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>> and this kind of unfocused visceral anger at the other side of really neutral people like folks in the press corps, it can lead to this. look, according to today's "washington post" president trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days in office. that's an average of 7.6 a day. this is not normal. we shouldn't be in the business of just shruging our shoulders and normalizing it. we'll be right back. alright, i brought in new max protein

Them. >> when you say seeing the facts as he sees them doesn't make sense. something is either a fact or it's not. and it is not a fact that we didn't see over 4%. >> i'm going to ask -- just cue up that among -- queue up that thing we had on monday. >> we just can't figure out why he lies. >> 16 times a day now. it's some number of times. 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days. which is an average now of 7.6 times per day. >> he calls robert mueller a democrat. he says that robert mueller investigation is run by 12 or 13 angry democrats. that's not true. he calls it a rigged witch hunt....

Rutenberg. must be fun. it seems like watching a tally of the president's lies, 4,229, seems like the time it takes someone to type that number and he's told three more. i guess what is the point of and what is the value of what used to be a pretty heavy currency when i was working in politics, i'm sure for you guys, the fact check? >> i'll tell you something, there is a key set of numbers that came out sunday from cbs news did a poll with ugov. for strong trump supporters, 91% he is the most trust the source, more than their families. the media, mainstream media was at 11%. >> this is among h...

Conspiracy theorist. >> that's true. peter baker, how do you cover this president with the appropriate level of skepticism for the 4,229 lies he's told in 558 days? how and why do you continue to go to press briefings when the press secretary lies from that podium day in and day out? >> well, look, you know, obviously that's our job, is to scrutinize what presidents say. your president, ben's president, we did take our responsibility seriously in trying to test what was said by presidents at the podium. try to give additional context if we didn't feel it was being represented in a three dimens...

Other people. he doesn't have empathetic feelings for other people, he just cares about what happens to him. >> when you don't like the answer, you'll boo the messenger, which is what happened to jim acosta last night. people don't want to hear the facts about the president it seems or donald trump supporters don't want to hear the facts. a lot of them tune us out and don't believe a single thing that they say. they believe him, which is propaganda or their friends and family, but they're not going to believe the media, even if the media is comporting with what they're seeing with their own id...