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And he's been he's been behaving that way ever since, to the point where in 2018, when he had one of his supporters was sending pipe bombs around.
Sent it to CNN, sent it to a bunch of other media outlets, Democratic figures like Hillary Clinton and so on.
And we received actual pipe bombs that could have detonated and hurt people.
Our people went to Trump's people and said, you're going to get somebody killed.
He said, I'm going to keep calling you the enemy of the people.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, I asked her in a press conference, will you guys stop calling people the enemy of the people?
And she said, no, we're not going to stop doing that.
And it turned from what he thought was an act into we're coming after you.
One is, I have to tell you, when I was at CNN and was the White House correspondent, I felt like I had the backing of my company.
Jeff Zucker, I have to give him a shout out.
When he was president of CNN, he stood behind me 100%.
I never thought for a moment, gosh, I better be careful what I say or else my boss is going to come after me.
I mean, if he didn't like a question that I asked or a story that I did, he would tell me.
But in terms of the job that we had to do to hold Trump accountable, he was 1000% behind me, no question about it.