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Inability to get past the difference in his and obamas inaugural crowd sizes? not surprisingly this week we learned trump is still measuring himself against barack obama. six european diplomats told buzzfeed news that donald trumps foreign policy decisions are driven almost entirely by his predecessor. its his only real position, one european diplomat said. he will ask, did obama approve this? and if the answer is affirmative, he will say, we dont. he wont even want to listen to the arguments or...

Friends and associates like apprentice alum omarosa manigault, that donald trump ran for president in large part because barack obama mocked him at the white house correspondents dinner in 2011. and who can forget trumps inability to get past the difference in his and obamas inaugural crowd sizes? not surprisingly this week we learned trump is still measuring himself against barack obama. six european diplomats told buzzfeed news that donald trumps foreign policy decisions are driven almost enti...

Down slightly, it needs to go up. what gives? >> reporter: yeah, it was surprising to see her admit the poll numbers are low. hes at 38% job approval rating in the latest gallup poll that came out today. in the presidents tweets, he prefers to focus on crowd sizes at rallies like the one in west virginia, which was an area he won overwhelmingly. he focuses on those when the poll numbers arent reflecting so greatly. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. theres a lot to dissect. we are joined ...

Organizations react badly when being lied to as you felt you were programs lied to by jake sekulow in that clip. because credibility is the currency of the realm here. were trying to traffic in information, context and truth so people understand the world around them and this defeats that purpose. so the press has a credibility issue in part because of our failings and in part because of the fact that we have been used as a political target to bludgeon for political purposes by folks on both sid...

Unconventional administration. >> look, i think -- here is the thing. does the boy scouts lie? its like -- >> why are you doing this? >> its silly. on one hand, i remember i had this back and forth with kelly an during the infamous alternative facts thing when she goes why did you -- youre saying -- i felt ridiculous that we were -- that we felt like we had to -- why are you misleading us on crowd sizes? and it seems silly, but if youre misleading us on that, what else -- >> thats the dilemma we...

Fashion demanded that we believe that the presidents crowd sizes were bigger than his predecessors and the lying and the mainstreaming of the lying that emanates from this white house, what will general kelly do about it? will he insist on a return to the norms of honesty and dignity that, you know, have typically been found around the office of president of the united states. we just dont know the answer to that at this hour. >> he wont be able to do that. what weve seen is that everybody that ...

General kelly has spent his whole life in service to america. and now he serves an administration where all of the boundaries of proprietous behavior where we look at the guardrails in a democratic society, where the norms of democratic behavior are under assault. and general kelly is going to have to make a decision ultimately will he be an abettor of the degradation of our democratic institutions. will he try to control the presidents worst impulses? will he stand opposed to it? what we know a...

What we wknow about reince priebus is that from the instant that sean spicer in orwellian fashion demanded that we believe that the presidents crowd sizes were bigger than his predecessors and the mainstreaming of the lying that emanates from this white house, what will general kelly do about it? will he insist on a return to the norms of honesty and dignity that, you know, have typically been found around the office of president of the united states. we just dont know the answer to that at this...

President. its interesting because the president said, oh, he saw my crowd sizes, i had 30, 40,000 people and then he came on board. sessions didnt need that. >> this is how he punishes. this is how donald trump punishes people throughout his career. he expects people to deliver a result for him. there probably, in his mind, couldnt have been a bigger result than jeff sessions as attorney general somehow shutting down this russia investigation that so galled him as the president and then instead...

Mccarthys portrayal of spicer. his daily briefings became daily sport for some as evidenced by the huge ratings. i get all of that. and well have to wait for his memoir to know what if felt like to be told by his boss to go out on day one and make a futile argument about inaugural crowd sizes. but in my dealings with him he was always a gentleman. he never did come back to my program as press saecretary, a casualty, im sure as our respective employers. and i knew it was time to leave when sarah ...