indira, on that point we have something brand-new from the president tweeting tonight fake news media knowingly doesn t tell the truth. a great danger to our country. the failing new york times has become a joke. likewise cnn. sad. you can say he s baiting the press on the one hand. on the other hand that word danger as we respond to sean spicer s notion of dictatorships, that word danger does stick out. new york times subscriptions are at a new high, cnn viewership is at a new high. these institutions that he s calling fake have gained viewership, readership as people are turning to them for facts amid a very confusing time. i completely agree with nick when he says that we re not the story, the story is the story and we shouldn t be distracted and focus too much attention on the attacks on the press as we are still able to do our job. we need to focus on dhs, what we
panicked tone is not that of a strong bully but much more of someone worried about who will call them out and what evidence might be piling up. in my experience, a good signal for reporters is that if a government is desperate to suppress a story and is busy denouncing it or trying to block reporters from covering it, then one s journalistic instinct should be to go uncover that. if they try to bully you, that s the signal to charge ahead. i hope that we in the media will do i mean, they ve been trying to kill this russia connection story. they tried to politicize the cia and get cia officials to criticize the story. and that should be our red flag to march on ahead and dig up what they don t want covered. two journalists with a lot of experience here, nicholas kristof and indira lakshmanan. thank you for joining us. i want to break down donald
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
something more serious is happening, then we re talking about something that s a whole different ball game. at this point we can focus on the story and not try to get distracted so much about navel gazing about media. we should be talking about the facts of what s happening under this administration. i think your point is very well taken. i want to read from the ceo of foreign policy magazine. the russia cover-up story and the media lockoustory are th same story. administration hunkering down for the scandal that will end it. i want to be clear. you know, that is speculative what he s saying but it s also fascinating because what he s arguing is the rigor, the almost panicked tone is not that of a strong bully but much more of someone worried about who will call them out and what evidence might be piling up. in my experience, a good signal for reporters is that if a government is desperate to
suppress a story and is busy denouncing it or trying to block reporters from covering it, then one s journalistic instinct should be to go uncover that. if they try to bully you, that s the signal to charge ahead. i hope that we in the media will do i mean, they ve been trying to kill this russia connection story. they tried to politicize the cia and get cia officials to criticize the story. and that should be our red flag to march on ahead and dig up what they don t want covered. two journalists with a lot of experience here, nicholas kristof and indira lakshmanan. thank you for joining us. i want to break down donald trump s speech at cpac and facts he might not have included. do you know whether the protests are working? a republican lawmaker conceded today i don t know if we ll be able to repeal obamacare now. with my moderate to severe crohn s disease,.