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This is a case where the president has turned the working media into a permanent foil, political enemy and so hes basically in the tribalize the culture of the moment, he has said the media is as much an opponent of ours, meaning him and his base, as the democratic party or those who is oppose on pos grounds. which takes the role of a free press and puts it in really significant jeopardy think. >> john, you know this next question is coming. that is, what if we need to say to the american people...

That we used to have to at least hear from aides or in the extraordinary case of the nixon tapes, we would hear nixon himself denouncing the press. the unhappiness of presidents, usually in the most casual kind of remark off hand or a leak, this is a case where the president has turned the working media into a permanent foil and political enemy. he is basically in the tribalized culture of the moment. he has said the media is as much an opponent of ours, meaning him and his base, as the democrat...

In as all in a group and the audience is looking at you and its clear who the reporters are and the camera crews carrying their equipment. you get the hissing and the booing and the yelling and the middle fingers going up in the air. its really threatening. what a lot of people dont know is during the presidential campaign, some of the correspondents had to have security. at one point secret service escorted them, but at other points they hired security to be with them. thats unprecedented and t...

Ashley, watching that last night, it really does come to mind that this is his main foil in the midterm elections. >> it sure is. and this has been his foil since really the very beginning when he started his campaign. whats interesting to someone who has traveled and been at a lot of those rallies, the mood can kind of differ. there are some rallies where he attacks the media as a foil with a hard edge of menace and it can feel dangerous, uneasy, or unsafe. last night he was clearly agitated, k...

People. and they are. they are the enemy of the people. the press honestly is out of control. the level of dishonesty is out of control. >> particular with us. dont believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. they can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> the fake, fake, disgusting news. that was the president of the united states last night to a crowd in pennsylvania, using the press again as a foil to whip up the crowd at that campaign rally in w...

Space and part of his calculus if im having this fight ill take up the space we need new leaders to step into, that balance of how do i not be this guy who is owning the field here, im doing my part and im telling my part of the story here, but i want to make sure that we get some blue blood out. >> an easy foil for president trump doesnt have to defend his own record can be after obama. >> trump likes it, a higher weight class. >> speaking of new leaders, why dont we show the film clip of butch...

Beast detailed some of the conspiracies. plotters in the deep state tried to shoot down air force one and foil president trumps north korea summit. a cabal of global elites. and now trump is going to fix it all with thousands of sealed indictments sending the likes of hillary clinton and barack obama straight to guantanamo bay. an area we are going to have to weigh into. we see real people, citizens of the united states wearing qs all over them. what do they believe? >> it is bizarre. this start...

Coverage there are those who say look at the obama administration. they didnt always give the same access to fox news as everyone else or the same number of introduce. to that you say what? is that a fair comparison? >> i dont -- no, i dont think its a fair comparison because they never boxed fox reporters from doing their jobs. i talked to fox news reporters all the time when i was in the white house. they asked questions at presidential press conferences and so on. i dont think its -- look, as...

Coverage, but most presidents understand that that is part of the obligation of the job. that a free press is enshrined in the first amendment for a reason. but i just want to react to one thing that carl said. its not just that hes using the press as a foil with his base. he is trying to impeach the media, so that when facts are reported that are inconvenient to him, he can dismiss them as political in nature. and that, to me, is a very insidious thing. thats really, you know, that is the stuff...

About, stand to be advantaged pretty substantially if the democrats do take the house and number one, hes off the hook for having to do stuff because you heard him talking about, we will shut it down. you dont have to have this conversation anymore because you dont have to wrangle any more republican votes. those obstructionist democrats, all they want to do is talk about impeachment. in terms of what will work in 2018, we always go back to the same thing. not all politics is local. politics is ...