gone after the press, it has made me, as a journalist, more interested in the american press. the "new york times" more and the last three months then i have the previous 10 years. ie reason i have done this is feel there is a need now for credible voices, maybe later than ever before. every time that donald trump about fake news, i want to read i respect,ose view giving me an interpretation of what is going on. , donald trumpway has been good for serious journalism, because he has made people realize what happens if we were all brainwashed into believing that everything supposedly independent voices are saying, what is independent -- wasn't independent? what kind of society would we have? i think people react against that thought. they kind of get off their backsides and they read and they want to find out what is going on. happened that is what -- i believe what has happened the last six months has been a boon for serious journalism. and the "new york times" has seen a surge in prescriptions is a testament to the fact that other people other than me have had this reaction. g

press. from the american bar 's annual meeting. this is an hour and a half. george: welcome. thanks for coming on a saturday morning in the summer. i think we have a great panel here on trump and the press and the first amendment. before we do anything else, i would like to introduce a wonderful panel. i think them for coming out. to my immediate left is floyd abrams. he has been the preeminent first amendment attorney in this country for the last 40 or so years, worked on the pentagon papers case for the "new york times" in 1971. has been in the supreme court for basically every major media organization and high appellate courts since then. as a matter of disclosure, 43 years ago today, i was working about three offices down the hall from him as a summer associate, so we have known each other and being friends along time. to his immediate left is jim rutenberg, a media columnist of the "new york times." jim joined the "times" in the 2000's. has been the city hall bureau chief in new york. h

press in this country.she would be in serious trouble. >> one of the roles the press plays here is a role that occurs in parliament in england. we have no question time here. the president does not appear in front of the congress to defend himself or articulate his views except in a speech once a year. so, one of the roles that the press has come to play here is not dissimilar from the role that members of parliament play in pursuing the prime minister for what she has said or not said or done and not done. otherwise, we wouldn't have anything. i mean, there is no other mechanism in american political and cultural life by which the president is put to the task of responding to that which his critics have said about him. >> jim, you sort of mentioned the outpouring of leaks in this administration. why is that? why has this administration been leakier than any other and leaks have become kind of a currency in which you've gotten news? >> i think there are a lot of reasons for that. first of all, the president

especially the white house press corps.uring my 10 you've, at least to my recollection, ever called out someone who has crossed the line on a story. i think the undermines -- >> jimmy: is that true? >> i rarely have seen any -- they always have an excuse for why that story, oh, we were going to correct it and we checked with the sources and now -- and it's never -- there's never an admission of guilt. once in a while you see the little correction, we erred in putting the period here or there. but i do believe that the healthier press corps that we have, the better democracy that we have. >> jimmy: lumping everyone together, though, as fake news, just seems terrible to me. >> sure, but -- >> jimmy: you're a catholic and i'm a catholic as well. i'm offended when people lump all priests together as child abusers. i find that to be unfair to those who aren't. >> i agree. >> jimmy: but -- >> as someone who's a conservative and a republican, i spent 25 years in washington, d.c. being told, conservatives want this. republicans are

do you feel you lost the trust of the press corps? >> some of them. again, i knew -- >> do you understand why? >> in some cases i do. again, i also think it's amazing what a one-way street it is. >> reporter: perhaps the most famous and infamous press secretary in history, portrayed on "saturday night live" by melissa mccarthy. >> i would like to begin today by apologizing on behalf of you, to me. >> reporter: and having a demanding boss didn't make spicer's job any easier. let's just talk about president trump. some of the statements, some of the tweets, the veracity has definitely been challenged. was he ever tough to defend? >> he's always said, and he means it, and he's right that he's always his best spokesperson. he knows what he wants to say, how to say it. >> that makes it tough for a spokesperson. >> sure it does, absolutely. no one said this was going to be easy. i knew what i was getting into. >> did you really, though? >> no one knows until you take the job. the scrutiny and a lot of the other stuff that comes in with it. i would probably

