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Before, well, buckle up, buttercup. so its for all of us. buckle up buttercup, this is what we do. i come, as you know, from chicago, the rough and tumble of a press core. this is nothing compared to what other people go through and what hes been trying to do from the press is what hes been trying to do. >> how can he get up every morning as president when he has to get ready for the budget. hes got to get on top of and he hears morning joe or somebody says something he doesnt like and thats wha...

Services and intelligence committees and our correspondents, analysts and guests are standing by with full coverage of todays top stories. lets begin with our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. michelle, on president obamas last white house news conference that he held today, the president came out with a very strong defense of the news media. update our viewers. >> you know, this was absolutely a message to the incoming administration. i mean, he stood there and told the white house p...

Is an opportunity to spend time doing soul searching but also to make sure that we dont lose sight of those core values and lose hope that somehow they arent worth fighting for anymore. and the role of journalist in our democracy has never been more important and thats been my role here is to facilitate the relationship between the white house press core and the white house. theres a responsibility to hold people in power accountable and ask tough questions. that can be uncomfortable even for pe...

>> none. >> there is a new report out this morning from esquire magazine that includes some quotes both from the incoming press secretary but some anonymous quotes that indicate it is your intent to remove the white house press core from the white house. is that true? >> well, look. first of all -- let me explain. well, no, because the white house obviously is 18 acres, right, chuck? so the technical answer is no. we saw the news conference the other day. and i have to quarrel with you. i dont t...

The incoming president that was the man behind whether president obama was the citizen in the united states and had to produce a birth certificate and other administrations played as well and you go out to the media and its really offensive for people that care about a free press and responsible and a president elect that compares this whole story to nazi germany. maybe we could spend time with the white house going what actually happened when adolph hitler took over in nazi germany before the g...

Definition. he knows that to be a fact because he was in the briefing. kellyanne conway could not give a straight answer to me or anderson cooper about why theyre doing this except to attack the media and it works with his face. >> it does. these are difficult issues to report and you have to report them with caution and with fairness and thats what cnn did. other news organizations didnt do it like buzz feed by linking two unverified claims that were the basis for this briefing and jake tapper ...

Away all of the ability to hold him up to facts, to hold him accountable for what he said because he made us people who were never telling the truth. >> unintentionally, he didnt make us a pack. he basically is saying there are good people and bad people. he didnt accuse the whole press. going back to joe mccarthy. he didnt go to the jackle pack. he didnt do that. what do you make of his tactics generally? >> today was interesting because it was a divide and conquer strategy. by singling out buz...

Strategy. by singling out buzzfeed and cnn, he tried to play to other members of press core, and it was effective. i thought he was calm, confident, he was mixing it up with reporters and he did not answer the substantive questions about his finances and conflicts of interests. from trumps standpoint today was a total victory. >> let me start with the other people. hugh and andrew, did trump win today in this battle between him and the press and how he wants to look? >> only in this regard that ...

All the time. well, we hear kellyanne conway earlier today in a series of media interviews she did promising the trump administration will engage with the media both the president-elect trump himself and his communication staff, trump assembled this. people that have covered trump for the entirety of the kacampan are familiar with this group of staff. they are setting themselves up to have a lot of interactions with the press core. >> and pushing back that promise press conference from earlier t...

Doing something because thats the way we have always done it is not a good reason to keep doing it. the reason to observe these practices because of how critical of the exchanges thats taken place of our democracy and holding those accountable. >> well have more on josh earnest on next weeks "reliable sources." lets go behind the scene, jeff mason, hes in denver with us this morning, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> josh earnest says hes concerned but what changes of the trump admini...