Funny these historic set backs and does job only have what it takes to beat. Special coverage on aljazeera. And i want you all to know that we are fighting the fake deuce phoning the enemy of the people this president has undermined us from the very beginning hes called this enemies of the people he has told us that we are fake media and he is trying to undermine and drive a wedge between the electorate and us the fake news is creating violence. You know. If the media cant be trusted to report the news then thats a dangerous place for america what you just did is inflammatory and the republican this room is only trying to do their job they are the same fake discussing new. York. Tell your children go to illegal but they go through your so what do you base your Glaxo Wellcome on sit down sit down could you please say sir down you get one why should. You do. This is the white Health Welcome to it this is where all of us it was being registered all the Television People put the go the information that we provided a look. I work for c. N. N. Its an analyst of playboy i write a column. Behind us you can see where everybody does their live shot all the major networks. That room used to be where we had briefings but we havent had a briefing in about 2 months so instead what happens is theres a podium a makeshift podium you see people bringing chairs out here we have 249 chairs in air conditioning 50 feet away. No shit its just joining this is sarah how do we sanders the press secretary is scheduled to come out here this morning to state run Television Fox and shell probably come over and visit with us and hopefully have a few words to say to us and well try to find out some information places that place just. In the morning there are you do you think about asking china the city would you get from stocks deterrents i think its hypocrisy at its best can you tell me the president this is replaced what used to be a feely press briefing is now a short 5 to 10 minute gaggle out in the driveway of the white house is there already so they can control the press a little bit better keep the questions and answers down there right now since you have so one question to the distractors this administration has gotten a lot of heat and for its credibility to know what you guys and so i would argue about salary i dont doubt your credibility or no longer im just asking the question arent about me so the question is for the sizable portion of the public to believe that this administration has no credibility what is your response to that i think its real simple if we come out and do the very best job every single day the media is the one that has perpetuated the russia collusion hoax for the last 2 years and i think before you guys start looking here and asking questions about our credibility you should take a real hard look at your 00 credibility isnt questionable the answers as you see are not forthcoming thanks aaron thank you very much shit yeah todays press is under fire but you persevered you do your job you ask the questions thats what youre here to do every day. This is the Briefing Room where the Briefing Room is operating you get probably 10110 people packed in here i work down this way. So c. N. N. And fox are down here reporters covering the white house do not have contact with the administration and we have limited contact with the actual person that were covering the president he likes to say hes transparent but he shows up in the take questions pretend he can hear some cut other people off tell people sit down tell people shut up and off he goes. And this is not how i usually count since historically very much off the rails i mean you get it right all the time he ever did and he had probably the best interactions so theres a a law that the army cant be used as a police force some is called the posse comitatus act as i went up and was asking folks in the pressure up they didnt really know what the law he was and one of the press aides he started singing a song from the lion king you couldve walked a fair under the past 3 or 4 president s and they either know what you were tell you what you had least no more you were talking about and they wouldnt have called it the who live and they wouldnt and they definitely would not have sang part of the song for the children up on something as serious as sending armed u. S. Military personnel to the border to perform a Police Action on a plane and robert muller. What a stupid question. What a stupid but i want you a lot of us got a lot of snow right so i think in very. Hills hell start another fire over here today to move us off this fire i think it was monday or tuesday i listed 10 or 11 issues that we went through in the course of one day 11. Would have been a huge story in a Previous Administration and some of them get lost because just you get rolled under i call it the chaos but yeah and im always shocked by the continued shock about donald trump this has been his entire adult life has been run this way and he has read his yeah. Will be out on the rose garden where the president is going to appear for the national day of prayer he may or may not take questions hes not going to take a question now but will show up because it might be our only chance to see the president today to get a question to ask. Ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States that this is true. People are so proud to be using that beautiful word. And hiding from me and theyre not. Running for questions in this thread and its pretty tickly done that way. The more. She. Says she would is this white house in Historical Perspective that white house is very different and its because the president is very different and i think we are in a very divisive time period and he got elected as a sharp partisan capture. It wasnt that he created it greta just think the president has not happened experience as a Government Official and so business experience and the level of information that you have to provide is a lot less than it is once you get into government asking the question if youre going to push was a governor before he came here obama senator. They learn that the press is its part of governing and you may not like it but you have to learn to live with it this president doesnt seem to want to live with. It and. Listen so this week following up on the motor stuff and if we send anything off to anyone else that thats the stuff that we should do because all that stuff that happened in the last 24 hours. And ive recently did feature going back to the border interviewing drug dealers and Illegal Immigrants so