Youre not alone. Check out these findings. Hillary clinton with an eight point lead over donald trump. The poll asked, thinking about donald trump has president , are you comfortable with this or does it make you anxious, 50 of americans say very anxious, another 20 say somewhat anxious, thats a total of 70 . And 51 say thinking about clinton being president makes them anxious as well. The media needs to acknowledge not just whats going on in our brains, but whats going on in our guts regarding this election, theres anxiety, theres fear on all sides. And these tensions are why tvs socalled Trump Supporters are so controversial. Right now his surrogates, his supporters, well, theyre playing defense. We have seen it all weekend, 4 versus 1. Thats why the American People are watching these segments and saying maybe this is more political politically you want to sit there and you want to harp on him on the issues and youre forgetting about these other issues on the other side. Did you hear what she said there, panels of four versus one. It may be a talking point from the campaign. The norm on tv is a Panel Representative of all sides of an argument, and this year that means antitrump republicans alongside pro trump guests. But today were going to do it a little bit differently. Were going to talk about donald trump and the charges of media bias. Trump supporters say theres an awful disconnect between the media and the voters. A cnn political commentator, and cnn political commentator and talk show host john phillips. Scotty, you made a lot of news this week. When you talk about this on television, when you point this out on twitter, why do you think its a winning argument for trump to assert media bias . First, media bias is not new. Newt gingrich came out and said 82 of all those in the media probably lean left, and thats something were going to have to address and move on with it. But that shows not only what were talking about, but what were not talking about. We spend so much time talking about all of the issues of trump and maybe one or two on Hillary Clinton amongst the panel. And not just here, its across the board with news articles, where you look at headlines, theres usually 3, 4, 7 to one. That may represent various facets of people who are against mr. Trump. One or two may be a pro trump view if were lucky. Do you think theres a sort of media bubble problem that so many journalists and producers and bosses are in new york and d. C. So theyre not able to represent the views of the rest of the country . When you talk about establishment, a lot of people are referring to the media as being part of that establishment. Youre not part a flyover country, Great America out there in the heartland. Its a totally different atmosphere and whats being talked about is totally different from whats going on in new york and washington and thats where the media is coming out of. Thats why people turn on the news and they hear all this bias, they feel its not a fair representation. I have to go back to something that scotty said, its not just the negative things that are said about trump, its the omission of things. Give me an example. You want to talk about trump university, but theres no talk about the laureate schools where clinton has received 4. 5 million that clinton has received for being the honorary chancellor. Arent you aware about those facts about clinton from the news media . Arent those ideas based on news Media Coverage of them . Actually i am not, i have done a lot of reading and thats why im aware of them. Isnt it from media reports is what youre reading . I dont know that necessarily all of it is media reports, some of it may be. Dont you think youre doing an apples versus oranges comparison, when you bring up clinton controversies, but theyre not as big and newsworthy as trump its not the medias place to determine whats newsworthy and whats not. If there are scandals on either side, put them out there and let the American People decide whats important and whats not. Chris, isnt it the news medias job to decide whats newsworthy . Isnt that the definition of news . We know the media is biassed. The dnc email links proved that, the dnc was taking their marching orders from Debbie Wasserman schultz. They showed politico submitting stories from politico. Before publishing those stories. Look, this is a problem, but i also think we have got to point out the fact that a lot of the bias is because of the liberal ideology. But some of it is just because of entertainment, right . Trumps sins are mostly rhetorical and its very fun as readers to read about twitter duels and trump bashing someones wife, its more fun to read about that than it might be to read about things like email servers which is kind of boring. So part of the bias is because of liberal ideology. And part of it is because trumps giving them what they want which is entertainment. Let me play devils advocate. When your listeners complain about media bias, isnt this a victim hood media bias . Isnt it that theyre victims of a big, bad, liberal media . In many ways, the media buy yaz helped create donald trump. Lets start out with your original sin, with