eric bowler and michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policywill go to you first on this, tim, as the trump biographer at the table. donald trump when he tweeted these attacks on cnn which happened to coincide coincidentally with vladimir putin forcing foreign news organizations to declare themselves foreign agencies, foreign agents, this was noted by two interesting figures, john mcclauf lynn, former fbi director and general michael hayden who used to run the nsa and the cia. they tweeted the following. mclaughlin. if you favor cnn or fox, you may be numb and no longer capable of outrage. scare kwi if that's our new normal. hayden said if this is who we are or who we have become i have wasted 40 years of my life. until now it was not possible for me to coop receive of an american president capable of such outrageous assault on truth, a free press and the first amendment. >> they're propagandists. they're agenda driven. putin is much more sophisticated about it than trump is. >> yeah. >> trump is essentially propagandizing to feed his own ego.