As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't support free speech.

I'm not at liberty to say which.

Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS.

Fortunately, for all of us, there is an international community of filmmakers dedicated

to telling the truth, oftentimes at great risk to make films that teach us, that call out

injustice, that aspire us to take action.

And there are also documentaries where you walk around

the White House trying on shoes. Hi again, everybody. This is 5 o'clock in New York. I'll show you

what happened next in a minute because it's also part of this conversation. One of an aspiring

autocrat, increasingly unpopular with the American people, celebrities and otherwise, the war he started in the frightening lengths to which Donald Trump appears ready to go to control what people know and to define what is truth.

Over the weekend, not long after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used time during a war briefing to attack a cable news channel for its coverage of the war,

Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, made a threat that the federal government will revoke the licenses of major broadcasters over what they see as negative coverage of the war.

I'll read it to you, quote, broadcasters must operate in the public interest and they will lose their licenses if they

do not end quote. Not leaving a lot of room for ambiguity there. And then yesterday, in the

course of accusing the news media of using an AI video to report fake news, Donald Trump suggested

news outlets could be charged with treason,

a crime that is sometimes punishable by death. He also accused news outlets of, in so many words,

wanting the United States of America to lose the war with Iran. Politico describes it like this,

as they quote, "...pestuous 20-minute briefing on Air Force One where Trump raged at reporters and mainstream

outlets alike.

Media organizations making false claims about the war were pretty criminal.

ABC News was, quote, maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet, end quote.

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