back with me now the panel, carl bernstein, kelly mcbride, olivia nuzzi and ben ferguson.old scarborough doesn't want to show these text messages because he uses these people as sources, anonymous sources. he doesn't want to burn them. i think it would help to have some evidence to back up his assertion. what do you make of this idea the president could be using his friends in the media to try to silence his opponents. >> yeah, when -- when scarborough and mika talked about that on friday -- first of all i thought they responded with restraint and kind of power and authority to those horrible tweets that trump wrote about mika brzezinski. and you know when we say we should all be covering the stories that are important, we shouldn't be focusing on this. listen we should be focusing on a president who says such things about women. it's a role model that's destructive to this country and we should be passionate about it. we should not just say oh, calm down. so that's part of it. the power of their friday morning statement and i watched it twice. i watched it live and i watc