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>> WE'VE BEEN GOING ON THIS RUSSIA TRUMP HOAX FOR THE BETTER

PART OF A YEAR NOW WITH NO EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING.

THINGS LIKE THE SUCCESS AT THE V.A. BARELY GET COVERED.

THEY MAY GET COVERED AN HOUR AT A TIME.

BUT THIS STORY GETS COVERED DAY IN, DAY OUT.

I THINK AMERICA IS FRANKLY LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BETTER.

. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING

MORE. AND I THINK THEY ZERCH SOMETHING

BETTER FROM OUR NEWS MEDIA. >> WELCOME BACK TO THE 11th

HOUR" THAT WAS DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY SARAH

HUCKABEE SANDERS THEY SHE WENT INTO THE ROOM FOR TODAY'S LIVE

TELEADVISED BRIEFING WITH LIVE AUDIO PREPARED TO ATTACK THE

AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA. CERTAIN THE PRESS CORPS HER

SHARP WORDS LED TO A BLUNT RESPONSE FROM A REPORTER NAMED

BRIAN CAR OM. >> IF WE MAKE THE SLIGHTEST

MISTAKE, THE SLIGHTEST WORD IS OFF, IT IS JUST AN ABSOLUTE TIE

RAID FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM.

BUT NEWS OUTLINES GETTING TO ON DAY AFTER DAY AND CITE UNNAMED

SOURCES, USE STORIES WITHOUT SOURCES, HAVE YOU KNOW -- YOU

MENTIONED THE SCAR A MUCHY STORY THEY HAD TO HAVE REPORTERS.

>> RESIGN. >> YOU'RE INFLAME EVERYBODY

RIGHT NOW AND RIGHT HERE WITH THIS WORDS.

THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE THAT WAS WHY IN THE NAME OF

HEIFERENS ANY ONE OF US ARE REPLACEABLE AND ANY ONE OF US IF

WE DON'T GET IT RIGHT THE AUDIENCE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO

TURN THE CHANNEL OR NOT READ US. >> I THINK.

>> YOU HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SERVE FOR FOUR YEARS AT LEAST.

THERE IS NO OPTION OTHER THAN THAT.

WE'RE HERE TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS. >> RIGHT.

>> YOU'RE HERE TO PROVIDE THE ANSWERS WHAT YOU DID IS

INFLAMMATORY TO PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HOOK AT IT AND SAY

SEE ONCE AGAIN THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT AND EVERYBODY ELSE OUT

HERE IS FAKE MEDIA AND EVERYBODY IN IN ROOM IS ONLY TRYING TO DO

THEIR JOB. >> WELL I JUST -- I DISAGREE

COMPLETELY FIRST OF ALL. I THINK IF ANYTHING HAS BEEN

INFLAMED IT'S THE DISHONESTY THAT OFTEN TAKES PLACE BY THE

NEWS MEDIA. AND I THINK IT IS OUTRAGEOUS FOR

YOU TO ACCUSE ME OF INFLAMING A STORY WHEN I WAS SIMPLY TRYING

TO RESPOND TO HIS QUESTION. >> BRIAN CAR OM IS WITH US

TONIGHT. LIVE HE IS EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF

TWO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS IN MARYLAND.

ALSO ANITA IS WITH US WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR McCLACHY

NEWSPAPERS. WELCOME TO YOU BOTH.

AND BREY BE I HAVE TO SAY WATCHING IT LIVE IT HAD A REAL

SENSE OF MOMENT. TO YOUR POINTS IN A PUBLIC

SERVANT, A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, SAYING TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE --

MANY OF ENEMY PREDISPOSED NOTHING TO SEE HERE, THIS IS A

HOAX, THESE PEOPLE ARE COVERING. THAT'S WHEN YOU CHOSE TO SPEAK

UP. >> YEAH, I HAVE BEEN IN THAT

ROOM FOR THREE DAYS A WEEK THE LAST SIX MONTHS.

I RESPECT SARAH. I RESPECT SEAN SPICER THE JOB

THEY DO. THEY HAVE TO PUT UP WITH US ON

ANY GIVEN DAY. HEAVEN KNOWS I'VE BEEN CALLED

WORSE BY PEOPLE WHO LOVE ME THAN WHAT SHE SAID TODAY.

