we are never seen these types of attacks before on the free press by any president. arguably george w. bush took the most heat from the press of any modern president. they did not like him, they were unkind. you never saw him attack the press in that way. host: from orchard park, new york, democrats line, gary. caller: i have a question going back to dr. king on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. wasderstand that dr. king quite antiwar. was against the amounts of money put every year into the pentagon. i understand that historians and the media tend to ignore that part of his philosophy. would you speak to that plays? -- would you speak to that please? guest: you are right. during the end of his life he was ardently against the vietnam war and passionately so. it made a lot of enemies for him. people did not like that. they could use that as an anti-american stance, which it was not. he like any citizen, has the right to protest peacefully against the war. he saw disproportionate numbers of black and brown men going to that war. he was a man of peace, like him

strongly among adams and washington and the other founding fathers, madison, of course, that that free press really at the center of who we are as a nation. because the press' job is to keep a watch on the government, to inform the people when something is awry or they need to get engaged in something. the press needs to be left unfetterred. >> let me read you a little bit of the sinclair broadcast response to this story, saying it's ironic that we would be attacked for members promoting our journalistic initiative for fair and objective reporting and for specifically asking the public to hold our newsrooms accountable. our local stations keep our audiences' trust by staying focuses on a fact-based reporting and clearly identifying commentary. >> again, to a pop list who is not well-informed and people -- the local news, particularly if you get out into rural america and southern america and the midwest, that -- people don't watch the stuff you and i watch in the beltway. they watch their local anchor. if my local anchor begins to tell me that there is fake news out there and there is somebo

we have never seen these kind of attacks before on the free press any president and arguably george w. bush i would say took the most heat from the press of any modern president they did not like him. they were unkind and stories. universal him attacked the press that way. gary, your next step. going back to dr. king again. on his 50th anniversary and the assassination. i understand they tend to ignore that part of the philosophy. he was very against the vietnam war. it made a lot of enemies he saw them going into that war. my father being the first in the first to die. he saw something that troubled him. as it is referred to. spent billions then. they spend billions and trillions now. they became very wealthy companies out of the vietnam war. that troubled him. like gandhi and jesus before him. they were not men who agreed with that. good morning. here is my concern. the republicans and emma kratz. immigrants. we have more in common than we have differences. what you're saying about the media. fox news is grossly misinforming i would like to know if there's something we could do is t

we are the free and independent press. we have been part of this nation, part of the constitution, we are part of the underpinnings of this nation. and for a president of the united states to put those words out there and for sarah huckabee sanders to say it's not true that he's done that, there's a disconnect. a huge disconnect. >> when you have -- kaitlin pointed this out, ryryan. when you have a president who hasn't been a press conference for over a year and sitting with john carl at abc, asking a question are you thinking of pardoning your personal attorney and to have the president said to him "stupid question, stupid question." >> it's an attack. it's not a stupid question. we know it's been reported that the white house has dangled pardons for people that mueller has since indicted. people who have been wrapped up in the mueller investigation. we know that the president has used his pardon authority in a fairly controversial way, pardoning sheriff joe airplarpad scooter libby who president bush refused to pardon an

well today we have a president who seems to reject the role of a free press in our democracy although obsessed with his own press coverage he evaluates it not on whether it provides knowledge or understanding but solely on whether daily coverage helps him and hurts his opponents. he has referred to the media as an enemy of the people. she's suggested that broadcast licenses of some news networks should be challenge haded. he wants to block cnn to at&t for the same reason. and he has repeatedly threatened amazon because jeff bezos owns washington post. a newspaper defying odds and showing what many thought was a dying business model can be a success. with good reporting and innovative use of technology. now given his track record is it any surprise that according to latest round of revelation he joked about throwing reporters in jail to make them talk. and it doesn't stop there. this administration has also tried to gut the national endowment for the arts. national endowment for the humanities the institute of museum library science and corporation for public broadcasting. as suzanne h

