trump is doing what he said he s going do, at least with the executive orders, at least trying to put it in place. if not for self-inflicted wounds where he s talking about thikz there are no facts to back up, the media would be talking about that. so the same thing with madonna. what gets a headline is the controversial thing that s right. you that say. madonna s been around long enough. she should know that and she should know that when she behaves that way she s not going to get out the message she supposedly intends to. you mentioned earlier this golfer bern 4hard langer. another one of your colleagues glenn thrush wrote about that. langer responded today saying unfortunately the new york times and other outlets was mischaracterization by the media. the voting situation reported was not conveyed from me to president trump but rather was told to me by a friend. i then related the story in conversation with another friend who shared it with a person with ties to the wh
defensive about it. that is why the founders gave it to us. don t be defensive, there is nothing wrong with defending your right to free speech. and it covers the media but also covers everybody out there who wants to learn the truth. that is the philosophy today. you know, don, one thing that was interesting in my time with robert, they are obsessed with getting coverage, the worst thing you could do in steve bannon s lexicon, is not talk about him at all. i ve been saying that for months now, especially, we need to be more judicious with the tweets. y is found in the audi a4. with one notable difference. the highly advanced audi a4,
saying things that the leader doesn t want to hear. and i have to tell you, as someone who worked for the federal government at some point that one of the most chilling things that i learned in the last few days is the effort by the president to tell the national park service what it could and could not provide as information to the american people. we rely on a lot of things, not terribly sexy, sources of information that the federal government gives us, like the unemployment rate. if you start to politicize that and in this case richard nixon tried to do it but he would always do it through someone else. donald trump does it himself. if donald trump starts putting pressure on civil servants to provide data that is parallel to his reality, we re in trouble. because then we he said show me pictures to show the media lied. but that is the beginning. because what are the american people going to think? they re going to hear from the president of the united states and from the u
times he d been on the cover of time magazine. i hear in steve bannon s voice someone who realizes that he has hitched his ideology and his wagon to a man who does not act in an always stable and concentrated and disciplined manner. i think he s as frustrated with donald trump as he is with the media and he s trying to make us the enemy so we don t be listened to when we call out important things about the way donald trump is behaving and running his administration. interesting you should say that because history will tell us for example by comparison, you covered bush 43 white house, right? i did. how do you think donald trump is this transition, how are they stacking up the first day of i mean, this is night and day. this is a degree of disorder and chaos that i don t think we ve ever seen in a first week in modern times. and it if you talk to white house reporters, who are not and i m an opinion columnist. i can speak my mind. they re stunned and they re unsettled by
all right, so let s bring my panel back in. we re talking about the relationship with the media and the new trump administration. in an interview, the press secretary sean spicer talked about the alternative facts, comments by kellyanne conway. when the facts are sometimes you look at a situation in the same way you look at a weather report. one report comes out, says it s going to be cloudy and light rain, no one lied to you, it just means you interpreted the data in a way that you felt got you to a conclusion. weather reports are about what is going to happen, not what happened. we re talking about our lies about what occurred. let me just say one thing very quickly about steve bannon, and that is that i would speculate here, not report, that he is very concerned that the story is