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Issue. he is very bothered with the news coverage. >> how much of this, what we saw this week, do you attribute to bill shine in this deputy chief of staff overseeing the com at the white house. he, of course, comes from fox news. he has a media background. is he enabling this dined kind behavior from the president that you describe as being suppressed over the first 18, 19 months of the administration? >> he has certainly enablds it with regard indicate lin collins last week. he told her that she could not attend that events, who executed the president's wishes to not attend. i know from repo...

Lot of television in spite of his protests saying he doesn't. is this about him feeling pressure of everything that's going on, including obviously multiple investigations? what's about this lashing out at the media, today in particular? >> well, i think that at the's obviously frustrated with press coverage. he has been since day one. he wants better press coverage. he puts a lot of stake and faith in the media. he has a media background himself obviously. but put things in perspective. after he won the election his aides talked about kicking press entirely out of the white house putting us i...

All so familiar with. let's bring back our panel to discuss this. something that i found really fascinating there, abby, was he turned to his right and said to his son-in-law, jared kushner, i'm going to let you take over for a little bit. i mean, that says a lot about his role in this white house. >> it really does. i mean, jared kushner is very much involved in sort of the breadth and the scope of his portfolio is a little bit surprising, because it's not just some of these domestic issues, economic issues. it's also international issues. and the president is turning to him to be the sort of...

Into this at all, i didn't think he was going to be able to bring up his popularity with the people of connecticut. and i always expected that i would be running against dick blumenthal, and that appears to have come to pass. >> it wasn't a shock when blumenthal decided to run. it's not like he said, oh, i never saw this. is blumenthal been planning this for 20 years? >> as long as i've known him, i always felt that this is what he was aiming for and he's done some good work. he'll be on the show today. >> so you're 20 points behind the attorney general. how do you make it up? >> doing exactly...

You have both camps trying to advance her stories with the media background try to be cute and then they go on the record and get a little bit crossed. cnn says they are sticking with the story. maybe they have another source told them the story is true. >> greg: who could that source be? is there another lawyer we are missing out on? some other guy. tammy, if this will be on the other side, it would be yet another smoking gun. the media doesn't see this as anything special. >> tammy: this is why when the president says fake news, everybody goes nuts. this is exactly what he's talking about. t...