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Sarah huckabee sanders when she is backed into a corner, when the white house is backed into a corner, she often responds by calling the question inappropriate or by implying that there's something somehow impolite about reporters doing their job. and that's i think when you know that they have no other options left, right? when the president lies, the press asks about the lie. the white house then often lies in response to us asking about the lie. and then when we ask the white house about their lie, then the white house says, well, that's inappropriate and you shouldn't even be asking the qu...

Who absolutely wanted to be questioned and doubted and scrutinized and was open to critique. so it was ignorant on one hand and i think just on the other hand not a healthy thing for the press secretary to be saying. she ended up as you know having to walk it back just a little bit later, i think, in lieu of cnn coverage that very afternoon she walked it back and said that, well, of course anybody can be questioned but nobody should question his service to the country or what he had to say about gold star families. as you showed in that clip, brian, that's not the question she was getting. the...

Absolutely true. sara's question was why haven't you talked about this. he didn't even ask the original question and it was not until friday that we got any context. >> let me show the cover of "the new york daily news" from this morning because i want to make sure we don't lose sight of this piece of the story. this is one of la david johnson's children with the headline "honor my father." i wonder, admiral kirby, if this is one of though cases where an individual life, an individual death is personalizing the forever wars that america has committed to, that we've learned more about these fou...

Nothing worthy of reporting. there's several reporters that have been in that room that say this is really getting beyond the pale. it is unprecedented what's going on. larry speaks famously said don't tell us how to produce the news and we won't tell you how to cover it. that's fine. you want them to put their best foot forward but you also want them to be cognizant of reality. and in this white house, there is no recognition of the fact that facts matter. it's their facts and the rest of us be damned. >> olivia, what do you make of my original thesis about media pressure, whether it's the am...

>> 142,000 people liked the group on facebook that posted this. it's a very popular meme. it means that these people really wanted to believe it. they wanted to suspend disbelief and that's the problem with going after social media outlets. you're up against human nature here. to that extent you will never regulate away fake news. it's about education and not about imposing standards on social media companies. >> brian, question for you about another story in the news this week. i want to flag what attorney general jeff sessions said when he was before congress. there was a question from senat...