The 2 trillion plan that is currently in the works to try to support some of the people that are losing their jobs, some of the corporations that are struggling at this moment. Here on reliable sources, looking at the media angles here, every corner of the Media Industry has been touched by this pandemic. And Telecom Companies and tech companies, like at t are working in a critical way to keep the internet up and running, literally keeping people connected when we are all so isolated. We are also seeing streaming services being used quite a bit. Well talk about all of that in the next few minutes here. Standing by for me is netflix chief content officer, ted serandos. Hes going to talk with me in a moment about what netflix is doing. But first, let me bring in chairman and ceo of at t, randall stevenson. Tan at t is the owner of this network, cnn. Randall, thank you for being here. Im curious about what has changed for you and for at t in the past couple of weeks. How have you had to change at ts priorities . Hi, brian. Thanks for having me on. Its kind of unusual to face a National Crisis and ask our employees to go home, but thats effectively what weve done. Weve told our employees, to the extent you can do your work at home, go home. We have 90,000 people who are now doing their job from home. We have a number of people, about 20,000, who are affected by this virus, through any number of reasons. And so they cant do their jobs at home, so theyre on leave. And were paying folks 160 hours to stay at home, take care of family, take care of themselves. But then, we have 100,000 employees, brian, who just, when hurricanes happen, earthquakes happen, they run into those situations and its nop different in this one. Our technicians are out making sure that the services are up, performing well, particularly, brian, for our First Responder community. You heard Governor Cuomo, who i thought did a terrific job, talking about the needs of our medical professionals and the heroic work theyre doing. We are the provider of the First Responder network, first net. And we have built out a nationwide network under the purview of the federal government to ensure that all of these First Responders are connected. And in a time like this, of National Crisis, this network is being tested for its first time. And its actually performing quite well. And were doing everything we can. All of our resources are being marshaled towards ensuring that our First Responders are able to communicate and do their jobs effectively. What about the wireless and the broadband customers that have at t all across the United States. Is the internet infrastructure able to keep up with increased demand . Its interesting, when the United States business sends everybody home, it changes traffic patterns. And what were seeing is our mobile volumes are up 40 . Wifi calling volumes are up 100 . The network is performing quite well, to be quite honest with you. Its doing very well. But its an indication that as we have sent people home, theyre now no longer working in their offices, theyre working out of their homes, this infrastructure is allowing the communication to continue. That facetoface communication that once existed is now happening over mobile devices. Its happening over wifi. And the infrastructure is holding up quite well. Were seeing some signs of stress. Were having to go out and do some augmentation of networks, and so were sending our employees out to get that done, but right now, the network is performing quite well. And this is really an indication that the United States has led the world in investment in communication infrastructure. Not just us, tmobile, verizon, and this investment, billions upon billions of dollars of investment, were seeing it pay off at a time of National Crisis like this. I never thought my first time interviewing you on reliable sources would be with you at home. But everybody is at home and everybody is using these web cams to join and feel a little bit less lonely. I wonder if youve thought about how this is going to change our world after this pandemic. Is this going to be the new normal . Are we all going to be working from home . Have you thought about that . Weve thought about this a lot. And in fact, i think its going to cause every business to evaluate how they do business. Does this give us comfort and confidence that technology can actually prove to be a great enabler of communication and allowing people to do work from home, child care and work at the same time. I think when we come out of this, this is exactly what were going to see. And brian, this is one of the reasons why at at t, were doing everything in our power to shore up our Balance Sheet and make sure we continue investing through this process, because when we come out of this, and the United States will come out of this, we should come out with maintaining leadership in communications technology. This is a competitive advantage for our country for a long time. And we think we should come out of this crisis continuing to invest in 5g, new technologies, and leading the world. Theres so much fear about the state of the economy and the possibility of something as big as another great depression. What do you say to at t employees and other workers who are worried about losing their jobs . At t workers, what theyre telling them is, you take care of yourself, you take care of your family, you take care of each other. And if you need to stay home to take care of family, please do so. And were offering 160 hours of paid time leave. And well work to accommodate requirements that go beyond that. To our customers, brian, we have said, look, we understand how important communication is for getting through a time like this. And especially Small Businesses. And consumers and Small Businesses, we have said, we will waive data caps on your broadband, on your wireless, if youre a consumer or Small Business impacted by this, on wireless, even your data overcharges, we will not impose those data overage charges. If youre late, we