communication. kennedy: jim acosta needs to eat a ham sandwich because it was like his sugar was low. people like that need to get a grip on themselves. unfortunately, we ve lost all sense of reality and rationalism. yes, we do need to hold the white house accountable regardless of who the occupant is, but also, the press needs to be somewhat objective. trish: i watch these and i think, what are we getting about this? melissa: entertainment. trish: yes, but as a nation nation? aside from the tv thing, is it worth it for the administration? melissa: i m not making a joke. i think this is why the press corps wants them, they know it s fodder for the whole rest of the day. they want the content, and has nothing to do with trying to serve the public maybe some. it mostly has to do with you get addicted to the content even though they claim they re not getting the answer to their
clearly. there are, carney, you re terminated. s a stay la vista, baby. will rt. s that awesome. there s that. and then also team trump says op presser is coming. a press conference. they ve said that three times. remember the one about new intel on russia is going to happen, today, yesterday? we ll see. the one on how trump is going to fix his conflicts, crickets. cnn senior media correspondent brian is here and bill carter. let s start with the most important question. brian, what did you think of the terminator and how do you like the new tag line? i love the new tag line. me, too. he also used the get to the chopper reference. this is all of arnold schwarzenegger s greatest hits. such a made for tv thing. isn t it? we ve got the former reality tv star taking office. the former office holder taking over his show. nbc couldn t have scripted this more perfectly. i think he could have used a
whether trump tv was really for if he lost or for if he won, frankly, and his ability to get out what he would think is his message. you see that with breitbart, pushing along donald trump s strategy, his platforms, pushing back against his critics, they ve got this facebook tv thing they ve been doing. so this could be the start of them trying to understood cut and diminish the american free press which is a problem. two big questions here. this tulcy gaber, an ally of bernie sanders, an independent thinker. what do we know about this meeting? what s interesting about this is that you have some democrats saying, is there common ground we can find with him? i m sorry, we re going to take our audience to san antonio, texas. there s a manhunt going on right now for an individual, police say shot ambush style shot and attacked an officer with a
donations in particular. and i know by now you have heard that donald trump did this facebook live video thing in conjunction with the debate and people have been talking about it as trump tv, there s been funny jokes about it looking like a mix of qvc and authoritarian state television from somewhere you never visited. i know you ve heard all of that. but what you may not have heard was this trump tv thing after the debate, 30 minutes before, 90 minutes after, it was a huge success. serious, serious. they say that they had millions of people tune in and watch that stream. that s essentially unverifiable from an outside perspective. but the numbers to see who was watching, the counter they had online. it seems totally plausible that over the course of the two hours of coverage they did get millions of people to tune in. what we have official numbers on, though, is another metric that is maybe even more important if this is the first draft of what s going to happen next.
about it. there s trump tv, funny jokes about it looking like a mix of qvc and authoritarian state television from somewhere you ve never visited. i know you ve heard all that. what you may not have heard is that this trump tv thing they did at the debate, 30 minutes before, 90 minutes after, it was a huge success. serious, serious. they say that they had millions tune in. it s unverifiable from an outside perspective. we saw the numbers of people simultaneously watching at any one time, the counter on line. it seems plausible that over the course of the two hours of coverage they did get millions to tune in. what we have official numbers on, though, is another metric which is maybe even more important if this is the sort of first draft of what s going to happen next. and what we ve got official numbers on is money. the amount of money they raised from those ads asking for donations from people who tuned in to watch the trump campaign s