Thread: Fox News' Chris Wallace to Reince Priebus: 'You don't get to tell us what to do'

Fox News' Chris Wallace to Reince Priebus: 'You don't get to tell us what to do'

10:49 a.m. ET

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus clashed Sunday over President Trump's tweet labeling the media an "enemy of the American people."

"I don't have any problem with you complaining about an individual story" or bias, Wallace said. "But you went a lot further than that — or the president went a lot further than that he said that the 'fake media' — not certain stories — the 'fake media' are an 'enemy to the country.'"

Priebus pushed back, arguing that the issue is "not just two stories" that may be marred by bias or error but "24 hours a day, seven days a week" of cable news programming that focuses not on the Trump administration's policy accomplishments but "total garbage, unsourced stuff" about personal dynamics between White House staff and alleged unsavory ties between the Trump campaign and Russian spies (a charge Priebus categorically denied in the same conversation).

Wallace disagreed with Priebus' assessment, noting that every Trump action Priebus mentioned had received widespread cable news coverage. "You're right, some of these things were covered," Priebus conceded, "but you get about 10 percent coverage [of Trump's accomplishments] but then as soon as it was over the next 20 hours is all about Russian spies…"

Wallace cut him off: "But you don't get to tell us what to do, Reince, any more than that Barack Obama did. Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time, but I gotta say, he never said that we were an enemy of the people." Watch an excerpt of their exchange below. Bonnie Kristian

http://theweek.com/speedreads/681248...dont-tell-what

Wallace disagreed with Priebus' assessment, noting that every Trump action Priebus mentioned had received widespread cable news coverage. "You're right, some of these things were covered," Priebus conceded, "but you get about 10 percent coverage [of Trump's accomplishments] but then as soon as it was over the next 20 hours is all about Russian spies…"

Wallace cut him off: "But you don't get to tell us what to do, Reince, any more than that Barack Obama did.

This is why no one respects the CORRUPT MEDIA any more. Reince wasn't telling you what to do, Chis. Neither was President Trump. They were rightly complaining about what you do.

Trump is right, the CORRUPT MEDIA is an "enemy of the American people". Free press isn't the enemy, the CORRUPT MEDIA is the enemy. The free press is free to be whatever it wants to be in our country, and the CORRUPT MEDIA has chosen to be an enemy of the people of our country when it tried to throw a Presidential election in the United States and then disseminate classified information around the world to discredit or destroy a Presidency.

And it's not done, it'll do more harm, or try to. It's an evil lot.

Very sad.

Don't care for Chris Wallace and I haven't for quite a while.

Yeah, he's a Democrat like his Dad, but he's not as good a reporter as Mike Wallace once was.

As you know, all politicians,hate the press and media....but only DT told them the true....you are the enemy, because of your hate, arrogant and incorrect speeches. The people,even "politicians" are manipulated, by the media...now as always. What we should do...?
The media are very angry just know....whatever, left or conservatives....the President told them....".the people don't trust you anymore"means this is a very strong statement,what they never heard before. They don't know what to do.....Pravda Propaganda ala U.SSR, been cut by the President.

Someone with the means to do so must expose this and piece it together for Americans. We can't continue in this precarious situation of ignorance and confusion allowing our Congress to attack and criticize Russia unfairly all the time. We can't allow this charade of lies and misinformation to go on any more. Trump can bust it, he can expose it, but not yet. This young administration is too vulnerable.

Media is angry they didn't get to pick a candidate for us as usual. They all are becoming more and more irrelevant.

Rinse doesn't get to tell you what to do Chrissy, but he and the man he works for happen to represent millions of Americans who DO get to tell the media what to do, or those Americans won't watch your little insignificant so called "news" program, Chrissy. You pathetic imitation of the journalist your father was!