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They have to still work through that and stop getting phony balance and tell people what's the truth and what's not the truth. >> yeah, you are familiar with democrats and republicans. there is nothing quite like this. suppose there were also the same sort of inside source chummy relationship with the obama white house and the bush white house. you do have a certain normalization of this president treating it as a whacky jeb bush. he's calling the press the enemy of the people. institutions, you are at harvard and harvard has corey lewandowski up and harry cohn u up. is there a normalization t...

Secretary spent her entire tenure lying and flat out ignoring and refused to hold briefings for the press and who her boss calls the enemy of the people? >> well, apparently you throw her a party. she exited her post taking her smoky eye with her. joining me now jennifer ruban and sarah jones and back with me is aisha mills. it seems odd to a lot of observers that journalists have been the subject of sarah huckabee sanders would throw her a party. is this something unusual? do we know who attended?

>> it is not unusual as far as i know. it is not unusual for reporters to get a drink. what i find startling about this event is some of the cults made in this saying it is civility and a job well-done and considering her record and her attitude towards the press, i wonder if that was completely appropriate for the press. >> i mean gabe, one of the passages from "the new york times" right up about this party was you better not say i was here. me either, said another. people were not proud being there. >> why did they go? >> joy, this is i think one of

The downsides of the very close ince relationships with reporters. there is no relationship that are scrutinize than the white house press core. these reporters want to maintain access, sarah huckabee sanders still knows a lot going on at the white house. i guarantee reporters are still going to call her and gossip and find out what's going on. they have the interest to maintain that relationship, the optics for the wider public normalizes and invalidates everything she has done at the podium to den grade the role of the press. >> he's amazing team for her last three and a half years.

Somebody who called you the enemy of the people? >> i do think there is some pressure. so much of it does appear to be self-infli self-inflicted. that should be why you go into journalism. some of the attitudes that attributed to these reporters seen completely at odds with the purpose of journalism. whatever pressure may exist to keep these sources in white house can be important than fulfilling obligations to the public. you don't think they should have gone, sarah? >> i personally would not have. i this i th think it is -- but something i would have done. >> gabriel, what does the white hou...