people bought into a russia collusion narrative. even though they are realizing there is no collusion, they are so embarrassed at how much coverage they gave to this story that they ve aren t able toll pull back and correct. howie: when we come back, the press taking on the president over sexual harassment. hello mom. amanda s mom s appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home. our customized care plans provide as much
office begging for campaign contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them. did you interpret that tweet as trading sexual favors? that s how i and many people read them. it s reprehensible that the president of the united states would say something so derogatory and disgusting. when you say that s sexist man your head women can t handle the same thing as a man. the weird thing about trump is he insults everybody. howie: are the media trying to take a 2016 story and recast it as a 2017 story. mollie: this is the story of the moment. in another way, this is why we have elections, we litigate
braced for clarence thomas to withdraw when the original allegations came out. people like me were braced for bill clinton to quit when the monica lewinsky story came out. it proves if you stick it out, you can stick it out. probably more indicative to me of less control of the party of its own actors more than the stature of the press. howie: you mentioned the washington post which interviewed the first four of the accusers. one later went on tv. you have been doing this online story about journalism. let s take a quick look at that. it s fine to hear that someone had an affinity for teenaged girls. we have to find out whether
strength and weakness of journalism. if this story had come out 5, 10, 15 years ago. that he didn t and he almost won speaks to the credibility problems the general media establishment had. but the strength of the story held under under scrutiny unlike other people trotted out by attorneys. the post stories did hold up under scrutiny. but the danger is that because it was even this close shows people aren t trusting the media. i m not sure you can take the failure of roy moore to quit the race to the failure of journalism and the lower profile of journalism in the modern world. there is much more distrust of the media. but i would think his failure to lead, i was reminded we were all
the record, this is a tough thing, to go on unidentified sources when this such big import and official blockbuster nape of some of these stories. but, you always have to ask yourself, would to be better off if we den didn t knows stuff was going on. interesting comment there from bob woodward the other day saying some journalists are binge drinking the anti-trump kool aid. yes, i think there is a lot of glee about being able to cover the stories that we ve covered this week, that is going a little bit too far, but i agree that journalism has all been good, the stories need to be out. let s play a sound bite about president asked about a story at a news conference this week. did you urge former fbi