for unitedringer press international. he spent many years as a staff photographer for the washington post. onlydraper was the official white house photographer for george w. bush. a staffked as photographer for the seattle times. the albuquerque tribune and the associated press. his work is particularly noteworthy because of the vantage point he had covering 911 out of the whitehouse. we have darrel who was a stringer for upi, associated press and was important as a photographer covering the carter administration. carter never had an official white house for target for. --official white house photographer. he has the images we would have normally got through a white .ouse photographer and we have a two-time pulitzer prize winner. he is a proud graduate of the university of texas at austin. for 27 years he was a staff photographer for the washington post. he won the pulitzer prize for covering three generations of poverty in washington dc and the refugee situation in kosovo. we have david all caps, he was -- david valdez,

does it have a chilling effect when the press secretary says they should take action against the pressc. >> it takes more than that to chill the press corps. it's inappropriate for a press secretary to take a position like that. in a complicated debate, that's the easy part. that's not the role of the press secretary. >> is the hard part the social media policies? what would happen if you had a staffer at "time" magazine who tweeted "trump is a white supremacist." >> i think it would be a problem and it's because while we're all first amendment purists, twitter is a public platform and and so those statements are associated with our institutions so an addad hominem attack is not present. it's not a matter of opinion so much. commentators and political columnists tweet opinions all the time. so there are a lot of complexities on what kind of commentary is appropriate. >> maybe a part of this is opinion journalists versus straightforward journalists just sitting in the briefing room asking questions? >> it's part of the tension although not the core of this problem. there's a couple inte

paula faris is here and interviewed the former white house press secretary coming off that controversial appearance at the emmys and had a lot to talk to him about. >> good morning, everyone. sean spicer has been off the job for less than a month. he's now keeping himself busy on the speaker circuit and most recently a cameo at the emmys which caught the eye of his former boss. >> sean, do you know? [ applause ] >> this will be the largest audience to witness an emmy, period. >> have you spoken with the president about your cameo? >> i have. >> and what did he say? >> he was very supportive. he thought i did a great job. and so it was very reassuring. >> some argue the reason you did it is because this is step one this trying to rehab your image. >> i feel very good with my image. i'm very happy with myself. i am able to go out and ex-practice ina lot of things. i'm not on a tour but out having fun in it may be fun for spicer but not his critics. people have hard feelings toward you and feel you lied to the american people. have you ever lied to the american people. >> i don't think so.

i think it is way overstated, the hostility toward the press.t was topical early on when spicer was going through his first set of gyrations before we had him cleaning himself up on the emmys. it really was walking into that building, a hostile environment, for the first 3-5 months. it has hunkered down into the .sual warfare the relationship between the front line press people and the white house and most media folks is, amicable. the issue is that the main problem is the truth issue. they say things routinely that .re false or contorted the nutritional value of your interactions with anyone in the white house, pre-mueller, post mueller, tend to be of the junk food variety. [laughter] >> you are off twitter. this is something that everyone on the white house -- everyone in the white house wants trump to get off twitter. the john kelly get you to do it? >> i take methadone, which is -- actually, facebook is methadone for twitter. [laughter] my bosses are probably pretty pleased with my decision to do this. i just found, my colleague and i are go

media environment the same way the right does russia are still messing with arcot i don't think the press did their job in this election on the media there is data suggesting that more than a year before election day the dye had already been cast the coverage was taken from gallup the polling organization asked americans what topics they associated with hillary clinton compared to how they saw donald trump the resulting word cloud paints a picture us news consumers primarily associated clinton with her e-mails the private server saga not her policies the trump cloud was dominated by his immigration policy with any personal issues limited to the fine print i do think there's some validity to it major outlets like the new york times kind of made a mistake by e-mail scandal with the same way that they treated from scandals what in fact there is never as much evidence to support that anything when on her e-mails but i think she overstates its influence a little bit donald trump was able to marry the spectacle of himself and he has a spectacular person and positive and negative connotations th

