families tonight. we are back with wall-to-wall coverage of her came irma. joe is in battered downtown miami. what is it like at this hour. good evening. just as you were recapping that horrendous story, many police officers down the street assessing the damage. you cannot overstate how important these first responders are. they always step up when needed. they been out here, we saw. we are in the middle of brickle avenue, the soul called wall street of the south.
transgender veteran, so this has got a lot of things that i m not sure that have been fully thought out. i think that when he announced this on twitter, it took some of the generals by surprise as well. yeah. can i just ask all three of you to give me a quick button up how damaging you think this may be when you do this friday night news dump as it s been called when you ve got a record-breaking hurricane approaching the coast of the united states. i mean is there something of a disjointed focus there, like you should have been talking more about what s happening anywhere from galveston to corpus christi? what do you think? josh, you can go first. i think the white house was banking on getting this out and people soon focusing on the hurricane. we ve seen wall-to-wall coverage on the hurricane, deservedly so. it s the most important story right now, it s affecting lives of millions of people. i think the president and his team knew these were polarizing decisions. if we get these o
bill with the sister soulja speech. people tag the little race thing. trump went from, you know, dog whistle to full on frontal but i think that we in the media have to do some housekeeping because during the election particularly in television there was a lot of wall-to-wall coverage of donald trump without enough analysis of his speeches. and when don t look at me and gene. we sat here we sure did. go go ahead. america is a country where a lot of people have latent racial believes that can be activated and so there s a researcher at princeton named pavel hanes that some people value neutral statements like make america great again and that can incite the xenophobia. we have to look at the speeches we ran during the campaign. we know we came up short. when we come back, the reporter
white house and the doj reporter is not in.ter i m being forced to cover this because i don t cover thisin f assignment. i m filling in for somebody. like i m filling in today. just saying. the point i m making all of these organizations covered this ad nauseam.izat wall-to-wall coverage about thi. tarmac meeting. let s not forget that everybody covered comey s press conferences, where he cleared sp hillary clinton and when he said we are checking emails that almost cost her the election.we when he said oh, we found allsth these other emails. kimberly: we have to cover it. richard: the media didn tound cover it up.her they covered it. greg: we know for a fact that they did not want to do thy story because it wasn t something that fit into their narrative. kimberly: absolutely. it s not so shocking because this is what we saw during thet obama administration and remember when ben rhodes was laughing and mocking the media about how gullible they were? calling them useful fools?
can we talk about some other stuff and, you know, also this, but some other stuff too. mo: quick point. malaysian. when the plane crash, it was a real story. it just did not need 23 hours out of the day. this is the same thing. horus is saying that maybe trump is cnn s new malaysia? it wasn t ideological. it wasn t political. it was sensational. look, i think we are in a war here between politicians of both parties and the media. right? go back 20 years. it s not like the media went easy on questions like the lewinsky scandal or white water. that was wall-to-wall coverage. the clinton white house felt like it was in a bunker back during those days. now you ve got this white house saying, why aren t you covering anything else? the media is saying, well, the president just tweeted about this eric: obama leans over to