we brought ourselves to this position, how did we put ourselves in a position where the country doesn t trust us and the president can slam us with impunity and maybe we need to ask ourselves questions. instead the media plays into the role of the resistance movement and attacking the president as opposed to holding him accountable and reporting on what he s doing. and playing into his hands politically so that he can keep attacking them this way. so what s your response to that? is there a problem of making the distinction between attacking the president and holding him accountable? look, i think there s a range of roles in the media. i think that from commentators who use their platforms to criticize or support the president, and there are plenty of those as well, to more kind of, you know, kind of reporters in the trenches who see their job as telling the truth as best that we can learn it. i think there s a clear distinction. when the country doesn t trust the media, that s way
i was going to do it as we re sitting here. i would have had to delay you. but they called up and they said would you negotiate? and i said yes, i will negotiate. that s all you ve learned about the media? you knew from the campaign about the media. the media didn t cover it that way. they said i didn t terminate nafta. i said if i m not able to renegotiate nafta, i ll terminate nafta. i m make that statement now. if i m not able to renegotiate nafta, we will terminate nafta. back with me ron brownstein. bill carter and former chief of staff to reince priebus, mike shiel shields. good to see all of you. the question was what have you learned and immediately his instinct was to talk about the dishonest media. is this administration also trying to lay the groundwork to
been seeing them and trying to increase their understanding, the lens who which they understand. i was going to say the issue of trust, look at the trust percentage for the president t. s ot. it s one of the worst in history. to accuse the press, you have to point out the president, even his bate doesn t trust him at the same level. so he has a real issue with that. it s not just him attacking the media as not having the trust of the country. bill, mike, ron, thank you very much gentlemen. appreciate it. we ll be right back. [fbi agent] you re a brave man, mr. stevens. your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house.
self-reflection? remember the new york times after the election was sort of somewhat admitting that they needed to come down out of their skyscraper and get in touch with the american people, maybe doing a mark zuckerberg style drive around the country and actually meet the voters? have you gotten any sense of that from your media friends? very little intro protection from the white house press corps and i think that s why the alternative media that i have been working in for quite a while now, you can t even call it new media now, old media. all those alternatives now and i ve made my career as an internet entrepreneur founding two companies to try and circumvent so much of the corporate media left-wing monopoly now with crtv and conservative review, and more people are realizing they have choice can be and welcome back choice is anathema to people who have had such an iron grip on the media for so long. that s why they re so worked up
expressing its disdain for the media trying to limit what is reported and how it s reported. first of all reince didn t say we should get rid of it. he said we re taking a look at it. but you re taking a look at it with the purpose of seeing how it can t be modified or changed, right? look. there is a political benefit to the president taking on the media and what i don t see are my freiends in the media having any self reflection of how they put themselves in position that the president doesn t trust them and the president of the united states could keep attacking them for political benefit. you had a perfect contrast to that last night. you had the white house correspondent dinner. you had a liberal comedian. yes, he made some jokes, but everyone knows he s a lib ceral comedian. the president leaves and doesn t taken the event and goes up to harrisburg pennsylvania to set the contrast that he s not part of the crowd. rather than the media saying how