and the press never fully fell out of love with barack obama. and now they are in this freak-out about donald trump. i think tough coverage is good, fact checking him is good, but the goal shouldn t be to oppose him and that s what the media has talked itself into. it has a major credibility problem. gallup polling says trust in the media is the lowest it s been. they can fix it by being more responsible and more fair instead they re doing the opposite. bill: relationship has changed already. david quickly. i hope, bill, that you are as tough on donald trump as you have been on barack obama because look, where you get your news matters. msnbc has a lot different coverage than fox. i like coming on fox and i think it s important we talk to each other. when we see the media in general i hope we see a devotion to facts and accurate reporting and digging in. that s only good for the democracy. bill: i would tell you, they
i think what john lewis said is ridiculous. he is an american hero, two, he is a hyper partisan as well whose pronouncements can and should be protested. trump has a lot of aides and allies who can engage in this ticky-tacky trench warfare and he doesn t have to do it all himself. that s why god gave him kellyanne conway who is very good at this sort of thing. shannon: she enjoys doing it as we can see. i want to read a statement or a quote from the president of the national urban league reacting after this meeting with mr. trump and martin luther king iii. there is a lot of anxiety and distrust. people have expressed that they re scared of what his policies might entail. david, is there an option of giving him a chance to move forward as president? when you have someone with someone like congressman lewis saying he isn t legitimate, he
you david quickly. it seems like they re saying when it comes to a matter that doesn t directly affect an imminent assault or attack in the united states you need congressional approval for something that involves an international norm like chemical weapons use. it seems to me that sets up the premise for six months or a year if now we have to make a decision about what to do with if the mullahs decide to weaponize their nuclear program over in tehran. doesn t that set up a predicate now where he has to go to congress? i think that s a very good point. he says i reserve the authority to do this without congress. i don t need to go to congress. but i m going to anyway. and it s hard to say why a future scenario like the one you outlined would be different. that somehow he didn t have to go to congress in the other scenario. he has set a precedent that s going to be hard to explain if here s where i disagree. couldn t he make the argument if all of a sudden we faced a threat from i
week. in this particular case people i ve talked to in the white house say this issue of congressional authorization was always on the table, that obama and his counsel were always concerned about a legal justification for doing this and they felt more politically isolated. so it s not like it came out of nowhere but they did buck the system. one thing they did here is set a precedent. you first peter and then again you david quickly. it seems like they re saying when it comes to a matter that doesn t directly affect an imminent assault or attack in the united states you need congressional approval for something that involves an international norm like chemical weapons use. it seems to me that sets up the premise for six months or a year if now we have to make a decision about what to do with if the mullahs decide to weaponize their nuclear program over in tehran. doesn t that set up a predicate now where he has to go to congress? i think that s a very good point. he says i reser