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Every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ all right, protests happening right now in st. louis for a third day after the ea quital of an ex-police officer. last night's protests started peacefully with tensions boiled over after some demonstrators refused to disperse and confr t confronted police directly. ryan young is live in st. louis. how are things looking now? >> reporter: fredricka, you know how much a difference an hour makes. if you look here, you can hear the people starting to chant. this protest starte...

Hyper aware of the press that covers him and watching cable news. i mean, sweden's a prime example, he's watching fox, got that information and went to this rally and said it. how does that stack up to past presidents and how much they consume of the media that covers them? >> that's not new. lindened johnson used to have all three networks running in the oval office so he could see how he was being covered ed on issues like vietnam. he was destroyed when walter cronkite turned against the war and there's many examples of this. so, all presidents are consumed with the news. most presidents tho...

Journalism gets all kinds of subsidies and chris hughes was a really good guy to subsidize the new republic. >> for however long is that subsidy lasted. >> he has plenty of money for it to lose a million or two which is what it was losing when he took it over and instead it has blown up. it is very sad to me. i started my career there so i have a huge amount of noftalgia for it. it was one of the few places where people went to have their opinions challenged and confr t confront confronted. not everybody agreed. writers liked to confront the other side. supposed to challenge people on your own...

Something about the culture of think tanks. contrary to what people think especially when they're confr t confronted with information from the other side, think tanks are not these monolithic party organ for one party or the other. they are think tanks. and they involve a lot of differences of opinion. they involve a lot of different approaches whether we're talking brookings or whatever. when you're confronted with information from the other side, you tend to accuse, well, that think tank is really just an echo chamber. >> this is your think tank, this is aei, people at aei. >> you mentioned ...