lakshmanan. this involves your paper your boss. >> there is some risk that we sound self-indulgent when we talk about the press being bullied. but what's important is not what's happening to these particular organizations but that trump is trying to fight back in an institutional check on his power on an institution that's limiting his ability for corruption, limiting his capacity to break the law and to suppress whatever happened vis-a-vis russia. and i think it's also a distraction from these larger issues. >> right. it is both potentially corrosive depending on how it is -- how it's affecting how people do their jobs but also, yeah, it becomes a big part of stories other than what was our lead story which is look at these other facts brought to you by the ap. >> yeah. >> the press, from dhs that undermines some of the administration's claims. take a listen to sean spicer bringing up the "d" word, dictatorship, to talk about what