what im writing now is basically act 2 of the muller investigation. There are stories that i have covered that stick with me this was a Spot News Story we did about a shooting of a Police Officer in san antonio and its because of that story that i went to jail had a source and i kept that source confidential. A reporter really only has one thing your credibility. This is my 1st station id and i was covering the Reagan Administration business from the gulf war george bush the 96 a Democratic NationalConvention ClintonObama Administration was not as candid is they claim to be but ill be honest with you i dont like any of them. Its their job to put their best foot forward its my job to find out what theyre actually doing as president are you worried about indictments coming down in this event so its an adversarial relationship but it doesnt have to be a person i say or watch c. N. N. Should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person i always thought that all of them up until trump i could i could stomach and i i respected all of them and i dont necessarily respect from the fake news is creating violence ill tell you what if the. Media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly youd have a lot less violence in the country you can call me the enemy of the people and call me fake news and have threats made against me and me respect what you do below but out. Was people feel like its ok to threaten a reporter. Because the president has threatened reporters. I had my window of my car bashed ive had people call me and say im going to kill you. I had to call the police a few times because of threats i know other reporters that have bodyguards you dont get to threaten the crowds were not the enemy of the people we are the people i think its that constant barrage of fake news directed at this president if the media cant be trusted to report the news then thats a dangerous place for america in one of us if we dont get it right the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read the 1st clash i had with Sarah Sanders was about 6 months into this administration were i did as you just run your to provide the answers and what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who can see see once again the president s right and everybody else out here speaking to you and everybody in this room is only trying to do their job but i think if anything has been inflamed its the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media and then another 6 months went by and shes talking about how the administration is doing such humanitarian great things on the border when they were putting kids in cages now. That one affected me personally because ive seen what happens to children on the border come on syria youre a parent dont you have any empathy for what these people are going to do you have lets try and you guys to settle down his life sorry im trying to be serious but im not going to have you go out of furnishing really isnt so low and they have these people have nothing they ran i know you have to get some more t. V. I mean thats how youre serving us i want to read you know this request go ahead real honestly its good because it is a serious question and these people have nothing they come to the border with nothing from children you just youre a good parent of Young Children dont you think in the end of the people that they go through children that its ok for them to spend i do not expect you to lie to me all the time on everything that you say thank you mr president im asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the d. N. A. Crimes reporting statistics that we seize show the drugs are coming across at the ports of entry that illegal immigration is down and the violence is down so what do you base your lack of them come on lets go so hes got the same facts ive got his government keeps the facts and none of the government facts showed and still dont show that theres a crisis on the border and secondly out of the what you go on you get one with a set youre such a great sit down sit down could you please raise your hand you get what i why should the press is not after donald trump. The press is after the facts so your own government stats are wrong or you say oh no i used many stats and then he said it was us let me tell you you have stats that are far worse than the ones that i use. My job is to press and ask questions and ultimately the president will say what he says and people can decide whether or not he speaks the truth. The president when you had the arms embargo on you were asking other nations our allies particularly to observe it publicly but at the same time i believe you concede you were authorizing breaking that embargo by the United States how can you justify this to the city. In front of this crowd my son and. It is good to see my. You dont find find out about this place i dont know about this place. I enjoyed my time in the white house as a reporter when you come back no i would never come back its a Young Persons game its for you its for people with a lot of energy i never had to contend with what you have to contend with today with this president and this press secretary in this administration ive dealt with people who they dodge they weave once in a while they would tell untruths but not regularly not so that everybody falter. So could you take them or you could i do any better than you can no no not at all i think you and the others in the press room asking the right questions failing but not because youre not trying not because youre not thinking about what the American People want to know or should want to know about the their president or his administration i never had to worry about that people wanted to know and they wanted facts no one said they were alternative facts no one said its the press its. News. We make mistakes we try to correct but we always make mistakes are human right. Now day 85 i feel very. Close just like the sound bites and. They like it they feel like. 3 to one so welcome back to just ask the question today it is a treat to have my mentor on this show Sam Donaldson who for years covered the white house for a. B. C. Whats wrong with the white house today going to take a turn down to trump is whats wrong with the white house i mean donald trump is basically ignorant about things other than his cunning ability as a con man right he started at the roy cohn cons philosophy clearly was we can win at any cost and never mind whether its legal or not never mind who you heard or not you weve. Got a truck has a doctor that philosophy do you think trump