the american people are distrustful of the american media. however, i'm a firm, firm believer of the first amendment and true facts and the truth and the american pressitute or should be a trusted institution so you would think that the president would want the american press on his side to augment his message as relates to infrastructure, immigration, as relates to repeal and replace. so the strategy to me is a little mind boggling, quite frankly. to the second part of the question, jacob, look, look. the strategy should be unifying republicans and democrats about the issues i just talked about. and so, you would think that the president would try to rally people and bring people together to be able to achieve those legislative victories he needs over two years or so. >> i don't think he has a message coming to legislative victim ris and why he doesn't need the press to amplify it. what the press is playing is one of the only institutions to keep him in check to tell falsehoods about the popularity or demonization of americans he seems to need to do and why he undermines them. >> we have to leave it there. thanks so much. i know that you guys -- the

press as enemies of the american people are more treacherous than richard nixon's attacks on the press. trump is out there on his own leading a demagoguic attack on the institutions of free democracy, including the press. >> this morning malaysia is recalling its envoy to pyongyang in escalating tensions over the mysterious death of a half brother of north korea's leader kim jong-un. we get the latest from nbc's janis mackey frayer in malaysia. >> reporter: a week since the death of copy john nam, the north korean dictator's estranged half brother, and links are getting stronger. malaysian police confirm they're searching for four suspects, all north korean men, who left the country together the same day kim was killed. police won't say where they were going but interpol is now involved to help solve an international murder mystery. already there's one north korean man in custody after a raid at this apartment block where police say he had been living for over a year. south korea's government said the web of north korean nationals can only mean

was right to say that we need, as politicians, to understand the role of the press and jealous liguard it but i will say this to the american press corps. when it comes to trump, you are over the top, you are acting more like an opposition party. every president has had problems with the press. you need to do your job, but from a republican point of view, i think the coverage against president trump has been almost to the point of being hysterical and you all need to do some self evaluation, in my view, but the enemies of democracy at the end of the day are not the press, it is russia, it is iran and radical islam but i think our friends in the press need to up their game because it really is hard to watch from a republican point of view. >> dickerson: and senator, you wanted to add something? >> yes. when it comes to russia, the one thing that bothers me most about president trump is he never seems to forcefully em face idea that russia's interference in our election in 2016 is something that should be punished. i am a republican, it happened to the democrats. it could happen to republicans next. when one party is attacked

express the openness for a free press in other countries, a free press is being challenged in a turkey and in a russia. with the president of the united states trying to delegitimize the american press, does that not undercut his ability to spread freedom and advocate for freedom around the world. >> many presidents have had issues with the chuck. i can assure you, the president believes in the first amendment. he believes in the free press. we don't believe everyone is lousy in the media. we don't believe everything is bad, but there are some things that are really bad. we have tried to -- he categorizes that as fake news. what we've been through over the last ten days has been unbelievable. the leaks, the fake stories, the anonymous accusations. that stuff is bad. and that's what he is referring to. i know where he is coming from on this, but i can assure you he believes in the free press, the first amendment. he loves our constitution. we just want to get this stuff back on the rails and more honest in regard to these really big accusations that are coming at us. >> i know you -- you believe all of this is press generated. do you not have a problem inside that west wing wit

as we were suggesting earlier, the american press's reputation is not particularly strong. that showed that actually the media is more popular at the moment than president trump. that's quite a feat for the president trump to have achieved that. is there a sense this might be producing a bit of a backlash? yeah. i mean, it is phenomenal. donald trump is the ultimate media irony. he is a media creation who ran against the media to be elected. he has been railing against the media since it's been elected, and other media are showing signs of remission. it was a poll that you cited, and more americans said that they trusted for credibility the media than the president of the united states. he is playing a dangerous game. president of the united states. he is playing a dangerous gamelj president of the united states. he is playing a dangerous game. i was just going to say, there's obviously a lot of concern within the white house not just a lot of concern within the white house notjust with the president about the lea ks house notjust with the president about the leaks to the p

