failing "the new york times." we are surpri-- this is a new l the so-called paper of record and it should issue an apology just as it did after the election for its disastrous coverage of the trump campaign. this is another example of the liberal media's concerted effort to discredit the president. it goes on but i think you get the gist. kristen welker, i think i know -- i think all of us know this president well enough to know this isn't sarah sanders' words because i notice we don't see her name here. it's a statement from the press secretary, but -- >> reporter: and we know he likes to talk about his -- the election results. i mean that's the top of the statement. and so of course you have to think of the president himself having potentially dictated this, chuck, there's no doubt about that. but look, i think that you have in this statement something that echos what we just heard from president trump himself. and in terms of the broader issue, i want to go back to a point you just asked marc lotter, did he ever hear these