Nicole strong talks about President Trumps decision to shrink the size host good morning. It is washington journal. The Supreme Court and folks today as it hears arguments concerning that colorado bigger that refused to bake a cake for a gay couples wedding. Many are lined up outside of the court hopeful to become spectators of the argument. You can hear the arguments on cspan. Org. A new survey which looks at the media. Take a look at how republicans and democrats and Media Coverage of President Trump. We will present some of those results. We are interested in hearing from you. Heres how you can let us know. You can post thoughts on Media Coverage of President Trump and you can go to our facebook page. That isfind the survey done for republicans and democrats just to present you a little bit of the survey. It says this he is a coauthor of the study. Another author join us on the phone to talk about the results and the findings is from princeton university. Good morning. Guest good to be here. Host we heard from the coauthor. What were you looking at when you composited to study . Guest we did a survey of over 2000 americans. We asked many questions about peoples views of the press and the trust and media institutions as we could think of, including many questions that had been asked before but other polling organizations so we could compare trends. Host you focused on party. Tell us about it. If i was a democrat, what is my view of the media . Guest in general, democrats view the media more positive than for republicans. Results isopline almost about 50 of americans have a great deal of confidence in the media, theres a big partisan gap. About 74 of democrats, say they haveers, a lot of confidence in the media and for republicans, that number is just 19 . Host would you attribute does numbers to . Guest there has been a gap for a long time but that gap has been widening. The most plausible explanation is there are differences in the elite rhetoric concerning the media between leaders in both parties. Democrats have tended to be more supportive of the role of free press, not always, but certainly in the past year or two. Among republicans, just attacks on the legitimacy of Mainstream Media institutions for being biased or inaccurate. It has been a pretty prominent feature for pretty long time. With President Trump being more explicit about attacks on the media and individual reporters, that has only taken a longstanding trend and making it even more extreme. Host one of the things you look at is the president statements when he says something along the lines of the media is the enemy of the American People. What did you learn from that . Guest we would ask respondents if they believe that statement. 31 found was that not a majority but a substantial minority basically endorsed the statement. Among Trump Supporters, that figure is about twice as high. Host did that surprise you . Yeah. That is a pretty extreme statement. It is troubling to find a substantial number of americans either among Trump Supporters on general willing to endorse statements like this. On the other hand, i do suspect there is some sort of expressive component to this. If you sort of have some negative feelings about the media and annoyed about the media for some reason saying that journalists are an enemy to the people to pollsters might be one way to express that feeling. It is unclear how many people literally believe that to be true. It certainly is a cause for concern. The lowive into knowledge of politics. You build data out of that. What were you looking for lack of cash looking for . Looking for . Guest this is often surprising theeople, so basically people with the highest trust and confidence in the press and confidence in the press or high knowledge. High knowledge with balkans have the lowest confidence in the knowledge republicans have below is confidence of the press. It reinforces this point it might be elite discourse that is driving a lot of these differentials because it is the highest knowledge people, the people who are the most attuned to political messages and are paying the most attention to the debates in the media and are tuning in to the media the most who are picking up on these messages. If youre a high knowledge republican, youre getting a pretty constant medications from both elected official constant communications from both elected officials and media personalities that the media is not be trusted. Host one of the things you do like is where people get their news. You highlight often to post and fox news. You highlight Huffington Post and fox news. Guest they illustrate a pattern which is that partisans tend to over report their use of partisan leaning new sources. This is compared to what we deserve because were collecting data on the websites people use to inform themselves about news and information online. Example, democrats are going to be more willing to tell us that they use the Huffington Post for news and information that they actually visit according to our behavioral data. Republicans are more likely to report using fox news than the actually do. These partisan differentials in visiting Huffington Post or fox news definitely exist. Even beyond that, theres this desire to affirm yourself is a good democrat or republican. What that means is when we ask people where they go to get their news about politics, we come away with a more skewed picture than there is. Surveyhe sponsor of this , practically how republicans and democrats and you guess andrew guess, thank you for your time. Guest my pleasure. Host those are some of the details of the survey. Your response on the reporting of the Trump Administration, perhaps you want to give your take on what the guests said and how you view media said and how you view the administration. Orissa from montana marissa from montana. You are up first. Caller good morning. Thank you, cspan. I watch you religiously every morning at 5 00 a. M. I am so grateful. You. You brian and thank but i really want to say, thank you, pedro. What i want to say is without the media, we would literally be sunk. Thank goodness for the brave men and women who go out there every day and put their lives on the line to bring us the news. