right and it should be protected everywhere. all right, let me ask you about this, amy who is a writer at the daily signal at the heritage foundation pushes back against this and she has some good and interesting points, she said the attacks that you mention do not come from the right wing by any means, and she says it s irresponsible to suggest that america is a dangerous place to be a journalist, or that trump is responsibility for this danger, disrespect for those journalists who are actually risking life, liberty and property on a daily basis. in 2017, approximately 7 0 journalists were killed worldwide and another 262 impressed in connection with journali journalists. things changed dramatically in the united states in 2017 when we elected the first president who s ever declared so
the most corrupt and biassed of the mainstream pedia will be presented wednesday, january 17th. that s today. at her briefing today, sanders promised something later today. as of this hour, it s still a mystery what it is. that s the absurd. here s the reality. according to committee to the protect journalists 42 were killed last year doing their jobs. another 262 were imprisoned, 21 arrested on charges of false news. those were the phrase used. i m joined by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, columnist eugene robinson, and katie townsend, the litigation director for the reporter s committee for freedom of the press. i want to start with katie. congratulations on your organization. thank you. tell me what s the danger of the press, just using the press as his tackling dummy because he doesn t like objective reporting, not opinion like eugene. he s afraid it seems to me of front page facts that are thrown
vote. he says he did. he said the only reason it s not counted that way is because all these people that added to hillary s popular vote were foreigners illegally will voting in the the country. he lies like that. that s his idea of news. when the history of this time is written, chris and i ve said it before, the heroes will be our free press and the judiciary bulwarks of our democracy. when the president says he won the popular vote when he says that the crowd at inaugural was the biggest ever, the president has stood up to him. think about what we would not know now about russian meddling in our election, about the attempts to cover up and obstruct justice, whether it s the air force one statement or the trump tower meeting, and katie is right. the real world effects are staggering, not only abroad where 262 journalists have been
their lives and sometimes lose their lives reporting on the truth. to dismiss their work as fake news is an affront to their commitment and their sacrifice. according to the international federation of journalists, 80 journalists were killed in 2017. a new report from the committee to protect journalist documents that the number of journalists imprisoned around the world has reached 262, which is a new record. this total includes 21 reporters and being held on false news charges. mr. president, so powerful is the presidency that the damage done by the sustained attack on truth will not be confined to this president s time in office. here in america, we do not pay to the powerful, we question the powerful most ar dentally. to do so is our birth right and requirement of our citizenship. and so, we know well that no
news is an affront to their commitment and their sacrifice. according to the international federation of journalists, 80 journalists were killed in 2017. a new report from the committee to protect journalists documents the number of journalists imprisoned around the world is 262, a new record. this total includes 21 reporters who are being held on false news charges. mr. president, so powerful is the presidency that the damage done by the sustained attack on the truth will not be confined to this president s time in office. here in america, we do not we question the powerful most ardently. to do so is our birthright and a requirement of our citizenship. and so we know well that no matter how powerful, no president will ever have dominion over objective reality.