summing up, if the american press wants to regain respect, it needs to ditch its outwardly liberal bentknow all these people. i know all the anchors, most of the producers, i know who they are and how they think. in the national press, it is at least ten to one, liberal over conservative. and that is the truth. and that is "the memo". plenty more ahead as "the factor" moves along this evening. brit hume, how do -- on whether president trump's accomplishments in the first month rate praise. and watters talking about the presidents' day. >> what are you doing to commemorate the presidents? >> basically, i'm trying to earn some dead presidents. [laughter] >> bill: we hope you stay tuned for those reports. enjoyae way to get your fiber. try these delicious phillips' fiber gogummies , a good source of fiber to help support regularity. mmm...these are great! my work here is done. phillips', the tasty side of fiber. you fand together, of your dreams... you had the kid of your dreams. now you can put them in the car of your dreams... for a lot less than you might think. with a certified pre-own

what we are seeing already are actions at intimidating the press which means the people lose and intimidating those in the american government who talk to the press. we already, as in the nixon years are watching trump initiate a leak investigation of draconian threats. it's already under way. that's the threat to the american people. we don't need the press to be self-centered about attacks on us. we need to be, all of u focu us on takes on the first amendment, free press and how it reaches the people especially when we have an authoritarian president who doesn't understand the constitution. >> we're going to talk leaks later this hour. take a quick break. let's bring everybody back and bring in some more voices after a quick break. talking about how the press should respond to these complaints. we'll be right back. n my watch! try alka seltzer heartburn relief chews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmmmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka seltzer heartburn relief chews. enjoy the relief. withevery late night...g... and moment away... with every click...call...punch... and paycheck... you've earned your med

the president has said that the press is the enemy of the american people. you know something about that kind of language. what do you make of that? >> the press is not the, is not the enemy and the concern in the press is that we will have secret government, that government does things that we should know about that we don't. and the judge who said it got it right. democracies die in darkness so we are working against the darkness. trump is right on some of these stories have been out of bounds. i think most of them have been quite good, and he is just going to have to learn that there are leaks and that there is criticism and so many things he is not going to like, and the key is to get the big things right. what is the policy in the middle east going to be? with russia? with north korea? what is he going to do with the economy? cyber security? counterterrorism? those are the big issues. the press should be thinking about them, so should he. >> dickerson: jeffrey, it is clear part of the white house strategy is to use the press as a foil and we are helping

that was the bar before today but now the press is the enemy of the american people. it's not just the insults to the press, insults to individual reporters, calling the news media fake, it's also the way they're running their press operations in the briefing room. we got news this week, for example, that the administration has started giving white house press credentials to random pro-trump blogs. do you remember during the republican national convention there was a deliberately controversial, deliberately provocative anti-islam event held in the sidelines of the republican convention under the banner "gays for trump"? and you might remember some of the visuals for that event were a little weird. like they got this news media to show up and people are like "can we turn on our cameras?" because there were these big soft core pseudo foreigny pictures of super pale blond white guys wearing trump hats in various states of undress. literally the guy who took those photos is now an accredited white house correspondent. they gave that guy a white house press pass from a very

katty: what about the broader allegations in the american press over the course of the weekend that theagement process in the white house is somewhat chaotic, particularly when it comes to this immigration ban? anthony: you heard james baker, the elder statesman of the republican party, saying that the rollout wasn't going all that well, there were multiple bases of power within the white house feuding with themselves. he knows how to run a good white house. he is offering criticism, republicans should listen. part of the problem is that they didn't have a plan coming into this and they are rolling out -- katty: "new york times" headline over the weekend, "trump and staff rethink tactics after stumbles." anthony: they need to streamline the operation and when they have a new executive order, make sure everyone is on the same page. all the problem with the immigration order to on the congress and the agencies responsible for rolling it out. when these courts are looking at the immigration order, they are saying, well, you didn't plan for this, so why should we reinstate it when it alread

you know, the reason that the american public is hearing these messages about how terrible the american presserican press is broadcasting and carrying -- >> you mentioned the media and things -- other things that make republicans uncomfortable. there's something that the president did this morning that is probably going to make and already making republicans very uncomfortable, which is this happens when they get uncomfortable when he tweets about any business. this time he tweeted about is h -- his daughter's. my daughter ivanka has been treated so unfairly by nordstrom. she's always pushing me to do the right thing. terrible. i would hope that my father would defend anything that i did, but if my father was president and this was sort of on the border, i'm not so sure. >> well, i mean, maybe she's okay with it. we don't know. but what she -- what he does with these businesses and the impact that a lot of -- you know, businesses love certainty, and when they're want sure when they wake up in the morning if their business is suddenly going to be in the line of fire on donald trump's tweets, t

