Canceled it . On friday, the New York Times wrote the following. Quote, a senior white house official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated holding it on june 12 would be impossible given the lack of time needed. President Trump 1307bded on twitter with this false accusation. Quote, the failing the New York Times quotes a senior white house official who doesnt exist, use real people, not phony sources. The source was, in fact, a senior white house official speaking to a large group of reporters in the White House Briefing room. We journalists try as hard as we can to always identify our sources on the record so that we can tell you, our viewers, watchers, listeners, why you should trust our information. Sometimes we agree to allow people to speak anonymously. Well refer to that as talking on background. Nbc news does know the identity of this official, although were not identifying him because we agreed not to. We, however, do not invent people. If we did, we would an
tom perriello addressed that. missing the broader people. people getting news from internet media and there is documentation on russia specifically. i take your point. do you need to find middle ground messaging on mueller and russia? maybe not impeachment. it s about corruption. make it about what we re seeing. not just with russia. cashing in on his access to the oval office. the zte deal, putting chinese workers ahead of american workers because they gave him a loan in indonesia. that s a winning message, it s true and un-american he would be allowing that to take place . i want to add to the conversation comments we hear at the show vintage joe biden. take a look. this is not your father s republican parties. this is a different deal. they are not, they are not, who
as i said months ago, during a when we run a campaign, you have to deal with perception. perception of the fbi at the time was, a solid institution to the trusted. you can t go head-long into has perception. what you can do over time is change the perception, just little bits at a time. that s what they ve done. it s just like a campaign. the target except is not a candidate. running against robert mueller and the justice department. and they re winning. changing perception, at least amongst his base, believing that the fbi is somehow corrupt. interesting, because this whole investigation is was about russia s interference into an election donald trump participated in. he could have handled that completely different. i want to get to the bottom of it, instead took it personally as he always does. right. so i feel like there are nuances here among members of congress on this question. clearly a cadre that the freedom caucus and others that we talk
aisle. what else do you know about behind the scenes? was that a slipup from rudy giuliani? when i heard him say that, one wonders if he has to clean up that statement later in the week or tomorrow. they talk a lot. the weekend before last. were on the phone incessantly. if that was the weekend that giuliani said mueller would wrap up the investigation by september 1st. right? what happened there? nothing, really. so what s interesting about the way the president tests these messages. i ve covered more trump rallies than i can eastern remembven re. to watch him work a crowd. rework it, say it again. gets applaud, say it again until it works. even when he talks about spygate, completely unfounded, the way we cover it use the phrase, repeat it in the lexicon is how he does this. how he wins the messaging game. there s no one with an equally powerful megaphone making an opposite argument. bob mueller certainly isn t speaking out.
but that actually happened this week in a federal case against the president. federal judge ruled that the president cannot block his critics on twitter. joining me now on set, rebecca, judicial affairs editor and one of the seven plaintiffs in this case. rebecca was blocked by the president after tweeting at him, to be fair, you didn t win the white house. russia won it for you. rebecca, this is quite a it s a what s it what s it like to sue the president of the united states and win? it feels a little fictional. a very strange landscape, feels great, though, because this is exactly the result we were really hoping for that s more important than ever given that public officials are relying on twitter so often. right. we laughed about it, end of the day, this is a new area of law where we expect public officials, in a you re able to talk to them to reach out to them.