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jim acosta was part of this. after mischaracterized cnn's rorgt, tried to ask a follow-up question. >> since you're attacking our news organization. >> not you, your organization is terrible. >> can you give us a chance to ask a question. >> she's asking a question. don't be rude. >> you're attacking us can you give us a question. >> not going to give you a question. >> can you state categorically. >> you are fake news. >> can you state categorically -- mr. president-elect that's not appropriate. >> has this ever happened to you before? >> no covered four presidents and i asked president obama once why can't we take out the bastards about the terrorism. you ask hard questions. >> i expected woman or man who followed to yield their time or say my question is jim's question. maybe the reporter wasn't thinking but i think it's time for the press to stand up for each other. i thought it would have been -- >> i don't hold anything against colleagues today. in the heat of the moment and had a lot of questions to ask. h

howie: jim acosta interrupting donald trump. sean spicer had some harsh words.as acosta out of line? >> i ran into jim acosta coming here the other dane he seeped to feel fine with it. his point was he was just trying to get a question. howie: you have no constitutional right to be called on. >> after he was ignored a couple times he should have let this go. this happened in the rose garden with president obama by a "daily caller" reporter. and the press said they were shocked. >> i have never seen a press conference like that with a president or president atlantic. someone described it as pandemonium. howie: keep it going for 30 seconds, it seemed on the rude side. so many critics are ripping donald trump for not divesting his business interest. as i was researching my family tree, i discovered a woman named marianne gaspard. i became curious where in africa she was from. so i took the ancestry dna test to find out more about my african roots. ancestry really helped me fill in a lot of details. howie: look at west front of the capitol, rehearsals are taking pla

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. >> harris: cnn's jim acosta says he was trying to ask mr. trump if he or anyone in his campaign was in contact with russia about the campaign. >> i felt it was only fair that if our news organization is going to be attacked, that we get a chance to ask a follow-up question about what donald trump was talking about, after i asked and you might say demanded, that we have a question, sean spicer, the incoming press secretary did say to me that if i were to do that again, i was going to be thrown out of this press conference. of course, i had to persist and try to get that question asked. >> harris: but incoming white house press secretary, sean spicer, says jim acosta was in the wrong. >> he told me that he thought he had a right to ask a question, even though cnn had been granted a question to one of their other correspondence. i informed him that i thought that no one should be treated that way, and treated that disrespectfully. and that if he did it again in the future i would have them removed. if someone did that a president obama or presi

jim acosta owes the president-elect apology. >> tucker: the president-elect basically made that same point. saying, you are fake news. there were organizations that were banned from trump events. i'm sort of wondering now why. the president-elect is certainly capable of responding directly to people he doesn't like in the media. he's pretty good at it. he probably is some sympathy from viewers when he does it. why would he abandon news organizations when he so clearly enjoys betting them around? >> he's not. the answer is committed to ensuring that the people have access to the press. what the president elected today, he's going to do it again. he is going to set the record straight. he's not going to let dishonest members of the media publish factually inaccurate stories about him, his family, and i think for a lot of the folks in the media, they're used to these politicians sitting back and taking it. that's not for the president-elect is. >> tucker: this story today was about buzzfeed, that printed that dossier. 35 pages of what he said is totally false allegations about donald tr

>> jim acosta, appreciate it. james woolsey served as director of central intelligence in the early clipton administration. senior adviser to the president-elect trump. thanks for being with us. do you know if president-elect trump is planning on making an announcement? >> i don't and i would leave it up to his people that work on press statements and so forth to carry that information. i don't know. >> yesterday you said that while you do believe that the russian hacked you also believe others could be behind it as well. today some sources are telling cnn there's no indication other countries like china or iran played a role because other countries have specific digital footprints. but do you believe others could have been involved? >> yes and it's important to keep a couple of things clear. the word hacking covers a multitude of possibilities. everything from looking into a system to see what's there and then going away to making changes to the voting machines so your side wins. so far i think most americans wou

