Democrats, 2027488000. For all others, 2027488002. We welcome your comments on facebook as well. Showing you some of the rally from melbourne. We want to start with thithe tweet that got some notice. That is where our question is coming from this morning. The president returning to that theme in his rally yesterday in melbourne, florida. Here is a look at the wall street journal reporting this morning. The president bushs back after a rocket for weeks into a sound that has largely been on the defensive. Trump on donald saturday launched a broadside against his critics in front of thousands of supporters who sent him to the white house. I am here because i want to be among my friends and my people, mr. Trump said. And amon the people, mr. People, mr. Trump said. The question for you this morning, is the media the enemy of the people . Trump returns to campaign after a month in office. A look at the large crowd that was gathered in melbourne, florida, about 100 miles north or so of maralago, where the president is for the weekend. Thousands of cheerful supporters in an airport hangar. Your thoughts. Is the media the enemy of the people . To st. Louis, we hear from stephen on our independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I dont believe the media is an enemy of the people, but what i will say for the first time, and i am 69 years old, for the first time in following elections, president ial elections, i am go throughi can other channels and get viewpoints and different perspectives, and it is a bit disturbing to me. Number one, we need a free press. We need that. It is very important. That is where hopefully we will get the truth. I am an advocate of the First Amendment and free speech. Is it seems too many stations, no matter what President Trump would do, there is never any they never delve into something good he has done. They never will. Majordo you think the newspapers, major media newspapers, television are harder President Trump than barack obama a month into his presidency . Caller maybe he brought some of this on himself because he is different. I know he is not a politician. He never will be a politician. But i just think that it would be refreshing once in a while to see some of the media, some of the tv stations, to give the guy in accolade once in a while. Ok . If he is screwing up, go after him. Let the public know. I do not buy into the fake news as much as everybody else, but i just have never seen such cablevity on the major channels, even local channels. That is my comment. I just have not seen anything positive. Host list go to new york city and here next from mark on our republic. An line. Caller good morning. It is very clear to me the press is not the enemy of the people. I am very concerned as a republican. I voted for donald trump. To my mind, the Trump Administration looks like it is spinning out of control with these socalled judges and the press is the enemy of the people , a distinguish admiral who refuses to take the important position in National Security council. I just am very concerned. I am having a little bit of buyers remorse about voting for trump. I did not expect that within 30 days, this kind of chaos, but also dissension and controversy. I also was not very happy about the press conference, particularly with the treatment of the reporter who spoke about antisemitism. My parents were in auschwitz. I dont appreciate that. I dont appreciate it. I think a lot of what we are seeing here is chaos. Ia state must write itself right itself. We have institutions, the press, the court will congress, and they are there for a reason. Our founders put these ideas and freedom of the press number one for a reason. Host the chaos that mark mentioned, a tweet trump mentioned yesterday. To our democrats line, we hear from georgia next. Good morning, diane. Caller hello. Yes, i would just like to say that donald trump is projecting. Storiesking up absurd and is not dealing in reality. His aides and things like that, spokespeople like conway, although i think she can actually tell reality from fantasy, but i dont know if trump can at this point. I am beginning to wonder if he does not have alzheimers. It is clear he is a narcissist. Host diane . We want to go to our republican line next in maine. Sorry, lets go to maine. Alan, are you there . Caller yes i am here. Thank you very much. Just want to point out that aside from cspan and pbs, the media basically is a captured and controlled entity. I like to call it the media propaganda sector of the empire, the overall empire, which includes six other sectors. Just dealing with the media propaganda sector. Host what do you mean by an empire or sector . Caller the empire is the ruling structure of the world now. Ne have for the first time a effectively disguised and truly global and capitalist fueled empire. Before. Ever existed it exists now in a 21stcentury. Host asking you this morning about donald trump and his view of the media in particular, calling the Mainstream Media the enemy of the people. 2027488001 for republicans. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents and all others, 2027488002. Headline this morning in the Washington Post. Reset in apts a florida rally. A florida rally. Line. Go to our republican carl in berkeley springs, west virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. All you folks know i watch this show every day. Do believe that the media, the press is far less. Left. They are still upset because they rooted so hard for hillary , as she did not win, so they are taking it out on donald trump. I would like to know, do you folks vet the people you have on your Program Every day . I was watching this guy yesterday. He has a website trying to stir up everybody to impeach the president already after 30 days. He wants to impeach the president. I was watching this guy, and he looked like a robot and acted like a robot. You can look in his eyes and realized the light was on but nobody was home. I think the guy forgot to take his meds that morning. You