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The media commentators going into overdrive ramping up attacks on donald trump and conservatives in the wake of the mass shooting. our chief trace gallagher looks at it. >> reporter: we have gone to a new level, on top of fueling hate with his words the president is signaling white supremacists through a type of secret code system and this person is not just an nbc contributor but a former fbi assistant director of counterintelligence who is accusing the president of having an interior motive by ordering flags be flown at half staff until august 8th. the change the numbers 88 are very signific...

Let's flash back to august 2017 in the hours after charlottesville he spoke at his golf course at bedminster and blamed the violence on people on both sides of that altercation. after 24, 48 hours of a media firestorm about it, i was part of the traveling press pool during that stretch. they whisked us to the white house, taking him off the vacation to give a statement from the white house with the back drop of the grand setting there and saying that it was a much more measured, teleprompter reading saying that no of course, you know, he condemned the white supremacists. only the very next day...

Unlike the mueller buzz feed, this is an instance where a lot of media commentators did rush to judgment and it is unfortunate because context is everything. you see a 2-minute clip of something. when you see a 10 minute content it may provide a totally different story and this happens again and again with social media and i think people don't want to admit when they are wrong, they don't want to say they rushed to judgment but that is what happened here, very unfortunate for everyone involved. shannon: final word to you. >> a major failing by the new york times, the washington post reported o...

Money for border security that's not the wall. senate may tweak it a little bit, send it back and i think trump will have to take it. i think the relevant negotiations here are not between nancy pelosi and donald trump, the relevant negotiations are between donald trump and rush limbaugh and ann coulter because trump was ready to okay a deal a couple of weeks ago with democrats and republicans in congress until he got flack from his right, from the sort of right-wing members of congress and media commentators and they started screaming he betrayed them. that's when he backed off. he ultimately...

He decided after getting flack from the far right especially media commentators that he wasn't going to go ahead and do the deal that he had agreed to, but i think what is likely to happen is the democratic house will come back. they will immediately pass the bill that the senate had by unanimous consent passed. the senate is likely to add another $300 million on to that and go from 1.3 to 1.6 for border security, not for a wall. the president will say i won and the government will reopen. that's what i think will happen. you never know with this president. >> that would be signing the bill, b...