and the government i'll keep the free press.press is sacrosanct to who we are because it's a check on us. it's a check on our leaders. it is there to give we the people the proper information that challenges us, that provokes us, that makes us know when we need to maybe replace somebody at the ballot box. so, i am with you 100%. i'm not only alarmed. i'm pretty angry about it frankly because what's happening here isn't so much that donald trump is the problem. he is. but we the people are the problem, nicolle. what is wrong with us? why are we asleep? why is this okay? why are so many people repeating the fake newsman tra and attacking the fbi and the cia and every institution we hold dear? there is a problem here and we're on a very slippery slope and it's dangerous. >> jeremy, i thought was notable that two of the people who seem to see this coming were the last two presidents. george w. bush in an interview on the today show talked about the important basically the same message sophia just articulated, a free press when they

not being sold in this way timothy appreciate your thoughts to make us a strategic directorate free press thanks very much my pleasure and thank you for being with the two of you can stay around as well for at least the next fifteen minutes or so more news to come including questions being raised over what evidence the u.k. has or doesn't have in this cripple case we pore over that in small detail after this break. plenty. plenty plenty. plenty. plenty of selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't lead to stop spreading to tell you that will be gossip and tabloid but i felt a little sleepless a. lot about telling you i'm not cool enough to buy their products little. things all the hawks that we along with all of the. again so the u.k. foreign office is deleted to tweet saying experts that the military confirms the nerve agent used in the scruple poisoning case was produced in russia and this is kind of part of a team of the u.k. reports next from westminster the foreign office has deleted a tweet that it had initially posted

. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for supporting the first amendment and the free press and we wish you a good night. thank you. [ applause ] . >> that was the president of the white house correspondents' association and that was quite something, michelle wolf, the headliner of the white house correspondents' dinner this year. first on. of all of my colleagues here at msnbc i'd like to apologize for a little bit of an f bomb that slipped in there and some other profanity throughout the course of the set. guys, we heard michelle wolf call sara huckleby sander, and kellyanne conway a liar. what's that to you? >> it wasn't an exchange, the part of sara huckleby sander, remind you, one of the most difficult jobs is to sit and be on the receiving end of the brunt of the jokes. i think the best way to do is sort of laugh hardest is the way to get through it and that is not the approach she took. she seemed quite perturbed. i think we'll be hearing more about that from the podium in the white house in the weeks ahead. >> there she is, back to the cameras now talking to the folk

are you trying to say that this administration is a champion of a free press? >> certainly think that, as i have stated a moment ago, we support a free press, but we all support a fair press. i think those things should go hand in and. there's a certain responsibility by the press to report accurate information. i think a number of people -- >> responsibility on the part of the president -- >> a number of people in this room do that every single day. they do their best to provide fair and accurate information. certainly support that. that's one of the reasons i'm standing here taking your questions. lot of times taking your questions in a tone that's completely unnecessary, unneeded and frankly doesn't help further the conversation or help the american people get any more information in a better way which is your job and my job and that's what i'm trying to do. i'm going to move on. david, go ahead. >> the tone to the president is not helpful. i think that's plain to see. navy inspector general had problems in the way jackson ran his medical office. only had 50

hot off the press ♪ why ain't you got it yet - [narrator] the u.s. has thrived on it's vibrant free presshe founding fathers first put the concept into law in the bill of rights. news organizations since then have served as an important, independent check on the power of elected officials. - i've seen the tweet about tapes. - he's a leaker. - where is the evidence? - [narrator] now social media is proving to be a double-edged sword. it's an important means of free expression around the world, but it also allows for the proliferation of misinformation. undermining the integrity of the free press. the media and foreign policy. next on great decisions. (dramatic music) - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers, llp. (regal music) - [narrator] when america's founding fathers wrote the bill of rights, they enshrined freedom of the press in the very first amendment. - freedom of the press was one of the foundational elements of democracy and one of the most

certain responsibility by the press to report accurate information. >> reporter: now the issue of the free press came up in response to a group of reporters without borders which ranked the u.s. 45th in the world -- 45th when it comes to press freedom and the group said the u.s. has dropped in rankings due to the rhetoric coming from the president and, wolf, get -- getting back to ronny jackson, he spoke to reporters outside of the west wing and said he's continuing on with his nomination fight. >> we'll see what happens on that front. jim acosta. thank you. >>> new allegations against dr. jackson. to our senior congressional constituent manu raju working this part of the story for us. manu, what are you finding out. >> reporter: democrats on the senate veteran as fairs committee have just released a two-page document laying out stunning allegations against ronny jackson after interviewing 23 current and former colleagues of the veterans' affairs secretary nominee. the allegations about his past behavior and allegations of misconduct that they acknowledge have not been fully substantiated but ra