people were letting three out of four callers come in and agree with him. Do you have anybody that disagreed with this guy . Watch this show i show all the time, and i was disturbed by watching this program. Host i hope you would agree that we do try to bring views from all sides. Sometimes, you would your guests from one side, certainly from an antitrump side and sundays from real supporters. Our effort is to bring a balanced view in terms of the views that are out there. I hear what youre saying about yesterdays guest. I appreciate you calling. We are asking you about Donald Trumps view of the media. Will return to yesterdays rally in melbourne, florida. Here is some of what he said. [video clip] i also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. The dishonest media, which has published one false story after sources, eveno though they pretend they have them. They make them up in many cases. They just dont want to report the truth. They have been calling us wrong now for two years. They dont get it, but they are starting to get it. I can tell you that. They have become a big part of the problem. They are part of the corrupt system. Thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, and abraham lincoln, many of our greatest president s calledwith the media and them out often times on their lives. Wit lies. I will never ever let them get away with it. I will do whatever i can that they dont get away with it. They have their own agenda. Their agenda is not your agenda. Saidct, Thomas Jefferson nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. That was june 14, my birthday, 1807. Despite all their lies, misrepresentations, and false stories, they could not lea defeat us in the primaries. They cannot defeat us in the general election. We will continue to expose them for what they are, and most importantly, we will continue to win, win, win. [cheering] we are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live, or what to believe. We are free and independent people. We will make our own choices. Host all of yesterdays rally available at cspan. Org. Asking you this morning, is the media the enemy of the people . Lots of comments at twitter, too. Here is one from steve. Tom in southom carolina on the independent line. Thanks for waiting. Go ahead. Caller no problem. Thanks for accepting my call. Like during the primaries at one point where they were supporting him because he was a showman, and it were getting a lot of attention from him. I see them turn on him. Election thatthe they were very biased in favor of the democrats and against the republicans. I think they should be more objective than that. After the election, even after the third debate, president obama said he cannot concede a loss of an election. You are hurting the democracy of this country. If you do notsay want to cry at honestly dont have the temperament to be in the white house. From november 9 until today, that is all the democrats are doing, of stretching the transition, the government obstructing the transition, the government. All mr. Trump is doing is defending our country. Everything i watched before the show at the rally, you just reiterated all the troubles h just reiteratede all the troubles he has to solve. Host you think if the president rallies, to do these we mentioned his advisers are suggesting that they will do more, to you think that helps his message get out, circumvents the media so to speak . Caller i am not a prophet, but i think that i can see that is what he is trying to do. He is trying to get his message directly to the people. That people have to get together to solve the problems of the country. Earlier during the election, Bernie Sanders said it is not about donald trump, it is not about Hillary Clinton, and it is not about Bernie Sanders. It is about the people getting together. We have real problems in this country. Host thanks from your input. Lets hear from clinton, michigan next , next from debbie. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. No, i dont think the media is an enemy of the people. That is a playbook right out of Steve Bannons book. They are trying to turn it so when the media reports on them, they have this window of doubt they have created. They have been trying to create it for a while now. My message to donald trump is with all of these millionaires and billionaires in your cabinet buffett,tes and warren would put all the 1 into a pot until they have 340 million. You want to see a job plan . At the end of the day, all these corporate heads made this money on the back of the working people. Pay us that. They bailed out everybody, but they are not bailing out us. Host lets hear what the republican line has to say. We go to patricia in minneapolis. Go ahead. Caller i totally agree with President Trump. The media is the enemy of the people. You can listen to cnn. He is absolutely right. They have a real animus against him. They are feeding that they lost the last election. The missed report, ignore other stories. Democrats had three i. T. Guys that stole computers, hacked into the emails, and there is nothing on there. They make up stories. For instance, cnn gave Hillary Clinton questions for the debate. Can you imagine if that happened to a republican . Msnbc is nothing but negative spinning and twisting of everything. I hope he continues with these rallies because it is working. He is getting so much done in the white house. It is ridiculous to call it chaos. The only chaos has come from the obstruction and lighting of the media. Host some of the reporting the media has made has drawn International Attention with meetings in germany and brussels. This is an article from bloomberg about reaction from the german chancellor, angela merkel. Expressedkel respect for the media in contrast to donald trump. I stand by a free and have Great Respect for journalism, merke merkel said. More reporting from that meeting in munich. The Vice President , his first overseas trip. The headline here this morning from the New York Times. Pence promises