Hi, it's Diane. On my mind, the threat to press freedom in the United States.

Donald Trump's love-hate relationship with the news media was on full display during his first term.

He screened fake news at negative coverage and labeled journalists the enemy of the people.

But lately, he's taken his campaign beyond the Court of Public Opinion,

filing lawsuits against ABC, CBS, the Des Moines Register,

and the Pulitzer Board. People and institutions are going to act rationally, and they are just

going to shy away from covering things where there's a legal risk, and that is very much against

the spirit of the First Amendment.

David Enrich is the business investigations editor for the New York Times.

He says Trump's legal actions are part of a broader right-wing movement

to undermine First Amendment protections. It's being led by politicians,

billionaires, and corporations, and may soon make its way to the Supreme Court. He tells the

story in a new book, Murder the Truth.

David, tell me about the roots of this book and what got you interested in this whole subject.

Well, I run a small group of investigative reporters at the New York Times,

and I started noticing a few years ago that it seemed like basically every time we were starting to look into a powerful person or institution, we were just on the receiving end of a lot of threatening letters from high-price lawyers representing these clients who did not want us to be

writing about them or digging into their affairs. And, you know, we've got at the New York Times

a very good team of in-house lawyers, and we have a lot of experience dealing with letters like

this. So it's not a huge problem for us. But these threats in these letters were just so frequent

and the volume seemed to be increasing so much

that it got me wondering what life would be like

if I didn't work at the New York Times.

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