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Strategy. by singling out buzzfeed and cnn, he tried to play to other members of press core, and it was effective. i thought he was calm, confident, he was mixing it up with reporters and he did not answer the substantive questions about his finances and conflicts of interests. from trumps standpoint today was a total victory. >> let me start with the other people. hugh and andrew, did trump win today in this battle between him and the press and how he wants to look? >> only in this regard that ...

Opposition research by a private-sector guy in great britain. we think. he was not a member of am i six, this is not intelligence information. we scoop up all kinds of rumor innuendo as you know, all the time. i dont think we would publish that kind of rumor stuff about hillary clinton, would we? >> so why is this different? >> name a news organization. name one. i have literally no idea what youre talking about. name a major news organization that published knowingly untrue information about hi...

Anybody on. he is committed to an agenda that will move this country forward. steve: sean, is really mad at buzzfeed for printing -- is he going to punish them by not answering their questions? >> no. i dont know, if you look how quick buzzfeeds failing im not sure they will be around by the time we take office next week. their trajectory downward is going rather quick. that being the case should they end upcoming to the briefing room the president-elect doesnt stand down anybody. he will take a...

Effective in answering the questions about it, just the morning after the stories had surfaced. >> bret: 17 questions he took, matt. this is an indication, perhaps, of president trump interacting with the press. we have seen him on twitter go after different reports. this was confronting these things head on in person. >> yeah, and he likes to do this. i mean, his last press conference was quite a long time ago and he broke a lot of news in that press conference. i think some of his new handlers...

>> i love this song. always makes you get out of bed. live look at new york city. the sun is not quite up yet. good morning to all of you watching. youre watching "fox & friends first" on this thursday morning. >> thanks for joining thus morning, starting your day was. lets get right to the top stories. calling out cnn in first news conference as president elect. >> now the head of the u.s. intelligence claims it had nothing to do with the recent media links connecting president elect to russia....

>> youre attacking our news organization. >> can you give us a chance to ask a question? >> go ahead. quiet. shes asking a question. dont be rude. dont be rude. >> can you give us a question? >> dont be rude. i am not going to give you a question. you are fake news. >> bill: cnn has issued a statement saying cnns decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than buzzfeeds decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. that statement conti...

Published by buzzfeed. theres a term in intelligence world, a peddler, you know, who is out there drumming stuff, some of which is true and some of which saints. its a nightmare to try to figure out which. i had a little bit of that feel about this document. >> hey, david, quickly, if i can is ask you. clapper said in his statement he felt an obligation to let the president-elect know that this report was out there. are they letting the president-elect and his staff know everything that is out t...

One seat and that was for me. as opposed to the correspondence and a number of producers. thats how they got in the front row as opposed to the correspondence >> bill: all right. now, the controversy, the trump people are mad, and civilian terms, okay, why are they mad at cnn? cnn didnt put out all the salacious details. buzzfeed did. all right? so, why is the trump administration so angry at cnn? >> i think probably because cnn was first. they were the ones that got the leak from someone in the...

Enemies like senator lindsey graham today, most of his it have -- vitriol was reserved for the people in the room. >> most of the media outlets are fake news. i could name them, but i wont bother. you have a few sitting in front of us. as far as buzzfeed which is a failing pile of garbage writing it, i think theyll suffer the consequences. they already are. im not showing tax returns, theyre under audit. >> reporter: every president since the 70s has had an audit. >> reporter: since youre attack...

Am okay with it personally because it benefits mr. trump and i will do anything to protect mr. trump, his family, now vice president elect mike pence. i am okay with it personally. the problem is that it affected my family, it affected my wife, my in-laws, and that is not okay. i believe that cnn and buzzfeed and others owe them a serious apology. there is an old expression. whered you go to get your reputation? you know where you have to go? to be a donald trump press release. >> sean: that was...