agencies, and cybersecurity really has to be higher up in the agenda. heather: front and center, thank you. jon: well, the trump administration strongly defends the president s firing of james comey last week. blaming the media for fueling the fallout. kellyanne conway says that reporter should have seen the firing of james comey coming. the fact is that as they work on the 20th palace intrigue,/personnel story of the young administration, they totally miss the firing of jim comey. where are the editors? sometimes i think along with the fbi director, a lot of the editors got fired. twitter is not an assignment editor, it is not a source. what are you covering? are you covering who is up and down in the west wing? he would know nothing about that. or are you covering what impacts americans? jon: let s get into it with the media panel. a pulitzer prize-winning
editors got fired. twitter is not an assignment editor, it s not a source. you know, i was out in the country, i was in five different states at the beginning of this week, and nobody there is talking about anything but jobs and health care. people at the end of the week were talking about cybersecurity attacks. they ll probably continue to talk about it as they get back to their desks in the morning for work. the country is talking about things that matter to them that the president is working dutifully on every single day. there s such a disconnect now between what people hear as noise and and what is actually news. and what they re paying attention to every single day, what they will judge this president on ultimately is if growth improves. all these confidence measures you ve seen from the manufacturers, the home builders, the small business own ors, the consumers themselves, the job production. if that actually continues, health care will get done. and there will be tack relief
i think it is really getting lost in this debate that american citizens who were not government employees at the time, who were not targets of stuff, potentially were surveilled, had their information unmasked, made it available, was politically spread. reporter: kasie, that is sean spicer being the assignment editor for the entire white house press corps. he s not the first press secretary to that. he won t be the last. but clearly, they re trying to shift the conversation not having much success. kasie? hans, thanks, i can t say i ve never been on the other end of spicer trying to tell me what to write or say. joining us right now, jake sherman, politico senior writer, co-author of the politico playbook. eli lake, columnist of bloomberg view. al alex, gop strategist and former communications director for marco rubio. gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us today. eli, i want to start with you because you lad one of the more direct stories i ve seen from somebody who essen
editor who is not only a huge attribute here at fox but also an oscars expert and he joins us now. thank you so much for joining us. i want to start all the way i want to get some predictions, if i can out of you. absolutely. i want to start with best picture, if i could. great to see you, let s start with oscar history lesson. back in mid-20 century classical musical, gg, west side story and my fair lady and, of course, the sound of music, one more film is going that join that list and that is la la land starring ryan gosselin and emma stone. most academy voters seem enchabted as well. record tieing 14 nominations and most of the major precursor
if this intelligent report is indeed unimpeachable. it s him showing you what he s going to say. he s telling the times he thinks this is a political witch hunt. this is donald trump, the next president of the united states basically saying he s an assignment editor here upset about the amount of coverage that news organizations are giving to this, basically saying it s sour grapes. in that interview with my friend over there at the new york times, michael sheer, great job getting donald trump on the phone saying the chinese hacked the white house, there wasn t that much attention there. it says two times in the interview this is a political witch hunt. we are going to get this report, the public version of it within the hour we thing. we ve already heard from nancy pelosi. and pelosi seemed a little upset the report didn t go farther. going forward i think we ll have two conversations, one, what trump wants it to be and that is is there too much information on this and how unassaila