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That is where the white house says, that is where they have responded to this. if youre against impeachment, if youre against the media, youre on my team. >> look, im reading that new book about the nfl, and how the president went after colin kaepernick who was like a perfect foil for the president who wanted top go against the national anthem issue. i mean he uses these things in such crude ways. it is such a magnification of any presidents attack ton the media to this clark kature level. and n...

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Of senior officials in the white house baby sit trump and pull papers off his desk. what theyre trying to do is attack the credibility of woodward and in this case make "the new york times" a foil to trump. thats really the strategy at this point but theyre not really getting to the substance. in terms of the guessing game, you know, it really depends on who you talk to. people have mentioned a lot of -- i think people in the white house definitely feel like its someone at a federal agency and t...

>> well, its interesting to me, as you said that people in the white house arent really denying the substance of the op-ed. there is not a lot of denial of the substance of the woodward book, which makes it seems a lot of senior officials in the white house baby sit trump and pull papers off his desk. what theyre trying to do is attack the credibility of woodward and in this case make "the new york times" a foil to trump. thats really the strategy at this point but theyre not really getting to t...

Around him. >> nancy cook, two kinds of guessing games under way. number one, where is the denial to all the assertions in the op-ed? number two, where does the guessing game stand as to who wrote this? >> well, its interesting to me, as you said that people in the white house arent really denying the substance of the op-ed. there is not a lot of denial of the substance of the woodward book, which makes it seems a lot of senior officials in the white house baby sit trump and pull papers off his ...

Trump, they come from republicans enable iing him and from somebody whos patting himself on the back, but is busy ignoring the direct orders of the commander in chief. not good either. >> you as a former speech writer for president obama, this is a uniquely important speech for the president. doesnt come out, hes not been critical by name of president trump before. he doesnt typically come out and do this thing. hes held something very important to him the respect that president bush gave him th...

Dealt with. and then they kind of did this sort of haphazard, all right everyone stay in the locker room in may. and a lot of the owners were caught off-guard and now were in this holding pattern. >> you say kaepernick was a trumpian villain straight out of the central casting big fro, swarthy skin and a san francisco jersey. if kaepernick did not exist some ingenious russian troll-bot would invent him. >> and colin kaepernick is like the vegan quarterback who is read meat for the base, right? h...

Donald trump foil, and its become like a culture war issue. >> youve talked about how the nfl, you think if they responded what would happen. but this is more from your book. you say commissioner goodell, under his watch its gone to being the most unifying institutions in america to the countrys most polarizing sports brand. >> you look at these super bowls, the first super bowl after donald trump was inaugurated, about two weeks in the patriots were seen as trumps team and atlanta was like the ...

Theres a movement with google - - [indiscernible]. i think the president is pushing back against those things and hes more generally trying to turn google into just another part of this big fake news media thats been his big foil. theres been a lot of suspicion about these giant technology companies. i think in that sense, is trying to turn them into another one of his scapegoats to show everything is stacked against us. even the search engine. >>chris: your thoughts about whether the government...

Theres a movement with google - - [indiscernible]. i think the president is pushing back against those things and hes more generally trying to turn google into just another part of this big fake news media thats been his big foil. theres been a lot of suspicion about these giant technology companies. i think in that sense, is trying to turn them into another one of his scapegoats to show everything is stacked against us. even the search engine. >>chris: your thoughts about whether the government...