it s clear why americans can t agree on impeachment. we re getting our news from different sources and it s making it hard for us to agree on basic facts. congressional approval rating was 17% and americans don t trust the media networks to tell them the truth. the media networks didn t do us any favors by missing the reason donald trump became our president in the first place. if you turn on cable network news today, you would think he s our president because of some combination of russia, racism, facebook, hillary clinton, and emails all iks manimixed togeth. but americans around the country know different. we blasted away 4 million manufacturing jobs that were primarily based in ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri. i just left iowa. we blasted 40,000 manufacturing jobs there. the more we act like donald trump is the cause of all of our problems, the more americans lose trust we can actually see what s going on in our communities and solve those problems. what we have
testifying under oath so we can make up our mind. if we want republican senators to do the right thing, we need their constituents to see the truth on tv and tell them, get ready of this guy or we ll get rid of you. that s what i believe in. i m a believer in the grassroots as an outsider getting the american people s voice to count. that s who i trust. and that s who i trust now. mr. yang. [ applause ] it s clear why americans can t agree on impeachment. we re getting our news from different sources and it s making it hard for us even to agree on basic facts. congressional approval rating, last i checked, was something like 17%. and americans don t trust the media networks to tell them the truth. the media networks didn t do us any favors by missing a reason why donald trump became our president in the first place. if you turn on cable network news today you would think he s our president because of some combination of russia, racism, facebook, hillary clinton, and emails all mixe
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respond to that and like that. and we ve seen that at rallies as well when we go now following him as the president, but also when he was a candidate. if he turns his ire on the media, that gets the crowd ginned up. if he follows on that and we, of course, in the media broadly reject it. as jeff was saying, it does resonate. trump seems to be hitting a nerve. general distrust of the media. a poll this summer shows some 68% of americans don t trust the media. why do you think that is? well, it s a little bit of a chicken and an egg i was just about to say that. the distrust was already there. the president has very much used that to build and solidify his base of support. i m sure that distrust among that base is higher than it was before, but this is something that was already there for him to take advantage of. he exploited this in the
it, fake, phony and failing. so joining me is jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters and blake. good afternoon to both of you. good afternoon. jeff, this was one of the things we saw seamlessly carry over from the campaign to the presidency. really an us versus them attitude and a fixation on pitting the media as the opposition party. why do you think trump feels like he needs to do this. i think president trump likes to have a foil, and i think he s used the media as a foil consistently throughout his political short political career and before that which he has acknowledged. and something that he s gone back to over and over since coming into the white house and no doubt will continue to do. it s something that also resonates well with his base, when he attacks the media and uses that fake news moniker. many people who voted for him and who are following him closely on twitter really