which obviously, again, were very, very successful. he also did praise secretary clinton and added in the fact that he thought that there was a double standard in terms of how she was treated during the course of the campaign. david gergen, not to be left out of this, hillary clinton s campaign press secretary weighed in on twitter as well. fallon tweeted this this afternoon about this who would have won question. he said this, i agree obama would have beaten trump. i also think clinton could have, but for comey, of course, he s talking about fbi director james comey, despite his win, trump is weak, dems must rally. so, david, since they ve all now entered this conversation, who s right here? trump, obama, or team clinton? i don t think it s much of a conversation. i think it s more like towel snapping in the locker room before the big game, big new game opens on january 20th. don t talk about the locker room. exactly. hillary s gotten in there, too, so it s going to be int
jenna: how long have you worked in journalism for? i m about a 30-year veteran, so i ve seen this from lots of angles. about 25 of those years in washington, so i ve seen a lot of this. jenna: i m drawing upon your experience, because some may have the question about why we need new laws now during this administration versus anytime in the past several decades. well, look, there are a couple of things that have changed. and by the way, this push for a federal shield law, it goes back further than this administration. that s been floating around for a while, it s just never quite gotten done. i think the war on terrorism has created new tensions and sensitivities and created new efforts by people in the bureaucracy to clamp down on information. and this is the very tension between kind of a perpetual war on terror and civil liberties that president obama himself referred to in his speech last week. so that s, i think, the big new game that s changed the rules for everybody, and i th