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>> i'm brian stetler and this is reliable source our weekly look at the story behind story. show you how the media works and how the news gets made. this hour the first live interview with jim acosta. he's promoting this new book, "the enemy of the people." plus washington turning on tech companies like google and facebook. why? why now?
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a lawmaker leading the fight is also here live. we'll go live to sidney, australia to find out what happened here. these are images of federal police in australia raiding one of the country's biggest news rooms. what is going on? what are they looking for? but first president trump's latest fox news interview is causing controversy. this was trump's 55th interview with fox since inauguration day. more than double of any other major. he was in france there to honor soldiers who sacrificed their lives on d-day. he sat down with laura ingram right there, right with the graves of soldiers as the backdrop. what was he thinking? what was she thinking? what were the fox producers thinking when trump went on a tirade. trump took a moment to tell her how proud he was of her ratings. >> by the way, congratulations
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on your ratings. >> that wasn't even the worse part. trump had an opportunity to attack nancy pelosi and robert mueller. take a look. >> nancy pelosi is a disaster. nasty, vindictive, horrible person. she's a nervous wreck. we have crying chuck schumer who is a jerk. >> what can you do to you night the country at a time of freight polarization. what else could you do? >> that's a great question, laura. attacking your critics? attacking those who you disagree with including robert mueller who is a veteran at a grave site? is not uniting anybody with anything. as i watched this i wondered where is president trump's communications director to oversee what the camera shots look like, who is working to protect him from those kind of gaffes. remember bill shine exited the white house in march and now the job remains vacant more than three months later. maybe trump isn't his own best
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communications director. look there's a throat discuss from this interview and so much more. let's bring in irin carmon, sanjay gupta. what do you think of this interview the we work here in television. we wouldn't have allowed that kind of embarrassing situation to happen. >> you know as well as i do a lot of prep goes into doing our show. when we're on set. but certainly and especially when you're out on location somewhere. what's the backdrop going to be? what kind of permits do we have to get? there's a lot of steps that you have to take to designing this shot, this interview. the idea that someone said let put the president of the united states, who frequently runs off at the mouth is probably not going to go to social norms, let's put him in front of a grave yard on one of the most sacred occasions and conduct an
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interview in which we ask him about politics. that was a vetted decision. that was on purpose. i don't think they are stupid. i just don't think it was, it was polite. i don't think it was the right thing to do. >> do you think it matters? >> it doesn't matter to the audience he has. it doesn't matter to them. it won't offend them. but i think fox is trying toe le elevate him by giving him that background. they were trying to put him in the best possible position. make him look presidential. . but he's totally unpredictable. they know he's going to say something outrageous and it doesn't phase them to think well the backdrop -- the mueller comment is amazing in terms of what it says because this is a guy who did not go vietnam for, obviously, kind of phoney impairment and a guy who did go and was wounded. he criticizes in front of an american grave yard. the optics are terrible.
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>> we continue to see cases including this week with the president in europe where he tells you not to believe your own ears or eyes. he said he-seen the protests. maybe they were fake news. i thought the most interesting term in fake news was from laura ingram. after the interview with the president she had to go on her show and say the president said something that wasn't true. watch this clip. >> these people are so amazing and what they don't realize is that i'm holding them up because of this interview, but that's because it's you. >> some of you may have heard or read that president trump held up the d-day ceremony to do this interview with me. that's patently false. fake news. >> amazing to see a fox host correcting the president. she didn't say it was the president that made thunder. what happened one of the other foreign leaders was running a little bit late so there was time for trump to do the interview before the ceremony. . what do you make of that?
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>> we're in the b.s. era. it doesn't matter what reality s-it matters what the perception is and be good for trump. for trump himself has always been an ever shifting justification. he doesn't have stable truths. whatever comes out of his mouth is what he thinks will benefit him the most in that exact second and you see laura ingram taking her cues from that. it was something trump said that was not true, which she then said other people had said which remain untrue but true to what the president has said. if your head is spinning that's the point. it's creating a sense much disorientation. at the end of the day you think there are people who are against trump and there are people who are not and regardless what the facts are, this is, i know this word gets abused so much in this day and age but this is classic gaslighting. the gaslighting story is oh, no that lamp didn't move. it must be your imagination.
