we are the first line of the press -- >> hold on. t to get jeff mason back in this conversation. you're the president of the white house correspondents association. you've met with sean spicer, sara huckabee sanders, the white house team. have you raised the concern all of us in the news media have about the president calling us enemies of the american people? because that is a very, very harsh statement and potentially very dangerous. >> well, that type of rhetoric is something that we have spoken about since he first said that and many of you probably were at or watched the white house correspondents dinner, and i addressed that then as well. that is rhetoric that we reject and is just not something that i think is helpful to the public discourse and it's not, again, it's just not something that's true. i also like to just jump in on the issue again of briefings being televised. respectfully, despite the position of mr. mccurry and mr. fleischer, it's 2017 and it is not only in the interest of the members of the white house correspo

to the press in order to, quote, in his words, quote, prompt the appointment of a special counsel. although mr comey testified that he only leaked these memos in response to a tweet, the public record reveals that the new york times was quoting from them the day before the referenced tweet, which belies mr comey‘s excuse for this unauthorised disclosure of privileged information, and appears to be entirely retaliatory. we will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated, along with all of the others that are being investigated. in sum, it is now established that the president was not being investigated for colluding with or attempting to obstruct any investigation, as the committee pointed out today. these are facts for the country to know, virtually the only facts that have not been leaked

so i updated the press corps. but the alternative is i say something i don't know is current thinking. that would not be right. it would be irresponsible. he's the president of the united states, my job is to make sure i accurately in a timely manner reflect his thinking. if i don't have the best information at hand, i shouldn't comment. howie: several news organizations are reporting you may be moving into a management role. but having some scars, are you weary of the televised combat? sean: it's an honor and privilege to have this job and do this on behalf of the president of the united states. what i like is doing my part to help advance the president's agenda. i think he's fighting hard every day. if i can help amplify his message i will do that. howie: special election in georgia, the media said it was a referendum on trump. sean: i don't think it existed. for the fourth time in a row they lost a special election and for a fourth time in a row, the second it was called they stopped talking about it. they had w

person do the job that the press and the public requires as the press secretary have -- do they have access to the president? do they get reliable, timely and honest truthful information to the public on a daily basis? that has not been the pattern so far. >> kirsten, no matter what the title is or whoever does it, unless they have access to the president and the president starts being honest with them or at least filling them in in a timely way, they're going to continue to come out and say stuff that's just not true. >> right. and he has basically said he's just so fast moving that there's no way for them to keep up with him, which is -- you know -- >> but they could when he's watching cable news. i would think he's static. >> so much more fast moving than any other president. other presidents have been able to make sure that people are informed and have some sort of sense of responsibility about that. but i think that the only thing that might change a little bit is if there's somebody who's not going to put up with donald trump's crap, basically, to put it ni

this goes bigger than the presses. i wanted to make sure, this is corker, that we're cutting taxes for the wealthy and for lower income citizens, passing a lower burden on to them. okay. told that what he described is what the cbo projected. so that needs to be overcome then, doesn't he? which either he is derelict in his duties and doesn't know what the bill does, or he is lying about it. the united states senators have to show some concern, grasp and command fundamentally. don't you agree, rick? >> well, look. i think this is an enormously consequential bill. and i think senator corker, who is a bright guy and i like him a lot. they've seen this roll out after a group of insurance crafted in secret just like it happened in obamacare. version 1.0. this is things that huge crony capitalists miss. as conservatives, you should oppose this particular bill. it doesn't do the things that made obamacare in the first place. >> they were absolutely involved in every step of the aca. that process played out over 14 months. >> th

>>> and stop the presses. the white house is always blaming the media for what it calls fake news but with another off camera briefing set for just a half hour from now, what are we going to hear this time? >>> we start with that new de deadline for a senate health care bill on friday. the sense is if they can cobble together 50 votes by then, the cbo can score the bill over the long holiday recess, then come back for a vote next week. tuesday, republican senators met with president trump at the white house to strategize just a short time ago, the president talked about the chances of passage. >> i think we are going to get at least very close and i think we're going to get it over the line. there was a great, great feeling in that room yesterday. >> passage is going to require assistance from the top down. executive to legislative which might be tough. as republican senators in public, what they think of president trump's efforts, most today have had kind words. in private, however, here's what they tell the m

