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To: Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov] From: Hadas Gold - POLITICO Media Sent: Wed 7/12/2017 9:58:25 AM Subject: Morning Media: Voters trust of the media vs. Trump - The Don Jr. emails - Donna Brazile announces campaign memoir By Hadas Gold | 07/12/2017 05:56 AM EDT With Cristiano Lima and Alex Weprin EXCLUSIVE POLL - VOTERS (BARELY) TRUST MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS MORE THAN TRUMP via POLITICO'S polling guru Steven Shepard: Following President Donald Trump's cascade of insults and mock-violent memes attacking CNN and MSNBC, this week's POLITICO/Moming Consult poll asked voters how credible they consider information they get from various media outlets - and from the president himself. The main takeaway? By a narrow margin, voters have more trust in major media outlets than they do in Trump. Just 22 percent say information from Trump is "very credible," while the media outlets all rate higher. And the 33 percent who say Trump isn't credible at all is higher than for any of the networks or newspapers. But the news still isn't good for the news media. Significant percentages of voters - mostly Republicans - think many outlets are either not too credible or not credible at all. Here's the rundown: The White House: 21% very // 31% somewhat // 18% not too // 19% not at all President Donald Trump: 22% very // 24% somewhat // 13% not too // 33% not at all CNN: 26% very credible // 28% somewhat credible //14% not too credible // 23% not credible at all Fox News: 24% very // 31% somewhat // 18% not too // 19% not at all MSNBC: 23% very // 31% somewhat // 15% not too // 19% not at all Washington Post: 24% very // 32% somewhat // 14% not too // 15% not at all New York Times: 26% very // 31% somewhat // 14% not too // 16% not at all Wall Street Journal: 26% very // 36% somewhat // 14% not too // 11% not at all ABC News: 28% very // 34% somewhat // 15% not too // 12% not at all NBC News: 27% very // 34% somewhat // 16% not too // 13% not at all CBS News: 27% very // 35% somewhat // 15% not too // 12% not at all Sierra Club v. EPA, 1:17-cv-01906 ED_001523_00002650-00001 PBS: 29% very // 34% somewhat // 13% not too // 9% not at all -- Toplines: http://politi.co/2uO3Ukh | Crosstabs: http://politi.co/2sM.RKXd THE DON JR. EMAILS: Another day, another apparent bombshell -- this time preempted by the subject himself. New York Times deputy managing editor Matt Purdy told the Huffington Post that Times asked Trump Jr. to respond by 11 a.m. on Tuesday to e-mails they had obtained about the meeting between Trump's eldest son and a Russian lawyer they had been reporting on for days. Trump Jr. decided to preempt the Times story and at the appointed hour he tweeted out his own statement and the email chain with music producer Rob Goldstone, who clearly indicates that he is arranging a meeting with a "Russian government attorney" about "very high level and sensitive information" that is "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." At 11:06 a.m. the Times sent a breaking news alert with their story. Though the story was covered by the rightwing media, some dismissed it as another "nothing burger" or mirrored Trump Jr.'s claim he was being transparent. CNN's Oliver Darcy has a run down here including one Breitbart editor suggesting the emails prove "straight up collusion". As though to prove how "nothing" the story was, Fox News' Sean Hannity, whom Donald Trump Jr. went to for his one interview on Tuesday, told fellow host Martha MacCallum before hand that "I never run out of questions. I ran out of questions tonight." The New York post took a different approach, "Dumb. Dumb. Dumb," they called Trump Jr. in an editorial, which The Drudge Report linked to as it's main splash with the headline "Russian Roulette." Meanwhile at the White House the president is "fuming" at the coverage, my colleagues Tara Palmeri and Josh Dawsey report, as the White House has taken a backseat to shaping the coverage since Trump Jr. is not a White House employee and represented by his own lawyer. Good morning and welcome to Morning Media! Send me your news tips and tricks: hgold@politico.com / @Hadas Gold. Morning Media is edited by Alex Weprin (@alexweprin / aweprin@politico.com) and produced with writing/reporting help from Cristiano Lima, (clima@politico.com / @ludacristiano). Archives. Subscribe. JOE SCARBOROUGH SAYS HE'S DONE WITH THE GOP, the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman announced Tuesday night on Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show." When I saw this making the rounds last night I actually thought for a moment 'Wait, he didn't already do that?' Long time coming, it seems. "You have to ask yourself what exactly is the Republican party willing to do? How far are they Sierra Club v. EPA, 1:17-cv-01906 ED_001523_00002650-00002 willing to go how much of this country or values are they willing to sell out," Scarborough told Colbert. "I am a Republican but I'm not going to be a Republican anymore. I've got to become an Independent." Scarborough and co-host (and fiance) Mika Brzezinski seem to be on a mini-publicity tour of late. Coming off of Colbert last night, they'll be at the National Archives in D.C. tonight for a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics event (Joe and Mika are visiting fellows). And Page Six just reported Brzezinski has landed a three-book deal with Weinstein Books. SOUNDBITE: "Reminder: These disclosures are not happening out of any action of good will. They're happening because investigative reporters are digging." [Matt