Democrats, 2027488000. For all others, 2027488002. We welcome your comments on facebook as well. Showing you some of the rally from melbourne. We want to start with thithe tweet that got some notice. That is where our question is coming from this morning. The president returning to that theme in his rally yesterday in melbourne, florida. Here is a look at the wall street journal reporting this morning. The president bushs back after a rocket for weeks into a sound that has largely been on the defensive. Trump on donald saturday launched a broadside against his critics in front of thousands of supporters who sent him to the white house. I am here because i want to be among my friends and my people, mr. Trump said. And amon the people, mr. People, mr. Trump said. The question for you this morning, is the media the enemy of the people . Trump returns to campaign after a month in office. A look at the large crowd that was gathered in melbourne, florida, about 100 miles north or so of maralago, where the president is for the weekend. Thousands of cheerful supporters in an airport hangar. Your thoughts. Is the media the enemy of the people . To st. Louis, we hear from stephen on our independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I dont believe the media is an enemy of the people, but what i will say for the first time, and i am 69 years old, for the first time in following elections, president ial elections, i am go throughi can other channels and get viewpoints and different perspectives, and it is a bit disturbing to me. Number one, we need a free press. We need that. It is very important. That is where hopefully we will get the truth. I am an advocate of the First Amendment and free speech. Is it seems too many stations, no matter what President Trump would do, there is never any they never delve into something good he has done. They never will. Majordo you think the newspapers, major media newspapers, television are harder President Trump than barack obama a month into his presidency . Caller maybe he brought some of this on himself because he is different. I know he is not a politician. He never will be a politician. But i just think that it would be refreshing once in a while to see some of the media, some of the tv stations, to give the guy in accolade once in a while. Ok . If he is screwing up, go after him. Let the public know. I do not buy into the fake news as much as everybody else, but i just have never seen such cablevity on the major channels, even local channels. That is my comment. I just have not seen anything positive. Host list go to new york city and here next from mark on our republic. An line. Caller good morning. It is very clear to me the press is not the enemy of the people. I am very concerned as a republican. I voted for donald trump. To my mind, the Trump Administration looks like it is spinning out of control with these socalled judges and the press is the enemy of the people , a distinguish admiral who refuses to take the important position in National Security council. I just am very concerned. I am having a little bit of buyers remorse about voting for trump. I did not expect that within 30 days, this kind of chaos, but also dissension and controversy. I also was not very happy about the press conference, particularly with the treatment of the reporter who spoke about antisemitism. My parents were in auschwitz. I dont appreciate that. I dont appreciate it. I think a lot of what we are seeing here is chaos. Ia state must write itself right itself. We have institutions, the press, the court will congress, and they are there for a reason. Our founders put these ideas and freedom of the press number one for a reason. Host the chaos that mark mentioned, a tweet trump mentioned yesterday. To our democrats line, we hear from georgia next. Good morning, diane. Caller hello. Yes, i would just like to say that donald trump is projecting. Storiesking up absurd and is not dealing in reality. His aides and things like that, spokespeople like conway, although i think she can actually tell reality from fantasy, but i dont know if trump can at this point. I am beginning to wonder if he does not have alzheimers. It is clear he is a narcissist. Host diane . We want to go to our republican line next in maine. Sorry, lets go to maine. Alan, are you there . Caller yes i am here. Thank you very much. Just want to point out that aside from cspan and pbs, the media basically is a captured and controlled entity. I like to call it the media propaganda sector of the empire, the overall empire, which includes six other sectors. Just dealing with the media propaganda sector. Host what do you mean by an empire or sector . Caller the empire is the ruling structure of the world now. Ne have for the first time a effectively disguised and truly global and capitalist fueled empire. Before. Ever existed it exists now in a 21stcentury. Host asking you this morning about donald trump and his view of the media in particular, calling the Mainstream Media the enemy of the people. 2027488001 for republicans. