Thailand, theres talk about how the rescue effort will continue in the morning, but first lets check in with cnns matt rivers who is live near the hospital in thailand where four of the 12 boys are now located. Matt, what do we know from where you are . Reporter well, brian, in the last hour or so we have seen four ambulances, each carrying one of the four boys that have been rescued so far, three of them came up this road behind me and the other came from the north side of the road. The hospital had been preparing cnn earlier in the day before this road was closed to media, saw gurneys being prepared outside, some dozen or so gurneys in case more boys were able to be rescued. As of now only four were able to make it out. The reason that only four boys have made it out so far, according to authorities is because of oxygen supplies inside that cave. Over the last couple of days, brian, whats happened is on a guideline all through the cave that these four boys actually followed, about five kilometers long in order to get out, they stationed oxygen tanks all along that route to make sure as these boys were going out using diving equipment dont forget they had oxygen on their way out. Those supplies were apparently depleted to the point that they cannot continue the rescue operation tonight. Professional divers and International Effort including thai, american, australian, british divers are going into that cave refueling oxygen tanks and the hope is to get the rescue operation started again, to get the nine remaining members of the soccer team and their coach out of that cave as soon as possible because it is july in thailand, it is the rainy season, it is going to start raining very hard, very soon and when those water levels rise that could mean its too late to get the nine people out safely. Good reminder about the coach as well as the eight boys who are still inside. Already there has been one Death Associated with this rescue mission. One of the workers, one of the rescuers who was trying to prepare the cave. What do we know about him . What do we know about the man who died . Reporter this was a former thai navy s. E. A. L. , a thai diver, a 38yearold triathlete who lost his life bringing in some of those oxygen containers i was talking about, he apparently ran out of air and died himself. Thats why were talking about how unbelieve believe dangerous this rescue mission is. This professional diver, someone who was in the thai navy, he was a navy s. E. A. L. Actually lost his life in the same passage ways that these four boys just circumnavigated. That is unbelievable. When we are talking about this rescue mission at least so far being a success, brian, 15 hours ago i was saying that was far from guaranteed. This is miraculous that four boys are now safely inside that hospital especially when you consider that a 38yearold triathlete, former professional diver, lost his life doing what he could to save these boys. Real quick, i mean, the fact that that man volunteered to give his time and his expertise shows you that this country and its armed forces and its citizens have gotten behind this rescue effort in a truly emblematic way. I cant give enough credit to the volunteers that we have seen come out from all over this country to do what they can as this country remains transfixed on trying to get some of its youngest citizens and their coach out of that cave. On National Networks there, local tv channels there, there has been wall to wall coverage of this ongoing rescue mission. What can you tell us, matt, about access both to the cave site where you were before and now around the hospital . Are you able to get updated information from officials there . Reporter you know, there was a marked change this morning. Ive been working overnights here over the last couple days so i would show up to the cave entrance usually around 11 00 p. M. And, yes, it was a controlled setting in the sense that there was a lot of authorities there, but generally speaking you were free to go just about everywhere but the cave itself. When i arrived there this morning local time, that would have been around 3 00 a. M. Local time, they had put up green netting all along the area, they had roped off the Media Section and they were much more intense in terms of allowing access. It was around 6 30, 7 00 a. M. Local time that we were actually led out of that media area. They kicked all media out and that was really our first indication that something is happening. So generally speaking the thai authorities have been very accommodating to the press and have been very forthcoming with information and its a testament to their ability to communicate, but today what you saw was clamping down on the information that was coming out, on the access that media had. I mean, just a couple hours ago you could have walked down that street where the hospital is, where we were this morning actually being able to see the gurneys outside and now that same green netting they put up over the cave entrance which is about an hour north of here they have that over the er entrance, too. Clearly authorities concerned about the privacy of these individuals, rightly so, trying to protect prying eyes from seeing these boys in a you know, the worst time of their lives. They deserve