Joe Concha: Trump Criticism of CNN ‘Well-Timed’ as Perception Is ‘Horrible’ With Retracted Stories

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SCOTT: "President Trump not letting up on his criticism of the mainstream media while he’s overseas for the g20 summit. The president, just this morning tweeting I will represent our country well and fight for its interests. Fake news media will never cover me accurately, but who cares? Will make America great again. Mr. Trump also taking a dig at what he calls fake news at a news conference with Poland’s president. Speak out what we want to see in the United States is honest, beautiful, free, but honest press. We want to see free press. I think it’s a very important thing. We don’t want fake news. By the way, not everybody is fake news. But we don’t want fake news. It’s a bad thing, very bad for our country." 
SCOTT: "Let’s bring in Judith Miller, Joe concha joins us as well. Obviously, there’s a lot of attention focused on this trip overseas and when the president took on so-called fake media, he got a lot of heat from his critics and this country, was appropriate?" 
CONCHA: "Of course it was because he was asked a question by a reporter. What you think would happen with CNN the day before which was obviously CNN’s threat to unmask an anonymous Reddit user? He dove into that and that’s what happens. He’s a transparent person, but here’s the thing. Just hours after that, the editor at large over at CNN tweeted out a video that showed two seconds of a handshake that appeared to show the Polish first lady blowing off Donald Trump and going right to Melania trump. If you want for seconds later, the handshake actually happens. A fake meme is sent out by a political reporter at CNN and sure enough, he called CNN a couple hours before that and CNN took the bait and sent out that sort of video that is a very bad thing for the metrics. The editors resigning. Right now, that was a very bad thing for CNN and  was a well-timed criticism by Donald Trump."