Media, if people dont believe us. One of the reasons they dont believe us is because of the way the last election was covered, which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. That is not surprising given that there is no politically diversity in the press corps. Politico did a study on this. How many registered republicans in the White House Press corps . Zero. Thats a huge problem, dont you think . Im a registered independent. I think it is important to be neutral when you are covering politics in the white house. Tucker do you i agree with you. You think of the people covering the white house are objective . I do. We went to read their twitter feeds . I cant speak for every member of the association. s i think it is very important to be neutral. I think it is important to report the facts, it is important to report robustly with the president is doing. I think you should do that regardless of whether the president is a republican or a democrat. Tucker i agree with th
Leaders late today to finally lay out his strategy to defeat isis, ahead of tomorrows prime time address to the nation, one year to the day of his last one, raising the stakings for a president facing pressure from the u. S. Congress to start an air campaign. We need to go after the terrorists no matter where it is. Anybody who thinks this is an iraqsyria problem, isnt paying any attention to whats happening around the world. The president has stopped short of demanding an actual vote perhaps because gettingtho harder given the president s standing. When asked if hes a strong leader, 55 say no, 43 say no. For how the president s fared, 42 percent say its a success, 54 say isles a failure. Strong backing of potential u. S. Air strikes against insure negligents in syria. 65 supporting and 28 opposing. Because this president has always been a reluctant warrior. Promising to pull away the idea of any military action, no matter how limited is not going to be pop lar. Popular. I have spent 4
Fake news. And they are sitting and they are wishing in washington. They are watching right now. They are watching. And they would love to be with us right here tonight. But they are trapped at the dinner, which will be very, very boring. But next year, maybe we all make it more exciting for them in washington. We will show up. We have a good chance of showing up here again next year, too. Tucker will he make that dinner great again . Meanwhile, at the dinner itself, White House Correspondents Association president jeff mason used his speech to complain about the president s treatmente of the press. Watch. Tonight looks a littlepl different. But the values that underpin this dinner have not changed. In fact, i think they have been reinforced. D we are here to celebrate good journalism. We are here to celebrate the press, not the presidency. And i am happy to report, for anyone who is interested, that this dinner is sold out. Our job to report on facts and to hold leaders accountable, t
Msnbc are fake news. Fake news. And they are sitting and they are wishing in washington. They are watching right now. They are watching. And they would love to be with us right here tonight. But they are trapped at the dinner, which will be very, very boring. But next year, maybe we all make it more exciting for them in washington. We have a good chance of showing up here again next year, too. Tucker will he make that dinner great again . Meanwhile, at at the dinner it, White House Correspondents Association president jeff mason used his speech to complain about the president s treatment of the press. Watch. Tonight looks a little different. But the values that underpin this dinner have not changed. In fact, i think they have been reinforced. We are here to celebrate good journalism. We are here to celebrate the press, not the presidency. And i am happy to report, for anyone who is interested, that this dinner is sold out. Our job to report on facts ande, that is who we are. We are not
Americans were not thinking about iran but now suddenly we were on the brink of war. In washington, thats considered an upgrade. Its harder to get rich and powerful during peace time so our leaders have a builtin bias for war. So they decided on Television Studios over the weekend to describe in detail the type of violence they are prepared to wreak on a country very few of them know about. Here is senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina. If the iranians hit american targets and american allies, we will respond militarily. If they hit us again, i would not want to be working at an iranian oil field because i think the president is determined to bring this regime to its knees if they continue to be provocative. Tucker meanwhile the secretary of state mike pompeo assured supporters that the the escalation with iran and suggested that the u. S. Might bomb dozens of sites within the u. S. Itself. President trump saying there are 52 sites that the u. S. Would target if iran retaliates. How