with us to talk about all of it, a veteran print journalist, now executive editor of the news start-up calls news guard, and also a political veteran journalist, he s a veteran political journalist, he s not terribly political as a person or employee, he happens to be our national political reporter. welcome to you both. john, rate the stakes as we head into next week. we say this about every passing week, how consequential they all are. this is one of the few cases where just a glance at the calendar does set ourselves, our stars up pretty nicely. the calendar is like an escalating tournament in vegas, brian, where every week more and
place against the backdrop of reports that the mueller report is expected soon. with us to talk about all of it, a veteran print journalist, now executive editor of the news start-up calls news guard, and also a political veteran journalist, he s a veteran political journalist, he s not terribly political as a person or employee, he happens to be our national political reporter. welcome to you both. john, rate the stakes as we head into next week. we say this about every passing week, how consequential they all are. this is one of the few cases where just a glance at the calendar does set ourselves, our stars up pretty nicely. the calendar is like an escalating tournament in vegas, brian, where every week more and more chips get pushed in.
basically what we re learning is that after the first attack, the second attacker reportedly came in with a camera. this is a big deal because this has always been a big issue for journalists. for instance, i m a print journalist. whenever i go to a site where there may have been some danger in the past or right after a bombing, the first thing they ll say, where is your camera? that s one way they ll prove that you re a journalist to make it really clear who you are. this is an instance again will not only journalists be argued the, but the ability to question in terms of security forces. and what more authorities saying who might be behind these attacks, and how might this change the way journalists cover some of these stories. so there isn t any official claim of responsibility from any of the groups who has targeted journalists in the past
a minute left looking forward here do you see any remedy to this situation because you know if we consider the arrest for example of those print journalist in turkey and the prison sentences that they discovered or that were handed down against them tonight i mean things don t look like they re going to get better for journalists anywhere in the world at the moment. well they certainly don t in least from the perspective of america in so far as it works for the president to demonize us to criticize us he will continue doing it there are a bloc of voters who strongly believe that we are biased against him that we are in some way presenting false information they re wrong about that generally speaking but it works for president trump and again it sets a tone for the dictators around the world and they take their cues from him so he
situation because you know if we consider the arrest for example of those print journalist in turkey and the prison sentences that they discovered or that were handed down against them tonight i mean things don t look like they re going to get better for journalists anywhere in the world at the moment well they certainly don t lose from the perspective of america in so far as it works for the president to demonize us to criticize he will continue doing it there are a bloc of voters who strongly believe that we are biased against him that we are in some way presenting false information they re wrong about that generally speaking but it works for president trump and again it sets a tone for the dictators around the world and they take their cues from him so he will continue doing so i believe maybe there will have to be change at the ballot box before the situation for reporters improves all for joining us tonight from the