Theyre trying to help him cover up the disturbing connections that do exist between trump world and russia. Every single day, journalists are uncovering new links between the two. Meantime, at home youre probably wondering if your taxes are going to go up or going to go down. Amid all the deceptive claims about the gop tax bill. Right now, the biggest challenge for newsrooms i cant say this loudly enough. The biggest challenge is to cut through the craziness and explain whats going on in clear, accurate language. We need to start with the basics. We need to exercise a lot of caution and precision, without shying away from the truth. We need to describe the crisis that we are seeing with our own eyes. This moment calls for more explainers. More time lines. More summaries. More factchecks. To help the audience, to help all of you at home. We in the media need to write our stories, not to impress each other, but to inform you. To inform an increasingly worried public. And above all else, we need to protect our credibility at all costs. Which brings me to the two big stories were covering this hour. Nbc firing matt lauer. And abc suspending brian ross. These are two very different cases, to be sure. Lauer accused of sexual misconduct. Ross admitting to sloppy journalism. But both lead to a common result. Questions about the credibility and the accountability of the people who deliver us the news. Of course, trump is exploiting both cases on twitter. And well get to lauer and to trump a little later. But first to ross. The breaking news this weekend. Abc saying he made a serious error in his bombshell report about Michael Flynn was not fully vetted through our editorial standards process. So what happened . Well, as the shock of flynns plea deal sank in on friday, as the nation tried to figure out what was happening, ross told viewers that flynn is prepared to point the finger directly at trump. And testified that the president , before taking office, ordered him to make contact with the russians. That was before election day. The key here was that flynn was going to say it all happened during the campaign. Raising the prospect of ill lets. That report called the dow jones to drop 350 points. Although the market almost fully recovered later in the day. No other news outlets were able to match his bombshell reporting. We wondered why. And we found out. On the nbc nightly news, ross backtracked. A clarification tonight on something one of flynns confidantes told us. He said the president asked flynn to contact russia during the complain. Hes clarifying that, saying candidate trump asked him during the campaign to find ways to repair relations with russia and afterward, the president elect told him to contact him on issues to Work Together to fight isis. They call it a clarification, but it was a huge correction. Team trump was outraged. One of the president s sons, donald trump jr. , retweeted me and predicted there would be no disciplinary action. We can put his tweet onscreen here. He said because it was looking bad for trump, nobody at abc would be punished. In fact, on saturday evening, abc did suspend ross, a fourweek suspension, without pay. Now the question is whether he will return in january. Will he return to his job and what does that mean . What does all of this mean for the ongoing investigations into trump and russia . Lets get into that now with our panel here in new york, political analyst, Jeff Greenfield and oliver darcy. And april ryan, Washington Bureau chief for american urban radio networks, also a cnn political analyst. Oliver, youve been doing reporting all weekend. Before we get into the details, jeff, when we look at whats going on so far, we dont know what flynn may say to mueller. Isnt that the point, that this isnt exonerating for trump, not incriminating. We dont know yet whats going on. Thats what made this error so consequential. As you pointed out, if trump had directed his team to reach out to russia during the campaign, that is collusion. And that really undermines the notion this was a very conspiratorial operation. You would expect the president elect to reach out, maybe. The thing that baffles me about this is why would it take abc news hours to correct this when every other media outlet was right . Also, and im going to be very blunt about this. Im sorry. This is not brian ross first mistake in reporting breaking news inaccurately. Linking saddam to the anthrax attacks in 2001. Linking the aurora shooter to a tea party by using the wrong name. Abc should have been on notice any time there is breaking news and special events, you run the risk of misreporting. Having anchored at cnn, a report about nerve gas in laos that turned out to be unsupported, having to apologize. Mistakes are made. The second point i would make, because this is exactly what trump and his allies want to say, no matter what you hear on mainstream media, its fake. Theyre doing it to hurt us. And this is like handing a sword to the people who want all media to be looked at in that regard. Do you think thats why theyve suspended him . In the past, would there have been a suspension for this . He wasnt