there reporting the stories to us. and this guy wants to mock them, this guy who never served in the military, never got to the battlefield, wants to mock cnn. he doesn't understand what he's doing when he tells autocratic fascist regimes to crack down on cnn international. he does not have a sense. it is like a 12-year-old school boy talking crap in the schoolyard. it is a disgrace to us. >> the danger really comes because we know that journalists abroad are under actual physical danger, unlike in the united states. and so to suggest that the kremlin should be perhaps cracking down on american journalists is really -- could be potentially extremely dangerous. >> that's the broader context when you see the president tweeting about any anger, especially international -- >> to david's point, i think it is letting trump off the hook to say he doesn't know what he's doing here or that he's not, you know, well informed enough to