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Nevada, new hampshire and south carolina, which is the first four states, well probably see absolutely no more than five candidates heading into california. >> and if you have one bit of advice for covering the 2020 field, obviously you come from a position here, a liberal position, what do you want to see the press do to hold these candidates accountable? >> do a better job than you did against hillary clinton. dont make up news. >> make up news? >> come on. >> what news was made up, howard? >>...

Wants to inject and is choosing to do it in this manner, it seems. >> i want to ask howard about that as well. were exactly one year to the day from the iowa caucuses. do you have a sense, howard, a prediction about what the field is going to look like a year from now? i have a feeling that some of the folks saying theyre going to run will not actually be there in a year. >> thats absolutely true. if howard schultz has no platform until after the primary is over, this is insane to try to do this...

When it comes to the trump and hillary clinton coverage. theres a lot of, you know, introspection that did go on about that race but sometimes i think the criticism is unfair zblaes still a lot of raur rau feelings, thats for sure, about how 2016 was covered and that is for real. >> everybody, thank you so much for being here. i really appreciate it. quick break and then an exclusive interview with alexandria ocasio-cortez, inside -- her top aide, chief of staff. you wont want to miss it. ♪ di...

Coverage and talking to peers around the field, we have to be deliberate in our work and think critically about how we make sure our coverage does not reflect and what it means and these cultures were covering and making sure thats reflective of that. >> youre absolutely right. national newsrooms, according to survey after survey, are lagging behind the country in terms of representing the countrys diversity. in a number of ways, whether its the number of women in newsroom leadership positions o...

Another point, had been in public in black face for a talent show when he portrayed michael jackson. no matter what the source of this information thats coming out, it is giving voters relevant information to report. i think thats only a good thing. >> a good thing. lets pivot to another big story of the week and i want to get your take on this. howard schultzs book tour, flirtation with a presidential run. a lot of the criticism of him, especially coming from the left. howard, whats your view o...

Have been charged here. >> excuse me. are you ready? okay. are you ready? of the 34 people, many of them were bloggers from moscow or people that had nothing to do with me, had nothing to do with what theyre talking about, or they were people that got caught telling a fib or telling a lie. >> i always love seeing the president faced with the facts. when a journalist tells them the truth, makes him wrestle with the truth. you see the response there, excuse me, excuse me. he doesnt want to have to...

By peeling off democratic votes. i happen to believe the next president of the united states is going to be a billionaire. its gone on too long. and so he has no shot as an independent and this appears to be a vanity candidacy, and he doesnt really have a lot to say either. >> look at the amazon rankings. a. amazon rankings for his book, it comes on tuesday. its barely in the top 100. there does not seem to be a lot of interest from the public in going out there and buying what schultz is litera...

What does it say about us today as a nation? i think it says very good things. yeah. >> thats what i want to make sure the pspotlight remains on this subject. i agree with you. im going to try to spend the next two years, dragging us all back to policy, as im sure many editors and newsroom leaders are. whats your reaction to what david says? >> absolutely. one thing i find so interesting about covering this historically diverse group of democrats, as opposed to past election cycles youre seeing ...

Has a symbiotic relationship with her critics. they dump on her, she dumps back on them. do you and her talk about how to handle fox news, whether to go on fox news, for example? >> look, shes got an incredible, i think, ability to figure out when to engage with conservative critics and she does it every time that she can advance the conversation on some sort of topic, right? so what shell often do, we saw the 70% marginal tax rate. we saw it with the way that fox and a lot of conservative media...

Trying to do it. theyre busting their brains trying to figure out better ways. you can see it on the screen, it is getting better. here is the thing about the state of the union that i think is going to be great. you know you and i both know, visuals matter more than anything else on television. more than anything, he is going to say, unless he calls a national emergency or something like that. the image of nancy pelosi standing behind him, over him, literally, with that gavel. >> right. >> i do...