If the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what i said was very nice. Wait a minute. Im not finished. Im not finished, fake news. The press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. The public doesnt believe you people anymore. Now, maybe i had something to do with that, i dont know. As you know i have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. The media. In other words, the fake news. Any media that dislikes what hes done. Today, the president received a Double Rebuke from members of his own party. In a column for the Washington Post senator john mccain said President Trump is sending a dangerous message to the world. He wrote the while Administration Officials often condemn violence against reporters abroad trump continues his attacks on the Integrity Of American Journalists and news outlets providing cover for repressive regimes to follow suit. On the senate floor this
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frankly, what i hear in connecticut is that folks are watching msnbc. right. they re watching this show, watching other cable. they re reading at levels never before seen, and i think it is that kind of reaction that should be inspiring to many of us. also bad clowns. thank you, senator, blumenthal. eugene robinson, katie. coming up, learning more about steve bannon s bizarre testimony yesterday in the russia investigation. his attorney was on the phone with the white house in realtime with white house attorneys instructing bannon apparently on what questions he could answer and which he couldn t answer. democrats say the white house trying to gag bannon. maybe he wants to be gagged. there could be collusion between bannon and the white house. plus, it s even worse than you think. that s the title of a new book by david k. johnson about what donald trump is doing to our country, some of the secret stuff in the regulatory era we
tweets he does and the things he says. the key thing to understand is donald trump s presidency is unlike every other because instead of trying to make the country better and some failed and some succeeded at that, donald s presidency is about donald. he wants to you go oh, the great and glorious leader. thank you, donald. let s go around the table and see how much we can do to praise the glorious leader. that s not how you operate in a democratic society. you opened up your book by calling him a nar sissist. people get the wrong idea what that means. they think you think you re good looking. no, you think you re the center of the universal. that s what it is. donald s narcissism unlike that of the mythical narcissus has so far done him very well, got him all the way to the white house. what do you think are his deepest values. his soy hole word about the poor countries i m going to close the show tonight by saying he judges people by the value of the real estate they live in.
father. you know. because he s. it s difficult to know how much of this is deliberate toward a political end and how much of this is just donald trump. he trafficked in wild ridiculous con spiry theories long before he became a politician. this is who he is on some level. he s willing to believe this stuff. how can he say things all i know is what i read in the national enquirer. he s saying his iq is about 3? why would you say you believe all that stuff? senator, explain that. you must have some trump voters in connecticut? we have a fair number of trump voters in connecticut. what do they make of this clown show? i think that dismissing it as a clown show is a disservice to how threatening and how dangerous it really is because it is undermining angkor rosive to our democracy. and the real threat here is that people will lose faith although
good leaders talk about people. they root for people no matter their condition. some very good leaders root for those people that have it the hardest all the harder. bobby kennedy whom i just wrote a book about made a point of exploring places where poor people live, the mississippi delta where kids with distended stomachs barely survived on a diet of molasses. families of california workers where their employers refused to let them organize. native americans living on reservations. he learned what he could. imagine walking in their shoes and called those conditions unacceptable in this country. what a far cry from this president who simply dismisses such people from human consideration. my book is bobby kennedy a raging spirit, now ten weeks on the new york times best seller list. the president we have is donald trump. close to a year in office but not a step closer to learning his duty to all the people either those who live on a block along fifth avenue nor hold a