did you go to a judge and say i want to listen to his phone. oops. not true. pete: does this show the so-called mainstream media is moving too fast to get a scoop on anything that could be anti-trump? here to weigh in is senior editor at the federalist and fox news contributor mollie hemingway. great to have you up here in new york. appreciate it have you covered this. how does a story like this happen what does it say about the media it happens often. couple problems. one the media uses anonymous sources getting things wrong. no accountability using anonymous source. i know we shouldn t trust this person. animosity toward trump that make all the errors happen in one direction. this is not the first time there has been a major correction on a story that s really gig. and they always go in anti-trump direction. that suggests that it s not just what happens sometimes in journalism, which sometimes stories get wrong. ed: people make mistakes. something else going on
gone golfing since taking office. trump is also telling wealthy supporters at mar-a-lago you all just got a lot richer, contradicting his claims that his tax bill would hurt him and other rich people, based on two direct anonymous source. here is what president trump said about the tax bill when he wasn t speaking privately to rich friends at his private club. and the rich will not be gaining at all with this plan. very, very strongly, as you see. there is no i think there is very little benefit for people of wealth. tax reform will protect low income and middle income households, not the wealthy and well connected. this is not good for me. me, it s not i have some very wealthy friends. not so happy with me. but that s okay. i keep hearing schumer. this is for the wealthy. well, if it is, my friends don t know about it. you know, they have their typical for the rich. they know that s not true. i m joined by daniel dale and
and i love golf. but if i were in the white house, i don t think i d ever see turnberry again. i don t think i d ever see doral again. i own doral in miami. i don t think i d ever see anything. i just want the stay in the white house and work by ass, make great deals, right? who is going to leave? who is going to leave? whose going to leave? well, new reporting shows donald trump spent, get this, a third of his entire presidency so far at trump properties. last night he said it was back to work in order to make america great again tomorrow. well, tomorrow came today, and trump was on the golf course. this is the 85th time he has gone golfing since taking office. trump is also telling wealthy supporters at mar-a-lago you all just got a lot richer, contradicting his claims that his tax bill would hurt him and other rich people, based on two direct anonymous source. here is what president trump said about the tax bill when he wasn t speaking privately to
this is not an anonymous source s story. this is not just a media story. this is not a leak from the intelligence community. this is a group of e-mails that donald trump jr. himself released. so that makes it much harder to argue with. because it s right there in black and white, what happened in this meeting. does that mean they were in this giant global conspiracy? not necessarily, and that meeting probably didn t change the face of the election at all, but it still refutes what they ve been saying. and on top of it. garrett, you ve written a book about the fbi essentially undercutting what the fbi director says about meetings like this. it was a striking scene in chris wray s nomination hearing yesterday in front of the senate judiciary committee where he said, in unequivocal terms, any time any campaign, any candidate gets an e-mail like this, they should be contacting federal authorities. the fbi would want to know about something like this. and we re seeing just sort of an ev
when you met with folks, there was a debate of what to do. there is a tick thomas ho-tock happened at the end of the obama term. this is one anonymous that obama said. it was the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend, i feel like we sort of choked. the idea that enough was not done before the election and the political impacted. that s the brave comment of anonymous source. they should be able to say that on the record first of all. i think we can look at the action that is we are taking prior to the election and after the election, i confronted my main russian counter part and on august 4th. if you go down this road, it is going to have serious consequences on our ability working with russia on any issue