Another country which she did call absurd. Does it feel the press narrative that we poke about, the president being erratic when suddenly this escalates to the point where he cancels the visit and becomes global news. Certainly feels that narrative, the original story that launched it in wall street journal covered how this was serious effort. The president had been talking for advisers about it and putting a lot of serious thought into the decision, wasnt just something he randomly tweeted, and so its interesting to see how it was treated in the press when the original story that launched actually looked like it was pretty serious effort from the president and the reaction from the danish Prime Minister was extreme, so seems like doesnt seem like a crazy thing to say, maybe now the time not to negotiate on this. I think she didnt want to have a fight with the u. S. Absurd the president later said he had a great conversation trying to patch things up. It kind of changed the whole narrative to, you know, the greenland thing is not happening and was never going to happen, but to donald trump and the press uniquely picking fights with American Allies which denmark has been. Youre right, that the wall street journal showed that this is something that they had internal deliberations, this is a case where the style of this president and the staff around him leaking this to the wall street journal as opposed doing diplomatic ground work that you normally do. Right. The fact that because of that style the Danish Government in American Press has strong reaction, pushed back and now we have a diplomatic incident with an ally. This is originally light story, greenland is mostly covered in ice, yes, it has National Security significance, 58,000 people live there, less than the neighborhood i grew up in brooklyn, now elevated to policy land. We tried buying greenland a couple of times in history. Truman tried it and they gave him an equally nasty response when he tried to buy it under his administration. Its not new rand to mock it because its President Trump its typical for the media f trump is doing it, its crazy and nuts and if another president considered it we would take it more seriously. The way they go about it they always stumbles the problem because they dont do diplomatic outreach and picking fight with denmark, it runs to mockery. Real Estate Developers like to buy things, different when its a country. Great discussion, ahead, a serious debate whether sean spicer should be allowed on dancing show, when we come back donald trump on media tear versus google, versus nbc and versus fox news. clients voice remember that degree you got in taxation . danny of course you dont because you didnt your job isnt doing hard work. Its making them do hard work. And getting paid for it. vo snap and sort your expenses to save over 4,600 at tax time. Quickbooks. Backing you. Donald trump ripped a number of Media Organization this is week and that includes this network, it was this tweet against americas internet search giant, report just out, google manipulated 2. 6 million to 16 million votes in 2016 election, put out by clinton supporter, not a trump supporter, google should be sued, my victory was bigger than thought. Im certainly not discounting questioning of googles bias but thats not what study said, trump was reporting white paper. I never said google manipulated elections, the range of numbers listed is also incorrect. 95 people wasnt reviewed by other experts and designed to gauge to potential impact if google was messing with search results to help one candidate. Trump also unloading on nbc White House CorrespondentPeter Alexander for the way he attempt today ask a question that began with joe biden. You like to attack joe biden for his gaffes, but nbc, ive made a lot of money with nbc with the apprentice but they are the most bias, peter you should be able to ask a question, same question in a better way. You are so obviously bias and thats why the public has no confidence in the media. Nbc has less credibility in my opinion with guys like you than cnn. The president is entitled to challenge a reporters question as some predecessors have done and trump slammed alexander and ended up being about trumps gaffes that dayton shooting was in toledo. Fox poll found him trailing 4 Democratic Candidates in matchups. Fox has changed and my worst polls have always been from fox, theres something going on at fox, i will tell you right now and im not happy with it. Bret baier responded that fox hasnt changed and let me just say fox has a News Division separate from opinion side and the polls are conducted by the News Division, by the way, the fox latest fox poll that is very much in line with other recent surveys, now the president who has criticized foxs coverage of democrats isnt going to be happy with the journalists here as opposed to some of the opinion hosts, thats fine, ive told the white house that donald trump who i interviewed 6 times during campaign is ready to return for media buzz for candid conversation and he has an open invitation, coming up Maria Bartiromo is here to tackle this question, stunning body guard, roughing up on other President Trump made headlines by slamming Federal Reserve james powell on harsh terms but also hitting the press for signing of recession down the road. The numbers and facts are working totally in the opposite direction, they would be willing to hurt many people. The fake news of which many of you are members was trying to convince the public to have a recession, lets have a recession. The