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The president explicitly said, they don't cover it, and they had their reasoning, he never said that, sean spicer said, they go undercover, we don't report on them enough. >> that's not what the president said. >> he also had an insinuation that was vague enough, people could read in what they wanted, the reporters, media have some kind of agenda behind this. i have been covering the news for 20 years, i was down at ground zero for literally years after the attacks, we have covered terrorist attacks. i think we get criticized for covering them too much. i think it serves the president's purpos...

Domestic level, and i think cnn is one of the only u.s. networks that will cover that where you can get that, you won't get that from other networks, if there's an attack that happens in another part of the world, if you are tuning in, mr. president to cnn international, you will get those stories as well. we don't just cover stories that happen here in the united states. >> don, i think what also happened here, you had a president who spoke and then you had a white house staff that had to be the shovel brigade and had to say this is what the president -- >> that happens every day, it seems, g...

Is troubling, especially when doing it before a military audience as he did yesterday. >> but as a tactic to get the media doing that, saying things like he said yesterday in front of the media saying the media doesn't cover terror attacks which is completely false and we're talking about that and not about this travel ban likely going to the supreme court? >> it's a distraction. it's a tactic. it's a strategy, and i don't think i can say it enough. it will be hard to sustain because at some point he has to get more into the nitty-gritty of governing. of course, it's damaging to the press and ...

It really says basically, that the press is not doing its job, because it has its own political agenda, it doesn't want you to know the truth about how dangerous terrorism is. it's pulling a leftist agenda on you, which is clearly not true, and he engages in these falsehoods without producing any serious evidence, we get a list that includes san bernardino. it's astonishing, and it's beneath the dignity of the presidency and it really tears at the fabric of what holds us together as a people, when we can't trust each other, we can't trust the white house, he's telling you can't trust the press...

Ignoring terrorist attacks, it doesn't explain why. it feels like you said, perhaps they're trying to wave that shiny object and get the public's attention away from the things they should be focused on. >> let's hope it does not happen. the men and women he spoke to today put their lives on the line for those terrorist attacks and there are journalists in the front lines as well. pamela brown, do you have a response to this? >> i'm talking about those terrorist attacks jim pointed out. i spent sleepless nights covering those stories, and sent to paris for one of the attacks, the charlie hebdo...