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Im so thankful. Look what the media has done for us. Without the media, they wouldve reported the guy at the top of the medical thing, even though he was im confused. Without the media, thank you. Host did you have such a positive view even in the Previous Administration . I have beenller watching the news since i was a kid. Before you hang up, the one thing i want to say is we are missing the middle part of the jigsaw puzzle that is going to make everything makes sense that we are missing the middle part, because what is going on is how come the republicans have so much control over putin they can ask them, dont react to these sanctions. Oklahoma. A, go ahead. Metal seth meyers, i saw him do a parody about President Trump it seemed kind of whiny. It went both ways. Truck got the upper hand. Trump got the upper hand. Host you view those ellis the same way as news outlets . They seem to lean toward the democrats. Host as far as overall, what do you think of the coverage of the white house . Caller i think he is doing a he isob and i dont think handled in a good light. Host what do you think of Media Coverage . Caller overall . I read the newspaper everyday and he seems to be i cannot hear you. Host in maryland, independent line. Caller good morning. Think President Trump is a very savvy person when it comes to media. A reality tv personality. He knew how to use the media and from the very beginning he started to paint the media as the enemy. It predates him announcing his presidency. He was persistent with it and he was critical because he had to convince his followers that all the things they write and say about him were not true. If they believed them, they would not support him. The president does so many negative things. His followers never seem to compare the fact that maybe all this bad news we are hearing is because there is so much bad news. News when ittisan comes to the republicans. Ou have breitbart and fox news while the other 90 of the media , only 80 of that is fair. Allones in the middle are boxer with the left, why daca because why . Because they report the truth. When youre in that box, you cannot be out of it so you keep thinking what i am saying cannot be true. He is in maryland giving his thoughts on the Media Coverage. A couple stories to show you. This from cnn. They have audio from the abc news chief talking about the ry that is cnn who has that story out of abc news. New jersey, democrats line. Caller hi. I wanted to make a comment that i think this white house has been the best in manipulating the media cycle. They turn the volume up on certain stories. They want coverage given to and they turn by them down on certain stores. The papers so to follow that. It is to be the news were there to report facts and now i feel the personalities and reporters behind the story and form the definitely inform. I subscribe to leftleaning publications and the rightleaning ones as well. All of them have shifted to personality presentation of the facts. It is disturbing to me. Host what degree do you think the president has influenced coverage . Caller through his twitter feed. The press is running after stores, very quick to after stories, very quick to publish. It used to be you would wait for the News Conference at the white house to get there. They had more time to get a bigger view. A few minutes passed before they made a comment. It seems just a gives me anxiety to follow it. I dont follow it as much. It gives me anxiety to follow it. I dont follow it as much. Host when you dont follow it as closely, you are talking literal, anxiety levels go down. Caller yes. His facts changed so quickly. One of the Mass Violence issues that happened, it was literally between instagram, twitter and what the news was reporting, the facts were reporting every five minutes. The websites were updating every five minutes. Moreo have started being plugged into my local news. Often. Nj. Com more that is my sphere of influence. I am trying to put more focus their. More focus there. The Los Angeles Times highlights hot highlights air force one while the president was traveling to utah. This is the headline john is next. Baltimore, maryland. Caller hello. Your last little blip goes right into what i was going to say. You have a story which is a nonstory. A guy they didnt want to comment on anything. Maybe he didnt have the briefing. But it is a story. That is part of the issue with the news. They are bringing up all the stuff saw the bigger issues get faded out. The treatment of the white house , it is not just the news, it is all the entertainment. Oncehese places that were never political now are. Everywhere is antitrump, antitrump. The news cycle itself is more commentary been the straight news reporting. When people say that the white house is talking to the people as an entertainment thing, that is what they have to do. It is all entertainment. The last caller talking about how they have to take a step back from things, she is spot on. Just look at the big picture. There is too many details going in. That being said, sometimes if you step back to far, you get the story that they want you to hear. That is john in maryland. Quite a on twitter, michael says you can make comments on twitter, facebook page. You can comment on this topic on that as well. Lets go to florida. Will your next from augusta in florida on our independent line. Host caller caller i would like to say the news