Hello, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room. What a week or so we have had with the presidential campaign, the never-ending legal travail of Donald Trump, and the

press covering both. And I think the press is due for some really strong criticism.

They continue to treat this race like it's just another campaign. We had the winners and losers of the debate.

We had people speculating, gosh, maybe one of the candidates will go up a point or two in

the polls after the race.

This is inappropriate coverage, if you will, for a time in which what we are facing is a contest between fascism

and democracy. One party behaving like a normal political party and the other lining up behind a guy

that's for all intents of purposes a right-wing strong man. I don't mean that he's strong. I mean that he's in the mode of

the Mussolini's, the Berluscones, those types of figures who traffic in propaganda,

who traffic in abuse of women, who defy the rule of law, and who use violence instrumentally.

And the press continues to ignore that.

And what happens when they do that?

They domesticate the Republican Party and Trump.

They make him seem more acceptable, more normal.

And that's what they should not be doing. That may give them a false sense that

they are above at all, that they're not taking sides, that they are neutral. But in fact,

that's not educating the American people because they are giving the Republican Party and Trump

specifically cover, if you will, to behave in totally inappropriate

ways. And so when we get Trump's legal schedule, the story should not be, gosh, the campaign's

calendar is going to get really messed up this year. It should be, my God, an entire political party

has lined up behind a guy who has innumerable pending litigation, both criminal and civil,

and who is accused of overthrowing the government. And yet the Republican Party is still behind

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