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know the president didn't say that or the president didn't make you late. whatever it is in the end everyone else is lying. >> stick with the line. there's a lot of headlines about joe biden. in many cases this race the revolving around biden. biden flipping over abortion funding. about the hyde amendment and biden's change in position. what's the media back story? >> it's interesting because even since biden was vice president, there has been ground level activism and on life activism that has increasingly gotten the ears of mainstream media criticizing the hyde amendment. barack obama called it tradition. this is something that's not been in the center of democratic politics but because of twitter, facebook, online organizing and grassroots organizing i think
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mainstream media now is more aware that there's an internal debate among progressives about whether things hyde amendment throw low-income women under the bus. that pipeline got shorter and shorter between progressive ideas and mainstream journali journalists. >> the other story here is that joe biden has not been running a traditional campaign where he does a lot of media, where he does a lot of retail politics. we don't have a lot of interviews with him yet. so these moments, these gaffes, these campaign breakdowns are all we have. >> not doing interviews. >> that's right. they are sticking out. i think he would be better served doing a lot more interviews, sitting down. i know there's a risk involve in that. it would help sort of desaturate the environment so this is not
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all we're left talking about. >> that's interesting. >> give us some more face time, joe. >> he did not go into this entirely prepared. you would think this wouldn't come up in an era when so much of the democratic focus is on women's issues and women are sovy all ts so vital to their base. why didn't someone clue him in that these things would come up. >> people ask me about the democratic race. i remind them this time four years ago trump hadn't entered the race. it's so early. i bring that up because we're at an anniversary. this time next week the is the four year anniversary of trump riding down the escalator. remarkable to go back and watch the television coverage from that day and how seriousliers taken or maybe not. you were on cnn's coverage that morning. you even had a copy of his speech. >> there i am. >> what was the day like? >> it was bizarre.
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i had gotten a copy of the speech from the campaign. and not a lot of people had because they didn't have a lot of contacts in the media yet. i'm looking at this. this is actually very serious and substantive. within the first sentence that script was abandoned and i'm watching along with everyone else mouth agape, eyes wide-open, none of the script, the script was tossed in what would become his hallmark going off script and i just remember thinking this is bizarre. not taking it seriously. to my discredit. not taking it very seriously because he didn't appear to be taking it as seriously as i expected him to, via that speech. >> he was in reality host mode. you were all able to turn away and i think when you look back at that first day that told you where we were going. it was entertaining, shocking, racism involved. bill, latinos thought?
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>> howard stern came out and said he thought it was a pr stunt. remember, he announced he was running before. people thought he would never do it, never make his taxes public. of course he didn't. he wound up running anyway. . >> four years ago. look at where we are. a quick break here coming up from the front lines of the white house jim acosta joins us for his first live interview about his new book. that's coming up next. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios.
