now, i will give him credit the sop punch is above his weight, okay? and the leap is smart. and we have to take them seriously. but the suggestion the suggestion i m some kind of agent of russia is too much. shannon: what do you make of the accusation that republicans, in general, too close to vladimir putin and doing work as president? i think the problem is, they came out and said even tulsi gabbard is a russian agent for pete s sake. this is a veteran who has served congress well. the reality is, they are trying to change the narrative. they know in 2017, there was plenty of mainstream media reports coming out and saying, hey, look, guess what the ukraine was involved in 2016 election. and you can go through and reiterate those if you will. but to say that somehow that
gangster. i give him credit. the slb punches above his weight and the son of a [bleep] is smart and we have to take them seriously but the suggestion that i m some kind of agent of russia is just not true. what do you make of the accusation that republicans in general, the president are too close to putin and you are doing his work by defending this president? the problem is they came out and said even tell see gabbard is a russian agent, this is a veteran who served in congress, the realities they are trying to change the narrative. they now in 2017 there was plenty of mainstream media reports coming out and saying guess what, ukraine was involved in the 2016 election and you can
mainstream media reports and consensus building we were going into a multi-year depression if not worse that the united states had lost its mojo, et cetera, i want you to look at something. this is a chart dow from that melt down period. of course, this actual chart goes back to 1924, which is good to know. but when everything hit the fan, look how much we have climbed sense fro since. dow hit 4,000 to four times that today. bottom line here is markets come back. this is also the anniversary when the markets opened after the 9/11 tragedy. markets took a huge hit that day and a lot of people were saying the hit was going to keep on coming and coming and coming. we came back. we always come back. something that doris concerns goodwin touched on when we talk about the american spirit never red or blue or green we have inherent confidence when the chips are are down we claw our way back. when the blue chips are down they claw their way back. it is a reminder and
what the so-called mainstream media reports and the job we do every day and what a lot of certainly the republican base and a lot of donald trump supporters think of us. so i don t think a lot of minds were changed yesterday but i do think it was the expression of the tenor we run into. i m going to bring your colleague in from the failing new york times, bret stephens who wrote a piece so r-rated i can t read so much without blushing. but it s about how twitter porn if ied politics. i ll keep my handle and hopefully my followers but an editorial assistant will write from now on. then you say it s bad for the soul and as donald trump proves daily bad for the country. yeah, well, look, i mean, my point is that twitter is political pornography. pornography is naked grunting bodies and twitter is naked
how mainstream media are the ones trying to push him off twitter. mainstream media reports on his tweets. these are the only presidential statements we have. these are a lot of times the only words we get from the president himself. is it mainstream media telling him to stop using twitter or should it be his advisers? this is how mainstream media is attracting higher ratings. loving it is editorializing what we are doing. we are reporting. it is great press. i m not saying you like what he tweets or not. the mainstream media is not the problem. the person crit kzed was kellyanne conway s husband. it s apparent from what reporting suggests and law firms in washington that he was reaching out to create a war room. whether reporting is true or not