president of the united states, donald trump, repeatedly attacks members of the press simply for reporting facts he does not like. the president just this morning blasting our very own jim acosta and calling cnn fake news. a charge he has leveled at the press not just cnn, over and over. the media is rigged. you are be fake news. yeah i think the media is the opposition party in many ways. the fake media is trying to silence us. but we will not let them. a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people. and they are. they are the enemy of the people. sir, do you want people to come in from other parts of the world where there are people of the color. heard from a number of very credible sources from within the white house that you watch this show. you deny it all the time. but then you you know you say something disparaging about me and the only way you would know that is if you saw the show. so, mr. president i m speaking directly to you. we are not the enemy.
but the problem is a black preacher on in an event. while we re celebrating mlk. but the real concern for me is the 25-year-old fresh on the job covering a county fair in iowa or montana and someone emboldened by the president s speech and hurts or kills that kid. we have to worry about. that s what with we face ahead. this president is not only unaware of the words he speaks and the weight they carry but he does not care. and he has shown time and again despite what he told us in the press room that he doesn t care about the press. i let me get frank in. frank i m reading you the cnn statement. i want to you respond. cnn released a statement on the threats. sorry. it says we take we take any threat to cnn employees or workplaces around the world extremely seriously. this one is no exception. we have been in touch with local
in the same way the president is supposed to be a moral example we are supposed to be an example to the world and we are not setting a good example right now. i know you guy haves a lot to talk about. we ll continue the discussion. brian, frank, april, frank appreciate your time. when we come back and be safe. when we come back big news on the russia investigation. including cnn exclusive a former member of the trump campaign facing charges. a big name lawyer added to his defense team. we ll talk about that. , i m theu know what s difficult? armless bowling. ahhhhhhhh! you know what s easy? building your website with godaddy. get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. build a better website in under an hour.
with him. either to help pressure manafort or to help pressure other campaign officials we don t yet know are involved. i want to get you in on this, i want to read the news so everybody knows what what we re talking about. cnn reporting that breaking news tonight rick gates who pled not guilty to multiple counts of money laundering and acting as a foreign agent without registering may be negotiating with robert mueller. how significant is this? well it s very significant. i mean, first of all, i do think it s the smart move for gates. he is facing very serious time potentially over ten years in prison. and an array of charges. and as was just pointed out he may be facing additional charges. at that point when you are a defense attorney and i ve been on both sides of that both
with the media there, thousands of supporters and he essentially pointed at them and said said said these are sick people who don t care about our country. those are words that travel so far beyond what other presidents said. other presidents had plenty of adversarial relationships with the press. they didn t say we were sick or unpatriotic enemies of the state. those are big words and what happened here with cnn suggests that big consequences. and what other administrations for some way we felt treated other journalists wrong, we stood up for them. other new yorks something with the obama administration. yes. one of their reporters cnn stood up for that fox reporter saying, no. he is he is a reporter. and he is just doing his job. but that doesn t seem to happen especially with what i call the trump channel now which is what fox news has been become. that doesn t happen. well, april said but don