complete lack of understanding of the white house about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media. do you see how nice someone is to them? the criticism of the media side, for the most part president trump dial back his razor-sharp political attacks last night denouncing the mail-imgs, urging people to settle their disagreements peacefully. we can peacefully settle our disagreements at the ballot box pay some democrats insisted it is not the media to blame, but the president, john brennan was a target at one of the mail. his rhetoric, too frequently fuels these feelings and sentiments that are now bleeding over into potentially acts of violence. the white house press secretary sarah sandoz fired back that the president and nothing to do with her threats. the president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone, no more than bernie sanders was responsible for a supporter of his shooting up a republican
responses. because, again, i don t have that weight on my shoulders now. i have a very vibrant organization that truly provides the kind of information and the help that is needed. so, there, ben carson raising expectations for his own performance on thursday night. what you have here are two can days not doing too well in polls. rand paul is hovering around 4% in new hampshire and iowa. ben carson is doing a little better in iowa, high single digits but low single dimgs in new hampshire, despite having been a front-runner for several months. we reached an inflexion point in these two races. we ll have to see on thursday night if ben carson lives up to his own high bar he set in that interview and if rand paul really does decide not to show up for that second-tier debate. we ll see. athena jones reporting live for us. thank you. still to come in the newsroom, i ve got nothing to hide. sean penn defending his secret