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Relationship he seems to value so highly with russian president vladimir putin. reacting to "the times" reporting yesterday, president trump denied the story. he wrote on twitter, do you believe that the failing "new york times" just did a story stating the united states is substantially increasing cyber attacks on russia? this is a virtual act of treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our country? "the new york times" responded in a statement defending its reporting and writing, accusing the press of treason is dangerous. we described in the article...

>> here is the statement from the "new york times" that begins by saying accusing the press of treason is dangerous. we described the article to the government before publication as our story notes, president trump's own national security officials said there were no concerns. so margaret, your reaction when the president uses extreme language like this. >> just when we think it can't get any worse when he uses terms like enemy of the people or fake news on that kind of thing this ratchets it up. the other point i would make is that in almost every case in which the president has attacked pres...

Foreign officials. overnight the president tweeted the story is, quote, not true. and he accused "the new york times" of a virtual act of treason which is an odd charge if the story is accurate. but beyond that, it is chilling for the president of the united states to accuse the free press of treason. "the new york times" released a statement saying, quote, accusing the press of treason is dangerous. we described the article to the government before publication as our story notes. president trump's own national security official said there were no concerns, unquote. this caps off a week domina...

That tweet. it says accusing the press of treason is dangerous. we describe the article to the government before publication, as our story notes, president trump's own national security officials said there were no concerns, so presumably that puts that to rest. i want to get to this other topic of the president's comment that he'd want to listen to information about political opponents saying there's nothing wrong with listening. your reaction? well i think that this president is not somebody who was in politics before, and as a lt. of people have said that maybe he's not familiar with standa...

This, are they trying to send the president message? >> i'm not sure if they tried to send him a message you should probably check with his team on that. was problematic as your the president lying saying these are phony polls. it is very direct it came from his campaign, this is sort of trying to tell the media there lying on him when the polls came from his people it's baffling. >> and to clarify they now say these are outdated polls. more recent polls show him doing much better. before break, after new york times report yesterday, this is eyebrow raising. the us a step in the digital incurs...