media is doing a fantastic job overall. I dont think our president nor our public generally understands the real function of news, to help us uncover. Also commentary is important. Some of us dont have the wherewithal in terms of experience and Knowledge Base to know or understand. We have the ultimate authority to reject or to accept what is being said. We are not puppets that are just being influenced without any power to critically ferret out what is really happening. I hope the media gains courage and strength from all of this backlash and continues to do the job that they do serve so importantly in a democratic society. Oft do you think the media Media Coverage is the same for this president . Caller yes, the problem is this president is so different from anybody else we have ever had. The news media has no choice. For the longest they try to stop saying he is lying. Thats personalities were even saying can we really say that the president lied. Now, because his behavior has been so grievous that the attention to him is necessary, wildse if we let him run the way he is trying to do, what purpose will the media serve . Other than just to report in the sense of playback . I dont want a playback media. I want immediate think its in there and ask questions and challenges and helps us to form a broad picture of what is happening in our nature in our nation. Host one of the things that stemmed from the president s trip to utah, traveling with orrin hatch who is featured in a picture in the Washington Times. Mitt romney himself commenting over the president s endorsement of roy moore, in the Alabama Senate race. This is mitt romneys tweet. That tweet garnered a response from roy moore himself, saying to al in upper marlboro, maryland. Caller thanks for the opportunity to allowing me to speak. With regard to the news, this started during the nominations for the Republican Party for President Trump. Blocked media has sometainment news, and blocks were true journalism and research reporting, but the low hanging fruit is so available that all of a sudden, all of. His information is flooding us however, the information we are being flooded with, it was. Bvious the right is being perceived as coming back to defensive positions. Cnn. Ched msnbc, fox news, if you want to watch a good news channel, you need to watch one American News. One American News is the one that gives the best coverage of the news. And not necessarily an entertainment program. It is pretty obvious comment even cspan is doing the same thing with regards to jumping on board. Trump burped today. I remember on the campaign trail where he said Something Like hell and everybody said, i dont know if i will my children watching this. Is this the type of News Coverage that the news can come up with . Where is the investigative reporting . Im not saying that some of it is not going on . You wake up everyday and is always these little sensational little tidbits and the tidbits that are presented in such a accusatory attacking way on President Trump. The republicans get a line in all they do is have a sense of responses. Host lets go to burke, virginia. Caller let me establish politically where am it i did not vote for trump. I wrote in john kasich. I thought trump and clinton were awful people. My wife and i listen to npr and have historically listened to npr. My comment is, in pr appeals to maybe a broader base than fox or msnbc. You cast a wider net with the npr audience. Since the election though, i have noticed just a real bias against trump and the administration by npr. I wait for bbc to come on around 10 00 in the morning so i can get a little more accurate, unbiased view of the world. That is saying something coming from bbc. Pedro. Mple i would use, npr has become an inside the beltway reporting source now. I do business in asia, so i look forward to mature, detailed reporting on what is going on in asia. Npr doesnt do much of that anymore unless it is a pinpoint thing like the icbm launch. They are not reporting on south america, on africa at all except maybe if it is the zimbabwe situation. Asia, they are not looking at the broader Foreign Policy picture. We consume our news for fun, like the news junkie but we also do it to be informed and good citizens. And thoughtful taxpayers and informed forwarders informed voters. Virginia, is burke, giving comment on Media Coverage of President Trump. Now that the house and senate voted on tax bill is starting to come started to compile those bills with the announcement of conferees. With a face in a story in the Washington Post including they must decide whether to lower the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 in 2018 as the house bill stipulates our use the senate bills date of 2019. They must also decide it is the Washington Post story, and announcing yesterday from the leaders in the house on who those conferees will be. This is from paul ryan from the ways and means committee. The conference chair will be kevin brady. Devin nunes of california, diane black of tennessee, kristi noem of south dakota. When it comes to nancy pelosi, from the house ways and means committee, richard neal of massachusetts will be a part of the deal. Tony from texas. You are next up. Independent line. Caller thanks for taking my call. I really love cspan. Trump is so divisive that there is only one way to cover him. You can watch cnn and you can watch fox or jump around, but the only way to do it is cspan. You guys are the only want that if you can in and do this in hd, you would run the market on everybody. Host we are in hd in some markets. Provider if cable you want to ask more questions about that. It is outside the Supreme Court today, they focus on it much all day in light of the case featuring that bakery out of colorado. The case of the cake being created for a samesex marriage. Peop