he is to be a bridge between the preside press and the president, serving both the press, and therefore, the public, and the president. he's sort of dual-hatted is the way it's traditionally thought of. and we have not seen that from day one from this press secretary or from the whole communications operation at the white house. they see themselves either as simply a vessel to get out a message of the day, and, frankly, when they are answering questions, they're not doing so in a very forthcoming or truthful manner, which has been a problem for this white house much more than any previous white house in the modern era. and this is -- this is absurd. >> do they know? do you get the sense that they're kmucommunicate communic. the president, we have to know more from the president? does the president believe in climate change or global warming? well, i'll get an answer. >> sean spicer doesn't have a good relationship with grup ddo trump, doesn't have a relationship he can walk in, get the answer and relay it to the press. he seems like someone who lives in fear of losing his spot because t

said about the press. he says, they are guilty of lies, vicious slander. he had been the subject of that especially in this second campaign for president. his response was, he said, you know what, at the end of the day, if you have an informed citizenry, that is the best bulwark for stopping what in his day was fake news. that the alternative is far more dangerous. it's okay for error to exist as long as there's reason to combat it and there's a free press to combat. we do want to go down the road where people are deciding what is fake or not. some independent commission is. when a is. when a fake news story comes out and said the pope endorsed donald trump, i think people are smart enough to realize that is a fake news story. if they aren't, they probably my guess is likely not a voter. host: penelope is if san antonio, texas republican, good morning. caller: i like to talk about is there's absolutely no way to prove a negative. as long as the democrats and turncoat republicans and whoever, want to keep ra

how did the press do covering this yesterday? comey clearly has a tarnished halo but because he is calling president trump a liar but the media are happy to grant him angelica status. this is a guy being portrayed now is a folksy, no nonsense g-man whose upholding truth, justice, and the american way despite the fact that much of what he said at the hearing confirms part of president trump's account. >> martha: indeed it does. here's a tweet from president trump, despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication was his take. comey is a liquor and i want to play what he said this afternoon at the news conference before calling on a member of the press, watch. >> president trump: should i take one of the killer networks that treat me so badly as a fake news with the market should do that? go ahead, john. >> martha: then he went on to point the finger, used to be nice to me, you're not nice to me anymore. it's a tricky situation, the president clearly feels that the press is not on his side and it's been dem

person do the job that the press and the public requires?ve access to the president and do they get reliable, timely, and honest, truthful information to the public on a daily basis? that's not been the pattern so far. >> kirsten, no matter what the title is, unless they have access to the president and the president starts being honest with them, they're going to continue to come out and say stuff that's not true. >> he's basically said he's just so fast moving, there's no way for them to keep up with them. it's no more fast moving than any other president. so other presidents have been able to make sure people are informed and have a sense of responsibility about that. but the only thing that might change it a little bit is somebody that is not going to put up with donald trump's crap, and laura ingram is that kind of person. i think it wouldn't be a particularly enjoyable experience for reporters, but she is somebody who would not -- i think she has more self-respect than some of the people going out and just saying i can't give you this

reports the white house press secretary's days at the podium are numbered. we'll see if sean spicer talks about those rumors of a major shake nextel cup the white house communications team when he takes to the podium for the first time in more than a week. that's going to happen this hour. but we start with that runoff election in georgia, which touches just about every rail of politics right now -- health care, anger at washington, and those approval ratings that we just talked about earlier today. this is what house speaker paul ryan said about a republican victory tonight. >> what does this vote in georgia mean tonight? >> well, it means that the democrats threw the entire kitchen sink at this thing. they spent tens of millions of dollars trying to pick up this congressional seat. it's a marginal congressional district. i would rather be us, the republicans, than the democrats going into this race. >> really? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. >> msnbc's garrett haake is with us. peter alexander at the white house. and kasie hunt is on capitol hill where a scavenge

