president, a lack of policy coverage. there are personal attacks about his physicalities, his fitness of office. talking about dementia. arm chair psychologists all over television every single day. the significance is that this was a very important day when the south korean president was here and all of the focus could have been on the global challenges that come out of the korean peninsula right now, including north korea. there s also a major health care issue that country has unresolved and instead we spent a couple days talking about the president s tweets. and the story broke shortly after they published a fascinating profile on becker, who we heard has been close friends with donald trump for years. the july 3rd edition is titled the national inquirer s fervor
south korean president, i did ask the president more generally a question about what he had any regrets on the tweet involving mika brzezinski. kellyanne conway hose spoke out. what did she say? reporter: she did. her argument is that attacks on the president like this are counterproductive, because his policies don t get covered, but that sort of ignores the fact that it s the president s own tweets that create the media storm. but listen to part of what she had to say. if you go back and you look at what is said about this president, a lack of policy coverage, there are personal attacks about his physicalities, about his fitness for office. he s called a goon, thug, armchair psychologists all over television every day talking about dementia. reporter: the significance of all of this is this was a very important day at the white house when the south korean president
members ever the media on their love of country. if you go back and look at what is said about this president, a lack of policy coverage, there are there are personal attacks about his physical altties his fitness more culled a goon a thug mentally ill talking about dementia. armchair psychologist. georges is it doesn t help to have the american people to have a president covered in this light. kellyanne as you knee. the toxicity is over the top. and here is the problem with all this going on while trying to conduct matters of state. twice today the president was asked whether he thought his initial attack went too far. once it came while he was standing next to the president of the south korea. thank you very much. mr. president do you redwret the tweet that you sent about mika brzezinski? and about the white house press briefing today at which
what is said about this president, a lack of policy coverage, there are there are personal attacks about his physical altties his fitness more culled a goon a thug mentally ill talking about dementia. armchair psychologist. georges is it doesn t help to have the american people to have a president covered in this light. kellyanne as you knee. the toxicity is over the top. and here is the problem with all this going on while trying to conduct matters of state. twice today the president was asked whether he thought his initial attack went too far. once it came while he was standing next to the president of the south korea. thank you very much. mr. president do you redwret the tweet that you sent about mika brzezinski? and about the white house press briefing today at which cameras were not allowed,
politics. at the same time, we have the polarization, you had that wonderful tape out in montana about people s reaction to the body slam. you can see that we are polarized. a lot of that is working its way into political discourse. so it is more negative but the press is concentrating on what s going wrong. professor, we love to claim that we yes or arn for more substance. there s a pie chart that says coverage was 42% in the 2016 race about the horse race nature of this. only 10% of coverage was on policy. do we really want policy coverage or do we just say that? well, i think to a degree we do say that. you do surveys, people say they would like to hear more about the issues, and then they do the issue coverage and we don t pay much attention to it. to me, striking thing about coverage in 2016 was how much