attack, telling his followers that a stench surrounded main stream reporting. we ll dig into the federal complaint with nbc s tom winter in just a moment. but joining us now, msnbc contributors, jc wall, michael steel joins us, a former chairman, now msnbc political analyst. thank you all for joining me today. i m going to start with you, tracey. just from a security standpoint, how often does the speaker or high-ranking public officials, the speaker, the president, the vice-president, the leader of the senate, how often do their families get threadened by people? how often are the families at risk? so that s an excellent
trusting real reporting. i think you might say we deserve it right? the simple fact is this. there has been an agenda against roy moore in the state of alabama going back a decade. why in the world would people believe the things said if it s always negative over and over and over and over again? that weaponizes the term fake news. you guys have to look inside your own house to make that conversation. because the bottom line is this. people don t trust you guys and the reason they don t trust you is because you are constantly telling them they are wrong, they are stupid, they are racists and then we re saying listen to us you wrong, stupid and racist people, it s not going to work, they don t trust you guys. when you say they don t trust you guys, i think what you mean is there s a percentage of the country primarily conservative who for years and decades have just trusted the press who do not trust main stream reporting. it is not a majority of the country. it s a pretty big num