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Flake aimed at president trump. >> the president has it precisely backward. despotism is the enemy of the people. a free press is the despot's enemy. which makes the free press the guardian of democracy. when a figure in power reflectively calls any press that doesn't suit him fake news, it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press. >> after the break, i'll be joined by someone would said what he believes to be the president president's poisonous reach is far beyond the press and dismantling our government and everything we stand for. david k. johnson wrote the book o...

Color? >> kimberly: we are not sure what to expect but something is planned and we are going to give an eye on. some members of the president's own party are taking him to task for attacks on the press. john mccain wrote an op op-ed d jeff flake offer this. >> the enemy of the people was how the president of the united states called the free press in 2017. mr. president , it is a testamt to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. when a figure in power reflectively calls any press that doesn't suit him "fake n...

Press the guardian of democracy. when a figure in power reflectively calls any press that doesn't suit him fake news, it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press. no longer can we compound attacks -- the attacks on truth with our silent acquiescence. no longer can we turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to those assaults on our institutions. and, mr. president, an american president who cannot take criticism, who must constantly deflect and distort and distract, who must find someone else to blame, is charting a very dangerous path. and a congress that fails to act as a ch...