be embedded as a member of the state, telling the tell of the u.s. military on the battlefield and said that s what the military is out there doing. what i m hoping is happening behind the scenes is that they re trying to teach president trump the same way they ve tried to bring him along on things like middle east policy. some sources tell me the first time they sat down with him and tried to explain why the u.s. has a presence in the middle east, he didn t understand. so they tried to teach him in small bites, several small meetings. i hope what they re trying to do is tell him when you attack the u.s. press, you re signaling to vladimir putin and countless authoritarian dictators around the world that, yes, you can go ahead and muzzle, assassinate, torture, jail your members of the press because i m not going to stand up to you and tell you
defended my right to get treatment at a military hospital, defended my right to be embedded as a member of the fourth estate, telling the tale of the u.s. military on the battlefield, and said that s what the military is out there doing. what i m hoping is happening behind the scenes is that they re trying to teach president trump the same way they ve tried to bring him along on things like middle east policy. some sources tell me the first time they sat down with him and tried to explain why the u.s. has a presence in the middle east, he didn t understand. so they tried to teach him in small bites, several small meetings. i hope what they re trying to do is tell him when you attack the u.s. press, you re signaling to vladimir putin and countless authoritarian dictators around the world that, yes, you can go ahead and muzzle, assassinate, torture, jail your members of
news media do you think this president is putting journalists at risk? i do. how much risk we ll see as time goes along. but you can t ignore those who light the fires of hate. and president trump is stirring division. he s trying to get a certain amount of the population to not just distrust the press but to hate the press. and he s the person who s lighting those fires of hate. kim, in 2006, you were hurt by a car bomb in iraq by doing your job as a journalist. do you think the president understands what we do, does he respect what we do? well, i know, don, there are some people close to him who are well aware of what the press does and were actually aware of my injury. i m not going to name names but somebody very close to him visited me in the hospital room and told me later that he
to treat them well. i m telling my own press to shut up. listen, carl, you ve had adversarial relationships with some of the highest powers, with some presidents. why do you think that this president targets journalists in the way he does? because he has total disregard for the truth and because he sees the press as an enemy. and he fears the press. he knows the power of the press, partly because he s a creation of the press, particularly the new york tabloids, which he manipulated for years. look, there s no need for us to be on a soapbox here. what we need to do is exactly what we re doing. at cnn, the new york times, the washington post, the wall street journal and elsewhere, and that is report, give the best attainable version of the truth about the president of the united states who is is totally anomalous and aberrant in terms of the history of the office.
i want to ask kim, i want to ask you about this, but while we re on this subject, one more response from dan or carl regarding the nixon administration. i ll ask you, carl, the nixon administration, were you intimidated by the administration as much as this administration? or did they try to intimidate you as much as this administration is doing or say that the news is phony and fake, that t it wasn t real? did you face the same challenges during that time? yes. the intensity was perhaps not as long and as direct, but, yeah, richard nixon tried to make the conduct of the press the issue in watergate instead of the conduct of the president and his men. trump does it in a much more guttural, visceral, nasty out there way. and he lies with more frequency and compulsion than even nixon did. but i think there s an important point to make here about cnn.