culture. those are sort of low virtues. and when i got that reaction from her. i've been, like, my god you have been holding back -- your natural personality has been suppressed. so i went in the next day and said, okay, you're allowed to be funny and a little scatlogical. so a moment shifted. i have my ideas, i have my concepts, i h

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