the former white house press secretary has been on something of a rehab tour, press tour.ay on abc's america, he was asked if he ever lied to the american people. here's what he said. >> have you ever lied to the american people? >> i don't think so. >> you don't think so. >> no. >> i don't cheat on my taxes. >> unequivocally you can say no? >> you want to find something, i have not knowingly done anything to do that, no. >> okay. i'm going to try not to be cynical here. rebecca, i guess what can he really say? but he didn't leave his office with much credibility. >> he didn't leave his office with any credibility, don, not a shred. no one will be able to forget -- and sean spicer has reminded us -- of that moment where he stood in front of the white house press corps with photo evidence to the contrary and tried to tell them and tell america that this was the biggest inauguration crowd of all time when clearly it was not. and now he is trying to rehab his image. he's trying to show us that he's at least laughing with us and not being laughed at. but he hasn't shown any so

from himself or from the press? >> a lot of press meeting him after every flight asking him what happened and how did it go? >> on december 23rd, 1943, after knocking down four zeros in a single day, press microphones were waiting for boyington as he taxied to a stop. >> did any japanese planes come out to fight you today? >> yes, a number of planes came up and we entangled all that we could in dogfights. i saw eight other planes destroyed besides the four i destroyed myself. >> the next night at a christmas eve party, he made a startling prediction. >> he said don't worry about me, they can't kill me. he said if you ever see me with 30 zeros on my tail, i'll be all right. i'll meet you six months after the war in a bar in san diego and we'll all have a drink for old time's sake. >> ten days later, major boyington would be shut down in a running gun battle. but he didn't go quietly. before he disappeared, he was seen shooting down another zero, his 26th. he tied the record for aerial victories, but what about that p

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where we focus on everywhere where press freedom is threatened. us that is partly the case right now. donald trump takes issue with you for that prize send you an angry tweet but. he did not and he doesn't have to. i think donald trump's tweet speak for themselves. and we need no further exchange than. the fact that donald trump also governs by tweeting is a sign i think of a turning point in communication generally social media is becoming increasingly important for journalists as well as being able to reach people through the existing channels in a competitive market do you think it's to your advantage that your first director general with a commercial t.v. background. t.v. background perhaps gives me a broader overview of the market and target audiences. does that mean a better eye for the ratings that rule commercial t.v. . yes that means that the issue of reaching a wide audience is more of a focal point although reaches into everything. we have to be able to make an impact we need quality journalism. that means we don't do things just for th

howie: the press does tend to pounce on every little difference.ames rosen, thanks for calling in. as the president decides on the dreamers program, the russia story is back. but is it being overplayed? ♪ if you could book a flight, then add a hotel, or car, or activity in one place and save, where would you go? ♪ expedia. i wanted to know where i did my ancestrydna. the most shocking result was that i'm 26% native american. i had no idea. it's opened up a whole new world for me. ♪ howie: reaction from the state department after north korea boasting about its most of powerful weapons test, a hydrogen bomb that could be mounted on an icbm for delivery. reporter: rex tillerson has spoken to the foreign minister. the president's national security team monitoring events closely. they are meeting what they call their pressure campaign against north korea. the secretaries traveled to the region repeatedly said all options are on the table and have tried to convince allies and adversaries to cut some of north korea's funding. additional sanctions have bee

whether we focus on everywhere where press freedom is threatened. the us that is partly the case right now. donald trump takes issue with you for that prize send you an angry tweet. he did not and he doesn't have to. i think donald trump's tweet speak for themselves. and we need no further exchange than. the fact that donald trump also governs by tweeting is a sign i think of a turning point in communication generally. social media is becoming increasingly important for journalists as well as being able to reach people through the existing channels in a competitive market do you think it's to your advantage that your first director general with a commercial t.v. background. commercial t.v. background perhaps gives me a broader overview of the market and target audiences. does that mean a better eye for the ratings that rule commercial t.v. . yes that means that the issue of reaching a wide audience is more of a focal point now although reach isn't everything. we have to be able to make an impact we need quality journalism. that means we don't do thi

