white house. he has a boss hop watches the briefing almost in toto. i think these skits are funny. they only matter to sean spicer s 10 europe if the president doesn t like them. 4.3 million people are watching these briefings. he s a big hit. howie: late-night comedians are mocking trump in sometimes funny and sometimes serious ways. does it matter? to his job longevity, i don t think so. howie: but is it changing perceptions? we always talk about the impact of tina fay. change perceptions in a cultural way for this white house? certainly that s the effort. if you think about melissa mccarthy s schtick, it s to be
perhaps in washington happens to be those back room deals that you don t hear about. that s what we need to be concerned about. she probably would take it back. but it s not like it s going to make or break anything. on this point about the concerns about ethics. is there a media mindset that the thing donald trump wants to do beyond sorted of running the world is to enrich himself by doing things that will help the family business? there is that mindset. here is the reality. he s the president of the united states. anybody who is president of the united states will just by being the president will enrich themselves. the value of all of his holdings and real estate, he s president, it just went up. that s the reality and the media needs to get over it. howie: is the press lionizing
howie: joining us to analyze the coverage, gayle trotter and mara liasson. there is no when mitch mcconnell made this into a large national story. was the media ready to embrace elizabeth warren? the controversial surrounding senator sessions nomination was an old story. the republicans in silencing elizabeth warren created a martyr out of her. when the male colleagues read the letter she had been silenced about, it really made her a martyr because they can focus on the sexismism reply cases. howie: lots of people in the media world are talking about whether she is running for president in 2020. there is no doubt she is the
he s trying to fulfill the number one job of the president which is keeping america safe. all the sunday shows today except for cnn, one official who did go on jake tapper s weekday show is kellyanne conway. let s take a look at that. it s difficult to hear those criticisms from a white house that has such little record day in and day out for facts. are we fake news? i don t think cnn is fake news. i think there are some report everywhere in tv, on radio, in conversations that are not well researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods. howie: is the white house boycotting cnn on sunday morning by not making top officials available. there was an offer tore for
someone to go on and they didn t take us up on that. i m not sure what happened this week. i m happy to go on jake s show any time. when are they going to show i watched that interview i m trying to think of a diplomatic way to say it. it wasn t journalism. until they want to start asking real questions and talk about real questions americans care about instead of getting in the back and forth. howie: why wasn t it journalism? that s a serious charge. there were parts of it like the accusations of boycotting their network when we clearly offered for people to be con. con to be on. that s a big deal. howie: there has been a lot of media chatter about sean spicer. the washingtonian magazine said