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About other republicans and that helps him cement him to them even though the other coverage is so barrish. >> so mike, the president obviously yesterday tweeting his support of sin clair amongst all the backlash from main stream media outlets. what exactly, mike, are you seeing as the presidents sort of thinking behind this, behind supporting sin clair so fervently? >> he see this is suicides this rooting section. loves the fact that the main stream media is squawking about it. thats one of the...

Antidote to generations, they believe of biased news from the other side and as sin clair said yesterday in its statement, they said look, what were saying is theres a lot of unsubstantiated fake news out there and were here to keep our eye on it. does that hold water for you? >> another thing that they mentioned in that memo was saying -- mentioning stories like pizza gate which was a bogus conspiracy theory. i dont think anyone in the news media if anchors said were not going to run unsubstant...

All right. welcome back. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios am mike allen, what is axios one big thing for the morning? >> the one big thing is why president trump thinks hes winning his war on the media. we have the rise of trump tv, morning joe yesterday had a lot of fun with that viral video of the sin clair anchors mouthing talking points that the white house likes. the president in his own reality, in his own feedback loop is seeing this conservative tv coverage. hes ...

To come to the united states decided he wanted to control the country and control what americans believed that would be a pretty good place to start, wouldnt it? >> i think theres nothing wrong with this white house or political campaigns to look to local news and try to reach viewers in that way. it came out after the 2016 election is you had jared kushner suggesting that there was some kind of deal made with sin clair in which they would give more access to sin clair stations and get maybe les...

Said this is designed to get more viewers and whether or not that happens is how i decide whether i do this campaign again. >> all about the ratings. >> let me ask you quickly about something that your colleague at ox i dont say has pointed out that the president has a modern version of call and response with the media. what more can you tell us about that? >> yeah, so this is president trumps instant gratification. he tweets and then he sees it on the ki rons on tv and that is why hes constantl...

And not its deal to deliver packages for the internet retailer. so joe, good morning. theres a ton in there. the president for the moment you all went off the air yesterday just went on a twitter ram pauj a -- rampage and covered a lot of ground. >> he went on a tirade and peppered in false information and willie, how ironic that this is what the president does after praising sin clairs leaders for sending out basically fake news scripts and forcing people just like the old days of the soviet un...

Operates more than 190 stations including 22 nbc affiliates. two of those are in states that voted for trump. the company is also seeking to acquire dozens more by purchasing tribune media. lets bring in our senior media reporter for politico. its good to see you. i think a lot of people woke up and heard about sin clair a couple of days ago when this video was making the rounds but talk about the basis of who they are, what they do and how much television they control and potentially could cont...

Script about fake news. that got widespread attention after dead spin published a video montage showing anchors echoing the same lines in the designated script. in a memo sent to sin clair employees yesterday, the senior vice president of news wrote, the critics are now upset about our we find it curious wed be attacked for asking our news people to remind their audiences that unsubstantiated stories exist on social media. president trump tweeted his defense of sin clair writing so funny to watc...

I have a partial list in front of me and theres nine companies on here from at&t to boeing to comcast, bank of america, sin clair, wells fargo, pnc, theres all kinds of companies who say theyre going to give $1,000 worth of bonuses to their hundreds of thousands of employees. one is -- fifth bank corp. is going to boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour. obviously, they could have done this before the tax overhaul was announced. they were sitting on profits, but they didnt! they did it when the ta...