jim acosta with that update.ria, usually when a press secretary goes to the briefing room, they make a statement, they give some information, update reporters and i speak as a former white house correspondent. but then they stick around and answered question. but he left. >> i think this is something the president clearly wanted him to do. the president spoke about it today at the cia event. there was a large march going on in washington and around the country which was not addressed in this statement that sean made and it's one of those statements a you can see that the president's upset, he goes out there, he makes a statement and then he leaves. and i guarantee you that it's because donald trump is angry about this. and in terms of the statement, it was carefully worded, as ryan pointed out, while we were listening. he may have included tv ratings and all the rest but why are we arguing about how many people were on the mall? >> i'm glad there's no other problems in the country now. everything else is fixed. w

should cnn's jim acosta apologize? >> i think he should apologize. he would never have done this with previous presidents. he said he has covered four. he would never have stood up and tried to interrupt them. here are the facts. facts are that cnn had a link to the buzzfeed story. by all implications they tried to steer traffic forward it. so i think they're complicit in the buzzfeed story. liz: buzzfeed essentially said it's unverified, you reader figure it out and calling themselves journalists in that regard. we're going to get to that in a moment. the "new york times" joke trump press conferences should be called press conflicts. here's the question, is the war on media bad for trump's agenda even a country? trump is being criticized for calling it nazi tactics what's been going on? >> the only people with all due respect to the media, the only people with lower ratings than congress are the media, and that's because they tried to shape the narrative of the debate for the past 12 years, whether it comes to how many people are on health care or o

jim acosta is here along with cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter. u feel that dynamic played out yesterday? >> you know, my feeling was that he was attacking us and he was attacking us repeatedly. attacking the credibility of this news organization calling us fake news. i thought if he's going to do that then he should take a question from us. that's why i was being persistent. i wasn't trying to be rude or disrespectful. i have no constitutional right to ask the president or president-elect a question. i thought in fairness in that moment he should have given us a question. >> what happened after that, i think, you can tell me how you feel there's a real solidarity in most of the press that were in all of this together. you attack one of us, you attack all of us. something happened right after that that i want to get your take. a reporter from abc asked your question and i know is there this time honored tradition in the press room if somebody is shouted down and the president doesn't answer your question that somebody else picks up for you >> there

i want to turn to jim acosta, brian selter, and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, a big development tonight. seems like every night, tonight the director of national intelligence issuing a statement concerning the report presented to the president-elect and confirms cnn's reporting. >> and confirms he spoke with the president-elect tonight. james clapper. i'll read it in full allowing viewers to make their own judgment and draw your attention to a few lines. this evening i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect donald trump to discuss recent media reports about our briefing last friday. i expressed by profound sna at the leaks that have been appearing in the press. we also discussed the document circulated even before the ic became aware of it. emphasized this is not a u.s. intelligence community product and i don't believe the leaks came from within the ic. it has not made any judgment. information in the document is reliable and didn't rely on it under for conclusions however part of your obligation is to ensure that policy makers are provided with the f

jim acosta now outside of trump tower. jim we'll talk about what dr. king's son said said in a moment. can you give us a context for the meeting? who called whom? what was discussed. >> that is a good question. we don't have all the details in terms of who called who. >> okay. >> but we do know this follows some plans for donald trump to go down to washington today. he was set to go down to washington today according to his counsellor, incoming coun l counsellor kellyanne conway. then that was scrapped and then we learned that martin luther king iii was meeting with the president-elect. donald trump did emerge from the elevator with martin luther king iii for a few moments. then he went back up in the elevator, went upstairs in trump tower and did not answer any questions. then for a few moments, martin luther king iii as well as one of trump's aids started walking away. we started shouting down the corridor asking mr. king to come back and talk to us. which he did do. that's you heard him make those remarks saying he does not agree with the president-

cnn's jim acosta was in the middle of it. >> reporter: donald trump lashed out at the media that the russian government may have compromising information on the president-elect. he blasted it as fake news. the president-elect appeared to accept the intelligence community's finding that russia unleashed a hacking intended to harm hillary clinton. >> i think it was russia. we also get hacked by other countries and other people. i can say that when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn't make a big deal out of that. >> reporter: trump took on other topics and his business to be put in a trust to be run by his sons. he vowed once again to build a wall on the border and have mexico pay for it. john and christine. >> jim, thank you. last night, anderson cooper pressed kellyanne conway on the russian intelligence report. cooper, he tried to get conway to point outer errors in cnn's reporting. she kept switching focus to the sources and credibility of the information. once again, cnn did not report the underlying information. >> i'm trying to figure

