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Just give up the ghost, sell stuff before the weekend and get out of the way. >> how much of this is current and can be changed and how much is a slowing of the economy for whatever reason? >> the latter issue has become very important. weve seen interest rates drop, reflecting bond market concerns that the economy will slow down below the projected 3% growth rate that the presidents been talking about for so long and some of his advisers mentioned on cnbc this morning. maybe 2%, 2.5%. maybe the...

Theres this simbiosis. >> you said on twitter, its not a state-sponsored network, its now a tv-sponsored state. like fox sponsors the government, thats your view. >> yeah, it really is. and it feels like -- and theres this insane feedback loop where trump tweets something he saw on fox news, it will get amplified by fox and it will rile trump up and hell make government policy on it. its nuts. >> heres a part of what "the guardian" said, so he attacks the press and the broadcast media that raise...

Them, and i, mean, that is demonization and it may not be on the same order. when we sit around and just talk about the president, theres a lot of people that hear that and will start to see what he says about the media and others giving all that a pass. >> that feedback loop does inflame passions, and they are not equivalent, and people do focus on that and it emboldens the card, and the president is at a different level because theres great responsibility and the president seems to be emboldin...

Bennett and i were both there and one of the most striking things is when president trump turned to the crowd and said id like to tone it down a little bit. id like to ask your permission to tone it down on this solemn occasion. the crowd responded with a resounding no. they didnt want him to do that. they pleaded with him not to. when he said he thought about cancelling the speech out of respect for the victims, again, people cried out from the crowd, no. were glad youre here. thank you for com...

With a feedback loop where extremes feed off each other and create their own justification. it is important not to take the bait. dont get infected by the outrage. neither party holds a monopoly on vir you or vice but the trump white house cant lecture on civility in politics. he is a brawler and a name caller. he rose to political prominence on a racist conspiracy theory. >> i want him to show his birth certificate. >> he raised the specter of second amendment solutions to hillary clinton. >> i...

The raw emotions across this country. unfortunately, we dont have someone who can do that for us. >> i think the feedback loop and where the president responds it our coverage and our coverage responds to him, that adds to the polarization and that makes it worse. >> this is the trap we are in. the media, our job is to cover the president. we dont do anything. its not our fault he keeps doing these things. we cover the president of the united states. stay with us. up ahead mainstreaming the extr...

Does that speak to the fact that hes just a lot more interested in dividing americans than bringing them together and when he has a chance to talk about how america comes together, he still lies and suggests that its torn apart. >> hes fighting for the next five minutes, not for -- not even the next five weeks, much less the next five years or next five decades. basically hes going to keep doing this because he has been rewarded for t hes the president of the united states, he gets the feedback ...

Media blitz? lets look at that, now. eric is a fox news network host that hosts "america with eric boling." this is erics maiden voyage. everyone, dont go easy on him. >> bring it. im ready. >> brian, im going to start with you. the president has given interviews to fox and fox business. thats not news to anyone. its like a megaphone for him, correct? >> theres a feedback loop between the trump white house and fox news. today was interview number 36 that the president has given to fox or fox new...

Tv." everyone, dont go easy on him. >> bring it. >> the president has given more interviews to fox and "fox business," thats not news. it is like a megaphone for him. >> there is a feedback loop between the white house and fox news. today was interview number 36 this the president has given to fox or fox news or or fox business or radio. all of them together provides a really important platform for him. you compare that to other networ networks, hes given to a few on cnn and nbc. we know that fo...

Our brains? >> one of the ways is just by shifting the reward cycles that we are used to. so now rewards are very, very frequent and low value. but they happen rapidly and that changes essentially your cognitive style and how you like to be rewarded. >> the brain adam tells me interprets every text, alert or like as a reward. causing dopamine to surge in the pleasure center. over time, that can change how the mind works. training us to need more and more from our devices. its a feedback loop tha...