will not impose a late payment fee. We will not cut off your services if these are issues that are a result of what were experiencing right now. So i think corporate america, were all going to need to step up to help our employees and to help our customers do everything we can to try to endure this. Just to make a painful period a little bit less painful. What do you make of the stimulus package that is being prepared on capitol hill right now as we speak. Right now the figure is 2 trillion. Is that a sufficient figure . Brian, i dont think were going to know. When the Business Roundtable, we all met virtually this week, and the president joined us. And the general comment of the Business Roundtable was, we need to be big, we need to be bold, we know everything is not going to be precisely targeted as it should, but we need to step up and help first the consumer, we need to help Small Business. Because Small Business this is going to be really traumatic and dramatic for Small Businesses. And so do whatever we can to help shore up our Small Businesses. And we are actually advocating helping some of the more stressed areas of business, the airlines and so forth, that are really critical for a functioning society, as we come out of this. So we think directionally, its in the right place. Its hard to say whether its exactly what needs to be done. But its big, its bold, and we think thats whats going to be required to keep the economy at some level of stability, particularly if we come out of this. And one more question for you, randall. Its been a couple of years since at t required cnn and the rest of what was known as time warner. This is the biggest story cnn has had to cover since youve been in charge of cnn and the rest of these brands. Whats it like for you to own a News Division . How are you approaching owning cnn in this period . You know, brian, a lot of the business leaders, and myself, particularly, were looking at this as a time of war. This is like world war ii. And Everybody Needs to step up and do their part, in terms of how we help the general population and the general public. And i see the press as vital in a time like this, in a time of war, to make sure that our people are informed, to make sure that our politicians have a means of communicating, to hold people accountable, people in power, whether it be ceos like me or politicians, to hold people accountable during these times, and getting information to the public. And i take my hat off to cnn. I think what were doing there is terrific work. And the journalists weve talked about the health care professionals, weve talked about the Communications People who are out risking themselves. Cnn journalists are doing the same thing. I think of you as First Responders, yourselves. Soy just thank everyone at cnn for what you are doing. Randall, thank you for coming on and thank you for what youre doing. Thank you, brian. So weve been talking about leadership. Thats the theme this hour. Youve got your internet connection, your broadband or wireless. What are you watching . What are you doing when youre at home. Lets turn to netflix now and the chief content officer of netflix, ted serandos is with me, hes responsible for all of the original programming on the platform. And there have been headlines this week about netflix slightly reducing the quality of the streaming service in europe, youtube is doing this as well, to make sure that the internet infrastructure holds up during this crisis. Is that something youre having to do in the United States as well . Good morning, brian. All of the video providers are working with the eu regulators to tune down the bit rate to take some of the stress off of the internet, to make sure its available for emergencies. And so we obviously are complying with that and were going to look to support that those requests around the world if there need be. As they come. And keep in mind, brian what has changed for netflix in the last couple of weeks. Sorry to cut you off. Whats that . I was going to say, the visual quality for the consumer will be barely noticeable that the rates were talking about in europe. Oh, i see. Okay. I know that netflix like other entertainment giants have halted production of practically everything. How is that affecting your company and your rivals . Well, i mean, its been a massive disruption. Every one of our productions around the world are shut down. I believe thats unprecedented in history. And we have a lot of folks who have found themselves suddenly and without notice to be out of work. So and were figuring out ways to keep productivity up, but in general, what were trying to do is make sure that people are taking care of their families and worrying about that first. And when we were forced to shut down those productions, the first thing we did was make sure that everybody on those sets, everybody on those crews knew they were being paid for the next two weeks, as if they were there. We sent all of our employees at home. So we have all of our employees at home, even in roles that are not necessarily conducive to doing that. So were trying to keep things business as usual as we can, in a time of great uncertainty for some people. Hope this brings them some economic comfort, if not emotional comfort. Right. And you think about what this would have been like 20 years ago, before we all had these screens at home. And we were all able to watch whatever we wanted at the same time. It makes us feel a little bit less isolated. But, i do wonder, you know, is netflix thinking about three months from now, six months from now, i know its a small question in the grand scheme of this crisis, but are you going to run out of new shows . Are you going to run out of content . Well, heres the whats happening now, remember, we work pretty far ahead. We deliver all of our shows with all episodes at once. So were pretty far ahead. So we dont see any disruption in our output over the next few months. You know, maybe later in the year, if this progresses long, youll start