to have a democratic operative e-mailing people what they should be talking about. seems highly unethical. a lot of this about fox seems highly unethical. the trump pieces, trump white house pieces, they need more reporting. it is clear sean spicer was there meeting with these guys in the white house so at least there was some talk about this conspiracy theory in the white house. we know the president has promoted other conspiracy theories like wiretapping claims, things like that s. he s never brought up seth rich, however. i think fundamentally, anderson, this is about two competing realities, two alternative universes. we talk about it all the time. hereto think the russia story is a big deal that needs investigation or it s a hoax. similar on climate change. you either believe it s a pressing issue or buy into the denialism. the two alternative universes idea is coming through in this story. these are allegations being made, a lawsuit, people make allegations in lawsuits any
angles to push. we ve got the quotes. there they were in randy s piece. very unusual at a normal television news operation but maybe not unusual for fox news. democratic operative e-mailing people what they should be talking about. a lot of this about fox seems highly unethical. the trump white house pieces need more reporting. sean spicer was at a meeting with these guys at the white house. there was talk about this theory in the white house. we know the president promoted other conspiracy theories like wiretapping claims and things like that. he s never braupt seth rich. this is about two alternative universes. we talk about it all the time. you either think the russia story is a big deal that needs investigation or it s a hoax. you re about to interview al gore, similar on climate change. you either believe it s a pressing issue or buy into the denialism. the two alternative universes idea is coming through in this story a lot. these are allegations made in
sarah huckabee sanders, you played here in the introduction, some of the conversations she had yesterday with reporters, when asked if she d try to find out if there were tapes, she said, i ll try to look under the couches here. the president and his press secretary, sean spicer, have been pressed on this. president trump last month said i won t talk about it. i m not going to talk about it. sean spicer said of that tweet, he had nothing further on that. suffice to say, at the end of the day, if the president wanted to put this to rest, if the dispute as communicated by marc kasowitz, the president s personal lawyer, is one they wanted to identify, that their case was the factual one in the argument, where both sides are saying the other is a liar, the easiest way to do it is produce the tapes they have yet to provide. ali velshi, the argument that peter alexander is making is deja vu all over again to the wiretapping claims. if the president was wiretapping, show us. marc kasowitz
instincts that bannon fed. does this raise questions about the power of ivanka trump in the white house? it does. certainly, she has a lot of influence with the president. she s family. she s blood. she has access to him whenever she chooses. she can make her views known to him. at the end of the day, she s someone who wants a more who has a more moderate ideology dealing with the republican conservative president and a republican conservative administration. there s only so much influence she can have on these policies to pull him in the right direction and climate change is not the only case where she s lost out in the battle. there have been other policy matters where the president has gone further to the right than she would like. jim, this is not the only thing the white house won t answer questions about. they refuse to answer questions about the president s wiretapping claims. now they re deferring anything to do with the rush aand the special counsel. just a few months
him. at the end of the day, she s someone who wants a more who has a more moderate ideology dealing with the republican conservative president and a republican conservative administration. there s only so much influence she can have on these policies to pull him in the right direction and climate change is not the only case where she s lost out. there have been other policy matters where the president has gone further to the right than she would like. jim, this is not the only thing the white house won t answer questions about. they refuse to answer questions about the president s wiretapping claims. now they re deferring anything to do with russia. just a few months ago sean spicer was claiming president trump s transparency has exceeded that of any modern president. that s right. i think the danger for sean spicer at this point is that he just loses all credibility in the briefing room. we saw that on the first full day of the administration when he lashed out at the news media