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One of the core elements that keeps us a democratic and free people. anderson, you and i have compared notes about our time in sarajevo together in the 1990s where christiane was reporting. and you and i agree that the veneer of civilization is quite thin. so these blessings under which we live are not guaranteed to us. they have to be nurtured. and so i read that tweet from the president. it was an assault on truth, on the free press, on the first amendment, and frankly, these institutions, these beliefs are fragile. and i just felt, i had to say something to kind of make the point that that ...

Frightened, jake. i wanted to speak out and remind our countrymen this isn't normal. this is contrary to who we are as a people. >> and general, i do want to note that since that attack on cnn international on saturday, we have seen the libyan media dismissing a very, very real cnn report which exposed the slave trade in that country. libyan media saying, well, president trump calls it fake so maybe this isn't real. we've seen the egyptian government decry cnn international coverage of the mosque bombing as deplorable. what does that say to you? >> well, what it says to me is that the presiden...

Fragile. and i just felt, i had to say something to kind of make the point that that tweet isn't normal. it isn't something about which we should become accustomed. >> i mean, beyond the issue just of freedom of the press, there is the very real possibility that the president of the united states is putting american citizens who are reporting in foreign countries in danger. this isn't the president -- i mean, the president should, i would assume, be protected the citizens of this country. shouldn't that be at the front of his mind at all timestimes? >> absolutely. and i think you're right, the...

Who actually came up with this strategy and who put it. there's a lot of things he will know including these national security wiretaps and the information that's been developed by the national security agencies over the last year and a half. >> yeah. always appreciate your expertise coming to us from new york. straight ahead, more on the surprising gop investigations in the obama administration. what does the record show? and on this extraordinary day in washington, republican senators saying this isn't normal and calling trump a liar. more on what it means ahead. and later, this is one i'm e...

Situation is for americans. if he thinks that the health care system isn't normal. those start to be different things. >> you're going to be up late. get a nap. cubs and nationals, game five. >> all the marbles. thanks much. president trump making a false claim about the national debt. >> the country, we took it over and owed $20 trillion. they borrowed more than it did in the last eight years than the history of our country. and yet we picked up $5.2 trillion just in the stock market. possibly picked up the whole thing in terms of the first nine months in terms of value. so you can say in o...