Carl Bernstein says Robert Mueller’s investigation is not focused on “collusion” but rather on “cover up.” He says it’s “certain that Russians were “deadly effective” in “specifically helping Donald Trump” and he has advice for the journalists covering the story.
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Bill Carter and Brian Stelter run through some of the week’s biggest media stories — from a NYT reporter “being fed a story” while dining in the same restaurant as Trump’s lawyer, to Sean Spicer’s controversial Emmys appearance, to Megyn Kelly’s new show.
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Senator Mark Warner, who is pressing Facebook for more information about Russian ads, is proposing new legislation to ensure more transparency for political ads on the web. Warner tells Brian Stelter that Trump’s “refusal to acknowledge what happened” in terms of Russian meddling in the 2016 election “does our country a disservice…
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Christine Brennan says Trump’s comments about the NFL have “presented the most amazing journalistic platter” to sports reporters, and that “there’s no doubt this is one of the biggest sports stories and cultural stories” in years.
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Jimmy Kimmel put “a face to the story” and drew national attention to the Graham-Cassidy bill debate, CNN media analyst Bill Carter says. Kimmel has a much larger platform “than most of us health policy reporters,” Vox’s Sarah Kliff adds. She says that Kimmel’s criticism of the bill was generally correct.
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