United States is doing phenomenally well. He repeated the charge today from g7 blaming the fake and disgusting press, joining us from new york Maria Bartiromo, let me start here, maria, do the media have the power even if they were so incline for political reasons to crash the economy . Maria well, look, howie, lets talk about the consumer being twothirds of economic growth, Consumer Spending is incredibly important and if you constantly hear gloom and doom on the media you may very well say, you know what, a recession is coming i better pull it in i better be more conservative with my spending, more prudent right now because i hear whats going on in the news that theres a recession coming so im going to pull it in, if everybody start pulling it in at the same time, yes, you actually can have the media talking us into a recession, so theres truth to that because Consumer Spending representing twothirds of economic growth. I think the broader picture is that the media continues to have incredible amount of influence in terms of explaining to the world what is going on, when you go back to the fact that we just came off of the 2 years of collusion delusion where the media was all about President Trump colluded with the russians, et cetera, et cetera, you know, sunday morning futures, my program right before this program was every week poking holes into that narrative for 2 years and i got slammed in the media as a result of the fact that every week i would have people like congressman John Ratcliffe and devin nunes, the congressmen who saw the redacted document, the people who were there interviewing the fbi officials and they knew the story better than anybody, so i featured them every sunday on my program and everybody else in the media, i mean, on television was talking about the president colluding, its no secret or no surprise to me that china earlier this year reneged on everything. You had a deal with china in place let me just say this, an important point. We had a deal in china in place with china in march earlier in april and the chinese reneged, why, they are watching on cn, in that the president colluded with russia, it may very well be the chinese thought we are going to be done with this guy in a year, so, yes, the media has incredible responsibility to seek the truth, howie, and that write it is narrative. Let me turn back to question of recession and i certainly understand how talking down the economy could affect consumer confidence, Consumer Spending but when the president talks or tweets about china or jay powell, we will get to that in a moment and the market goes 623 points or when theres bond indicators that say recession could be down the road, thats not the same thing as saying we are on the vernal of verge of a recession. The medias responsibility is to report the truth and seek the truth, howie, how many programs do you hear the media saying the Unemployment Rate is at 51year low, how many Media Outlets are you hearing saying we had 4 plus percent growth for one quarter last year, 3. 1 in the First Quarter and 2. 1 in the second. The recession is two quarters of negative performance, meaning negative not positive. We are only seeing positive readings, so the fact that we are talking about a recession being on the horizon and not even talking about the facts reminds me of editorial meeting that took place at New York Times two weeks ago where the editor there said, well, for two years we were putting all of our resources into russia collusion, the story changed on us, the story didnt change, howie, the story is the same story but they put all resources in collusion and now they decided that they will put all resources on racism, thats a disappoint for me being a journalist when i see Something Like that and it should be a disappointment to everybody journalist because a journalist is supposed to cover the story, seek the truth, not write the story. Right, times didnt say all resources to racism but that would be prominent part of the narrative. Let me get you to the tweet because have gotten so much attention, the president says my only question is our bigger enemy jay powell or chairman xi, comparing to autocratic leader of china and then later told reporters, if he we wanted to resign, i wouldnt stop him, isnt that isnt that unprecedented attack on a fed chairman who he appointed . It feels like its been unprecedented attack on jay powell but i think its important to recognize where we are in terms to have twitter and and google universe and where we are today and many president s have plotted to lower rates and be more favorable on the economy, today we hear about everything because of twitter and because of google and facebook, et cetera, look, this president does things his own way. I can debate you all day on policy, lets talk economic policy, lets talk foreign policy, im not going to debate about personality. He does things his own way, obviously it works for him, sometimes it doesnt work for him, other times i would prefer not to see the president of the free world poking the chairman of the free world, i would prefer not, i would like to make sure that we all know that we have an independent Federal Reserve but the president does things the way he wants to do. You know, like i said, personality versus policy. An important distinction and perspective for Maria Bartiromo, thanks for sticking around, maria. Maria thank you. President trump would lead on background checks and now backing off, donald trump and Anthony Scaramucci ratcheting up the rhetoric as their battle the rhetoric as their