A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Admitted to lying about and cheating. It doesnt get more clear than that. Is manaforts bet at this Point Go For Pardon from the president . Or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar . Whats the strategy . I mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. So i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. I wasnt that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates nefarious activity. The problem is here, first of all, everybodys dirty. This is only the best people, erin. As we say. Only the best people. But it also really does show the way that the International Political consultant class really has become a grift. These folks, really, they talk about populism, they use it as a political strategy, but they are making more money than most working folks will ever see in their life in a year and still go broke. Thats how corrupt and incompete
want to live in a world post-trump. we don t know when that could be, could be two years, six years, but kellyiann is a creature of the swamp. for 20 years. she would like to have another 20 good years after this. she needs to say that. ivanka is very mindful of how her own image is being tarnished, erin, by her association with her father s administration. she is known for massaging the press and trying to get still trying to get good press. it s not totally surprising these two women would be the ones who do it. you re saying that you agree that the president knew. do you agree with that, amy? the that the president could have known this and is on board and loves there was more discussion about it, the one actually orchestrating this whole thing? i have no idea, erin, but we all know that the president speaks his mind. he is not filtered whatsoever and he goes out there and says it. this isn t the first time he said it over the past week.
program and before i went on i tweeted asking, do you agree with the president that the press is the enemy of the people? i didn t actually put in there that fake news is the enemy of the people, which is technically what he said. it had almost 40,000 votes and 93% of the people said yes. i mean, that s a problem that s scary. when perception is reality. that s really scary. it is a problem. of course it s a self-selected group of people who choose to reply to anything. i m not trying to denigrate who you asked, but it s a problem of not trusting a pillar of what this country stands for is coming from the top. barbara reports you have some in the defense department agreeing i think it s significant what she s saying, their frustration is things like troop movements. longstanding battle between the press democrats and republicans. not ideological whatsoever. there is a debate, it appears, in this administration on this issue. let me just play for both of you kellyanne
of the united states, and this is not opinion, this is fact, he and the defense secretary send troops into harm s way to defend the nation s values, which, of course, include a free press and free speech. erin? barbara, what are you hearing about who is influencing this campaign, really, of the administration coming out more forcefully, backing the president s view that the media is the enemy of the people? this may be one of the most interesting questions right now. it has escaped no one s attention at the pentagon in positions of authority that there is a new communications chief at the white house, former fox news executive bill schein. nothing publicly pointing to him but bill schein is someone who keeps a very tight rein on the communications message, and there is a lot of questioning about whether any of this would really be happening. would the rhetoric be so hot and so difficult if bill schein didn t want it to be? erin? barbara, thank you.
calm in this administration, him everyone having this point of view could be hugely significant. what have you learned? let s start with tonight. look, the president offering no examples, we don t know what he means. the white house press secretary offering one example of concerns about national security reporting. her example widely debunked. it simply wasn t true. the defense secretary james mattis, like every defense secretary, is concerned about confidential, classified information getting out there in public. he s concerned. he s talked about this. about information about troop movements, which can be sensitive, information about military readiness. there is no question he has really put a clamp on parts of the military from talking about what they re doing because he feels that it gives enemy forces, adversaries an advantage. whether you agree with that or not, the fact is there is simply no evidence that a free press in this country is causing or leading to any wars. worth rem