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Raised about just how close the president is coming to witness intimidation after he demanded to see the whistle-blower. his words, face to face, and openly said today that he is trying to learn his or her identity. >> mr. president, do you now know who the whistle-blower is, sir? >> well, were trying to find out about the whistle-blower. >> well, the whistle-blower understandably seeking protection as senator mark warner, the vice chairman of the intel committee tells cnn this. >> any rational ...

Identity. >> mr. president, do you now know who the whistle-blower is, sir? >> well, were trying to find out about the whistle-blower. >> well, the whistle-blower understandably seeking protection as senator mark warner, the vice chairman of the intel committee tells cnn this. >> any rational person would be concerned about the whistle-blowers safety after the presidents comments, which led from some press outlets on the right who were actually offering a bounty on trying to reveal the whistle-b...

Outrageous behavior about protecting the whistleblower program. because for 40 years this program has allowed folks to come forward in a protected way when theyve seen abuse. and this presidents failure to honor that, to recognize that the whistleblower deserves protections and what the chilling effect it would have on our whole intelligence community, which more than any other area, needs to have the ability to not be politicized, to speak close to power, and if they see something, say somethin...

It. and there is one new thing coming out of this, which is something that we wouldnt really know if the associated press and other press outlets wouldnt have gone ahead and get the unredistracted search warrants from the michael cohen search warrant. what we know now, what the cause of the associated press did is the southern district of new york is not going to go forward with an investigation into anymore campaign finance violations. and the reason that thats significant is that we know other...

Katherine harris, thank you. >> youre welcome. >> good to see you. the mueller report was supposed to be the product of two years of dedicated investigation and cost at least 25 the dollars enough to buy a european palace or three bedroom condo in san francisco. but despite all of that money, your money, hundreds of times they simply cited major press outlets rather than original finding. >> i think you relied on media. i had alike to know how many times you cited the washington post in your rep...

Co opted by people in his office that were more idealogically biassed than he was. with respect to how it went, i think we have to wait until the dust settles. you never know how the populous will respond to this, the people watching, the people that didnt know much about the report, how its reported by various press outlets. some of the democrats, particularly in the first hearing, made points by focusing on facts. im talking about the obstruction part of his report. facts that people might not...

The video and interacting jokingly about what looks good and what doesnt with kamala harris. are the reporters themselves. you know press outlets when someone is a prominent candidate they send someone to follow them and cover them. shes at a boutique in south carolina. theyre fawning over her outfits. theyre suggesting new and cool looking jackets for her to wear. its one thing to do it in private. another thing to put it on instagram. >> its a fan girl moment. >> suggested by this reporter. sh...

Reach out to them, the decision to release this exextraordinati rare statement came within the special counsels office. it is so interesting to take a step back here that the president sh, the white house, essentially got a helping hand from the special counsels office. its the president who has attacked robert mueller for being on a witch hunt. but in this case, this is a situation where essentially, the special counsels office put out the statement bailing him out in a sense because this was a...

Newspaper or in some media outlet that has a lot of things correct but it has a few things incorrect, like who is the object of scrutiny or what documents we have or mischaracterizes things in a certain way, usually our plan was to keep our mouths shut. you can do more harm by talking than not talking. sometimes it was egregious enough you felt like you had to make some statement. the problem then is, you dont want to edit their piece and say, among these 15 facts -- you become their editor. you...

Press outlets sometimes face that if they dont get everything right and the prosecutor speaks in this way and retreats back. >> just from a reporting standpoint, explain for people out there what happens now to -- for those buzzfeed reporters. for buzzfeed. are they -- they go back to the people they talked to, they try to pan out -- >> speaking for reporting generally, people will go back to their sources and try to re-establish trails and look at what they have and what they dont have. ben smi...