constituents wishes actually have an impact on them because that s literally what their jobs are. thank you. there might be something else going on with what we just heard. he s calling his colleagues like chicken basically. spineless. yeah, yeah. it s almost as if these trying to goad them into action. you think there s more than one thing going on here. there might be more than one thing going on here as there usually is with this sort of thing. to erin s point, they don t have the spine so drink more milk and be more conservative. let s calcify the backbone of the republican congress. what spine? if you re constituents are saying we want those protections and you re supposed to be representing them. i believe it s called the house of representatives, then you re supposed to do what they re asking you to do. so what he s talking about? what i love about what s going on is people are i don t care whether they re republican or democrat, i really don t. they re gettin
i completely agree with nick when he says that we re not the story, the story is the story and we shouldn t be distracted and focus too much attention on the attacks on the press as we are still able to do our job. we need to focus on dhs, what we were talking about, the migrant ban, russia, all these other important things. like nick i ve covered authoritarian regimes all over the world. i spent seven years based in china and was detained by authorities six times. what i hear from trump reminds me a lot of hugo chavez in venezuela. is that fair? is that really fair? yes. as compared to the abuse of the justice system? what i was going to say about chavez, is chavez came to power, democratically elected, then he used democratic institutions, he used democracy to subvert democratic institutions. you re not alleging i m not trying to cut you off i m just saying clearly he s not done that. you re not alleging that level. absolutely not.
panicked tone is not that of a strong bully but much more of someone worried about who will call them out and what evidence might be piling up. in my experience, a good signal for reporters is that if a government is desperate to suppress a story and is busy denouncing it or trying to block reporters from covering it, then one s journalistic instinct should be to go uncover that. if they try to bully you, that s the signal to charge ahead. i hope that we in the media will do i mean, they ve been trying to kill this russia connection story. they tried to politicize the cia and get cia officials to criticize the story. and that should be our red flag to march on ahead and dig up what they don t want covered. two journalists with a lot of experience here, nicholas kristof and indira lakshmanan. thank you for joining us. i want to break down donald
lot of technical issues that were brought up by the court and those will be addressed. mr. miller must be new at this because by admitting that they re bringing out basically the same policy he makes it more likely judges will just block the new ban just like they blocked the old one. challengers barely need the aclu when they have steven miller speaking off the cuff on live tv. and that whole fight is about whether the ban is blocked while it s ultimately tested in court. let s be clear. the supreme court could uphold the ban. but legal or not, the big news tonight is about this white house reaction which does suggest something more troubling for national security, an administration that appears at this hour uninterested in the facts even when gathered by their own national security experts at dhs. joining me now on this important story, washington columnist for the boston globe, nicholas khristof pulitzer prize winner from the new york times and
that s why i m saying we should focus on doing our job and doing it correctly. nobody is being locked up in this country, nobody is being prevented from doing journalism. let s calm down for a moment here. got it. if it gets to the point where something more serious is happening, then we re talking about something that s a whole different ball game. at this point we can focus on the story and not try to get distracted so much about navel gazing about media. we should be talking about the facts of what s happening under this administration. i think your point is very well taken. i want to read from the ceo of foreign policy magazine. the russia cover-up story and the media lockout story are the same story. administration hunkering down for the scandal that will end it. i want to be clear. you know, that is speculative what he s saying but it s also fascinating because what he s arguing is the rigor, the almost