that is president who just recently, for example, called a reporter s question racist, another question stupid, told a third female reporter he didn t know what she was thinking because she s never thinking and paraphrasing here and the next question to ask is whether the dero couple, in fact, and if the rules are put in place goes both ways. the president says he s directed the staff to walk out of briefings if need be, if they feel like they need to. and need to point out there have been fewer briefings than i can count on one hand as the white house notably pulled back with the press secretary in lieu of moments like the ones you re seeing. the president talking with reporters in that kind of setting. stay with me for a second. i want to reset. 1:00 now. expecting the president to make a live appearance in this hour to part of the ceremony for the presidential medal of freedom ceremony to come.
confrontation. presidents i work for and known before others in the past the traditional way is you have ten reporters that you know you go to. most of thep friends. you know what they ll say. the president first of all he talks to reporters that he knows he ll have a confrontation with. and 100 reporters in there. and a will the of them in there that are kind of whacky. and he doesn t even know. no idea. and picking people he has no idea or what they ll say. so unconventional. what did you think of the calling the question racist? where do you start with that. again, to me that had the air of a line he reversed in advance. he repeated it. a couple times. and it seemed that he decided that this was a brilliant way. we have seen that before by president trump. when he has been challenged he does this sort of like no i m
sit down, please. sit down! i didn t call you. i didn t call you. april s going to be here later on in this show. i want to hear from her. the president calling a question from pbs yamiche alcindor, who is african-american, falsely claiming her question racist. on the campaign trail, you called yourself a nationalist. some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists. now people are also saying i don t know why you d say that. that s such a racist question. there are some people there was nothing racist about that question, nothing at all. the president could have just answered, could have tried to explain his position. instead, what do do you? that old tactic. when you can t really explain it, you attack the person who is doing it. he attacked the reporter. but the president did not just target reporters today. he also threatened democrats if they step up their oversight of the white house, which is their job. but they can play that game,
april s going to be here later on in this show. i want to hear from her. the president calling a question from pbs yamiche alcindor, who is african-american, falsely claiming her question racist. on the campaign trail, you called yourself a nationalist. some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists. now people are also saying i don t know why you d say that. that s such a racist question. there are some people there was nothing racist about that question, nothing at all. the president could have just answered, could have tried to explain his position. instead, what does he do? that old tactic. when you can t really explain it, you attack the person who is doing it. he attacked the reporter. but the president did not just target reporters today. he also threatened democrats if they step up their oversight of the white house, which is their job. but they can play that game, but we can play it better because we have a thing called the united states senate.
they say which is so unconventional. what did you think of calling the reporter s question racist? where do you start with that. that did have the air of a line he rehearsed in advance. he reaped it a couple times. it seemed that he had decided that that was a brilliant way. we ve seen that before from president trump. sometimes when he has been challenged, he does this sort of like no, i m not but what are you and you know, i feel like it s a classic trump move on some level if he perceives himself to be accused of racism, he ll accuse can you of being that. again, we re drawn into. let me tell you your assessment that s an astute asset assessment. he accuses you of whatever it is that you are saying about him. right. even if that means racism, even if you challenge him, especially if you re a reporter of color on race. listen to women, he talks about