april was the first ones to speak up in that press room. ether, i don't know, be it could be dangerous. the point being is that in that room we have felt the tension. but after what i said yesterday i've gotten presents from people and i've never seen -- i struck a merv. i didn't ex inspect to strike a nerve outside the press room. but i think the public is really beginning to vibrate with them and it's bothering them. and that's important. >> brian karem, i appreciate you being with us. >> again, brian -- >> i'm sorry, april. we have to cut it off. >> i just want to say this -- it's not about us. it's about the american public getting their information, freedom of the press. >> that's right. >> april ryan, jim acosta, i appreciate it. more coming up about the president's fund-raiser. the earliest ever kickoff. ethical questions and some strategic reasons behind why the president is doing it. the late details when we continue. americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. a

ron, jfk uses the word abrasive about the american press, but he usesit about the american press, but it is a good thing. it is notjust good for the country, it is good for the presidency. that is something that this president really doesn't feel. before we go, lovely ties, gentlemen! do come back again, ron christie. from me and christian, have a great weekend. we will see you here back on monday. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: a meeting of kensington council about the grenfell tower tragedy is scrapped afterjournalists were allowed in. a retired appeal courtjudge will lead the public inquiry into the grenfell tower fire — he says it may not be as wide—ranging as some residents hope. mps have voted in favour of the queen's speech, by a majority of 1a votes. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. more now on the appointment of the judge who is to lead the inquiry into the grenfell tower tragedy. sir martin moore—bick is a retired appeal courtjudge, and he's been asked by theresa may to produce an interim report as early as p

why do you avoid the press you avoid the press because that way you have you don't have to account totions, which leads to the fourth point. if you think about it we're now 140 days or so into the trump presidency. he has had a grand total of one -- i repeat single digit one press conference last of theed an hour and points one press conference that's it the whole time no president in recent memory afraided the press that much. it's because of twitter. >> and the tweets are very specific almost you know when he is going to tweet with what the subject is going to be about because it's usually when he is dissatisfactioned with the way that something is going. >> quite often like at 6:00 in the morning, right that's the kind of thing or late at night. what we've done is we've taken a look at what kinds of subjects he talks about when he fweets. "washington post" did a very interesting study. what did they find, 22% almost 22% of the time he tweeted about the press. okay? 22%. of about 500 of these things. the rest of the them he talked about jobs. government, but really one out of five t

mark any final words on the press briefings? >> no, i think the bottom line we're all in agreement the fact that you're the president, congressman or aid that works in the administration or capitol hill you work for american people, there's no question about that. he works for the american people whether he needs the salary owner we're still paying it. it still comes out of our tax dollars. as an american citizen i think we'd all want the president and his aids to have press briefings, this is america. >> i would say one thing though, the buck stops here. as much as we have anger directed at those who work for him and oftentimes it's legitimate, the limine line is it's the president's fault. everything as abbey said is being directed by him. >> abbey, let's talk about the georgia six congressional school district district. the most expensive house rate ever. things are getting ugly. john ossoff versus karen handel. what do you think will happen when the polling open in the morning? >> it's a special election, it's an offyear, the

we're told the press secretary sean spicer will walk in any moment. he's bringing a cabinet secretary or someone else to start off the q&a. this briefing, by the way, comes amid reports that spicer may transition to a behind the scenes role in the white house. it's one of the questions that will likely come up during this briefing. we'll have live coverage as soon as spicer and company walk into that briefing room. >>> in the meantime, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner is heading to jerusalem to talk peace with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian president. this on the eve of that visit, israel broke ground on the first west bank settlement in some 20 years. orin leeberman is joining us live. i may have to interrupt you in sean spicer shows up, but set the scene for these talks that kushner is about to have. >> reporter: well, kushner may be looking for concrete steps here. tfs difficult to know. he hasn't played that open of a role in the peace process just yet but what it certainly signals, kushner'

i think their game for the last six months has to make the press the enemy because no one likes the pressnemy of the people. this language is reminiscent of the way it works this banana republics. i think of these guys as banana republicans. they are acting with a different set of norms than republican or democratic administrations. they are bursting through the boundaries, the guardrails we had on this central relationship in our democracy. >> i do think that we use way too many sources. we make ourselves way too vulnerable. now it's drive by ambush where you want to stick somebody. in some ways we take the bait and we sort of diminish the business, the journalism business. >> greta, at this time when we reference watergate so constantly, you wonder how things would have gone for bob woodward and bob bernstein. >> i totally agree. that was so limited. you pick up any piece of journal, anything now and it's just filled with anonymous sources. national security with the government is doing just horrible things. whistle blowers. i think it's a little bit beyond that. >> how deeply do you th

