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Things arent going on in our country. we have a free and open dialogue for everybody to see. everybody knows the president has an adversarial -- >> what if the president is standing here -- >> based on a lie, were not fake news, mike. >> thats not what im saying. what im saying -- of course, im not saying that. what im saying is its a known fact that the president has an adversarial relationship with the press and he talks about it all the time, he tweets about it. >> right, based on a lie. base...

Defended the reporter. wasnt this -- back to my original question, wasnt this -- shouldnt the president be there on foreign soil defending the united states, defending a free press instead of taking something that is local here to the united states and bringing it across the shore to foreign soil and having all of our allies and our enemies being able to see what kind of controversy were having here? shouldnt he be defending america and the press? >> well, he did defend the press, but i also don...

Dealing with donald trump that got his campaign rallies going talking about hillary clinton and the e-mail server and talking about classified information and now were dealing with somebody that clearly as president of the united states is not be trusted to handle classified information. weve -- >> neil: so just like hillary? what im saying -- >> absolutely not. >> neil: is there a notion that were getting very slip shot with this sort of thing and people will take their sides? i understand that...

I know that they believe their ba base. here is what has happened today. whats happened today, forget t t that. john postman, republican from arkansas. this isnt someone who would make a name for himself by attacking republicans. he just wants a better explanation. john corker wants a better explanation. richard burr who at times has been -- not an ally of the trump warehouse but certainly an adversarial. it uncomfortable defending him right now. >> we should be wautching for te

Step for people on climate change. we need to take the energy here and the peoples energy and go back to our communities. please run for office. lets take this peoples power and move it up until we take control of the building behind us. >> they stress to me they dont want a adversarial with the issues. they are ready to work with president trump if he is ready to embrace the idea but theyre also ready to lead more protest ifs he isnt. >> are the presidents interior secretary is trying to ease t...

Were brought in, the supreme court has not ruled on that. the adversarial -- >> everyone is pitting against everybody and everybody rules out sobering stories out, the fact is, someone got to make rules and legislative branch and president protect us with in partnership with congress. we have lines drawn in the sand that the president has been told that the order -- he needs to go back to the drawing board. i dont see this as adding any sort of great order to the discussion. >> well, this is not...

But they do take on a special import, i think, when we look at the degree of animosity, the aggressive attacks by the commander in chief, the steward of the american constitution. you know, when he attacks the press, he is showing a lack of faithfulness with the spirit of the first amendment. and i think its an important reminder that american democracy doesnt function without an adversarial, without a free press. and despite all the criticisms of the media, many of them well-deserved over the c...

Aggressive attacks by the commander in chief, the steward of the american constitution. you know, when he attacks the press, he is showing a lack of faithfulness with the spirit of the first amendment. and i think its an important reminder that american democracy doesnt function without an adversarial, without a free press. and despite all the criticisms of the media, many of them well-deserved over the course of this election, its important to remember the vital necessity of a courageous free p...

Little adversarial with the media, but jack schaefer at the politico says his presidency will be a boom for journalism. he says they ought to start considering covering his washington like a war zone. its journalistic spring. yet, i wonder if thats really going to work out that way. michael, if its press against trump, who do you think is going to come out on top? >> it is press against trump, for centuries we had of the partisan press, and only in the last lets say 60 years once a progressive h...

Systems? but to influence elections, as far as i know, the united states government does not hack into foreign governments electoral systems or try to influence their elections. thats highly unusual. thats a real information operation. certainly if you then take the information and make it public the way the russians did. what the russians have done is really on a whole other level of risk taking, of adversarial, very offensive operations against the united states, against our democracy. first a...