Jeffrey Goldberg

Very smart people have made this observation before.

There's a bias to try to make the world make sense.

And with this unique president, I don't know anybody who can do that.

I would love to find them and have them explain all of this to me, but I don't know who that person is.

Yeah, please come.

Well, that's worth a lot.

He's pretty consistent in his behavior, right?

There's that kind of preemptive bellicosity to everything he says.

He has kind of one tone.

Rhyming, chest-thumping.

And it's a lot, right.

It's light on information.

It's a lot of intimidation.

I mean, he's trying unsuccessfully to intimidate the press.

I mean, I would remind—looking at that clip, I would remind the secretary that—

A lot of the reporters he's talking about successfully and to the to the to the to the help or to the benefit of the American people embedded with American forces over the last 20 years.

We've had reporters go ashore a D-Day together with the troops.

I mean, this is a long tradition in our democracy to have a media, a press that closely watches the military, praises when the military should be praised, criticize when it should be criticized.

And he's talking as if the press is the enemy of the people.

You know the Pentagon Press Corps as well as I do.