cnn members and mitt and msnbc s we spent 95% of their airtime covering donald trump s arraignment. think about the build up over the weekend to. by now, you ve expect the media to have learned how to cover donald trump and his family. but that s the exact opposite of what happened after the president left the courthouse. he stopped by a famous cuban cafe in miami on his way out. cnn, like most networks, took trump s cafe visit live for most networks and certainly producers. his surprise stop is a godsend. after all, how exciting are plane landings, suv caravans, courtroom sketches, but not cnn . this unscripted moment where average voters, as you see right here, show affection and enthusiasm. a human side to president, 45, would not be covered. they would not allow it. watch. donald trump is charged with a series of federal felonies for mishandling the most sensitive government documents that we have. and for obstruction of justice, along with wall nada, who is charged wit
and what does he say when people say he was obstructing the effort to get them back? that, to me is news, regardless of what you want to see happen, it is newsworthy. you also felt like they they actually had the media shut down your narrative. they didn t want to hear your explanation. you know, brian, you re a historian. in fact, during the 8000 2896 days, i was compelled to shelter in place in prison for politics, not for crimes. i read two of your books, the one on washington i despise . thank you. and the one on jefferson and the tripoli pirates. i know you wrote a book about andrew jackson. and andrew jackson. reminds me a lot of president trump that i was born for the storm. the calm does not suit me. but those books and you being the historian, should remind all of us that we have this glorious past with glorious, heroic people. and yet the stakes now, what we re facing today are perhaps, maybe the most important battle we re fighting since the civil war, because this goes to t