ben jacobs may have never seen the body slam coming. but in the height of journalists, some feared it was a matter of time. it s not an isolated event. earlier this month, a reporter said he was slapped by a state senator. in d.c., a reporter said he was pinned against the wall by security guards as he tried to question the fcc commissioner. and in west virginia, a journalist was arrested after questioning health secretary tom price. journalists can be obnoxious. but is the bar for physical hostility lower now? and if so, what s that mean? joining me now, eric wemple of the washington post. and the new mark chair for the boston globe. indi indira, what s going on here? it s appalling. we write about and talk about attacks on press freedom all over the world.
lives. you put your finger on it. to your point i m going to read the white house response here about how do they deal with this. they say they don t dispute the authenticity but telling nbc news it was incomplete and based on open sources which are, of course, publicly available facts. indi indira, i ll give you one item from public sources and get your response. kato looked at this, who are the victims of people, americans and others, in the u.s. who died from these fortune-born attacei. 90% were killed in 9/11. all other attack, 1.4. not only has kato looked at the victims of the foreign-born attack, kato is funded by the koch brothers. kato looked at the study who all was responsible for terror attacks dating back to the 1970s all the way back.