end the dog and pony show that is the white house daily press briefing. is here tonight with sarah carter from circa news. with a very important mini monologue about a once respected news anchor who is now towing company line over at the fake news network, cnn. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. edible arrangements for summer. order in store or online. >> welcome back to hannity, we just outlined how the media is now waging an all-out war. there's another side of this, they are also purposely ignoring and distorting his accomplishment. we're goingd to put them up on the side of your screen so you can see them yourself. here now with reaction, editor in chief, fox news contributor, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, the one and only laura ingram. >> great to see you, sohn. >> stock market is doing well, economy's turning around, it was

reasons why the press, the free press was baked in to the first amendment of the constitution. it's not about us. we are fighting for our access. we are asking the questions. but to hear the news maker, the principal, the president or his press secretary say what they have to say. i believe, brian, a lot of the problem is, they flipflop so much within these 150-plus days, they've been caught on tape and they're trying to fix their faux pas as well. they're new and behind the curve in a lot of ways. it's not our fault. i think some of it, you gave three points at the top of the show. i believe it's all of the above. but i also believe it's doing the american public a disit wsee if they can't see or hear what's happening in their house, the people's house. this is not democrat or republican. >> viewers the home might be asking, why not just skip the briefings? david drucker, this becomes the new normal. one on camera briefing a week, four hidden off camera. why shouldn't journalists just leave? >> look, i think that -- i think often we are too compliant as journalists to the cond

this isn't talking about the press. this isn't talking about himself. 's now talking about the monarchy and he basically says, no one would want to be king or queen. none of us want to do it. we have to do it out of duty and what he's implicitly saying is, this a bomb shell i have to say. >> it's huge. you know, we all saw it this morning. he's talking about the monarchy, but he's talking about his mom. he talks about his mom, and her very public funeral. let me just read part of what he said. my mother had just died and i had to walk a long way behind her coffin surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. i don't think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances. i don't think it would happen today. i mean, to hear that. we all remember where we were and when we watched the funeral of his mother, so it haunts him. >> yes. that's a big, big statement. we all remember it it. we were watching the coffin of diana progress through the streets of london and accompanied by her brother, charles, prince p

that means the front page of the free press needs to say this is what the free press does. have that little phrase at the top, but that is not enough. we have to distinguish ourselves from everything else. once we start to do that and take on that mantra and responsibility, people might remember that this is the free press that went into did the story about the 43 people who died, the free press that told you we are about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of new detroit and what that means. the 10 year journey of these folks were out of the neighborhoods. you will not get that at these other places. if we sit around and assume it will get done, the newspaper will die, tv stations will become saturday night live 24 hours a day and we will be in a worse mess. again, the history of the black press is added busy journalism. it's what we've been doing for over a hundred years and i think we don't always get it right, but i can speak for myself. everything i write is commentary. analysis is mostly what i do. i came up as a journalist. in trying to keep that in the role of the chr

the result is to make everyone in the press dumber and more credulous. cnn had to fire three of its reporters after they published a bogus story trying to link a trump associate with the russian government. the piece was wrong, poorly sourced, and puffy. no other american news outlets caught it. in the end, that story was exposed by something called sputnik news. that the company owned by the russian government, ironically. where were the watchdogs in our own press? they were hypnotized by their own preconceptions. the story confirms their vices, therefore it has to be truth, even when it wasn't. it's not just cnn. in december of "the washington post" claimed that russian intelligence had literally hacked our power grid in this country. that story was totally false in every detail. they published it anyway. slate.com or in a piece claiming that the trump organization had a secret server connection to russia. that turned out to be false, published anyway. even reliable old c-span, the straightforward news outlet, but it still got cut up for just a second a

the press secretary. the press briefings will be audio only. the press obviously is making a much bigger deal out of this than i believe the american public feels about it. should the american public be dissuaded? should they feel that the press secretary, or the white house, questions what they're doing. just a different way. my suspicion, many of us, believes what this is all about is taking away those viral moments with some of me alice, who want to have a fight with sean spicer and played a clip overcoming over again. that's not in the breakthrough. you get a question yet the content, may be done at the moment. to keep the combative tone goin going. if you have the audio, listen, it will still be there. there's already been a dustup . we'll bring your portion. already, the brain actually adamant. do the reports will one man camera or do they want sean spicer not to ban camera? i never quite understood the reason for the purpose behind that, but chris, i want to ask you. have you react to some twitter replies you. i treated today, what you t