feeling some of that as the physical production is not operating. But the Creative Process has been remarkably adaptive and weve been able to do things like virtual writing rooms. One of our shows, big mouth torre day did their First Virtual table read. We had 40 actors and writers with netflix executives doing a table read of a new episode. People are being quite adaptive on getting geared up for a time when we do get back to work. Right. Right. And what about usage of netflix . Is there anything you can tell us about how many more people are streaming more often . Or is that something we dont know yet . Yeah, you can imagine, all viewing is up. Viewing is up on netflix, viewing is up on cnn, viewing is up on television. But in general, like i said, as randall said, the system has been very robust and can handle the volume of it. And but people certainly are watching a lot more netflix. And thats why were you know, this is what Governor Cuomo said so beautifully. The most important thing you can do stay home. So were proud to be part of that, which is trying to make that stayhome experience a little more bearable for folks, a little more enjoyable, even, and give some families something to gather around, something for people to talk about, making us feel a little less isolated while we are being physically isolated. Yeah, at least theres a feeling of empowerment, as if we can all help, just by staying home, you know, at least we can all feel like we can contribute somehow, even if its just by closing the doors. Thank you very much. Go ahead, please. Coming up, were turning from Business Executives to newsroom leaders, talking with three of the worlds top newspaper magazines and wire service editors about how they are rising to this challenge, how they are covering this crisis. Thats coming up in a moment. When cravings come on strong, be stronger. 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Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today were back on reliable sources at a special time. Every corner of this economy is being upended by the pandemic, including every corner of the Media Industry. Let me show you a few examples you might not have thought of so far. In the entertainment business, drivein Movie Theaters are seeing a sudden comeback. In the area where people are still being given the encouragement to go out of their homes, driveins are doing well, at the same time while most Movie Theater chains have closed. And most movie new releases have been postponed. In the sports arena, Networks Like espn have had to come up with new plans. Theyre showing pretty obscure sports and old games, while newspapers are cutting their sports sections for now. Local newspapers are going to be especially hard hit by all of this turmoil, because many papers are already struggling to get by, as axios says, this is a crisis, because advertisers are now slipping away. If the local car dealership is closed, its probably not going to advertise in the town paper. You can read this full story on cnn. Com, about the virus speeding up the death of local papers. And were already seeing that with weekly newspapers, because they rely heavily on a vent listing. Some of those have already shut down and laid off staff in just the past week. I wish i could turn to some positive news here and tell you why its all going to be okay, but we are, you know, were living through a tumultuous, frightening period. There are positive signs, though. Local tv stations are producing fantastic coverage of the crisis, but they are also feeling the pinch from advertisers. Subscription Business Models are sort of the solution, but when people lose their jobs, it is harder to pay for news websites or magazines or cable tv or netflix. Some media brands will not survive this downturn. Major networks are adding hours of special coverage, but if families cant pay for cable, those networks will eventually feel the pinch, too. Thats the sober picture of this business that tries to keep people informed about the world around them and about world war v, v for the virus. With me now is the editor in chief of the wall street journal, matt murray. The executive editor of the associated press, allie buzbee, and the editor in chief of the atlantic, jeffrey goldberg. All three outlets doing very important work in this moment in time. Thank you all for joining me from your homes or offices here. Sallie, you have thousands of employees around the world. How are you keeping them as safe as can be while covering this crisis . Thats really the trick, no question. So our journalists are obviously very in variance. This is obviously a new type of crisis, but many of them are battle hardened. So weve been talking a lot about how to go out and cover the story, but not endanger other people and not endanger themselves, as they do that. So protective gear, in some cases. Were rethinking, basically, everything we do. But i think our news report has been enormously strong, very factbased and explanatory. And so far, were pretty happy with the way weve been able to help News Organizations across the entire world get the news and the information they need to distribute to their audiences and their readers and their viewer viewers to stay on top of this. There have been so many cases of the virus being found at newsrooms. Staffers at cbs and cnn and pretty much every other major outlet have been affected. So matt, murray, youre at the wall street journal, you share a building with fox news and fox business. We know four Fox News Media employees who have tested positive. How are you trying to keep your staff safe at the journal . I would echo what sally said. We did a number of workfromhome drills before that. So we started to anticipate what was going to be needed there. We had through travels and different exposures, weve already had Something Like 200 employees in the newsroom who have had selfquarantine. Now, we did have our first case the other day. And weve been in close touch with the people who work with the individual, and