Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Julian assange and, of course, the media and punching back on twitter, lets get back to my interview with sean spicer, i spoke to him from trump tower. Sean spicer, welcome. Thank you, howie. Donald trump tweeted, im asking the chairs of the house and Senate Committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with nbc prior to me seeing it. I can understand his concern, but does that signal as president he will be ordering Leak Investigations to find out Reporter Sources . Well, its not the Reporter Sources, its trying to figure out where it came from. Theres a big difference between reportest doing their job and
sourcing thicks and people in the government improperly giving Classified Information to people or potentially doing that. I think theres a big difference whether youre targeting the source or recipient. Right. Trumps twitter Feed Paralyzes and some seem say, hey, we shouldnt cover tweets which is ridiculous, why do you think the sho
he goes on to say talk is cheap. the work you do is what will endure, we re going to keep doing that work because we know who and what we are, and because we know the american people come first. . after that memo was released, the former fbi director james comey was on twitter saying that s it? destroyed trust with the intelligent community, damaged relationship with classified nfl investigation of an american citizen. . having said all that, robert anderson is here for us, 20 years at the bow row and assistant director of count intelligence under then fbi director robert mueller. mr. anderson, heard someone smart say on investigation that among the things we gave away today, unforced errors, we ve now told the russians when we
we didn t get criticism at all when president obama said if you like your health insurance plan you can keep your health insurance. we didn t describe that as a lie. it was untruth and we haven t described things that donald trump said it was a lie. the answer what you re getting at is a large section of the media had decided that there s something specifically and uniquely threatening about donald trump that they actually have to take a posture of confrontation and opposition to him and they have they have to be in the arena and saying this man is a terrible threat to our freedoms and democracy and they have to be out there actually in a partisan way disagreeing with him. howie: great to have you on the show, thanks very much for joining us. thanks, howie, thanks for having me. howie: scary story about the russians supposedly hacking our grid and joe scar bow row calls the reporter a liar for tweeting about his relationship pickckckck
we didn t get criticism at all when president obama said if you like your health insurance plan you can keep your health insurance. we didn t describe that as a lie. it was untruth and we haven t described things that donald trump said it was a lie. the answer what you re getting at is a large section of the media had decided that there s something specifically and uniquely threatening about donald trump that they actually have to take a posture of confrontation and opposition to him and they have they have to be in the arena and saying this man is a terrible threat to our freedoms and democracy and they have to be out there actually in a partisan way disagreeing with him. howie: great to have you on the show, thanks very much for joining us. thanks, howie, thanks for having me. howie: scary story about the russians supposedly hacking our grid and joe scar bow row calls the reporter a liar for tweeting about his relationship