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it is one of the president's most spinous phrases the enemy of the people. he's used the phrase more than 30 times on twitter. usually attacking news outlets like cnn. most recently just a few hours ago it's tire some but still damaging, casting fellow americans as enemies. it is also a phrase cnn white house correspondent jim acosta is reclaiming. he's out this tuesday with a new book entitled "the enemy of the people." the book is out on tuesday. jim acosta is here for his first live interview. jim acosta chief white house correspondent for cnn, why write a book about your experience? >> i wanted to send a message, you know, to folks who really care about what we do and the message is basically this. i did not want my children to group in a country where the press is called the enemy of the people. brian you and i have grown-up in a country in the last several decades here where republicans, democrats wanted to be in power
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in washington, but they didn't demonize us to this extent. and i think it's gotten -- i think it started off as an act based on my reporting that the president threw out fake news enemy of the people to taunt and troll us. that's gotten out of control. it's gotten to the point where his supporters, some of his supporters feel it's okay to lash out at us in ways that i think put us in danger and i think we have to pause, hit the pause button and think deeply about whether or not this is the kind of country we want to hand off to our kids. >> if this was a dangerous time to tell the truth in america you wouldn't be able to write a book about it. what dues? >> i don't want it to become more dangerous. we had a pipe bomb delivered to cnn last fall. i received a number of death threats. a number of news anchors reporters who cover this president on a daily basis
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receive death threats. and, you know, we don't know how serious they are. could just be people venting their frustrations in a get that. we all get mad about what we see on the news on a daily basis. >> but some -- >> the question is whether or not somebody crosses that line and does something that hurts somebody or perhaps kills a journalist and as i write in the book, brian, i think at that point we cross over into a different era for the united states. where we join a list ever other countries around the world where the press is not safe to do their jobs and we just can't do that. we cannot take that step because i think it's a far slippery slope than we possibly can imagine. >> can't let it happen here. some people don't know you sign this deal, to write this book before the mid-terms. the day after the mid-terms the president kicked you out of the white house. the white house revoked your press pass. looking back do you think the president was trying to distract from losing the house and the democratic gains in the
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mid-terms. was he trying to change the narrative? >> right. i've seen that theory tossed around. my sense of it is if you go back and i talk about it in the book if you look what happens during the news conference not just the confrontation he has with me, he refers to a question, a reporter from pbs, refers to her question as being a racist question at one point during the press conference because she asked him about this label that he gives himself that he's a nationalist and is that a dog whistle to white nationalists there were other moments where the president comes off as rattled and off of his game and some might same unhinged. i don't think it was one of those moments where he was throwing red meat into the water and bright shiny object to change the narrative. i think he's clearly frustrated. >> you conclude the book with the lawsuit and cnn's victory in court. let's go back to the beginning. first full day of presidency. sean spicer goes out and lies
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about the crowd size. what would have happened if crowd size wasn't the story of day one of trump presidency? >> a much smoother beginning to his presidency. the president is distracted and contoomd by thing that are trivial. why on earth when you're about to become commander-in-chief and president of the united states are you concerned about what kind of crowd size you have and why would you insist your press secretary go out and lie to the american people and by the way, when kellyanne conway goes out there and says, well, you know, sean spicer was giving alternative facts, you know, she also got herself into a situation where, you know, they are all piling on, trying to explain way the president's behavior and rhetoric and as i write in the book, you know, kellyanne conway kind of regrets making that comment. she said to me that was a slip of the tongue she didn't mean to say alternative facts she meant to say something different. what i found going back talking to various officials, is that
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from time to time there was a sense of regret about what they've all been through. yes they are passionate supporters of the president but in kellyanne conway's case she wishes she could have had that one over again. she insists in this book that this was not intended to be an orwellian phrase on her part. >> you do quote sources on the record and also on background anonymously, you quote an unnamed senior white house official quote the president is insane. was that person speaking literally or figuratively? >> i think he was venting his frustrations. this particular official. we sat down one to talk about how things were going with this particular source's area of expertise. i don't want to get too deeply into that. but plopped down in the seat in front of me and said the president is insane. i went back later to this official and i said why did you say that? really i was just frustrated with the president's lack of understanding of the constitution, the constraints
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placed on the presidency. you know guardrails were put in place by our founding fathers. the president wanted to know how long you can keep an acting secretary on. he wanted to know, you know, what else he could do with his cabinet. it's this kind of behavior behind-the-scenes that frustrates his top officials more than people understand. this official was trying to explain all of that. >> you mentioned kellyanne conway, her husband continues to say the president is mentally unwill, unfit. look at his latest tweets saying the president should resign and seek psychological treatment. that's astonishing coming from the husband of a top white house officials. and show do you view this as someone who covers the trump white house? >> i get asked this question from time to time. i tell folks i'm not a
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psychiatrist so i can assess the president's mental state but i will tell you my sense of it is covering him for a pretty long period of time now is he's more craziy liy jlike a fox. steve bannon explains in an interview i had with him that, you know, what trump tries to do is really control the narrative by saying sensational things that sound wild and nutty sometimes and he does this because he knows it dominates the news cycle. that makes it a priority for us in the news business to talk about him nonstop and he loves that and he capitalizes on that. >> do you have any regrets? >> i wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another. and standing up to this white house and saying listen, president can't call us the enemy of the people. we won't go along with that. we missed some opportunities here and there to challenge that. one thing i'm most grateful for
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during this experience is how just about every news organization in washington and here in new york stood behind us here at cnn when they took away my press pass. that was a very important first amendment case. had the trump administration won that case, brian, it would have sent shockwaves through our industry. it would have put a real chilling effect on the first amendment in this country and people might say oh, you're just puffing yourself up. you're high on your own fumes. no trump administration own lawyers went into the courtroom and said the president of the united states can throw out whoever he wants out of the white house. we couldn't have a situation like that. i was grateful, our entire industry stood behind us. had they not, i think could it have worked out a different way. so i think, you know, it hasn't been perfect. we're all grappling with how do we cover this president? my sense is that we have to stand for truth.