has your relatively harmed a the United States and b. Our profession i think he has harmed it greatly i do not believe its irrevocably harmed i think quoting lincoln in the good sense of the American People will ultimately prevail i think the majority of people in this country want the mores want the ethics wants the morality all of the standards that we all grew up with their parents their grandparents were a country built on standards yeah hes harmed them in every possible way but i dont think hes destroyed them i will see in 2020 what about our profession. I think we were harmed in all of these multiple ways that people can get their news fox news very disturbing Murdoch Rupert murdoch has done great harm to this country as he had in roger ailes god rest his soul i want to address the idea that every time im told that hes the most transparent and assessable present. But you know he is anyone whos actually watched him listen to him or read his tweets either directly or in the news those yes anyone who has his or her eyes open has got him cold ill tell you sam in the white house today theres very little humor thats what how can there be is so grim and i dont remember it the same as when i 1st knew but there well i hope it gets that we can do this although you go to the name of the show is just ask the question will catch you next time. Today is the nerd prom as they call the White House Correspondents Association dinner right and i need my wife and the last 3 years President Trump hasnt shown up and this year hes banning any one of his staff from showing up as well. By the way and i hope it was before. When that thing went down with you and you came out only did. Not understand. What you did sean you stood up and was man and i love you thank you but you later. I always gave in and i love it. I had a horrible relationship with think all of me but you know i gave him grief he took a lot and then left. But i thought in the end him he was a man of principle and. Appreciate that i dont think sean was ever a true believer in the prophets and i believe that sarah is and thats the difference between that and thats all the difference in the world. Celebrates the 1st time in 6 months since the theme of. The christ this is something thats in. The city because. They brian i watch her get up i mean you talk about somebody thats a loser she doesnt know what the hell shes doing targets. And you. Have to find out the facts of this you know. Im not the enemy of any limits. Police say the shooting that left 5 people dead on thursday was a targeted attack on a local newspaper the Capital Gazette journalists caught in the violence described the scene as a war zone with one Crime Reporter tweeting theres nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while youre under your desk and then hear the gunman reload asked to comment on the journalist slayings President Donald Trump who earlier this month labeled the news media the countrys worst enemy walked away but tweeted his condolences as a Precaution Police deployed to guard the entrances of the New York Times and other large u. S. Media organizations an ominous sight to mark uncertain times. Nearly a year ago friends and coworkers members of our professional family ripped from us in a day none of us should ever forget one of those people is my friend when you want to use. That incident also figured in the recent Reporters Without Borders assessment that now ranks the United States as only the 48. 00 freest country for journalists and places us in the trouble democracy category you shouldnt have to worry about die off covering the news and less is ancillary to covering the news. The 4th this day has meaning and you breathe life into it every day as they did. I love every one of you a special love for the we have a capital because that. Will be gerald job they want to point out was right what was wrong and what we could do better so the members of my staff. Enjoy the credible about. To return to work if you want. Im proud. To work among the giants. So i like you and i think that thanks. To. The go through. I think. When it happened. It was just in shock that the 1st thing i thought was i hope that it doesnt come out that the shooter had a vendetta against specifically the news for but i hope its just something random working the site is going to the 1st place. And it was specifically targeted in the space. And that that was really really scared the hell out of. What happens if i write about somebody who really doesnt like clarified it on now is he in jeopardy of getting shot d. I dont think i was prepared for what weve actually seen i was going to start with a recap of the inauguration but i think weve covered that pretty well from the day one when they showed 2 pictures of 2 inaugurations and said listen trump had the largest inaugural numbers of anyone and you could see. By the picture that that wasnt true you knew where this administration was heading. Dont believe your eyes believe me got any credible progressively worse with Sarah Sanders tough but shes good you know you also have tough and bad right and of course she and spicer and elbowed gone. Everything is deflection with this president he doesnt want you to look at what the left hands doing want to watch this and so hes lying to us and filling us full with smoke so he can i was actually going on the cutting of taxes for the ultra rich the robber barons running free cutting regulations and thats the thing that donald trump doesnt want you to see donald trump doesnt do anything that doesnt benefit donald trump. The real problem for the us with trump is their autocrats all over the world and despots who listen to the president the United States the leader of the free world and figure its ok to jail beat up and kill reporters. So for the press its never been a more tenuous time and that i fear will continue if he is reelected. The old saying is that once there was a dream that was wrong once there was a dream that was the United States the constitution and declaration of independence are 2 of the most beautiful things ever written by man to explain how we should govern ourselves and not be at the throat of a despot. And thats whats at stake. Mass protests forcing the governments hand but are we seeing the home try to talk to passengers we follow journalists on the frontline business fishtank the free press committed to reporting the facts Police Officers pointing guns at journalists and say stop to think of hong kong fact and fiction the truth is in any way on aljazeera. 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