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On the working press of our country. it is of great concern and we have to sort this out and find some accountability. >> you were briefed on the scope of the investigation earlier today. what else can you share? >> what i learned is theres a lot more to learn and i am assuming this justice department will fully cooperate with the inspector generals investigation. but im also hoping that -- ive heard the senate judiciary committee wants to bring mr. sessions and mr. barr before them and question...

They serve on, to get information in the meantime to know what took place. plus, we understand we were told, it was in the article, that this investigation was closed. heres a fair question. is it completely closed or just closed as it relates to members of congress? obviously, again, the press was targeted as well. >> you say what was going on as far as the press is concerned was even worse than was going on involving these two members of the house intelligence committee, did i hear you right? ...

House was ever truthful about anything, this would be a much easier thing. that sort of thing would be the explanation. but they lie about everything all the time. and stephanie grisham did the white house no favors by saying i often give truthful responses. oh, the titanic often missed icebergs except once. [ laughter ] the lack of trust and the hostile relationship between the working press and the pool press and everybody else with this white house is why you get this kind of thing. now has h...

People. fake news. but they can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> also importantly lets not forget this one from just a few days ago. >> what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. >> with us to talk about it tonight john meacham, pulitzer prizewinning author and historian. his latest book and its an important one is "the soul of america, the battle for our angels." john, the talking points we just heard the president make, why is this mo...

Members of, you brought a comedian up to attack my appearance and called me a traitor to my own agenda. in fact, as far as i know im the first press secretary in the history of the united states that has required secret service protection. the media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration and certainly we have a role to play but the media has a role to play for the discourse in this country as well. >> janine: naturally those comments ...

Press is the enemy of the peopl people. >> janine: and if you think thats bad, its even worse that some of americas biggest newspapers. may i introduce you to the next editorial board member of "the new york times," sarah joh john. in 2015 sheikh tweeted "i was equating trump to hitler before it was cool. "she also lashed out against white people, tweeting "hashtag cancel white people." and "arched white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically only being fit to l...

Members of, you brought a comedian up to attack my appearance and called me a traitor to my own agenda. in fact, as far as i know im the first press secretary in the history of the united states that has required secret service protection. the media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration and certainly we have a role to play but the media has a role to play for the discourse in this country as well. >> janine: naturally those comments ...

This more pernicious than just another trump thing? >> well, he is actively making the working press a target of the wrath of people in physical proximity one to another. which is a really remarkable thing. as you mentioned, every president beginning with george washington who almost did not stand for re-election, i wont say run because nobody ran against him but almost decided not to seek a second term because he was so tired of being criticized. so this drama starts in 1792. and presses forwar...

Happening. >> with us to talk about it tonight, john meachem, pulitzer prize winning author and historian. his latest book is the soul of america, the battle for our better angels. these talking points we just heard the president make, why is this more pernicious than just another trump thing? >> well, he is actively making the working press a target of the wrath of people in physical proximity twenty-one another. its a really remarkable thing as you mentioned. every president beginning with geo...

Extraordinary moment when the press secretary will not say that the working press is not the enemy of the people. >> yeah. as you say, its hard to determine which is a lower moment. its an elective kind of base management. its pernicious. this is dangerous. this is not media elite people defending elite media people. to declare that a free press is the enemy of the people. and i just would say this, if i had two minutes with president trump, which is very unlikely, what i would say is this, we k...