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we're not just here to report the news. we're here also to defend the truth. when you have a president who has made, you know, 10,000 false or misleading statements since the beginning of his administration, you know that makes us fact checkers in real-time. puts us in a position unlike republicans who controlled the government for two years sort of makes the for the state the press the check on a presidency that sometimes goes outside the bounds of normal presidential behavior. >> your tired? >> am i tired? you know, maybe after this is all and said and done with the book tour i'll take a break. i love this job like do you. i feel this is an important time and the challenge that we're up against. i deeply and passionately believe that. i know your father, i'm a dad, i don't want our kids to group in a country where it's okay to say the press is the enemy. it's not taking a stand on a political issue. it's taking a stand on an
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american issue. we should not be called the enemy of the people. you're not my enemy. trump supporters are not our enemy. so i hope if there's an overarching message that folks take away from this book they have a deep appreciation for what we do and one, listen, we're out here doing our jobs and we're not the enemy. >> thanks for being here. the book is "enemy of the people." 90 days, that's how long it's been since a formal on extra white house briefing, 90 days. that's a record. let's bring them back. congressman spearheading what he says is a top to bottom look at whether and how to address big tech's dominance over the digital marketplace. congressman david cicilline is next. nt for me is doing the things that i want to do, not the things i have to do. unlike seattle, less than half of americans participate in their employer retirement plans. so what keeps people more engaged in their retirement?
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79 days yes more than 11 weeks passed since robert mueller turned in its report with all those troubling details about possible obstruction of justice. there are lots and lots of faces, but one of the faces on here is david cicilline. he's joining me now. he's chair of a subcommittee involving antitrust that's holding an important hearing about big tech on tuesday. first, i do wonder where things stand with regards to robert mueller? he still has not spoken to any house or senate committee. what's the hold up? >> i know there have been ongoing discussions with mr. mueller's team and the judiciary
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committee. they understand it's critical mr. mueller come before the committee. he has a duty to walk the american people through the findings of his report, explain his decisions and the evidence he collected. i expect mr. mueller will be before the judiciary committee. >> do you feel the democrats have lost the messaging war on this issue? >> no. look we want to make sure we're doing it right. went to respectful of the special counsel. it's always better if a witness comes voluntarily. someone who has devoted 22 months to this intense investigation deserves that treatment and i think trying to accommodate him makes sense. but if that doesn't work then obviously we'll compel his attendance. no question the american people need to hear from the special counsel. >> you're starting a series of hearings on tuesday involving big tech. you're not the only part of the government looking into google, facebook, et cetera. we learned this week the ftc and
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doj have divvied up responsibility for probes into these gigantic players. what do you want to learn with your congressional hearings involving antitrust? >> well this is part of really a broad investigation. this is a bipartisan investigation launched by the judiciary committee that will be led by the antitrust subcommittee. it's to look at the entire marketplace. it's to look at the monopoly moment we're in and figure out how to get the market working right. i want to make sure they are not engaging in behavior that's harming our consumers. that they are not excluding rivals. competition matters in our economy. it's how you generate innovation and entrepreneurship and protect consumers. and we've seen some consequences of this tremendous concentration of economic power in these large technology platforms, a complete
