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>> well youre right. he was elected president by showing how so many institutions could fail. the republican party, in some ways the press and tonight was a big example of the court saying at least we are not going to it is idly by and let the president make whatever claims about executive power he wants to make. there were two things the court was pushing back on, one was the words of the order, the president made claims very similar to the claims you saw in the bush administration that some of...

"the drudges" of the world, defend him. >> suspended six months for lying to viewers. >> just this week there are now folks who believe we pick and choose terrorist attacks to report on. there are now folks who believe that murder rate is at a 47-year high. it is not about the president said it was today. it is not. >> very interesting, greg. what do you make of this, brian williams. >> should have left out that part where he was talking about taking out a isis camp with a toothpick. he was on h...

Two weeks. >> biggest story of the week with president trump. >> i thought it was when he went to comments that there were terror attacks that the media is underreporting. then the white house gave a list of things that include paris and all the kinds of stuff, i think thats was the best one. >> that was a example of us chasing our tail. its a silly thing to say. what happened you trn turn on cable news, the media showing video of itself covering past terrorist attacks. we were talking about don...

Life-tenured judges, who have life and death power over all sorts of situations. they should be open for criticism, including from the president. >> i agree. >> you know, so we doesnt want to respond, too bad. >> you heard alan last hour, he criticized a judge and almost went to jail. [ laughter ] >> but it was in italy. which it might not be so bad. >> and he was in college and it was, you know -- >> but weve all criticized judges here and we should continue to. in the roosevelt administration ...

A sentiment echoed by sean spicer. >> we dont know when the next bomb is going off. the last thing you want to do is to say, well, we could have done this saturday but we waited one more day. >> reporter: democrat s contend the white house is hissing the point. >> none of the terrorist attacks that have occurred since 9/11 have been undertaken by the refugees or immigrants from the seven countries named. >> reporter: the president maintains hes right about the terror threat because of the intell...

Still, president trump is attacking the messenger, senator blumenthal. he also slammed an interview that blumenthal gave this morning as fake news. but, folks, this is a symptom of a larger issue. the administrations response to criticism often takes a darker tone. they blame the press by falsely claiming it covers up terrorist attacks. they blame the courts for temporarily stopping the white house travel ban by warning that america is under the threat of terrorism and also warn to blame the cou...

United states using intelligence information he has to try to protect national security. >> chris: we bring lisa in. one of the counter arguments was the judge, and again, there are some interesting facts. you hear the judge in federal district court in washington state arguing with the president about national security but he said there is no evidence that any of the people from these seven countries have committed fatal terrorist attacks and the argument about national security doesnt hold muc...

The point he is making, we have coverage on candidate trump in the primary. 333 minutes on him and five times as much coverage on him as the terrorist attacks and more coverage by the major networks on princes death. >> the three network weekly broadcasts is not reflective of the year. you are spinning the idea. thats a lovely spin, but thats not what he was saying. he said the media doesnt want to cover them because we dont want to because we have an agenda. thats what he was suggesting and its...

During the republican primary. five times as much on him as the terrorist attacks. the artist named prince -- >> thats not reflected of -- >> i understand. >> your youre spinning about the idea -- he was saying the media does not cover the stories because we dont want to cover them because we have some sort of agenda and its offensive. i dont understand how the president can make an attack like that. >> theres no question about that. first of all, kcolleague across

What is absurd about this whole conversation is that this executive order which is being held up by the white house as a way to keep us safe, is exactly the opposite of that. it is not keeping us safe. none of the terrorist attacks that have occurred in the united states since 9/11 have been undertaken by refugees or immigrants from the seven countries named in the executive order. in fact, as we know, isis is using this as an example of the fact the united states collectively hates muslims. so ...