Viser] DONNA BRAZILE RELEASING 'CAMPAIGN THRILLER' MEMOIR 'HACKS': Donna Brazile is hardly shying away from her criticism of the Trump administration. On the contrary, the former DNC chief and CNN and ABC News contributor will mark the one-year anniversary of the president's electoral victory over Hillary Clinton with the release of her book, "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House, POLITICO'S Edward-Isaac Dovere reports. According to publisher Hachette the book promises a book that is "equal parts campaign thriller, memoir, and roadmap for the future." In her book deal announcement, Brazile warns of history repeating itself if we don't learn the lessons of the 2016 election: "Our nation is under unprecedented assault, and if we don't get the facts out, it will happen again - and worse than you can imagine." INTERCEPT TO SUPPORT PROSECUTED LEAKER'S DEFENSE: The Intercept says it will provide financial support for Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor whose leak of intelligence to the online publication has led to an arrest and pending charges from the Trump administration. In an announcement posted Tuesday, editor-in-chief Betsy Reed stressed the outlet's opposition to "the use of the Espionage Act against government whistleblowers." She added: "The Intercept's parent company, First Look Media, has taken steps to provide independent support for the legal defense of Reality Winner, the NSA contract employee who was recently arrested in the first instance of the Trump administration using the 100-year-old Espionage Act to prosecute an alleged journalistic source." REVOLVING DOOR: -- ICYMI Jason Schwartz is joining our team as a media writer! He comes to us from ESPN.com and ESPN Magazine where he is a senior editor. Before that he was a senior editor at Boston magazine (you may remember his great deep dive into Curt Schilling and his failed video game venture). We are so excited to have Jason and can't wait for his contributions to Morning Media! -- Veteran NYT staff writer Fernanda Santos has taken a buyout, she announced on social media Tuesday, though she vowed to continue reporting out of Arizona on issues like immigration and "pursuing my definition of success." The paper has recently met resistance in its push to consolidate the newsroom, offering buyouts to copy editors and other staffers. Sierra Club v. EPA, 1:17-cv-01906 ED_001523_00002650-00003 - - Ryan Lucas will join NPR as a justice reporter, after two years covering the intelligence beat and the investigation into the Trump campaign's Russia ties for CQ. He starts Aug. 14. - - David Von Drehle is rejoining the Washington Post as an opinion columnist, the paper announced Tuesday. Von Drehle, who previously was the Post's New York City bureau chief, comes over from Time Magazine where he served as an editor-at-large, authoring over 50 cover stories for the publication. - - The Weekly Standard is bolstering its opinion and books and arts sections, announcing the hires of Barton Swaim and Adam Keiper as its new respective editors. A regular Washington Post contributing columnist, Swaim will oversee the Standard's editorial production,while Keiper joins after serving as an editor The New Atlantis journal for over a decade. TIL: Don Lemon really loves coconut and argan oil. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR: Credibility attacks on the reporters who broke the Trump Jr. stories. According to the Washington Post, a "handful of Republican operatives close to the White House... have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter." These operatives plan to research reporter's previous work and exploit "any mistakes or perceived biases" and then "demand corrections, trumpet errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets, such as Fox News." - - Flashback to last week in Breitbart: "Allies of the president outside the White House have assembled informal units to review everything the fake news media has ever written-and will write-about the White House, fact-checking everything media-wide." EXTRAS: -- Dow Jones sets a target of 40 percent women in executive ranks [TalkingBizNews] -- How artificial intelligence is changing media economics. [NYC Media Lab] -- Time Inc. is debating whether to change its corporate name. Among the finalists? "Life," an homage to the classic magazine title. [WSJ] -- Sheldon Adelson: Playing to win with the media in Las Vegas [Moment] -- Some Twitter users that have been blocked by Trump are suing, arguing that his account is a public forum and that he cannot block people. [NY Times] -- Here's a profile of Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin and NPR's Greg Myre. They also happen to be married, going on 25 years. [CJR] -- Conservative cable channel Newsmax continues to get more distribution. It is now available on DirecTV and Uverse. [Newsmax] Sierra Club v. EPA, 1:17-cv-01906 ED_001523_00002650-00004 -- An investment group led by a former Chicago aiderman and a coalition of labor unions has secured enough money to buy the Chicago Sun-Times. [Chicago Sun-Times] ELSEWHERE, PERHAPS: -- America is close to hosting its first Olympics since 2002 [NPR] -- Google has helped finance hundreds of academics to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance [Wall Street Journal] To view online'. To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/settings This email was sent tojackson.ryan@epa.gov by: POLITICO, LLC 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA, 22209, USA Please click here and follow the steps to unsubscribe. Sierra Club v. 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