The day after the presidential election, the nonprofit committee to protect journalists issued a statement warning of a potentially hostile climate for press freedom under a second Trump term.

It read in part legal persecution, imprisonment, physical violence, and even killings have sadly become familiar threats for journalists across the world.

They must not now also become commonplace

in the United States, where threats of violence and online harassment have in recent years become

routine. That's as advocates are urging Senate lawmakers to pass a bipartisan bill that would

protect journalists from government spying and other interference.

Jody Ginsburg is the CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists and joins us now. Thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me. So your organization and others have raised concerns about what Trump's

second term could mean for press freedoms. What are your specific worries and what have you seen already that

gives you pause? I think we need to think about two things specifically about a new Trump administration.

The first is around legal threats and the second is around regulation. There are many others

that we can talk about, but those are the ones I think we really need to be alive to in the second administration.

Already in the days leading up to the election, Trump issued a host of legal threats

against organizations like the New York Times, CBS and others.

We might expect that, to see more of that in the new Trump administration.

Personal legal cases, he's suing, I think, the New York Times and CBS for $10 billion each.

Personal legal threats, but also potentially challenges to pieces of legislation that have

for decades protected the press against vexatious

lawsuits like the Supreme Court case Sullivan versus New York Times, which allows the press to

publish public interest information and be protected from being sued for defamation.

I want to ask you about a more recent piece of legislation. This is the Press Act, which is designed to protect journalists from being surveilled by

federal law enforcement, and it would limit the government's ability to make journalists disclose

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