the quiz kwchris cuomo joins us. happy thanksgiving eve to you. there is no tragic news, i m grateful to work with smart and good people like you and christine. what about cammarata? i tell alisyn how beautiful and grateful i am ever morning. don t worry, christine. we re going to have more on donald trump s sitdown by the new york times. this was interesting because this is on the record. that s the way the times does. .tv executives, that was leaked out with a bunch of reporters in the room. interesting insight he gave to the times. for those like you at home in terms of curiosity, but
we have to talk about this meeting yesterday at the the new york times. the on, off, on again meeting. totally unexpected not just because the day before in the off-the-record meeting with tv executives things got pretty nasty. but he s seemed to have softened his stances. i want to point out the list that he s apparently softening. keeping parts of obamacare which is he vowed to repeal. wall with mexico. tense of feet of concrete. might now be fencing. one thing he said in the debate that he was going to appoint a special prosecutor. now he says he s not going to prosecute hillary clinton. he also said he s going to open up libel laws and climate change. remember, he said that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by the chinese. now, i want to read to you this
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this was put together we all remember trump s anti-media crusade during the campaign. and trump has long-term relationships with tv executives and anchors. he s a creature of new york media. this meeting was to set a new tone and establish what it s going to be like going forward. you recall there s been some issues about lack of media access to trump. for example, the so-called press pool that is not always been with him when he travels around either around new york or other places. well, according to a source that was in the meeting, there was real progress made on that issue of media access. don t know much more than that. so far, like i said, journalists respecting the off-the-record agreement. so our viewers know at home, it s not unusual or unprecedented for journalists to meet with presidents or presidents-electricity off the record. it happened last night when president obama was talking back from peru, he talked to journalists off the record, which means they can t share w
this is how donald thinks. that kind of conflict had so many people watching. brian stelter has a look at the ratings. brian stelter, what did you find? hey, brooke, yes. the ratings are just in for last night s debate and we are seeing overwhelming interest in this presidential election cycle the likes of which tv executives have not seen in years. to put it into perspective, the final debate of tagt obama/mccain reaches 56 million viewers, 2012, obama and romney is 59 million viewers. last night, according to nielsen, is 30 million viewers. that defies the trends in tv. the audience is fracturing into pieces but that s not the case of these debates. they have reached record audiences. the first trump/clinton faceoff reached 84 million viewers so this debate couldn t top that