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Second, there are no internet taxes. amazon is now, however, collecting state sales tax nationwide. but president trumps tweet goes beyond attacking the "washington post." the president is very explicitly linking a complaint about a media entity about a threat against the corporation associated with it. did this in an october speech, followed up a string of complaints about the media with this. >> amazon, which through its ownership, controls the "washington post." should be paying massive taxes...

Process and to itemize the specific speaking events, he did so. that is very important context to add to this story, jacob, that were following. but again, what does all of this tell people, the optics regarding mr. flynns trustworthiness and credibility? >> i dont think it fundamentally changes the story. weve known for a long time that flynn gave a paid speech celebrating the anniversary of rt. its not exactly secret information that rt is a russian enterprise and exists to advance the interes...

Demanding that the press fact check the new president, but at the same time many americans are skeptical of the press. its a very complicated situation. >> let me put this by you, ben. if a media entity is a cheerleader for donald trump and never puts his feet to the fire, wont you lose the trust of the american public, too, if you continue to do that consistently? >> i certainly would hope so. heres the thing, every white house treats opposing media as the opposition: the trump white house i th...

To cover him skept tickally when he deserved it, not when he didnt, and it is almost like we have a bifurcation of the media with access and dont and a difference in the coverage. can that system possibly sustain? >> yes. it is not a system that i particular want to see, but i think it is where were going. the one thing ill say for donald trump is that hell change his mind about people, meaning -- >> yeah, yes. >> like he wont -- hell say, this is the worst, most awful person, media entity in th...

Important subject in the next few years than it has been. immigration is a subject on which we need more light and perhaps a little bit less heat. and were going to try to move on that. and then there are a lot of people to talk about as we restaff the government. thats appropriate. its important to know who these people are and what they stand for. >> i hope that this -- the trump election will remind people of the importance of watch dog accountability. at "the nation," were going to strengthe...

What is wrong with us as a society that it took finally hearing his own words, by the way from several years ago, to finally believe dozens and dozens of women? what is wrong with a culture that so strongly does not want to believe women even when they come out in groups and numbers. >> and two dozen strong, many of them credible, many of them famous face, people knew who these alleged victims were. i just asked p.j. before you came up on the set that i still have to call her "accuser." i still ...

Is here. >> thats all the greeting he gets? >> he was so helpful. like the great stuff. shall we get to politics? >> no. bill simmons instead. were talking about new media landscape. willie, set up what happened. this is a guy that created a new wave of media culture. just a blogger out of his house in l.a. wrote like the every fan talked. now hes out at espn. and i think actually its only going to make his impact even more powerful. >> bill simmons biggest star at the biggest media entity espn ...

Conservative reform group. the goo who flew his plane into a building, he was a tea partier. so they do this immediately, blame a conservative. even if its a mass murder. and every one of those examples, can you remember every one of them and ever a media entity taking it back? >> neil: thats not going to happen. wound thing -- one thing im amazed, the sequestration cuts. talk about the gift that keeps giving. you can always fall back on that for any bump along the road, and just say, well, if n...

With journalists twice a month. he regularly coe luds -- >> i remember my colleagues i read went to them. >> yeah. but this is a little different, though. the daily collar had a piece out showing media matters. i dont think anyone would call media matters a media entity. they would regularly meet with the white house and collude on narratives. when any other press asked about fast and furious, the white house, department of justice would defer to media matters and their pieces on fast and furiou...

But also the young girls who were murdered in birmingham -- >> yeah, the innocence. >> and the fire hoses, and the dogs, and, yeah. >> the provocative counter factual i want to ask you, in the environment when the established press does not have the hold as a fact of how many people watch the evening news broadcast, and how many people read "the new york times," is it possible for the kind of social change that we need in the absence of that kind of concentrated media entity? >> i think its a qu...