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>> rachel: welcome to the special edition of "jesse watters primetime." im rachel campos-duffy. from tearing down nativity scenes, the banning of the word is a miss, the lefts war on christmas goes back decades. and this year, things are truly escalating. from satanic christmas shrines in the capitol building in the heartland of america to gay pride nutcrackers at target and the antiwhite christmas parties in boston and the communist left has officially declared christmas canceled. [cr...

That i am so honored to have this position is so that i can say every single week what i think so many people are thinking, which is that this is an obscenity. >> well, the thing is, okay, let me go to bret on this. i finished the show tonight by asking what would bit like to work in the white house. a regular man or woman, say 35, 40 years old, trying to do their best for the country. it may be a clerical job or maybe an intellectual policy job or press or whatever. and every day youre surround...

On capitol hill on twitter. normal presidents would not be fuming about the fact that he is not getting enough credit. if you want credit, do a good job. for president trump, good press and getting credit means fawning press. it means oh, mr. president, youve done an excellent job when your eyes tell you something completely different. >> here is senator corker. i was mentioning the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. white house staffers work every day to try to contain the pres...

He wants a fawning press. >> will you once and for all, yes or no, definitively say that russia interfered in the 2016 election? >> well, i think it was russia, and i think it could have been other people in other countries. >> donald trump is the only american who does not believe that the russians interfered with our elections. >> obama, when he was president, found out about this. he did nothing about it. >> to say he did nothing would not be accurate. for example, the sanctions that the obam...

Due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. well, what cnn did was unfortunate for them. as you know now they have some pretty serious problems. they have been fake news for a long time. they have been covering me in a very -- a very dishonest way. with cnn and others, nbc is equally as bad despite fact that i made them a fortune with "the apprentice" but they forgot that. what we want to see in the united states is honest, beautiful, free, but honest press. we want to see fair press...

Thats a -- >> he cleaned that up. >> but can you imagine if your boss had done that, or obama had done that. the sad part it is, its getting normalized. when you break it down, its unamerican. i hate that word unamerican, but its unpatriotic. >> i want to point out a phrase the president used which i think was quite cunning, which was fair press, right? we dont have -- we have a free press in this country. theres no guarantee of fairness. it reminds me of a trade debate when people say we want f...

>> a total misunderstanding of what journalism is. the sbram arm of nbc has nothing to do with nbc news. this isnt a terribly difficult concept. but obviously he doesnt quite -- >> theres no sort of higher moreality for donald trump. everything is a trade and a transaction. >> i find whats so frustrating, to your point, this notion of a fair press. the president says it, but im sure we all see it and hear it in terms of viewers and readers. you know, i take that really seriously. i want to be fa...

Uses. the whole concept of fake flus is a specific term of art. its news thats intended to deceive. it doesnt mean that the free press and the good press can still make mistakes. hes conflating this idea of -- >> to keep with your context, he wants a fawning press. hes going well beyond the pushback. every president doesnt like his media. your former boss complained about it. obama complained about it, despite many people on the right think he was treated wonderfully all the time. president trum...

Journalism. what hes saying is i would like a press thats pro trump. that goes all the way around. each side, people tend to want press thats favorable to them. >> weve all lived through that. this is a level of insanity from that point that weve never seen before. literally, unless it is fawning and adulation, it is false. >> hes saying it in poland, where the ruling party is also having its crackdown on a free press. this is part of a broader movement than just donald trumps brain. >> let me p...

This. you ended up handling it differently and more carefully than possibly anyone else who would have received that. >> well, we had to get a lot of help with this. this was like an all hands on deck sort of thing. listen, people try to -- you know, in politics and in life, there are dirty tricks and pranks, and its just sort of a -- its a moment to really be on your toes. >> it was also a great detective story to listen to. >> thank you, my friend. >> thanks, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. cheer...