BUT THE POINT OF IT IS IT REALLY RANKLES BECAUSE I KNOW REPORTERS

THAT HAVE BEEN BEATEN, REPORTERS HAVE BEEN DIED.

I'VE BEEN JAILED. THERE HAVE BEEN OTHERS JAILED

LONGER THAN I HAVE THAT HAVE SUFFERED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION

TO THE REPUBLIC. AND SIMPLY BECAUSE SOMETHING

DOESN'T AGREE OR MESH WITH THEIR PARTICULAR MINDSET THEY CALL IT

FAKE MEDIA. AND IN THAT VERY MEETING, SARAH

RECOMMENDED THAT WE WATCH A VIDEO AND SHE WASN'T SURE OF THE

VERACITY OF IT OR WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS ACCURATE BUT URGED US TO

WATCH IT. I MEAN YOU'RE URGING ME TO WATCH

MEDIA YOU CAN'T VOUCH FOR AND THEN CLAIMING THAT THE PEOPLE

THAT IN THAT ROOM HAVE AN AGENDA.

AND THE ONLY AGENDA I KNOW OF IS FOR THOSE PEOPLE -- AND THAT'S

ALL OF THEM EVERYBODY I'VE MET IN THAT ROOM -- THE WHOLE AGENDA

IS SIMPLY TO TRY AND GET THE FACTS OUT AND ASK QUESTIONS.

SO IT'S REALLY KIND OF -- YOU KNOW, AS I TOLD MY WIFE THIS

EVENING, IT'S LIKE- IT WAS LIKE DEALING WITH MY CHILDREN.

AFTER A WHILE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. AND I HAD HAD ENOUGH.

>> AND YOU CAN SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.

BUT IT SEEMED TO ME WATCHING YOU A BIG CONCERN TO YOU WAS THIS

KIND OF NEGATIVE AFFIRMATION FOR THE AUDIENCE THAT ALREADY IS

HIGHLY SUSPECT OF THE INFORMATION THAT COMES OUT OF

THE NEWS MEDIA, BELIEVES WE'RE ALL IN THE TANK.

>> ABSOLUTELY. THEY BELIEVE WE'RE:KA HOOTING TO

GET WE HAVE A NEFARIOUS PLAN. THE NEFARIOUS PLAN THE ONLY

AGENDA IS TO TRY AND GET FACTS. AND EVERY TIME YOU PAINT US AS

SUCH YOU'RE UNDERMINING THE FIRST AMENDMENT YOU CLAIM TO

SUPPORT. AND TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME

THEY'VE TOLD NEWS THAT ROOM HOW THEY SUPPORT THE FIRST

AMENDMENT. THEY JUST DON'T LIKE THE PEOPLE

PRACTICING IT. AND THAT'S VERY DISHEARTENING.

IT'S VERY DISINGENUOUS. THEY'VE NEVER ADMITTED A

MISTAKE. WE'RE LED ON A PATH OF ONE WAY

WITH COMEY -- I'VE GOT TAPES NO I DON'T HAVE TAPES.

THEN THERE IS NEVER ANY ACCOUNTABILITY.

YET THEY WANT TO FLIP THE SCRIPT AND HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE.

WELL WHILE NOT ACCEPTING ANY RESPONSIBILITY THEMSELVES IT'S A

CHILDISH MANEUVER IT'S WHAT MY KIDS USED TO DO I DIDN'T LIKE IT

THEN AND I DON'T LIKE IT NO. >> WHEN YOU SCAN THE PASS AT THE

NORTHWEST GATE TOMORROW DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK?

>> I HOPE SO. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

I GUESS I'LL FIND OUT TOMORROW. BUT LIKE I SAID I RESPECT.

THEY DO THEIR JOB. LAYER SPEAKS -- WHO WAS REAGAN'S

SPOKESMAN SAID YOU DON'T TELL US HOW TO STAGE THE NEWS AND WE

WON'T TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT IT. WELL, YOU KNOW THAT'S FINE.

IT IS UP TO THEM TO PUT THE BEST FACE ON THE NEWS FOR THE

PRESIDENT. I DON'T BEGRUDGE THEM THAT.

THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR. AND WE'RE THERE TO ASK THE

QUESTIONS, TO SEEK ANSWERS, TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH.

AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME AND TELL THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT

WE'RE FAKE MEDIA AND ONLY THOSE AGREEING WITH YOU ARE REAL WELL

I'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT. THAT'S NOT RIGHT.

>> ANITA, I RATHER ISN'T THAT CORRECTLY REFERRED TO THE

BRIEFING AT A RARE LIVE TFLIZED EVENT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE

BRIEFING ROOM. >> AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE

THEY HAVE SAID FROM THE BEGINNING THEY WERE GOING TO

HAVE SOME OFFCAMERA BRIEFINGS. BUT IT'S BECOMING MORE AND MORE

COMMON. I THINK THEY HAD THREE OFFCAMERA

BRIEFINGS LAST WEEK. I ATTENDED MONDAY, YESTERDAY.

IT WAS OFFCAMERA. OFFAUDIO.

YOU RT AUDIO WAS ON YOU CAN CARRY THE AUDIO LATER OR USE

SOUND BITE. THEY BASICALLY HAVE SAID AND

OVER AND OVER THEY'RE NOT HAVING AN ON CAMERA BRIEFING WHEN HE

SPEAKS. THEY WANT HIS REMARKS TO SPEAK

FOR THEMSELVES AND CARRY THE MESSAGE OF THE DAY.

WHICH HAS WORKED. OBVIOUSLY SOMETIMES HE DOES HAVE

A PRESS CONFERENCE. HE DOES HAVE A STATEMENT.

BUT MORE AND MORE NER USING IT WHEN HE BARELY SPEAKS.

HE HAS A SMALL POOL SPRAY. HE SAYS A FEW WORDS.

THEY USE IT AS AN EXCUSE TO GO OFF CAMERA.

WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE YESTERDAY WAS THERE ACTUALLY WAS A -- NOT

QUITE AS DRAMATIC OF A FLAIRUP IN THE BRIEFING.

BUT THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE A CNN REPORT JIM ACOSTA DID CALL

OUT -- DID SCREAM OUT WHY IS THIS OFFCAMERA?

HE SAID IT OVEIT OVER AND OVER? SO THERE ARE THE TENSE MOMENTS.

THERE WERE MANY MANY TENSE MOMENTS YOU JUST CAN'T SEE HALF

OF THEM. >> FOX NEWS TONIGHT DEVOTED AT

LEAST ONE SEGMENT TO JIM ACOSTA. BRIAN, GO AHEAD.

>> JIM IS -- I FELT BAD FOR HIM YESTERDAY.

STANDING UP AND -- THE ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK WE NEED TO DO

IS STAND UP FOR EACH OTHER. THE PRESS IS NOTORIOUS FOR

EATING THEIR OWN. SO THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY WHAT

WE'RE BEST AT. BUT THE SIMPLE FACT OF THE

MATTER IS JIM IS -- YOU KNOW HE HASN'T BEEN CALLED ON IN

PROBABLY TWO OR THREE WEEKS. THIS BIG CHANGE BY THE WAY CAME

AFTER THE PRESIDENT CAME BACK FROM HIS FIRST OVERSEAS TRIP.

AND THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION RATCHETED UP.

NOW THE SECOND FRONT AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION IS OPEN WITH THE

EMOLUMENT CLAUSE TWO SUITS THERE.

IN THE ATTEMPT TO KEEP US FROM THE PARTICULAR EVENTS THEY ARE

STAGING STUFF AND THAT'S FINE IF YOU'RE DOING THAT.

I MEAN THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.

BUT THE SIMPLE FACT OF THE

For more infomation >> Reporter Who Blasted White House's 'Fake News' Attacks Sounds Off | The 11th Hour | MSNBC - Duration: 8:41.

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News Brief June 27, 2017 - Duration: 10:22.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Late last night, the White House released an unexpected statement.

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Yeah.

It was about Syria.

The administration says it believes the Assad regime might be preparing to wage another

chemical weapons attack.

The statement went on to say that, if such an attack is carried out, the Assad regime

and its military would pay a, quote, "heavy price."

And I think it's worth remembering, President Obama made his own threats against the Syrian

regime back in 2012.