suspended after the aurora mistake. Im reluctant not only to predict the future, but to relitigate the past. All i know is in the current environment, i think they had to. So oliver, you were early on this story, you noticed on abc news. Com on friday, that his reporting wasnt on the website. And that made you wonder what was going on. Right. Because if you have massive scoop that no other outlet has, you would be thinking they would be singing from mountaintops. Instead, it was missing completely from their online reports. And so i started asking abc, you know, whats going on . Why is ross bombshell not online . And it took a few hours but eventually they got back to me and said they would do this clarification on world news. And they eventually called it a correction and now say its a serious error. But to your point, ive heard from people inside abc after four weeks theyre still not certain, you know, can he come back, and is he when you report something, is it going to be seen as credible from now on . There is a lot of uncertainty about that. And inside abc too, when i was talking to people yesterday, theyre very embarrass and had there is also frustration that he was allowed to go to air with this report. I think that we need to home in on. The idea that he had a Single Source and wasnt approved through the vetting process. If you or i had that kind of information, we would have to talk to our editors, our bosses, before reporting it on the air. The fact he didnt do that, suggests maybe this was not just his fault, there may have been a structural problem. Right. It should have gone through some sort of vetting. It seems it didnt. And its even particularly bad here, because his track record is not very good. Hes had several highprofile mistakes, and he went to air with an explosive report that caused the market to tank, based on a single anonymous source that ended up being, you know, not correct. To your point about the president to your point about the stock market, the president weighed in this morning on twitter. Lets put his tweet on screen. He says people who lost money when the stock market went down 350 points based on the false and dishonest reporting of brian ross, hes been suspended, should consider hiring a lawyer and suing abc for the damages his bad reporting has caused. Many millions of dollars. April . You cover the president every day. Your reaction . Well, the president has said things about hiring lawyers before, when it comes to those who are accusing him of sexual misconduct. He hasnt done that yet. But this is a serious issue. And the stakes are very high. You know, we as reporters, we will make mistakes. We have. We continue to. And we will in the future. But the stakes are so high, brian. And right now, whats happening, i think, about how this administration pounces on one moment that is thats a faux pas. I think about early on in the administration when sean spicer was press secretary, something that was small, but it blew up so big. You remember the controversy about the Martin Luther king jr. Bust possibly not being in the office. People went berserk over it. And now this has gone to another level. Stakes are so high. And we have to really make sure all the is are dotted and all of the ts are crossed. Because this is a very serious situation. This russia investigation issue has tentacles that reach far beyond this moment. And into the future. The president has been set, as it relates to russia being involved in our election process. But how does this play out in the future . We have to get it right. Theres no room for error. And many journalists are every day. I mean, i think back to thanksgiving, and when the New York Times broke the news that flynn had stopped cooperating with trumps team, the lawyers have stopped talking. That was a prelude to what we saw eight days later when he turned himself in court. So a lot of fantastic reporting happening. But these errors, they do undermine the profession. Jeff, can i go back to the idea that the president of the United States is suggesting people sue a news outlet . This is not normal. You can see that five times a day, this is not normal. Look, the president s understanding of the legal world is somewhat shaky. He also thinks he personally can rewrite the libel laws. But i just want to make one very quick point. It goes back as long as ive been in this business, which is back to thomas edison. When breaking news happens, when you are on the air, the editorial process is shortcircuited. Mistakes are going to multiply. I think back to the reagan shooting, when we reported he hadnt been shot, that he was shot, that james brady was dead. It is more important than ever in a story like a sudden breaking news that you be careful, and that you restrain yourself from saying, i just heard an amazing fact. I can do that with some friends in a restaurant. If i do it on the air, i should be held accountable. And meanwhile, im watching fox news this morning, oliver, and the main takeaway is trumps theyre saying theres no real trouble for you in this mueller investigation. Yeah, maybe the investigation should end, because you are so