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>> what we havent really heard being addressed is an uptick in anti-semitism and how the government is planning to take care of it. theres been a report of 48 bomb attacks against jewish centers in the last couple weeks. >> he said he was going to ask a very simple, easy question, and its not. its not. not a simple question. not a fair question. okay. sit down. i understand the rest of your question. heres the story. i am the least anti-semitic perp youve seen in your entire life. number two, ra...

>> yeah, by being himself. if he were a phony that would be a problem. that would be a problem. hed lose people on his own side. hes himself. that is exactly what people want to see. thats what his supporters want to see and what hes doing. >> john? >> this isnt my friend jeff a question if you like him or not or agree with policy, its what jake tapper said, what you saw was an unhinged, deranged individual, and thats whats unsettling to people. i think to hook in the question about his attack o...

Media and thats part of what youre seeing as a destructive value. youre not seeing what you would have seen in decades past, everybody sort of yuniting and pushing back. hes getting everybody to jump on each other. to say the media is the epmy of the people is dangerous. >> thanks so much. jeff, stick around. when we come back, what the reporter youre about to see thinks about his moment in the spotlight. and a discussion behind the question that produced this highly charged moment. >> its not a...

Country. here is the presidents response, congressman. >> so heres the story, folks. number one, i am the least an anti-semitic person youve ever seen in your entire life. number two, racism. the least racist person. in fact we did very well relative to other people running as a republican -- quiet. quiet. see, he lied about -- he was going to get up and ask a very straight, simple question. so, you know, welcome to the world of the media. but let me just tell you something. i hate the charge. i...

A name that i guess sounds kind of jewish. every time i retweeted from maybe jake tapper from your network, i get millions of mentions from people calling me every ethnic slur in the book, and some i have to look up on urban dictionary to find out what they mean. and i think that the way that he answered this guys question, shut up, sit down, sadly, i think will be taken as a signal to those people whether or not he meant it. >> the problem is he didnt answer the question. it was a question abou...

Said forget it. you should take that instead of getting up and asking an insulting question like that. go ahead. >> thank you. im lisa. >> it shows you about the press. thats the way the press is. >> thank you, mr. president. bbs news hour. on unusual security and immigration, can you give us details on the executive order you planned for next week and the broad outlines? >> very fair question. >> in addition, on the daca program for immigration, what is your plan? do you plan to continue it or ...

Were now seeing it on the worlds biggest stage. and i was glad to see our colleague jim acosta say do you understand that by challenge the press and calling real news outlets fake news that you are delegitimizing and trying to undermine the work the press does? trump sidestepped that question. but you know, george, were seeing lots of journalists from lots of news outlets including fox, as you just showed, trying to describe whats going on here, trying to come up with the right language. i saw c...

>> he said he was going to ask a simple and easy question and its not. not a simple or a fair question. sit down. i understand the rest of that. heres the story. number one, i am the least anti-semitic person that you have ever seen in your entire life. number two, racism. the least racist person. we did very well relative to other people running as a republican. quiet! quiet! he lied about asking a very straight simple question. so welcome to the world of the media. let me just tell you somethi...

Cbc. also asking are they your friends? some may understand the problem with these things. some may not. but the question, how does the presidents style serve him when dealing with the media and speaking to the people? >> both of those instances were uncomfortable. and its not just my own impression. weve seen the anti-defamation league come out and say the president needs to more fully answer these questions about the rise of anti-semitis m in the united states, instances of hate weve seen acro...

Any other president before him that has been under the media microscope, this is nothing personal, rather its about fact versus fiction and an earnest pursuit of the facts and it will not stop. even a colleague from another network had a very sharp response about the presidents approach to the media. lets listen. >> its absolutely crazy. he keeps repeating ridiculous throwaway lines that are not true at all and sort of avoiding this issue of russia as if were some kind of fools for asking the qu...