the media pointing out that they move on to Foreign Policy with the serious candidates. The problem was, that wasnt in an empty theater, that was in a theater filled with people and fox news provided the laugh track that allowed people to say wait a minute, people know whats going on here. Then you move on to the Huffington Post that put in a wild disclaimer that in the early stages of the primary, they didnt spend their time going after trump that ended up being the real threat. What did the dem people, they spent time going after marco rubio. They made a pathway for trump through the primary. Now were in the general, any time he makes a joke they dont like, the joke about the emails in russia was clearly him going for a life line . The audience in the room didnt think he was joking, do we just not have a sense of humor . He said he was joking, Paul Manafort said he was joking. The mother of the baby said he was joking. I like to think i have a sense of humor, but i didnt think he was joking. On bill maher, Julian Assange said you need to hack into the Clinton Emails and that fell on deaf ears. Wikileaks came out later and said that was a confuses case. I was really struck by what another cnn commentator who said she was frustrated by her candidate. We are at a juncture where donald trump does need to step back and listen to Newt Gingrich who said today, donald trump can win this, but in order to do that, he needs to stick to the issues, and i think that he owes that to us and to the if he can get back on message, he can make up that gap, he can win that. Interesting comment there. Amy, does trump ever disappoint you and do you feel comfortable saying so . Look, of course i have been disappointed at times, i have with every candidate i have supported, theyre human beings, theyre not perfect. But at the end of the day, im going to stand by him. We need to talk about the issues that americans are concerned about, jobs and the economy and our safety and security, our national security. Thats what we all want to be talking about. In that case, im with you on that, but in that case, why does donald trump talk about media bias. Let me show you a few of his tweets complaining about the New York Times, and cnn and other news outlet, he went on a series of comments against media outlets. Scotty, why is it advantageous for donald trump to attack news media outlets. They wrote their story about all of the women that were against mr. Trump that used to work with him and these women came out the next day and said, thats not what we told you, and did you ever see a recant from them apologizing for what they wrote about . The meat of the story was true. They still should apologize for taking the words of these women to twist. You just mentioned the mother of the crying baby, she said i was already out of the room, i took it as a joke as well. You hold trump one accountable and you look at Hillary Clinton supporters and you go, have you ever been disappointed in your candidate . And i have to tell you, in most cases lets ask them that question, and of course theyre going to say the email scandal . But are they going to mention benghazi . Are they going to mention the millions that went to Clinton Initiative and the time spent on these little trivial joke issues that spawn into bigger issues. This week we saw the khan family, rightfully so, the proper honor that their son deserves, but this week we saw two gold star families coming out endorsing mr. Trump saying we would not go on a political stage and bash hillary, we would talk about our son. Those sorts of issues are why people feel like theres media bias. On the other hand talk radio is the opposite. Talk radio is overwhelmingly conservative. And this week, rush limbaugh, the king of them all renewed his deal. Lets end this on an agreement that none of us care about the crying baby thing, that that was a silly thing. I think it was, we all think it was. Lets come back on the other side and con otinue our coverag. Also this hour, i have a message for sean hannity, its something i have wanted to tell him all week long. 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One of the reasons why cnn hired you and scotty, is because all of the other cnn commentators are anti trump. As a cnn political commentator in recent weeks . Im a republican that lives in los angeles in 2016, so all of my friends are jews, gays and scientologi scientologists, im used to hanging out with people who have different points of view so thats nothing new, i dont work for donald trump, and because of that, im not tareq aziz, the communications minister. I can call the balls and strikes and i think thats important for those of us in the news arena. We have to be honest brokers. And theres one thing i want to point out with c nrks nrkscnn, ask some of the hardest questions in the business, they hold your feet to the fire, and that ees exactly what they sho do. They do that to me and they do that to others and im very appreciative of that. Scotty, youre the other paid commentator here on this panel. What do you do to prepare for these segments, since youre not talking to trump all the time, how do you