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Discussed. >> that's relevance. >> ad nauseam. right now, you have republican senator ben sasse, this morning was on with jake tapper, who had this response to the tweet from the president today about that image you're seeing in that third box on the screen. let's listen to what ben sasse had to say. >> there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that. and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment, and you don't get to separate the ...

Saying, trump is weaponizing distrust. >> i have that sound byte right now. >> there's around important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment. you don't get to separate the freedoms that are in there. >> weaponizing distrust. >> that's why this matters. cnn happens to be his target. it was the new york times, the washington post a few days ago, morning joe. who knows what outlet will be tomorrow....

With vladimir putin, dealing with north korea, and working on his health care bill, he's involved in juvenile behavior, far below the dignity of his office. we will keep doing our jobs. he this start doing his. health and human services secretary tom price insisting that the president's tweeting doesn't detract from the health care battle. >> the fact of the matter is he can do more than one thing at a time. >> reporter: but some republicans saying the behavior could have serious consequences. >> people are begging the president not to do this, he ought to stop doing it. >> there is an importa...

We will keep doing our jobs. he should do his. >> the fact of the matter is they can do more than one thing at a time. >> reporter: but some republicans say his behavior could have serious consequences. >> people are begging the president not to do this. he ought to stop doing it. >> there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that and complain about that and trying to weaponize distrust. >> reporter: the president has a critically busy week ahead. this morning, he is tweeting about it, saying he will reach out...

About that and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment, and you don't get to separate the freedoms that are in there. >> weaponizing distrust. that's the key quote from ben sasse. the view in many corners of the media world is that's exactly what the president is doing, or at least trying to do. encourage and fire up his fans, his most loyal supporters, to have even less trust of the media. in other words, as sasse said, weaponizing distrust. we will see if in the coming week the president continues his anti-media campaign. of course he...