katherine graham later wrote she could never prove that nixon was behind it.. >> that's a local license. that's what fcc licenses. not network news. trump is talking to his base but unlike howard, i see his base as somewhat shrinking. look at the nfl polls. most of the public doesn't like the nfl protest but they don't like trump trying to tell the nfl what to do. >> divide that up. unpack that. how come people don't like to take the knee generally, they're more conservatively than the players but they don't like trump getting his nose in the thing. >> it violates a republican principle right now. >> i think it is very strange. but getting back to a point made earlier, i don't know that -- you know, we have more subscribers than ever before and our viewers on stories are up. while there might be in the national media some sense that we're not as trusts anymore as an institution overall, individual newspapers like the globe, the times. >> san francisco chronicle is doing well. the print is doing okay. has nothing to do with trump. it's the fact that they rely o

something i don't think has happened from the white house since richard nixon's team threatened katherine graham's ownership of post-"newsweek" broadcasting. >> reporter: it is extraordinary, andrea, and hopefully we'll have a chance to ask him about all of this. he's going to try to turn the page today. he's headed to talk about taxes. you're right. this is taking his criticism of the media a step further. this is not calling the media fake news, stories he doesn't like, this is a strategy we have seen him deploy in the past. but it also seems to be the strategy that he deploys when he doesn't like the story. so, again, he's going to try to put the focus on tax reform, his domestic agenda, something he very much needs. he very badly feels he needs a win with his legislative agenda largely stalled, so that will be the key focus from his perspective for the rest of the afternoon. but we'll certainly try to ask him about those comments, andrea. >> let me put something else in the mix. i was in aspen at the security conference. there was a pete williams interview with john kelly. still at that point

katherine graham said so, tip o'neill said he was the most intelligent president they'd ever -- as jack put it, he could consume amazing quantities of information and assimilate them and use them. but i was having a conversation with brent scowcroft at one point, you know, bush 41's amazing national security adviser, and he said, you know, zbig and i were talking one day, and zbig said i love this guy. i can give him a 50-page memo in the afternoon, and i get it back the next morning with notes in the margins on every page. and scowcroft looked at him and said, zbig, that's the worst thing you could possibly do. [laughter] he doesn't have time for that. jimmy carter, i think, got bogged down in the minutiae. i mean, in fairness, you know, stu eisenstadt will give you chapter and verse, and i'm sure jack could do, on all the legislation that was passed early in the carter, you know, more legislation than any president since lbj. but he couldn't prioritize. you need a chief of staff to prioritize, to make sure that the narrative is consistent, make sure that everybody's on the same page.