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Good morning, fred. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning, dave. this was an israeli firm hired by trump aides. not just the british observer, but other publications and outlets doing the same. it was ben rhodes and colin kyle who were essentially asked whether information was gathered on their personal lives, but dealings around trying to get that iran nuclear deal to be put in place. on top of this, the firm apparently also contacted some journalists perceived to be for the iran nuclear a...

And were there other stormys, too? he didnt rule it out. this week i have to admit i chuckled at some of the headlines calling this a white house credibility crisis. i mean, that is true. thats objectively true. it is a crisis, but its been true since day one. reporters are always trained to cover whats new, whats different, what do you have? whats happening? trumps fibs are not new. hes been behaving this way his whole life. heck, trump entered politics on a lie about president obama. so what i...

And what happened in the mccarthy era he would attack the media. he would -- he knew exactly when deadlines were. he would call in the afternoon wire reporters with 30 minutes to go and announce a story. it didnt give him time to check it out. they felt that a u.s. senator talking about communism was intrinsically newsworthy and there was a big debate about whether newspapers should actually call out a lie is a lie. >> do you think journalists are getting it right today? >> i think it depend on,...

Does want there to be a tv lawyer, somebody out there defending him, you know, jay sekulow, for whatever reason, isnt going. that in the fox universe is one thing. but when you take that on the road to abc and when the clips from fox are outside the universe, how does that -- >> it doesnt work. think about how many times john dowd and ty cobb were on the last 12 months defending their client. i think it was zero, and for good reason. if youre a serious attorney you dont do this. so important, ab...

Pruitts press team has been shopping negative stories about zinke to multiple outlets. the stories were shopped with the intention of taking the heat off of pruitt. >> i cant help but think that whats going on with pruitt is going on with ronny jackson. if im donald trump, why am i going to remove this guy who has a similar scandal? >> planning your overseas trips? >> i dont know what that tactic is, because as weve seen with this cabinet, there can be multiple people under fire at once. thats h...

Worry americans will stop believing anything he says and that is a genuine concern and that is what we were hearing last night on fox as well. what has shifted that all of a sudden these facts now matter more? >> i think it is significant that these are two outlets owned by rupert murdoch, a staunch ally of the president, and they may have disagreements but in general fox news opinion shows and the washington editorial have stood up for him and defended him and so it is important to note the dif...

Panel. jake mack a buy and kristin tate. kristin, what do you think about this story, do you think theres any possibility in your mind they were right the first time around? >> i think this is a shocking example of irresponsible journalism. the reporters at nbc have become careless in their efforts to smear president trump. see these media outlets acting more like political organizations than news organizations. and this is why the people do not trust the mainstream media today. i think that the...

Ahead of the epa whos dismantling them. >> this is actually an interesting point. glad you brought this up. if you dig deeply into what specifically scott pruitt has done at the epa, he has instigated the rollback of a lot of obama-era regulations. right about that. for the most part theyre tide up in litigation. not many things have actually been implemented. this is a case of, you know, donald trump listening to outlets he finds friendly, who kind of parrot this narrative and at this point its...

Atlantic" who wrote the story, you identify michael abboud. what did sources tell you and what did your investigation show you he was going? >> what michael abboud did is tried to plant stories about a member of ryan zinkes press team with outlets and suggest that this ryan zinke staffer tried to plant stories negative about xos pruitscott pruitt, if follow that at all. my investigations found most reporter said i dont think the story has legs. interesting about this, the white house caught mich...

Well, that seems fair. we didnt use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. and now to a stunning report on scott pruitt whos been in headlines repeatedly lately over ethical questions and his spending habits. the "atlantic" reporting a staffer at the epa tried to deal with all of that, by diverting attention. going after another member of the administration. "in the last week a member of pruitts press...