>> well, the white house is pushing back on this. white house pressean spicer insists trump is taking this threat seriously and says the white house is taking action, they're just doing it quietly. so in a statement, spicer says "the united states continues to combat on a regular basis malicious cyber activity and will continue to do so without bragging to the media or defending itself against unfair media criticism." now, spicer also pointed to the fact that the trump administration has upheld the obama administration sanctions against russia but congressional sources say the white house is already trying to water down an additional package of sanctions that's already passed the senate and is awaiting action in the house. don? >> sara murry, thank you very much. i want to discuss all of this now with ambassador james woolsly, former director of the cia, cnn military and diplomatic analyst, retired rear admiral john kirby. thank you, all, for -- thank you, both, for coming on. admiral kirby, nicholas burns, former state department official under presi

thinks to do a job to be fair and i was listening in the greenroom talking about the dictatorship the press has been so negative to the president that they are creating hysteria among the public. think it is perfectly legitimate to criticize a the president when appropriate but to sayy things that are completely not true i think is damaging >> nuking rich treated earlier that he thinks robert muller is very his investigation. do you agree?. i >> he knows him better than i do you said good director of the fbi and has a history to be fair run-through data issues fell one dares to before he was made special counsel he met with the president and the president and kim had a conversation about mueller being on the next fbi director even on the in in tradition traces the u its of the odd he would not reveal that having a private conversation to have as candid thoughts we don't know what was discussed in that meeting it seems that the challenge for of lawyer to do something like that and actually i am a little shocked that mueller and i reported that yesterday they had this meeting and trump was se

"meet the press c" is next. >>> this sunday, terror in london. a van mows down pedestrians on london bridge and the three occupants stab customers at nearby bars and restaurants. >> saw someone running, screaming, somebody was injured. the worst 30 minutes of my life. >> at least seven people are killed. dozens more wounded. prime minister theresa may responds this morning. >> we believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face. >> wel we' >> we'll have the latest. >>> plus the u.s. pulls out of the paris climate change acourt. president trump says it helps other countries at the expense of the u.s. economy. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> the reaction is swift. >> extraordinary andy ca abdica of american leadership, a sha shameful moment for the united states. >>> former fbi director james comey will testify before congress after being fired while investigating possible links between russia election hacking and the trump campaign. >> as with any counterintelligence investigation, this will incl

and the media has already had to retract several false eports, press releases and everything. we have some major problems in this country and if the president, who was elected, and the media cannot focus on these problems that we have, our country is going to continue to go down. and i just wish that everybody ould do their respective jobs. president trump, work with the ongress, pass or get something started on tax reform, infrastructure, health care. the media, focus on the actual facts and quit bringing up all these sources and everything. if they're sources cannot be named and factually documented, then don't bring anything up. that's what got president trump all right up. host: let's bring a couple points there. guest: well, in storms of anonymous sources, i agree they are a problem -- in terms of anonymous sources, i agree they are a problem. it's difficult to do the job of reporter without relying on anonymous sources or people who have a reason to -- they want to get something across but they're worried about their job. so i think that there should be fewer of them, but

this is not made up by the press. it's actually happening. >> and deserve to be covered and the american people want to know about them and know the ups and downs and the details. >> yeah. i think we're done. everyone, thanks very much. >>> up next, a right-wing ambush propaganda targeted cnn political commentator van jones in an undercover video. we'll talk to van here and what he said in the tape encounter when we return. ♪ what should i watch? show me sports. it's so fluffy! look at that fluffy unicorn! he's so fluffy i'm gonna die! your voice is awesome. the x1 voice remote. xfinity. the future of awesome. >>> a conservative activist james o'keefe has released another selectively edited tape targeting van jones. first, here's what o'keefe chose to public from the secretly recorded conversation. >> hey, man. we met in palm springs a few years back. >> you good? >> yeah. what are you doing? what do you think is going to happen this week with the whole russia thing? >> [ inaudible ]. >> really? you don't think that --