it is 100% false. >> jim acosta joins us now. trump tweeting out new comments tonight. >> reporter: he's spreading more doubts about the intelligence community's findings. he put out tweets. we'll put them on screen for you saying the democratic national committee would not allow the fbi to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by russia. how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never can requested an examination of the computer servers. it doesn't account for the fact we're learning that the intelligence community is identifying is some of these go tweenz between the russian hackers and wiki leaks. so the president-elect appears to be behind the news cycle a little bit in that regard. it sets up an interesting confrontation we'll see or not see. it's going to happen behind closed doors between the president-elect and intelligence community when he sits down with the leaders to go after their findings on russian hacking in the november election. it is interesting to note that in that room will be

more on all of that now from our jim acosta. >> reporter: on this mlk day, donald trump met behind closed doors with martin luther king, iii. the son of the civil rights icon. >> certainly, he said that, that he is going to represent america. he said that over and over again. >> reporter: it was a brief reprieve from the controversy swirling around his inauguration. the incoming 45th president is slamming german chancellor angela merkel for allowing syrian refugees into her country. >> i have great respect for her. i felt she was a great leader. i think she made one very catastrophic mistake. that was taking all of these illegals -- taking all of the -- people from wherever they come from, and nobody really knows where they come from. you'll find out. >> reporter: that drew a sharp response from secretary of state john kerry to cnn's christiane amanpour. >> i thought, frankly, it was inappropriate for a president-elect of the united states to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a direct manner. he will have to speak to that as of friday. he is responsible for that relation

at wednesday's press conference, trump refused to answer questions from cnn's jim acosta. mr. trump: cohead. >> mr. president like -- mr. trump: not you. not you. your organization is terrible. >> sir? mr. trump: cohead. suzette -- don't be rude. >> can you give us a question? mr. trump: i am not going to give you a question. you are fake news. go ahead. president-elect gave the next question to a reporter with breitbart news, a web site that champions the white nationalist movement. cnn's jim acosta later said that trump's spokesperson, sean spicer, threatened to have him expelled if he tried to ask another question. the press conference was trump's first since july, when he called on russia to hack hillary clinton's email servers. on wednesday, trump said it was probably russia that broke into the dnc's servers and hacked john podesta's emails, but insisted he had no loans and no business dealings with russia. this is nbc reporter hallie jackson questioning trump. >> will you release your tax returns to prove what you're saying about no deals in russia? mr. trump: tax return

, director clapper confirming the cnn story, which led to the shouting match with correspondent jim acosta, which made donald trump label cnn label an entire network fake news. >> this all became clearer to me tonight. i watched kellyanne conway on cnn. and the strategy is to conflate the information that was posted on buzzfeed in a 34 page -- >> they layed out a dossile for everyone to see. >> the trump strategy is to conflate that product with what was briefed to mr. trump, which was hard evidence of russian involvement in not just our election, but attempts to hack the state department and companies. they were prepared to tell him about this other stuff that was floating out there. and james clapper's statement seemed to be trying to explain that intel comes in different buckets. some of it is stuff gathered from human intelligence. some of it is just stuff we tell a president because it's out there and it's about him. so i thought that what director clapper was trying to do was now to sort of calm the waters by putting these two things back in the two different buckets in which they be

i want to turn right away to jim acosta, brian stelter and our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. a statement issued that the report presented to the president-elect confirms cnn's reporting. >> and confirms that he spoke directly with the president-elect tonight. this is james clapper. i want to read the statement in full, allow the viewers to make their own judgment. but it begins this evening. i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect donald trump to discuss recent media reports about our briefing last friday. i expressed my profound dismay about the leaks that have been appearing in the press and we both agree that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security. we also discussed the private security company document which was widely circulated among the might yeah, members of congress and staff even before the intelligence community, that is the ic, became aware of it. i emphasize that this document is not a u.s. intelligence community product and that i do not believe the leaks came from within the ic. the ic has not made any judgmen