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents and all others, 2027488002. Headline this morning in the Washington Post. Reset in apts a florida rally. A florida rally. Line. Go to our republican carl in berkeley springs, west virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. All you folks know i watch this show every day. Do believe that the media, the press is far less. Left. They are still upset because they rooted so hard for hillary , as she did not win, so they are taking it out on donald trump. I would like to know, do you folks vet the people you have on your Program Every day . I was watching this guy yesterday. He has a website trying to stir up everybody to impeach the president already after 30 days. He wants to impeach the president. I was watching this guy, and he looked like a robot and acted like a robot. You can look in his eyes and realized the light was on but nobody was home. I think the guy forgot to take his meds that morning. You people were letting three out of four callers come in and agree with him. Do you have anybody that disagreed with this guy . Watch this show i show all the time, and i was disturbed by watching this program. Host i hope you would agree that we do try to bring views from all sides. Sometimes, you would your guests from one side, certainly from an antitrump side and sundays from real supporters. Our effort is to bring a balanced view in terms of the views that are out there. I hear what youre saying about yesterdays guest. I appreciate you calling. We are asking you about Donald Trumps view of the media. Will return to yesterdays rally in melbourne, florida. Here is some of what he said. [video clip] i also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. The dishonest media, which has published one false story after sources, eveno though they pretend they have them. They make them up in many cases. They just dont want to report the truth. They have been calling us wrong now for two years. They dont get it, but they are starting to get it. I can tell you that. They have become a big part of the problem. They are part of the corrupt system. Thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, and abraham lincoln, many of our greatest president s calledwith the media and them out often times on their lives. Wit lies. I will never ever let them get away with it. I will do whatever i can that they dont get away with it. They have their own agenda. Their agenda is not your agenda. Saidct, Thomas Jefferson nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. That was june 14, my birthday, 1807. Despite all their lies, misrepresentations, and false stories, they could not lea defeat us in the primaries. They cannot defeat us in the general election. We will continue to expose them for what they are, and most importantly, we will continue to win, win, win. [cheering] we are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live, or what to believe. We are free and independent people. We will make our own choices. Host all of yesterdays rally available at cspan. Org. Asking you this morning, is the media the enemy of the people . Lots of comments at twitter, too. Here is one from steve. Tom in southom carolina on the independent line. Thanks for waiting. Go ahead. Caller no problem. Thanks for accepting my call. Like during the primaries at one point where they were supporting him because he was a showman, and it were getting a lot of attention from him. I see them turn on him. Election thatthe they were very biased in favor of the democrats and against the republicans. I think they should be more objective than that. After the election, even after the third debate, president obama said he cannot concede a loss of an election. You are hurting the democracy of this country. If you do notsay want to cry at honestly dont have the temperament to be in the white house. From november 9 until today, that is all the democrats are doing, of stretching the transition, the government obstructing the transition, the government. All mr. Trump is doing is defending our country. Everything i watched before the show at the rally, you just reiterated all the troubles h just reiteratede all the troubles he has to solve. Host you think if the president rallies, to do these we mentioned his advisers are suggesting that they will do more, to you think that helps his message get out, circumvents the media so to speak . Caller i am not a prophet, but i think that i can see that is what he is trying to do. He is trying to get his message directly to the people. That people have to get together to solve the problems of the country. Earlier during the election, Bernie Sanders said it is not about donald trump, it is not about Hillary Clinton, and it is not about Bernie Sanders. It is about the people getting together. We have real problems in this country. Host thanks from your input. Lets hear from clinton, michigan next , next from debbie. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. No, i dont think the media is an enemy of the people. That is a playbook right out of Steve Bannons book. They are trying to turn it so when the media reports on them, they have this window of doubt they have created. They have been trying to create it for a while now. My message to donald trump is with all of these millionaires and billionaires in your cabinet buffett,tes and warren would put all the 1 into a pot until they have 340 million. You want to see a job plan . At the end of the day, all these corporate heads made this money on the back of the working people. Pay us that. They bailed out everybody, but they are not bailing out us. Host lets hear what the republican line has to say. We go to patricia in minneapolis. Go ahead. Caller i totally agree with President Trump. The media is the enemy of the people. You can listen to cnn. He is absolutely right. They have a real animus against him. They are feeding that they lost the last election. The missed report, ignore other stories. Democrats had three i. T. Guys that stole computers, hacked into the emails, and there is nothing on there. They make up stories. For instance, cnn gave Hillary Clinton questions for the debate. Can you imagine if that happened to a republican . Msnbc is nothing but negative spinning and twisting of everything. I hope he continues with these rallies because it is working. He is getting so much done in the white house. It is ridiculous to call it chaos. The only chaos has come from the obstruction and lighting of the media. Host some of the reporting the media has made has drawn International Attention with meetings in germany and brussels. This is an article from bloomberg about reaction from the german chancellor, angela merkel. Expressedkel respect for the media in contrast to donald trump. I stand by a free and have Great Respect for journalism, merke merkel said. More reporting from that meeting in munich. The Vice President , his first overseas trip. The headline here this morning from the New York Times. Pence promises that he was commitment to nato is unwavering. Pence toldent mike leaders that the United States of america strongly supports nato and will be unwavering in our commitment to this transatlantic alliance. While offering the assurance to european partners, alarmed by mr. Trumps rise and his rough words on russia and ukraine, europe must increase military spending in a dangerous world. If you keep faith with us under President Trump, we will always keep faith with you. Mr. Pence settlers at an annual conference, marking his first are overseas as Vice President. Back to your calls and comments. We go to jim on our republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing. Host doing fine. Caller to. Thegood. The way the journalist class is brought up through the system, crusaders ande support a onesizefitsall solution to a lot of problems, with calls for federal activism, which has created the swamp in washington. They are on the side of the swamp because they see the federal government to the solution of all the problems, whereas trump wants to decentralize the government, removes the power of the government in a lot of areas and the individuals make their own decisions. That is against general thinking of people who are in the media. Also, it is good for ratings to be fighting for the president. I think the antifront networks ump probably doing antitr networks are doing ok. Fox news is doing good in supporting the president. It is just a conundrum that we have in this country right now. I dont see anything is going to change. The democrats will not accept the fact that they lost this election because they had a bad candidate. They had an opposition candidate in trump who really had his pulse on the pulse of america. Host do you think because the president has the house and the senate and does not have a president ial campaign to run now at least for another four years, you think he really does see the media as the opposition, not only as a political opposition but a good foil for his speeches, tweets, etc. . Caller definitely. I think he is also using it as a way to try to get his fellow republicans in line. There are some really bad republicans in the senate right now that linger on the vine forever. He can get Popular Support against these people and try to get them replaced, maybe he will be able to get his view approved in the senate that he needs to enact a lot of the problems he has. I wish there was more explanation of what he is trying to do in the media. It seems they point at we will pass this, that, but they dont talk about what actually that means. The average person is left behind, especially if they do not support trump. Host do you think he needs to do more . We saw that one hour and 15 minute News Conference on friday. A lot of questions asked. Do you think he is to do more like that with the press . Pretty direct. Caller trump should have a 24 hour they should just follow him around watching everything. He is very entertaining. The more you see him, the more you understand what he is trying to do. To put up quite a negative view of him. Just follow trump and listen to what he says. He is doing a good job, actually. Host i appreciate you calling in on this sunday morning. Meet the press this morning, one of their guests will be senator john mccain, who had been overseas at the nato meetings. That is coming up this morning on meet the press. You could hear that at noon eastern on cspan radio. He was asked about this tweet by President Trump. [video clip] we need a free press. We must have it. It is vital. If you want to preserve i am very serious now. If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. Without