that he was commitment to nato is unwavering. Pence toldent mike leaders that the United States of america strongly supports nato and will be unwavering in our commitment to this transatlantic alliance. While offering the assurance to european partners, alarmed by mr. Trumps rise and his rough words on russia and ukraine, europe must increase military spending in a dangerous world. If you keep faith with us under President Trump, we will always keep faith with you. Mr. Pence settlers at an annual conference, marking his first are overseas as Vice President. Back to your calls and comments. We go to jim on our republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing. Host doing fine. Caller to. Thegood. The way the journalist class is brought up through the system, crusaders ande support a onesizefitsall solution to a lot of problems, with calls for federal activism, which has created the swamp in washington. They are on the side of the swamp because they see the federal government to the solution of all the problems, whereas trump wants to decentralize the government, removes the power of the government in a lot of areas and the individuals make their own decisions. That is against general thinking of people who are in the media. Also, it is good for ratings to be fighting for the president. I think the antifront networks ump probably doing antitr networks are doing ok. Fox news is doing good in supporting the president. It is just a conundrum that we have in this country right now. I dont see anything is going to change. The democrats will not accept the fact that they lost this election because they had a bad candidate. They had an opposition candidate in trump who really had his pulse on the pulse of america. Host do you think because the president has the house and the senate and does not have a president ial campaign to run now at least for another four years, you think he really does see the media as the opposition, not only as a political opposition but a good foil for his speeches, tweets, etc. . Caller definitely. I think he is also using it as a way to try to get his fellow republicans in line. There are some really bad republicans in the senate right now that linger on the vine forever. He can get Popular Support against these people and try to get them replaced, maybe he will be able to get his view approved in the senate that he needs to enact a lot of the problems he has. I wish there was more explanation of what he is trying to do in the media. It seems they point at we will pass this, that, but they dont talk about what actually that means. The average person is left behind, especially if they do not support trump. Host do you think he needs to do more . We saw that one hour and 15 minute News Conference on friday. A lot of questions asked. Do you think he is to do more like that with the press . Pretty direct. Caller trump should have a 24 hour they should just follow him around watching everything. He is very entertaining. The more you see him, the more you understand what he is trying to do. To put up quite a negative view of him. Just follow trump and listen to what he says. He is doing a good job, actually. Host i appreciate you calling in on this sunday morning. Meet the press this morning, one of their guests will be senator john mccain, who had been overseas at the nato meetings. That is coming up this morning on meet the press. You could hear that at noon eastern on cspan radio. He was asked about this tweet by President Trump. [video clip] we need a free press. We must have it. It is vital. If you want to preserve i am very serious now. If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. Without it, i am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That is how dictators get started. That is how dictators get started with tweets like that . No. They get started by suppressing a free press. In other words, consolidation of power. The first thing dictators do is shut down the press. I am not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I am saying we need to learn the lessons of history. Host again, all of that on meet the press today. Back to your calls on President Trumps comment. Is the media the enemy of the people. Jesse, good morning on the independent line. Caller good morning. I just cant believe what im hearing. I am an 85yearold black man. I had to go back to educate myself when i was 43 years old because i was born in the south. I voted for obama onetime. I did not vote for him again. The democrats were using black people just for whatever they wanted them to come out and vote for them. Just cant believe what i am hearing. Trump is insane. This man forced himself on women. Remember jim you jones . You remember jim jones . All those people followed him. That is what we have right now. I cant believe what i am hearing. This man is insane. Host here is tony in wilmington, illinois, democrats line. Caller good morning, sir. I have to agree with President Trump. What is worrying me is this media is constantly beating this drum with russia. It seems like it is endless. They are at every angle to resort back to war with russia. There will be no winners without war. With that war. I cannot believe people watch cnn anymore because i cant. It is near impossible. It seems their angle is always at russia. That is all i have to say, sir. Host ellen is next. She is in clearwater, florida, on the republican line. Callerare the media the enemy oe people . Caller no, they are not. For trump to say that i think is a big joke. Host ok. In georgia, democrats line, go ahead. Caller thanks for taking my call. When president obama took office, the republicans said when he was being inaugurated they were going to do everything they could to stop him. For eight years, they did nothing to help him. That is neither here nor there because that is over with now. As for donald trump, he is using the media for himself. He is talking about the media is the enemy and the media is doing this. The media is repeating what is coming out of that hole