innocent. Theyre telling him, dont worry. Youre winning the war on christmas. A lot of positivity and counter narrative. I wonder if the seriousness of the actual flynn news, not ross mistake, but the actual news has been papered over by conservative media. It seems it has. Fox did pretty good during the breaking news coverage. The actual journalists the newscast covered it well. When it goes to the prime time lineup, its a total bubble. And a lot of fox is opinion. Fox friends, the president s favorite show in the morning. I want to go back to abc here. I think its important when journalists make mistakes that outlets are you know, transparent with their viewers and readers and they own it. And im wondering if abc would have actually owned this, had we not started asking questions. Because initially they called it a clarification and then they wanted to call it went back and called it a correction. But would abc have owned this . There was not only a mistake made in the actual reporting, but how abc was transparent with their viewers in revealing that mistake to their audience. Absolutely. 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He knew about flynn lying to the fbi . Back in january . Now, comey says trump told him to ease off on flynn. So all of this raises the specter that trump just admitted to obstructing justice. But but but trumps lawyer, john dowd, jumped on the grenade. This is what dowd has been telling news outlets. He says he drafted the tweet, which makes no sense. But it does raise the question about who is drafting the rest of the president s tweets . Lets ask. Who decided to retweet these racist anti Muslim Videos . At least one of the videos is just plain fake. One is from more than three years ago in egypt and one is yet to be verified. The retweets brought backlash from the uk Prime Minister, theresa may, so trump tweeted right back at his fellow head of state, only he didnt tweet back at her, because he tweeted at the wrong theresa may. Then trump fixed the error and told the uk Prime Minister to mind her own business. And so on and so on. But the retweets also caused this. An unsettling headline this afternoon. Officials at the u. S. State department were so concerned about the anti Muslim Videos that President Trump retweeted yesterday, they told the white house they were actually worried that the president s actions might spark a reprise of violent protests of u. S. Embassies in the middle east. Unsettling, to say the least. This is not the only example of troubling tweets recently. There was news out of libya, a tweet where the president called Cnn International fake news, led some in the libyan media to question about people being sold at slave auctions in libya. Real reporting now being challenged, using the president s fake tweets about fake news. Lets dive more deeply into this problem, if it is a problem. Back with me is Jeff Greenfield and brian caram, a regular in the briefing room. Good to have you here today. Good to see you, brian. Lets talk through this twitter issue. Do you think its coming to a head, the president s tweets are becoming more troubling, a bigger problem for the country . When you issue tweets where youre one of your oldest allies is saying its dangerous and when the state department is, sure. I want to offer a potential theory. You know the movie gas light . Yes. He tries to convince his wife shes going crazy by deliberately confusing her. Im beginning to think thats what trump is doing. Im beginning to think the shear range of these tweets in their distance from reality sometimes is all designed to make us run frantically from one tweet to the other in such a way we wind up losing all perspective. Dont start covering the serious policy consequences of this regime. And wind up looking like completely fools, only because we are dealing with misinformation at such a level and with such indifference to the consequences that we lose perspective. I mean, i think everybody should go out and look at gas light again. I was looking to see if its streaming on netflix. If i find out, ill let you know as you watch. Brian, i heard you jump in and say beginning . Well, i call it twitter litter. Its always been that way since hes come into office. If you watch his when he tweets, its always to obfuscate to get you to look somewhere else so youre not looking at whats really going on. And thats been kind of the hallmark of his whole twitter campaign. And i know people in the high officials in the white house who would love to get him to drop the twitter and drop it and walk away. But they wont. It brings attention to him. It deflects from the issues that are at hand. And at the same time, gets us chasing our tails. Which is what he loves. Because he doesnt love us too much. He just loves the attention. I think the big important point about the racist videos he retweeted, the white house backed him up. Thats scary. Can we listen to sara sanders . Lets take a look. Yeah, that was i think what hes done is elevate the conversation to talk about a real issue and a real threat and thats extreme violence and extreme terrorism. Something that we know to be very real. And