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The press is looking for what's going wrong in an administration. when you look at trump's first 100 days, it is more negative than clinton's or george w. bush's, but this has been a tough 100 days. i think even if you asked donald trump would you like to do it all over again, i think he would say yes, let's restart the clock. so this has been a very rough 100 days. i think press coverage reflects that. >> and to your point, if you roll out a travel ban and it gets stymied by the courts, and you campaign on a pledge of repealing and replacing obamacare despite control of both houses of congres...

A new study from researchers at harvard university looked at ten major news outlets, found the overwhelming majority of coverage of the new administration's first 100 days was hostile. >> yes. thank god for social science. joining me, author of the study, thomas patterson, professor of government and the press at shorenstein center at the harvard's kennedy school. i want to talk about the presidential race and the first 100 days. coverage of both major candidates was incredibly negative. 62% of the time for hillary negative, 56% of the time for trump was negative. you point out there was not a...

Getting out to obama administration officials, that the trump transition team did not trust. can you come up with any good reason why the top advisor to the president-elect, his son-in-law would want or need -- >> it's pompbltd that you modify your question with a good reason. it's tough to come up with a good reason. i think that phil mudd is on to something, and he used to brief me every morning. he points out the atmosphere at the time. as candidate trump was saying at the time. they wanted to have closer ties where the russians, whether that was wise or unwise, a lot of people thought it w...

Damage because some of the things the administration has done or is about to do, and they don't see any self-correcting mechanisms within government itself. it's kind of like squeezing the toothpaste tube tight with the cap still on. under that kind of pressure, that toothpaste will come out. here it comes out in the form of leaks which again, i can't endorse, i can't support, but i agree with you, an awful lot of this would be unknown to the american people. michael flynn could still be national security adviser without these leaks having taken place. >> my final observation because when i ga...

General hayden, is this nefarious or naivity. >> michael, right now, going with naivety. that's not particularly comforting for me. what manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt, would you have to have to think that doing this with the russian ambassador was a good or appropriate idea. so again, naivety out, doesn't make me feel good about many things. >> some read this as another sign of potential collusion. a more benign explanation is the idea the incoming trump administration felt they couldn't trust the obama administration, the intel community or both, and therefore though...