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Concerns weren't taken seriously at fox. >> how might he change the messaging machine at this white house? the federal government has been subject to a lot of undulation over this year and a half of the presidency. there is no communications director in earnest at this point. what input can he put on that comm shop? >> i thought "the washington post" did a good job of reconstructing what kind of interviews will he be giving. he doesn't give interviews, he's a study in careful uselessness, except where he was throwing an elbow or an shiv on behalf of the network. shine is not known as a voluble...

Of the beef that various presidents have had with the media over time or the beef that they've had with people investigating them. what seems different to me is the conservative media messaging machine that has turned this into not just a political stance, it's turned it into a cultural stance for conservatives. does that have historic precedence or is that new? >> it's something that nixon was desperate to have and we know that richard nixon met with roger ailes of all people and talked to him about establishing a tv network. nixon would have loved to have that in watergate. in the case now i...

Who would argue that he almost single handedly amounted a campaign to kill immigration reform when the bill wound its way through the senate. like, he was essentially a one-man messaging machine. and we saw how toxic that became for so many republicans, marco rubio among them, for example, so it makes a lot of sense that once he saw how this was unfolding, he pushed back and now here we are with having this fall apart. >> matt's piece in "the new york times" this morning is deep-diving into who stephen miller is, where he came from, his background, totally worth the lead. kasie, does congress ...

Bracing for what it seems as though he thinks is going to be a portracted fight. at the same time, ali, the messaging machine is in full force here at the white house. he wants to get back to focusing on his agenda. he held a meeting with a number of ceos to talk about american innovation and technology and sean spicer did hold a briefing, but it was off camera and wasn't recorded. really a sign that they wanted to be very specific about the messaging they're getting out of the white house on any given day. ali? >> kristen, i think you made that crystal clear and i always think you do. >> i tr...

Act in america, but their main focus is not to come here. they want americans to go there. the leaders of isis have recognized that above all, they are a messaging machine which in turn becomes a recruitment machine. their gruesome videos would seem a repulsive turnoff and are to most people, but they work on the web. the shock and awe they produce makes them go viral and thus are seen by tens of millions. that ensures that these videos attract those alienated young men, a few thousand among the world's 1.6 billion muslims who seek revenge, glory, and gore. and as long as those young muslim me...