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Asked about their list of allegedly undercovered terrorist attacks, today the white house press secretary sean spicer said the trump administration needs to remind americans to be frightened. >> i think what we need to do is to remind people that the earth is a very dangerous place these days, that isis is trying to do us harm and this the presidents commitment is to keep this country safe and i think part of this is to make sure the american people are reminded how prevalent some of these attac...

Support our guy and then were in a very, very dangerous place for democracy. >> just this week there are now folks that we pick and choose terrorist attacks we report on and that the murder rate is at a 47-year high. and its not. its something the president said but its not. >> in authoritarian regimes, what the leader will say is the truth. all of those sources of independent information or checks are basically -- they are discredited. so what is the source of truth? well it, comes from the lea...

List that put on the list by the last administration dont have those. there are countries in chaos, countries in collapse. in retrospect, i should have, this is all on me, by the way, i should have delayed it just a bit so that i could talk to members of congress, particularly the leadership of the committees like this to prepare them for what was coming. >> all right. joining us here on saturday is msnbcs cal perry. good to have you with us. the white house is making the claim that there have b...

Jim acosta, cnn, the white house. joining us now is adam quinn. you know, i have been reporting on more european terror attacks. i dont really want to remember. thats just not true. >> yeah. as with a lot of things that donald trump says, its vague. and its hard to know what he means. if every plot doesnt get enough conch, the question is how much? if he means there are major terrorist attacks occurring and just not being reported, thats not true. and if he means theres a media conspiracy to u...

Show something i dont agree with, he is making the media into a bogey man. and hes been doing that, his aides have been open about doing it. basically his whole premise during the campaign was, believe me. and its, i alone can fix it. >> to put out a list where pulse nightclub is on it, where the bataclan massacre is on it -- >> not to make light of it, because its a pretty serious conversation. cable news has an i versiaversi covering terrorist attacks. its the most important thing that we do a...

Receive adequate -- they create an even more toxic anti-muslim climate by making my fellow americans believe there are more terrorist attacks by muslims. >> i dont call them radical christians, theyre not. but at the end of the day donald trump is talking about this issue, a man named robert dada is on trial for attempting attacking people with

The president explicitly said, they dont cover it, and they had their reasoning, he never said that, sean spicer said, they go undercover, we dont report on them enough. >> thats not what the president said. >> he also had an insinuation that was vague enough, people could read in what they wanted, the reporters, media have some kind of agenda behind this. i have been covering the news for 20 years, i was down at ground zero for literally years after the attacks, we have covered terrorist attack...

Russians have on him that is causing him to say these really bizarre things on an almost daily basis? >> senator chris murphy, well let you get back to the senate floor. thank you very much for taking the time. >> thanks a lot. quick programming note for everyone. make sure you join us tonight, senators bernie sanders and ted cruz will debate obamacare. the debate is tonight at 9:00 only on cnn. president trump is definitely sharpening his attacks on the media. he says we are intentionally u...

And the united states. >> i dont think its a moral equivalence, jake. what it is is stating two different opinions on two different matters. he was making the point to bill owe riley, i think youre characterizing it correctly, that he was thinking about the war in iraq. and in that regard i think people should make the judgment for themselves. >> have they spoken again since last saturday? >> not that im aware of, i dont believe so. >> i want to play that clip again in which president trump was ...

Justice department and from attorneys zbrernl washington state and minnesota. these two states argue that the trump administration has failed to show the country would be irreparably harmed. >> i believe strongly and my legal team believes strongly that the executive order is unlawful and unconstitutional. >> reporter: the president continuing to stoke fears, tweeting the threat from radical islam miblg terrorism is real. the courts must act fast. he maintains the executive order is a lawful exe...