love cnn s situation because we have all these different white house reporters with different styles and acosta is one style and kaitlin collins, everybody has different styles. that s the way it should be and trump shouldn t get to pick which style works. the bosses here should get to pick. nbc, the new york times, they should pick what s covering the white house and how they approach the jobs and i think we benefit when there s reporters with different styles. acosta is asking a question you might think is too opinionated. let s call somebody else and get a wide invader variety of opini. he called on acosta. he chose to call on him. we ve heard a lot since trump took office and just last month, carl bernstein had this advice for the press. take a listen. i think we need to be rethinking how we conduct these briefings and what our response is to the press conferences and briefings when the president of the united states basically uses them as an occasion to lie and
a letter circulating among house democrats urges caucus members to take a pass on pelosi in favor of new leadership. the text of the letter obtained by cnn reads in part, our majority came on the backs of candidates who said that they would support new leadership because voters in hard won districts want to see real change in washington. therefore, we are committed to voting for new leadership in both our caucus meeting and on the house floor. now, at least 20 democrats have publicly committed to opposing pelosi s bid and leads outstanding house races hold, only lose 15 house members and come out on top. one person on her side, surprisingly, president trump promised support of the san francisco lawmaker this morning. i would help nancy pelosi if she needs some votes. i will perform a wonderful service for her. i like her. could you believe it, i like nancy pelosi. she s tough and she s smart, but
firefighters and scientists have been pretty clear he s not on the right track here. the climate change is a much more important factor. the president was being reckless and insulting. what do we do, not show his events or wrap them in context or do we start by saying okay, the president has a lot of nonsense he s sharing today. we ll show it to you and then try to fact check it. i think that s probably closer to the right answer but it s a struggle that s happening in all of these newsrooms because we have a president who continues to spread misinformation every day. brian, we ll have more on the standoff between the white house and the press on reliable sources here on cnn. up next. does she have the votes? breaking down the battle for speaker of the house. led, she was pregnant, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa.
viewers might see this. because i was in dc when the whole acosta trump thing happened and i saw how average viewers saw it. i got a lot of their feedback. many clearly see the president was hostile to the press, however, others said acosta was too aggressive and some think he s making himself the story. but that s a two-way street because the president makes reporters the story. he singles them out. he did with sara murray on the campaign trail and called a third rate reporter, said i m boring and cnn should fire me. when a president makes the reporter the story, how do you handle that? i think that is a conondrum and that s on display with acosta. it s true, some people don t like his style or he s too aggressive or opinionated but the point is trump shouldn t get to decide. cnn should get to decide if acosta s style is right and i
to manipulate the press. i don t think we should necessarily be running them verbatim from beginning to end. i think it s like giving him free air time during the campaign. i think we need to reevaluate how we engage with the president, not get ourselves manipulated. i love carl but how many times have you heard this call to maybe rethink the way we cover him and what does that look like and i would love to know. i think it s really important it s a struggle in newsrooms like this one to figure out what the right answer is. for example, cnn and msnbc are not showing trump s rallies anymore unless there s big breaking news. i think there s the right answer because the rallies are rarely filled with news but today, for example, the president is on the west coast visiting these sites of these horrific fires and saying a lot of things that don t make sense about forest management as if the real problem is to rake the forest. that s not a realistic answer.