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disregard for privacy of users, misuse of data so consumers don't control what happens to their data. so this is going to be a top to bottom review to see how the markets are working. what do we need to do to make sure competition exists in this space and we are protecting users and consumers and people who use the internet. >> you called for the breakup of facebook. why should companies -- >> no i haven't called for break up of facebook. i called for an ftc investigation and we'll look at a number of technology companies including facebook but broad -- this is not focused on a particular company. it's focused on the digital marketplace, where these large technology platforms are dominant to figure out why the marketplace is not working. >> i wonder if you have any view of president trump weighing in not on the technical companies but the big media companies. we saw this week the president suggesting a boycotting of at&t because he doesn't like how cnn
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covers him. he was pretty explicit. he called out comcast yesterday when criticizing nbc. is it appropriate for a president to suggest the boycott of an american company because he doesn't like the news coverage? >> of course not. i was listening to your interview of jim acost skra. the media are the guardians of our democracy. that's the first hearing we're going to conduct the impact of these large duopolys on access to trustworthy local news, reliable information. these two large platforms are taking much of the revenue using the content of local newspapers and online publishers and putting them out of business. you see examples all across the country. that's a problem. these small newspapers don't have leverage. they can negotiate with the two big large platforms. as a consequence we're seeing a real decline in local news. this is not just the sale of
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width get widgets. this is to be able to expose krups. this is a centerpiece of our democracy. this is about whether or not, you know, citizens of this country will continue to receive local news which is so essential to the functioning of our government so that's the first thing we'll explore and first hearing that we'll have. >> congress mapp, thank you so much for being here. great talking to you. >> he teed up our next segment perfectly. you'll hear from three experts who will be testifying. find out what they want congress to do. that's next. my time is thin, but so is my lawn. now there's scotts thick'r lawn 3-in-1 solution. with a soil improver!
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hearing. all said they plan to plug this pending piece of legislation. news media alliance, sally hubbard, and the editor of the atlanta constitution kevin reilly. i asked them what this bill is all about. >> you know the government can't regulate the news business under the first amendment but now we have two major companies that effectively do regulate us. they stand between us and our readers and determine everything about that relationship. what we're asking is for the ability to news publishers to be able to act collectively, to bargain for better more sustainable arrangement because the platforms now get advantage of all of our content and return very little of the money back to sustain the future of journalism. >> you want what? a four year opportunity for newspapers to work together? >> yeah.
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interestingly, the antitrust laws currently protect google and facebook from us, if you can believe that or not. what we want is antitrust exemption, if you will, safe harbor that would allow us to collectively act to negotiate for a better deal. it's limited in time to four years. and it's about money, yes, but it's also about algorithms and data and how our brand is presented to folks opinion we're not asking the government to regulate anybody or tax anybody. we're asking them mostly to just leave us alone. >> this bill is called the journalism competition and preservation act. people can google it and read more about it. sally, is this bill a good idea? >> ordinarily, i don't support exemptions from the antitrust laws but in this case i do support this bill. at this point the bargaining power that the tech companies have is so huge and the publishers really don't have any
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bargaining power to get fair terms and conditions. so i think it's appropriate for this situation and especially because it's limited in scope, i do support it. i also wanted to point out that the hearing is not only about this bill. the exemption is very important but we need to have other remedies to break up the stranglehold that the tech platforms have over the ad revenue that's so essential to support journalismism. >> there's a realization in congress and i had a chance to talk to representative collins. the realization is gosh this system isn't working. the american way is the person who really invests in something as a local newspaper invests enormous amounts of money and time in covering local news and local issues, ought to benefit from that investment. >> i noticed in a reason speech you talked about how the constitution has changed, used to be 80% of the revenue comes from contiguous and 20% comes from subscriptions and you said now that has to flip.
