Us know if you think other candidates have gotten better coverage. The phone lines are open. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. Twitter, facebook. Very good saturday morning. We are talking about Media Coverage of the 2016 election cycle. Do you think your candidate has gotten a fair shake . Have any of the candidates gotten a fair shake . Our phone lines are open. No stranger to talking about the media and how it covers his campaign. Here are two recent examples of his very active twitter page. Once as the media is so after me on women. Wow, this is a tough business. Nobody has more respect for women than donald trump. Its amazing how often i am right only to be criticized by the media. Illegal immigration, build the wall, muslims, nato. Lloyd grove had a bit of a different perspective and a pc wrote for the daily. Theat large for the headline has the media turned on donald trump . Trump has sealed utterly nomination process despite repeated affronts to political tradition. He has had his roughest media week in the campaign this past week with journals finally asking tough questions of the republican candidate. Besides veteran political dramas journalist lisa to follow that his luck has run out. The whole media, and i include myself, has an under the spell of trump being so fun for so long. Now the wind has shifted. When the wind shifted it became clear that ratings would be better if they went after him because how many more thank you mr. Trump interviews can you possibly do . Another critic. Here is a piece in slate. Sanders and trump have one thing in common, they hate the media. That noted a recent interview that Bernie Sanders did with the Program Young turks in which he said, you have Corporate Media which has conflict of interests. Decided corporate control of Major Television networks saying the media is an arm of the ruling class of this country and they want to talk about everything in the world except the most important issues. Bernie sanders and donald trump both criticizing the media. We want to hear your take. Marissa is up first in montana. Line for democrats. Good morning from montana. Caller thank you so much. Thank you for book tv and brian. I watch you every morning. I am so grateful for you guys. Thank you. I was just talking to my daughter in bozeman, montana. They are so strong Bernie Sanders supporters and so am i. We are so concerned about Voter Supreme Court dispelling the Voter Registration act. She was saying arizona there was huge amount of voter fraud and they are investigating it. In 2000 they were 200,000 people and 200 voting things. This year they were 800,000 people that try to vote and only take the voter things 60 voter things. Host can you talk about how the media has covered these issues that are important to you and your candidate . Caller it is all about trump. Rump here, trump there you barely hear about Bernie Sanders. When he gets a little bit of momentum they are so grudging about it. Ts all about trump why is it all about trump . Twitter, the media has devoted weeks of nonstop media to trump an almost nothing covering Bernie Sanders is the tweet that came in. Ll king writes this morning, media treatment as a matter of perspective depending on if you viewer or your fox msnbc rooting for democrats. We are going to be visiting the subject later in todays program. In the 8 45 hour we are joined by jim moran. Use the chief media writer. We will have this discussion. The phones are yours. Tom, didrepublicans, morning. Good morning. Caller you guys are some of the worst people of all. Every day, some headline about blasting trump. You dont blast Hillary Clinton. She will be investigated shortly by the head of the fbi. Why all the headlines on trump . Why not hillary . She will be investigated by the head of the fbi. Other people are making you always blast trump. Do you want to explain yourself . Blastsne of your guests donald trump. Cspan is the worst. Host i invite you to look through our video library. We have had Trump Supporters. We do not write headlines. We look at the headlines in the major papers and around the country and show you the headlines in those papers to try to have a conversation with you about it. We want to hear your thoughts in a our phones are open on this topic. Tim in graham, texas. Caller good morning. I disagree with that other guy. I think everybody does a good job. I have been watching cspan sits and went on the air. I got upset the other night. It was Chris Matthews in conversation with trump. But this wasppen the worst case. He drew it out of trump. Hypotheticals. That is what gets all the politicians in trouble is trying to answer a hypothetical. They are trying to set a trap for you. This one was on the illegal abortions. They haverybody is planned and pulled the trigger. Msnbc, fox. That was so unfair. When they started reporting trump wants to put women in jail for having an abortion, it was hypothetical. What if the law changed was the question. The suggestion given by Chris Matthews. I do not fault trump for that. But everybodyan is sensitive about the candidate. I really thought this was outrageous. It put me into a depression for two days. Nonstop watching television. Host stick around. Comes on, heer wrote a commerce column about that specific interview. About thatk interview but he comes on at around 8 45 this morning. Appreciate that call from texas. John from alexandria, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. Contrasting your previous callers, my problem with the media was Hillary Clinton. Much moneyreport how has been spent. Ago. Dicted this years tomuch money is being spent dirty her up. I am out of breath. On andry morning im going of a hill. Host i appreciate you listening to us in your walk. Caller that is my real problem. The fact that the media doesnt ever say how much money is spent. News is even giving Bernie Sanders some praise. They was to slip in there, would call him a communist everything out