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0:00 - 0:02Why was the press so much
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0:02 - 0:03more robust in the 1970s
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0:03 - 0:05than the prestige press
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0:05 - 0:08seems to be in the 2020s?
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0:08 - 0:08Well,
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0:08 - 0:08I don't know
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0:08 - 0:09if it was more robust,
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0:09 - 0:10certainly in the case
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0:10 - 0:11of The Washington Post,
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0:11 - 0:12that they resisted,
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0:12 - 0:13and I wish
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0:13 - 0:15the justices would do the same.
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0:15 - 0:15As I said,
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0:15 - 0:16I think the news department
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0:16 - 0:17continues
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0:17 - 0:18to operate independently,
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0:18 - 0:19and it's doing a great job,
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0:19 - 0:21admirable job of investigating
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0:21 - 0:22what's happening
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0:22 - 0:23in this administration.
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0:23 - 0:25And yet he has sought to repair
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0:25 - 0:26his relationship
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0:26 - 0:28with Trump,
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0:28 - 0:29by doing all sorts of things.
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0:29 - 0:32The first one being: the killing
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0:32 - 0:33an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
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0:33 - 0:34And then, of course,
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0:34 - 0:36donating to the inauguration
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0:36 - 0:38and appearing at the inauguration;
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0:38 - 0:41agreeing to a contract,
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0:41 - 0:42Amazon agreeing to a contract
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0:42 - 0:44to buy the rights to
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0:44 - 0:45Melania Trump,
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0:45 - 0:47a documentary about her own life,
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0:47 - 0:48for an extraordinary sum of money.
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0:48 - 0:49And then Amazon
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0:49 - 0:51agreeing to buy the rights,
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0:51 - 0:53to The Apprentice.
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0:53 - 0:54I think what's different
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0:54 - 0:55now is, well,
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0:55 - 0:56you don't have a Congress
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0:56 - 0:57that's doing its job.
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0:57 - 0:58I mean, at the time of Watergate,
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0:58 - 1:00you actually had some confidence
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1:00 - 1:02that the other pillars
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1:02 - 1:03of government
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1:03 - 1:04would stand
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1:04 - 1:06up, would hold up.
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1:06 - 1:08And in the case of Watergate,
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1:08 - 1:09you had a Congress
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1:09 - 1:10that conducted an investigation
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1:10 - 1:12that obtained internal tapes,
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1:12 - 1:13and that made
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1:13 - 1:14all the difference in the world.
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1:14 - 1:15And now you have a president
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1:15 - 1:16who has control
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1:16 - 1:17of both houses of Congress,
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1:17 - 1:18and you have a Congress,
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1:18 - 1:19the Republican Party,
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1:19 - 1:21that is a completely servile.
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