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>> right. >> you used to work at glenn beck's "the blaze" web side, dodds cracks in the force field? >> one of the things i've been paying attention to is the drudge report. he seems to have completely turned on the president. he has, for a while, been sort of the assignment editor, if you will. so him potential turning is huge. >> right now his headline is second whistle-blower comes forward. he's not shying away from the news. >> no, he's spotlighting the news, and also spotlighting the commentary of some of the people the president doesn't like, like shep smith, like judge napolitano. tucke...

Control the narrative by having to sort of fact check in real time? it's quite challenging. as a journalist, i think the best we can do is go out there and say what the truth is. and when it's relevant to fact check in real time, do it, but otherwise, tell americans what the real story is. >> but jim, that really is kind of the crux of the debate, and you're working on a book writ large on this subject now. do we spend all our time fact checking a president who lies 20 times a day, and does it make us, as jack schaefer from politico said, the president the assignment editor for newsrooms acros...

Separate fact from fiction. that's the job. so when we start making decisions that sort of how is this going to affect the president or our relationship with the president, then we're being sucked into a more political debate. but the flip side of that is do people start turning us off. you're constantly arguing with him, a certain segment of the population. it can't be argumentative, the tone is important. >> how do you walk that line, and what's the line in particular of not normalizing lies through repetition? because they do provide amplification, but he's president of the united states. >...

Understand it when he was reunited with his family and suffered that none of us will forget or forgive. the president holds north korea responsible. he said that chairman kim says he was not aware of what he believes chairman kim said he was not aware of what happened to otto warmbier when it happened. i know how twitter somehow has become an an signment editor for reporters. if twitter blows up and said north korea is not responsible they're not paying attention. >> sandra: was the president -- >> we don't discussion security clearances. i won't discuss my own. i will tell you the president h...

I want to use lethal force. i want to trash robert mueller and the investigation, i'm going to do it, et cetera, et cetera. >> he says he is going to do it, he of course doesn't have the power to do a lot of these things. >> he has people scrambling around him. >> he recognizes the power of setting the agenda in washington, particularly when it comes to saying things that we have to cover and figure out can he do the things eggs talking about. he loves being the world's assignment editor. it often feels like these are things that we learned on day one of his campaign that keep replaying over a...