that privacy, yeah. Matt rivers, thank you so much. Lets also then go to the cave site where Cnns David Mckenzie is standing by. This has captured the worlds attention partly because it is a race against time. So, david, what can you tell us about how long it will take before the rescue mission will resume . Reporter well, they say according to u. S. Officials earlier and now the thai governor of this region, brian, that they will wait overnight here local time, but, do you know what, that window they talked about that may be closing. It might not be soon, but its certainly a factor. As you can see from your screens, its raining heavily down on top of me. The mountains and the cave system which is in that direction the parents will be hunkered down, those of them who havent yet been reliably united with their kids, really agonizing about the weather. They believe, brian, that they had this limited window to get this done and they got all the specialists, the equipment and the expertise in place rapidly as rapidly as they could. Got as much water as this he could out of that cave system with those bumps, brian, so that they could have the best chance they could to do this hazardous journey out, but the weather is a factor and they will hunker down for the night, recharge their batteries both literally and physically and go at it again tomorrow. It is worth noting that this rescue of the first four kids seemed to take a little less time than was expected. Right . You werent expecting them to come out so fast. Reporter well, thats right. It was much faster than we believed or we had anticipated. Yes, it is hopeful. The problem, though, is it was still an arduous journey as weve been reporting. Its possible that the strongest kids came out first, the weaker kids will come out later. It sounds horrible to even discuss it in those terms, but we are dealing in life and death terms. You know, if they got the method right today, there is hopeful ps they can get it right again tomorrow, but this is no cake walk. This is an extremely hazardous technical dive in very difficult zero visibility circumstances, getting these inexperienced kids out that are hungry and tired. Its not a done deal. They have to go through this again tomorrow and if one believes or understands the system again the following day, all in the hope that the rain doesnt inundate those waves to make it impossible to continue. David mckenzie at the site of the cave. Thank you very much. We will stay on top of this story on cnn updates every hour from thailand on the fate of those children. Up next here on reliable sources, we are on the eve of a Historic Supreme Court nomination. Nina toten berg will join me with a preview. Plus from fox news to the white house, how bill sunshines appointment is completing the fox trump merger. After a break, a simple question, a complicated answer, where are the kids that were separated from their parents when entering the United States illegally . We will go live to the u. 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Right now roughly 3,000 children, we dont know exactly how many, but we know 100 of them are under the age of five, are still being held separately from their parents at facilities both in the southwest and in texas and in other parts of the u. S. When will they be reunited with their parents . These are simple questions that are still not being answered. In fact, the Trump Administration is asking for more time to fulfill courtimposed deadlines. Right now all children under five are supposed to be back with their parents by tuesday, all the rest from ages 5 to 18 should be reunited by july 26th. Of course, every day is painful for these children and their parents and these deadlines are helping keep this story in the center of the National News spotlight. There have been moments where i thought it was fading away, where people were for getting about the consequences this have policy, but then it continues to come back and get back in the news headlines. Id like to explore how thats working and how local reporters, reporters at the border, are continuing to lead the way, demanding answers. Because after all that is how this story first broke through was reporting from places like the houston chronicle. You see here from last november that uncovered the administration beginning to try out a policy involving separating kids and parents at the border. So lets get into it with three reporters who are at the proverbial front lines covering this story as it develops. Lemi crele, rafael coranza and joining me via scan is nina satija. I appreciate you all being here. Lemi, let me start with you because your stories about what was going on last year were you a preview, a foreshadowing of what was to come. Tell us about how you first knew the Trump Administration was separating more families last year. Right. So the attorney general last spring ordered federal prosecutors to ramp up the prosecution of immigration crimes including illegal entry, which is a misdemeanor punishable by a few days in prison, but that crime already makes up more than half of the southern of the federal sockets in the southern and Western District of texas. So i knew that this could have a big impact and started asking federal public defenders what