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>> shannon: "new york times" columnist making a major admission about what he calls the mainstream medias addiction to covering president trump and how its affecting their coverage. >> we risk not covering a lot of really important things at home and around the world and we complain that president trump is parochial, isnt paying attention to important things around the world and we are absolutely right, but i can also be said about us. >> shannon: lets talk about it with our panel tonight. isaac...

In the stirrup to indicate that the leader has fallen. >> all of america was there with her. in fact, i think much of the world was there with her. it just seemed that something good had disappeared in our lives. it was almost as if people had to watch the funeral to believe it. . >> there was this feeling of national mourning, of a dream deferred. >> what jfk offered the country was both a challenge and a sense of the possibilities of the a country that was on the move. >> for my whole generati...

Suggests youre riding helicopter on these people. >> number one rule is investigations dont talk to witnesses, dont talk to prosecutes. and leave that alone. the president has largely disregarded that advice from his lawyers. its particularly interesting because the president got into so much trouble for trying to talk to comey and that was disclosed -- this is head scratching for a lot of people watching it. >> what does this tell us about the intensity factors in the white house in terms of th...

Hours from now sally yates will testify about michael flynn and his communication with russia. president trump tweeting general flynn was given the highest security clearance but the fake news seldom likes talking about that. and asked sally yates if she knows how the classified information got into -- good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> what question will you be asking sally yates today? >> i will be asking the question that is are really on the minds of americans. they want the truth un...

Potential corruption. so the president-elect got into this discussion, got into, as you just played that sound bite he said i got a deal from a guy in dubai but i said no. to some folks underscore how authority this whole issue is for him. trump lawyers its not realistic to fully divest as recommended by the office of governmental ethics and not ethical to create a blind trust and not what people think it is but again, not the view of some of these ethics expert. the president-elect could releas...

Is a constitutional crisis. i mean was the president legitimately elected or did the russians tip the scale. you simply cant assume that he would have been elected anyhow, well never know that for sure. and we dont know the extent of how much interference the russians got into. but i think this is just a -- its a scandal unprecedented in american history. >> bob, you mentioned the last hour you felt like there should potentially be another election, there should be a do over. michael, do you agr...

Taken down. thats connecting with these voters and theyre not ideological. they like trump because he seems to have answers. >> and then throw in this. i want to bring up this other story. hes talked about distrust from political leaders and what do we have in michigan? this flint, michigan, issue where clearly the governors office, somebody in the governors office was too passive about it. >> the last time i was here was right after paris and there was a notion this is going to help the insider...

Voters and theyre not ideological. they like trump because he seems to have answers. >> and then throw in this. i want to bring up this other story. hes talked about distrust from political leaders and what do we have in michigan? this flint, michigan, issue where clearly the governors office, somebody in the governors office was too passive about it. >> the last time i was here was right after paris and there was a notion this is going to help the insiders and experts and i thought what if the ...

Hes talked about distrust from political leaders and what do we have in michigan? this flint, michigan, issue where clearly the governors office, somebody in the governors office was too passive about it. >> the last time i was here was right after paris and there was a notion this is going to help the insiders and experts and i remember saying what if people think the experts have given us the iraq war and libya. if the experts at home -- including seven years of obama -- have given us a comple...

Matters, but a bunch of alums were upset about this today. >> i guess it is systemic racism. >> music to my ears. >> moving on to yale, the video of the girl screaming, it is not about creating an intellectual space. it is a college. it is literally about creating intellectual space. >> to me what is amazing about this is here you have someone with the school who is saying i am not comfortable telling students what they can and cannot do. and student activists say you have to tell us what we can...