weve got pretty careful protocols in place. And i think well have more, but broadly similar to what sally said. Weve got people at home, weve got a pretty careful protocol, weve got pretty careful information. Were not sending anybody out that dont want to go, were giving them predictive cover and making sure everybody is informed. And prioritizing the safety of the folks and their families before reporting if they feel uncomfortable. It feels like every day, every hour, there are ten stories that could be the top, top story at that moment. What is number one to you right now . Number one to us, at the atlantic, is i think the testing story. We were very, very early on the test historic, the lack of kits, lack of organization. Our reporters have been great on the cdc angle. And we just posted a brilliant reconstruction of, i guess you could call it, sort of the two lost months of this or the month and a half, where things could have happened that didnt. So thats an enormous story for us. Were approaching it from all angles. We have a very, very strong science team, and a very Strong Health team. So were trying to give readers as much information, as much context as possible, because i think thats incredibly important right now. That just information without context, without science, background without really close adherence to facts, i think that could be dangerous. So were really trying hard. Its like, dont believe the random people you see on social media. If theyre telling you its going to be the end of the world, or if theyre telling you its all going to be okay. Try to find established scientific voices and trust them instead. Jeffrey, do you think were fully conveying the scope of this story . Meanin meaning, is this a onceinageneration event like a vietnam . I dont know if its coming through quite enough. It feels that way. People have that feeling that this is something thats truly different. 9 11 is a touchpoint, but theres really nothing to compare this to, in our lifetimes, our collective lifetimes. And i think its one of the things that were focusing on here at the atlantic. Obviously, as a daily, hourly, updated website and also a venerable print magazine with log deadlines, we have to figure out ways and were trying that right now, just to figure out what we need to tell people in two, three, four, five, six months about what this all means. And weve been trying to go at two speeds at once. The hyperspeed of getting information out as fast as possible. But also trying to contextualize this and finding the writers and ways to say this, because this is something that i dont think we have any reference points for. No, we really dont. Thats partly why its so anxietyproducing. And sally, ive seen news say that the ap is viewing this as the olympics of explanatory journalism. Why is that . Tell me more . I think its exactly what jeffrey just said. There is facts alone, which are incredibly important and obviously the key part of this. We also need the context around them. We need our health and science specialists, and thankfully we have a very strong team, to be really engaged never aspect of the coverage. I mean, the usage is off the charts. As you know, we provide news to News Organizations all across the globe. And i think its fair to say that every News Organization across the globe is focusing on this story, almost to the seclusion right now of all others. So we are trying to make sure that we are providing both facts, very quickly, but also wrapping that into looking at the effect of the economy, looking at just how people are living their lives. There are so many ripples to this story. And i think its just critically important to stay on top of those and to provide that context. Its really i mean, what if we get a second wave that then goes back into other parts of the world again . We need to stay on top of this. And we are sort of viewing it as a marathon. Were also very much viewing it as, this is the moment for explanatory journalism. People are actually turning to the media for information, which is a wonderful thing for our industry, and all of our journalists are rising to the occasion in a way that is just really extraordinary and inspiring in many ways. It is, it is. Matt, i wonder, you know, youre more of our business journalist here. You have the wall street journal there. What are the Business Impacts for the media business, for local newspapers . Am i right that were going to see a very, very difficult situation for some of these local papers . Yes, look, i think that you are going to see some of the trends that were already affecting the Media Industry just accelerate, brian. Advertising is taking a pounding. Not really clear when or how its going to come back, but everybody is rethinking spending right now. Even the cost of putting out print papers, many of the local papers already have been bought now by hedge funds and theres a consolidation wave going on. Finding a Business Model for the other side of that does seem a challenge, even with the Silver Lining, as sally just note, that people are turning to news sources and trusted news sources ro right now in search of information. If i could add one thing to also that discussion of sally and jeffrey there. Whats striking for our discussion, this is a business and market story on top of the health story and a politics story and a national story. At the journal where everybody has risen to an extraordinary degree, its literally Touching Every beat, every job, and people are responding in really incredible ways. Even features coverage, and how do you write about entertainment and features for a different world, and thats a galvanizing effect. And theres a lot of adrenaline going right now in journalism. And there is a Silver Lining to that. And it would be nice if people really felt a turn here in the need for quality journalism and trusted facts. One of the things that i would add that is funny at this point in time, theres a lot of information, but part of the anxiety is that were at that peak moment where theres a lot we dont know. We dont know how bad it will get, how long it will last, whether the economy will come back, we dont even quite know yet what all the stimulus measures are going to be. Part of what journalism can be doing right now is getting the best information on all of those facts and staying on them to help people get the information through the situation. And thats really important right now. And i think people are respond to that. I think so, too. I hope so. Matt, jeffrey, sally, thank you very much. Thank you for all youre doing. After the break here on reliable sources, weve seen some fox news hosts do uturns in the way they are recovering this crisis. Ill be joined by an exfox host who says its been worse than malpractice. Hear her comments, next. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from anyone else. So why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. 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If youre watching this right now, you know someone whos either out of work or about to be out of work. We all know people who are at risk of losing their livelihoods right now and seeing their businesses go under. They are worried about paying their rent, they are worried about keeping the power and the electricity on. The senate, the house have got to Pay Attention to those americans. Those suffering americans, and not, and not to screw around the way they usually do. Im sorry, but i am worried about my family members and im worried about the viewers who are emailing me right now. Were also worried about the people we all know who are in hospitals, who are sick at home, wondering if theyll be in hospitals soon. So in this moment, come on. Come on. Get it done. Look, we are all getting through this together, were all turning to television, digital media, forms of media to find out what is going on. We also have to talk about how fox news has covered this story. How rightwing media outlet have said covering the coronavirus crisis, because there has been an incredible uturn in the past couple of weeks of fox news channels coverage of the virus, especially the primetime shows, sean hannitys, laura ingraham, jeneane pirros on the weekend. The way they talked about this emergency a few weeks ago versus today is remarkable. And the Washington Post created a video to try to show you what i mean. Theyve created some incredible super cut videos to show you what pirro and others were saying a week or two ago versus today. Let me just show you a clip of it. All the talk about coronavirus being so much more deadly doesnt reflect reality. Without a vaccine, the flu would be far more deadly. We are facing an incredibly contagious and dangerous virus that is moving across the world from one hot spot to another. Oh, lets bludgeon trump with this new hoax. This program has always taken the coronavirus seriously and have never called the virus a hoax. Then versus now. Then versus now. Look at the polling here. Pew found that republicans were far more likely to say that the media has been exaggerating the risks of this outbreak versus the democrats. Republicans far more likely to say its being exaggerated. You can draw a Straight Line from the comments of the hannities of the world right to that finding it. Lets talk about it with former knox news contributor, that makes all the difference, former fox news contributor, julie roginsky, and with me is max boot, a columnist for the Washington Post and a cnn Global Affairs analyst. Julia, i saw you on twitter saying how fox has handled this has been worse than malpractice. Who specifically and why . For all the reasons you just mentioned and not the reasons you mentioned earlier, but even as early as yesterday, you had bret baier, a respected analyst at fox news and brett hume tweeting out something written by a former romney staffer, who effectively was saying that this is a little overblown, its not a big deal. We shouldnt look at this as something thats overblown and that becomes very problematic, because the fox news viewer ssh is over 50 years old. Theyre much more susceptible than the average person as a result of their age. And theyre doing a disservice to their own viewers. Thats the biggest problem at all in this quest to protect the president and in this quest to make it look like the president is doing everything around. But theyve turned it around. Theyve brought on doctors and experts. Is it too little, too late . Its never too late, but theyre not turning it around. When you have somebody like bret baier and brit hume and others tweeting out effectively theories from someone whos unqualified to give them, someone whos not an epidemiologist or not a medical professional and saying, hey, look, we may be making this overblown, this may not be a big deal, and then this takes off like a wildfire, to the point where medium had to take down this thing they were tweeting out, because it was giving out such poor information, they continue to put people at risk. Why not just listen to dr. Fauci and to other epidemiologists. Stop spinning this as a political attack on the president. Stop trying to downplay this. This is not a joke. Ive heard from people on social media, former fox viewers who are still in touch with me, who for months have said that this is no big deal, this is a democratic hoax to try to take down the president. And instead of saying, look, we have to do the right thing by our own audience, our vulnerableaged audience, they continue to equivocate and say, maybe this is a big deal, but maybe not as big a deal as other people have said, maybe its just political. Thats not right. Thats not right for their own audience. They need to stop. I have one friend in the icu, three other friends that are sick with this illness. I think we all have that. Increasingly, Everybody Knows somebody who is personally affected by this invisible demon. Max booth, theres a lot of blame to go around about what happened in january and february, lack of testing, lack of preparation. How