the billionaire also revealed he offered the section's editor, david shipley, a chance to continue inince 2022. let's bring in talk about this and much more. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. gene, let's just i'm curious what your thought is. you have been connected with the washington post, pulitzer prize winner. you've had pulitzer prize winners leave the post over the past several months, and it continues. i'm just curious what your thought is about this directive coming down for a newspaper whose tough questions literally redefined modern journalism in america over the past half century? >> well, it's a very good question. first of all, joe, you know as much about this as i do in terms of what this you know what exactly jeff means. it's not as if we publish a whole lot of pieces or in fact, any pieces that oppose free markets and personal liberties. right? we don't we cannot recall ever publishing a piece with the headline the joy of socialism. that's that's not us. so what does this mean? because he describes it as a si

jeff offended first amendment fans and former washington post opinion page editor david shipley seen here remembering the good old days when you. could get a decent apple at whole foods. >> mhm. >> bezos announced that the washington post opinion page would be revamped to focus on liberties and free markets, saying, quote, viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. so the newspaper that covered the watergate scandal, the pentagon papers, has basically turned into an incel subreddit. that's basically. >> um. >> what we're looking at. he did everything. he could just take garfield out for being. anti monday's. if you're going. >> to do that. >> this isn't the only news from old jeffrey bezos this week. does anyone know what out of this world announcement he just made? >> he swore that he was going to shoot a bunch of women up into space on a rocket shaped like a. >> it was announced on thursday that jeff's company, blue origin's next launch, features a star studded female crew. the way things are going for women on this planet right now. >> they have more

the sections former editor david shipley resigned after trying to get bezos to reconsider. all that surprising considering how often bezos has rubbed elbows with trump in recent years. and if that wasn't enough, the trump administration announced that it will pick which outlets now get to cover the president. the job normally goes to the white house correspondents association. so it begs the question, what could be wrong with that? trump has already barred the ap, reuters, huffpo and other outlets from covering the first cabinet meeting, and a number of journalists have lost their access to cover certain presidential events already. who is likely to cover these events right now? you guessed it. right wing journalists, people who are friends with trump. conservative influencers, and so on. trump has been putting on this tough guy act since he first entered politics. but all of this represents more than just an erosion of our democracy. it exemplifies trump's fear and weakness. he's afraid of people who dare to ask questions of him, and of others who don't parrot his talking

and now david shipley, the paper's own opinion editor, quit in protest. it's weird you think the media would embrace the idea of freedom, but they aren't. and why is that? why were they against so many things that make sense, like cutting waste, deporting pedophiles, and giving justin trudeau a massive wedgie? it's because trump is for those things, which to the left, makes them more toxic than brian stelter's boxers after taco tuesday. true. if trump found a cure for cancer, the media would call it an attack on cellular democracy. so why is trump so hard to deal with that the media has now come out against freedoms. well, his personal goals align with the country's. that's what happens when you're a patriot. his own personal success is intertwined with ours. if the country doesn't do well, he doesn't do well. that's why when his critics say, ooh, trump is just out for himself, we say, so what? he can only win if we win. and the media has no way to combat this. so they're left with railing against personal liberties, just like they did during covid. but t