Stand up, stand up. You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to this special edition of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, I'm Steve Scrovan.

In this series, Ralph and constitutional scholar Bruce Fine will lay out articles in the

impeachment of President Donald J Trump.

Now, 9, Freedom of the Press.

Now let's get to how Donald Trump has violated the freedom of speech.

Well, we know that he's the one who's presided over the new more expanded indictment of

Julian Assange, whether there's a trial or not still dependent on extradition proceedings in Britain, but he's

certainly he's tried to utilize his position to punish those in the press

pool, the White House press pool, say things critical of him and he's openly said well we need to change the

libel laws really to cut back on what the Supreme Court has said in famous case called New York Times

in Sullivan grants the press some breathing room in publishing stories that may be inaccurate, but are not knowingly inaccurate and expose them to heavy libel judgments.

And I'd say that the other element that comes into play and it's more I would say

indirect is by basically labeling the press as the enemy.

He has encouraged, if not violence,

he is encouraged disrespect for the media

and tried to cast dispersion on what is an essential element of any democracy of

journalism by suggesting they're not patriotic.

Would you include incitement at rallies?

Well, and he's incited violence at rallies.

I don't know where it's only against the journalist,

it's any of his critics.

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