Jen Psaki

So what does all this mean for the freedom of the free press in this country?

Is there anything that can be done to stop it?

The journalist and former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien joins me next.

Let's take a quick trip down memory lane to last October, just after the Ellison family took over Paramount, the company that now controls CBS News.

They're going to do the right thing.

Clearly, Larry and David Ellison did the right thing in Trump's eyes.

And now they're about to take over the company that owns CNN.

Joining me now is the former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien.

She's the host of Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien and the producer on the Academy Award nominated documentary, the short film The Devil is Busy.

Hi, old friend.

I don't know.

I don't even have a first question for you.

My only question for you is sigh.

When I was there, the 10-year-old... That's right.

And that's the distinction.

Change happens.

The industry is undergoing change.

CNN is not the same place it was when you and I worked there.

But that's really all separate from the idea that the way you just described this going down sounds a little more like Hungary or India or Turkey than America.

The idea that the president says, I think they're going to do the right thing.