it, i am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That is how dictators get started. That is how dictators get started with tweets like that . No. They get started by suppressing a free press. In other words, consolidation of power. The first thing dictators do is shut down the press. I am not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I am saying we need to learn the lessons of history. Host again, all of that on meet the press today. Back to your calls on President Trumps comment. Is the media the enemy of the people. Jesse, good morning on the independent line. Caller good morning. I just cant believe what im hearing. I am an 85yearold black man. I had to go back to educate myself when i was 43 years old because i was born in the south. I voted for obama onetime. I did not vote for him again. The democrats were using black people just for whatever they wanted them to come out and vote for them. Just cant believe what i am hearing. Trump is insane. This man forced himself on women. Remember jim you jones . You remember jim jones . All those people followed him. That is what we have right now. I cant believe what i am hearing. This man is insane. Host here is tony in wilmington, illinois, democrats line. Caller good morning, sir. I have to agree with President Trump. What is worrying me is this media is constantly beating this drum with russia. It seems like it is endless. They are at every angle to resort back to war with russia. There will be no winners without war. With that war. I cannot believe people watch cnn anymore because i cant. It is near impossible. It seems their angle is always at russia. That is all i have to say, sir. Host ellen is next. She is in clearwater, florida, on the republican line. Callerare the media the enemy oe people . Caller no, they are not. For trump to say that i think is a big joke. Host ok. In georgia, democrats line, go ahead. Caller thanks for taking my call. When president obama took office, the republicans said when he was being inaugurated they were going to do everything they could to stop him. For eight years, they did nothing to help him. That is neither here nor there because that is over with now. As for donald trump, he is using the media for himself. He is talking about the media is the enemy and the media is doing this. The media is repeating what is coming out of that hole in his face. They are repeating what he himself is saying. For the people to be following him with the kind of stuff what he is searching for, i believe, his attention that he did not get as a child. That is sad. If child acted the way he is acting, i would be punishing that child every day. Donald trump is a big child that is trying to grow up. I think he is mentally retarded. Host lets hear from gene in illinois. Is donald trump the enemy of the people . Sorry, is the media the enemy of the people . [laughter] caller right out of my mouth. Host my. Pas. Go ahead. Caller i believe donald trump in the entrenched senate and house of representatives is dismantling all of our Government Agencies and now discrediting the press. They have total control over what happens to our country. It is scaring the entire world. Always people who think the press is not important have to wake up because he is doing a great job of brainwashing a whole lot of people in our country. He is scaring the entire world. Creating all the millions of jobs that he said he was going to create, that is the one thing he is not doing, people. Creating jobs. A few other jobs is not a lot of jobs. Host what do you think about maycaller earlier said this actually be good for Networks Like cnn, fox. Ratings may be going up. They may actually like some of this attention. Do you think they have a stake in continuing this adversarial relationship with President Trump . Caller i think what is going on is donald trump is so inept as a president , he does not know what he is doing, so he is trying to distract the people with this rhetoric. He is a narcissist. He is trying to distract the people with the rhetoric. He is doing a great job of it. They believe whatever comes out of his mouth, even when it is a lie. Host appreciate your call, your comment. More of your calls and comments. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. For all others, 2027488002. This morning in the Washington Post, a third survey on leadership. Lincoln, washington, and the two roosevelts keep their lot on the the thirdhin poll. You can read the entire poll on our website. Men up to 43 president obama. Five in look at the top the leadership survey. Abraham lincoln receiving the top billing with george washington, pregnant roosevelt, and theodore roosevelt. Dwight eisenhower entering the top five from number eight. Barack obama entering the race for the first time ranks for the first time, obviously. We did this in 2000, 2009, and here in 2016. Atin, all of that all nine cspan. Org. Look for our conversation coming up in just under half an hour or so with our three academic advisors on that survey. Done quickly of Rice UniversityDoug Brinkley of Rice University. That is coming up at 8 00 eastern. We go to conrad and hear from pennsylvania. Good morning, republican line. Caller boy