simple. is it politics pure and simple or is it again, this isn t a campaign. this isn t people trying to win an office. you are now governing. let s talk about kellyanne conway talking about the bowling green massacre. the next day, she said i simply made a mistake. cosmo magazine said this to us two weeks ago. tmz said the same. our way to accept the premise this is just politics? these are a bunch of liars. that s different than politics. they are just lying. they are promoting a dangerous myth. the trump administration views terrorism like it s g.i. joe. many attacks have happened for different reasons. they are not all necessarily connected by al qaeda. if we try to push them in the broad brush, it damages the international security. we have to understand why
i m matt lauer in brusbrussels. here is one you may not have heard of. investigators here at home learning more about the two suspects shot and killed by police after they opened fire at a controversial event in texas. i want to take you live to the white house where nbcs peter alexander is standing by. clearly this offensive is coming on the heels of kellyanne last week and the bowling green massacre. how is the trump white house defending this list when so many of the terror attacks did get extensive coverage? reporter: this is a white house talking point not supported by the facts. let s break them down. 78 of them, they mentioned, 11 of them taking place in the united states. you noted some of the most significant ones. nbc news covered 75% of them. 57 attacks on that list with a combined 745 deaths, hundreds of
luther king. the problem is you have folks saying things that have false. you have kellyanne conway making up entire terrorism attack about the bowling green massacre. you don t buy her explanation she meant i saw where she said it previouslily. we re in this alternative facts is a word that she coined. it s different from telling something that you know is not true. did she know it was not true and she said is before and now she a correcting it. if she said bowling green last
works so we can make it work for all the people and not just the special interests. we do need fresh blood and new voices to connect with people in the midwest and all across the country. i want to ask you, you ve worked in communications for years. we ve known each forefor a while. kellyanne conway made a mistake with chris matthews the other day. she cited what she called the bowling green massacre. she later said she meant to say terrorist. today she used the same phrasing, though, in two other interviews, one with cosmopolitan.com and also one with tmz where she called it the bowling green attack. put yourself in her shoes, doug f you re the top communications person at the white house, when you become the story, what do you do? yeah, you don t want to become the story. i think it s really hard with this crew, actually. i think the leadership is so sporadic, the president hauls off and tweets about anything he
evening if it s fake our false or spined, you have to adapt to that. it s very hard. i interview people for a living, as do you and to tear back the curtain a bit, there s team of people. you have fact checkers who are supposed to prepare it. you have ten minutes and a bunch of information that you want to go through. what are they likely to say. what facts do they know. they can slip through but you re supposed to really be on your game. i think this administration is going to be a particular challenge. you really got to have your facts in order because something outrageous like the bowling green massacre is going to pop up. if you re not ready for the possibility of something like that, it can get past you as that particular one got past chris matthews. you have to be nimble. you have to be urgent, immediate. i think if we were to say that chris matthews missed that opportunity that the media, in this case, is adjusting and