everything else. America is not that stupid. Host does the media treat anyone fairly . Is a universal . Caller contrasted to the other opinions, they have given trump all kinds of airtime. Miss any of his speeches around the country. Spent is his own money. Not they dont say is it is a lot compared to hillary. He will get that money back i have read if he doesnt make it. Host we will talk more about the money issue in the roundtable coming up. Next we are joined by kelly jane torrent, the managing editor. Stories that came his biggest Bernie Sanders announcing he had raised 40 4 million in the much of march 44 million in the month of march. Albany, georgia. Edward, good morning. Caller good morning. I amalling. You know what they are doing . They are trying to push donald trump out of the decision. What i think people ought to do is open their eyes. They need a chance to try to change all the laws that are going on with the competition. Towardsht to figure out the end if theyre going to push him out. Why shouldnt the people be able to vote for Bernie Sanders or whoever afterwards and hold up on the end . I am a little concerned about that. If they went to the very end and they push him out, all the people that had a chance to vote. My devoted for Bernie Sanders host how did they push him out of there . Caller its not all the media. Some of the media. Its a lot of the ladies. That is the world we live in. Host in your opinion, who is the media . Caller a lot of it is the people. They always blame it on the media, but its a lot of people doing it. I think you have to realize that. Host you mean the individual hosts that interview the candidates . Caller yes sir. They are trying to get recognition and its the first things like that. Donald trump, you can tell hes a good person, but anybody that is push like that. That is is a little bit hard on people. And he does get pushed hard. They have to understand there is good and bad. Im concerned about all the votes towards the end. Why should a few people be up to take him and push him out of the position . That is all there is to it. You can see it. I think maybe all his voters should if they like Hillary Clinton, vote for Hillary Clinton. If you like Bernie Sanders, go out and vote for him. Host jerry is in jacksonville, florida. Independent. Caller yes, how are you . Agree with the one gentleman that said cspan has been pretty rough on trump starting from monday. Every day you have something negative to say about the man. You bring negative people to talk about him. I wish you would do that to the democrats that call in on the independent line. They call in on the republican line. You know the are not republican. You know they are not democrats. It is some of the same people calling in every week. Thank you sir. Host jim is in massachusetts. Democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning, sir. Concern about a friend of mine who accuses trump people of interrupting or breaking of a rally for mr. Trump. He says that sanders people are doing this. My principal source, and i include cspan as media, and the boston globe. I dont see any evidence. Perhaps you have had some speakers get callers who provided some evidence. If that is true, that is not a good thing obviously. Jim, as you have been watching the cycle you talked about your principal sources of media. Who do you trust in the media . The good to a couple different sources. Who do you trust the most . Host i trust cspan. And the boston globe seems reasonable and trustworthy as well. Host thank you for the call for massachusetts. Institute did a poll this year about how people are learning about the president ial trustnd what sources they when talking about the president ial race. In terms of common sources, television is the highest at 78 . U. S. Adults say they learned of the 20 60 2016 president torres before the poll was done. Digital, online at 65 . Radio, 44 . Print and newspaper, 36 . Local daily newspapers in that quarter were accounted for 29 . National newspapers just 23 . In terms of sources they found most helpful in learning about 24 of thoses, said cableurveyed news is the most helpful place to get information about the president ial race. After that five sources were named. Local tv, social network, newsradio and National Nightly network news. At the bottom in terms of what was the most helpful, 3 of americans who learned about the this includes print of both local and national newspapers. 2 prospectively respectively. It also includes latenight comedy shows were not helpful, and website apps and issuebased groups. Those were the news sites that Research Center poll found city the least helpful according to respondent. The can find this at pew research. Com. Lots of polling data on where people get their information from and how they use that information. James is in virginia beach, virginia. A republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. Everybody is charging that donald trump his saying everybody is saying that donald trump is racist or whatever the case may be. That was a word that was put up by ted cruz. Furthermore, i feel like they are asking donald trump questions. Why dont we ask about what is ted cruz shutting down the government. James, do you think a lack of coverage of ted cruz is a sign of unfairness . Caller yes. Media. Essing with the no one knows it that he is doing it. Host who are you supporting in the selection . Caller donald trump. Host james in virginia. Carol wrightson on twitter. Marco rubio was treated fairly well. Trump has been viciously treated by almost all the media. David says, the media created donald trump. We the people want him canceled. Host thoughts on how the media is treating your preferred candidate. Georgia North Carolina, independent. Go ahead. Caller can you hear me . I think it trumps case the media is treating him unfair. The primary example is this abortion thing. Somebody explain to me how festive abortion is illegal and a pregnant