are you trying to say this administration is a champion of a free press? >> i certainly think as i stated a moment ago, we support a prepress but we also for a fair press and i think those things should go hand in hand and there's a certainly responsibility by the press to report accurate information. >> reporter: is there a responsibility on the part of the president? >> i think people do their best every day to provide fair and accurate information. it's one of the reasons i'm standing here taking your questions and a lot of times taking your questions in a tone that's completely unnecessary and, unneeded and frankly doesn't help further the conversation or help the american people get any more information in a better way, which is your job and my job and that's what i'm trying to do. i'm going to move on. david, go ahead. >> reporter: the president's tone toward the press is not helpful at times and i think that's plain to see. >> reporter: the navy inspector general had problems with the way jackson ran his naval office with only 50 people in it. what m

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so, if you're going to talk about the way this administration upholds the free press, let's not forget how the president himself treats the press. hallie jackson with us from the white house. hallie, a lot of that briefing was focussed on ronny jackson. the white house saying they're still standing behind him. but just in the last couple minutes we found out four background checks on him but they still didn't know about this ig report or the other allegations that go back many, many, many years? >> so, i think the thread that you saw reporters trying to pull here was the idea that, sure, ronny jackson has gone through background checks in his role of high profile role, very close contact with not just president trump but past presidents as well, and you heard a couple reporters try to get at this did the white house go beyond that? what else did they do? what else did they try to do to vet ronny jackson prior to the president was a surprise tweet that sort of came out unexpectedly even to some inside the administration that jackson would be the nominee to lead the department of veteran

it is difficult to have democracy without a free press because you need to be able to believe and express what you believe freely. in order to vote for representatives in government. you need to know their positions. freedom of press is pretty foundational to a large range of other rights. i think the growth of democracy around the world is closely linked to the expansion of the independent press and the protections that come with a naval to criticize the government. >> the first amendment is important to us as filmmakers because everything we do is based on our creative outlets. as journalists, if we are limited to what we say, our stories will not portray the truth of the living pictures we see in our minds will not be revealed. my social media has affected the press and are less has also affected large corporations. >> state censorship has affected media. in this intimidation, countries like mexico, russia, where journalists are exposing crime and corruption and you have members of the mob or the oria who are murdering otherwise intimidating journalists and their families. there is all

>> i certainly think, as i stated a moment ago, we support a free press. but we also support a fair press. and i think that those things should go hand in hand and there's a certain responsibility by the press to report accurate information. i think a number of people -- >> reporter: is there a responsibility on the part of the president? >> i think a number of people in this room do that every day and do their best to provide fair and accurate information. i support that, that's one of the reasons i'm taking your questions and a lot of times taking your questions in a tone that's completely unnecessary, unneeded, and frankly doesn't help further the conversation or help the american people get any more information in a better way which is your job and my job and that's what i'm trying to do. i'm going to move on. david, go ahead. jim, i'm finished. >> reporter: the president's tone toward the press obviously is not helpful at time. i think that's plain to see. >> is she talking about herself there? i want to talk about this now with cnn's senior media cor

he doesn't want a free press. as a guy who has gone to jail, no. your ideas are wrong. they are bad. they will not work. >> in is recep tayyip erdogan type of stuff when we talk about journalists. >> scary stuff. >> let's talk about the stuff that laura jarrett talked about there. serious reservations of michael flynn's judgment. this is the national security adviser. reince priebus, the chief of staff then, asked if there was a fisa warrant out on him. why did he name him the national security adviser? >> he wanted the best people. former president obama warned him about flynn. everyone did. i think at some point in time if you remember, put it in historical context, a year and a half ago. if you put that in context, no one expected this guy to win. a lot of the republicans did not back the president. he had a transition team. he was trying to find people. the fact of the matter is with flynn, who do we got? flynn. >> who is loyal? >> i don't think it was ever a case of them vetting the guy and saying he is the best guy for the job. it was a fact of them vetting and sa