something the president feels strongly about talking about, and bringing up and making sure it is an issue every single day. That were looking at the best ways to protect americans. Brian, your reaction . How do you tell me that youve elevated the level of discussion in this country on a serious issue with a fake video on an issue that didnt occur . This if my children did this, i would punish them. This is such a bad lie, just to come forward with that statement is so disturbing on so many levels. And its part and parcel of what we see every day. But that in particular is disheartening, because to tell me that youve elevated the level of discussion on an important issue by using a fake video, where is logic in this universe . Please. All right. So for our viewers at home, you can rent gas light on amazon video, a movie jeff just mentioned. Jeff, lets have what i always say is this uncomfortable conversation. I think it is deeply uncomfortable to talk about this. But i think we have to. Look at the New York Daily News this morning. A column calling the president a mad man. Saying that he is truly unhinged. Ive been noticing a new theme i the coverage of the president this week, among trump skeptics in the press. Liber liberal columnists. Eugene robinsons column in the Washington Post. People are saying we have to talk about his health now before its too late. Eugene robinson saying how long are we going to pretend that President Trump is fully rational. How long are we going to ignore the signs hes danger allowsly out of control. And here is Joe Scarborough raising the same point. What are we supposed to say this . After the First Nuclear missile goes . When is this the right time . To talk about a mentally unstable president in the white house, and a Nuclear Showdown with another unstable madman in north korea . Thats the question. Im going to ask you, Jeff Greenfield. Is now the time . Let me just make this point. What Eugene Robinson says, what Michelle Goldberg says, what the New York Daily News says, what Joe Scarborough says in terms of people still with trump will have no impact at all. And the question is, is there going to come a time when people who that base might listen to begin to raise this . And if they did that, would that base say oh, youve just gone over to the other side. I think trumps biggest success has been to tell his people that when you hear stuff from any of those people, including, by the way, highly conservative columnists, who have never been with trump, dont believe it, its fake, believe me. And as long as donald trump can convince what looks like a shrinking number of people, but still a third of the country. And as long as the Republican Leaders in congress find him the right person with which to get their policies done, i dont think thats going to matter. Its i dont know what it will take to move that group away from their position that trump right, these guys wrong. Brian, let me hear you react to that daily news piece i mentioned. This mornings New York Daily News, editorial from the Editorial Board that says, quote, after his latest spassim of deranged tweets, only those completely under his spell can deny what growing numbers of americans have long suspected. The president of the United States is profoundly unstable. He is mad. He is by any honest laymans definition, mentally unwell, and viciously lashing out. Well its been less than a year since he took office and this is what newspaper Editorial Boards are saying. Well, to jeffs point, i think theres two things you have to look at. The appearance versus the reality. He would like his it goes further than what jeff was saying. Hes not saying everything you hear is fake. Hes saying, look, im doing this on purpose, relax. Theres a method to my madness. At least thats what the sources that i have inside the white house tell me. Its an actual method. But at some point in time, method or madness, its a legitimate question to ask. I dont know if i would take it to those extremes. But it is it is a question that has to be addressed with each additional tweet and as we march down this hall, where are we going . I mean, its the tweet about anti muslim, that those three tweets particularly are very troublesome. And if you dont examine whats going on, if you dont take the time to legitimately and logically look at it, we may well pay a heavy price. And hes going to say the media is just out to get him. Jeff, thanks for being here. Brian, stick around. Up next, words i never thought i would be saying. Matt lauer fired for sexual misconduct. The latest from our panel of media reporters, right after this. Us lives here. 