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John mccain joked with his contentious issues with the media. he said dictators get started by attacking the press. >> i hate the press. i hate you, especially. the fact is we need you. we need a free press. if you want to preserve democrat ty as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. without it, i'm afraid we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. that's how dictators get started. >> the cnn reporter who won for his reporting on watergate. and a pillar of the republican tax plan may be dead in the water. with president trump promising pro po...

While they await proceedings. it is toughening the law on asylum seekers. an appeals court has suspended proceedings on the original travel ban. the president trump's attacks on the media is coming under fire from senator john mccain. the fake news media failing new york times and nbc and abc is not my enemy, but the enemy of the american people. john mccain says he was not calling the president a dictator, but dictators get started by attacking the press. >> i hate the press. i hate you, especially. the fact is we need you. we need a free press. if you want to preserve democracy as we know ...

Spoken to the russians about sanctions. a very questionable statement. the third issue is we have this spe spectacle of high ranking officials, rex tillerson and mike pence, overseas in europe cleaning up some of the statements that the president has made. there's an enormous amount of daylight between his delegated em bas sars and the things he have said. those are real stories. while we ought to have discussion about the press role, we have to keep our eyes on the prize. >> we need to be prioritizing. i think there is prioritizing going on. isn't part of the challenge wen we ask questions ab...

Across the country getting national media attention. so much so that maybe the trump administration tried to change the topic on saturday afternoon by attacking the press. back with me now an all star panel. lynn, we seen the schedule for trump for the day. we know he will be on camera this afternoon. what can you tell us? >> i got planning. i got the press schedule and now i saw it said planning purposes only. >> all right. >> i can say in general that the president is going to have activities this afternoon, very soon. since we get this under a set of rules, now it says for planning purposes...

Is playing well with this crowd here in south carolina. >> thank you so much, katy tur in south carolina. it was very professional of her. i guess she didn't hear what he was saying about her. i'm sure she did. >> i'm sure she heard. >> what do you think, jay? >> he spent a good chunk of the speech going after the press. >> yeah. called them dumb. >> called them scum, scum, scum. look, attacking the press has been popular with the republican base for a long time. he is kind of doubling down on that. it's one of the riffs in a riff-filled speech that tried to hit as many buttons as possible. >>...