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Out stating it's still happening and continues in the 2018 midterm elections. so why would president trump, if reporting is president trump sent them out to do that only to undercut that a couple hours later? obviously, it's a mystery in some ways, but what i've sensed since the helsinki summit is that -- in the public, i know dan coats in his famous interview with andrea mitchell, he was stuned by what he didn't know, but he just, you know, told the truth. question after question. secretary mattis, i've listened to secretary mattis speak at a dinner in public. he's gone into the press rooms, ...

He was there to campaign for somebody -- a large chunk of that speech railing against the media calling it the fake, fake, disgusting news was the term he used. on and won this obsession he's not treated fairly he's not given the credit he deserves for his achievements. >> it's a toxic situation. i think the president knows exactly what he's doing in his populism, media is the symbol of the elite that he wants to encourage the country to denounce. pretty soon we'll be getting the lock them up, the way things are going. that press room that sarah huckabee sanders is running is toxic. i've never...

Welcome back to "morning joe". it's a few minutes before the top of the hour here. we've been talking about ivanka trump calling her father's family separation policy a low point for her and the white house. ivanka told mike allen that the press is not the enemy of the people as her father had said repeatedly. >> do you think that we're the enemy of the people? >> sorry? [ laughter ] >> we're the enemy of the people? >> no, i do not. >> she says no i do not think the press is the enemy of the people. president trump later tweeted they asked my daughter whether the media is the enemy of the peo...

Coming after a dignified presentation by the senior member of his cabinet, i have to say my esteem for dan coats is somebody who is prepared to speak out and say what he thinks and for secretary kirstjen nielsen who says it absolutely right, our democracy is in the cross-hairs, looks in the camera and says the words. they've gone up in my estimation and we have to hope that they are the continuity of government that the country needs, not this show we get when the president is on the road. >> so just on that point, david, my gut on that is dan coats and christopher wray, they did not get oust ...

>> it's ironic, jim, that not only you and the media attacked the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country. repeatedly, repeatedly the media resorts to personal attacks without any content other than to incite anger. the media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration and certainly we have a role to play but the media has a role to play for the discourse in this country as well. >> the president of the united states should not refer to us as enemy of the people. her own daughter ac...