did they think of your efforts? to them, it s like this is what mom does. mom you know, mom fights everyone. todd: think about that. what they re ultimately doing, the media, cnn in particular, is creating another hero. they re creating a hero named cori bush, ignoring the fact or hiding the fact the state of our cities right now is a mess, our cities are an absolute disaster, regular people feel the fear and cnn s ignoring that by elevating cori bush to this heightened state. jillian: she was asked in that interview if she thinks her comments on defunding the police will end up hurting her party in 2020. she wasn t really pressed on the fallout of defunding the police and whether americans want this, if they don t. you know, i would like to see some of these people just pressed a little bit more because like i said, i m having a hard time trying to find the answer as to how defunding the police is going to be a beneficial thing for our communities and so why aren t we pressing peo
opportunity for us to listen? i m not sure how it would be an opportunity to listen if we can t really listen. i see the cameras being on is important. freedom of the press should not have access to the present, and what he s thinking on a daily basis is a problem for all of us. if it s a problem for the white house, the press secretary cannot speak and have at the president. maybe they should look into the process. it should be more transparent. julie: i ll have you way n. i think when you look at cnn in particular, they did go and had the full audio briefing last week of sean spicer. you are able to listen to sean spicer. i think what happened was that this press briefing has become a combative, political theater, where there has been a sense of frustration for the white house to be able to focus an end talk about the message of the day, when you have so many reporters with a specific agenda about
for senior executive level personnel, given their track record over the last couple years, absolutely. do you expect it to happen? yes. okay. would you just go through it for us, please? you blew the whistle on this. then what happened to you? well, actually i blew the whistle on something else is when the retaliation started. i d rather not go into. and several i started with the safety issues. i was making trouble, as they would say. i would say bringing up very serious issues. and i sent my letter off in october and the va i.g. came out briefly in september and basically nothing further was done. i sent a follow-up letter in february. nothing further was done. it wasn t until representative miller announced what the problems were in phoenix that the media jumped on it, cnn in particular, and the story became
he made a reference to how much money he made nbc and grumbled a bit about not making money on the stock market. yeah. not making money in the stock market and the like. he his first answer, he was asked about north korea and asked about the whole wrestling video thing with cnn. he went on a a tirade against cnn, attack on the press, in general, cnn in particular. and had had less to say really about north korea. what do you make about the president and how he is performing on the world stage? look, some of the mannerisms are debilitating to diplomacy. i think this is something that s come up already in diplomacy, there s a certain amount of decorum and structure that s expected. it s often necessary to achieve deals. i think it s important if he wants to be effective to contain this. there s also a tension between the politics back in the u.s.