the american people. do you believe the press -- any group of americans is the enemy of another group of americans? >> i was talking about the period, as you know, the new world order, a fundamental part of the that new world order was a free press. i hate the press. i hate you especially, but the fact is, we need you. we need a free press. we must have it. it's vital. if you want to preserve, i'm very serious now, if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversary press, and without it, i'm afraid we'd lose so much of our individual liberties over time. that's how dictators get started. >> that's how dictators get started, with tweets like that? >> with -- no, they get started by suppressing a free press. in other words, consolidation of power when you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. i'm not saying that that's -- that president trump is trying to be a dictator. i'm just saying we have to learn the lessons of history. >> senator mccain, leaving it there. you are a student of history, that's for sure. i always a

the american press. a very weak, he's very weak he has these pressures at home from his muslim citizens on the one hand on the russian nationalists on the other. he has to satisfy this. he has created this image that makes them look like a strong man but only works if he has a week american president. >> tucker: this is for domestic consumption. more than internationally. were looking at this and say what does putin want, does he want us to back off on crimea is it ukraine that he's worried about and you're saying he's unstable at home and to shore up his support he wants to make himself look like a puppet master. >> that's exactly right, it's not just at home it's also in eastern europe. he's just trying to recreate the old russian empire and make it as big as he can. he strained to say on the puppetmaster, and i am expanding russia and i'm restoring the glory of old russia. it's all right, you russians, that you are suffering. because of sacrifice for the cause of the motherland. >> tucker: that's a fa

the american people. now, carl burn steen, the man who helped break the watergate scandal in the 1970s, has this to say. >> trump's attacks on the american press as enemies of the american people are more treacherous than nixon's attacks on the press. his were largely in private. there's a history of what enemy of the people that phrase means as used by dictate ors and authoritarians. trump is out there on his own leading a demagoguic attack including press. >> yule yjulian, is the preside trying to disqualify everything on the administration in russia? >> yes, i think that's wh he's doing. he has been systemically attacking the media as an institution since the campaign. raising questions about the legitimacy of the news that you hear, see and read. and so, with russia and other issues, he's trying to provide his own narrative about ooefsev and he's arguing the narrative and a lot of media institutions is not true. the problem is, when you antagonize people, they're going to be doubly hard on how they look at you, so i think that's part of what he's confronts right now with that. with the courts and pretty soon, with congress chlgt. >> and yo

sean: what is now obvious and so transparent is the abusively bias press has now declared war on president trump and by the way, in turn, you the american people who put him in office. we are seeing just how relevant for example wikileaks was. they exposed the rampant collusion between the press and the clinton campaign. they had a stake in this election. of course they were one side to so. our submissions have not been confirmed. all these left-wing news outlet outlets, they thought they would stop donald trump becoming president. think about how the media laughed off donald trump becoming president and winning the white house. >> donald trump has been saying he will run as president as a republican, i just assumed he was running as a joke. >> look at me. do it. i will personally write you a campaign check right now on behalf of this country which does not want you to be president but which badly wants you to run. >> we better be ready for the fact that he may be leading the republican ticket. [laughter] >> i know you don't believe tha that. >> which republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election? >> of the de

that captured the imagination of the nation but what does that mean for the press going on from here on out. he's not talking to the press he's talking to the american public by way of the press. he's talking directly to them and a lot of people find this very honest and refreshing. he will take every question. going back to china -- chuck todd. just last week and in a podcast he said the press corps new that hillary clinton was incredibly disliked in the heartland but they under reported that on purpose because they wanted to be politically correct. and then under reporting negatives about hillary clinton. they are getting what they deserve. there is a reason why. and that was according to that this week. essentially we have the president who speaks directly into the american public yet social media and now these press conferences will be his way again of taking his message directly to the public without letting the media reinterpreted for him. or for themselves. i like that he tweets. you get to see what his thought processes. and sometimes they don't tie what they're thinking. that's what we really need to know. this is a new era traditionally th

the americaned saying the cubans didn't see grateful to us. why weren't they grateful for saving them? not realizing they had been at war for years. that had not been in the american press, and we just got down there a few weeks earlier. so you can actually trace some of the photos of one of the black commanders of the cubean rebels. we one he would pictured in the u.s. it was black and also the war proceeded he got lighter and lighter. so the can shock of learning that black people would be involved in government in cuba if with allowed cuban independence is one reason we decided cuba can absolutely not become independent. as you said earlier, we had this view that as one senator said in his speech on the treaty of paris, the opposition tells us that we ought not to govern other people without their consent. i answer the rule of liberty that all just government derives from the authority of the consent of the government applies only to those who are capable of self-government, we govern our children without their consent. this is the same attitude we took toward people that were not white and it's not very deep below the surface. white people are capable of governing t

