President Trump was very much on offense in that phone interview with Fox &
Friends and he again went after Jim call me and the Justice Department this is a
big mistake this book he is guilty of crimes and if we had a Justice
Department that was doing their job and said it's your justice mr. president mr.
president you're the Republic in charge I answered this all the time what he did
Brian was terrible he leaked classified information in
order to try and get a special counsel mr. president little pushback from Steve
Doocy Shelby Holiday when the president goes off like that on the FBI and call
me since he's staying out of justice for now but he might not in the future is he
giving ammunition to critics in the media who think he's trying to influence
the investigation absolutely because he keeps playing with the idea that he
might do something and that hints that he might yes
meddle in the investigation I I think it's a great point I'm glad Steve
pointed out it's your Justice Department everyone you're slamming here is a
Republican in the Justice Department and you have control over this mr. president
I think what people were surprised by it not so much the words that the president
said in that interview but his tone when you just played the clip you can hear
how amped up he is you know some people described it as hysterical you can tell
he's well it wasn't hysterical it was certainly amped up he was loud he was
ticked off and this is his style how much it's bothering him that part I
can't dispute the Federals dug up some key information from this report by the
house and tell committee Republicans about the whole dossier affair had to do
with James clapper who was President Obama's Director of National
Intelligence and the media explained last week we talked about how James
commis first memo said that clapper asked him to do that briefing of the
dossier to Trump and he said in that memo CNN is looking for a hook in order
to justify writing as well correct this house permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence had had a report both Democrats and Republicans contributed to
this actually showing that James clapper did give inconsistent testimony but
admitted that he had been talking to Jake Tapper one of the authors
that dossier story which got everything going in early January he lied about it
he'd given conflicting information we're starting to see some pieces of the
puzzle put together that showed that there was a really high-level contact
between journalists and key top officials during the Obama
administration you're not saying that CNN shouldn't have reported it but
you're saying that this was done in order to push the story out that that's
what clapper was doing I think it's a great example of how when you have
anonymous sources asking you to do something to push their preferred
narrative you should be really skeptical about that and you should make sure that
you are thinking through why they're wanting to do something and whether your
coverage accurately reflects the whole story right no one you know it was a big
story for CNN to report that the president had been briefed on this
dossier given a two-page summary some dispute about that but it's a pretty
damning finding against clapper especially if he didn't tell the truth
and initially about his contacts with CNN where he now works as a contributor
right but I don't know that this is so different I mean obviously when you're a
reporter in Washington and you're trying to get sources if you can get to clapper
if you can get to Jim Comey as FBI director or you know or Andrew McCabe
for example McCabe was found to have lied about - about contacts with
reporters parent Wall Street Journal yeah apparently unauthorized but the
idea that reporters that an Anderson Cooper whoever is going at these sources
and that the sources calculate about the impact of media exposure for a piece of
information that was so explosive it's precise it's not crazy we know that the
man who wrote the dossier was briefing reporters including CNN earlier that
year and that is likely why CNN had the information in the first right but this
thing about a news hook and clapper not telling the truth according to this
report and getting it to CNN is a way of putting up raises a whole set of
questions Shelby Holiday well I'm William is Molly
Hemingway thanks very much for coming by this
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