i was focused on the west coast, traveling to events that happened there but i joined the campaign press corps around donald trump's campaign once the general election was underway, the debates and so forth and covered that homestretch and even then didn't expect them to win. when i started seeking the idea for this book my initial title was going to be something like the fall of trump tower or something. i did not see that he would have a great chance of winning, i put it at 20% or 30 presidential unit as a tragic exercise, larger than life american figure, this picture of individualism and achievement that almost had literary residence in american culture not just through tv's apprentice but his own book and cultural impact and falling short at the end. that is how i saw things happening. over the course of the next few weeks towards election day there were events and things i experienced that led me to believe his chances were stronger but it was a surprise to me on election night when he won as it was to frank luntz who said at 6:00 in the evening that hillary clinton would be the ne

are still messing with arkansas but i don't think the press did their job in this election on the media there is data suggesting that more than a year before election day the dye had already been cast the coverage was taken from gallup the polling organization asked americans what topics they associated with hillary clinton compared to how they saw dong. the resulting word cloud paints a picture us news consumers primarily associated clinton with her e-mails the private server saga not her policies the trump cloud was dominated by his immigration policy with any personal issues limited to the fine print i do think there are some major outlets like the new york times kind of made a mistake by e-mail scandal with the same way they treated him scandals one and back there is never as much evidence. part of that anything fun on with clinton and her emails but i think she overstates influence a little bit donald trump was able to marry the spectacle of himself and he has a big happy alert person in the positive and negative kind of patients and that's harm to his ideas they bring in drugs the

the 1960 press corps, were sided with kennedy.editorial endorsement and nixon was -- who had used television so masterfully in the famous checker speech was betrayed by performance in debate, so it was -- there were balancing factors in the media but definitely the campaign reporters that he dealt with every day were very much prokennedy and was really no doubt in history that the reinforced his idea that reporters were -- were at least ideologically on the tape. >> now, i want to give you all an opportunity to ask questions, so i will ask you one more as people come forward and you can line up here in the microphones if you want to ask a question. let me ask you, the name of donald trump has come up and it's difficult to not draw par lils between the characters, other people have done so, the character of richard nixon and the character of donald trump, the media element is an obvious one. what else do you draw as a biographer and reporter, what else do you draw as lessons from this period when we come to our own era? >> i don't

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the press then says this guy doesn't seem very compassionate and you guys say that's the mainstream press the immigrants issue, who has made immigration the centerpiece of his campaign? maybe that's the reason he got elected, because he was hard on illegal immigrants. and now when people say what about, are they stopping immigrants at checkpoints, are they going to do some kind of sweep to find illegal immigrants. are they eligible for benefits. all these questions, because he has demonstrated such an antipathy toward immigrants. >> greg: nobody looks for a surgeon based on empathy. they look for skill sets. may be a psychologist or a priest. if you want empathy. that's fine. asking a trump for empathy you don't get it. you don't even have to like a trump think is a good president. >> juan: he's a politician. we have seen a highlight of president bush's time and said i hear you in the wreckage after 9/11. >> juan: i think they're trying to fit him into the political mold and they are upset because he's not playing by the media playbook. he's not going down there and hugging and crying lik

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welcome to the national press club. our guest today is lily eskelsen garcia the president of the national education association. i would like to welcome our public radio and c-span audiences and i want to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the #npc lies. that's an pc lie. for public radio and c-span audiences please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. now it's time to at a deuce our guests. i would ask each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. please hold your applause until i've finished introducing the entire table. from your right, kimberly hall communications and partnerships manager at the poverty and race research action counsel. thomas burr washington bureau chief of the "salt lake tribune" and former president of the national press club. the senior director of the naa center for social justice. emily wilkins education and labor reporter for "cq roll call", emily

press briefing. tons of questions in reporters from the room about daca. there will be a decision on tuesday. let's bring back in ellis and john. we were talking earlier in the show september incredibly busy month for congress when they return from their recess. you know, do you think they can get this agenda done? sarah huckabee sanders, tax cuts, how can we not agree on tax cuts? she wants all democrats to get on board. do you think we can have a bipartisan agreement on tax reform, john? >> i don't think it will be bipartisan but tax reform is an existential issue for this administration, for the simple reason they don't get it done and there isn't upward pressure on wages, the republican majority is in serious jeopardy. so the, president won't be able to get anything done unless he is able to enjoy the political benefits of a much stronger recovery. then, they have the opportunity to move on to some of their other again today items but they need to schedule their fights. need to focus like a laser

