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One thing, hannity is trying to downplay it. it is going to take more time to get to the bottom of this. hannity says he has a lot of lawyers, john, not just cohen, he says he has eight lawyers. what he needs is a media ethicist. he's on the air talking about cohen, defending cohen and trump and all the rest, attacking robert mueller and various investigations every day without disclosing this matter. >> whether or not he has attorney/client priprivilege, h does seem to have violated news privilege or standard -- >> he's not a journalist. he says he produces real news and has anonymous sources...

That's something we should all be celebrating. so where's paul ryan? where's mitch mcconnell? are gop leaders going to speak up about these attacks against the media? like i said, right now at cnn, earlier it was "the washington post" and the new york times. it's been other networks, it's been other outlets. this president continues to demean the media, are gop leaders going to support him? i want you to know we reached out to the white house earlier this week to invite a spokesperson onto the program given all the president's media attacks. unfortunately they did not respond to our requests. ...

Thin-skinned and vindictive. stop this. >> this weekend, trump tried applying the fake news label right here to cnn. let's discuss this is tv twitter feedback loop with jeffrey lord, carl bernstein, and kelly mcbride, media ethicist. carl, you say trump is running faster than the press defining the agenda. how do you propose we catch up to him? >> by doing our job in terms of the best obtainable version of the truth which is our mission. trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. no president including richard nixon has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way this presid...

bridge collapses. sending a tourist bus plunging into the forest below and the death toll could get higher. clock is ticking and tensions are soaring and if you want an idea how things heat are over the debt crisis, listen to this. president obama storms out of yesterday's meeting vowing he will veto any extension of the debt ceiling that is only short term. reports say he said to aeric cantor, quote, many could bring down my presidency. the august 2nd deadline is looming and pessimism is growing. a major rating agency says it will review the nation' sterling bond rating for a po...