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So, you know, he wants to be able to have something that he can put on the board as a success before the 100 days. >> thank you david for being here. indira, stay with us. how many bills has president trump passed into law now? has he passed more executive orders than obama or less? i have been digging into some of the answers. i will share my journalistic findings on sundays show "the point" 5:00 p.m. eastern. we have floyd abrams and a roundtable if he is draining the swamp. thats sunday, 5:00...

Can you say affirmatively that whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real? >> if hes not joking, of course. every time he speaks authoritatively, that he speaks, he is speaking as president of the united states. >> the credibility of the president, the role of the press. we have a special panel. we continue turning back to gay talese and floyd abrams here. is this different, in all of the different press that you have covered and you have basically represented the press, t...

Changing the public perception of who is a journalist, who is trustworthy, who is someone i might even listen to. >> eric, speak to that. floyd is saying its different to say something is biased news or unfair news and to say its not news, its false, fake or needs to be replaced by whoever you call in on skype. >> i mean, it seems that the trump administration is doing both. they are accusing mainstream news outlets of beginniginning that isnt true and is even politically biased. i like the idea...

Of the united states. thank you all for a spirited discussion. up next on our special edition of the point, the trump administration has had, shall we say, a complex relationship with the press. sean spicer, the press secretary, might be the physical manifestation of trumps ongoing tensions with the media. joining me nex a special panel with history of insights. floyd abrams, gay talese and many more. thats straight ahead. i love you, but sometimes you stink. ♪ new febreze fabric refresher w...

Its a tone that obviously comes from the top, and trump says he is making progress. >> the dishonest media, which has published one false story after another, with no sources, even though they pretend they have them, they make them up in many cases -- they just dont want to report the truth, and theyve been calling us wrong now for two years. they dont get it. but theyre starting to get it. i can tell you that. >> joining me now for this special discussion. gay talese, the writer for es kwooi ch...

Briefing room and adding new voices, which might be okay, but some of them being highly partisan? >> quite apart from the possibility of being highly partisan, i actually welcome new voices, and the "new york times," if you read the paper this morning, the executive editor and publisher have both decided that they want the "new york times" to reach out to red america. i think thats the phrase. they even hired a conservative columnist to join the left-leaning op-ed writers. i believe that the "ti...

>> a fair political point, and then, floyd, the flip-side, of always being concerned if the government is getting too involved. >> sure. especially when this seems like a -- listening to your earlier panels, people said there is no policy here, there is no policy there. there is a policy here. i think the policy is to diminish the significance, the importance, and the role of the great american press institutions that have been center stage in the past, and to substitute for them institutions th...

Is going to try to do next week. he wants to revive from the dead his effort to repeal and replace. hes going to try to bring in this tax reform. hes going to try to get his budget priorities in. so, you know, he wants to be able to have something that he can put on the board as a success before the 100 days. >> thank you david for being here. indira, stay with us. how many bills has president trump passed into law now? has he passed more executive orders than obama or less? i have been digging ...

>> thank you david for being here. indira, stay with us. how many bills has president trump passed into law now? has he passed more executive orders than obama or less? i have been digging into some of the answers. i will share my journalistic findings on sundays show "the point" 5:00 p.m. eastern. we have floyd abrams and a roundtable if he is draining the swamp. thats sunday, 5:00 p.m. eastern you can decide for yourself if it doesnt matter. coming up, donald trumps inauguration committee brok...

Another way a government can use power against individuals. >> we sounds now if were talking about the exit administration where that happened. >> so should we be talking about this -- is it a risk to talk through these scenarios or is it prunt? >> i think its prudent to discuss these possibilities, we can hope -- i didnt vote for mr. trump, i dont wish -- i certainly dont hope that he goes down these roads. he may decide that as president he can take a different stance or at the least, as presi...