they were seeing and they reported suddenly having dozens of parents as clients having them for help to find their children. This was unusual because typically parents traveling with children werent prosecuted for the misdemeanor but they were kept together while they pursued their civil immigration cases. Right. And now we fast forward more than six months. Nina, what information are we getting from the government about the status of these children . Well, we are not getting a ton of information. You know, as as been reported a federal judge in san diego has ordered that all children separated from their parents who are under the age of five be reunited with them by tuesday. Of course, the government has expressed some skepticism as to whether that can happen and i think certainly we in the media feel the same way. Its hard to imagine that all of these toddlers will be reunite wd their parents by tuesday. Those over the age of five there is a couple more weeks, i believe, for them to for the government to make that deadline of reunification. We dont have a lot of information. We dont know if the government has been able to match up all of the parents with all of the children that have been separated from them. We know theres dna testing going on. We are tracking one family where, you know, the grandmother has been living in the u. S. For a long time, has been trying to get custody of the kids, has sent documents after documents after documents to the shelter where they are at in arizona. No response. Now the mother who is actually separated from the kids at the border is being asked to send the same documents in order to prove that she is, in fact, their mom. Its just its really chaos. And you are there near the border. How frustrating is it for you personally as youre trying to cover this story . Its very frustrating. You know, in fact, a couple weeks ago, you know i think its been two weeks or so since the department of Homeland Security has put out an official news release on its site that really digs into this question of how parent are going to be reliably union need with their children. At the time they had said that the Port Isabelle Detention Center in texas is going to be the site for reunification. Its hard to imagine that thats the case because this is the Detention Center for adults, in fact, mostly for men. Women can be held there but its primarily for men. Everyone started to wonder how could this be the site for reunification of children with their families when its not even a police to hold children. Department of Homeland Security altered its statement and said this is just going to be the main site where parents of these children are going to be held or potentially deported. We have really gotten no answers about how this reunification is going to take place, where it might take place. Now weve heard i think on during Fridays Court had a erring that parents will be transported to where the children are, but again, no specifics as to the logistics of how this is going to happen. And rafael, what about you, you are in phoenix, you are on the arizona side of this story. I feel like we have heard less about that than we have in texas where there has been a lot of news coverage. What stories are you hearing there from arizona . And i think arizona plays a Critical Role in this part because i think now that the separations have kind of, you know, moved away from the border in a way at least from what the says they have stopped them for now but these kids are being held in facilities all around the country but arizona in particular is one of the states where, you know, many of these facilities are located. Many of the high profile cases weve seen in the past few weeks you have had a lot of the parents who were held in immigration Detention Centers here in arizona and a lot of kids who were held in facilities over here as well. So its been a challenge for us to try to track where these facilities are located, how many kids are there because a lot of these facilities hold not just the kids who were separated from their parents as well, but also unaccompanied minors who arrived to the border on their own. So its been a challenge to try to get a number of how many of those kids are here. And then so just to be clear, rafael, its not just that we dont have access to the facilities, and i get it, there are real privacy concerns, but we are not seeing inside. In some cases we dont even know how many Detention Centers there are or where these rid are being held. We dont even know where to go to stand outside . Yeah, thats right. I think whenever some of these facilities are, you know are discovered or, you know, we find out the location of them, with he talk to some of the neighbors who live nearby and they have no idea that that was even a facility where the kids are being held. Yeah, there is very Little Information on, you know, where these facilities are located and since its contracted to private companies they dont have, you know they are they are under no obligation to disclose where the facilities are. And i get it, this is a complicated story, there are government officials trying to do their best in a very bad situation, but, you know, its the kind of thing that makes people so angry. I wonder, loemi, how do you