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Ah, good morning, Mark. Thank you. So you call them yesterday, the press hates Trump more than it loves the truth. They've gone completely insane over the top fake news. 60 minutes was ordered to clean up its act. Last night they did the worst fake news hit piece I've ever seen.

Where's this all going to end?

Well, look, I think they're all fighting for a piece of the pie, the economic pie, the

reputational pie, and that's why I think it's important to see them as they are. They are

businesses, legacy businesses, that are under threat by new forms of media. And so they are,

this is one of the things they think they have power over

which is how the public sees the president

and so they are trying to shape

uh... the public view

about donald trump in ways that

fit not only their prejudices but that that might make them money, but that also reflects

the view of the Democratic Party. I mean, these are all Democrats with press passes. I think that's

the way to see them. This is not some gifted, talented, smart group of people who have the country's best interests.

They are partisans with a press pass.

And so they use that access, that monopolistic access, really.

When you think about it, Mark, when the president's in the Oval Office and then Donald Trump has done this more than any recent president

and has representatives of the media in there that's about at most a dozen different outlets with that access

similarly when you go to the White House briefing room that everyone sees the press

secretary addressing the press corps, there are 12 or 13 of these same people who sit

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