the american public a disit wsee if they can t see or hear what s happening in their house, the people s house. this is not democrat or republican. viewers the home might be asking, why not just skip the briefings? david drucker, this becomes the new normal. one on camera briefing a week, four hidden off camera. why shouldn t journalists just leave? look, i think that i think often we are too compliant as journalists to the conditions laid out for us by politicians. they give us things on background. they say it s got to be off the record. i think we have to at times i think we should be more aggressive in pushing back and say if you re not going to give us this in a fashion where we can report real news, we re not interested in talking to you. i do think that the real issue here and i think april speaks to it, whether or not they re answering our questions in an attributable way. i m sensitive to the needs of
so many months after the u.s. election, still so much conversation about what did or didn t happen. some conspiracy theories we hear both on left leaning cable news, on right-leaning cable news. is this a conspiracy trap people are falling into? what does that mean? so the fact that there is a conspiracy theory doesn t mean that there is no conspiracy. right? that s a very tricky thing to negotiate. because the more we learn about russian interference, the more compelling the conspiracy theory becomes, because there was really a russian i mean it seems, beyond a doubt at this point. but yeah, there was russian interference. the problem with falling into the conspiracy trap is thinking that it is the one theory that explains everything. it explains how we got trump and it explains how we re going to get rid of trump, and neither of those is the case. it doesn t actually explain how we got trump. russians didn t give us trump. americans elected trump. right? so it is also probably no
radio and television reporters because if you don t have a story on camera and you re cnn, we re reporting news on television, in a sense it s cutting off our ability as television reporters to do that. i think the real issue here is, are they going to answer our questions. i think the broader issue is, do they feel compelled by the public to answer our questions? because over the years, i ve noticed when politicians need attention or feel pressure from their own voters, where they feel the story has gotten away from them and they need to set it straight or start answering for what they ve been doing, they talk to us. we don t have the fights. it s only feel when they can get away with this that they play these kinds of games. one of the ways we can impact this is by saying these conditions are not acceptable that you ve laid out. i don t think there s a rule about it one way or the other, brian. i think it s a case by case basis. if we talk and stop asking
from the other republican candidates. i don t want to cut health care programs. he promised i won t cut medicaid. i m going to cut everybody. the health care bills, both the ones in the house and the senate he spoke favorably of at some point and has since got blowback. these bills don t deliver on the campaign promises. they cut medicaid very significantly. they would scale back the federal subsidies with the people in kentucky and people in other states rely on. the voters, they understood. they ve watched the news. they ve seen the promises their candidate made and took the promises at face value. sara, thank you so much. best of luck in the coming days. you have a lot of work to do. sign up for our newsletter as well. reliable sources.com. all the day s media news delivered every night. reliable sources.com. up next here on the program, president trump saying the russian hacking news is fake news.