see, i mean, two parts to this. one is you re an assignment editor in a newsroom. you have a limited number of reporters. you have a limited amount of money. you have to decide what your reporters cover. and at newsrooms all across the country they say we are going to chase down the story of the moan shot scenario 37 electors flip their votes and hand the presidency to hillary clinton. that s insanity. that whole element of it. the serious element which electors flipping votes. was it 7? was it 8? in a close election that could mean something. down the track, this could actually be a serious issue. it s something that as a matter of democracy we need to discuss. in this election it was absurd. right, when it became news that more electors flipped for hillary clinton than donald trump it became less a ceremonial hurdle that was cros crossed. not the big thing.
see, i mean, two parts to this. one is you re an assignment editor in a newsroom. you have a limited number of reporters. you have a limited amount of money. you have to decide what your reporters cover. and at newsrooms all across the country they say we are going to chase down the story of the moan shot scenario 37 electors flip their votes and hand the presidency to hillary clinton. that s insanity. that whole element of it. the serious element which electors flipping votes. was it 7? was it 8? in a close election that could mean something. down the track, this could actually be a serious issue. it s something that as a matter of democracy we need to discuss. in this election it was absurd. right, when it became news that more electors flipped for hillary clinton than donald trump it became less a ceremonial hurdle that was cros crossed. not the big thing.
vote rz and their views of the media. you were at clinton s event tuesday night. how do you interpret clintons voters view of the press five days later? to your point at the beginning of the show, everyone is distrustful of the press right now, rethinking what the role of the press is, role of the media, and sort of what we got wrong and how to do it better. so we shouldn t lose sight of the anger. no. our job to your joint is to scrutinize, never normalize. donald trump is not our assignment editor. we can cover what we want and he s rewritten the rules and we get to rewrite them as well. donald trump is not our assignment editor. no. we don t need to cover the top news of the day and stay on that issue. we can choose to cover the things that voters care about and put the cameras on the voters. the begin fg a four h-year-lg conversation. thank you all four of you. that s all for this broadcast.
allegations? and when carlos slim wants you to sell a story, how does he communicate that to you? billionaire/assignment editor. he s probably better paid than the other ones. but he actually owns larry king tv s network, also. if you re going to blame larry king for going on russian tv anyway, it s very muddled. what s your overall sense of how trump is dealing with these allegations? he s litigating it very, very specifically. you could argue that he could make some sort of blanket denial. there is an argument you can make in his case, how do you prove a negative over and over and over again. you could just say, i don t this didn t happen, this is a long time ago, this is about the economy, this is about hillary clinton, and pivot to there. i don t rae know what he gains by just sort of getting up there and doing what he s doing. but it s an interesting strategy. very quintessential trump, i would say. you recently spent a lot of time with hillary clinton. what are your t
because it puts the doubt not only in the mind of the voter but of the media. you think, we have to dig into the story on the credit cards of rib rub and jeb bush and whether he is making a comeback? he is . he is the assignment editor? and he provides the information and it feeds to the media and that is where the media responds and you see the stories coming out on the other candidates. what happens is reporters then, next time they see marco rubio or general they say, donald trump said this, and they ask for a response and that goes into the third and fourth day of the news cycle, are we too.reactive to what truck said? a it is amazing he is taking trolling to a new world and turned twitter into his media channel. every journalist monitors his