teeing off on democratic calls to expand the supreme court. i wouldn t entertain that. the only reason is that they re doing is they want to catch up. if they can t catch up through the ballot box, by winning an election, they want to try doing it in a different way. reporter: the president also weighed in on the crisis in v venezue venezuela, repeating all options are on the table, suggesting military options are on the table for the u.s. mr. trump did say he is making brazil a non-nato ally of the u.s. both leaders, they appear to be in sync on a whole range of topics. the brazilian president was all but fawning over the president. the attacks on the press were the latest that the president s rhetoric here in the u.s. aimed at the news media is spreading across the globe like a virus. he used the term fake news today. president trump smiled. we should note there are other governments around the world that hear the president using this kind of rhetoric aimed at
rule of law, to protect the rule of law in this country. and that s our core function as a judiciary committee of the congress. and we have to find out what s been going on and we have to lay out a case to the american people and reveal it. because we have not seen an administration in a long time, prior to this, in which there were so many attacks on the rule of law, attacks on the justice department, attacks on the press, attacks on the judiciary, attacks on the norms we depend upon to protect democratic government. but when you say, we have to lay out a case, is that what you re trying to do? to lay out what s going on. i don t mean a case to establish anything in particular, but what s been going on, what have they been doing, and how do we fix it? how do we it protect the rule of law? that s the real question. how do we protect the judiciary against the incessant attacks? how do we protect the press against the incessant attacks. how do we protect the role of government so tha
president trump s declared war on fake news, his attacks on the press as enemies of the people and secular changes in technology and the way the news is produced and delivered have combined to undermine the very notion of truth. the political indoctrination is one aspect of what universities are doing to mess with young minds. but there s a lot more. parents also pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in total for their kids to marinate in an entitled, it s kind of a pseudo intellectual grievance culture. professors and administrators have founded their own type of religion where you re required to embrace manufactured anger and complete oppression. consider the case of a small school called the evergreen state college. mike nana captured this rise of le leftist author tear giannis many
to go through what we ve been through in the first two years. it s a hoax. it s a disgrace. reporter: this time, mr. trump s attacks on the press, may have pushed one of his supporters over the edge, as a man in a maga hat was spotted roughing up a profehotographer the bbc. how would i look walking a dog on the white house lawn. i don t feel good. feels a little phony to me. reporter: and the white house released a statement about that incident, where a bbc photographer was injured in the rally in el paso. sarah sanders saying that trump denounces all acts of violence. but missing is whether the president will halt the rhetoric that creates a dangerous climate for journalists. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. scott lucas is a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham in england. he joins us live.
liberalism of donald trump, his attacks on the press, his attacks on the rule of law, but what about the illiberalism of people who claim to oppose trump who shout down people from the public square. it seems that for some the progressive utopia that is on the horizon is one that will not come about by persuasion but by imposition because you better dare not speak out of line, out of turn, no deviation or you are shouted down and by the way, the people are doing the shouting, almost universally, are the same people who said joe biden shouldn t run because it was hillary clinton s turn. and they were the same people who put their thumb on the scale for hillary clinton against bernie sanders because he couldn t win. and they guaranteed us let me ask you one question. they guaranteed us that donald trump would never be elected. some of them are sitting right here and they can all speak for themselves better than i can speak for them but let me just say, what about the argument tha