this threatens to be an all-out civil war threatening the heart of ethiopia, which is also the seat of the african union. of course we saw a sign there in the crowd. there s a big effort to say this isn t happening. i m getting those tweets on my twitter account. people there denying that there is any problem at all, and we saw that anti-cnn sign there, and they re doing that to other news organizations. so what is that about? who s pushing that? reporter: there is an insane amount of propaganda, rosemary, on both sides of this conflict. i ve only recently been in ethiopia, and i saw the anti-cnn, anti-western sentiment that has built up in the country, very much pushed by the government, by government news agencies, by senior government officials and by the prime minister himself. that is why you saw there s been protests recently in major
it can also be true that not all reporters behave in the same way at the same time as other reporters do. it can be true that the white house is under some serious fire and facing real questions now about pulling this credential, something that s frankly an extraordinary move that cnn has real concerns about. indeed all of those things are true. the reality is that this could possibly be the new normal. that s what that s not okay. that s why the lawsuit is actually happening. the reality is we re not that surprised when you look at the narrative between cnn and donald trump. it was going to get here at some point. while donald trump wants this fight because it does work well with his base who is very anti-media and specifically anti-cnn, ultimately this is not what s best for democracy. after the break we re going to continue the conversation we ve been having regarding the potential for another shakeup coming to the president s cabinet. kirsten nielsen, the homeland securit
democrat and as a latino. and what i am also not shy about is calling out dog whistle politics. this is dog whistle politics at its worst. days after we had a tragic shooting in pennsylvania, less than a week after you have an arrest of someone in that scooby-doo van. with the anticnn. and the other things. when you create a climate as this president has created that invites violent acts, you should never be surprised when you have violent acts. and the american people are tired of it. that s why they know that we need guardrails in washington. we need guardrails in our governor s residence. that s why i m confident we re going to do really well in electing democrats here in washington and across the nation. i ve been scanning the races. i see what s going on in health care. i see why you re banking that s resonant.
this guy is clearly a lunatic. rachel: his cousin actually said he was on steroids for a long time. his brain has melted. that he has always been volatile. we know that he actually attempted or had some bomb threats back in 2002. so we know he is crazy. he had a long criminal rap sheet as you say. his fingerprints were in this fbi national data base and that s how he largely got caught. the president is hearing people on the left immediately attacking him saying that this man, this suspect was living out of a van, had his maga hat. had these bumper stickers on there pro-trump, anti-cnn and the rest. the president is saying let s focus on what a great job the law enforcement did catching him in a matter of days rather than focusing on what the media wants you to focus on. as you know the suspect has been captured. great job. this is finding truly a needle in the haystack when you think about it. political violence must
see will be in the district of his arrest. first he ll see a judge down there where they ll read him his rights, get him a lawyer, make sure he understands the charges against him and then talk about bail, which he obviously won t be getting in this case. we have to talk about the van, the van that the fbi tossed the blue tarp over, littered with pro republican, anti-cnn, anti-democrat, what this will help investigators learn about his motives in coming up. we re watching and waiting for this department of justice news conference where we should learn more about the details, how they got him, got him so quickly, charges, any kind of new details the public can glean from all of this and hopefully the fact that this was it and he was acting alone. you re watching cnn special coverage here on this friday afternoon.