not about trying to stifle anyone s right to free speech. china is hitting back and commissioner silver says the league just going to have to live with the consequences. reporter: the normally savvy and socially conscious nba knew it had a pr nightmare on its hands because hours after the league appeared to side with china saying a tweet from houston rockets general manager supporting hong kong protesters was regrettable, the nba commissioner came before cameras in japan to do an about face. we are not apologizing for daryl exercising his freedom of expression. reporter: silver issued a lengthy statement saying the nba will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues. the nba pr machine went into overtime after a full court press from angry members of congress on both sides of the aisle as well as from
him on saturday night live. before she answers that question, let me just point out the anchor isn t even pretending to be independent of the white house pr machine. no longer are we doing that, right? the briefings. we are not doing that anymore. not you aren t doing that, not the administration, not the white house. but we. i mean, i guess at least she s owning it. it tells you really all you need to know about the information being dispensed each morning from that f&f crescent-shaped novelty couch. not right now. ultimately if the president decides it s something we should do, we can do that. and to be honest the briefings have become a lot of theater. and i think that a lot of reporters were doing it to get famous. they re writing books now. they re all getting famous off of this presidency. so i think it s great what we re doing now. oh, my god. ah.
secret police. he worked as a spy in east germany before the fall of the berlin wall. his first appearances on the international stage were not polished. in an early interview with cnn s larry king, the new president almost seemed to smirk when asked about the tragic sinking of the russian military submarine. tell me what happened with the submarine? translator: it sunk. reporter: the kremlin pr machine, however, was intent on remaking him. state television portrayed him as a powerful leader showing him in tightly scripted appearances as russia s commander in chief. and as a figure on the world stage. putin s image was carefully molded to portray him as the leader of a resurgent country that had risen from its knees after the humiliating collapse of the soviet union and its loss of superpower status. and putin s public image had no
it s likely he will weather this book for now. but it s the white house facing yet another book about what s happening behind closed doors. we ve become a pr machine about promoting yourself rather than the actual policy. sounds like it? what s she doing there? kate? yeah, i mean i think in a lot of ways like i said this is a trump. she s a trump family member. branding is very important. maneuvering, manipulating public immg is very important. and also quite frankly ivanka has done things within this administration, you know, tangible pushing the ball forward in the portfolio she does have and i think now is the time to talk about those things. she doesn t do it with the sort of negative energy her father does all the time. however she does share a lot of her progress, her positives on
it can be backfilled in with reality and facts. what do you think? i don t know. you play that clip of mayor guiliani, he is a former prosecutor. he acts like he has never been to a trial, right? one side tells one thing, the prosecutor tells the other thing, and the jury or grand jury decides what is true and what is not. to mark s point, you have a situation here where you have people who support the president, wanting to believe his version because they believe in him. we are coming to a showdown. rudy guiliani, u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york before he became mayor of new york, is he helping or hurting, susan, the president of the united states? he doesn t seem to be operating as the president s attorney. he is operating something like the president s pr machine, and he appears to be disconnected from the legal team. that said, every time rudy guiliani opens his mouth, it appears to generate lots and lots of negative headlines and damaging questions for