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Country. and when you have the president threatening to derail the tom warner deal because he doesnt like the press coverage hes getting from cnn, that is exactly the type of thing that needs to be reigned in. and the ethics government office has is a critical role in dealing with conflicts of interest. but if the administration doesnt want to take ethics seriously, its a very difficult job. >> well get to that. but before we do, you talk about their approach toectics. earlier this year i you kn...

To make changes quickly so they can put a bill on the floor and trump surrogates are talking how hes working the phones and trying to push this ahead. they dont know what this is right now with all the defections and changes going on. so thats negative press coverage. that doesnt look good for his winning agenda. and thats the media beating up on him and as we heard from all the surrogates over the last week, when the media beats up on him, in a verbal offense, trump says hes entitled to counter...

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Conservative kerry sheffield, and peter emerson. big welcome to you both. well go ladies first, kerry. lets talk about the presidents tweets, five of them out today, three of them digs at news outlets including this network. how can he expect to get anything done on policy, and theres a lot of policy he has on his agenda, when he spends so much of his time on twitter feuds? >> the president is fulfilling two roles at this point. the kennedy school and the harvard center have showed there is over...

But they do all sort of share his frustration and ainge were the press, and it really is up and down. >> jen, the white house that you worked in, did you feel that, that your white house was under attack? >> it was all sunshine and roses all the time. no. yes. absolutely. i think every white house is under attack. i was there during the financial crisis. i was there when we lost the house and lost the senate. there are certainly moments where you feel under attack but that doesnt mean that you l...

An avowed enemy of the white house. but most reporters want to be fair and accurate and they tri-very hard just to be that. >> thats exactly right, anderson. if youre talking about the press briefing or the back and forth with donald trumps own relationship with the press, there is a healthy giving back -- give back and forth with the press. they always want more access, say, when youre in the white house, youre never going to give them as many press conferences but the reality here is that if h...

Say, when youre in the white house, youre never going to give them as many press conferences but the reality here is that if he was at 55% approval rating and had just passed a tax reform package and a health care bill and was traveling around the country raising money for republican candidates, there would probably be good press coverage. theres a reason why theres not good press coverage. its because there isnt good news to cover and thats how the media works and thats pretty simple. >> theres...

Trump have not enjoyed positive press coverage. thats a fact of that office. you get criticized and some people call you names and some people make fun of the way you look. they will say horrible things about you. thats what people do in america on, television, off television, on social media. have we ever had a president come back and attack a private citizen? whether they are on television or not before? >> absolutely not. and i was just about to say from my vantage point of having worked in t...

House intelligence community adam schiff saying the white house did not do enough. president s tweet said he did nothing, that is not accurate and also worth noting that the president in these tweets is acknowledging and we noticed this over the weekend, starting to acknowledge on a larger scale that the russians were trying to intervene in the election, and, wolf, a side note. you did mention that this briefing will be off camera. that is correct. well have the audio after this is all over. ano...

If you listen to them, we didnt pass any -- im not talking about executive orders, which we have signed a lot, and we got rid of a lot of really bad pieces that were signed by president obama. believe me. if you listen to the fake news, they say, "he didnt pass any legislation." >> leland: president trump making it quite clear how he feels about the press. some of the founding fathers didnt like much of the press coverage they got either. ed appears adversarial relationships between the presiden...