Alex Wagner

Can't knock the hustle.

Thank you, my friend.

That means a lot coming from you.

You know, I mean, we're going to get to all that, actually.

I'm thrilled to – I'm excited to talk about our new tomorrows, our new realities, these great adventures we find ourselves in.

Yours involving more court time, I would say, than mine, but I look forward to the day when I am unjustly charged with something.

We're going to get to that in a minute.

I mean, I will say, just big picture, Don, like in these – you know, in the normal times, the full frontal assault on the press –

The authoritarianism that is so clearly on display where our president is effectively trashing the Constitution.

He's using the full force of the government against any critics, whether they are in the media or otherwise.

He's trying to arrest people who don't agree with him or stand in his way.

That would be the headline story, and yet it's not.

I mean, there's so much incoming.

I wonder, as you look out on the landscape and you do this awesome reporting out there in the world, what do you think is the biggest story of right now?

What to you is the most important thing that's happening in all this swirl?

It also just challenges the basic idea of shared reality and facts, right?

I mean, if you no longer have, if you refuse to recognize a truth that's inconvenient, then what does the truth matter ever?

I mean, it's just information that's weaponized for personal or partisan gain, and that's not a world.

I mean, that makes living in a world, to say nothing of living in a democracy, pretty complicated.

I wonder if, you know, like you mentioned both the direct targeting of you, which is, I totally agree, bigger than you.