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now you got to be primarily supported based on subscriptions. we see the transition from papers across the country. how is that transition going? >> let me try to explain it this way because at the "atlanta journal constitution," our audience has never been larger than it is today. and i think that's true of many, many newspapers when you combine the print audience and the massive digital audience that we can all garner in our markets. so does it make sense at a time when our audience, that's at its biggest point our financial difficulties are at their most difficult point? to me that doesn't make sense. i mean it sound illogical. >> we're going to have full coverage of tuesday's hearing at cnn business.com. before we go, let me quickly tell you about my new podcast. it's a five series called apoll
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looks like. outrage still swelling over the police raid at the australia broadcasting corporation earlier this week. investigators entered the newsroom, went through files. they were looking for evidence, for information involving leaks of secret information about possible unlawful killings by australian troops in afghanistan. so in other words, it's a leak hunt. we've seen these in countries around the world. a new report finds press freedom is deteriorating in many countries including australia. let's talk about that. our panel is back with me. how serious is this to see federal police raid agnus room looking for a leak center >> this is deeply disturbing. these are stories that are unquestionably in the public interest. they concern matters of surveillance, of national security, there is always a line that journalists have to exercise about making sure that their report is tailored making
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sure they are not putting people in danger. these stories met that standard. i think it's deeply worrying. when i travelled to australia last year to talk about reporting on me too, i heard from australia jan journn journw constrained they are. they don't have a written statute that protects journalists. it comes down the disregulation of law enforcement. that's a dangerous place. even in the united states where we do have those constitutional protections there's still a certain amount of discretion that prosecutors can exercise and so when you see journalistic activities, for example in the u.s. being prosecuted under the espionage act it's important to look to australia okay we have our first amendment but there's always a danger of criminalizing journalism. >> has a chilling effect. let's put on the screen a map
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showing deteriorating conditions in many different countries. we saw this recently in san francisco where a freelance journalist home was raided because police there looking for a leaker. this is more about norms, not laws. >> it's important to point out the afp raided the home of a journalist as part of this leak hunt inside of australian media. that should be also deeply, deeply disturbing, you know. we like to think of sort of a wall between our professional lives and personal lives and when that wall is crossed by, in this case the afp, i think that has a certain chilling effect on the way journalists do their job that maybe police are going to come in to my home and raid my home. not just my place of business which is bad enough but your personal space. >> whether it's sidney or san francisco or sidney or somewhere else, these reports are in the public interest. >> i think the interesting thing
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is we have the first amendment. a lot of these countries don't. we have courts that are supposed to back it up. we're not entirely sure that's going to happen anymore. that's a little bit in doubt. i think the people of the country have to step up and say, this is intolerable. >> and thankfully, there have been. i think that's a good -- there has been a lot of outrage. >> quick break here. much more with the panel in a moment, including a conversation about youtube's latest ban sparking debate. (paul) great. another wireless ad. so many of them are full of this complicated, tricky language about their network and offers and blah blah blah. look. sprint's going to do things differently. and let you decide for yourself. they're offering a new 100% total satisfaction guarantee. try it out and see the savings. if you don't love it, get your money back. see? simple. now sprint's unlimited plan comes with one of the newest phones included for just $35 a month. so switch now. for people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay.com
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the side of not censoring is generally the best position, especially when censoring includes educational information, facts, history. i find it particularly jarring, though, that the people begging corporations to scensor this ar mostly journalists. this is really alarming to me. >> are journalists begging or calling out extremist content on the platforms? >> they are doing both. they are saying, youtube, you must do something about this and that is generally getting rid of this content. >> but journalists exercise editorial judgment every day. >> injury. >> that's not censorship, that's deciding what's good quality content, what's ensicitement. the larger question is, it's beyond white supremacist content, it's misogynistic content, it's anti-vax, it's pedophilia. >> but should we meet terrible speech with more speech? >> but the recognition engine of
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youtube takes us into a new territory. there has been excellent reporting and studies in the last week, a lot are published in "the new york times," showing that beyond even this more speech, the recommendation engine of youtube is driving people towards ever-more extreme content. that's an editorial curatioatio that they're doing. >> and they want to make money off of that. they've been making money off of that. so they need to -- they have to have an editorial -- every journalism organization -- >> it's not a journalism organization. >> we're out of time! we will keep it going this time next week on more "reliable sources." thanks for joining us. we'll be back here this time next week. th in manufacturing jobs in the us. it's a competition for the talent. employees need more than just a paycheck. you definitely want to take advantage of all the benefits you can get. 2/3 of employees said that the workplace is an important source for personal savings and protection solutions. the workplace should be a source of financial security. keeping your people happy is what keeps your people. that's financial wellness.
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