Sam Stein

There's no sympathy for the press, obviously, in the public, but also the people who you would expect from within the industry to say, hey, this is wrong.

Some of them have spoken up, but not everybody.

Obviously, the most conspicuous absence is Jeff Bezos, who is the publisher of The Washington Post, has an incredible amount of business before the government, has sucked up to Trump repeatedly because he needs those government contracts and doesn't want to be targeted by him.

But he is the publisher of the Washington Post.

His employee had her personal computer confiscated by the government.

If he believes in the First Amendment, if he believes in the institution of the Washington Post, he should speak out.

But he's too much of a chicken shit right now to do so.

And that's obviously disappointing.

Oh, I know they are saying, where is he?

I know.

I've talked to some of them.

They have been waiting all day yesterday to see anything.

And they were hopeful that he might say something.

And now they're hopeful that when he's asked about it at his next press availability, they assume he will be asked about it, that he'll say something.

But that's like such a horrendously low bar that at some point in time down the road, Jeff Bezos might say something.

They cover Washington.

They cover Washington.

You call it fishbowl.

Punchbowl.

I don't know.