authoritarians globally. they re now using fake news as justification for jailing journalists, 262 jailed just this past year. that s a record. there are few moments that stand out in the first year for donald trump as far as violating constitutional norms or pushing boundaries in a terrible direction. one is enemies of the press. the other is when he s questioned the legitimacy of the judiciary. for you, what are some of the gravest dangers you ve seen over the past year, not just using the term enemies of the press but what are some of the things that cause you the gravest concern? some of the things the president says talking about the crowd size or whatnot whether it is true is relatively trivial, but some things are not as trivial. to talk about our elections
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 journalists documents that the number of impressed journalists around the world has reached 262, this includes 21 reporters who are being held on false news charges. mr. president so powerful is the pre press we do not pay to the power, in fact we question the powerful most ardently. so we know well that no matter how powerful, no president will
then, of course, these other judicial nominees. it is something that, again, a legacy that will outlast this presidency beyond whatever three or seven years he might have left. next on the list is trump s largely empty government. we talked about it in regard to the state department but it is across agencies really. yeah, let me run some of the numbers, willie. 262 political members of trump s administration end up winning senate confirmation, compared to between 400 and 500 for barack obama and george w. bush at this same point in time. while trump has been filling the court, he hasn t been filling his own government. this ends up mattering because these are the people who end up running the administration. they end up making the rules. they end up implementing the laws, as one expert ended up in my story there is still not a permanent irs commissioner, one that has been confirmed by the senate. there is someone who is an acting-irs commissioner.
deportation, that s the reality facing this award winning mexican journalist, emilio gutierrez and his son, as well. emilio was tried, he sought refugee status. he was denied and his appeal failed. so he fled to the u.s. in 2008 after threats on his life because of his reporting on mexican military corruption. now, he fears those threats will be carried out if he s forced to return. and his case is one of many. in fact, there are 262 journalists jailed worldwide with the bulk of them in turkey, china and egypt. his case is unique. let s start with that. his attorney joins me now. eduardo beckett, the attorney for emilio. also with me the advocacy director at the committee to protect journalists. let s start with the cases in texas. what is his current status? his current status right now, he s detained at the el paso
journalists. well, certainly mexico is one of the most dangerous in terms of killing and murder. there have been six murders this year. but if we look at imprisonment, more than half of the 262 journalists imprisoned around the world are in turkey, china and egypt. sadly, these are also three of the countries that president trump chose to meet with their leaders at the beginning of his term and as far as we know didn t raise this. we know that journalists are generally being jailed on anti-state charges which mean they re doing journalism but it s equated with supporting terrorism and we re also seeing that the whole false news issue has landed mosh than twice as many journalists in jail as last year. meaning this dictatorships are using the term fake news as a slur in order to attack journalists? absolutely. we re seeing it s being used to the kick them out of the country as in the case of cambodia, kicking out radio free asia, in terms of delegitimizing