the media look foolish unless they really unless somehow it does come out that donald trump is a traitor. it is true that the media tends to get hysterical since president was elected, since president-elect trump. when he tweeted about the tapes, he knew immediately that every single journalist in the city was going to go to nixon. he wanted that. he wanted that. howie: let me close on this. isn t there as we cover this a lot of hypocrisy on both sides, democrats hated james comey for what he did in the last two weeks of the hillary clinton and republicans hated comey when he didn t bring charges to hillary clinton. isn t like comey was such a popular guy but now it s yeah. yeah. both sides disliked him. maybe he was doing something right. trump brought all of this on himself because he couldn t
howie: president trump tweeting that he might do away with the white house press briefings. reporters asked sean spicer why that would be. i think he s a little dismayed as well as a lot of people that we come out here and try to do everything we can to provide you and the american people with what he s doing on their behalf and yet we see time and time again an attempt to parse every little word and make it more of a game of got you as opposed to really figure out what the policies are, why somebody is being pursued. howie: would president trump kill the briefings and as i ask kellyanne conway is this driven by by sarah huckabee and sean spicer? at the beginning of the administration we talked about
howie: it lets the administration on cable to get the message out. yes, there s got you questions. deal with those and then talk about your message. howie: ed henry, wisdom and experience. thank you for joining us. jimmy kimmel said he shouldn t have used personal ordeal to go after president trump. is
how they could change things about press briefings. these are good point to be made that the media have still failed to come to terms with the fact that is somebody very different has become differently. that person does not play washington games the same way people are accustomed and the media should start respond to go that reality instead of trying to demand that this president fit into the box that all previous presidents have fit. the president was bluffing. they are not going to get rid of press briefings. of course, they re not going to. he just wants to get a reaction. howie: trying to drive the press crazy? of course, that s what he does. it s the job of sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders to get hammered as you say by the press. it is their job to dodge punches every single day. howie: unfairly hammered because
comes up about the russia investigation and alleged ties between trump associates in moscow, i always say let s slow down because not much is proven, but when the president again talking to lester holt says when i decided to fire comey, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing is a made-up story. it s not a completely made-up story in the sense that there are real, serious investigations here as to to whether there s anything there. howie, this has been going on for months. you basically could have a baby in the time they ve been investigating this. former dni mr. clapper said based on the information he had when he left his position, he saw no evidence of this he reaffirmed based on what he knew at the time, he saw nothing to suggest otherwise. you know, and, look, i think the best statement that was made this week, ironically, about the president s prerogative in firing the fbi director was by the outgoing fing bi director.