it is very difficult to get on this network. Watch this daily. I this daily. Host glad you got through. Caller me too. I was an independent before trump. I am glad you brought up this subject today because i have had a lot to say but unable to get on the network on cspan. I am a cspan junkie. I turned republican because of trumps direction. I am a vietnam veteran from 1963 to 1967. Elections, i noticed we were having protests at that time, but they were not all against the war. Some of them were against the fact that the major families that owned newspapers in this country were buying them all up. We knew what was coming, which this election has obviously made it the most important part of direction that they are controlling us. The media does control us. They kept us in that war until 1974. What i wanted to mention is some of the issues that came up. Hubert humphrey brought it against president nexeixon. He mentioned that one of his rallies that eventually in the future the Electoral College would be electing president s. He thought it was a good idea in 1968 that we eliminate the as toral college, which we see, hillary won the election by little over 1,600,000 votes, but she lost because her election people did not concentrate on the states that have the most host go back to your comments to the 1960s. You mentioned nixon and humphrey. Some people are drawing parallels to the way Richard Nixon viewed the media. Is there a similarity between how Richard Nixon viewed the media and donald trump is viewing the media . Caller mix and control government nixon controlled government. He had a good handle on what got done in government. He was a politician as the word goes. We need it this time. A total independent. We have been control, totally controlled,een totally controlled. The middle east is an example of control going back to george h. W. Bush. If we take a serious look at him and his involvement in iraq and iran now. Host we mentioned earlier mike pences meetings in munich and the nato meetings as well. A report this morning about mike pence and his wife visiting a concentration camp site in germany. The Vice President and first lady and their eldest daughter visited a camp sunday near munich, germany. They were met by the director of the foundation of memorial sites and a survivor of the camp, a jewish lithuanian who lives in israel. They walked around the camp, touring various areas. To the independent line, next. We hear from michael in california. Good morning. Caller good morning, cspan. No, the media is not the enemy of the people. This is serious stuff. Media veryns on the station to station. He loves the station that love him. The man is a buffoon run by his Vice President and advisors, will only want power. If the media is destroyed to the once that trump ha achieved, we have lost any sense of checks and balances in this country forever. Host amy is next on the democrats line. Good morning, amy. Caller good morning. The media is not the enemy of the people. That is ridiculous. They are the enemy of an authoritarian and people who have authoritarian tendencies like trump voters. Trump is dangerous, but the people that follow him are even more dangerous. I want everybody to remember that an authoritarian has to have followers. Authoritarian keeps them angry, but itup, is the follower that will go out and implement the killing of our democracy. They will stifle the media. They will commit violent acts needed to shut down the senate. Hitler did not a Single Person in the gas chamber. Thank you. Host to tennessee, jeff good morning on. Caller good morning. I would not say i follow an authoritarian. I dont remember seeing republicans out there protesting and bashing windows and her property. Fo and private property. For me personally, i see trump as someone to get government out of my life. According to your question about media being the enemy of the dont see them as the enemy of the people as much as i see that they have bias one side or the other. Depending on their political beliefs, that is how they are going to lean. An example i bring to that is Michael Flynn talking to the russians before the inauguration. The media was all over that. That was what they ran with day after day because they dont like trump and they dont like republicans. Flip side to that is, i guess with Michael Flynn i am no lawyer, i do not know if he broke the law or not, if he did, he should be prosecuted. Flip side of that is you have Hillary Clinton, who is in a very powerful position, secretary of state, broke the law by having a private server in her home. Lord knows what else she did. The media, they did not talk about it. They did talk about it, but they did not wish for investigations. They did not really go after her like they should have because of their inherent bias. When you talk about the enemy of the people, i would not go that far. That might be a stretch because that is infringing on freedom of to say my enemy, i am going to hush. That is a little bit treacherous. I believe there is inherent bias in the media more toward liberals than conservatives. Host why do you think that happens . Caller why do i think that happens . Host yes, why do you think that is . Caller if you look at the folks