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We're back. president donald trump and his press secretary lashing out at the news media about the relationship to the intelligence community and over reports about the size of the crowds at inauguration. bring in senior correspondent jim acosta. jeffrey lord. sarina zito. and brian stelter and mr. jim sciutto. here is donald trump at cia headquarters earlier today. >> the reason you're my first stop is that as you know, i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. right? and they sort of made it sound like i had a feud with the intelligence com...

I know maybe sometimes you haven't gotten the backing that you've wanted. and you're going to get so much backing. maybe you're going to say, please don't give us so much backing. as you know, i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. and they sort of made it sound like i had a feud with the intelligence community. and i just want to let you know, the reason you're number one, it's exactly the opposite. >> that was donald trump today in langley, virginia, at the cia headquarters. it's worth noting that he had to pass, going and coming, elemen...

To delegitimize the media. when trump says he has a running war with the media, we're seeing that now play out. >> it doesn't help to use the language war. >> this is a president who now is in charge of real wars, real combat and he's talking about having a war with the media. >> yeah. it's interesting, even if this morning's tweet from donald trump he's talking about a fixture, a hallmark of democracy, the right to protest. this was a response to what we saw yesterday in the nation's capital. but the hallmark of democracy is also the freedom of the press. and there usually does take some time...

Sign his first executive order. >> small group of reporters. same way obama and bush and the rest used to. >> we had a lot of conversation about the importance of a pool. they told us they will respect that and they did on friday night. we're pleased that happen as well. >> how would you describe your approach right now? as the head of the white house correspondent association, you had 100 of your journalists at a town hall. there's clearly some anxiety here. what are you telling the white house correspondents about how to approach this? >> i think it's important to reenforce the point we've a...

Be reporting on. it speaks to what seems to be an already toxic relationship. you heard the president talk about this running war with the press. it is disheartening to be starting out in this way. you have to wonder, what is the long-term strategic communications plan. pa part of running the government is going to involve the press, getting your message out. this seems to be a difficult way to start if you are going to try to get that done. one point spicer made, he said there has been a lot of talk about holding the president accountable for the media to hold the press accountable. he said, ...