deflect suspicion that its campaign had been involved in the russian backed wikileaks operation. it all started in may when fox news published an online article alleging that the young dnc staffer who was killed for leaking he was killed for leaking internal dnc e-mails to wikileaks. though d.c. police say this poor young man was killed in a completely unrelated botched random robbery. fox news retracted the piece a week later saying it did not meet the network s editorial standards. at issue is whether president trump was aware of the article after sean spicer met with some of the people involved, including a long trump supporter. spicer said he met with the men but denied that the president or other white house officials were also involved. yesterday s press briefing, glen thrush pressed sarah huckabee sanders about the lawsuit. take a listen. did the president know about the story prepublication and did he have an influence on the way
hanging in the balance, the white house is looking for other legislative victories, and this afternoon, he will turn his attention to immigration. the president is set to meet with victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants in order to push the house passed a pair of immigration bills tomorrow. one that would cut off federal funding for century city s and the other would invoke tougher penalties against previously reported criminals and is named after kate steinle who is killed by an illegal immigrant who has. had previously been deported five times. julie? julie: and what is the white house thing about all of the contention in the briefing? we should point out that it is normal for there to be a contentious relationship between the press and the white house, but it has taken an unprecedented intern avoid as we sat yesterday s press briefing. take a lesson. if the media can t be trusted to report the news, then that is a dangerous place for america. anyone of us, right,
yesterday s press briefing was on camera. a good portion was to attack the press and unfairly do it. is this about the president needing an enemy? yeah, in part, don, it is. i mean it is an attempt to discredit the news media which, at times, when reporting what is happening, could be critical of the trump administration, of the president himself, and the facts may not stack up exactly how he likes them. so if he engages in a campaign to discredit the news media, then his supporters will trust much more in his twitter feed than they will the facts of the matter being reported by the news. the other piece of this is to stoke his supports. this is something that he has dipped in the well on many, many times. to take on the press, take on the mainstream media in a way to get his supporters more wound up and excited to support him. this is a very convenient foil
administration, it s being held in a federal building. so yeah, and that s where kaitlyn collins is standing right now, jim. hey, listen, i want to get david real quick. david, let s talk more about this whole thing with the press. yesterday s press briefing was on camera. a good portion of it was to attack the press. and unfairly do it. is this about the president needing an enemy? reporter: yeah, in part, don, it is. i mean, it is an attempt to discredit the news media which at times when reporting what is happening could be critical of the trump administration, of the president, himself, and the facts may not stack up exactly how he likes them. so, if he engages in the campaign to discredit the news media, then his supporters will trust much more in his twitter feed than they will in the facts of the matter being reported by the news. the other piece of this is, of course, to stoke his supporters. i mean, this is this is something that he has dipped in
between the kentucky derby and the weather. on the first page? joe biden s comments on meet the press two days later now about being absolutely comfortable with gay marriage. all press secretary jay carney was asked about yesterdays press briefing and his answers weren t necessarily revealing. as you know, he said his views on this were evolving. his personal views were evolving. i would say his views are oh involving. i don t have an update for you. i don t have an update to provide you. i have no update to give you on it. the president expressed his views. he did. no. the spokesperson said that. i don t have an update to provide you on the president s position. it is what it was. you know, one other thing to keep in mind, one thing jay carney did say, the president is against this referendum that s taken place in north carolina and was noted, he s the, the president now is against bans on