we re on this subject, one more response from dan or carl regarding the nixon administration. i ll ask you, carl, the nixon administration, were you intimidated by the administration as much as this administration? did they try to intimidate you as much as this administration is doing or say that the news is phony and fake, it wasn t real? did you face the same challenges during that time? yes. the intensity was perhaps not as long and as direct, but, yeah, richard nixon tried to make the conduct of the press the issue in watergate instead of the conduct of the president and his men. trump does it in a much more guttural, visceral, nasty out there way. and he lies with more frequency and compilation than even nixon did. but i think there s an important point to make here about cnn. and that is that we ve become a metaphor that trump is using for
continuously, so relentlessly and so unconsciousinably attacked presidential institutions by name, individual reporters by name. you recall when he mocked the reporter for the new york times with physical disabilities. this has been unrelenting. what he s counting on is he can intimidate the press. and by the way, not so much individual reporters. he wants to intimidate the corporate leaders of large corporations that control most of the major national distribution. and that s his game. it s two fold. one is to call attention away from the investigation, which you pointed out, continues on now. to call attention away from the investigation. and secondly to cause intimidation. you were a man who a forensic psychiatrist later found to be distrust and suspicion of the news media do you think this president is putting journalists
mcmaster into public and fight against his colleagues to the air waves and print press. that he became so emboldened by what he view as the soulmate agreement with donald trump on the instincts for all of these efforts to blow up everything the republican party has ever stood for, including its history as the party of lincoln. i think that none of those things were a part of why he got fired. he didn t get fired because he believed in the ugliest things about donald trump. he got fired because he took his civil war against other senior staffers to the airways and made it public. i m curious what happens now with steve bannon hold that thought. kristen welker joining us now, live in bed minister. i understand we ve got a statement from the white house chief of staff? reporter: craig this is the first official statement we re getting and it s from the press secretary. let me read it to you and we can analyze it on the other side. john kelly and steve bannon have
those anti-journalism voices are getting louder these days, because they are being amplified by so many prominent politicians. media outlets producing real news need to we need it. this is a pro journalism point of view. when i make a mistake, don t challenge a guest enough or cut them off, your e-mails, i get them. they help me improve but it s not constructive, pro journalism to promote resentment and hatefulness of journalists. not what the governor of maine said the other day. i just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they write these stupid stories. it s just so stupid, it s awful. i m sorry. i tell you, the sooner the print press goes away, the better society will be. that is an anti-journalism mentality.
stupid stories. he also claims the sooner the print press goes away, the better off society will be. a newly discovered photograph has people buzzing about an 80-year-old mystery. the disappearance of amelia earhart. she vanished while trying to become the first female pilot to fly around the world, but the history channel investigators say the photographic evidence they found suggests that earhart and her navigator survived their final flight after crash landing in the pacific. cnn s jeanne moos has more. reporter: whether you low-key it there is a new clue. reporter: or hype it. it will blow the lid off the whole amelia earhart story. reporter: this 80-year-old mystery never gets old. amelia mania is back, as the history channel presents new evidence for an old theory. she may have been held prisoner by the japanese. backed up by a photo that purports to show amelia earhart alive, sitting on a pacific island jetty in 1937. and this may or may not be her