do you apportion the blame . Well, i think, certainly, President Trump bears a huge share of blame here, brian. Obviously, he didnt create the virus. We would have had a virus no matter who was in office. But leadership really matters at a time like this. Countries like singapore and south korea who have gotten a handle on the coronavirus situation and were now seeing reporting that President Trump ignored at least two months of intelligence warnings, telling him that this was going to be a crisis [ inaudible ] but its not just trump. I think his enablers in the media also bear a huge portion of the blame, and fox news was extremely pollyannish in their coverage of this for months, as were discussing now. They were basically suggesting this was a quote unquote hoax, designed by democrats to make President Trump look bad. And for years, fox news has been putting our democracy at risk with their misinformation, propaganda, and lies. Now they have gone beyond that. They are putting our lives at risk. Theyre putting the lives of their own viewers at risk. I have never seen anything this irresponsible done by any American Media organ in the past. Its just a disgrace and really a threat to our public safety, but clearly, fox here is guided by not what is true, not what is in the national interests, but what is in President Trumps political interests, and its all about protecting political trump. So while President Trump was in denial about this virus, fox news was, as well. And now in the last week or so, President Trump is willing to admit that we are facing a real problem, so fox is willing to admit that, as well. But their role, i think, has been really dangerous and disgraceful here. The best way to help the president is to help him hard truths, to make sure hes not caught flatfooted in a crisis. Ill just leave it at that. Julia and max, thank you both very much. Lets take a break here and bring back Carl Bernstein and dan rather, i want to ask them about the president s handling of this and whats been going on in the press briefing room. Carl and dan in a moment. Its a situp, banana bend at the waist im tryin keep it up. 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He said the governor and a small group of certain other governors together with fake news cnn and concast, hes making fun of msnbc there, should not be blaming the federal government for their own shortcomings. We are there to back you up should you fail and always will be. Is that reassuring to anybody . Lets bring back Carl Bernstein and dan rather. We were talking last hour about president ial leadership and what weve seen from governors versus the president. Dan rather, your reaction to the president s latest attack against the media at a moment of National Emergency . Deep disappointment and recognizing its absolutely disgraceful what hes doing. Hes continuing to try to divide the country at the very moment where we need to pull together. This is unacceptable, and i think most americans recognize it as such. [ inaudible ] i think we might be having a little hard time with dans connection. Well try to get his connection back. Look, were having everybody from home today for their safety and for our safety. And were going to be seeing this on television for weeks and months to come. You saw Anderson Cooper at home the other day out of an abundance of caution, et cetera. Lets see if we can get carl back. Lets see if carls signal is working. Weve seen these radio press briefings every day. The president coming out and using these as a new kind of rally. There have been some calls for the press to stop broadcasting the daily briefings. What say you . I think we need to broadcast them. Hes the president of the United States. He deserves to be heard and we need to say when hes lying and he is a compulsive liar. Much of what he says is untrue. He is still conducting a war against the truth instead of focusing totally on a war against a deadly blag. People in this country will respond to real leadership from this president if he provides it. And that includes the press responding. What the president is so exorcised about is that the reporting has correctly shown for twoandahalf months, he doddleed, he filleded while rome burned, and i heard two weeks ago from people on the white house staff that the president s family, his friends, the nsc bureaucracy, his chief deputies in the white house were desperately trying to get him to understand this is not a hoax. This is a huge danger to the people of the world and the United States. And it has been a real struggle to get him to recognize that, as one person said to me, and im looking down to read it, he hasnt grasped the whole thing. We may be getting closer to it now. A lot of people were trying to get to him, to shake him up, including in his family. That was two weeks ago but now, he obviously gets it. He is he sees what a danger this is, and at the same time, he seems unable to help he cant help himself from going after the press. And the real story, the Great Stories that have been done in the past week by the Washington Post and the wall street journal, which did three stories, all showing the lack of command that this president has and the facts of what he needs to know, he has not led with a competent response yet. But there is still time to catch up. And thats what he needs to do. He needs to leave this country, not to be conducting a war against the truth. Yeah, lead or get out of the way. Dan, last word to you. I have about a minute left. Last word to you about how Television Anchors and other media leaders should be handling this moment. Well, first of all, to do our job, which is to get the facts, report as many of the facts as possible, connect the facts, and i want to say, until and unless he proves differently, to pay far less attention to President Trump. I really regret having just said that, but hes not going to come to anybodys rescue. And the faster we realize that, the better off well be. 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