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After the white house defended the chief of staff john kelly for calling congresswoman wilson an empty barrel. the press secretary said quote if you are able to make a sacred act like honoring american heroes about yourself then you are an empty barrel so they are not backing down. at the same time, they also want to move on from this dispute. they want the public and the media to focus on other things, focus on more policy issues, like tax reform, but its tough to do when the president himself ...

But the thing that everybody remembers is what was reported. this happens on twitter all the time. so i think that has caused trust in the media to go down. you can look at the pew study that came out recently about americans trust in the media, and frankly it worries me because we need a news media industry in this country that is trusted by people in both parties. and right now, a lot of republicans dont trust it, and frankly a lot of democrats as we heard from president carter dont trust it e...

Saying, oh, this is trumps benghazi. i just think she doesnt know enough to make that pronouncement. if she does make that pronouncement, is she admitting that benghazi was the failure that republicans said it was? this analogy breaks down on a number of fronts, and it also just breaks down the discourse around the concept here that we have a nation grieving for the loss of four soldiers. thats all anybody really ought to care about. well get to the facts in due time, but i just think this back ...

Politicized so you are seeing motions run high here -- emotions run high here as developments continue on both sides. julie: theres a lot of facts and theres a lot of fake news as the president likes to call it. lets talk about the facts first of all. general kelly came out very forcefully but he also mentioned something that turned out in a video, didnt necessarily add up. thats the fbi building and representative wilson and her involvement in all of that. that turned out not to be true. can yo...

$400,000 of his own money to pay for some of his staffs and former campaign acquaintances pay for some of their legal bills. these are mounting legal bills as part of this ongoing russia probe. theres a lot of questions. you know, who decides which staffers get the money? could it possibly include paul manafort and michael flynn? the president meanwhile hes continuing to dismiss these investigations as a hoax and a witch hunt, but make no mistake, the legal bills are very real and wracking up at...

Way or the other for fact, theres no recording of this conversation for him to actually say or the theory that he said that he knew he was getting into just doesnt seem to add up compared what all the other grieving families who have come forward have said after having spoken to the president. >> well, if you take a look at what general kelly said, he said that he had helped counsel the president. he had helped the president reach a message. it sounds like a lot of this comes down to tone and a ...

How this whole thing started was with a question at the press conference on monday about why the president hadnt addressed the situation in niger. why he had not yet addressed -- >> exactly. >> -- the soldiers who were killed there. i believe more than a week had gone by since this incident happened and nothing had come out of the white house. there was a report that a statement had been drafted and wasnt released, and it was not immediately clear why that statement was not released. i know lawm...

Harassment, i would like to see that taken seriously, especially people in the public eye. and a steady treme of trump officials get brought before the russia investigation special council. is putin still pulling the strings and what have we learned from all of it? >> im definitely more wear of the things i see on social media, and as far as news goes, i pay a lot more attention of where im getting my sources from. >> i think a lot of it is doing your own investigation and talking to different...

And shes now going after chief-of-staff general john kelly for mischaracterizing her comments and shes demanding an apology. >> the character assassination that he went through to call me out of my name an empty barrel and yes he does owe the american people an oa pollgy for lying on one of their congress wim. >> shes now joined in that demand for an apology by all the women of the congressional black caucus and to talk more about this im joined with david corn and let me begin with you and i wa...

Comments. and you would be wrong, wrong because press secretary sarah sanders picks up right where trump and kelly left off. >> does general kelly still stand i the statement that he made yesterday that he felt that she was grandstanding and that she was taking credit for -- >> absolutely. general kelly said he was stunned that representative wilson made comments at a building dedication honoring slain fbi agents about her own actions in congress, including lobbying former president obama on leg...