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>> lots of reporters that are covering a lot of things. what you see on one hour -- you're acting like what you see on one hour of cnn equates to the entire national news media and tens of thousands of hard-working journalists who love america and want to make sure that the president is doing his job. >> sure. you look at his job through the lens of russia. i look at his job through the lens of america. on that, we're always going to disagree. number two and most importantly, this president is out there all the time. i mean, you've got cnn reporters with him. if you just stopped and talked to ...

Editors got fired. twitter is not an assignment editor, it's not a source. you know, i was out in the country, i was in five different states at the beginning of this week, and nobody there is talking about anything but jobs and health care. people at the end of the week were talking about cybersecurity attacks. they'll probably continue to talk about it as they get back to their desks in the morning for work. the country is talking about things that matter to them that the president is working dutifully on every single day. there's such a disconnect now between what people hear as noise and a...

Agencies, and cybersecurity really has to be higher up in the agenda. >> heather: front and center, thank you. ♪ >> jon: well, the trump administration strongly defends the president's firing of james comey last week. blaming the media for fueling the fallout. kellyanne conway says that reporter should have seen the firing of james comey coming. >> the fact is that as they work on the 20th palace intrigue,/personnel story of the young administration, they totally miss the firing of jim comey. where are the editors? sometimes i think along with the fbi director, a lot of the editors got fired...

Editors got fired. twitter is not an assignment editor, it's not a source. you know, i was out in the country, i was in five different states at the beginning of this week, and nobody there is talking about anything but jobs and health care. people at the end of the week were talking about cybersecurity attacks. they'll probably continue to talk about it as they get back to their desks in the morning for work. the country is talking about things that matter to them that the president is working dutifully on every single day. there's such a disconnect now between what people hear as noise and a...

>> i think it is really getting lost in this debate that american citizens who were not government employees at the time, who were not targets of stuff, potentially were surveilled, had their information unmasked, made it available, was politically spread. >> reporter: kasie, that is sean spicer being the assignment editor for the entire white house press corps. he's not the first press secretary to that. he won't be the last. but clearly, they're trying to shift the conversation not having much success. kasie? >> hans, thanks, i can't say i've never been on the other end of spicer trying to t...