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Because the today show is beloved by millions of americans. And when they woke up to this news, they were stunned. Lauer was the face of today for 20 years. But there were other names this week, too. Many others dismissed from Media Companies due to harassment or other improper behavior. Among them, a news editor at mpr. A senior producer at cnns d. C. Bureau and executive producer of several superhero tv shows on the cw. And three staffers at vice media. There were also two household names. Radio broadcaster, Garrison Keillor and entrepreneur russell simmons. Keillor fired from his Minnesota Public Radio job, simmons saying hes handing his companies over to new leadership. But lets go back to lauer. Men like lauer shaped the culture for decades. Shaped news coverage, and shaped our perceptions of politics. This has come up about Mark Halperin, as well. Lauers handling of interviews with candidates Hillary Clinton and donald trump are now being reexamined to see if his alleged behavior off camera tainted how he dealt with the women he was interviewing and covering. Its a complicated question. So we have some time now to talk about the ramifications of this. Joining me now, cnn politics media and business reporter, and sara ellison, special correspondent at vanity fair and reporter from hollywood reporter. What do we know about the internal review nbc is doing to find out about what happened and who might have known what . Theyre undertaking, they have said, to staff at nbc news a thorough review, and in a nbc nightly news meeting on friday, said people who knew about this and didnt say anything would be dealt with very severely. This didnt go over that well with some people inside nbc news, because you would assume that, you know, leadership should have known about this or at least should have asked questions about this that they obviously didnt ask. How similar is this to fox news . I feel like we were asking some of the same questions about roger ailes and bill oreilly at fox. The dynamics are quite similar. The problem is that everybody knew. Nobody actually knew. But what are you not really looking for . If youre running these companies, if youre running these divisions and there are rumors, if youre not looking into those, youre sort of part of the problem. But the ground has shifted in the past two months. Theres no question. Yeah. I thought it was interesting. Part of the review is looking into hr. And how to make it more how to make staffers more comfortable contacting hr and reporting misconduct by colleagues. That is the same issue we heard at fox, we heard at weinstein company, over and over and over again. That staffers dont feel comfortable coming forward with complaints. Well, because staffers dont feel comfortable partly because of the power these people hold. You had nbc anchors themselves saying live on air after this broke, that matt lauer was arguably the most powerful person at nbc news, even more powerful than some of the executives. So how do you expect a younger woman, lets say, in a junior position, to come up against somebody like that, especially in a he said she said situation . Now, though, as we have said, the ground does seem to have shifted where maybe now were going to see executives starting to investigate these rumors, as sara talked about, whereas before they might chalk them up to typical newsroom chatter. Maybe knnow well see investigations. Hr is seen as protecting the company. Not protecting the women who come forward. And so far what we have seen is it has taken journalists, not hr departments, to really unearth these stories. I remember seeing varietys maureen ryan, who investigated claims against a producer in hollywood. She said journalists are acting like the hr departments, essentially, by uncovering these stories. And on the point about nbc and the review, im told it will take several weeks, maybe not months, but weeks. So we may not have an outcome until after christmas. I wonder about other cases that we all may still know are in the works. Vice media, for example. The New York Times has been looking into vice for several weeks. We saw three firings this week, which seemed to be an attempt to get ahead of whatever the times is about to report. Is it fair to say, sarah, there are other investigations in other newsrooms still in the work . You to think there are. I know some are ongoing, but i think everyone at this point these Companies Might not be motivated by anything other than self preservation. But at this point, that is required, in fact. Like, look into this stuff. Right. I think theyre in a panic. Who is in a panic . Media companies are in a panic about what is going to come out about their people, and they are trying to in some cases get ahead of it. And, you know, as we sit here today, there are rumors about top executives at multiple Media Companies, okay . These are the people making the decisions to fire some of these people. But its important to differentiate between rumors and something that can be corroborated. Also what you hear in almost all of these cases, we knew there might have been infidelity. But thats a private matter. And, of course, that is a private matter. But workplaces have rules about dating underlings and bosses for a reason. Because this stuff gets really murky. The broader picture perspective that ive seen several columnists write about this week is the idea that lauer and Mark Halperin and Harvey Weinstein and mike at mpr, they were shaping news coverage. They were shaping cultural opinion. How much do you buy into that idea, sarah, that these could have been misogynists who