cnn on april the 3rd. before the break, i think i said shawn hannity had the worse week in washington. yeah. his week was not so great either. you said sean spicer was not so hot. would his boss agree? first of all, thank you for the kind wishes. it is wonderful to be on tv with you. no, his boss would not agree and that s the problem here which is there is an audience of one on trump s watches. what you saw on thursday is something that donald trump applauded. the problem is by thursday night, the u.s. was apologizing to britain for saying as general hayden made clear saying something that s not true. well, maybe britain was involved in the wiretapping of trump tower. the problem here is yes, i think sean spicer in donald trump s eye did a good job but in terms
group of people. i would say anyone that s in press relation for a long time, this is the top of the mountains. white house press secoretary is the big job. those are high profile jobs. sean is in an incredible hard position. you cannot say things that are not true and we have to write it down. that s not our jobs. president trump this week appearing with tucker carlson i think took a step backward. lets watch the tape then chris cillizza can comment. you are the president. frankly, we have a lot right
reporting on that. that s not evidence. that s just like me quoting you, it is virtous for donald trump but it is not fact. one of the hardest things for reporters dealing with donald trump is he seems to view everything, a tweet he saw or an article or what the site, a report on that article, no matter what the site as all equal evidence in terms of to use to make his point. politicians do cherry pick information here or there everywhere to make the case but never to the extent that trump is doing or cnn and washington post is on equal part of people you are not intelligence community reporters, just people
calculation? yeah, i have known sean on and off for 20 years i am getting old. i agree with you. some level to your point doing his job, the problem here though is that he knew what he was getting into it and it is not as though you accept to be secretary of donald trump, you are not clear of what it means. you know your boss is an you know it is a difficult job. you know that you are going to walk a fine line between being honest and as transparent as you can be a press core that s a constituency of yours as well in terms of making sure their job is not easy but you are doing what you can to help them do their job day in and day out and with a president who s fundamentally advesarial to that
now. if you watch the brett bare and what he s saying and how he mentioned the word wiretap, you can feel confident to mention the name. if you take a look at some of the things written about wiretapping and eavesdropping. when i say that, wiretapping is pretty old fashion stuff. that covers surveillance and many other things. nobody ever talks about the feedback that it is in quotes. wiretap covers a lot of different things. i think you will find some interesting items coming to the fore front over the next two weeks. lets be fair to the president. there is no evidence of collusion. there is been a lot of speculation and rumor and inuendo. react to what you just heard. you are 100% right at that.