battle turns nasty. Introducing the allnew chevy silverado. With fifty industryfirsts. Its the strongest, most advanced silverado ever. Because i know there are so many address myof you veterans, who have served our country honorably. Whether its two years, four years or thirtytwo years like myself. One of the benefits we as a country give our veterans is eligibility for a va loan for up to 100 of your homes value. So if you need money for your family, call newday usa. With automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no. President trump took center stage after mass shoot negotiation el paso and dayton saying this about the need of stricter gun measures. We need intelligent background checks, okay, this isnt a question of nra, republican or democrat. Great, great support but we are looking at very, very meaningful background checks. But the media accused him of caving this week when after speaking with nra leader Wayne Lapierre the president took a different tack. There are things we can do but we already have serious background check, we have strong background checks, we can close up the gaps, we could do things that are very good and things that frankly gun owners want to have done but we also have to remember the gun doesnt pull the trigger, a person does and we have great mental illness. Joining us now to analyze the coverage gail trotter, lawyer and commentator in washington and in new york jane who teaches media government, gail, does the president have a point that the president seems to be softening language in background checks . Well, President Trump has never taken a policy position on any particular background check and so i think what we are seeing palpable frustration by the media that after these tragedies happened that theres no legislative action and so thats how we are seeing the headlines and the reporting of outlets like the New York Times. They are painting it as a retreat but in fact, its not a retreat. Its true that we havent gotten down to specific legislation but when news organizations say is after talking to chief executive of nra and he was very open about that that the president is now sort of echoing some of the nra language. Yeah, you know, the thing about the media, the reporting on this and theyve used the word whiplash and flipflopping, the reality here is that we have now our best opportunities to get, you know, important gun control legislation because its going to have to happen under republican president if you have a Republican Senate and the media have to think about how would this legislation ever get passed, if it would get passed by the president talking to members of congress, giving them cover to vote for some form of legislation and so i think the media is being a bit disingenuous here when its talking about the president s conversations with Wayne Lapierre which by the way seemed to have been leaked by the nra versus the white house. Right, in your view, gayle, are the media its true, the president has talk today lawmakers on both parties, so lesser extent the assault weapons man as solution to Mass Shootings . Im glad that you asked that, we dont see a Mainstream Media pushing law that would ban the publication of photos of the mass shooters and certainly part of the motivation between many of the mass shooters is same of seeking recognition and why does the Mainstream Media treat the First Amendment differently than the Second Amendment . Because they dont believe the Second Amendment in the way that they believe in the First Amendment. Im very glad that Many Organizations on their own have barely mentioned the names of the mass shooters or show their pictures, thats the next step. No one necessarily expected donald trump to go there after el paso and dayton and he also gone that direction after Parkland High School shootings, i think when he came out to reach meaningful background checks, he raised expectation that is the media reflected. He did raise expectations. That is a big deal. We have background checks. No, hes calling for expanded background checks is what hes calling for. Thats a big deal for a republican president to call for that. I have to jump in here because i want to get to the other topic which is Anthony Scaramucci continuing the former white house aide continuing attacks on President Trump leading to these tweets which i will put up on the screen here, donald trump says Anthony Scaramucci is a highly unstable nutjob, i bare law knew him until 11 days of gross incompetence, mental wreck, we didnt want him around and fake news puts him around like he was my buddy, Anthony Scaramucci in many interviews punching back. He may not have had early stage dementia but early stage fascism, hostage crisis in front of building, they are scared out of their minds, look at what he did to my wife and i this week. Should the president be responding that personal to smooch . Yes the only claim he had the spectacular flameout in the white house, perfectly appropriate for president to call him out for that. I had Anthony Scaramucci in the program, a lot of people liked that, lets press him on current views, is he undermining credibility when he says trump is irrational, unstable, fullblown mental breakdown . You know, Anthony Scaramucci, its interesting because one of the things we have to give President Trump for he hasnt changed, he has been the same as he was when Anthony Scaramucci worked for him and prior when he was in new york city and i know a lot of what Anthony Scaramucci has said has to do with the president s comments on race, the president w