that are in the media, and i dont want to be perceived as being a profiler of any sort, but if you look at the folks that are in the media, they have biases. They have agendas that they personally feel are important to them. Again, youstance have van jones on cnn who served in obamas administration. Obviously, he is going to be biased towards liberal views. Host would you say also that conservatives have a pretty Good Platform in things like fox news and a number of people like Rush Limbaugh and other successful conservative talk show hosts . Caller yes, i would agree with that. I do agree that fox news, rush grim,gh, hannity, michael people like that have a conservative platform, but i would say until recently in my opinion within the last 15 years, you did not hear a lot of the conservative platform. I think a lot of that is due to the internet, the access to the internet for people to gather other sources of media that have a conservative viewpoint. People like Rush Limbaugh and fox news and the twitter and facebook. People can make up their own mind. The conservative agenda can get out there more. Host appreciate your comments. He was talking in part of his comments about Michael Flynn, the now fired National Security adviser. Politico and other news outlets reporting about donald trump today interviewing potential replacements. With cheduled to speak four candidates. Keithaster, john bolton, kaplan ared robert all under investigation. We should hear more about that today all under consideration. We should hear more about that today. Lets go to michael, independent line. Caller of course the media is biased. Look at what is happening. Hillary clinton was supposed to walk into the office. This woman was so corrupt with her foundation and everybody around her. Nobody went to jail for breaking our laws. Trump is not part of a clique put into place over decades. He is an outsider. Weve the American People have voted him in. We the American People have voted him in. We went to bed and Hillary Clinton should have walked into the house. , half of theses people in washington would be in prison. Host asking about a particular tweet on friday from President Trump. The week, he had a number of critical tweets on the media going back to last sunday when he left maralago and tweeted this. He also returned to his criticisms of the media during the News Conference late this week. Here is some of what he had to say. [video clip] i am making this presentation directly to the American People with the media present, which is an honor to have you this morning because many of our nations reporters and folks will not tell you the truth and will not treat the wonderful people of our country with respect that they deserve. I hope Going Forward we can be a little bit different and me get along a little bit better if that is possible. Maybe it is not, and that is ok, too. Unfortunately, which of the media and washington, d. C. , along with new york and los angeles speaks not for the people, but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very very obviously broken system. The press has become so dishonest that we do not talk about it. We are doing a tremendous disservice to the American People. Tremendous this service. We have t disservice. The media is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. Host is the media the enemy of the people. People . 0 lots of tweets. Thi next in jamaica plain, massachusetts, good morning democratic caller. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I think the free press is very much the friend of the people. That the reporters continue with their investigative reporting. I am very concerned about donald trump with his continued hostility toward the press. I am glad that the news is Fact Checking on a more consistent basis and immediately. Donald trump continues to say he example,lection, for by a much larger margin. I would to give an example here in boston of the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, where our wonderful boston globe reporters stood up to a powerful institution. Despite push back from many us what was showed really going on in the Catholic Church with our priests. Unfortunately, it was a very sad situation. I think it is similar to donald trump, who does not want to find us to find out what is really going on and wants us to be distracted continuously by his chaos. Behind the scenes, he is wreaking havoc. In public, his namecalling is very counterproductive. Thank you so much. Host sam, good morning, republican line. Caller yes. Host sorry about that. Go ahead. Caller high. Hi. Good morning. I hear that so many liberals are going and are against donald trump. Look at this. This country has been corrupted by too many politicians and other president s in this country. Obviously, media is very corrupt because they are onesided, and they have been totally against trump from the very beginning. They are dishonest to people because they have a job to do, and their job is basically to tell the truth to all people. To tell the truth, not be onesided. All of these what Michael Flynn did or comparing to Hillary Clinton what she did to this country was a disaster. Nobody knew what she was doing. Now it has come out and has