Masha Guesson News Today

Message of his own. if the story about this week is the ordinary pomp and circumstance that accompanied trumps inauguration, then the story is incomplete without also talking about the extraordinary show of resistance against it. joining me now is masha guesson, author of "the man without a face, the unlikely rise of vladimir putin." masha, its a real privilege to have you on today. you wrote a piece and i want to read a few things that youve written in "the new york times" and its autocracy rul...

Whole spicer briefing because -- they didnt take it live because they wanted to see what is news there. i think, you know, especially with tight budgets, with tight budgets in journalism, weve got to really shift the way we cover this white house because were not going to be getting -- sean spicer is going to be angrily apoplectically yelling at reporters. why? why dignify that by being in the room or have interns in the room to be yelled at while your best people are out actually reporting the ...

>> who, by the way, is a very old-fashioned reporter. >> said no, no, they talked to the u.s. secret service, there was no magnetometers used on the national mall so something easily disprovable. but you now have people on twitter, trump people, and we dont know if theyre real or fake, saying the media is lying about trumps crowd size. there were millions of people there and theyre not telling us because theyre liars. so there are people who are buying this immediately and becoming trumps cheeri...