BARACK OBAMA: A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving

around or being utilized.

GREENE: Just a year later, a chemical attack killed hundreds of people just outside of

Damascus.

And President Trump has called Obama out over that.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: When he didn't cross that line after making the threat, I think

that set us back a long ways - not only in Syria, but in many other parts of the world

- because it was a blank threat.

MARTIN: All right.

NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith is with us now.

Tam, this is kind of unusual - an official statement like this coming out so late in

the day.

TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Yeah.

It came out at 9:45-ish last night from Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

And it is also surprising because President Trump has been so opposed to the idea of a

red line, saying - both in those statements that you played but also on Twitter repeatedly

back in 2013 - red line statement was a disaster for President Obama.

MARTIN: So heavy price can mean a lot of different things.

What might it mean?

I mean, what are the implications here?

KEITH: Well, there had been a missile strike that the U.S. conducted, led by President

Trump, after a previous chemical weapons attack.

It's not clear what they mean in this case.

I tried reaching out to CENTCOM, the part of the military that's...

MARTIN: ...Central Command.

Yeah.

KEITH: Central Command, that deals with this part of the world.

And they said, you know, we have nothing to add to the White House statement.

Nikki Haley, the ambassador to the U.N., said on Twitter, quote, red line - no, she said

- yes - "any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also

on Russia and Iran, who support him killing his own people."

MARTIN: So using this moment to lash out at those countries for their involvement there.

So...

KEITH: ...Yeah, an even more explicit threat.

MARTIN: Whether or not this was intentional, the Syrian news could, perhaps, distract from

some important domestic news - the Republican health care bill that's now struggling.

The CBO score finally came out on the Senate Republicans' bill.

How, Tam, is that changing the way senators are thinking about this?

KEITH: Well, 22 million fewer people would have coverage - health coverage - under this

bill, as compared to current law, a decade from now.

That is a big number.

And also, another...

MARTIN: ...But it's less than the House bill.

KEITH: By about a million.

But it's still a huge number.

And one of the main GOP selling points on the need to repeal and replace Obamacare had

been the rising cost of insurance and, in particular, premiums.

So what the CBO says about that is that, initially, premiums would rise, but then they would fall.

But in part, that's just because the health plans would cover less.

And so they're saying that, actually, out-of-pocket costs, deductibles and other expenses, would

rise significantly and that many people simply wouldn't have health coverage because it wouldn't

be worth it for them.

MARTIN: So this is making it more difficult for some senators to get behind this.

KEITH: Yeah.

So Susan Collins from Maine says that she now wants to work with her GOP and Democratic

colleagues to fix the ACA, but this CBO analysis shows that the CBO bill won't do it.

She and about three or four other senators are now saying that they don't even want to

vote on the current bill.

They don't want to vote to move to it.

They don't want to even begin the voting.

MARTIN: Although Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, apparently still says he's going to

push forward with this vote this week.

NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith.

Hey, Tamara, thank you so much.

KEITH: You're welcome.

MARTIN: The fate of President Trump's travel ban now rests in the hands of nine Supreme

Court justices.

GREENE: Yeah.

It's a little complicated here, Rachel.

So yesterday, the high court agreed to hear the case over Trump's travel ban and also

said that parts of the ban can go into effect right now, before we actually reach the point

where the court considers it in the fall.

So let's just look back.

In the original version that President Trump issued in January, the administration banned

travelers from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days.

It suspended the refugee program for 120 days.

As we remember, there were legal challenges.

There were airport protests.

The White House retooled the ban, dropping the nation of Iraq.

But then came more legal challenges, and the ban was on hold until now.

MARTIN: Until now.

So NPR's Joel Rose is here.

Joel - so now the Supreme Court says parts of this can go into effect.

So who can come to the U.S., and who cannot?

JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: So the Supreme Court says that to come in, you must have a, quote, "bona

fide relationship", unquote, inside the U.S.

And that could be a family member.

It could be a business where you're planning to work.

It could be a school that you're planning to attend classes, or maybe lecture.

In a statement, the Trump administration called this a victory for national security.

Remember that, you know, this White House is...

MARTIN: ...That was the whole thing.

It was a major national security crisis.

And that had to happen now.

ROSE: Yeah.

