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something white house officials were not aware of in advance, he detailed a timeline and underscored the fact when the president first talked about the classified documents earlier this week, he omitted a second set of documents we discovered last night. and they knew about them. take a listen. >> the review was underway when you guys gave the detailed statement about the first set of documents. the review was underway when the president spoke about the first set of documents. youre no...

for white house officials and bidens attorneys and it will also show that in the end, this was in their words, a mistake, an inadvertent one at that. however the attorney general made a supplement today so that white house officials were not aware of any events and he detailed timelines that none of us were aware of and underscore the fact that when the president first talked about the classified documents earlier this week, he committed a second set of documents we discovered last nig...

So many ways to look at this. Because you asked about sean, thats one way. Another way is also what this says, maybe much more importantly, about the president of the United States, and how he has learned from the First Six Months about the way he wants to craft his white house with people who are loyal to him. People who know him, who are new yorkers. And are much more fluent in the language of trump than in the ways of washington. Were going to talk much more about that. Jen palmieri, white ho...

Let it play out. >> and david, we also learned -- >> anderson? >> go ahead, david. >> i was just going to say the sitting president didnt do himself any favors. governor dean saying its a mistake, hes being transparent. he didnt do himself any favors by not getting it out there, saying, hey, look, there are other documents out, whether its from the podium or lawyers or somebody else, just putting the full information out. if another document comes someplace tomorrow rngs its going to be really b...

>> go ahead, david. >> i was just going to say, the sitting president did not do himself any favors, governor dean saying it was his mistake, hes been transparent. he did not do himself favors by not getting it all out there and saying, look, there are other documents, whether from the podium or his lawyers, somebody putting the full information out. if another document shows up in some place tomorrow, it will be really bad. >> let me be frank about this, i think that is a price problem. i think...

>> the travel ban now that omicron is so prevalent here in the u.s. >> do you believe senator manchin -- how do you -- >> president biden: im not supposed to be having this press conference right now. [reporters shouting] >> harris: so he did go back and forth with some q and a there. however, when it got to one point he said he wasnt supposed to be doing that. does the president have a press problem? the power panel in "focus" now. matt schlapp, kevin walling, former biden campaign surrogate. g...

Get the rap when a bad story comes out. jennifer, looks like a big press problem just because the press is covering -- something wasnt going well. that doesnt make it a press problem, but not every politician and certainly president trump is not equipped so to speak, to accept that just because a story, a bad story appears in the press doesnt mean that its the fault of the communications staff, and you have to, you know, presidents get very frustrated with the press and youre the person that can...

Its about his access to the president, about him saying something it was undermined by the president on twitter. in the same news cycle. affirming the president as someone who was fired less than 4 hours later -- i mean, they have solved a press problem when they have a substance problem. >> i think youre right. the change is really the wrapping paper. its the product, the substance, the president that most are concerned about. nobody voted for spicer or scaramucci or sarah huckabee sanders. the...

About your job being on the line. >> sean spicer is basically sean spicer exists. that was basically -- when the president of the united states says he is here, he has been here from the beginning -- >> im sorry. >> they should never have taken the job because you know that is an impossible job because you work for somebody who doesnt believe in the truth and you are never going to be able to reconcile that if your job is to talk to the press and tell them the truth. >> some would say not -- >> ...

Can you say affirmatively that whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real? >> if hes not joking, of course. every time he speaks authoritatively, that he speaks, he is speaking as president of the united states. >> the credibility of the president, the role of the press. we have a special panel. we continue turning back to gay talese and floyd abrams here. is this different, in all of the different press that you have covered and you have basically represented the press, t...