keep your emotions out of this since youve been covering this for months . Well, i mean, you know, i think that thats our job as reporters, we do that every day in any kind of context. I mean, i think in this particular situation, though, its just trying to speak to the parents and try to tell their stories. I spoke with or one of the stories i most recently worked fr from brownsville was a mom who had come here asking for asylum after being raped by two Police Officers and her four children were taken from her including one she was breastfeeding. I covered her Court Hearing last week where she was asking for asylum and she told the judge that she was unable to accurately ask for asylum because she was so worried about her children. So, i mean, theres certainly a lot at stake here. Rafael, what about local coverage versus national . You know, ive been seeing a lot of the national coverage, but are local outlets emphasizing parts of this that maybe the National Media is missing . I think that there is definitely a lot of moving parts to this story, but one of the one of the angles that i do think has received maybe a little less attention nationally is the fact that this zero tolerance policy that created some of these separation has had other effects on the border as well. Namely for Asylum Seekers heading to the ports of entry, as a result of this zero tolerance policy, it essentially funneled people to go through the ports to be able to file their claims there, but we have been seeing and weve been reporting very, very long lines at a lot of these ports from california all the way to south texas and even instances of people being turned away from the ports of entry and so theres really no clear explanation at this point of why this is taking place, if the administration has, you know, publicly said that the people who do have claims should go to the ports of entry, but weve seen waits of maybe up to even a month at times, two or three weeks for some of these Asylum Seekers to talk to an immigration officers. Tahinking about what picture people are seeing, there has been pictures of some reunions, a video from Logan Airport in boston of a reunion, maybe we can show that. I want to show it to make the point that thats the exception not the rule. When we see pictures of reunions, this is not whats happening in most cases, right, neena, this is rare right now. Most kids have not been reliably united. As far as we know, yes, thats correct. And i think a lot of these, you know, these reunifications are certainly going to happen behind closed doors and some will be at the request of the families themselves for privacy but i think also that its been you know, the separations have happened behind closed doors as well. As someone all of us, you knew, on this panel have been to the border and i think weve had the frustration of not really being able to see much on the ground because the operation separations are happening inside these iceboxes are folks are held right after crossing the border to be processed or theyre happening as people are going into Detention Centers or as children are going into shelters. Its very hard for us to see how this is playing out. The big story is that the u. S. Government wont even tell us how many kids are being detained. They wont even tell us a number. And i think we have to keep the pressure on until we get an answer. Thank you to the three of you for being here. Thank you for all the work youre doing. Quick break here on reliable sources. Then President Trumps new communication chief is bringing a lot of baggage to the white house, cover up accusations and a spouses racist twitter feed. I want to show you the unprecedented relationship between trump and his favorite news network right after this. This is amazing. With moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay . Even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. So i talked to my doctor about humira. I learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications havent worked well enough. And it helps people achieve control that lasts. So you can experience few or no symptoms. 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Nope get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call or go on line today. Fox and trump, trump and fox. You know theyre close. But do you realize just how close . This kind of relationship has never existed between a u. S. President and a tv network. It is unprecedented. Its sort of a love story so let me count the ways. First of all, the president loves fox. He loves what he hears on fox. He promotes the network and trashes its rivals. Telling people when and where to tune in. A president has never endorsed a network like this before. Trump watches fox and tweets about it and watches some more. Sometimes he hears valuable information but other times he hears terrible misinformation. Sometimes he then spreads it in interviews on fox and around and around we go. Since becoming President Trump has been interviewed on fox every 20 days on average. Now, some of these are not really interviews at all, they are more like chats, designed to promote his presidency. In this chat last week maria bart romo sounded like he was the president handing trump talking points, watch. You made a Bold