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Welcome back. this morning, hundreds of u.s. newspapers coast to coast are banding together with a clear message -- the message, we are not the enemy of the people. meantime, minutes ago the president tweeted this, quote, the fake news media is the opposition party. it's very bad for our great country but we are winning. let's go to anchor john avlon who joins me now. reality check time so necessary this morning. >> a reality check with the president's tweet. he's doubling and tripling down, there's a broad pushback. we've got around 350 american newspapers linking arms and taking a stand pu...

Potentially she gets unseated. >> dagen: the people are worried about in their own party of this, putting this mood, giving bonuses to people because of tax reform crumbs and then doubling down a tripling down on it. they were afraid of that being a commercial that somebody cuts in the midterm. >> josh: she's long been a liability for democrats and not because they believe in exactly what they said. they all believe it's crumbs and they all believe in open borders and abolish ice and impeaching president trump and reversing all of the tax cuts. that is uniform in the democratic party these day...

It's either his general fondness for dictatorial figures, or it may be that having been criticized for this, he is in trumpian fashion doubling down, tripling down, just compounding the error. or it may be that the russians have something over his head, that the russians have been laundering money through his businesses, or there's some other leverage the russians have, which is obviously the subject of our investigation. any of those are possible. all of those are possible. >> secretary mattis seems to be walking a tightrope now, because he is trying to reassure the allies that we believe in ...

. welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. this morning, national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan, good morning to you. talk to us about axios' one big thing. >> well, as usual, there's two narratives going on with donald trump. there's the public on twitter, where he's with the family separation crisis, where he looks completely unapologetic and brazen, doubling down, tripling down. but last night when he met with house republicans, according to sources in the room, he did reveal that he feels the political pressure from this issue. in a way that he's n...

Broadly or specifically about that problem of separating families, separating children on the border. that really sums it all up there in that speech, wolf. >> he has to show some daylight, a willingness to move away from that zero tolerance policy and let kids stay with their moms and dads. he was doubling down, even tripling down on that policy, not budging at all. kaitlan, we're going to get back to you. right now i want to go to capitol hill, susan jackson lee of texas is joining us. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. i know you personally have seen a lot of these gut-wrenching momen...