his inflammatory rhetoric is somehow a racist rhetoric i think really is at some level beyond the pa pale likewise with abby, she asked valid question about the future of the mueller investigation under a new leadership at the department of justice. and april ryan who, by the way, wasn't even present for the session where he simply went after her presumably because she had tried to ask him a question at his press conference earlier in the week. these are all professional women doing their job the right way and for him to single them out and be so ad hominem i think is a new level for those of us in the press corps have been used to this we're all stunned by what we saw this past week. >> brennan: dan, there is a lot to be said in parsing this, that the media shouldn't be talking about itself as much as we have been in terms of the aggressive line with the president. but tell us why this matters in the broader political sense? you did have some journalists organizations come out and criticize the phrasing of questions from the press s. there a policing that needs to be done or any way acce