separate fact from fiction. that s 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 we re being sucked into a more political debate. but the flip side of that is do people start turning us off. you re constantly arguing with him, a certain segment of the population. it can t be argumentative, the tone is important. how do you walk that line, and what s the line in particular of not normalizing lies through repetition? because they do provide amplification, but he s president of the united states. right. i think a huge part as you said before is not letting trump be the assignment editor. one of the huge stories this week was the fact that benjamin netanyahu decided to bar the entry of two democratic members of congress, ilhan omar and rashida tlaib from entering. but another huge story, one that
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 they re not paying attention. sandra: was the president we don t discussion security clearances. i won t discuss my own. i will tell you the president has the absolute right to do what was described. we aren t going to discuss that.
i want to use lethal force. i want to trash robert mueller and the investigation, i m going to do it, et cetera, et cetera. he says he is going to do it, he of course doesn t 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 world s assignment editor. it often feels like these are things that we learned on day one of his campaign that keep replaying over and over and over. when he was tweeting about mueller this morning, i don t know if you guys caught up with it but i felt like it feels like it is a lashing out of desperation now more than ever. i don t know if that s just me reading the headlines and the kind of supposing the president s feeling the walls close in or does it feel more desperate than it was six or eight months ago. we know that h
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 words or policy proposals, that we stop talking about the connection between his rhetoric and a spike in ethnic attacks, and that we start talking about what really matters a week before the midterms, an unstoppable caravan of desperate refugees bent on destroying the country they hope to live in. oh, let s pause there. so what do we do about this so-called birthright proposal? do you ignore it? that s difficult because mr. trump is after all the president of the united states. and what he says d
they are. i would say we ve gotten three or four indications from president trump he s planning some dramatic border security announcement tomorrow in the coming week. god knows what exactly it is. it s 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 don t know if the media has the capacity to say we ll ignore the shiny object over there. because the president is tweeting about it doesn t mean we have to talk about it. any serious network that talks about the caravan is not a serious network. the last time fox news and the president ginned this up. 14 people were arrested on the border. that was it. there was no great invasion then. there will be no great invasion