It was a tale of two interviews for CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday’s Inside Politics as she sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson and left-wing activist and actress Jane Fonda. During her conversation with Johnson, Bash recited Democratic talking points on the government shutdown and wondered if there is “something to that.” Meanwhile, she laughed it up with Fonda and suggested that she had the credibility to say that President Trump actually does pose a grave threat to the First Amendment.
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Later, during the Fonda interview, Bash played an audio clip of Richard Nixon saying Fonda was “on a wrong track.”
After Fonda joked that she survived and Nixon, politically speaking, did not, Bash tried treating Fonda as if she was some authority on the issue of free speech, “He was talking about your anti-Vietnam War activism. You were on his enemies list, I believe. And so listening to that, knowing that history, living that history as you did, and you're still saying this is different. What makes this time so different?”
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