jim acosta back to you at white house. today the president said going to order investigation into voter fraud. sounds like a subject change or shift into what he actually said that millions of people voted illegally. is he change up here? are they switching -- what is happening? >> did talk to senior administration official earlier who said that president trump could sign executive action as soon as tomorrow to launch federal investigation into something most election experts agree is not a problem. widespread voter fraud just doesn't exist in the u.s. when we heard president trump talking about david muir at abc, breaking it down to people who live in two different states and registered in them, dead and on the voter rolls. not the same as what he said shortly after the election and what he said at congressional reception the other tonight that he believes millions of people in the u.s. are voting illegally. it's a shift rhetorically in terms of what he's saying about this but sounds like trying to launch an investigation

>> jim acosta is a good reporter. i know the whole art of asking leading questions, are you outraged by so-and-so? but if you asked the question and then answer your own question, what is the point? >> tucker: yeah, let me tell you a question. >> "saturday night live" writer katie rich has been suspended indefinitely for a really sick joke on twitter about president trump's son barron. i will not repeat it here. he is ten years old. are there no limits? >> tucker: with trump, i don't think there are. it's fair to be -- they should be fair even if they despise the person. leave the kid alone. that is the most unfair. he's not responsible for what his parents do. none of us are. how we, great to see you. up next, hundreds of thousands of women came to washington, d.c., last week and for a march. but what were they marching for? one of the marchers will join us to answer this question that still hangs in the air two days later. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back

jim acosta demanding the chance to question him about it. >> not you, not you! your organization is terrible. your organization is terrible! >> a question, sir. >> go ahead. >> quiet, quiet! >> mr. president-elect. >> don't be rude. >> don't be rude. >> you're attacking us. can you give us a question. >> don't be rude. i'm not going to give you a question. >> you are fake news. go ahead. >> can you say categorically -- [ applause ] >> you hear a pause in the background and that came from trump's staffers who were seated in the back of the room. >>> leading up to the inauguration, we are hearing from you. pete just returned from listening to you. >> my name is rebecca. >> reporter: rebecca bryant stepped into our booth with one thing on her mind, donald trump's first press conference since winning the election. >> you are fake new >> reporter: trump blocked questions from cnn's jim acosta. rebecca said that confirms her fears about the president- elect. >> it doesn't look good for the american people. >> reporter: here's the background. website buzzfeed posted un

and donald trump according to my notes looked at jim acosta and said, of cnn "you are fake news." there was a lot of talk about the intelligence community. andrea mitchell is standing by in washington with more on that. andrea, this was from extraordinary when donald trump invoked the intelligence community, all but directly accusing them of leaking the substance of meetings he has. >> reporter: he did. he actually said that he believed that very suspect so-called russian dossier was leaked by the intelligence community and also meetings that he's held with the intelligence leaders, private meetings with intelligence briefers have been leaked, when no one in his office knew about them, not even his executive assistant. he tweeted today against the intelligence community about that very suspicious, very salacious dossier that was reported by buzzfeed and cnn, not as the president-elect pointed out by other news organizations, including this one. he said that you know, frankly that he feels that the intelligence community in leaking this, what are we doing living in nazi germany? he

jim acosta. good evening. very interesting to watch this briefing. day two of the trump presidency and -- actually first full day and confronted by massive protests right outside his window but trump white house is focused on the crowds at inauguration yesterday, play sean spicer where he gave a blistering statement full of inaccuracies and took no questions. >> secondly, photographs of the inaugural proceedings framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the national mall. this was the first time that covering was on the grass on the mall. the grass eliminated this visual before. this was also the first time fencing and magnetometers were used to stop them as quickly as inaugurations past. >> i was down there. i wanted to experience it like everybody else instead of the media, public entrance and waited in line with the public. weren't hundreds of thousands waiting. only about 100 or so where i was in the particular line where i was and weren't that many. what about these magnetometers and floor cove

