Ahead on washington journal, your thoughts and reaction to the events of the last few days as President Trump continues his treatment for covid19. We are dividing our phone lines regionally. 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. Those of you out west, 202 7488001. Send us a text message at 202 7488003. You can join us on social media, on twitter, and on facebook. Good sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. A lot to get to in the next couple of hours, including this headline from the New York Times, confusion and concern as the president ails. This headline, trump saying he is doing much better. He is not out of danger. That is from white house chief of staff mark meadows, contrasting a rosy picture painted by the president s dr. On television. Saturday evening, the president said he was starting to feel good. The video meant to reassure the nation posted on his website at realdonaldtrump. Com. [video clip] i want to begin by thanking all the incredible medica
[applause] thank you all for being here. Looking for to this discussion. No one appears congenitally shy so im hoping all of you can ignore me and ask each other questions. Have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lively subjects. Lets start with the basics and then towards the end of the conversation i want to move into the world we are in now, the digital age, age of social media which creates a whole new set of questions. Jill, let me start with you. Editorial decisionmaking, for our colleagues in the audience, it is a little bit like case law. Yesterday principles behind you, certain standards and then casebycase try to apply them to complex stuff. When the reporter come to you with a story that reveals National Security information. What are the principles that you have in mind when you evaluate what to publish . Example, iy in that wearingless it was some something externally sensitive are innately i would stake, i lives were at would encourage the journalists and reporter with
You. This decision, although expected by some, it was still shocking to a lot of white house aides, right . Reporter thats right, alex. Were learning this hour from sources close to the administration, according to Nbcs Carol Lee and Pete Williams that attorney general bill barr actually tried to convince the president not to offer this clemency to roger stone. The attorney general, in recent days, had called the prosecution of roger stone righteous and said that the sentence that roger stone had been given by the judge was in barrs view fair. The attorney general apparently unsuccessful in convincing the president not to go ahead and offer this commutation to his longtime friend, roger stone. But we know theres also opposition from other aides within the white house who were concerned about the political ramifications of the president offering this clemency, worried that there would be blowback from people who thought the president was intervening in the impartial, fair justice system
The frontrunner celebrated by mocking the lousy Super Saturday turned in by marco rubio. Marco rubio had a very, very bad night. And personally, id call for him to drop out of the race. I think its time now that he drop out of the race. I really think so. In the democratic race, Bernie Sanders wins two. Kansas and nebraska. But Hillary Clinton takes louisiana, ending the night with a bigger delegate night than she began it with. Tuesdays michigan showdown after a big denate tonight right here on cnn, now a defining moment. We have to win this election. And we all know we all know the stakes keep getting higher. And the rhetoric were hearing from the other side keeps sinking lower. The democratic nomination process has been conducted in a way with dignity and nowhere near the ugly politics were seeing in the republican process. With us this morning to share their reporting and their insights, Mary Katherine hamm of the federalist, cnns jeff zeleny, cnns manu raju and Ashley Parker of th