he did not cultivate the press in any way. meadefact, the only time try to cultivate the interest of anyone to not work well. -- meade writes home to his wife . part of his lunch flirting with mary todd lincoln. usually this would merit a combat service --. badge. [laughter] sawt was the only time mary someone flirting with her instead of her husband. thingsnderstood these and even then he was clumsy in trying to advance these things. he was very conscience of his reputation and was not very skilled at self-promotion. he would have been awful at twitter, for example. his facebook page would be bland. kind of like hennessy's. case, he does not have those things. it is filled with pages that there are tributes to meade and how he has been unjustly overshadowed why others. meade doeses not -- not have that skill even though he wish he had it as an artificial promotion of his image. himself at a sees quintessential 19th-century philadelphia german. he writes over and over in his letters about duty. is duty. him, it a sense to be du

the press, which i think has suddenly got its act together and certainly has been very aggressive with the reporting in the last 120 days -- did not do its job during the campaign, the false equivalentes, the free ride that donald trump got from the "washington post" and "new york times" was really an embarrassment and most major editors around the country understand that now. what i look the court system, the federal courts have not been aggressive in matters dealing with national security. where they give a lot of seven bit of the -- benefit of the doubt to the government and the state secret privilege or making people create their own legal standing for bringing a case to a federal court. so, it's important that citizens understand that these so-called guardrails have to be fortified and that there should be a certain amount of understanding of what a whistleblower is and what a whistleblower does, and going back to warn, that we have gotten from people such as james madison and alexander hamilton about the importance of a free press, the importance of not trading off your liberty f

i know where the fault lies. >> the white house is war on the press and the media. be clear about this, it's nothing less than a war on the truth. >> jesse: square this circle for me, k.g. donald trump calling the news fake, that's what they are saying. when the media calls republicans racist traitors and nazis for a year and someone actually shoots a republican, they don't have anything to do with that. >> kimberly: we are bringing up the double standard. the media acts like they have clean hands of this. they have been trashing president trump. anyone associated with him, his administration. the way he shakes hands, his breathing. shaking hands like a thug, the president gets frustrated because he wants to put things forward. national security, jobs, make all these improvements that he promised, that people want to see happen in this country. but nevertheless, you see a lot of this whining. ask the questions. you are courageous. get in there. do it. >> jesse: it doesn't seem like the press can take a punch. >> juan: we talked about this last night. the press shoul

what did he think about freedom of the press. so i have -- i brought one sentence. u let me read it? >> i certainly will. >> this is the man who always wrote in the most long winded fashion, also circumspect. listen to what he said. if freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. >> uh-huh. >> this is george washington. and the other president who is demeaning the press, who is in a war with the press, calls it all fake news. we're in a very serious time right now and i am trying very much in my post elected life to get out there. and not with anger but with, i hope, some kind of reasonable approach, win people over to understand that 2018 is the first time we can check and balance this man. and you know, regardless of what happens if somebody tries to impeach him, we have to focus, i think, on 2018. >> you said earlier that we agree on most of the big things and we do. and we could argue about some small things. in the interest of time i won't. there are other things i want to talk to you about. one could ask a le

then two hours later they got back to the press and said actually we've changed our mind. no press is allowed because of a logistical issue. it's perplexing what that could be because there are 300 people in the room right now, so surely they could have made room for a few reporters. and if they had planned in the beginning to allow the press in it wouldn't have been a last-minute issue. there is no press in there listening to the president give remarks to some of his biggest donors right now. >> i appreciate you battling the sound of someone with a megaphone right next to you. >>> more on the legal and ethical dimensions. joining us is former george w. bush ethics adviser richard painter, vice chairman of a watchdog group that's suing the president over the constitution's emolluments clause. jen sauky and jeffrey lord, well, because of ronald reagan. so, jeffrey, the fact at the last minute the trump campaign decide decided to bar the press from this event, is that a problem for you? >> no. this kind of thing is so incredibly common. when i knew what our segment was here i

