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. attacking the media it's like. casa blanco being shocked when he walked into

apparently jay sakalo is being called the lanny davis for president trump. i don't know if you're aware of that, but you have all these contradictions coming out. tell me what you would do differently. >> first of all i'm going to ruin hi reputation. i've known him for a number of years, he's already civil, just as senator santorum is, so it's possible to disagree and be civil. he has a tough position because of the tweet. if president trump had the feeling that reading "the washington post," i might be under investigation, that would be accurate for president trump, why he would want to tweet what he did is the problem, and i sympathize with my old friend jay. he's a great lawyer, who has to defend what is in effect a contradiction in the message that he is truthfully saying is we have no knowledge there's an investigation formally for mr. mueller. he's not notified us. i cannot explain my client's statement other than he has a sensation, a feeling he's under investigation, but that's not what he put on 140 characters. >> right. right. similar to you, you k

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 attacking the media it's like. casa blanco being shocked when he walked.

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 taken on various forms first it was that he wouldn't win the primary then that he wouldn't win the election of course then once he had won he won't serve i remember c.n.n. the day before in order. and say what happens if he ge

they brought in lanny davis to take care of all their problems, right? you were there. you remember it. >> i actually wasn't there at that time. final question, james comey answered these questions under oath. is the president prepared to answer these questions under oath as well. >> look, the president has no obligation to answer anything. what we do know he has said time and time again to reiterate the president has never been under fbi investigation and james comey testified to that yesterday. >> corey lewandowski, thanks very much. >> my pleasure. >>> that was recorded just moments ago. i'm here with dan abrams. our chief political analyst matthew dowd and you saw, dan, let me begin with you. corey lewandowski pretty much doubled down accusing james comey of perjury. the president used the word lies this morning as well. this is now almost certainly in the office of the special counsel. he'll be asking the questions now and big question is who will he find more credible and do the president's actions add up to obstruction of justice. >> that was a heck of an intervi

lanny davis answers all these questions. all my lawyers answer all those questions.lawyers handle it the white house staff needs discipline. the president needs discipline. they're policy people. that's what president trump was elected to door. the truth is if they pass policies and g.d.p. hits 3% and wages group particularly for blue collar americans. the president is going to be in strong shape. that's what he was elected to do. harris: flood the zone with that narrative probably pretty quickly. >> that's what he has to be known for. steve: ari, for dropping by our new mezzanine level couch today, we are going to buy you a barbecue. just go out in front of the street in front of building. brian: and band on turf. steve: we will find out. great to see you. turn around, look here ho is here doing the headlines. jillian: good morning. if you are in a big mood, what else are you going to buy today? steve: i'm not paying. i'm not pulling coin. it's free for everybody. come down and have breakfast with ari fleischer. jillian: government contractor accused of leaking top