i mean, he has a press corps. we have to tell the press corps.", scott mclellan, was just pounded, because now there was a stakeout at the hospital. i mean everyone knew he shot his friend. >> seth: probably no questions about switch grass that day. [ light laughter ] >> we were not driving our energy message. but we -- yeah, i mean we had to involve folks at the highest levels. and, you know, in those days it was viewed as a way to move past a crisis to do an interview with a friendly outlet. so we suggested an interview for him, and there was a lot of yelling and screaming and it felt -- the vice president never really forgave me for making him do an interview about shooting his friend. but ultimately, we had to involve the id >> seth: if his friend forgave him, he should forgive you. [ laughter ] >> i think so. i think so. >> seth: i want to -- [ cheers and applause ] i'm fascinated -- and he really is one of my dream guests. i'm fascinated by sean spicer's day to day. >> yeah. >> seth: watching someone -- and that wasn't specifically your job,

thank you american press corp. since last july at least known with increasing specificity and frankly increasing alarm that donald trump didn't go out and find a normal republican or radical republican to run his campaign last year, for some reason the guy he picked works with the russian military intelligence guy and putin linked oligarchs to promote the russian government and unexplained debts and russian payments to pro-putin political parties. we know investigators are all over him, we still don't know why trump hired him. only reason we know any of this at all is america has great reporters and free press. today of all days, if you don't subscribe to local paper, fix that. going to play a commercial now. get online, pay to get behind the pay wall at your local paper. seriously, your country needs you. but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i've had usaa for a while, why do

because both of them were creations of the press. in nixon's case, in southern california, the l.a. times was like the great elephant in the room and a really hard line conservative newspaper. from the beginning they took an interest in his career and promoted him, especially in 1950 when he iran against congresswoman. >> the pink lady.. >> he did not name her that. he did not call her that. >> no.ot she was actually first of the line in the primaries, and that's the kind of stuff is talking about, when you think about nixon going in as abo writer, you think about the 1950 race and you say horrible demagoguery, well it was, by the last days of the election he was literally accusing her of being a treasonous and embracing red china which had just come across the border and joined the korean war. >> because the korean war started during that campaign. >> practice. >> we were talking about his relationship. >> oh yeah. same thing with donald trump.po i spend a lot of time as a reporter reading the news and seeing donald trump grow by ma

they are getting ready to kick off their press conference this morning the first press conference of the day of any of the political parties who will now be entering the german bundestag kate i'll turn back to you as as we wait for them to get to the stage there has the if the results shape the mathematics of coalition building in the german parliament because i mean after all the other parties they say that they won't go into the government with them. well yes for sure because they of course the f.d.a. are now the strongest posse imposible and as you say none of those other posses the other five parties in the bundle willing to make a coalition with them and the s.p.d. the social democrats of also said that they want to go over to the opposition which would make them the leading policy in the opposition which leaves merkel's christian democratic union really with only one feasible coalition option which is a three party coalition that would be between the c.d.u. the liberal f.d.p. and also the greens but of course a coalition with more parties that have actually less votes tends to

knowing that the press is going to report on those. and that people from doj are going to read those reports. it's absolutely inappropriate. >> carrie, do you agree on that? >> i absolutely do, certainly. there's been procedures in place for a long time. and my understanding is that these procedures are still in place under attorney general sessions. that there's not supposed to be certain contacts between the white house and the department of justice regarding ongoing investigations. if the white house press secretary stands up in public and says there should be an investigation of something, then they're bypassing the direction of the attorney general. so really she needs to not talk about investigations and not suggest that investigations take place. it goes to the heart of our rule of law. it goes to the heart of our justice system. that there's not supposed to be the politicization of ongoing investigations or of launching investigations or prosecutions. >> it also seems to me, i'm not a lawyer, so i'd like to hear what you think,

