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Maggie, president trump falsely accusing the media of basically covering up terrorist attacks, not just underreporting, but intentionally not reporting on them. >> he did what he often does, which is a rhetorical sleight of hand where it sounds like the media is covering up. now his supporters are saying thats not what he said. he said theres a hidden motive without saying what it is, in why the media is not giving sufficient coverage. i agree with you, the media has been extensively covering te...

Of the comments she made about bowling green. doesnt mean she wont be on television, she will be on with jake tapper, but theres questions about credibility given the pattern of misstatements in the past. no big surprises. spicer trying to be rather subdued in the wake of snl. >> the secretary of homeland security john kelly is speaking about the news media, listen to this. >> yesterday president trump suggested that the quote very, very dishonest press doesnt adequately report terrorist attacks...

Suggested that the media somehow under reports or undercovers terrorist attacks. i find odd. >> i think suggested is a nice word. >> he flat out said. it listen to sean spicer explaining it to reporters after. >> look, i think the presidents comments were clear at the time. he felt members of the media dont always cover events to the extent that over events get covered. a protest gets blown out of the water, but a foiled attack doesnt get the same coverage. >> as somebody who spent a week in orl...

Just had a whole discussion here as to whether or not people who are not even citizens of america have standing to come into america. i can imagine a lot of sort of middle america folks out there, working-class white americans out there who are saying, why should syrians come to america? and god forbid if there is an attack down the road, they will point to that judge. but i think its a larger narrative. >> the media does cover terrorist attacks. i remember the pulse nightclub shooting, the poli...

Huge stage. this moment in which the world is in peril and then he says something like he did yesterday talking about the media not reporting terrorist attacks. this sort of beggars belief. to lawyer raz point, everything he said on the campaign trail, he has done. sure sounds like we should start taking him literally. >> without question you have to take him as both as president. but i think its so interesting what he says about all of these 74 acts of terror. it just simply isnt true. we have ...

Maybe overhips terrorist attacks. >> thats another counterargument they get aat i the type. >> its horrific to say, but its tv. and tv is about images and controversy. controversy sells. images sell. if it bleeds, it leads, as theyve said for a long time, long before cable news came along. so i think that donald trump is wrong about that. >> the argument, its interesting, because if you look, we actually have more coverage than ever before of any kind of attack, because theres no cell phone came...

Attack, we all know theres a men school chance of that happening in the united states. it makes me a little suspicious when government officials are pointing to things like terrorism without an explanation. >> i mean, one of the arguments, i -- supporters of what the president said, and if you look at info wars and stuff, their one of the arguments they make, which i assume the president is picking up on, is the notion were downplaying radical islam, in some of these terror attacks, the counter ...

And im all in favor of that. and some things are commonsense. this is commonsense. >> reporter: thats one of the issues well be asking white house press secretary sean spicer about during this briefing in 15 minutes. one of the other items that is certain to come up is this assertion that the president made yesterday that the international news media has been deliberately underreporting terrorist attacks around the world. the president did not give an explanation as to why he believes that. he s...

Time in front of a military audience at the u.s. central command in florida. accusing the press of downplaying terrorist attacks. he did not specify, but here is what he had to say. >> you have seen what happened in paris and nice. all over europe. it is happening. it has gotten to a point it is not reported. in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesnt want to report it. they have their reasons and you understand that. >> reporter: as for an explanation of the comments, the white house ...

Reporting a number of them. cnn was on the ground in ottawa, kansas, a gunman killed someone at the tomb of the unknown soldier. i was in orlando, i flew there right after the news broke. december 2015, that was on the list, san bernardino. i was there, 14 people killed and 21 wounded in coordinated attacks, this was a month after i reported on the carnage in paris, where terrorists killed and wounded 130 people. other programs as well as cnn international covered most if not all of them, most o...