and joining us now from boston david beard a contributing editor to the pointer institute of journalism also a former digital content editor at the washington post david thanks for being with us more than three hundred fifty news outlets across the u.s. all running editorials on the same day in defense of press freedom what s your take on this action. well i actually if you add in some other broadcast outlets there are there are dozens more there are off you know hundreds of reports throughout maybe more than a thousand employees find the message today on electronic media and just within the last hour i don t know if you know on this the u.s. senate just passed unanimously that s the upper house resolution that declares the press is not the enemy of the people and efforts to systematically undermine the credibility of the press are quote an attack on our democratic
of smirnoff ice, and demanding the person who discovers it, in this case the deputy director, guzzles it. earlier on this network steve schmidt characterized the chaos in this white house in his own unique way during an appearance with nicolle wallace. from a personnel perspective we ve never quite seen the assemblage of crooks, wife beaters, drunk drivers, complete and total incompetence that s been assembled. if you took the ten greatest hr managers in the history of the world, put them together and said we want to form a 1927 yankees of incompetence, it s not possible they would have done a better job. the gentleman does have a way with words, doesn t he? share of journalist ethics at the pointer institute and jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter, a veteran journalist himself.
assemblage of crooks, wife beaters, drunk drivers, complete and total incompetence that s been assembled. if you took the ten greatest hr managers in the history of the world, put them together and said we want to form a 1927 yankees of incompetence, it s not possible they would have done a better job. the gentleman does have a way with words, doesn t he? share of journalist ethics at the pointer institute and jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter, a veteran journalist himself. so jonathan, these are not the headlines you want. and just a reminder to all, steve schmidt is a republican. when you hear steve schmidt,
managers in the history of the world, put them together and said we want to form a 1927 yankees of incompetence, it s not possible they would have done a better job. the gentleman does have a way with words, doesn t he? share of journalist ethics at the pointer institute and jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter, a veteran journalist himself. so jonathan, these are not the headlines you want. and just a reminder to all, steve schmidt is a republican. when aiohear fryou hear stev, but he s a republican. you go back in history and think about firing haulderman in april 1973, that s a huge moment.
with us tonight, retired four-star u.s. army general, barry mccaffrey. decorated combat from vietnam, these days an msnbc military analyst. and deera lochman, chair of journalism ethics at pointer institute. general, before we go doubling the pentagon budget to catch up with what putin unveiled, and this their computer graphics were incredible. some people have pointed out they were borrowed from the deepest regions of youtube a few years back. they show the reach of their missiles. they show the incredible strength of their missiles. they troll the u.s. by using part of florida as one of the targets. they show their terrain following capabilities. you ve seen it all. before we double the pentagon budget, what should we know about them? well, it s a shocking kind of