John Harwood

buying CNN.

What does the country look like in that scenario if the principal media outlets, let's say with the exception of the New York Times, are owned by mega billionaires who are aligned for their own reasons with the Trump movement?

You mentioned people who are not necessarily aligned with Trump, but knuckle under anyway.

As you consume media, including your former, our former employer, CNN, and others, to what degree do you think there is self-censorship going on that changes the product that people see?

Who are playing a role, a predetermined role.

Yes.

Irrespective of what the truth is.

I'm the first one to say it's a lot easier for me because I'm

At the end of my career, I don't have to worry about several decades of providing for my family.

That's already been done.

And so it's a harder call for younger people.

What did you make of the Stephen Colbert, James Tallarico interview where he said the CBS lawyers said you can't put it on TV?

CBS said, oh, no, no, we didn't say that.

We just said he might trigger the equal time requirement and force us to do something else.

What do you think about that?

This isn't journalism exactly, but there was a bizarre statement today that

from Kevin Hassett, who's the head of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Trump, and he criticized as an embarrassment a new report by the New York Federal Reserve saying that American businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariffs, which is something that everyone

And the economic depression, except for a few crazy outliers, understands.

CBO said it's 95%.

But Kevin Hassett came out and said the people who wrote that report at the New York Fed should be disappointed.