immediately after by tweets that were sent by president trump, in which he referred to the mainstream press as enemies of the american yesterday, and sort of doubled down on the criticism, just after pence got off the podium by saying, you know, charges of fake news against the american press yet again. you can forgive our european counterparts for being somewhat confused by the very mix signals that are coming out of washinon. not just on those values questions, but on a number of big foreign policy questions. what is the u.s. policy right now towards russia? you have some administration officials signal ing that we're going to revisit our sanctions against russia, which is in place because of what's going on in ukraine, which haven't improved. you have some saying those sanctions have to stay in place. in every major policy area, you have senior administration officials making self-contradictory remarks and even contradicting the president. >> john, who is running american foreign policy? is it bannon? jared kushner? is it the people who are here representing the president? >> well, you won't be surprised to hear t

the press. i have to wonder whether over the long run this is really where the american people want to see their president in this daily almost semi daily fight with the american press corps. >> shepard: thought number 5, he's gathering his supporters, the 39%, gathering them and holding them tightly. >> these are unbelievable people who have not been treated fairly. hillary called them deplorable. they're not deplorable. [chanting]. who would have thought that a word was going to play so badly? that's the problem in politics. one wrong word and it's over. >> shepard: he's still campaigning. >> he's still campaigning. there's a point at which he's got to stop being the campaigner, which he enjoys, which a lot of the people in his base enjoy and start becoming the president. we're going to find out next tuesday night. that's not a cpac speech. that's a speech before a joint session of congress and the democrats have vowed to bring in proxies for the protesters to sit out there in front of him and the president of the united states will give this speech. will it be a presidential speech or a campa

the special interests and for those profiting off of a very, very obviously broken system. the press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the americanremendous disservice. we have to talk about it. the press honestly is out of control.ic the level of dishonesty is out of control. the reporting is fake. jim, do you know what it is? the public isn't -- they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. they don't know if it is true or false because they are not involved.he i am involved. i have been involved with stuff all of my life. but i am involved. so iff know when you are telling the truth and when you are not. i just see many, many untruthful things. and i'll tell you what else i see, i see tone. you know, the word "tone." the tone is hatred. i'm really not a bad person, by the way. >> ed: president trump played rough with the media yesterday. did you think he'd back off today? come on, this is president trump. tweeting, "the fake news media is not my enemy. it is the enemy of the american people." the usual suspects, the mainstream media, immediately howled on social media that this was un-american.t they seem to be forget

and so on, typically what you have on these two plus two news conferences, two questions for the american pressnd two for the foreign press. what you would see take place is perhaps a wire service, associated press or reuters or major network or newspaper called upon to ask a question of the president and that foreign leader there for the joint news conference. what we've seen happen over the course of the last three news conferences and half of the fourth news conference that we've had so far is the president calling on conservative news media. today he called on the christian broadcasting network owned by the televangelist pat robinson. and he did ask about the resignation about national security adviser michael flynn. it was in the context of a larger question about israel and so on. but the other question went to a very conservative website called townhall.com. i imagine that's a website that perhaps some conservative republicans are familiar with but by and large the american people have no idea what that is all about. but anyway, that is what the president has been doing and so he got no

but those facts have largely gone unreported by the american press. by the radical left, which is actively misleading you. >> what took place yesterday with raids and personal homes is part of the cause of the trump deportation machine. >> how inhumane this is to be breaking down peoples doors, separating parents from their children. >> this is donald trump executing his campaign plan. he is trying to be a tough guy, so, he will go after the maids, the moms, the people that are working in the shops come instead of going after the hard-core criminals. >> bill: maids, moms, shopkeepers, according to that dishonest politician. now, the false news reporting, actually reach the level of hysteria. newspaper headlines screaming things like "the trump deportation regime has begun," "immigrant community on high alert," "fearing trump deportation force." in chicago, news of immigration raids intensifies fears. we could find no headlines in major newspapers, none, that banner to the fact that raids were targeted at illegal aliens who had committed serious crimes.