press secretary sean spicer.please say hello to former white house press secretary sean spicer. autria: what he says life was like veronica: we have some rain falling. your september rainfall is nearly an inch and a half, putting us with a surplus now going all the way back since early january. our inches. we're getting ready to get more showers. three areas i'm watching right now on radar. one around southern maryland heading out and another moving in. gaithersburg, you're seeing some showers right now. they will continue to slide through the d.c. area over the next hour. another batch around western maryland the could clip through areas around frederick, maryland, in the next two hours. how hard will it rain today? i think just a small umbrella today. we will only pick up about or .25 inches. highs today, upper 70's to around 80 degrees. a little bit of sunshine might be just enough to trigger a thunderstorm or two. the roads are going to be wet. take it easy today. a change press comes overnight -- a changfo t

then they don't know what freedom of the press is. dennis is accused of propaganda on behalf of the kurdish workers party. which turkey has designated a terror group partly because of an interview he conducted with one of its leaders . dozens of turkish and foreign colleagues have interviewed leaders in the qandil mountains and attended their press conferences i don't want to elaborate i was one of them i was at a news conference and afterwards conducted a long interview with mordechai rely on another p.k. k. leader and published it with photographs nothing happened to me. but i'm sure because there is any. i did was detained but released for health reasons in july he appeared in court for another hearing his trial continues its outcome uncertain it's also unclear what lies in store for dennis under turkish law defendants can be held in pretrial detention for up to five years. notion that dennis will receive a fair trial is a fairy tale the judge and prosecutors have a defendant before them who the president has described as a spy and

you said on friday we'd have a press conference. >> we had a press conference.st had a press conference. >> can we ask you some more questions? >> it doesn't bother me at all. but you know, i like real news, not fake news. you're fake news. >> seth: oh, my god! fake news again? get a new comeback. stop trying to make fetch happen. [ laughter ] at this point, it's only a matter of time before trump ends a press conference by saying "could you be any more fake news?" [ light laughter ] i have to say though, my favorite parts are these moments when trump goes off-script at white house events are the faces of people behind him. look at this guy. [ laughter ] he looks like a tourist who just got called out of a comedy club. "where are you from, sir?" "me? i'm from nowhere. i don't want trouble." [ light laughter ] then after his live show, trump started tweeting. and for trump, tweets are where he gets to express his true self because twitter is tailor made for donald trump. you can say anything you want. you have to use small words. you can block people you don't li

do you believe press freedom is in more danger in the u.s. than in russia or china for example. certainly not the u.s. is a great democracy which has shown that it can overcome many challenges you know naturally we hope that it will overcome the current ones. but it's seldom that the head of state in an established democracy questions democratic rights and that includes freedom of the press which is a prerequisite for democracy and that is extraordinary. when we say we have to highlight events as well and show that we don't just focus all our attention on the southern hemisphere russia but that we focus on everywhere where press freedom is threatened. and in the u.s. that is partly the case right now. donald trump takes issue with you for that prize send you an angry tweet. he did not and he doesn't have to. i think donald trump's tweet speak for themselves. and we need no further exchange than. the fact that donald trump also governs by tweeting is a sign i think of a turning point in communication generally. social media is becoming increasingly important for journalists as we

challenger martin shoots the lead candidate for the social democrats have been television debates press articles and lots of talk on social media like in any campaign at the image the candidate's project is key we met up with a political photographer who knows the faces behind the camera. this september germany streets are lined with election posters big colorful attention grabbers many of them portraits of candidates especially of the ones running for chancellor. angela merkel for the christian democrats challenger martin shoots for the social democrats someone takes those pictures someone like mark darkie a press photographer for thirty three years his beat his government quarter. his most frequent subject politicians from every party. because it's always something different because i get to see lots of things i wouldn't see otherwise. you know i get my nose into places normally off limits. admittance here is restricted only accredited reporters and photographers are allowed in to see chancellor merkel in the federal press conference building. docking or is a regular here in the from