woman decides she wants to have an abortion and she goes out and find someone to perform the procedure, how we see the victim . She is guilty and she should be punished for that. I dont understand where people come up with that. You get immediate talk about donald trump said this and that, but they do not quote him exactly. They lead out a word or two or change the order around. They are misquoting him. Its attack, attack, attack constantly. , hashing about ted cruz anyone noticed how similar he looks like the younger version of grandpa from the monsters . Munsters . Host john, good morning. I am a party supporter. Caller i made ernie supporters. Bernie supporter. They are not bringing up voter they are not bringing up the fact host reid in washington . Caller thank you and good morning. I have a quick few statements to make. First of all, i am a trump supporter. He is an outsider and that is why the system is so up in arms about trump. He is not status quo and cannot be bought. I truly believe the rnc has become my side of the aisle, the conservatives, are lining up like the way party whig party and president clintons time. They dont want him to be president lincolns time. Many things will change in the country were people that have money will be affected by this. Like goldman sachs. Im at a point where i think the delegateseople, the stolen from trump. The speaker of the house said trump needs to be defeated. Has anyone ever seen the speaker of the house advocate or rail against a candidate and an election . That is not what they do or what they are supposed to do. And he is going to be the convention . The think about it. It just seems so corrupt. He will direct what is happening at the convention. Party committee steel and election from us, we need to go into tax revolt. I am a selfemployed person. Im of the honorable system to pay my taxes. If all the selfemployed people just lockedtry pinkies and said we are going to pay taxes until we get this straightened out. I think the only thing that will truly straightened it out is a 10 million man march, a 20 million man march at the capital demanding constitutional amendment be put in place before we go home. That is the only thing that is going to change it. In this cycle ive been watching fox news. I have not watched them for three or four months because they started railing against trump. It is not their job to take sides. I can barely stomach cnn. Without these constitutional amendments put in place, we need to go into a tax revolt. Host he was talking about the national convention. Republicans in North Carolina are holding their state convention today. There is a story about it. The top surrogates are converging on north dakotas Republican Convention to decide how he did the battle for delegate has become as the possibility of a contested convention looms. They award a relatively small number of delegates, but they will be on unbound and free to change their minds at any point during the convention. If you want to hear more about did ad delegates, we segment on thursdays program of alex rogers. You can go to cspan. Org to learn about the unbound delegates of become free agents and possibly become kingmakers in a contest to convention. Bo in new yorkb. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I believe the media is really making mountains of money off of trump. If you are changing every time and you speak for the people. The media simply wants them on the air. You can say anything that in size controversy insights controversy because its a big moneymaker. Trump is the master a controversy. That is pretty much it. If he sounded dignified, the media would be less interested and not give them the free air time he now gets. Host who do you think doesnt do that . It was doing it just to show the news and something you can trust. Where do you go for your news . John, i did not get what you just said. Host what news sources do you trust . Caller the times. I dont know which one is 100 trustable. From the peoples respective, prospective, i would trust about Bernie Sanders. I dont care what the media is going to talk or say about him. Here is what i believe Bernie Sanders is the one candidate we can trust. He has done many of my friends a favor. Worldunning around the and has proven for all americans the support for something other than it is now captured millions of americans. Bernie sanders is the only didate who is accurately this is all the reality. I dont care what the media talks about. I believe his voice resonates with the same message that it has for decades. The middle class, advocating for equality, air and water for our climate, returned to americas greatness. I think he will be able to do the right thing about disturbing resources and sharing it the squandering orot wasting all that money away. Host that was bob in new york, new york. A key primary battleground for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. That primary coming up on the 19th. All eyes on your cap to the wisconsin primary takes place next tuesday. Steve in virginia on the line for republicans. Good morning. Caller thank you. You all are definitely imbalanced news organization. Thank you all for cspan. I was unsure about donald trump. Trump is saying the things that a lot of people are thinking. He may need take a minute to think things out, or he gets confused like any of us. Im not so sure. I think its a larger picture. I think a lot of the news outlets are conglomerates. Ande was a website to go to read it on the website. They show these different people that are connected with special organizations conglomerates. I think they all have a spin on it. I dont understand why people like Newt Gingrich and all these different people that are has been, trump would say they are losers, they keep giving us an opinion on drafting our opinion. Loss in terrific virginia of a Virginia State trooper. The minute a state your gets shot, it was a horrible thing. He is a hero. Donald trump sp