Elaine Godfrey

She called me four days before that profile of her was going to be published.

And she said, I heard you've been talking to members of Congress, my colleagues, her colleagues, without asking me, without my permission.

She said, and so I will be revoking all permissions and shutting down the profile.

That is obviously not how journalism works.

So we published it.

You can read it at the Atlantic dot com.

I think it's pretty fair and good.

I think she gave me tons of access for that story.

She she talked to me a lot for it.

I think it's pretty fair.

And I think that was pretty surprising that she tried to shut it down.

And even more surprising that now, you know, she's appears to be holding that against me to this day.

I think for some candidates, yeah.

I think that there is an appetite among Democrats.

I mean, Republicans have already blown past that benchmark, right?

Like, there is an appetite now for Democrats to do the same.

And I don't know if it means we'll see more reporters getting thrown out of rallies, but specifically when it comes to

Not swearing, insulting people, not being willing to correct the record if you make a mistake or if you, you know, accuse someone of defamation when they are of having been accused of defamation.

Like, I think there is just a real increase in tolerance on the left now for that because they're saying, well, look at the guy in the White House.

He does that all the time.