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Has to work. it doesn't work if we don't have a well-informed citizenry. and you are the conduit of which they receive about the information of what's taking place in the halls of power. so america needs you, and our democracy needs you. >> i consider our media to be indispensable to democracy. that we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. power can be addictive and corrosive. and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power whether it be here or elsewhere. >> god, i miss those two. peter baker. >> well, look, neither one of those -- both ...

Now it's disheartening. >> i think he's right, because one, they've gotten away from what the protest is about. the president has flipped the script to the national anthem, which it is not about. you do the bow silently not doing it disruptively. there's religious groups that don't fledge to the flag. he's flipped the script. now he has said about the tax of the nfl, which is intimidating the nfl to grovel to him. there's no way you can interpret but groveling to the head of the state threatening their tax status. and now jemele hill who has said don't blame the players, if there's any talk, y...

He so-called it from the political side. to go hand to hand, to change the narrative, give a new story line, and reflect calm. his demeanor was so important for this white house with so much volatility perceived real, generated from inside. the tone of general kelly was necessary today. >> and one of the reasons the tone was necessary is because of the story you reported yesterday. on labor day there was a stunning story "the new york times" the way john kelly was yelled at harshly the way he had ever been yelled at in his career. your story also detailed shouting matches between the president...

Anything that you're picking up from his own national security establishment that is alarming, that he looks at the iran deal as simply erasing obama's legacy and looking at the nuclear stockpile in july and wanted it bigger. are there things this team is feeling anxious about not being able to sort of pull out of him a different person than what we see on social media? >> there are. and one of the issue areas that comes up is north korea. his advisers for months have been counseling him how to handle north korea, how to speak about the issue, and not to push things too far to the limit that c...

And shouldn't have to worry if your life is in jeopardy. that's what this protest is about. we're watching this on social media and the news to the point i had a conversation with one of my good friends i love dearly. he goes, i'm getting exhausted. i was like, exhausted? imagine if render al sharpton got exhausted, reverend martin luther king or malcolm or our forefathers, black america cannot be exhausted by this. we must continue to fight and until we get heard and get justice in the country. until then i don't want to hear anything about the flag. it's never been about the flag but about o...