The White House has been arguing all along that this temporary ban is needed to protect

the country from terrorists.

But immigrant rights activists have seen this very differently.

They think the executive order is a Muslim ban, like the one President Trump talked about

during the campaign, and therefore, unconstitutional.

They're arguing that most foreign visitors and refugees actually have bona fide relationships

inside the country already.

And these activists say they'll be watching to see how the administration responds to

the Supreme Court's order.

And they'll be willing to take that - to go to court if they don't like how it's rolled

out.

MARTIN: Yeah.

OK, so here's my question.

This is a proposal for a 90-day ban - is what the administration had wanted.

So Joel, it's almost July.

If I'm doing my math right, by the time the court decides this case in the fall, those

90 days will have elapsed, right?

So doesn't this become moot?

ROSE: Well, there's a lot of speculation about this.

This has always been framed, as you say, as a temporary measure so that the administration

could review security vetting procedures.

It was 120 days in the case of the refugee program, and it was supposed to be 90 days

for visitors traveling from the six affected countries.

If you start counting from yesterday, that 90-day clock would indeed run out before the

Supreme Court term begins in October.

So we don't know exactly how this will play out.

The administration could finish its security review and just declare victory, maybe - drop

the appeal before the court even rules on the rest of the case.

Or maybe they go forward anyway and seek a ruling from the court.

I think, you know, I'm sorry I can't give you the final answer today.

MARTIN: Well, we should say, we talked with the secretary of Homeland Security, General

John Kelly, who a couple months ago had suggested that, you know, they may extend it.

So who knows?

We'll just have to wait and see on that.

NPR's Joel Rose has been following the story for us.

Thanks, Joel.

ROSE: You're welcome.

MARTIN: The Trump administration wants cooperation with China on a whole range of issues - perhaps,

most importantly, on containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

GREENE: Yeah.

We have a lot of questions this morning, though, because the administration is poised to announce

that China is on the list of the world's worst offenders when it comes to human trafficking.

That would put China in the company of countries like North Korea, Sudan and some others.

MARTIN: NPR's Anthony Kuhn is in Beijing.

Anthony, the Trump administration has downplayed human rights recently.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said it's not going to be as much of a priority in U.S.

diplomacy as it has in the past.

So where's this push on human trafficking coming from?

ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: Well, this particular push appears to be coming from the State Department.

And Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is going to deliver an annual report on human trafficking

to Congress.

And he's expected to say that China is not doing enough to fight trafficking.

And as a result, China could face sanctions, like getting non-humanitarian aid cut.

We should note, of course, that there's also a White House connection here, in that the

president's daughter, Ivanka, will be participating in the release of this report.

She'll be there to lend her support.

And there've already been comments from the media noting that her firm - that her fashion

firm - has sourced shoes from a factory in China, which is accused by labor rights activists

of coercing workers into overtime.

MARTIN: So any sense of how this might be received in Beijing?

KUHN: Beijing has already made an initial response saying these criticisms are irresponsible

and it's not fair to judge other countries according to U.S. domestic laws.

And it says it's fought very hard against trafficking.

We'll see if there are any more remarks after the report is formally released.

MARTIN: So any larger potential impact here on the relationship?

I mean, it's a whole host of issues between the U.S. and China that are at play at any

given time.

Is this being seen as something that's incremental, or could it substantively change the relationship?

KUHN: Well, it certainly could be a signal that Washington is going to take a much stronger

stand on key human rights issues, like, for example, the Chinese government's crackdown

on rights lawyers, which has been going on for a couple of years.

Or the U.S. could say something about sort of the issue of the day here to human rights

activists, and that is Liu Xiaobo, the dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who's been given

medical parole with late-stage liver cancer.

On the other hand, it's also possible that the U.S. will say, we have other priorities.

This has happened with many of these trafficking reports before.

They say that China does have problems, but in the end, there are other priorities.

And so they waive the sanctions.

That's possible too.

MARTIN: Or this is just a response to what has been kind of an issue that Ivanka Trump

has talked a lot about, perhaps because of her issues with her business in China.

But it's something that she's paid attention to, and she definitely has her father's ear.

Anthony Kuhn, reporting from Beijing.

Hey, Anthony, thanks so much this morning.

KUHN: Sure thing.