Trump went off calling them the dishonest media. Is he sending a signal as president hes going to continue his handtohand combat with the press . I think he is. Hes doing this because hes hoping it will inoculate him against the media when in the face of future controversies when the media continues to criticize him, but what the media could do is take this as a challenge to be sharper and more precise in its coverage. Let me play you a bit of what trump had to say in the rally and get your reaction. Breaking news, donald trump has won florida. They say, whoa. And we won it big. But then the people back there, the extremely Dishonest Press we won in a landslide. That was a landslide. We didnt have the press. The press was brutal. He did face a lot of negative press. Would you have advised him to rub salt in the wounds of some of these battles with the media . Donald trump is a master at creating these narratives. Every good narrative needs a bad guy. The press has willingly played in.
You have key silhouettes not quite filled. We go to david lee outside the trump tower today. David, good morning to you. What do we know about these gentlemen . Reporter the headline, martha, the man chosen to the head the epa has a very long history opposing that agency. Scott pruitt is now the attorney general for the state of oklahoma. He has a lengthy history as a staunch defender of states rights. He also repeatedly challenged federal restrictions dealing with environmental issues. The Trump Transition Team cited pruitts role attacking epa what they describe the epas war on coal. But critics like vermont senator Bernie Sanders say pruitt is Climate Change denier and too closely denied to fossil fuel industry. Kellyanne conway, the Trump Transition Team spokeswoman, says pruitt is the right person for the job. Naysayers and critics and so we know some people are still running a permanent campaign. Attorney general pruitt has great qualifications and a good record as the ag of oklah
It has been 41 years. Since you and bernstein came out with all the president s men that chronicle the watergate scandal. And then your new book the last of the president s men it brings us back to that period. Looking at the Nixon White House with the chief of staff especially after he acknowledged today you think youre doesnt reporting on watergate . This isnt watergate but nixon and writing so many books on him. I thought i was done. It is a better one than you and i. The next time youre in washington with get together some have a few interesting stories that the Washington Post gives me on limited time. To say i will stop by the you have any documents . They said yes i have a few and there are 20 boxes. I thought there was a box but not 20. 70s that were original and we did not know about. So i went for more interviews. And then go out tla jolla for a fun weekend. To sit in this dark apartment. With the Nixon White House sitting in 50 months to keep this file on onionskin paper and
That lawyers play much too big a part in policymaking and it was a dreadful word strategy because they do everything on a casebycase basis. I think there is a distant, a physical distance between what he was viewing as the american skeptic schism. How thinskinned is he . Period. to commit more crimes with glee and relishes every death this caricature monster figure is something you can get past and the way to do that i thought was for all of humanity including the teenage jinxed that was part of the story to give them the motivation and that is the story of a relentless drive to be involved in the policymaking process. As part of the evil genius the machiavellian he frequently blunders but he makes a whole series of mistakes. But with this demonic doctor evil figure. Host the final question. You have access to reams of documents, letters riyals though interviewed kissinger extensively. Guest there are quite a few reports from the interviews but relative to those documents with that tot
Average american. It was forced into place in a society hadnt had before. Boris yeltsin was the president , drinking and dying and spreading along the way. He was worried about communism coming back so is idea was if we can quickly privatize, force capitalism by handing a way most of the assets of the country to private people we can create a hedge against communism. It cant come back if it is a private thing. So that was really his idea. They handed the country to these ambitious men who came from nowhere. The main father of this book was the godfather of the kremlin, he was a mathematician, outsider, jewish and an antisemitic society, could not go to regular school or get a regular job. Win capitalism was placed in there he became a car dealer, started buying up cars and use inflation to buy a car but they came year from now. With pennies on the dollar. He had Car Dealerships oliver and in 1994 he was a big businessman, got into his limo and was on his way out when his limo was blown