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Calling media the enemy of people. you have the county commissioner saying i don't have to give you information which he or she must give to us. con sich we constituents have the right to see that. with their numbers diminishing, they need the backing of their publishers to push for that. that's what it means to be a journalist in this country. >> let the sunshine in. we need folks in those news rooms being employed. connie, thank you very much for being here. i appreciate it. >> sure. >> quick programming night. tonight full of 2020 town halls. 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. eastern time jake tapper...

Saying they are fake news. we think about what this guy or this girl is trying to accomplish. they are somewhat of a senior official or they wouldn't have the information they have and are trying to cover their own but. the only thing i agree on is they should come out of the shadows and talk about what is going on. if they are that worried about our democracy, i disagree with donald trump on 90's% of what he stands for but he is the president, let's have the open and fair debate because we want america to do something good but we want to have this in the open and not the shadows. rob: calling...

Of administrator pruitt and while that was under way the epa decided to hire things same firm to do what it's calling media monitoring to track what news stories and social media commentary about the agency. the same group that has been doing this research sort of intelligence gathering on critical epa employees has now been hired by the agency to do media monitoring. that's where the two came together and caused controversy. >> what is leadership? scott pruitt, those closely around him at the epa, how are they responding to all of this reporting? >> they're saying that this has been exaggerat...

>> shepard: a 6.0 earthquake struck off shore in northern california. tim gaughan working the national desk. >> most important of all we're not getting reports of injuries or damage yet. we're making calls. probably the biggest city near the especially center is eureka to we're calling media there. we will show you what we found on the usgs website. it's a 6.0 quake, hit about 3:21 eastern time, noon 20 on the west coast. they'll show you the e in the last hour in red. th off the coast of california about 7 miles deep, about 47 miles west-southwest of eureka.