Assured destruction. This isnt the baron versus donald trump. This appears to be the entire white house and the entire world versus donald trump ability to be president of the United States. When you look at it as a salacious book that is so tabloid and what is this guy is fired and what is he saying. Do you really care. The president cares and he had packet author Michael Wolff. Because they talk about big news and the big news it was the fact that so many of the people that i talk about in terms of fake news actually came to the defense of this Great Administration and even myself because they know the author and they know he is a fraud. Is the press turning on wolf and a bracing man and . How much does this become matter . Anthony security class with the annan will be here. President trump using incendiary language against north korea and the media outlaws are useful of critical commentary. Youre being cavalier in a way that makes him seem deranged and makes no help are serious allies or from the world. I dont have a problem with that. Present i think its fantastic. I think glad someone is standing up to the sky. This guy has been an international punk and bully for as an and pop. He needs to be medicated in the hospitalized at this point or he is going to kill all of us. He is not ratcheting up north korea. North korea is ratcheting things up. North korea is testing icbm. Is truck going too far or is that the verdict by the pundits . President also taking a lack of the new york time publishing using a gun until accusing the paper of using the sources and why he does interview with the times. Plus, to about hand dishonesty awards to the media. His biggest latenight critic is already lobbying. Nothing gives you more credibility than donald trump calling you a liar and i, of course, dont want to get snubbed. Paul the president tries will have an impact or entertainment. Im howard and this is media buzz. Howard president hit both friday in a to talk. Michael wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell the bowling and onto public and used floppy steve fanon who cried when he got fired and begged for his job and now sloppy steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad. Fanon who runs breitbart responded with praise for the present while the white house mounted a tough campaign against him and against wolf. He is a great man and i support him day in and day out. The president is saying will allies that he didnt have the axis you had. Would you release those reporting center credibility is being questioned . My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has worked on earth at this point. I guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and was one of those things and that is quite sloppy steve is now looking for a job. Howard joining us now to analyze the coverage is White House Correspondent for bloomberg news. Gail who works for townhall. Com on the hill and mo, former democratic strategist who runs georgetowns institute of politics and fox news contributor. Shannon, hes done a denunciation of steve fanon and its a juicy story, lots of layers of gossip, but is it political important . I guess i will be up to voters in 2018 and 2020. The way this news cycle goes and the number of books that are planned just in creating a loan its hard to know how much life and legs this one book will have because i think there will be one tellall book after another coming out over the years. This certainly dominated the new cycle this week and this certainly gave people the impression and reaffirmed the impression that people have of the president and maybe have raised questions other people but it will only take time to tell whether this or anything else is enough to change peoples minds and if thats what they care about and its whether or not the issues. The media had did steve as been golly but since hes been fighting with present over immigration and roy moores candidacy, jared in a bunker, it seems that the more the media were embracing them yes, i think youre right. Theres been a chart of the media has built up steve fanon you look at this and they were so Much Negative city about steve fanon before he left the white house and now you see the media seems like there embracing him and using him as a foil against the president. Howard look, if fanon is a very smart guy who knows how to build his brand but do you think all of the credible coverage youve gotten could have emboldened him to say that he was untouchable . I think its a little i think it is off to play the media for building up putting up steve fanon. As a candidate donald trump built him up. No one took him president can seriously. [inaudible conversations] he made them the chief strategist of his white house. Go back to history and people that hold the position are serious people who are the president gives you that title, of course, youll be taken seriously. Howard was it a dumb idea for Donald Trumps lawyer to send a ceaseanddesist letter to the publisher to stop publication and obviously it didnt stop application and set a new wave of coverage. It did not work. It fueled a little bit of the flames of the story of now if the president trying to suppress a book and is us a free speech issue. Howard also in part because libel laws are too weak and he really went after this book right. This is a pattern. Many news organizations, bloomberg included, received over years letters from President Trump or then trump the businessman about things we did not like and threatening