unfolded on twitter this morning. the president tweeted out, had a very good and interesting meeting at the white house with sulzberger, spent time talking about the vast amounts of fake news by the media and how that fake news has morphed into phrase enemy of the people. sad. as you can imagine though there was a response from the new york times publisher a.j. sulzberger who felt it was responsibility to respond. i told the president directly that i thought his language was not just divisive by dangerous. although the phrase fake news is untrue and harmful, i m far more concerned about his labelling journalists, the enemy of the people. i warn his inflammatory language will lead to violence. andrew, as someone who does cover capitol hill, how is this likely to play out, this attack by the president against the press? are we hearing other senior
welcome back. i m david gura. president trump is targeting journalists again tweeting this today. had a very good and interesting meeting at the white house with a.g. sulzberger, publisher of the new york times. president trump continuing, quote, spent much time talking about the vast amounts of fake news being put out by the media and how that fake news has morphed into the phrase enemy of the people. sad. president trump s aides asked for that meeting, which was at the president s request, to be off the record, but obviously that changed with president trump s tweet. so the publisher of the times gave us his read-out of what they discussed. quote, i told him although the phrase fake news is untrue and harmful, i am far more concerned about his labeling journalists the enemy of the people. i warned that inflammatory language is condition
journalists. but can he can the president be held accountable for what somebody else did in that regard? the president can be held accountable for what he says and he should be held accountable for what he says. i think the president talks about fake news and the person calling um cnn to issue a threat uses the phrase fake news, it s not impossible to figure out where this person got that idea in their head so i don t think the president is necessarily legally liable. we can hold the president accountable for what he said. not the first time threats against cnn or against his personnel. the other thing we should point out the cameras. that wasn t up to the president. that was up to the organization hosting the event last night and that has been their tradition. we have seen actually some events recently where the president has invited the cameras in at some of these negotiations with members of congress that is quite surprising so i put that out there. who wrote his lines?
senator mccain said the phrase fake news, granted legitimacy by an american president, is being used by autographs to silence reporters. and then there is this from senator jeff flake. mr. president, it s a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. shannon: dan, senator flake said he s not comparing the two. stalin was a murderer. this president isn t but he was talking about the language. to use the name stalin in the context of trump is so foul. stalin killed 25 million people. the genocide of ukrainians is not very much reported or remembered. to make the comparison to a
senator mccain said the phrase fake news, granted legitimacy by an american president, is being used by autographs to silence reporters. and then there is this from senator jeff flake. mr. president, it s a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. shannon: dan, senator flake said he s not comparing the two. stalin was a murderer. this president isn t but he was talking about the language. to use the name stalin in the context of trump is so foul. stalin killed 25 million people. the genocide of ukrainians is not very much reported or remembered. to make the comparison to a