previously unintercepted.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much money in the world.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much.

My stomach fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Two quarter-pounders with cheese, extra ketchup, bacon, no pickles, and fries.

Super size me.

And then I remember to relax and stop trying to hold onto it.

And then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

You have no idea what I'm talking about. I'm sure. I mean, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

But don't worry. You will. Believe me.

This is intercepted.

I'm Jeremy Skayhill coming to you from the offices of the Intercept in New York City. And this is episode 37 of Intercepted.

Donald Trump is an enemy of the free press. His attacks on journalists and journalism wreak of authoritarianism. His use of the term fake news is lifted directly from Joseph Gabel's playbook.

He knows what he's doing and it's insidious. There are three specific incidents that I believe should be caused for grave concern by anyone in this country who believes that we must have an independent and a free press.

First, Donald Trump recently went on a Twitter rampage against big corporate media outlets, specifically CNN and NBC.

Now, I have no great love for either of these outlets. Both of these institutions have used the airwaves to promote US government propaganda.

They have retired US military generals and admirals and CIA operatives on their payrolls as independent analysts and they never disclose the conflicts of interest that some of these so-called experts have who profit from the very wars and conflicts that they're supposedly giving their independent views.

I've always been clear about this and I've criticized both networks repeatedly, including on their own airwaves.

I also think that CNN and MSNBC and Fox are engaging in the terrorism, expert, industrial complex.

There has been no serious hard-hitting critique of the president's foreign policy from the issues that actually are real, or that this thing would talk about this.

CNN needs to immediately withdraw all retired generals and colonels from its airwaves. For Eid Zakaria, if that guy could have sex with this cruise missile attack, I think he would do it.

I also went after Chuck Todd, perhaps the most prominent figure at NBC News right now. He's the host of Meet the Press, for his demeaning of people that were calling for CIA torturers to be held accountable when Barack Obama was first elected president.

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