Bolton: Notion that Press Has Special Status Is Ridiculous

Trump ‘is not threatening them with any repressive measures’

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BOLTON: "I thought that tweet was one of the most foolish things I've seen from the media in a long time. And it's -- you know, that's pretty, pretty low bar there. The media is not entitled to worship. It's not entitled to respect as an institution. It is not entitled to deference by political leaders, it's entitled under the First Amendment to say what it wants to say."
SMITH: "Preach it."
BOLTON: "That's it."
SMITH: "Preach."
BOLTON: "That's it. And you know, the notion that the press is somehow specially protected by the First Amendment and the institutional press, than mainstream newspapers and TV networks, that they have a special status is ridiculous." 

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