more strained each day we'll get very different perspectives from breitbart senior editor at large joel pollak and from the former white house special counsel to bill clinton lanny davis let's begin with lanny who joins me from washington d.c. and addition to serving a special counsel to president clinton he is also a strategic media and crisis management expert and co-founder and partner of trident d.m.g. welcome lanny thank you are nice to be back well it's good to have a say have you back with us here on politicking lanny this last week there was an especially divisive press conference at the white house where deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders in the briefing room ripped on c.n.n. for again this new term that's becoming familiar fake news and then a local maryland editor later accused her of being inflammatory there seems to be quite a dichotomy going on between the white house press office of the trump administration and the media mainstream and otherwise what do you make of it. well first of all i'm completely shocked shocked shocked that the trump white house is.

more strained each day we'll get very different perspectives from breitbart senior editor at large joel pollak and from the former white house special counsel to bill clinton lanny davis let's begin with lanny who joins me from washington d.c. and addition to serving a special counsel to president clinton he is also a strategic media and crisis management expert and co-founder and partner of trident d.m.g. welcome lanny thank you are nice to be back well it's good to have a say have you back with us here on politicking lanny this last week there was an especially divisive press conference at the white house where deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders in the briefing room ripped on c.n.n. for again this new term that's becoming familiar fake news and then a local maryland editor later accused her of being inflammatory there seems to be quite a dichotomy going on between the white house press office of the trump and ministration and the media mainstream and otherwise what do you make of it. well first of all i'm completely shocked shocked shocked that the trump white house is

much for being laura good luck to you continuing the conversation and i'm now joined in studio by joel pollak senior editor at large and in-house counsel at breitbart news he is also the co-author of how trump what the inside story of the revolution joe thanks so much for coming back good to be with you so if we just heard lanny davis talk about the media bashing by the white house and its possible effect on legislation and and the trump base voters i'd love to get your take on is this media bashing is it calling out fake news what's your thoughts on this well the media in washington in particular is seen by many people who voted for trump i mean people who didn't as politicized as biased and they have a problem with regard to their integrity that problem is compounded by the fact that many of them really don't like don't trump they don't like his policies they don't like the fact that he rose through the republican primary partly by going after the media and they're trying to bring him down there's this narrative i think that's common in the mainstream media that he's about to disappear it's

going from left to right, to my far left is joel pollak, the senior editor at large and in-house counselbreitbart news. he's also the author of how trump one, the inside story of a revolution. ange-marie alfaro is a professor of political science and gender studies at usc dornsife, and she's a renowned scholar on the topics of the intersection of race, gender, class and sexuality politics. bill carrick is a democratic consultant and chief strategist for dianne feinstein and erika garcetti. to my right is arie kapteyn who is the executive director of the usc dornsife center for economic and social research. to his right is jill darling, the survey director for usc dornsife center for economic and social research. arie and jill attract the usc dornsife daybreak paul, which is gained some notoriety for the november 2016 election for showing trump to be doing much better than a lot of other competitor polls. and lastly david lauter is the washington bureau chief at the los angeles times and he works with and reports on the daybreak paul. so we're going to begin with a presentation of the day