rounds. i ll see you at 4 p.m. eastern with laura engingle. back to cashin in. on december 30th, mr. eric bolling a fox news commentator began a campaign to have the students winning artwork removed. that blatant censorship is media manipulation and exacerbated by one of my colleagues from california, congressman duncan hart took it upon himself to remove the painting without any authority from the architect of the capitol to do so. eric: well, thanks for giving me the credit, congressman. mr. clay is correct, i did point out this disgraceful painting of cops depicted as pigs, especially because it was put up in our u.s. capitol and then things kind of hit the fan, the tug-of-war began. the painting was taken down,
it s something that president obama did not like to do and i think by the way, it did not serve him well that he did so relatively few press conferences. so i think that donald trump has made mark as master of media manipulation, will continue to find interesting ways of getting his message across. i wonder whether or not this is going to be a huge role reversal of a white house press secretary actually correcting us rather than us holding them accountability for errors and misat the sameat the same misstatements of facts. jon: donald trump going straight through the american people without a filter as he does via twitter, that that is more beneficial, judy, what s your reaction? look, communication, nibble the first amendment as you jon and i think most people who look at our checks and balance system
interests and make sure it s fair. that s all they re saying. secretary clinton is not calling for this recount, and i tell you, a couple weeks ago i would have said, probably what carl said, trump s a liar, he s nuts, he s a conspiracy theorist. no. he s a genius. i m not playing around. he s a genius at the media manipulation. look at what he does. he settles the lawsuit for fraud with trump university. pays $25 million to people who are accusing him of fraud. admitting no wrongdoing. paying $25 million. what does he do the next day? he attacks the cast of hamilton, a broadway show. he attacks the cast of saturday night live. i don t think donald trump gives a rip snort about hamilton or snl. he distracted the press from the trump university fraud suit. what s he doing now? the new york times on a sunday runs a major story, massive conflicts of interest and for trump in brazil, in india, in the philippines, in ireland, in scotland, in turkey. what does trump do? rather than
i m not playing around. he s a genius at the media manipulation. look at what he does. he settles the lawsuit for fraud with trump university. pays $25 million to people who are accusing him of fraud. admitting no wrongdoing. paying $25 million. what does he do the next day? he attacks the cast of hamilton, a broadway show. he attacks the cast of saturday night live. i don t think donald trump gives a rip snort about hamilton or snl. he distracted the press from the trump university fraud suit. what s he doing now? the new york times on a sunday runs a major story, massive conflicts of interest and for trump in brazil, in india, in the philippines, in ireland, in scotland, in turkey. what does trump do? rather than answer these really legitimate massive problems, he says, oh, recount panic, recount, millions of people voting. he knows exactly what he s doing. he is the most brilliant media manipulator i ve seen in my life. he s strategic about this. he is not crazy. i think