a good understanding of the economy he was running a state in the western part of india called the draw he ran that state very well but he s a top down di who tends to give orders to bureaucrats and gets them to follow things and he has not been able to create an environment in which the private sector can thrive because in the end it s the private sector that is going to create these jobs as we said the election just at its halfway point we ll have to see how this plays out journalist seven i m speaking to us from washington thank you very much for your analysis thanks for having me that today is world press freedom day a day to honor the importance of a free press and to remind governments of their duty to uphold the right to communicate without fear we re taking a look at slovakia a country that was shaken by the murder of an investigative reporter and his girlfriend last year the killings led to mass demonstrations and forced the prime minister to step down but the journalists d.w.
news is it fact and i hate to say this in fact the enemy of the people was. all right well let s talk about media freedom in the trump area we re joined by angelo carousel and he is the president of media matters for america liberal media watchdog group and will thank you for joining us. now we have seen past presidents complain about mainstream media in general the white house press corps is a bill to ask tough questions even to have an adversarial relationship with the president and spokespeople what is so different about this what s so different about now. so i think it s true i think that there have been complaints and i m ok with that. that s part of having a free press i think what makes this qualitatively different is the intention efforts behind it so that you know in those cases when there were complaints they were very specific so they were focused on a one story or one particular narrative that they were pushing back against and one
and that he wants a message of unity, and yet he is leading the rallies where his supporters still chant lock her up and calls the press an enemy of the people, and of course this is going to happen. and chants in the east room of the white house of cnn sucks by that crowd in the east room today wearing many of them wearing the red maga hats and clearly the campaign supporters. michael steele, this is not helping people of either party? of course not. and there is a real tension of the president over the next several hours and days, because this is a success for american law enforcement, and they have acted swiftly and presumably the right person in custody, and they are stopping the threat. that is great thing to celebrate, and yet a lot of the coverage is going to focus on the bumper speakers and motivation, and that is going to drive the president crazy. so we will have to watch whether he is able to contain himself, and able to stay with a high-minded supportive of law enforc
president trump. being careful with my words, i think it is fair that some might say that these events are a reflection of the president s rhetoric. a president who has called the press an enemy of the people. praised people who commits acts ever violence against the press or others. used the power of the presidency to bully people, to dehumanize and devalue the truth. who does not tell the truth on a daily basis. historically what have democrats and republicans and american presidents done in situations like this in the face of terror, in the face of a threat to our republic and give some context to how this moment is different with this president? no question whether or not it s a false florida, whether or not it s a hoax, at the moment last night people thought that these people could be killed and we have to remember that. we can t take it away if the emotion is less this morning or
information presidents, george washington. we re attacking the house of representatives. we re attacking the cia. and most importantly he could have said, he could have thought we re attacking the free press. can you imagine the president said that? these are the moments when the president comes out from behind. you see the president sitting behind the desk we have to remember yes he was subdued. but he didn t make that moment. this was one of his moments. he had it at the inauguration. he could have brought us together. he had with the kavanaugh hearings. he didn t do it then either. he talked about democrats as these horrible people. we keep waiting for that fever to break. yesterday morning when i heard about the bombs it did not break. what he did last night at his rally he undermine the moment and made fun ever it. he said look what i m doing i am