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Confidential source without naming him or her. we will name carl bernstein and chief preliminary analyst gloria borger, and mag by haggerman and also jack kingston. maggie, i noticed you tweeted out a quote of one of steve bannon's book, and the quote is the whole secret lies in deceiving the enemy so they can't not fathom their intent. do you think that's a factor of president trump's attacks on the media? >> you know as well as i do, that he does not react well as negative stories, or stories he per zees as negative, even if they aren't negative object tyly. not what we saw with donald trump...

That understands how important having enemies is. and if it's not the media, it's going to be some other group. expect to hear this a lot. >> if i were doing fake news, i would have been fired a long time ago. >> they're the enemy of the people. >> it is an effort to divide and conquer, to divide the press from the people and to divide the press among themself. i don't think in the long run, i don't think honestly in the short run it's going to work. >> they shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name. >> his aides were giving an unnamed background briefing at the white...

Background knock down the "new york times" story. of course, the fbi did not want to do that because there's an ongoing investigation into these russian contacts. >> not to mention there was a background briefing today as well around the same time that the president was coming out and saying, you know -- you know there were official senior officials. it's about our story that we reported yesterday, and they asked not to be named. it's sort of curious that is a sticking point. >> the problem here is that what we see with the white house is they don't like a story. they immediately go to fake ne...

Welcome back, you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin. president trump is once again slamming the intelligence community but this time focussing in on the fbi, it comes after cnn first reported that the fbi rejected a request to publicly refute media reports about campaign ties to russia. part of the team that broke this exclusive story wide open, so pamela, what have you learned? >> reporter: we have learned a few things here, brooke, and the irony of the president going after the fbi for leaks today is that the white house actually held a background briefing with reporters, meaning officials ...

Because what you get on the record is white washed so often. >> the president send don't report unless you mention the name of the individual who said that to you. he said that minutes after the 45-minute background briefing at the white house and reporters were told you can't mention the names of the individuals telling you this. >> of course, that is the pla to nick relationship of the reporter and to not say who is giving us this information. this is for the most important stories that is happening inside this administration people don't want to risk losing their jobs, they don't want to lo...