All right, welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. The president there starting to be asked some of the same questions twice, because he's just open to so many questions there in the Oval Office, taking questions, making some news. Our lead tonight is on one of the things he said just then, indicating a president quite determined to rid from the

airwaves criticism and mockery and speech and speakers he does not care for. He's no longer only

targeting comedians that he doesn't like. Now he is coming for network newscasts. He said it on his

way back from London on Air Force

1 and he repeated it just now in the Oval Office. The newscasts are against me. The stories are

90, they said 97 percent bad. So they gave me 97. They'll take a great story and they'll make it bad.

See, I think that's really illegal personally.

When somebody is given 97% of the stories are bad about a person,

that's no longer free speech, that's no longer, that's just cheating.

So he called network newscasts illegal. free speech that's no longer, that's just cheating.

So he called network newscasts illegal, and it's not free speech, and it's cheating.

And this is in addition to what he said on Air Force One yesterday.

I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me. I got 97% negative.

And yet I won it easily.

I won all seven spring states popular, I won everything.

And then 97% against, they give me only bad publicity or press.

I mean, they're getting a license.

I would think maybe their license should be taken away.

The president there is saying about TV news networks because he doesn't like what they report.

Maybe their license should be taken away.

Now, we should note, first, that this 97% figure is wrong. It's actually 92%. And that figure comes from a non-scientific,

frankly, non-credible analysis done by a far-right pro-Trump group looking at the NBC, CBS, and ABC Evening News broadcast.

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