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Better in year one of the administration than it was during the campaign? >> oh, it's by several orders of magnitude better in many respects. the deference has more or less evaporated and the press' willingness to be his tool and his platform has diminished and now they're confronting him. their being the adversarial press that the founders envisioned. i would say that the so called print press, what is the print press, is doing a spectacular job of reporting on the administration and all of the dimensions. not just the russia probe but the dismantling of the structures of government. you know...

That's an interesting distinction. he at least tipped his cap toward some basic appreciation of the first amendment and free press in a way this president never does. >> that's the reason i say it's unprecedented. for all he did and didn't do, the president nixon never tried to say, look, this institution is worthless and never used the kind of language that the press, everybody in the press and media, enemies of the people, which echos through awe they're tearion regime. president nixon, i don't think he believed that that all press people are enemies of the people. we haven't seen anything l...

Surrogates or he quietly had assistants do things with the press but in terms of the president without exception, i don't think there's ever been a president who right from the opening has so unrelentingly and forcefully personally attacked individual reporters, present institutions and he has threatened to use the full force and power of the presidency against such institutions as "the washington post," "the new york times" and others. now, when i say president nixon was the closest we came, i don't think, frankly, there's very much comparison to be made, two different eras for one thing. you...

Had wire tapped him in trump tower and that generated news cycle after news cycle and derailed from the administration's priorities and you mentioned how they always seem to be talking, they're on television quite a lot. in the previous administration you didn't see the chief-of-staff or even the national security advisers on television as much as we're seeing now. we're getting direct information from senior white house officials in that form that we did not before. of course, behind the scenes they're also talking quite a bit without putting their name on it even as they accuse the press of ...

Information that's -- >> i was given that information. >> when all in starts right now. good evening, from york i'm chris hayes. at the very start of the trump administration on day one, sean spicer made clear what posture the white house would take towards the press. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. both in person and around the globe. these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. >> that moment, that remarkable moment in which a representative of the president, the press secretary himself yelled demon extraively...