Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
Before it was cool. That is the New York Times. Why would with the American People trust any organization that proudly hires that person . Today, the president tweeted, they asked my daughter ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She quickly said no. It is the fake news, which is a largeth percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people. The press is absolutely a vital part of any democracy, they are right to guaranteed under the constitution but so are the rights of Freedom Of Speech, and the president calling about for the lies they tell. The American People also have a right and when they know the network is feeding them lies, propaganda, misinformation, every single second of every single minute of every single day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they are right to call them out. In fact, once socalled news network is so blinded by the antitrump Derangement Rage they have, they dont even remember how destructive, how aggressive,
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potential election meddling seriously. look at the press from earlier today. e since january 2017, the president has taken decisive action to defend our election systems from meddling in interference. this includes measures to heighten the security and resilience of election systems and processes. to confront russian and other foreign alliant influence of the unit states. the progress we have made israel and the nation s are more resilient today because of the work we are all doing. but we must continue to ensure that our democracy is protected. what we see is the russians are looking for every opportunity, regardless of party, regardless of whether or not it applies to the election, to continue their pervasive onefforts to undermine our fundamental values. any moment is just a moment before,nt you know, that aisle n be turned up one, much as we saw in 2016. not in terms of affecting the vote count but in terms of potential penetration of voter
the vote count, but in terms of potential penetration of voter registration databases or something like that. and that in turn can be a vehicle for them to try to sow discord or undermine confidence. we have to make sure we re pushing back on it, which is what we re doing. so just to add, the way that we re splitting it, we re all partnering together, but your question just shows a little bit of the division of labor. dhs is focused on the election infrastructure in support of state and locals that have the primary responsibility. we support the fbi s efforts in countering foreign influence. with respect to the infrastructure piece, we have seen a willingness and a capability on the part of the russians. so we re working very closely with state and locals to ensure that we re prepared this time around. part of that is encouraging states to have auditability. so to get to that one part of your question, whatever happens, we want to assure americans the day after that their vote was co