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President, he has fun. he wants a foil. he decided the press is his foil. the other day, they were like make sure you watch the briefing. they like to fight. all the things kimberly listed, all the things he can talk about, if he wants to talk about the war with the press, the press is going to cover that. its serving dessert first. hes got a to serve up the vegetables. can there be a reporter that matches his humor? like oh, yeah, blow him off. see how that works. the fighting, the only thing t...

Foil. the other day, they were like make sure you watch the briefing. they like to fight. all the things kimberly listed, all the things he can talk about, if he wants to talk about the war with the press, theey press is going to cover that. its serving dessert first. hes got to serve up the vegetables. can there be a reporter that matches his humor? like oh, yeah, blow him off. see how that works. the fighting, the only thing that this war is helping is trump and the media. >> jesse: thats a ve...

President trump is continuing his line of attacks, blaming mr. obama, accusing him from everything from negligence. athena jones has more. >> reporter: online and on the air -- >> i just heard for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and did nothing about it. >> reporter: president trump making it abundantly clear that after five months from replacing president obama, his predecessor remains top of mind. not content with simply undoing parts of obamas legac...

For a long time. >> reporter: not content with simply undoing parts of obamas legacy like pulling the u.s. out of the trans-pacific partnership trade deal and paris climate accord, trump is increasingly using obama as a political foil. blaming him for not doing enough to stop russian meddling in last years election. despite calling such meddling a phony story for months. >> the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. >>...

>> how are you? >> reporter: president trump making it abundantly clear that more than six months after replacing president obama, his predecessor remains top of mind. >> weve been talking about this for a long time. >> reporter: not content with simply undoing parts of obamas legacy like pulling the u.s. out of the trans-pacific partnership trade deal and the paris climate accord. trump is increasingly using obama as a political foil, blaming him for not doing enough to stop russian meddling in...

They need a foil. >> the desire to build a wall around the white house to limit inquiry and you have a chance to criticize the press, cnn ran a story, they retracted it. >> shepard: on the website. >> they apologized for it. >> shepard: and they said, because i want to make sure they get this right. they said they did not go through their procedures. it did not go through standards and practices, and it did not make through editorial checking. afterwards, three people were fired. >> this is what...

Would win and didnt want to, quote, rock the boat. he didnt choke. he colluded and obstructed and it did the dems and crooked hillary no good. >> he thinks this is purely a democratic ploy because theyre upset that they lost the election. now he has a foil here after all the reporting from "the washington post" last week. he can get back to having a foil in barack obama, saying, you know, he choked, using the words of a senior administration official in that piece, and that he didnt do enough. t...

Was senator mick mcconnells unwillingness to help only making matters worse." lets bring back our panel. let me get david, first, your reaction to all of this, because for one thing, president trump seems to finally be concluding there was russian meddling in the presidential election? >> after calling it a democratic hoax, and fake news, he now is fully onboard with the notion, because he can say it was barack obamas fault, that not enough was done. it is -- in the presidents political interest...

Obamas fault. it seems like theres a conversation to be had about how this happened and if the obama administration should have done something different, but isnt this the president, who is supposed to be looking at a way to not have this happen again? >> right. well, i think theres definitely a statute of limitations of a year, maybe, of blaming your predecessor. obama did have a few words about george w. bush in his first term but he was also dealing with a major economic catastrophe. presiden...

Digs in more than anything else the way hes talked about it, but what do you think from a conservative perspective? >> well, you know, there are a lot of divisions among republicans and conservatives these days, but theyre united on one thing that they would agree on what president trump had to say there that they want to see nancy pelosi stay in place. republicans have figured out that they dont need to defend their policies and be pro-trump, they just need to be anti-liberal. they can run agai...