summing up, if the american press wants to regain respect, it needs to dig its outwardly liberal bentow all these people. i know all the anchors, most of the producers, i know who they are and how they think. in the national press, it is at least ten to one, liberal over conservative. and that is the truth. and that is to be. plenty more ahead "the factor" moves along this evening. brit hume, how do president trump's accomplishments in the first month rate? and watters talking about the presidents' day. >> what are you doing to commemorate the presidents? >> basically, i'm trying to earn some dead presidents. [laughter] >> bill: we hope you stay tuned for those reports. 90% of the world's largest supercomputers run on intel? that means you can take a universe of data - in your case literally - and turn it into medical discoveries, diagnostic breakthroughs... ...proof that black holes collapse into one singularity. i don't know what that is. but yes. innovation runs on supercomputers... ...and supercomputers run on intel. you are super smart. and super busy. ♪ ooh! ufo! false alarm, ey

missing all the nuances, the american press makes no distinction between ukip and france's national frontthat makes brexit and trump seem, mistakenly, like the same thing. the term is troubling because it's loaded. since anyone who questions unfettered immigration is a suspect and backward, populist has become wink and nod for ignorant, for pig—thick. it's polite code for racist, xenophobic, anti—semitic and anti—muslim. some trump voters may deserve these pejorative connotations but leave voters don't. so, before reaching for the euphemism "populist," let's try substituting "bigoted," because if that's what we mean, we should say it. lionel shriver there. film director ang lee made gay cowboys popular with brokeback mountain, he made life of pi where the action is all confined to a small boat, he took a taiwanese language film and made it mainstream, with crouching tiger hidden dragon. he is no stranger to taking risks, and for his next trick the three—time oscar winner has taken on the iraq war. he's cast a british unknown in the lead, and experimented with new high—speed cameras. billy

the media is dishonest. all presidents have had their problems with the press. but to declare that the press is the enemy of the americaneople ratchets this up in a dangerous way, because it seems to give license to anybody who has a grievance with the press, to take it out in some hostile way. we get phone calls, we get e-mails that go in that direction. now you have the president of the united states saying the same kind of thing. it's a scary moment to hear him or to see him tweet that out. >> and what do you think he was trying to accomplish with this press conference, the tone of it, and even just in a hastily managed way, rushing to get reporters to the east room? >> i thought it was a classic effort to reset, to change the discussion. he's been through a very tumultuous opening of his presidency. this was a very bad week. he had to dismiss his national security advisor, one of the real loyalists in the campaign and administration. his labor secretary withdrew. he's frustrated by the coverage that he's getting, that suggests his administration is in disarray. he wanted to come out and take control of it himself. h

i would say this to the american press corps, when it says to trump, over the top, acting more like anition party, every president has had problems with the press. you need to do your job. from a republican point of view, i think the coverage of president trump has been almost to the point of being hysterical. >> and here is radio talk show host rush limbaugh talking to our own chris wallace. >> trump has a wide area here, chris. the media did not make donald trump, and they cannot destroy him. >> don't senator mccain and graham and the likes who are upset with the term, don't they realize that he just enjoys thi this? and that it is a sport? changes the new cycle, quite frankly, because what did he do last week? he kept going, and that's all the press could talk about after the press conference. >> do you know that the only people more obsessed with the media then donald trump is the media, members of the media. we cannot help it. he brings out. it is like that lower right through the water, and a large amount fast, we come right through, nothing that's political reporters like to tal

the press has become so dishonest that if we do not talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the americanto talk about it to find out what is going on because the press is out of control, the level of dishonesty is out of control. nothing could be further from the truth that his presidency was in meltdown.” further from the truth that his presidency was in meltdown. i turned to stories of chaos yet it is the exact opposite. this administration is of running like a fine tuned machine. but how could he reconcile that with the travel ban blocked by the courts, a question i asked after a little back and forth. where are you from? here is another beauty. impartial free and fair. sure, just like cnn. we can banter back and forth. on the travel ban, would you accept that was a good example of the smooth running of government. i do. whether any mistakes in... wait! we had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. but we had a bad court. we had a bad decision. we will be putting in a new executive order next week but we had a bad decision thatis next week but we had a bad decision that is all. also

have you heard the one about honest abe playing the press? a leak american. of conservatives. is there a middle ground on muslims in america. i am soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." pres. trump: we are to keep radical islamic terrorists the h ell out of our country. soledad: that is president trump addressing cpac, the annual conservative political action conference. it is a platform for conservative activists and elected officials. traditionally, it has been a way for republicans to underscore there conservative credentials. thank you for talking with us. >> it is great to be with you. soledad: you are a doctor, a veteran of the u.s. navy, your parents much of the rhetoric that has come out of the white house of late is against muslims and conservatives often conflate muslims with radical islam. that is problematic, isn't it? >> i think some of the verbiage has been problematic. i think there has just been a lack of accuracy or nuance mixing up islamists with muslims in general. i think we have to be careful not only saying what we are against, which is saying we a

