do you, as the head of the correspondents group, object to that sort of language from the president? of course. the association supports the first amendment, supports the right of white house correspondents to do their job and certainly would not describe our, you know, top members or any of our members, be it tv networks or newspapers or newspapers and television networks that are less prominent than the ones you just mentioned. all of them are members of our association who spend the day when they come to the white house reporting on the news, reporting on the story of the trump administration. the media is a key and integral part of u.s. democracy. that is the purpose that we serve, and we willen continue to do that. we will continue to do that regardless of the rhetoric from the president of the united states. right. but on this battle about the off-camera briefings, what cards do you have to play? a couple of organizations, ap and time, boycotted. might you encourage other
so a very confusing sichx. they re pointing fingers in various directions. we ll have to see if we get the same sort of reaction from other people who aren t demonstrating against the regime against foreign journalists or foreign news channels. the sort of things we saw last week where basically mobs went after foreign journalists, accusing them of being israeli spies, american spies, people working for hamas, hezbollah and iran. it s a very volatile situation, wolf. i m very worried about that. mohamed elbaradei, how worried should we be, you re in cairo now, when we here suleiman, for all practical purposes the he says the acting president of egypt. when we hear mubarak say there s foreign intervention and the sat hit tv networks are instigating and conspireing to create all these problems to make egypt look bad, how worried should we be that on friday, and it s already friday in cairo how