the mood in the room got really hot, very combative, jim acosta who i've known since the days when we cbs news together, really kind of had a little bit too much in the frustration. too much of the cnn directed his way, that has been at him and all these trump events in the past months. and he said that's it, i will say my piece. and he did. >> tucker: do you think you can measure the vibe in the room? do you think they were on his side or trump's side? >> for the most part, there are a lot of people who were on jim acosta's side, to say trump shouldn't be icing out media in a press conference. but then at the same time, there are a lot of people who are thinking that, you know, even though he is the president-elect, this is a presidential press conference, you don't go yelling at the guy who is in charge. i know that something like that would not go over well at the white house. at least in the presidential press conference. i would approach the things that even if you want to get answers and you are determined to get the answer, you have to do it in a respectful way. and i will leav

i know jim acosta very well. he should not have tried to shout down the president-elect. had the shoe been on the other foot and had this been obama or clinton, he would never have made the task to try to talk over the president-elect and the dossier had never seen the light of day for both feed or been reported on by cnn. on mac you make some good points and i want to address all of these. let's start with just the decorum. he makes a valid point, jim acosta might not have been as aggressive with obama or clinton, seem to lose all sense of decorum and attacked the president-elect in that way. >> in part because the president lost decorum at the beginning of this press conference. he said the tone for this press conference when he went not just after the veracity of what cnn and both feed were reporting but after them as individuals and organizations. this isn't a locker room after a basketball game or something where you can go after whatever reporter you want to. the president-elect should act like a presidential candidate who is going to be president in tween 9 days. t

first off, they cnn reporter, jim acosta, got shot down by the president-elect, was he angry?ot down, not just once but a number of times, as he continued to try to press trump into at least giving him the opportunity to ask a question. it had become clear to me, bill, about an hour and a half before this press conferences that cnn was going to get iced out. eight suggested that there were a lot of people in the front row that won't get to ask a question. i took that to be cnn based on the fact that they had published a report about trump. they were the first ones to publish it, as well. did acosta get angry? i don't think he got angry. i think he got rather frustrated. i have known him, for a long time. we were out to i've had a long relationship with him. he is just a dogged reporter, john mica wants to get a question. he is also the white house correspondent for cnn. as a white house correspondent, you want to be able to ask a question of the president, or in this case, the president-elect. and if you get boxed out the way donald trump balked at "the washington post" earlie

. >> jim acosta, thanks very much. now to the president's new call for a major voter fraud investigation. unrelenting focus on baseless allegations raising many questions tonight. let's bring in pamela brown. any sense on how this major investigation will unfold? >> we are still waiting on word from the white house. president trump called for widespread voter fraud investigation. it is anyone's guess about who would be in charge. officials i have spoken to at the department of justice which typically investigates say an investigation like this would be unprecedented. >> remember i told you it is a rigged system. it's terrible. not rigged for us. believe me. >> today president trump announcing without proof he wants a quote major investigation into voter fraud pleading focus on those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and those registered to vote who are dead. the call comes on the heels of his repeated and unfounded claim that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the election. trump lost popula

for him to treat jim acosta that way, so unprofessional. >> bill: it's not news. you're wrong.ting between the intelligence people and president-elect was a private meeting. it was a national security meeting. >> you're a newsman. you know that's not so. >> bill: sure it is. there was no press conference. >> the substance may be frivolous -- >> bill: it was a leak by the u.s. intel community. >> you cannot deny that the intelligence community briefing donald trump on the salacious, horrifying activities -- >> bill: that is between trump and the people in the intel community. go ahead. >> i'm agreeing with you 100%. there had to be, but it didn't have to be the intel community. remember, john mccain was give this 35-page dossier by christopher steele, a former british mi6 agent. now, mccain has access to this. why doesn't -- okay, now, somehow, news agencies got their hands on it. i heard tom brokaw this morning say he heard about a month ago. he decided not to go with it because they couldn't substantiate it. he did the right thing. but buzzfeed didn't. they published the dossi