well, after some prodding from the press, they decided to let the media in. two hours later they cited a logistical reason and said they could no longer let cameras tiny a room where 300 people were already going to be with the president. i'm not sure what that logistical reason would be, but there wouldn'ting one if they had planned to let the press into this event tonight. tonight there was no media in that room. >> and if there's a capacity think, there's such a thing as a pole camera where you let one person in and they get it to everyone. there are questions over who is paying for this thing, where the money is going. what do you know about that? >> reporter: well, we have a lot of questions and not many answers. i've asked repeatedly today from the rnc, from trump's 2020 campaign, and from the hotel who is paying for this event tonight, and we have not gotten any answers. we don't know if the hotel donated the space, if the 2020 campaign is paying for it, or if the rnc is funding it. we don't know. so the president hosted an event here in this room behi

the news and the press do a great job, out... the news and the press do a greatjob, but out... y was out... the news and the press do a greatjob, but yesterday was not out... the news and the press do a great job, but yesterday was not a true reflection of what happened. i was at a church and all we did all day was boxed up thousands of boxes to send for storage, and all over the news is riots and kicking down doors. that is not a true reflection. if you are on the ground, you know what the community spirit is, and it is in the hands of the press to show a balanced view. yes, people are angry, but also people are loving. we have been trying to showing credible effort from the community to deliver aid, to bring in aid, you have got enough supplies no. we have got too many supplies no. we have got too many supplies now! we want to see a massive thank you to van drivers, people opening up storage and homes. i would love to get a conversation going between storage and donation centres because i have not seen any council members, and we are doing this very organically, but we are doi

and it makes the press, which is absolutely critical to a healthy democracy, i cannot believe in the 72017 we have to say tt it is critical. and donald trump has had, press is the enemy of the people. it is simply unprecedented, and frankly, disturbing. >> jon: no white house for the record has much enjoyed its relationship with the press. we will see if this changes, sean spicer is down to about one televised news briefing per week in the month of june. we will see if it changes. i want to take up another topic with you both. cnn is instituting a new policy for all of its stories related to russia after making a major retraction last week. at the network reported a link between the supporter of president trump into the billion dollar russian investment plan only to retract and apologize a day later. so now all of the stories that cnn runs about russia have to be approved by a vice president or an executive editor. guy, is that prudent policy? >> look at what they have gone through over the last few weeks. they reported famously that james comey was going to come out and contradicted

is the president going to press putin on that? >> obviously i'm not going to get ahead of the president's conversation. i imagine we'll have a readout after that conversation takes place. >> john? >> i'll come to you next. >> thank you, sarah, the president's tweet, does it help his legislative agenda, does it help him win the votes of the nine senators that have come out against that senate bill, what is your view on that? >> again, we're just looking for new ways to rephrase this question. he was attacked, he responded, nothing more to add. >> john? >> legislative agenda, but asking about the speech -- asking about whether or not this helps his legislative agenda. >> i think the president would love for us all to focus on the legislative agenda more. over -- you look at the coverage over the last month of the extended period between may and june. if you look at their coverage and what they're talking about. they spent one minute talking about tax reform, three minutes on infrastructure, five minutes on the economy and jobs, 17 mi

the american press was purveying this. it contributed greatly to the difficulties he had selling the treaty back home because he couldn't -- he wasn't as effective as dealing with public opinion in an open democracy as he was in a war dominated political system. then he came home and thought he could sell it by getting on a train. instead of doing what he should have done, which is negotiated -- if he had negotiated, he would have gotten what he wanted. but because he was sanctimonious and refused to go back and forth, he failed. there are some historians like john l cooper that say that is unfair because he was ill, but the fact is wilson, even when he was well, had a capacity for rigidity. he had to leave princeton because he didn't compromise when he should have. that was a problem he had. i think in that sense, is a good tool picture of how you deal with public opinion. whether it is a wartime or peacetime situation. rob: i'm going to give you the last word because we just got a few minutes left. monique: i was just thi

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he took off shortly after the press conference. r he leaves there is kind of a sigh of relief you can hear throughout the building. but i think it was also this extraordinary moment that everyone witnessed. everyone was so interested in hearing what the president's reaction was going to be to comey's testimony. we didn't hear him -- see him tweet at all yesterday. we didn't see him comment at any of his events. today we were able to ask him questions about what he thought of it. >> sort of extraordinary standing next to the president of romania, important issues, and yet we deviate to this. was it peculiar the transition? >> i mean, it did seem to with all the romainian press asking serious questions about a whole bunch of issues that are very pertinent right now. i think also what is so interesting about the president's performance, it was such classic trump. the whole line of questioning about are there tapes. at the end it kind of devolved into this free for all of people screaming at him, are there tapes, do you have the tapes?