legal action and one of my colleagues wrote a book that then businessman trump suit him over so its part of a pattern and i dont think it was a surprise for any of us to see it. Thats what he does is not just the white house. A number of journalists have taken on Michael Wolff credibility seen over the years sources have said that he contributed to them and hes used information on the record and he admitted that he lied to bankers and to ward off making a story about his father having open heart surgery so hes taken his hit as the process for next him right, this is a surprising change to the story because as you know he does not have a good reputation among the media, especially in new york where he is based on a lot of his reporting was said because he hung out at a hotspot in new york and got the gossip from the other journalists and so his reporting has been very derivative and salacious and in the book he says he has a prologue saying he is taken conflicting points of view different stories. Howard and saying that some of the stories are boldly untrue right, but hes doing a case of telephone operator just reporting saba not doing the job of a journalist which now analyzing and presenting it to readers. Howard but in fairness, steve bannon has not disputed these quotes committed to him and hes had a lot to say on this topic about fanon. Steve tends to be worth the media which he calls the Opposition Party that he spent his time at the media leaking false information to the media to make him seem far more important than he was. If that is the case he was part of the leak is white house in history and many are against the bed and. Theres no question this is the leak is white house in history. The president s were on leaking he needs to look and a lot of the least continue to. Yes, a lot came from and when he was in the white house but its not like weve heard its coming from somewhere in the white house. Sure, but there are a lot and white house. And that is fair but steve bannon is not disputed any of the things that he said. Even if as most journalists are saying you should look at this book skeptically because of Michael Wolff background and his record in history and take some of it with a grain of salt been in his not disputed any of the quotes originated. Howard were looking at pictures got in a few minutes ago. Return the tape around the president arriving back white house after the weekend at camp david. He met with republican congressional leaders there and talked about the agenda for 2018 which is a Midterm Election years we will continue our discussion we look at President Trump. There he is getting off marine one. Well, no theres an advance percent but will see the president any moment. Again this happened a few short moments ago. Another defeat by the president we have had to break up the show as he had stew twitter, fake Mainstream Media taking off the old Ronald Reagan playgroun plak screaming mental stability and intelligence. I think the word that would qualify not smart but genius, speaking of himself, and a stable genus at that. The media response has been amazement and ridicule. The very stable genus was a new line. Hes obviously good at branding, sloppy steve, now we have a stable genus President Trump and there has been this increasing criticism mostly by democrats and in some cases by members of his own party about his mental stability. This book reopened it with people in the book questioning his fitness for president and at mean anything from Mental Fitness to physical fitness, i suppose but i think it will be an argument we will continue to see into 2018 particularly by democrats want to make his health and will know he has a physical on walter reed on friday possible we could get some additional insight. Howard cold morning in washington dc the president walking from a helicopter but liberal commentators have been making these arguments for months. We played them on the show, psychologically unbalanced, unfit, unhinged, to be fifth amendment but is President Trump giving the media fodder now by taking this on because then you can write and say the president says hes a genius and he stable and his this illustrious career and then it goes for several new cycles. You raise an important point. Just like you to rip off the show based on his current one and his ability to turn around and take and dominate the new cycle. This is reported all weekend and will go into next week and now anything President Donald Trump you think genius and so his ability to link. Howard not everyone will agree. Yes, and no but the discussion is whether or not hes a genius. Its not whether or not all these other things that were swelling around last week so he has been able to change it. He applied a nickname to himself essentially. Howard on the subject smoking mode, the president watching television so earlier today white house official steve muller was on cnn talking to incur jake tapper and he turned on his former colleague steve bannon as quote in the book grotesque and vindictive and also said that cnn is 24 hours of negative insight trump hysteria and it was a testy interview. President trump treated yeah, and what he guaranteed is that the rebroadcast of that shows ratings and no go through the roof. Howard i didnt see on anything on his questions. Yes, and i havent seen the whole interview gap there was a clip at the end where tapper was trying to ask millers several questions and muller kept in all he would do was lavish the president with abusive