begin with kirsten powers, jim acosta, david swerdlick, maggie haberman. good evening to all of you. thank you so much. gym -- jim, you're at the white house. president trump signed executive order to begin moving towards building a wall on the u.s./mexican border. he talked about it this evening. >> will american taxpayers pay for the wall? >> ultimately it will come out of what is happening with mexico. starting negotiations relatively soon and be in a form reimbursed by mexico. >> they'll pay us back. >> absolutely 100%. >> so american taxpayer pay at first. >> be reimbursed from mexico. >> mexico's president said will pay adding it goes against our dignity as a country and our dignity as mexicans. he says simply they're not paying. >> he has to say that. but i'm telling you, there will be a payment, it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. you have to understand what i'm doing is good for the united states. it's also going to be good for mexico. we want a stable solid mexico. >> when does construction begin? >> as soon as we can physically do i

our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is with us. command of the most powerful office in the world, he is definitely doing things his way. the moment few saw coming has arrived. donald trump in the nation's new first family touched down just outside washington, not on his private jet but on u.s. military aircraft and climbed into his motorcade for a ride the world will never forget. >> this is a gorgeous room. a total genius must have built that. >> reporter: within minutes trump arrived at his glitzy new d.c. hotel where he praised his cabinet choices. >> we have, by far, the highest iq of any cabinet ever assembled. >> reporter: and appeared to assign his new ambassador to the united nations a task normally set for the secretary of state, a trip to china. >> i'm going to send her over to speak to china. and when i send her over to speak to everybody, we'll do a lot of great things. >> our job is to be ready on day one. the american people can be confident that we will be. >> reporter: earlier in the day across town, vice president-

with jim acosta, own way that the going to do that.rnalist who was asking the question at a press conference, he kept asking permission to ask a question. maybe what we should do in the future is just ask a question, stop asking permission and just get in there and ask a question. i saw so in there and ask a question. i saw so many people on twitter saying why didjim acosta just so many people on twitter saying why did jim acosta just after question, rather than asking permission. and thatis rather than asking permission. and that is something we may have to start doing. maybe we need to start forging relationships with the communications people who are working under trump, people like kelly ed conway, people likejohn spicer, these are people we are going to have to build connections with and work with, and try and get them to talk to us. that said, though, is there not an obligation on the otherjournalists in the room to back up their colleague, and to ask that same question, or to state hang on, if onejournalist isn't allowed to put

jim acosta and two journalists who broke the stories and jim sciutto, jake tapper. jake, the trump team continues to misrepresent the facts over and over again on multiple fronts even when i present clear facts to kellyanne conway last night, she would not admit they were wrong. now that we also have confirmation, fbi director james comey personally briefed president-elect trump verbally about the two-page synopsis, do you expect the trump version of this story to change at all? >> no, because it's been the modus operandi for trump and his team to say what they believe to be true even if it is disputed by facts. and then stick with it. it doesn't -- you know, if it's mr. trump's claim that vaccines cause autism, which is false, or if it's his claim that there were thousands of muss limbs celebrating 9/11 in new jersey, which is false, or it's hi claim that there was a report that seems credible about ted cruz's father and lee harvey oswald and the kennedy asass nuclear facility -- assassination, which is crazy, they'll keep doing and saying what they want. it's a fa

jim acosta reports. >>> the focus on president trump's news conference with british prime minister theresaabout the special relationship between the u.s. and britain and more about the frayed relations between his administration and mexico. >> we had a very good call. i have been very strong on mexico. i have great respect for mexico. i love the mexican people. >> reporter: the president revealed only a few details about his morning phone call with enrique pena nieto one day after the mexican leader abruptly canceled his trip to the white house next week in response to mr. trump's plan to build a wall on the border during a remarkably brief 18-minute news conference the president still with no details on who's paying for the wall. >> we are going to be working on a fair relationship and a new relationship, but the united states cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies, and millions and millions of people losing their jobs. that won't happen with me. we're no longer going to be the country that doesn't know what it's doing. >> reporter: the readout of the