i know you're getting ready for the white house press briefing over there. sara huckabee sanders, the white house deputy press secretary, is going to be briefing you and all of the reporters. unfortunately, the white house has decided that the american people will not be able to see this briefing live. we're not going to be able to hear it live. neither cnn nor any of the other cable news networks, msnbc, fox, c-span. why have they decided they don't want the american public to see and hear this briefing live? >> reporter: that's right. again they've decided this is going to be an off-camera briefing. we're hoping to bring the audio to viewers later on after this has concluded. this is something the white house has been moving more toward, taking cameras outside of the briefing room, something that's traditionally been done on camera. and no longer having to answer questions to the american public. really gives these administration officials an opportunity not to have to have their faces on camera while they're questioned about things like why the president w

and it is completely against what the -- >> kevin, does the press, the white house press, spicer meet even when it is not on camera every day? is there action spes we don't see at hole? >> sometimes. it is bizarre, under democratic of the it is something as journalists we have to push back against. i don't think there's anyone in washington inside the beltway people watching at hole, people outside the beltway, they're looking at this and they're trying to figure out why there's nothing, no new developmentes on tax reform. what's going on with the health care debate. whether or not the russians will meddle in 2016. in order to get those answers, these briefing to be public. >> i would be willing to trade or swap if i had any dog in this fight, which i don't. i'm not a white house, i'll not in the white house press corps. is that the president once a week gave a press conference for an hour, then we don't need all the other ones. >> i would take that deal. i would take that deal. the other thing about the press conferences is that, these press briefings, quite frankly, they're not all

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job of doing battle with the press corps all the time. >> yes, you did. >>can't imagine an instance of where i said something that turned out not to be true where i wouldn't have been fired. it seems like when you go back to the first day sean spicer asked you to look at two pictures, one with x number of people in, it one with x times ten and asked you to believe that the one with x had more people in it. the podium seems to have been reduced to the propaganda that this president would like to see his press office disseminate. >> well, and you've got probably a lot more insight than i do in terms of how press teams put together their press strategy. >> you start with the truth. i mean, we expect -- >> i'm glad to hear you say that. it doesn't surprise me to hear you say that. and that's certainly what my expectation would be as a journalist and what i think the american public's expectation is as well. you know, i can't comment on how they're putting their own strategy together. i know that i as a journalist and we as the white house correspondents associat

that is the role of the press to be critical. sure, there are some networks that would want to be an organ of the white house, it seems or an avowed enemy of the white house. but most reporters want to be fair and accurate and they tri-very hard just to be that. >> that's exactly right, anderson. if you're talking about the press briefing or the back and forth with donald trump's own relationship with the press, there is a healthy giving back -- give back and forth with the press. they always want more access, say, when you're in the white house, you're never going to give them as many press conferences but the reality here is that if he was at 55% approval rating and had just passed a tax reform package and a health care bill and was traveling around the country raising money for republican candidates, there would probably be good press coverage. there's a reason why there's not good press coverage. it's because there isn't good news to cover and that's how the media works and that's pretty simple. >> there's also fbi investigati

authoritarians want to suppress the press, and that's what we see here. so, again, we stand ready to work with the administration, with the republicans, a jobs bill, an infrastructure bill that would be really and truly an infrastructure bill, to work with them, address the improvements to the tax code, whether it's about fairness, about transparency, about closing special interest loopholes, lower the corporate rate, whatever it is to create growth, to create good-paying jobs in our country as we reduce the deficit. we see none of that. with that, i will please take any questions you may have. yes, sir. >> the president tweeted this morning, essentially accusing director comey of lying under oath yesterday. do you think the president needs to go under oath to address this, either to mueller or to one of the committees in congress investigating this? >> it would take me all day to tell you what i think the president should be doing. it started, as on one of the shows this morning, with a good night's sleep. the president's fitness for office is something t