were in some cases criticizing Hillary Clinton before election day . Are there dynamics there . I think its impossible to see hillarys coverage and not see that. I mean, thats the best example we have. You cant just its not just being a sensitive flower. You can go back and look through that. Hillary was a difficult candidate. She didnt answer questions clearly sometimes. She tried to tell the truth and sounded like she was lying. But theres no question that when you look at a variety of different interviews with her, and thats thats the evidence that we do have, you cant really argue with that notion. Well, what about you had do you buy into this suggestion that, you know, these are shapers of the culture . That weinstein was this predator behind the scenes, and that affected what movies he would make. What movies he wouldnt make, for example . I dont think that we can at all avoid what these people did behind the scenes, and how that might have translated into their work and obviously as we said, halperin, charlie rose, weinstein, matt lauer. They shaped a lot of our political coverage. But i do think we can argue that people are very complicated people. And for some of these men, im hearing conflicting things from women who work with them who said, im having a hard time grappling with this, because on the one hand, this person was such a champion for me and a champion for my work and did such good work. But on the other, may have done some of these horrible things. I do think that we can go back and examine their interviews for what they were. Matt lauers interview with Hillary Clinton at the intrepid was criticized widely for how he handled it. Before we even knew about any of these allegations. That idea that people are trying to come to grips with, you know, the person they saw on television and the person that might have been hes alleged to have sexually assaulted someone in his office offcamera. I wonder if its too soon to have those conversations. What do you think . Personally, i as a viewer keep thinking about how many millions of viewers loved spending their mornings with matt lauer. And now feel somehow that was tainted. I mean, thats what youre hearing a lot of. Our colleagues went out and spoke to today show fans, just the day after this all happened. And you heard a lot of sadness in their voices and you hear a lot of sadness in the voices of colleagues of these people who are accused of these of these things and lose their jobs as a result. And its true. Because you can feel sad for both the person who is the accused. You can feel really sad for the victims, as well. And what today show has to deal with is that matt lauer is somebody who was sitting in peoples living rooms every morning. That people felt they really knew these anchors. And to hear this whole other side of them, its a really shocking thing. The today show has to figure out, how do they build that trust back up with their viewers . And one more question for our panel here about, of course, succession planning. The question of who will replace matt lauer on today. And charlie rose on cbs. We have never seen this before, right . Two empty chairs on morning tv. Amazing. And, you know, for years the discussion has always been, who is going to be matt lauers co host . Is it matt lauer going to sign a new contract . And now hes gone. Charlie rose gone. What younger woman will be sitting next to matt lauer while he continues to age. I think, you know, in talking to a lot of women anchors in the last few days, what they they hope is that this will explode that myth. That you need the older sort of perfunctory, you know, kind of man with the younger woman who is in the side kick role. And theyre hoping that, you know, at least maybe we can kind of get away from that retro thinking. From that idea. And it certainly punctures that happy family of morning television. I mean, it really, really blows that all apart. And thats a real problem for the networks, because that was such a cash cow for them. The today show was called americas first family in the 1990s. Katie, matt, al and ann. And the only person left is al roker. Who would have thought that al roker would be the last person in that family. To the panel, thank you all for being here. And a quick plug. We sent out a special edition of our newsletter, when the news break. Our sixnight a week recap of all of the days media news. 