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>> youve got it. and it is not unusual to get two different readings of a meeting, lavrov and his customary charlieing way, that was quite at odds with what secretary of state tillerson said. thats why there are note takers. they sit on the side of the room and they take notes. apparently president trump didnt want anyone else in the room. i guess he looks at every note taker and thinks of that person as being a leaker. but there are reasons you have note takers. >> there was a moment i want to...

>> there was a moment i want to play jumped out at me. take a listen. >> thank you. >> thats putin leaning over and saying to president trump, these are the ones that insulted you. pointing to the press core. given that numerous journal the i haves in russia have been murdered in cold blood, and often thought to be partly at the hands of putin or his surrogates, what did you make of that moment? >> to be frank, these two leaders have raised tastelessness to an art form. it is kinds of appalling ...

Narrative. >> neil: thats the problem with the president and his tweets to the msnbc anchors. he got the conversation off that agenda and to something that is silly but is all-encompassing. that is the danger of getting off message. press secretary under george w. bush ari fleischer with us here. what do you make of that? >> you wake up and you shake your head and you watch your briefing and shake your head. thats what i did today. when i saw the presidents tweet, i thought why is he doing this?...

On camera to be useful to the public and to be useful for our press core, why? because youll get the same information. by the way, i find the richest points of the entire press briefings that sean or sarah do is when theyre reading what the president is doing and the vice president that particular day. it gets such positivity rather than the q&a. >> its not about the ability to do our jobs at journalists, its about you knowing theyre doing their jobs. "chicago sun times" washington bureau chief ...

Guarantee that a white house press secretary must brief live. as we have seen with holocaust centers with spicers first briefing that first day and any other problems hes had, the results have not been good. and i think they could legitimately say that they are making themselves available, answering every question every reporter has and not doing it on live tv, which feeds the networks, but it doesnt stop the washington post reporters from breaking the bombshell they did yesterday. magazine repo...

Interpreting the reason to be russia. no one knows or expressed about that. >> he reenforced that when he talks to a people,ergei lavr lavrov. >> right. >> i waited until he lie which is the first time he opens his mouth about president obama, thats when it came into inju jurisdiction of the program. that was not part of my 10:00 p.m. jurisdiction. given that set up, do you think donald trump was telling the truth when he told the press core that hes 100% willing to testify. >> i think the truth...

This conversation -- >> he was clarifying his own comments after telling a reporter something different. for i think the president is looking at it. right now we dont have a position. while aides snamed this picture of cohn talking to cameras the briefing was off camera in the white house press core. corp. talking about germans are bad, very bad, the president heard saying, see the millions of cars theyre selling to the u.s. terrible well stop this. the president declined to comment so it was ga...

Out to the white house press core saying look at this headline, that good headline. the president wants much more than that. he wants a group of people whose sole job it is to make him look good every moment of every day. the irony here is that most of the episodes hes been upset about have been of his own making. not about surrogates willing to go out and speak to the cameras about defending him. its about him undermining the narrative that the white house is putting out. >> i think it speaks t...

Initially supposed to go where it was decided for security or other reasons was not good idea. the site of one of the great tragedies in israeli history. mass suicide in the face of an onslaught. perhaps that was symbolically not a good message to send. theres been a lot of controversy as to who can acc p accompany him there. there have been calls for a male reporters from the american press core to volunteer because women are not allowed to go into the mens section of the western wall where peo...

Released after russia did showed a much more serious atmosphere, showed them sitting in the oval office chairs together. there was a mistake here, and the press core, the u.s. white house press core were not allowed in that meeting. there were no independent photographs or reporting opportunities to that meeting. >> so, ashley, lets talk about h.r. mcmaster. he got the call from the bull pen on this story to be the face of it to go out there and defend it. such an interesting guy, former tank co...