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jim acosta at the white house. a very busy day. let's start with sean spicer's first official press briefing. you were there. very different mood than saturday's. >> very different mood. this was an attempt to reset relations between this white house and the news media after you heard the president of the united states and his press secretary really go after the media on saturday accusing reporters of falsely reporting on the crowd size at donald trump's inauguration last friday. and that episode was filled with sean spicer going to the podium on saturday and basically delivering some false metrics in terms of how they came to the conclusion that donald trump's inauguration was the most watched ever, which was not the case. but at this briefing today, sean spicer was not yelling at reporters. he was answering questions as the white house press secretary should do. i asked him at one point why was there such a big focus on saturday on this crowd size issue, and here's what he had to say. >> isn't that just part of the conversation t

what do you think, was he being rude or jim acosta should donald trump have answered some acosta's questionsnd the reason donald trump says cnn was fake news and brian touched on this a while ago, monday night cnn reported that during briefing on friday donald trump was presented with a two-page addendum, kind of a summary of this -- a compilation of dociay and trump was never given the summary. the papers were included in the package to show trump. this stuff right here, this is verified. this is unverified. so that's how it all came about. the beating that the press took yesterday does not make any reporter's job easier. the people love it and the intel community hates it and caused the director of national intelligence, mr. clapper, to pick up the phone last night and he called donald trump and then put out this statement. ainsley: this evening i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect trump to discuss media reports about our briefing last friday. i expressed my profound dismay of the los angeles that have been appearing at the press and we both agreed that they are extremely co

. >> let's begin with jim acosta, joining me from the briefing room. jim, help me understand sean spicer says it's not a ban, jim kell kellie says it's not a ban, but the president calling it a ban 24 hours ago. >> reporter: that's right. tweeting not on potus, but in twitter. during that week a lot of bad dudes out there. exclamation point. the word dudes in quotation marks. why did the president use that word in a tweet that it's not a ban and he said he's just using the word that the media is using, he puts quotation marks around the word bad, around the word dudes. >> but not around the word ban. >> so if it's part of his parlance and vocabulary, when refer to go this why can't it be ours? the other question that came up repeatedly was this issue of secretary kellie at the department of homeland security was he briefed on the executive order before signing it, you heard secretary kelly saying yes he was, and you heard sean spicer saying yes, he was as well and reporters saying no, the reporting on "the new york times" was accurate, i think it was wh

>> jim acosta, thanks very much.ith us, kirsten powers, john king, gloria borger, dana bash, cnn senior political commentator david axelrod is here. he's seen a couple of these are president obama. american spectator senior contributor jeffrey lord during the reagan years. and former obama senior adviser van jones, who joins us as well tonight along with the daily beast's matt lewis. a lot to talk about, but dana, it is happening. >> it's on. >> you have a real sense in washington today walking around the levers of power are shifting and the pomp and ceremony has begun. >> no question. we saw just throughout the afternoon and early evening the first sort of official act of the inaugural celebration was a solemn one with donald trump going and laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. and then of course what is even though he said it was the first one, it is a tradition, certainly not the first time, a president-elect has had a concert at the lincoln memorial. you know, what was notable to me was that he certainly

>> the next reporter should have said i yield my time to jim acosta.r just restate jim acosta's question. >> all journalists at this point must realize they are all in the same boat. and that this is a president that is going to attack the truth tellers. and so everyone has to have everybody else's back. and i was just noticing on msnbc, you know, coming to the defense of cnn. and it was nice to see that this is not a competitive thing. >> fox as well. >> i'm sure they have. >> and the "wall street journal." right. >> that's the way it should be. because the only way we're going to deal with a president who -- what's the politifact number? 84% of his statements are either half true or not true at all. i mean, it's just some outrageous number. that's why we need you. that's why you have to do your job. the average person, people watching this at home right now, don't have obviously the means -- i mean, they have social media, which is great. but if the journalists don't do their job, then this is what we're going to be stuck with. that press conference

thank you very much, jim acosta. a member of the democratic house leadership just as that meeting, sonny hoyer. and congressman, you were there. you just were with the president. what happened inside that meeting? you were obviously there with just a few others in leadership. >> well, i think this was largely, erin, an opportunity for him to get to know members of the leadership that he did not already know. and it was an opportunity to just have a, frankly, a conversation, although serious issues were brought up, but discussion in depth did not occur. we brought up the affordable care act. he brought up a letter the president had sent to him, saying that if, in fact, president trump had a bill which would expand health care coverage to all, would make sure that costs were affordable to all, and access was assured, then he could support such a bill. but the trick is getting to such a bill. we reiterated that in those circumstances, of course, we would work with him on that effort. to date, we have not heard anything

