Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Moll.

He's ready to break it up.

He's not my job.

Bob Woodward and Cady Kay, a question for you, to how important is it for the press to

ban together when reporters like Jim Acosta are attacked by the administration?

It is.

We've got reporters this week who have worked in China and Uzbekistan who are giving advice

to reporters working in America.

That tells you something about the world we're in, right?

Where they are having a say, this is how you handle this sort of situation where press freedom is getting eroded.

And the one piece of advice from the reporter in China was the aim of the government will be to try to divide you.

Because if they can divide the press call, then they can play one off against each other and they weaken them.

But I think that we're taking the bait in the press.

And Trump is just throwing it out on that table and saying, you know, you're the enemy of the people.

And then we get all steamy and emotionally unhinged about it.

Now the way to work together is when the New York Times or the BBC have a great story for the Washington Post to follow it and dig

and get specifics and make the case for the truth.

And that means lots of work.

And let's face it, we've become lazy.

And we have to stop becoming lazy.

Yeah.

And both of them voted in the Washington Post following the Times rather than the other way around.

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