in each case to the constitutional riefrmts to a free press and public trials as well as the right of people in a constitutional democracy to have access to information. what the justice department says about this one is that it was merely stating sort of broad general things that are already in the constitution and they were trying to slim this one down so that's out. the one on racial gerrymandering they said talked about the department intervening in cases following a supreme court decision of about 20 years ago about redrawing congressional boundaries and under the voting rights act and they said the government hasn't undertaken that specific kind of legislative action for a couple of decades and saw no reason to include that one. you're right whenever you remove something from a document that talks about the need for free press and public trial, you're going to raise some eyebrows. doesn't seem there's any harm leaving it in. but because it didn't say anything he in saw no harm taking it out. >> pete, thanks very much. >>> coming up next arizona teachers among the most underpaid

it is difficult to have democracy without a free press because you need to be able to believe and express what you believe freely. in order to vote for representatives in government. you need to know about their positions. the freedom of the press is pretty foundational to a large range of other rights. democracy around the world and democracy is growing around the world, is linked to the expansion of independent press. comese protection that with being able to criticize the government. >> the first amendment is important to us as film makers because everything we do is based on our creative outlets. if we are to be limited in what we say, whether it be online or on a broadcast, our stores will not portray the truth and the living pictures we see in our mind will not be revealed. the way social media has affected the press and journalists have affected large corporations. >> all kinds of state censorship of media, they have also -- they haven't -- intimidation. you have countries like mexico, areia, where journalists exposing crime or corruption and you have numbers of the mob for the maf

we are never seen these types of attacks before on the free press by any president. ly george w. bush took the most heat from the press of any modern president. they did not like him, they were unkind. you never saw him attack the press in that way. host: from orchard park, new york, democrats line, gary. caller: i have a question going back to dr. king on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. wasderstand that dr. king quite antiwar. was against the amounts of money put every year into the pentagon. i understand that historians and the media tend to ignore that part of his philosophy. would you speak to that plays? -- would you speak to that please? guest: you are right. during the end of his life he was ardently against the vietnam war and passionately so. it made a lot of enemies for him. people did not like that. they could use that as an anti-american stance, which it was not. he like any citizen, has the right to protest peacefully against the war. he saw disproportionate numbers of black and brown men going to that war. he was a man of peace, like him, i an

our commitment to free press and great reporting and scholarship winners. unfortunately the monologue was not in the spirit of that mission. >> michelle wolf's comments were jabs at president trump and top aides and his family. one of whom was sitting next to michelle wolf. >> there is, of course, ivanka. she was supposed to an advocate of women. it turns out she is as helpful as an empty box of tampons. she has done nothing. i guess like father like daughter. she is the diaper genie of the administration. she looks sleek from the outside, but on the inside it's still full of [ bleep ]. i actually like sarah, she burns facts and she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. maybe she is born with it. maybe it's lies. probably lies. and i am never really sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders. sarah sanders. sarah huckabee sanders. is it anti-huckabee sanders. what is uncle tom, but for white women who disappoint other white women? >> a lot of people did not know what to make of it. you heard awkward silence. many members of the media agree that wolf we

andi like to be criticised by free press and i think it is not difficult to see this attack on amazonhe company well and its reputation, often when the president takes on a target like this he is tapping into some kind of constituency that opposes that thing. is there a group of people around the world or here in the us who do not like amazon and to the president is rallying as a base call? that is a great question because political and it doesn't make much sense. amazon recently has ranked at the counter top of the most trusted brands list. to the extent that president trump still has support among the right wing, republican base, that is really a free—market constituency. and here the ears taking on one of the tech innovators that has powered the american economy. they beat wicker look at the kind of midwestern think is the constituency here that might see amazon is responsible for something shakedown in traditional retail. that is possible. but there are other culprits blamed for the pain in the retail world may be starting with walmart which is a much bigger company in terms of re

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nobody is trying to make the press less free. we just want it to be less biased. don't understand? >> rick: it strikes me there is thin skin in the white house press room and not used to being called out by the spokesperson or the president. >> i think the press having trouble grappling with this and the administration and sarah huckabee sanders is having trouble with what's going on here. what steve said about whether we're having a less free press. we slipped to 45th in the world as a free press. i think we should be ashamed about that. the questions about dr. ronny jackson turned out to be legitimate since he just withdrew from the nomination. the 24th nominee from president trump that has had to withdraw before going to committee hearings. so there are important concerns there. i think the jim accost to and his relationship with the administration is tenuous at best and i understand the accusation of it being whiney and all of that is legitimate. but at the end of the day sarah huckabee sanders doesn't want to take questions about issues that are difficult for