been exposed, and she has not gotten any charges. Totally, the government is corrupt. Totally, politicians. I believe only two people in government, ron paul and rand paul. I wish we had more people like him. I am sure trump is trying to do good. I truly supported trump. I am glad he is the president. Give him a chance. Right now, he is going through executive orders. Have majority. That is why he has to come and tell people what is happening. Host the president holding his rally yesterday in melbourne, florida. Could be a series of rallies we see in the coming week or so. The district work period for members of congress. Lots of town halls around the country. Huffington post reporting yesterday. Constituents of tom reed flooded two town halls on saturday to confront and boo the congressman. Here is cooper, texas. Independent line. Margaret, welcome. Caller i am democrat, but thank you. Good morning. Host good morning. Caller i would just like to say 20, i havejanuary held back. I have not made judgments against trump. I tried to give him a chance. Is the media the enemy . Kidding . This is amazing this is amazing to me. I dont understand how people cannot see there is a serious situation in this country. Is that i am going to do this, i am going to do that. You have the house, the senate. Start doing already. We are with you. We want you to do whatever you say youre going to do. Start doing it. I am tired of this. Somewhere yesterday that those people were charged like seven dollars to go into that rally. What is going on . He said i am going to bring the jobs back to america. He has things he is in control of being made in other countries. Wake up, people. This is a joke. That News Conference he had the other day, that 77 minute sideshow, i could not watch it anymore. Sit down. You do this. Are you kidding . This is our country we are talking about here, people. Host now we go to our independent line. We hear from kansas. Sandy. Caller hello. Newst believe the media, the reporters are the problem. It is the people that own the station. They have to do what they are doing. Yes, they are biased. The woman before this set that donald trump is rallying up people and making them crazy and going out and being angry. That is what the other side is doing , and it is obvious. They are being paid. For crying out loud, people. They just need to do a little research. Study history for crying out loud. This is what happened in germany before auschwitz and all of the concentration camps. That is what all the fema camps are for. Ped them. P he is trying to save our country. Host lots of comments on twitter. California, it is jim on our line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. I dont like that they combine entertainment with newsmaking. I have seen that happen more and more. This is a very unsophisticated argument by president bush. He says the media is the enemy of the people. I am on the media right now. This is the media. When john mccain says this is how dictators get started and he says i am not saying that is what trump is trying to do, that is exactly what he is trying to do. He is slowing this simple idea out to people that the media is the enemy of the people. What is his criticisms . When he is accused of lying, he. Hoots back not with the truth i think it is good he is confronted by the media. It is scary. I am not afraid to use the word fascism. If you look up the definition, this is exactly what he is trying to do. Host is go to our republican line next and hear from patrick. Caller speaking from the perspective of someone who is actually a journalist on the that situation, disagree term bias think the is more appropriate. We see the majority of Media Companies are owned by less lean, that have and the reporting is done with less sway to appease a less audience. Host some of those big media organizations are republican buddies, owned by lots of people, lots of shareholders. Caller it is still a power structure. You have your ceos. The issue that i see though, first not always and foremost, people have to get that he is not a politician. President trump is a Real Estate Investor and developer. He is a regular guy. He spoke to regular bluecollar americans. Those are the people that voted for him and supported and. Him. Host we have somebody on twitter about a comment on paid protesters. A couple more calls here. We hear from tom on our independent line. Caller hi. Good morning, cspan. Not as at is going on republican or democrat thing or a liberal conservative thing. Those are distractions. Those keep the population divided. War i see going on is a almost between the permanent government, the deep state, meeting the military and intelligence agencies, versus the elected democratically elected president. Evidence of this could be seen last week in the New York Times and Washington Post having on the same day the same article and the business about flynn. Those were intelligence leaks. The only people that have access to that are nsa or cia. These people do not want to be controlled by the democratic aspect of our government. These people want power. They have media assets, they call them, which has a powerful effect on the way all the people in this country perceive the