Published on Jan 23, 2017
Trump is going to war with the media, and the media seems to be fighting back…for now. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, tells you how the press is holding Trump accountable. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://www.tytnetwork.com/go
“WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first full day in office on Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd.
In a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency intended to showcase his support for the intelligence community, Mr. Trump ignored his own repeated public statements criticizing the intelligence community, a group he compared to Nazis just over a week ago.
He also called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved.
Later, at the White House, he dispatched Sean Spicer, the press secretary, to the briefing room in the West Wing, where Mr. Spicer scolded reporters and made a series of false statements.”
Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us…
Hosts: Cenk Uygur
Cast: Cenk Uygur
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