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for example saying pluralism is dying in turkey and syria is important for democracy absolutely a free press is the foundation of democracy really a hunt for my son would be a thank you very much for that. there is heated debate over a decision by the regional government of bavaria making it on the tree to prominently displayed crucifixes in public buildings the leader of the green party in germany who is a leading member of the protestant church has accused bavarian state tamil marcos of abusing a christian symbol for what she called a crude political purpose a constitutional experts and church leaders have questioned the legality of the decision as the street is constitutionally obliged to remain neutral in matus of religion. joining me now is religious affairs an ethics correspondent welcome us why is this such a controversial decision well because questions of religious sort of really just in i'm an asian of public space are very very important in germany germany has a very very troubled history of religious relations and it is understood by constitutional definition which was adopted in

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this is b object, tonight is about the free press. freedom of speech. e west is free to speak his mind and say whatever he wants, but when drou that, you should realize the power of your words and your platform and you should know what you're talking about and if you are supporting something that's detrimental to your own culture as a person of color or for me as a person of cu color who happens to be b gay. that's it. >> excellent point. and then just in general, this is sort of a night when washington takes a weird break, right, from the woniness and sp views. do you think it feels normal or sort of like uncomfortable. what's the vibe tonight? >> it's a little weird because i'll tell you, go to my instagram. last night i'm at a party. kellyanne conway walks in. and i said, oh my gosh, what's kellyanne going to say. is she going to, just walking right past me. she gives me a big hug and as i'm talking to her, michael avenatti walks over and iwitnessiwitness them meeting for the first time and someone captures it with camera. you have to have f a sense o

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president has a new target for his personal war against the free press.s the white house correspondents association. >> the comedian who headlined the group's annual dinner, michelle wolf, has come under criticism for some of her jokes roasting the president and his aides, which many people found uncomfortable and cringe-worthy. wolf took some particularly harsh shots at white house press secretary sarah sanders. >> i actually really like sarah. i think she is very resourceful. like she burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. like maybe she is born with it. maybe it's lies. it's probably lies. >> after the event, the u.s. president tweeted this. "the white house correspondents dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. the filthy comedian totally bombed. put the dinner to rest or start over". >> the association's president did not apologize but did offer this statement. last night's program was made to offer a unifying message about our common commitment to a vigorous a

you're right together news is part and parcel you're right, your journalistic right, under the free press clause. you cannotsaying gather certain information about people, it is out of bounds, i would be violating your journalistic right under the free press clause. likewise, there are other speakers, both in the commercial space and political space, who mine data. if we start taking that out of the realm of what can be mined, we probably violating some first amendment rights. to debate, in us my mind, each realm of data separately, as opposed to going the european model where we say all personal information is protected and you cannot gather, cannot invade, cannot use it. because there is no first amendment in europe, and they did not have this hurdle to get over in trying to legislate certain areas. when the government does define some of these areas as private domains, there is consensus around it, and there are compelling governmental interests to define these areas as particularly private and take them out of the domain of data mining, data trading, data selling. that brings me to th

like i think it's okay sometimes for a president to do that but this is specific an attack on the free presswspaper and reports things he doesn't like. >> using the bully popet to bully a citizen. he's attacking the company when he's really mad at an individual person. beyond that, though, it's actually a dangerous president to set. the president of the united states to attack a person in this particular way just because he doesn't like what the newspaper is reporting. >> yeah. >> i also think that the president, you know, he's lying in that clip, of course, but also, i think it's important for us to understand the president, you know, when he's attacking people in this particular way and lying about it, that has a dangerous president in that the consequences of the lies are what can actually be real in real life, right? >> there are millions of people that think that's true. >> he loses money because he's lying about what the company is doing and how they have a relationship with the us many ps. >> he's like jeff sessions -- >> flailing about. >> he's like the guy at the bar. the talk is th