news. We have known this since at least the 1970s when the Pike Committee last investigated the intelligence agencies. I dont like donald trump, but i do like he has appointed someone to go investigate the intelligence agencies because they interfere in our domestic politics more than they are supposed to. Extentia assets to the that the media says what the intelligence agencies want them to say, they are enemies of micro seat. The president tweeted this week saying information is being illegally given to the New York Times and the Washington Post by the intelligence communities, just like russia. Houston, texas your thoughts on the media. Are they the enemy of the people houston texas, republican line. Caller good morning. The presentink that media is the enemy of the people. They should be. Agenda, promoting an anyone who wants to know exactly where they are coming from sugary the book, i live three lives, and you can see how the agenda has been promoted and has been going on since the early 1950s and even before that. Herman silbert. You can see the book on due to. Youtube. I have been hearing from the people who are against trump, they are scary, fascist, hitlers. Is this the kind of language that we really want to use with each other here in this country . Really. We appreciate your comments. Headline in the wall street journal online, about a potential revision in one of trumps executive orders. His revised travel ban would cover several seven countries. Indefinite ban on Syrian Refugees could be scrapped. The current draft of his easement executive order on immigration and refugees shows the administration would try to keep temporary travel restrictions on citizens of seven muslim majority. Writes, street journal the new order would reverse the previous directives inclusion of green card holders from those countries, according to a state Department Memo which was brief reviewed by the wall street journal. Caller i think a lot of this is the media is a globalist institution, thats what they all are. I am not a racist because i did vote for president obama. Trumpvote for donald because he is a nationalist, a make America Great first. I dont know what is wrong with that area with that. There is a lot of americans out here that have not had a raise in 30 years. Thats one reason i did not vote for president obama. God bless america, and go donald trump. Host vivian in fredericksburg, virginia, democrats line. Caller good morning. There is nothing wrong with the media. I am glad they are doing what they are doing. Family have and his all of their jobs created overseas during what is so scary is that he is they dont even google. Now he is not a politician, but he tried to run for president three times. Google it people, get on the internet and look at what he has done. Stories this morning include the reporting on the as janf normal mccorvey wrote she symbolized abortion, the anonymous plaintiffs in rove supreme court73 ruling that legalized abortion. It inflamed one of the most inices controversy died texas. She was 69. She was writing a book about the. Ole the weight decision he said the cause was heart failure. Millions ofling abortions have been done. But abortions have declined with wide use of contraceptions. Contraception. Tyrone, new york, michael on the republican line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Ts amazing here he is going after the media saying, dont believe all of these fake news articles when he is the one he is not truthful. He loves being on television. He is eating this up. He is taking all that free media time, yet he criticizes the media. It is a hypocrisy. He is a hypocrite. He is just using the people to wheel his billionaire agenda. This is what we have in the whole system, all these billionaires that were appointed into positions that should not have been. Now we are going to face the facts. This country is in trouble. We have a guy in there that is a hypocrite. Enough said. York, myra onnew the democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Back when the media was criticized rightly for not thinking about weapons of mass destruction and they were criticized, it seemed like everybody wanted to be patriotic. Not challengeds , in theery beginning primaries. Now they are challenging him. Thought the press conference the other day, and it was great when he was challenged about the electoral vote. His was the largest sense. Eagans since reagans the journalist said what about obama and bush . He needs to be challenged. I wish they had fact check right in the ear week as he lies all the time. Host appreciate your calls and have truthd more i on this president s day weekend cspan has just released our third survey of president ial leadership. Coming up next, we will talk about the results of that survey. G survive follow along in the discussion that is coming up next. Cspan. Word. There is a link on the homepage. We will talk about it when we come back. But on newsmakers we interview interviewed joe crowley committee talked about President Trump and Michael Flynn. A lot of lying is going on. He wasnt fired because he lied, he was fired because he did not lie well enough and he got caught. Said isident last week didnt order Michael Flynn to do