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>> right. >> you used to work at glenn becks "the blaze" web side, dodds cracks in the force field? >> one of the things ive been paying attention to is the drudge report. he seems to have completely turned on the president. he has, for a while, been sort of the assignment editor, if you will. so him potential turning is huge. >> right now his headline is second whistle-blower comes forward. hes not shying away from the news. >> no, hes spotlighting the news, and also spotlighting the commentary...

Control the narrative by having to sort of fact check in real time? its quite challenging. as a journalist, i think the best we can do is go out there and say what the truth is. and when its relevant to fact check in real time, do it, but otherwise, tell americans what the real story is. >> but jim, that really is kind of the crux of the debate, and youre working on a book writ large on this subject now. do we spend all our time fact checking a president who lies 20 times a day, and does it make...

Separate fact from fiction. thats the job. so when we start making decisions that sort of how is this going to affect the president or our relationship with the president, then were being sucked into a more political debate. but the flip side of that is do people start turning us off. youre constantly arguing with him, a certain segment of the population. it cant be argumentative, the tone is important. >> how do you walk that line, and whats the line in particular of not normalizing lies throug...

Understand it when he was reunited with his family and suffered that none of us will forget or forgive. the president holds north korea responsible. he said that chairman kim says he was not aware of what he believes chairman kim said he was not aware of what happened to otto warmbier when it happened. i know how twitter somehow has become an an signment editor for reporters. if twitter blows up and said north korea is not responsible theyre not paying attention. >> sandra: was the president -- ...

I want to use lethal force. i want to trash robert mueller and the investigation, im going to do it, et cetera, et cetera. >> he says he is going to do it, he of course doesnt have the power to do a lot of these things. >> he has people scrambling around him. >> he recognizes the power of setting the agenda in washington, particularly when it comes to saying things that we have to cover and figure out can he do the things eggs talking about. he loves being the worlds assignment editor. it often ...

Question -- how do you cover a dishonest proposal from the president of the united states honestly? so today the president proposed doing away with birthright citizenship, the constitutional right that any child born in the united states automatically becomes an american citizen. now, what the president really is proposing is that we stop talking about bombs sent to his political opponents by a political supporter, that we stop talking about whether a mass murderer was somehow influenced by his ...

They are. >> i would say weve gotten three or four indications from president trump hes planning some dramatic border security announcement tomorrow in the coming week. god knows what exactly it is. its some sort of troop presence on the southern border. this is a test for the media. at some points the media has to step back and say will he be our general assignment editor. does he tell us what we cover. i dont know if the media has the capacity to say well ignore the shiny object over there. be...

Out? did he come to work this morning thinking he still had a job? tell peter baker, get to work on your tick to be. >> peter baker, do you have anything to add to that? youre on the receiving end of a lot of your tick tocks. youll have the answer at the end of the day. >> hans is a great assignment editor. well try to get these answers. its exactly right. what was the precipitating event, what was the hammer that finally fell. my colleagues who have been reporting on this stuff a long time came...

That great sobering depressing tale. i had an hour to kill after a third graders potluck and i went to a mecca for bright and elite kids from all over the world, a multinational group of kids all looking for their mbas, and i looked at a lot of those students ambling about at the sun filled achroom, mostly men when i was there this morning it seems and those are future leaders of government philanthropies of world business. and somewhere in there is probably the future head of the bank, and i wo...

Multinational group of kids, all looking for their mbas. and i looked at a lot of those students rambling about the atrium, mostly men. and those are the future leaders of government, philanthropies, leaders of government. somewhere in there is probably the head of deutsche bank. and i would love to know if they get it because theyll have to if they know anything about tomorrow. >> dont need to be an assignment editor to see you have your assignment for tomorrow. thank you so much for being with...