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You can see from the photos here shared on twitter. There were also journalists from print publications at the New York Times who decided to attend. Trump did not answer any questions about the flynn plea deal. He didnt pose for photos. But he did give a brief speech, praising the stamina of the press. Now, i think its interesting that this decision was so controversial. That outlets had to decide whether to go to the party or not. So lets talk with two reporters who did not attend. And find out what happened here. April ryan, brian camrah back with me. You were not invited . Is that right . What happened . What happened . I was not invited. I did not receive brian, behave. I did not receive an invitation. Now, brian, you have to understand, people think that these invitations just come out, you know, just before the party. The invitations were given out weeks in advance. Way before thanksgiving in november. Right. I knew i wasnt invited. And i was fine with it. So you are saying you were snubbed on purpose . I believe i was im not going to say snubbed. I believe they did not want me at the party. They did not want to put me on the list. Exactly. Why . People were asking me, and they said, are you going . I said, i never got on invitation. And i did go into my email, just to see if i got one. And i never never got that email. And then i went kept going on about my day. I didnt go to the White House Press office, like some did. Oh, i didnt get my invitation. I didnt care. And im going to tell you why, brian. And im going to say this to you. You know, people think that im hurt that i did not get invited. I am so fine. Friday, im glad my fellow reporters did attend. But im going to say this. In august, when i was named the journalist of the year by the nabj, which i was thankful for, that saturday night. Sunday morning, there was a campaign ad that came out that had the endorsement of the president saying he approved this message. It was a bunch of our friends, talk show hosts, who were said to be thwarting the president s agenda. And there was one White House Correspondent in that one only one White House Correspondent in that picture. Me. I remember that. Yeah, i remember. I was considered the enemy. So, yes. So and i was very upset about that. Because that put a target on my head. So understand this. If someone considers me the enemy, i understand that im not going to break bread with you, and im sure you dont want to break bread with me. So you would not have gone. I would not have gone anyway. I would not have gone anyway. I am good. And i understand how they feel about me, and i understand how they feel about the press. But i have not done anything wrong. I am covered by the first amendment. So i would not have gone anyway. But trust me, i have been to Christmas Parties before for other president s, the last three. Ive covered over 20ersia. I think youre good, april. Its a good way for us its a good way for us to have a to have a Better Business relationship, to get more information. Ive been to Christmas Parties, state dinners and other events from george w. Bush, bill clinton and barack obama. And if this president chooses not to, thats fine with me. I am okay. Ive got about a minute left. And i think brian, this gets to the brooader point took all of the time, april. This point about how its different to cover this president , and journalists have to make these tough decisions. Well, even even about going to parties. Its not a tough decision to make. You call me the enemy of the people. I consider it a badge of honor you didnt invite me. As far as im concerned, i made Richard Nixons enemies list and im thankful for it. I begrudge no one who went. I like april am fine with not being invited. The simple fact of the matter is, im there to do a job. If you dont appreciate the job and youre going to call me the enemy of the people and tell me for a year that i am part of the problem, why should i sit down and break bread with you . Youve declared war on me. So the bottom line is and i appreciate the people who went. I think its fine that you went. I would not go. Ive been to others. And i would not go to this one. Had i been invited, i think there needs to be some change inside the white house, some recognition of what we do, some respect for what we do. There is little respect for what we do. We are constantly vilified. In those tweets that he sent out today, how many times did he say fake media . Today, just today. Hes always blaming us for his foibles. He said i dont want him to thank me. I dont want him to thank me. I want him to quit telling me im fake. Hes got to own up to the fact that the problem is his, and not ours. We are always going to make mistakes. We always will. Are two very real journalists, april and brian. 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What i think is he would be conflicted because on the one hand he is a journalist and he would recognize this as a great story and he would say lets get the story, lets go out and get it, get it right, get it first, but get it right. If its nixon and watergate or if its trump and the russians or trump and the taxes or the business deals or whatever it might be, look at the go for the money. Who are the people involved . What was happening . Its not there would never be this get the president. That was never his goal. One of the lessons you hope viewers take away from this film . I would hope that people would be optimistic. Because i am optimistic. I think ben would be optimistic. I think theres this sense that weve all got to Work Together to get to the truth and get the story, and we will and it will and our country will survive and so will the first amendment. And on an optimistic note well see you right back here next week. Iis made of. But right now, our bond is fraying. 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