Decision on iran. This was incredible. And iran, look whats happening in iran. The strikes and the protests, em poont want economic freedom. Iran is a different place. Lets take a closer look at this relationship. You can see how this back scratching benefits both sides. Trump benefits from foxs friendly segments and softball questions and then fox benefits from trumps preferential treatment and constant promos. If you plug trump, he might plug your book or your show or you might attack your competitors. Or he might do both. You have been so great and im very proud of you and, you know, im a ratings person, you notice i always okay. Has anyone seen his ratings . What you are doing to your competition is incredible. Thank you. Number one and im very proud of you. Oh, yeah, sean hannity. He defends trump, barbs the media, turns a mind sigh to trump world scandals and gives his guests free rein to calling for the jailing of trumps opponents. And thats just on the air. When hannity is off the air he goss sips with trump and gives advice about who to hire. Lets just underscore how weird this is. No tv host has ever had this kind of relationship with a u. S. President before. And to take it a step further, no network has ever propped up a president quite like this before. Sure, obama had big fans on msnbc, but there wasnt this kind of constant coordination. No one ever thought Keith Olbermann was obamas shadow chief of staff but thats how some trump advisers describe hannity. This is new and its weird and we shouldnt get used to it. Theres been almost a merger between a culture war tv station and a culture war president. Now, it started as a mere acquaintance. Fox and friends gave trump a weekly spot way back in 2011. The donald now makes his voice loud and clear every monday on fox. My message is a better message than anybody else. Trump got to know foxs priorities, he got to know his base and fox got to know him. Now fast forward seven years. He has tweeted or reliably tweeted about fox more than a thousand times and he has become close to fox uber box Robert Murdoch who was once openly critical of trump. The two talk weekly, sometimes daily according to the washington post. Rub ert op poepd the acquisition of time warner, of course trump opposed it to. The d. O j tried to kill the deal in court but lost. What happened when rupert struck a deal with disney . Trump called to tell him congrats and the same doj lawyers decided to give it a thumbs up. The New York TimesEditorial Board raised its eyebrows saying this disney fox deal sailed through a bit too easily. The doj says every people is different. Lets get back to fox. What makes it relationship unique and unprecedented is the feedback loop. Trump constantly gets ideas and talking points from fox and then when he holds rallies he repeats those talking points and fox carries those rallies live from start to finish. It makes you wonder, what would trump do without fox . A president has never preferred talk shows over his own intel briefings before. Case in point from Cnns Oliver Darcy this week a fox news story appeared to spark a new trump attack on obama. The fox story was sourced to a hard line iranian cleric, not a reliable source. That was the Networks News side doing it not the opinion side. Fox does have reporters who try their best, but the network is defined by its cheerleaders like jesse waters who dined with trump at the white house earlier this year and got an autograph or his cohaas e. Host on the five Kimberly Guilfoyle who is dating donald trump jr. Does this affect her day job . How can any of her colleagues criticize trump when the president s sons girlfriend is sitting right there at the table . Doesnt this cli kate the entire Networks Coverage of the trump family . Ive got to ask. Speaking of quantity reese. Lou dobbs is called into Oval Office Meetings so he can offer his two pents. Jeanine pirro has talked to trump about possible jobs, pete hegseth was rumored to be up for the va job. Now, they are arguably more valuable to trump right where they are, but trump has poached several others, heather that you wirt, Mercedes Shap and more. For 20 years shine was a fox news producer and lieutenant of roger ailes. Shine was credibly accused of covering up ailes misdeeds. He was named in multiple lawsuits. Shine denied all wrongdoing but left fox under the cloud of scandal last year. Thats when his friend sean hannity started lobbying to get him hired at the white house and now more than a year later its official, shine is the deputy chief of staff for communications. I think we should ask would any other white house have ever hired shine . I notice the reporters started looking at shine and his wife, zooming in on the twitter feed belonging to shines wife darla doing some of the investigate that maybe the white house didnt do. What the reporters found was shock. As huff post described darla shine has a long history of promoteling antivaccination conspiracy thierees and posted years worth of racist tweets, ugly prejudicial stuff, i dont want to read all of this, but you can see it for yourself. Darla deleted her twitter account as soon as her husband was promoted. Now the man in charge of white house coms has gone silent. Cnn has asked the white house for comment but