Here is the CNN exchange via YouTube.
Here is the full video transcript.
Stelter: You say trump is running faster than the press defining the agenda. How do you propose we catch up to him?
Bernstein: By doing our job in terms of the best obtainable version of the truth which is our mission. Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president including Richard Nixon has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way this president-elect does. And it has something to do with the growing sense of authoritarianism that he and his presidency are projecting and the danger of it is obvious and he's trying to make the conduct of the press the issue, not his own conduct.
Stelter: Give us an example of that “fact ignorance.”
Bernstein: I would just take his bullying approach to the union leader instead of going into the facts of what the Carrier deal was and what the unions in that institution have done. Everything that he controverts, he doesn't go to a fact-based argument. He goes to an emotional argument. What we have seen throughout the campaign is pathological disdain for the truth, a kind of lie, and ease with lying, that we have not seen before.
Not the first time Bernstein has gone after Trump. In June the legendary reporter called the Republican presidential nominee a “Neo-Fascist.” Thank you, Carl Bernstein, and every pundit who speaks out and speaks the truth about Donald Trump. Americans need to know. The world needs to know.
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