Trump's Never-Ending Attack on the Press

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Donald Trump continues to lash out at the press and its coverage of his second term. The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter and confiscated her devices. Authorities say it was part of an investigation into classified documents, but federal regulations to preserve press freedom and protect sources traditionally prevent such invasive action. Former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron joins the show to discuss. Also on today's show: Mahmood Mamdani, father of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani; National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. What he means by a free press is free to say only what he wants it to say.
0:43.3	He says he's bringing free speech back to America, but one year into Trump 2.0, few presidents
0:49.4	have done as much to degrade civil liberties and muzzle the free press. Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Barron joins me to discuss how American journalism can survive.
1:01.0	Then...
1:02.0	Once he comes into power, he begins to understand that he needs violence to stay in power.
1:09.0	And he becomes what he fought against.
1:12.4	How Uganda's post-colonial past is shaping its present.
1:16.6	My conversation with Columbia University Professor Mahmoud Mamdani,
1:20.5	father of the New York mayor,
1:22.3	about his new book, Slow Poison,
1:25.0	and his own experience of exile.
1:27.4	Plus, I'm using my body to report, so I'm moving through the big stories of our day,
1:31.3	you know, whatever there are politics, economics, culture, war, environment, at a walking pace.
1:38.3	Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek tells Harry Srinivasan
1:42.3	what he's learned about happiness and humanity
1:45.5	on his epic walk over 13 years reporting the globe. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. One year ago, in his second inaugural
2:13.3	address, President Trump vowed to bring, quote, a tide of change to America. Today, few can deny that he has.
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