question -- this is a two plus two news conference, as you know, wolf, to -- questions for the american press to questions for the israel press. if the white house allows somebody from the mainstream news media to ask a question, which has not happened in the last few news conferences,ing that could get asked of the president. what did he know and when did he know it? that age-old question will likely be asked of this president. getting back to the he issue of israeli prime minister netany u netanyahu, you and i both, though, wolf, this is a president that benjamin netanyahu wants to deal with. he had a very frosty and prickly relationship with president obama. they had massive disagreements over the middle east peace process. in particular the iran nuclear deal and what you heard during the campaign from president trump, then candidate trump, was a move in bing netanyahu's direction. also, talked about moving the embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem. that was music to benjamin netanyahu's ears. there was also this issue of settlements as well as the two-state solution and, wolf, we s

president trump has decided that in fact when he makes a whipping boy out of the american press, the mainstream media and says these people are not trustworthy, he establishes himself as trustworthy, and his twitter account as the primary source of credible news for his supporters. >> jenna: do you think that is what is really happening? >> something like that may be happening, but back in july, pew research when they did the ratings of media trust, people are having a lot of confidence in national news, it was 18%. that is down around near congress is which is before trump got going as president. i think there is a credibility problem with the press, and it is not helped at all if they let themselves be drawn into a smack down with donald trump. >> jenna: is that what we are doing right now? philosophically, there should be questions about freedom of press, functioning democracy, i certainly believe in that as a journalist, but going back, are these the real issues that are viewers, the voters care about? are we focusing on the right thing with so much going on in the world? >> trum

the importance of an independent press when we are dismantling it, ourselves. when the press used to accompany the president on foreign trips, one of the most important things that would happen is that the americanress would get up and ask questions of the president and the foreign dictator he was with. or the foreign government he was meeting with. >> contentious questions. >> contentious questions. and the point was to prove to others that american democracy lives wherever the president lives. and now we're kind of reversing that. >> and the -- to go to the weekend developments on the white house correspondents' dinner, something that has been highly controversial within the business for a while, first, every celebrity in hollywood pulled out. just a complete boycott. no stars going to the first trump white house correspondents' dinner. and once donald trump realized that he would have no supporting hollywood cast in the audience, he decided to pull out and, you know, now we have -- i'm not sure what's left. in fact -- in fact, what's left is the essence of it before it was completely corrupted by the hollywood influence and that is they give awards to white house correspondents and reporters

if the assumption in the washington press core is that trump is some fantastic tyrant waiting to crush the americane not doing a very good job covering theuse wk about? they talk about themselves. it was amazing in that press conference that they took the bait from trump so fully, so completely. there was a reporter who stood up and argued with donald trump about his ratings. he argued with the president about his ratings. and i thought bro. abby: unreal. i mean, fox news has a new poll out that more people actually trust president obama than they do the media. than they do reporters. i want to switch gears here. the lawmakers are headed home for the next week during a recess. and preparing for town halls, the question is should they show up when they are being organized by far left groups? >> well, now, look, some of them some of the protests are organized by far left group. today, for example, senator tim scott and congressman down in south carolina having a great town hall. are there people that don't like them or don't want to hear from them or think they're wrong on the issues? sure. but they'

the press, only trust me. and that's not a sustainable argument. >> oh, i disagree, brian. because the press is there as a watchdog and, you know, there's polling out there to suggest the american the premise that the press sharder on president trump than it is on obama. that they are adversarial to him and i think fighting back is his right just as it is the media's right to press him and the first amendment doesn't protect the fres criticism, the president has a first amendment right to go after stories that he feels are inaccurate or unfair just as much as anybody else. you know what? it works for him on a political level. >> i want to interject with one other thing. yesterday the president said in that rally, he talked about sweden, just a bit of departure from press talk. he talked about sweden and underscored that there was an incident in friday. now an official statement coming from the deputy press secretary, i would like to convey that to you, addressing the many questions as a result of what he said. and sara sanders says, quote, he was talking about rising crime and recent incidents in general and not referring to a specific incident. and recall as he was talking abo

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