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In media circles. russia followed through on threats to take action against u.s. funded outlets. russia labeling nine media organizations as foreign agents. its a move in retaliation for the u.s. requiring the american version of the russian news network rt to register with the justice department as a foreign agent. with me now is senator ben carton of maryland. senator, you criticized this latest move saying its just an excuse to further curb the free press in russia. why should viewers care? >...

Republicans are suddenly going to draw the line at that. they would. >> if mueller were fired, the pushback would be huge. it would be a huge scandal. and there are people in the west wing who dont want that to happen. who understand what a political swarm that would be. >> part of this pushback on fox and other news stations and outlets. part of it is i remember, lets kill ken starr. the late 1990s. it was the democratic party and democratic media trying to kill the republican special prosecuto...

>> no. im saying something a little bit different. im saying journalism is a process. the way you discover the truth is not by reading any one story and thinking heres the truth. you have to be an active consumer. this is unlike law enforcement, which investigates and pruboduc conclusions at the end. journalists show their work as they go. they approximate the truth. in this case they are reaching it not just because the truth is difficult but because theyre confronting bad faith actors engaged ...

>> we do know this. the russians offered help thmpt campaign accepted help. the russians gave help and the president made full use of that help and that is pretty damning whether it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy or not. >> with us to discuss this bloomberg political reporter and former public policy director pr mitt romney. i will start you, what are you watching most closely this week? >> so with the rosenstein testimony i think we see the extent to which the investigation ha...

Wici made the documents public. leaving cnn with a friday face. this was the latest in a long line of media screw ups. look at the examples from the past seven days. in addition to the cnn mistake donald trump directed mike flynn to contact russians during the 2016 campaign and the new york type his to heavily amend a report that former trump aide lied to congress about flynns communication with russians and multiple outlets walked stories that downy bank targeted trumps bank records regarding r...

Wici made the documents public. leaving cnn with a friday face. this was the latest in a long line of media screw ups. look at the examples from the past seven days. in addition to the cnn mistake donald trump directed mike flynn to contact russians during the 2016 campaign and the new york type his to heavily amend a report that former trump aide lied to congress about flynns communication with russians and multiple outlets walked stories that downy bank targeted trumps bank records regarding r...

Whats your assessment of the distrust between the trump white house and the fbi willing aired out so publicly and through outlets like twitter? >> right. well, you know, mr. trumps frustration with the ongoing is understandable and i can understand why he may, you know, feel that way, but i think the fbi would say that there is a legitimate distinction between what happened with mr. flynn who was pretty much caught making affirmative misrepresentations under oath about his contacts with russian ...

Wici made the documents public. leaving cnn with a friday face. this was the latest in a long line of media screw ups. look at the examples from the past seven days. in addition to the cnn mistake donald trump directed mike flynn to contact russians during the 2016 campaign and the new york type his to heavily amend a report that former trump aide lied to congress about flynns communication with russians and multiple outlets walked stories that downy bank targeted trumps bank records regarding r...

>> well, this is very important. because when you look at the election results, and you look at post election, 97% of the respond dents to a media research survey says they didnt allow the media to bias their voting habit. the media has lost all of their credibility by and large were weather its cnn or reporter at abc or story at deutsche bank. these outlets want to make the news and not report the news. they are so quick to make bad news that they have to go and apologize. taken them so long an...

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