there hasnt been any. Surely they are not just going to lay low and wait for this to blow over, are they . Surely fox News Reporters will press the white house for comment, right . If they dont do that, if fox ignores this story, it will be another sign of the fox trump merger. Now, a quick break on reliable sources. Coming up, how not to cover trumps rallies. But first, there is no shortage of hyperbole when it comes to coverage of trump and the possible Supreme Court pick. We will try to sort through all of it with the legendary Nina Totenberg in just a moment. [ horn honking ] [ engine revving ] whats that, girl . [ engine revving ] flo needs help . [ engine revving ] take me to her coming, flo why arent we taking roads . flo. [ horn honking ] oh. You made it. Do you have change for a dollar . This was the emergency . [ engine revving ] yes, i was busy 24hour roadside assistance. From americas numberone motorcycle insurer. You know, i think youre my best friend. You dont have to say im your best friend. 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The Supreme Court ask always shrouded in mystery, justices rarely give interviews and cameras are not allowed in the courtroom. We get delayed audio of oral arguments. The high skort has been front in center in the news because of whats about to happen. With Anthony Kennedy retiring President Trump is expected to announce his pick for replacement, possibly one of these faces. As of saturday afternoon trump was still undecided according to the New York Times. But he has decided to reveal a nominee monday. 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. Sounds like something out of the apprentice. The white house took the rare step of formally requesting air time from the Major Network so we know its going to happen. Its going to interrupt the bachelorette on abc. Lets talk about what happens next. Nina totenberg is joining me, the Legal Affairs correspondent for npr. You have been through more than a few of these. I was thinking back to last year, President Trump made this a prime time event, had a big reveal a couple weeks into his presidency. Does this feel like a repeat of that or is trump making it an even bigger event this time . Well, the difference i think this time is that last time he pretty much outsourced it entirely to the federalist society. He was a brandnew president when he had this pick and he understood to some extent that he didnt really know this much with t he wanted to satisfy his base and he was allowing himself to some extent to be led. Thats not happening this time. As far as i can tell he really hasnt made up his mind. Theyre hoping hes going to make up his mind tonight. Tonight. They have four rollouts ready. Ive talked to i have sources, i cant tell you the sean hannity sources but i do have sources who havent slept in days because they cant tell what hes going to do, thats why they have four rollouts. Makes me wonder if he shouldnt have said its definitely going to happen on monday. Maybe he needs more time. Thats okay. It would be okay but one has the sense that it wouldnt make a difference, with he would still be up against a deadline. Right. He like most of us, me, too, you, too, we all operate on deadlines. The greatest inspiration is the deadline, right . Right. Thats exactly right. I saw you posted on twitter when kennedy announced his retirement to without rem its the end of the world as we know it. I cant sing it, i wont even try. There has been a lot of hyperbole even hysteria on the left. How is it that this is the end of the world as we know it and how do you try to not contribute to the sense of panic that liberals are expressing while at the same time trying to explain this is a big moment in america . Well, its very difficult because it gives conservatives and a brand of conservative that was unknown probably pretty much 25, 30 years ago, it gives them a lock on the court. Im not saying that every case will turn out we will have surprises, there will be some cases that turn out not as one expects. And i dont think the justices themselves are partizans, but they do have they do have legal ideologies. The people who are being seriously looked at here have the legal ideology of Clarence Thomas and antonin scalia. Scalia being slightly considerably, actually, to the left of justice thomas. And that means that john roberts, the chief justice, a firm conservative vote who i think has voted with all the liberals and been the swing vote maybe four times, five times in his tenure on the court since 2005, he will now be the, quote, swing man. Well, thats a pretty conservative swing man. Yeah. And your job, how will it change at all in the next few months . What will you be most focused on . Whether i get my vacation. Thats so honest. I love that. No. What ill be most focused on is the legal record and what we can tell from that legal record of the nominee because Lower Court Judges are bound to follow Supreme Court precedent and while they can veer considerably to the right or the left, and you can tell a lot from that, it still is youre still reading tea leaves. The tea leaves amount to a lot, though, and you you know, republican white houses starting with reagan have taught us all that you can really pick somebody who will not provide