prepare . I am not paid by the campaign as well. While i definitely get a lot of information, the campaign will soechbd out their Additional Press releases and i am one that does the research. When you sit there and prepare for these, its more about studying up on Hillary Clinton, in hopes youll be able to counter and go against Hillary Clinton and point out some of her points, but unfortunately, were always having to defend mr. Trump and the words, because thats how it is and it usually goes negative. And you say im not going to look at my twitter feed for the next 30 minute office this. My job here is to fact check donald trump. Do you feel like were doing too much of that . What do you mean when you say you have to defend his words . Theres no such thing as defending too much of Donald Trumps words, all i ask is that you fact check Hillary Clintons words just as much. And im not specifically saying you, im saying the media as a whole. We dont want to sit here and have things biassed against us, but lets try to be fair. One of the great things about cnn is we have the opportunity to show how respectful conversation from two people who come from a different point of view should go. And sometimes when we have these panels and we have these arguments and we tear into each other and we have four people arguing with each other, thats not a good example of how the rest of america should be with each other. At least when we are talking, and when we go quiet and go silent, is why were having a lot of the problems were having in america today. Politifacts says theresis that an example of bias . Again, a lot of trumps sins are rhetorical. While hillarys might be more substantive and it might be more fun to read about trumps sins. But the more the media tries to tear down trump is it blows up in the medias face . How does it blow up in the medias face . The New York Daily News who ran trump as a clown, theyre losing reader ship by the day. 88 of young people get their news directly from facebook, and trump has been very good at utilizing that to his advantage. But on facebook theyre clicking on links and going to cnn and other news media stories. Yesterday on cnn you were talking about this really creative video trump had put on facebook, very low cost, very creative and while Hillary Clinton is spending millions on the ads during the olympics, people are not really watching tv during the ads. Let me ask you, if this is so effective for trump, then why is he losesing in all the polls . Why is this anti media cam pain not working for him with more voters . I think its hillarys bump after the convention and i think come back after labor day when people come back after their kids are on vacation and they start listening to the election. Polling can be skewed too by the way the questions are answered, the number of democrats versus republicans that are polled. I mean you cant say that theres not any bias in the polling, because i believe there certainly is. People are going to hear you say that, amy, and say this is a review of unskewed polls, the people who thought that the polls were skewed against romney actually hurt romney. A poll is only a snapshot in time. If people really want to elect donald trump they need to be out there working for donald trump until the last ballot is cast. It is a snapshot in time, what if i take 50 snapshots, the real clear politics has it up by 7 points, thats outside the margin of error. Lets look at this georgia poll that we keep touting, that trump is down four points. They did the same poll back in may, this time they asked more democrats than they did republicans in august. When you look at that number, of course its going to be more skewed in Hillary Clintons favorite. They put more weight on the africanamerican vote, the female vote and the young vote, the youth vote. Three areas that hillary did well on. Thats why people go and get their own research, they pull the numbers themselves and see exactly what that poll is based on. Is it dangerous to tell fans to not believe the polls . I didnt say dont believe them, i said do your research on them. Another important thing that we need to consider is that a lot of these polls dont take into account mobilization. Trump supporters, they are champing at the bit to get out there and vote. They were in the snow during primary season to campaign for him. Those people want to vote. Hillary supporters, a lot of them are not as passionate. When the pollers call them, theyre going to say yeah, i support hillary, but they may not take the time and the effort to go cast their votes. So we got to keep that in mind when we read these polls. Hillary has had a good week. She has every possible advantage, she has a money advantage, she as a name id advantage and shes been in politics for years and years and years, and for her to not come out and kill donald trump in the po polls. I would say you got to wait a few more days to see the polls from this week to see how he and she are doing. One thing i resent about some media outlets, is that they are it actually hurts the presss reputati reputation, so im glad we got it at length today. Coming up next year, wi