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Surrogates within the republican party, because when you listen to leadership and read between the lines of the messages coming out of them, theyre walking a tight political tightrope in order to continue to try to carry out the presidents legislative agenda without getting bogged down, if you will, in the latest political water cooler talk of the day. >> well, lets turn to that water cooler talk of the day. a lot of this is about the media. jonathan, about the late tweet yesterday, saying that ...

Warren, is it the media, elites. they were struggling with the question. >> who did they decide? >> i think yesterday we got the answer, the media, us. it was somebody said it was steve bannon solution. they had one enemy, hillary clinton, shes gone. >> they need a new foil. is it really that thought-out or is he just that frustrated. >> i agree with ryan, but he can blame the media for everything from if it rains during one of his rally to the fact that his message isnt going to get out. at the...

>> reporter: spetrump also spen much to have the time criticizing his favorite foil, the press. >> if the information coming from those leaks is real, how can the story be fake? >> the reporting is fake. >> i just want to ask -- >> jim, you know what it is? the public, they read newspapers, they see television, they watch. they dont know if its true or false. because theyre not involved. im involved. and ill tell you what else i see. i see tone. the tone, the tone is such hatred. im really not a...

That, i dont know. but they dont believe you. >> theres more to donald trumps war on the median than using them as a political foil to replace having an opponent in an election. its a battle, really, over the truth and who controls it. for president, it seems, objective facts arent even part of the equation. instead, truth is the reality defined by whomever commands power and public opinion. we saw that play out in the presidents attempt at a weird jedi mind trick over his inauguration crowds wh...

The oscars, live sunday, february 26th 7eâ4p on abc. a lower approval rate than congress. i think thats right. peter, is that one right? i think they have lower -- i heard lower than congress. the public doesnt believe you people anymore. maybe i had something to do with that, i dont know. but they dont believe you. >> theres more to donald trumps war on the median than using them as a political foil to replace having an opponent in an election. its a battle, really, over the truth and who co...

Yes, very high approval among republicans in republican districts. if that number fades, thats telling. looking at voters who supported him but reluctantly. the hard core supporters are always going to be with him. remember, he said he could go out on fifth avenue, shoot someone and they would be with him. i think its true. republican lawmakers say its true, they are hearing it. the softer supporters, i think, are important to keep an eye on. he saw the media as a foil. well see him do that with...

>> eliana. >> i think what is becoming clear is that trump thrives when he has a foil, which he did always during the campaign. there were opposing candidates in the republican primaries. he talked about lyin ted, little marco. crooked hillary. he is trying to make the press his foil now. when the focus is just on him, whats happening in his administration and whats going on, it doesnt go so well for him. you saw today an attempt for him to revert back to campaign mode to shake attention off of ...

Based on what president trump said today, how he will respond to daca. >> did he ask april ryan, a reporter, to set up a meeting with him and the congressional black caucus? >> reporter: he said, hey, if you can get them in touch with me f i want to have a meeting with elijah cummings, is the name he mentioned, and others, then id be open it. mike pence was sitting in front of me. he was nodding his head. seemed the advisers were satisfied with that answer. its hard to articulate the sort of con...

Projection on to putin and the kremlin and russia and it -- in many ways its a vestige of the cold war but theyreurprised by events as much as anyone else is. it seems to me theres a little bit of what exactly have we gotten ourselves into that is emanating from russia as it is from many parts of the world. >> well, in some ways this is similar to what happens in russia. this narrative to me never felt right, that russia is the well-oiled machine with the hackers rowing in tune with the guy with...

Right, that russia is the well-oiled machine with the hackers rowing in tune with the guy with the drum its full of haphazard actions and incompetent people. they didnt expect trump to win and they would have done just fine with hillary clinton as president, too, they like having, you know, an anti-russian foil in the white house that people can rally around the flag around putin. theyll be fine either way. they didnt expect trump and they didnt expect this level of chaos. they knew hes unpredic...