and the other stuff when amazon important to unpack, but this is an attack on the free press. >> seeing this happen the same moment when sinclair broadcasting is passing out pro trump propaganda to all the local news stations, seeing that at the same time he is trying to label the lobbyist, there is so chilling. anybody who is not freerked ofr isn't paying attention. >> okay. more do. 50 years after the death of dr. martin luther king jr., calls for equality and justice are still being made. how pro h. procetests like this mirror those for dr. king. >> i just want to fight for him because i don't feel like it was fair that he had to die when he wasn't even doing anything wrong. most familiar companies, but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. nobody knows pot pies better than banquet. with tender cuts

consistently stood up for what i believe are the values of the first amendments, free speech and free press, and free speech and the protection of the first amendments generally speaking require a culture that supports is and so i've spoken out, for example, about the new trends on college campuses where we don't see as much of an interest in open inquiry as we do on -- from the tribal instinct of wanting to shut down speech that one doesn't like. that's the kind of thing we needs guard against, and regardless of viewpoints, i think that's an important value for americans, it distinguishes our democracy from virtually never other. >> another question. >> right here. >> mr. chairman, i wonder if you could address some issues regarding privacy and the kind of thing have in mind are issues for the, one hand, the facebook scandal, with cambridge, and similarly, various reports about devices, your home tv, obviously, things like alexa and your refrigerator being able to spy on you, and what actions, if any, the fcc can take in regard to protecting privacy. >> very good question. one that has bee

free speech. many of us were wearing pins about the freedom of the press. where this gets a little muddy. >> joining us now is sarah -- i'm sorry. kensior. walk us through there. we were at the dinner, and you say that the dinner should have been done away with a long time ago. >> yeah, i don't think there's a need for it. what's important are lies and liars in the white house, including the president and sarah huckabee sanders, and those in the press who are more willing to back those lies, to not call them out openly, to practice this journalism that props up this administration, rather than deliver the truth and expose corruption. >> we don't have access to the white house. i have asked the white house for the last 305 days for an interview. they say no. >> we call them out on these very facts that you agree they should be called out on. >> we call out their facts every single day, so why is what we do, why is that being conflated to access journalism if we attend the white house correspondent's dinner? >> who's conflating it? this isn't just about you t

where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you use face force when official information as a journalist i have worked at all of the strengths of many cantrips and their problems are almost the same forward to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fans of the humans and see them why through fools who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny harrison and part of the. the dangerous battle for images. five women. five exceptional stories. i want to go to front tomorrow when it may be nothing more easy one calling more photography dramatic pictures from the frontlines capturing street full moments in time and even risking death. she gave her life to other stories of people who ended up killing. women or photographers starting may third on g.w. . i am. i am i am curious. if you're watching g.w. news live from berlin after the arab spring the u.s. president's further action against syria's leadership. i spok

ago, westated a moment support a free press but we also support a fair press.hink that those things should go hand in hand, and there is a certain responsibility by the press to report accurate information. there a responsibility on the part of the president? >> people in this room do that every single day, provide fair and accurate information. i support that. that is why i am here taking your questions. a lot of times, taking your questions in a tone that is unnecessary, unneeded, and does not further the conversation. we are talking this morning about the world press freedom index put out by reporters without borders every year, for the past 15 years. this year, the united states fell again the 45th on the list of ranking countries by press freedom. behind romania, south korea, taiwan. coming in at 40th, the united kingdom. in light of the discussion that the publication of that list has sparked, we want to hear from you about your concerns on press freedom. give us a call. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002.

our founding fathers believed in a free press not one parroting administration talking points, at least last i checked. and since when do presidents, again, use inappropriate times to do inappropriate things? what's your take on what we've been seeing with this sinclair broadcasting take? >> you know, i keep thinking about the constitution, too, and the fact we are the oldest democracy, we're the most stable democracy, and why is that? we've always had a free press that challenges our administration, that holds their feet to the fire whether that was in a the days of the radio broadcast or print newspapers or today through the internet and through cable tv. so this is really bothersome. you may not agree with what the press is taking but to discard it takes us into very dangerous territory. i start having thoughts of hugo chavez, of systems that have gone into an undemocratic net netherworld. >> a quick, last thought here, charlie. let me play devil's advocate. sinclair broadcasting has a point of view. i don't know how they sort of put quotation marks around this. i was a local news an