the record session with press secretary sean spicer. his staff would use fox and breitbart to plant news that is fake, gosh. i wish there was a term for that. good evening to you. we have some important breaking news tonight and it comes as president trump wants people to focus on his latest rounds of takens on opposing views, whether they are coming today from government officials leaking dissent or what he views as the permanent opposition in the press as he literally called journalists the enemy of the american people before that big conservative conference this morning. that rhetoric was the context for the controversial moment at the white house tay when the press secretary excluded reporters from outlets the administration has slammed like the new york times. this was from that brief iing i sean spicer s office.
delivers the powerful cold symptom relief you need without the unnecessary additives you don t. loudspeaker: clean up, aisle 4. alka-seltzer plus liquid gels. i want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. it s fake. phony. fake. a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people. and they are. they are the enemy of the people. donald trump speaking to supporters at cpac today, the country s top conference which is so politically important steve bannon appeared on stage. that s a role he rarely takes willingly. trump has so recently co-opted this term fake news it is hard to believe that it began with pro trump phony articles that
that understands how important having enemies is. and if it s not the media, it s going to be some other group. expect to hear this a lot. if i were doing fake news, i would have been fired a long time ago. they re the enemy of the people. it is an effort to divide and conquer, to divide the press from the people and to divide the press among themself. i don t think in the long run, i don t think honestly in the short run it s going to work. they shouldn t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody s name. his aides were giving an unnamed background briefing at the white house just this morning. just hours after president trump called fake news an enemy of the people, his administration refused to allow several reporters into an off-camera, on the record session with press secretary sean spicer. his staff would use fox and breitbart to plant news that is fake, gosh. i wish there was a term for that.
they weren t talking about the investigation. they were talking about a news story. this has been brewing for quite some time. the president tweeted today his displeasure that leaks from the fbi have not been contained. we ve seen that from the president before, a frustration over leaks. so, the white house in a swho unusual way made certain that they told their half of the story and pushed back on ts today, saying there was nothing done inappropriately by the white house and they had hoped the fbi would help. the fbi declined to do so. kelly o donnell at the white house. stick around with us, if you can, because i want to bring this a few people help us break down today s news. joining me a pair of msnbc political analysts, michael steele, former rnc chairman, rick tyler, former spokesperson for ted cruz, and executive director of the new york state democratic party, and last but not least, jonathan swan, national political reporter for axias. michael, i want to start with you. we h
worried all the gulf states. especially saudi arabia but everybody. the idea of the obamas treaty with iran this is the enemy. exactly. he s really coming back forcefully to the u.n. nation sunni nations. they ve turned a blind eye to his hot rhetoric during the campaign sort of calling islam an enemy of the people, calling for bans on people traveling from a lot of these countries, united states. what they see this as is a real victory. that same thing is what brings them together with israel, ironically. israel was very worried about this treaty with iran and they re very happy that trump is turning away from iran as well. going into israel it is going to be a very similar scene where israel is, likewise, like saudi arabia, very relieved to see the united states coming back to more of what they see as their