Transcript (en)

Mr. Ambassador, you are a decorated veteran. You served in an elite unit, the Green Berets, for 27 years, defending freedoms like the First Amendment. And the president you work for just banned three news organizations, and he said it's because he doesn't like some of the things that are being reported. Dana, the prior administration limited all kinds of journalistic outfits and journalists themselves that they deemed as right-wing. Those have now been allowed onto the facility, and the president doesn't believe others are acting in good faith. Heck, I just saw one yesterday use anonymous sources referencing someone who's dead. And so, you know, I think, I would hope that the media would take a good introspective look at itself and its practices, because it throws things out there and then puts a little baby correction that nobody pays attention to, and it sticks to people like Napalm And so it is incredibly frustrating I can tell you as someone who serving in the public space But meanwhile again the Supreme Court has been very clear in multiple cases going back to the 60s, there is a different in your right to speak, different in your right to publish than having access to any government facility that you want. Yeah. Well, I mean, there are laws, and we are going to see what the courts say. And then there are norms. And then there is, again, what you have fought for. And we thank you for that service, for these freedoms. And it's kind of a loss for words, especially when the president says he just doesn't want negative reporting. It's critical reporting. It is intended to get facts. uh there's a big difference i'm sorry in negative reporting and garbage uh gossip journalism uh that repeat that will sit on one anonymous source okay well i just put it out in the ecosphere okay and it's been repeated by other journalists as fact i refer you back to the first 10 minutes of this conversation and this interview where we were talking about very substantive issues