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Many things that shouldn't scan that they are doing. >> that's right but it tells us as much about trump as it does about sort of the makeup of the media. and with trump you have two factors, one he's a republican and that is a foreign species to much of the media. you know that's the story in every newsroom. >> i disagree with that, but continue. >> two, trump is such an erratic character. he is so different from every politician. his relationship with the truth is so much more casual. he's so much more likely to say untruths. combine those two factors and it's impossible for the average jour...

Kind of -- part of it, too, is plausibility, part of what is screwing with the thermostat of journalists is that there are certain kinds of things an straight might do that would not scan as plausible and you would say, well, they're not going to take the mlk bust out. but then your plausibility -- and you know this as a journalist. enough gut check sense of like does that story seem like it scans? and i think everyone's judgment of that has gone haywire precisely because there are so many things that shouldn't scan that they are doing. >> that's right but it tells us as much about trump as it...