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Talk to us about what you mean there and why its so damaging. >> back to the founding period, there was a lot of talk about the need to talk to people who think differently from oneself, to confront people from other nations, people with very different political views. a democracy really requires that, because people can learn things and because they can understand their fellow citizens. what we have increasingly in our country is notwithstanding the wonders of facebook and twitter which can be ...

The propaganda media is even worse than that. these are the soiled pants media. they are still suffering from postelection indigestion. this weekend was really a milestone for them, there is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self delusional than journalism. well, maybe with the exception of hollywood. they are thin-skinned, their reaction to being called what they are, the enemy, it tells you everything you need to know. about just how agenda driven they are. you know what t...

Worse than that. these are the soiled pants media.a they are still suffering fromt. postelection indigestion. this weekend was really a milestone for them, there is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self delusional than journalism. well, maybe with the exception of hollywood. they are thin-skinned, their reaction to being called what they are, the enemy, it tells you everything you need to know. about just how agenda driven they are. you know what they did in the echo chambe...

Getting some facts. now, theyre living in these sort of sealed echo chambers and what happens is they literally, its alternative universes. theyre talking about different things. they have different facts and ill use air quotes because in some cases, theyre not at all factual. and this is poisonous to the system. >> i used to draw solace from the fact, according to gahl lop, 40% of the country are independents and i think this is a healthy thing to break away from control of the parties but im n...

Points that sean spicer made, some of which were true and some of which were not true. >> i went to birthday parties and i could take a picture of the crowd and feel really popular or i could take a picture that makes me look pretty weak. there are pictures of trumps inauguration that makes it look very ill preimpressive. theres also pictures that the crowd size was not the same as president obamas. the crowd size was not a big story until donald trump made it a big story. now we see a couple da...

Because if everybody just sort of believes their own opinions and are in their own echo chambers, there is no common set of facts we can use as a country to debate these important issues. that, i think, is going to be very hard to get back. >> jenna: one of the big debates about technology, does it allow us more freedom to view other opinions or allow us to stay in our corners and reassert our own? it is one of the big debates about technology we continue to have. ari fleischer, former white hou...

finlly is in a difficult straits. >> were all in a search for a new business model. its going to take a while to sort itself out. digital advertising is very soft. its really important that people like john henry on the boston globe and bezos in washington think seriously about how they can invest as business people in helping the media right now. >> theres some related problems. im going to go to you on this. the issue of the echo chambers talked about earlier this hour whether its breitbar...

Think it affected our ability to understand what was happening in the country this year and did nobody a service to have everybody in these elite echo chambers. howie: new york is not the real world and the upper end of manhattan does not represent the whole world. one cnn reporter said i was shocked by the high bar for one candidate and a high bar for another candidate. >> the high bar was for hillary clinton and the low bar for donald trump. there were issues early on which how much media cove...

Things not happening so much is think it affected our ability to understand what was happening in the country this year and did nobody a service to have everybody in these elite echo chambers. howie: new york is not the real world and the upper end of manhattan does not represent the whole world. one cnn reporter said i was shocked by the high bar for one candidate and a high bar for another candidate. >> the high bar was for hillary clinton and the low bar for donald trump. there were issues ea...

And famously, mitt romney said the biggest geopolitical threat we faced was russia and vindicated for having said that. you couldnt have two more different views of the world. now, i think the senate will have to go in a very detailed way and unravel all the possible conflicts in an administration that is rife with these conflicts. >> i have to ask you about this fake news everywhere. the article you wrote for "politico" magazine, you wrote, you think the truth took a hit last year, its about to...