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Since hes been in office, going to cpac, the conservative political action conference on friday, and again doubling down on some of the outlets as fake news and calling them an enemy of the press, not all of them, but some of them that hes been fighting with. you saw him this morning tweeting about another one of those outlets again, "the new york times." hes repeatedly hit them. and so, the president has made a strategy of trying to undermine their reporting and undercut it, particularly when t...

Traditional media outlets in the press room, there essentially is a stacking of people who like them that they like. thats what this it administration is doing to a lesser degree mathematically, they may have a few more outlets who are reasonable to conservatives, and frankly, i like seeing them, people i know and adore asking questions. >> tom: when do we see that woman, helen in the front row, every conference is the same -- >> she got the first question. >> tom: anyway, lets move onto the nex...

The president also claimed that they cant criticize dishonest coverage because of the first amendment. im not aware of anyone saying they dont have a constitutional right to push back. lets face it, media bashing generates plenty of coverage. >> lets go back to that news. what do you make of all this? >> it is a pretty strong brush back page, especially since some conservative journalists allowed in. called this an acceptable for reporting facts they dont like. joining the complaint about this g...

Correction, reportedly making that request on saturday, insinuating that the fbi broke the law. "the new york times" was first to report the request. no official statement has been made by either comey, the fbi or the justice department. the white house press secretary sean spicer released a statement, quote, reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling. president donald j. trump is requesting that as part of their ...

>> reporter: well, we should also point out, martha, two of the outlets that were excluded today cnn and "new york times" are outlets that the president has repeatedly called out as being, quote, fake news. >> martha: he certainly has. as we pointed out, john, this sort of pushed aside the story that was the big story this morning. >> yeah. >> martha: which had to do with reince priebus and dialogue with the fbi where he asked them, essentially, would they be willing to clear the white house of ...

Other major newspapers but "new york times" was not and outlets that are more conservative leaning and given more favorable coverage were. not standard under previous administrations of democrats or republicans. i contacted them about why made the decision and have not answered the question. >> of course they didnt. i said right on because i heard you talking to wolf about bright shiny objects. what do you think is happening here? >> what happened today including to sara where they tried to bloc...

And other media outlets were excluded from the briefing. other administrations have excluded certain organizations in the past, early on in the obama administration they attempted to exclude fox news from the press pool. does this feel any different to you? did you see it coming? >> i didnt personally see it coming. i thought it was straininge tha they changed the on-camera gaggle to an off-camera gaggle in the spokespersons office. when we were making our way into sean spicers office, the perso...

Straight. the media we were trying to help get the story straight after being falsely maligned with blind sources. not you rest of the mainstream media is attack us for trying get the story straight. judge jeanine: there was a claim the "new york times" was exempted. >> the pool which is a representation of all different outlets. print, online, radio and television. the fact of the matter is the associated press, the wires and a couple other papers were part of the pool. they came and we expande...