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Its a bold work of our press freedom, and our general freedom of speech. so "the washington post" has reported today now that as of the -- as of this time since president trump took office, he has issued at least 2001 misleading or false statements. things like crooked hillary, doesnt that sound defaming? when i mention at the dinner table tonight that i was going to talk about president trump calling for a tightening of the libel laws, my wife burst out laughing. >> michael, as a sith sene dona...

Before he was president, he his a long history of threatening to take legal action again nearly anything written against him that he didnt like. so david, obviously no president ever likes their press coverage or everything thats written about them. to go so far to suggest changing libel laws, which is not something the president can unilaterally do is odd or disturbing, to say the least. >> i agree. lets go back to the basics. the laws are controlled by case decided by the supreme court in 1964...

Knowingly false and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. were going to take a very, very strong look at that, and i think what the american people want to see is fairness. now, keep in mind this is coming from someone who spent more than a year lying about where president obama was born, and pushed the theory that ted cruzs father was involve in the kennedy assassination. even if he wanted to, not any president can do much about libel laws. its hardly a new thing for donald ...

Press coverage and the public mind set off of. >> shepard: on some level with some quarters, it works for him. my team, we have this twitter thing. and the people are, those who are with him no matter what, he should change the libel laws, the libel laws are horrible. he cant. hes not a dictator, hes not a king, he cant change the libel laws. >> yeah, yeah. preposterous. the libel laws are set by 50 states and the first amendment of the constitution f you change the libel laws you have to get co...

>> jonathan, this isnt the first time the president showed switchiness on daca. he said we got to do something with heart, that was almost a year ago if february. he said. that as you watched the congressmen and the senators in that room. you saw kevin mccarthy to jump in to sort of correct the president, if there were a thought bubble over dick durbins head sitting next to president trump, i would have loved to have seen it. he said when i came out of the meetings, my head was spinning. i dont ...

During the most recent protests. what do you make of the size of that number? it is far exceeding what any international observers expected. >> the government clamped down on external press coverage. we really dont know a lot about what happened. i believe given the extent of these demonstrations the clear explicit calls for the regime to be overthrown we have a real demonstration how unpopular and weak the regime is. what it has is the barrel of the gun. thats what sustains the islamic revoluti...

There is nothing stopping him from directing whats going on downstairs in the west wing. i think thats true. i guess also, this shouldnt be terribly surprising. if anybody has been watching donald trump over the years of his career in business, this is somebody who has been completely obsessed by his press coverage in ways that i have never seen with politicians. and theyre pretty obsessed with their press coverage. taking out every article and writing personal notes and having his assistant fax...

His career in business, this is somebody who has been completely obsessed by his press coverage in ways that i have never seen with politicians. and theyre pretty obsessed with their press coverage. taking out every article and writing personal notes and having his assistant fax that back or e-mail that back to a reporter, he had a very -- in his business career, an obsession with his press. >> to be fair, not just about his own press coverage, david, youre right, but just about news in general....

Different. we have seen from the limited press coverage out there that these people are calling for the ends of the islamic revolution, and their economic complaints are not new. these are gone back for a long time. i think it shows the regime is in trouble. thats why i think the united states can play an important role here. supporting the legitimate opposition. eric: you talk about the opposition. the opposition said the government should be paralyzed and fall like nelson mandela, the fall of ...

Behaving like a president in a respectful way, but thats go down. i really think the negative press coverage versus what weve seen this past president is because we have a bully in the white house. he likes to punch. >> the media is a bully. >> and larry, to that point, in the past month or so, weve seen the media have to story after story after story, all mean-spirited stories and demeaning present trump. if they wouldve done journalism 101, take a deep breath and done some basic homework they ...