a huge surprise. On the occasions when there have been surprises, the principal one being david suitor who is george h. W. Bushs pick, he was a surprise, but they also had a confirmation problem so he was probably a wise choice for them at the time and they were assuring the right it will be fine. Well, he was far more centrist or liberal, if you want, and they were furious. So the tea leaf reading begins in earnest tomorrow. Yeah, the tea leaf reading begins its already begun at the white house. Yes. They think theyve got four people who will be just fine, who will reflect their views on everything from guns to abortion to civil rights to discrimination to regulation. They think theyve got that locked, and they probably do most of the time. The battle for the soul of america, it plays out through this process. Nina, thanks for being here. We will see you on the radio. Thank you so much. Ill see you on the tv. Up next here on reliable sources, trump rallies. I bet you you have an opinion about this. Are they eating up too much air time . Yogi is confident. Yoooogiiiiiii but when it comes to mortgages, hes less confident. Here, yogi. Fortunately, theres Rocket Mortgage by quicken loans. Apply simply. Understand fully. Mortgage confidently. Get approved in as few as 8 minutes. Your digestive system has billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. Realign yourself, with align probiotic. 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He says we are giving these rallies way too much attention. I spoke with him earlier and heres what he said. Yes, it is all shocking and childish and immature and petulant and cruel. John mccain is dying. But but hes been doing this for years. Theres nothing new here. Theres nothing new in him calling Elizabeth Warren pocahontas, nothing new in him attacking john mccain, nothing new in him attacking the bushes. And yet whenever donald trump wants to change a subject, he sets up a rally and goes and says a bunch of crazy stuff. I wonder at this point what information is being of encoded in that. His mockery of the metoo movement, that was new. Donald trumps existence is a mockery. I dont really agree. I dont agree this is new. Im not see, i thought you were fox covers this too. I cover is. I tweet about it. I want to be super clear here. I am not outside the machine looking in and criticizing. Yeah, i understand. I am inside the machine looking out and wondering what the hell were all doing. So i do want to ask the question. One, what are we crowding out when we let him decide what we cover every time he does a rally. Right . What are we crowding out . What would have happened in another administration . How long of a story would scott pruitt have been . Right. How long of a story with bill shine have been . Im part of the problem. I wrote a story titled trump calls journalists titled bad people at a rally a week after news room shooting. I think you can be more sympathetic to that specific story when hes using dangerous rhetoric in the wake of a tragedy. But through his sheer force of talking, right, through the volume of what he says at rallies, its true, he generates dozens of stories that do crowd out other important issues. No. I want to be super careful there. This is a thing i think we do in the media. We put the verbs on him and not on us. Ah. Through his sheer force of talking. Like, donald trump is blackballed in Marvel Comics and every time he opens his mouth, buildings shatter. This isnt how this works. Through our decisions of what to cover, through our outrage of what he is saying, through our belief of what our audience is going to click on, we make these decisions. Look, im a week and a half back from buck leaf. I was oceanside in california. And i was pretty far away from all of this for a little while, while i was trying to think about other things than politics. And its a Pretty Amazing experience. Im not stepped out of the news cycle for more than two weeks in 15 years. The experience of not having it swirling around me was i found a pretty profound one. And the experience of coming back ive been trying to think about how to explain it to people. The experience of coming back is having somebody shouting in your ear all of the time. Like, having donald trump follow you around on twitter and on the news and everywhere. Look at this thing i did look at it thats terrible. Why did you do that . I was trying to work on this thing about the economy, but yeah, look at this other one and its up to us to decide whether to look. But it is our choice. Right . We chose not to cover these things when other president s did them. These kinds of speeches and rallies in the same way. Because we found them boring. We dont find trump boring. He activates something visceral and human in us, right . Its not boring i always say the way donald trump behaves would make you worried if it was behavior you saw in your spouse or friend or neighbor thats why not after it stops giving us valuable information. Listen to the rest of my debate with ezra on our reliable sources podcast. Well see you right back here this time next week for more reliable sources. This is your wakeup call. If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. 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