they can get away with. there are autocrats and dictators, vladimir putin, the guy running turkey, venezuela, all of them have cracked down on a free press or a quasi free press and they ve turned it into a state operation where people can be arrested for reporting the truth. and there isn t a freedom of the press. when they see the president of the united states backed by a constitution and a first amendment and a bill of rights talking this way, i think it gives them license to talk that way as well. that s how they look at it, and it undermines our moral standing in the world such that when the president himself, who has spoken out very forcefully about the dictatorship in venezuela and how they re mistreating their people and taking away their freedoms, i think it undermines the own case he has tried to make at times about freedom around the world and the u.s. standing behind people that want freedom. it would be nice, josh, if the president understood that. it would, but i als