Later, on her own program suggesting they weren t really trump supporters. let s discuss with the director of the school of media and public affairs at george washington university, frank sezno. he s also a former cnn washington bureau chief. frank, what do you make of tonight s events? there s been so much that s come forth. i think we re going through an enormous documentation about how deep this went, how people close to the president were alarmed, panicked over this and pleading with the president to do something. i was really struck by jonathan carl s comments a few moments ago that what this shows is the great swirl around the president, fundamentally that he tuned out to his son or anyone, for him to speak out and push back. it shows that this was deeper and far more dangerous than most people realized and so many on the right continue to believe, or at least portray as reality. well, he shouldn t have needed to be told to do something to try and quell what was going on. i
School of media and public affairs at george washington universi university, the author of ask more. hey, frank, let s remind folks, you were the cnn bureau chief during the intern scandal. so you ve had some dealing with this type of an issue. sure. we heard from the clinton house all the time. they had a special adviser in to dump documents on fridays when we were trying to ride the news cycle. i got calls from people at the white house screaming that we were covering something in the wrong way or unfairly. look, candidates and politicians want to spin their message. and it s gotten harsher and more public. but you have to go where the story goes and sometimes that means asking or re-asking questions that the politicians and others would like you to leave alone other wise. you can t do that. so how specifically should members of the media respond to the allegations about hunter biden? look, the president of the
Own voters. welcome back to morning joe . it is monday, october 8th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle. political writer for the new york times and msnbc political analyst nick confess ore. robert costa. and director of the school of media and public affairs at george washington university frank sisno is with us this morning. gosh, we can go a lot of different ways, joe. great to have frank on board this morning to take a look at the media throughout the past few weeks. we were talking about that. also talking about the republicans gloating. let s put up really quickly a couple of examples of republicans gloating about actually getting supreme court justice nominated and through the process. lindsey graham said i m not tired of winning.
Opponents are clearly hoping this means he could pay a real price for all of those things that he s called fake news. don? tom foreman, thank you very much. i want to bring in dylan byers now, a cnn senior reporter for medium politics, rebecca berg and frank sesno, director of the school of media and public affairs at george washington university and the author of ask more, the power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions and spark change. good evening to all of you. mr. sesno, you first. the president said again and again he has said that russia s a hoax, it s fake news. then all the russian meetings were disclosed, the don jr. e-mails published showing the suspect line presidential election. story after story it s been proven true. how can the president still claim he is the victim of fake news? he can t. he does because he can say the words. he can t claim he s a victim of fake news.
Happened. reporter: as now press secretary sara huckabee sanders said earlier this year, it s hard to make a comment on something that never happened. but now members of the president s team are admitting there were meetings with russians despite all of those denials. and some of the president s opponents are clearly hoping this means he could pay a real price for all of those things that he s called fake news. don? tom foreman, thank you very much. dylan buyers is a cnn senior report are for medium politics, rebecca berg and frank sesno, director of the school of media and public affairs at george washington university and the author of ask more, the power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions and spark change. good evening to all of you. mr. cessna, you first. the president said again and again he has said that russia s a hoax, it s fake news. then all the russian meetings were disclosed, the don junior e-mails published showing the