what jim acosta is doing -- did he go far, sure.this on your show. at one point, tony snow got so exasperated, he said, "exhibit, henry" ." >> tucker: did you talk to him before? >> i was at cnn. i think there was a little undercurrent that he had been at fox and i was at cnn, he wanted to stick it t to me. i got invited to the palm here in washington. he'sou sitting there with frien, they surprised me with his teacher. not only do they get you this t-shirt, which makes fun of you. but you stood up to him. we leaked it to a reliable source. we had a huge item on monday how your friends brought this t-shirt because you are battling the white house. that's funny. literally during the lunch, ii got a phone call from one of my bosses at cnn saying, "can you talk, can you walk outside"? sure. "tony snow had a recurrence of cancer" i said, what? had this mixed reaction of and getting emotional thinking about saying, first of all i can't believe tony is sick again. sadly, he died very shortly after that. everyone in the white house press c

we start with jim acosta. >> that is appropriate. >> jim magma, who has the latest from new york. >> reporter: john and christine, donald trump lashed out at the media over reports that the russian government may have compromising information on the president-elect. at the conference, trump blasted it as fake news. the president-elect appeared to accept the u.s. intelligence community finding that russia unleashed a hacking operation intend to harm hillary clinton. >> i think it was russia, but we also get hacked by other countries and people. i can say that when we lost 22 million names and everything else that was hacked recently, they didn't make a big deal out of that. >> reporter: trump took on other topics, defending the business to be braplaced in a trust to b run by his sons. he vowed once again to build a wall on the border. something mexico says it will never pay for. >> thank you, jim. top level intelligence officials held a closed door briefing to discuss the latest on russian hacking of the 2016 election. how is this being received by the kremlin? let's bring in correspo

the clip you just played, jim acosta was inappropriate, rude and disrespectful. he did it twice.er the press conference was over and the president-elect left the area. i went over to him and informed him that his behavier was rude, disrespectful and inappropriate and fit happened again i would have him removed. i have been doing republican party politics for 20 years. if i watched president obama or president clinton treated that way i would react the same way. having a reporter stand up and basically yell and scream and act as inappropriately and rude as he did is a disgrace. we are better than that, and he was an embarrassment to the press corps. i think he's an embarrassment to the press corps. the rest of the press was behaving appropriately. his network already had a question answered. he owes an apology to the president-elect and the entire press corps for his inappropriate behavior. lou: when ronald reagan entered the white house, he was being very clear of what had become an outrageous scene with the press corps would end with president reagan would be treated with respec

with the president-elect had something for everyone, but particularly for cnn and their reporter jim acosta. i have not seen anyone, either a president or president-elect, in a manner heated. >> are they kidding? they would never dare do that to president obama. not for a second. i thought he handled it very well. he shut it down. today was very important, because they need to note that this is going to be different than they are used to comment that he's not going to let them make false allegations, attacks, and do this type of thing and act like a ringling brothers circus. he was unflappable. and he proceeded forward, and another reporter was behaving in the right way. answer the question. >> lou: there was a time in this country when presidents and president-elect's demanded respect. this president has not even held news conferences. this president being the one who just said good night was last night. it's going to be an interesting dynamic. it's pretty clear that donald trump does not have any qualm about there being there being consequences for reporters and news organizations dealing

our correspondent jim acosta has more. >> reporter: he will sit down with american car companies to talk jobs. he chipped away at president obama's agenda. he signed the executive actions withdrawing from the tpp and federal ban of abortions overseas. he ordered a freeze on hiring, but that does not apply to the military. he is facing a border tax on products in companies shift overseas. >> a company that wants to fire all of its people in the united states and build some factory some place else and think that product will just flow across the border into the united states, that will not happen. it will have a border tax to pay. >> reporter: the new white house press secretary is doing damage control over the coverage of the size of the inauguration. on saturday, spicer got facts wrong. inserting it had the biggest attendance ever. he carbon monoxiomplained thene >> i have been doing this a long time. i have never seen it like this. it is demoralizing. when you sit there and look out, you are in awe of how are awesome that view is and how people people are there. you go back and you turn