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The legitimacy of the american press by an american president. that was the bar before today but now the press is the enemy of the american people. it's not just the insults to the press, insults to individual reporters, calling the news media fake, it's also the way they're running their press operations in the briefing room. we got news this week, for example, that the administration has started giving white house press credentials to random pro-trump blogs. do you remember during the republican national convention there was a deliberately controversial, deliberately provocative anti-islam e...

>> that was previously thought of as kind of the lowest, right? the most direct public attack on the legitimacy of the american press by an american president. that was the bar before today. but now the press is the enemy of the american people. and it's not just the insults to the press, insults to individual reporters, calling the news media fake. it's also, you know, the way they're running their press operations in the briefing room. we got news this week that the administration has started giving white house press credentials to random pro-trump blogs. do you remember during the republica...

Point, no matter how loudly he screams the words fake news, the facts will out in many of these cases. and obviously, of course there's no evidence of this. of course this is made up out of his head or from some, you know, third-tier, fever-swamped nutcase whackjob website that suddenly probably has white house press credentials, and it's theort of thing that he's going to continue to do until he gets checked on it and until his staff gets checked on it. and i think the resistance to folks like kellyanne conway that's growing with a lot of the media is you can't just govern by lies. you can't ...

Point, no matter how loudly he screams the words fake news, the facts will out in many of these cases. and obviously, of course there's no evidence of this. of course this is made up out of his head or from some, you know, third-tier, fever-swamped nutcase whackjob website that suddenly probably has white house press credentials, and it's the sort of thing that he's going to continue to do until he gets checked on it and until his staff gets checked on it. and i think the resistance to folks like kellyanne conway that's growing with a lot of the media is you can't just govern by lies. you can'...

And accountable. as far as the large numbers as jeff points out sean spicer rightly observes that the place is bursting at the seams and it is. the white house has accommodated that in the past with formal presidential news conferences when they put them in the east room or someplace else on the white house grounds where they can accommodate more people but the daily sort of day in, day out briefings, gagless as they call it where there's quick access with the press secretary happens with that core, smaller group of white house reporters who cover every word, every move that the president make...