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Definition. he knows that to be a fact because he was in the briefing. kellyanne conway could not give a straight answer to me or anderson cooper about why they're doing this except to attack the media and it works with his face. >> it does. these are difficult issues to report and you have to report them with caution and with fairness and that's what cnn did. other news organizations didn't do it like buzz feed by linking two unverified claims that were the basis for this briefing and jake tapper said it well. hurts all of us when you do that. that's the problem that the news media has. there...

Away all of the ability to hold him up to facts, to hold him accountable for what he said because he made us people who were never telling the truth. >> unintentionally, he didn't make us a pack. he basically is saying there are good people and bad people. he didn't accuse the whole press. going back to joe mccarthy. he didn't go to the jackle pack. he didn't do that. what do you make of his tactics generally? >> today was interesting because it was a divide and conquer strategy. by singling out buzzfeed and cnn, he tried to play to other members of press core, and it was effective. i thought ...

Strategy. by singling out buzzfeed and cnn, he tried to play to other members of press core, and it was effective. i thought he was calm, confident, he was mixing it up with reporters and he did not answer the substantive questions about his finances and conflicts of interests. from trump's standpoint today was a total victory. >> let me start with the other people. hugh and andrew, did trump win today in this battle between him and the press and how he wants to look? >> only in this regard that he wanted to talk about his finances today, chris, because there was this elaborate establishment o...

All the time. well, we hear kellyanne conway earlier today in a series of media interviews she did promising the trump administration will engage with the media both the president-elect trump himself and his communication staff, trump assembled this. people that have covered trump for the entirety of the kacampan are familiar with this group of staff. they are setting themselves up to have a lot of interactions with the press core. >> and pushing back that promise press conference from earlier this month. they'll have their words cut up for them in terms of answering questions from the preside...

Doing something because that's the way we have always done it is not a good reason to keep doing it. the reason to observe these practices because of how critical of the exchanges that's taken place of our democracy and holding those accountable. >> we'll have more on josh earnest on next week's "reliable sources." let's go behind the scene, jeff mason, he's in denver with us this morning, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> josh earnest says he's concerned but what changes of the trump administration is thinking about. are you concerned of the future of the daily briefings? >> we'll ...