ainsley: new socks. you wear these fun polka dot striped socks. today they are solid gray. i love them. steve: what s this, ainsley. ainsley: that was at my friend lori s house in connecticut. her son and mother-in-law huge fox news fan. hayden in her arms. we had a casual fun, lots of our friends all of the kids. it was a great time. we were, i did face time on new year s eve special at 8:30. with carley and griff. brian: i didn t know we would be christmas eligible. i have christmas not new year s eve pictures. a few sketch artists there. i will be able to get some in the next hour when people start waking up in my neighborhood. steve: charles, how did you spend new year s eve? at a restaurant with the family. my son was in he left yesterday. went to london. going to school college there low key but wonderful to have the family. we spent the last couple days doing a film retrospective in my house. i was sharing the movies
i can t take his cell phone. did you really make me leave my important judge meeting this morning to make we watch a video of your client lip-syncing beauty and the beast? yes, your honor. are you sure? the judge is like, have i ever done that? the one prosecutor goes gulp, the one in the back of the room goes, yeah, your honor, you really did. and she goes, when? she likes reading those transcripts on-air so much that every time there s been a hearing to one of the cases tied to the russia investigation the first order of business on the show has been to get the transcript ordered and the sketches, stat. the this gets them on tight deadlines, hours of hearings delivered. i mean, look at the talent. rachel and the entire trms staff would be lost without these guys. so, thank you, sketch artists and court reporters for making this possible this past year. the rachel maddow show salutes you.
into their kool-aid attacking trump day in and day out without facts. eboni: i look at the updates on my phone from some of these news organizations and they are so petty. it is like really? you re looking for any and everything at this point to bring in, bringing down on policy, if you want to attack them on the merits of things you feel you have a problem with politically or otherwise but the pettiness of the elect is playing in his favor. stephen: the positive thing for me is president trump s strategy here is working. it really is working. do your best to speak the truth directly and let all these other news agencies keep stepping in the dirt and slinging mud. americans are seeing the truth. eric: and then you make them crazier by pulling some of the press briefings and making them use sketch artists to sketch out spicer. leo: trump s twitter account has made cable news
that would punish russia and of course it would limit the president from lifting sanctions on his own unilaterally. we will see if he will be willing to sign that. you mentioned trump russia and trump russia, the russia story is probably the single-most aggravating factor in president trump s rather rocky relationship with the news media rekaent cently with the briefings recently with the briefings being diminished in frequency and now going to audio only. some news organizations including fox news have retained the services of sketch artists to see what s happening in the briefings. do we see this relationship ever getting better? i think it is about trump trying to resume control over the message. at this point, i think from their perspective, these daily briefings have not reflected well on the trump administration. they ve served to showcase certain reporters and they ve basically, you know, honed in on these back and forths that are
of the senate health care bill? i don t know that. on friday, we learned that trump continues to trample basic norms of accountability with new guidance going forward from now on the white house will decide on a daily basis whether or not the press are allowed to record audio of the briefings. joining me is author of the man without a face, the unlikely rise of vladamir putin. thanks for being here. cnn decided to respond to the idea that the white house has said no audio or video recordings unless we say you can by sending a sketch artist in s. that the right way to respond to what essentially is a lockdown of information saying only what we tell you you can have. well, i would like to pause for a second to consider the idea of a sketch artist because the fact that american courtrooms have sketch artists instead of video cameras is a little bit bizarre to people who are used to reporting on court