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Anticipated event the comedians rebuttal as it were down here in washington, d.c. i want to bring in our panel john allen from roll call, maria from voters latino and we're witnessing the president exiting the stage. what did we see there in this very heart felt political speech? >> i'm coming it from what angles. one from "the new york times" and second a former press that covered the campaign. at the top in talking about the white house correspondents donald trump said hollywood actors are consoling each other. he has a star on the hollywood walk of fame. he's right now the executive produce...

Being out there with the people who elected him to be president of the united states than he does in his first 100 days in washington. that's there to drain the swamp, not to become part of the swamp. i think he made a bold statement being there in pennsylvania, a state that nobody expected him to win, instead of being in washington at the correspondents dinner. >> john, what do you think about that point because on the politics of it and politics does involve symbolism, donald trump yet again has the press talking, the press mad, but he's out in a state with regular people and he's not the on...

With the press, the president made some claims to don't totally check out and we wanted to be clear about that. he referred to the press being unpopular and we can confirm that's true. i meet people all the time who don't like the press. but then he made another interesting claim. he said people are more negatively inclined the press than the congress. this is percent of people with a negative opinion of newspapers. 36%. television press, 40%, but congress, 55%. madison, again we see president trump take something where there may be some support and he goes too far. he stretches and says somet...

Thought it could get, the worst was probably the nixon era when vice president spiro agnew called the press the mattering nabos of negativism. and nixon had his own view points. here is his answer. >> what is it these past months about the television press that has so aroused your anger? >> don't get the impression you aroused my anger. [ laughter ] >> reporter: i have that impression. >> one can only be angry with those he respects. >> that was previously thought of as kind of the lowest, right? the most direct public attack on the legitimacy of the american press by an american president. th...

Viciousness of it. the previous low, the worst we thought it could get, the worst was probably the nixon era when vice president spiro agnew called the press the mattering nay kn nabobs s of negativism. and nixon had his own view points. here is his answer. >> what is it these past months about the television press that has so improwaroused your anger? >> don't get the impression you aroused my anger. [ laughter ] >> reporter: i have that impression. >> one can only be angry with those he respects. >> that was previously thought of as kind of the lowest, right? the most direct public attack on