personal praise to the point where tapper said you were only speaking to an audience of one right now and moments later the president verified that with his tweet. I guess he doesnt just watch that news and this is that he. Howard the shows theres White House Campaign to hit bannon and hit the wall the book ahead. Anthony on the coverage of the president. When we come back a Nuclear Reaction says donald trump wants north korea leader about his bigger you wont see these folks at the post office. They have businesses to run. They have passions to pursue. How do they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. Com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. Get a 4 week trial, plus 100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. Go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. Yeah, i got some financialbody guidance a while ago. Howd that go . He kept spelling my name with an i but its bryan with a y. yeah, since birth. That drives me crazy. Yes. Its on all your email. Yes. They should know this . Yeah. The guy was my brotherinlaw. Thats ridiculous. Well, i happen to know some people. Do they listen . What . Theyre amazing listeners. Nice. Guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. Howard i sometimes say the press is Going Nuclear against President Trump that is particularly true since he tweeted about kim jongun who boasted of having a Nuclear Button on his desk. Will someone from his depleted regime please inform him that i too have a Nuclear Button but it is such a powerful than his and my butt works. Many journalists depicting that president ial tweet as inflammatory and dangerous when it comes to a potential conversation. Why is it so shocking and appalling that it is so undeniably true and i think the reaction is because they are objecting to the tone of the team. We saw this one person to point to the un and called him rocket man. There was shock and outrage and at the same time its the message in the medium is the message and hes putting that out there. Yet the media foreignpolicy expert who were satisfied with the status quo of our policy in north korea for the last two decades somehow feel the statement that is undeniably true is outrageous. Howard you are right about the tone. No president in modern history has conducted moment like this for usually every statement is carefully vetted and sanitized and scrutinized so is the press penalizing this president for taking this approach . I think a little bit. Think Foreign Policy community is as well. When you are dealing with someone who is as volatile and as narcissistic and as the north korean dictator i dont know i think the tone is important and i think that the setting if the top doctrine is size matters im not sure that is what will be productive in trying to turn things around with the north koreans or it will end up provoking them even more. Howard that is the thing theres this whole a series of tough can one between north korea we are not rooting for and theres been me to media ridicule and is that fair . Or does it go too far . I think the reason you see reporting says that this type of language is not helpful and could be harmful is because you have so many foreignpolicy experts and people who study north korea and understand the issues here who are raising big alarm bells and i am certainly not a Foreign Policy expert and im not a north korea expert when i talk to people who are foreignpolicy experts they are the ones who react in shock and outrage here. When i talk to people who are politicals and Campaign People they laugh and say this is funny in a strong leader and we like it. Were talking foreignpolicy here. To some extent during the medial acrobat. Howard but as is pointed out it didnt stop north korea from reaching this point where it has missiles that can deliver nuclear ranges and we talked about jake tapper getting criticized on twitter over his interview with white house aide Steven Muller and tapper is now leading to the interview and says judge for yourself. Shannon, dale, mo, great to see you this sunday. We had the mood on the media. Former white house aide on how the press is covering the trump bannon dus i had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. Metastatic and it spread to my bones. Time is very important when time is running out. I was looking for answers. A friend of mine suggested Cancer Treatment centers of america. I serve in the General Assembly for the state of arkansas. 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That is a pretty obvious reference to President Trump who it back on twitter. Joining us now from new york, shelby holliday, senior video reporter for the wall street journal. Shelby, the times do not apologize but it did Great Questions but his own campaign coverage. What you make of President Trump responding to ag sulzbergers letter by whacking the new publisher. He is concerned about how he is covered and he talks about the New York Times which is his hometown paper. He doesnt think they cover him fairly and this is not news to you, i know you read President Trump tweet but what the president does in treating these things is driving more people to subscribe to the New York Times does create a challenge when he is slamming books for being fake or slamming publications for being vague. They get a trump bump. The new publisher said and admitted that they got hundreds of thousands of new readers after the trump election. The president is free to say whatever they want he is the f