Marty Baron

He did not want us to spend time coming up with a motto that nobody would ever remember again.

He did try to get Fred Ryan to fire me.

He was very unhappy with our coverage of Russian intervention in the election in 2016, and he was under investigation, and we reported that, and he was very upset over that.

He got on the phone with Fred Ryan and complained about it, and

And then subsequent to that, after the Mueller report came out, I think it was, he then called Fred Ryan suggesting that we should apologize and that there should be consequences for this.

And clearly, he didn't say it explicitly, but the consequence should be to fire me.

How do you look back on that coverage now?

I'm very proud of it.

I mean, I'm very proud of it.

I mean, Trump is suing the Pulitzer Board for that coverage.

But the reality is, and it's well documented in the Mueller report, that Russians did intervene in that election.

And there were communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

That doesn't mean that there was collusion or direct collaboration or conspiracy the way that it's defined under the law.

But there was a lot of footsie going on.

Trump openly welcomed Russia's intervention in the election.

He did that, you know, he clearly did that.

Just watch the video.

And then there were other communications between people who were close to him and on his staff with the Russians.

And Jared himself had actually proposed after the election, he had proposed communicating with the Russians by doing it at the Russian embassy in Washington so that it wouldn't be detected by people in the State Department.

And we reported on all of that and all of that was accurate and it was validated by the Mueller report.