Official Trailer, Media Coverage and Updates

_{Dean Baquet:}

_{The times are troubled. What the future of the first amendment is going to be a little bit unclear.}

_{Donald Trump:}

_{… Like you’re crooked, your press is crooked, and meet the press is crooked.}

_{Kristen Welker:}

_{To be fair, I’m not crooked, but let’s…}

_{Dean Baquet:}

_{No president actually love the press.But I think what’s different is I actually think this White House has disdain for the press.}

_{Bazi Kanani:}

_{You’ve covered a number of administrations in your time. I wonder if you could offer some perspective on the current threat to First Amendment  rights.}

_{Martin Baron:}

_{It’s worsened under this administration. I mean, look, uh, Nixon regularly attacked the press, but I think this administration has gone gone well beyond that, and it’s all targeted against media organizations that they themselves just don’t like. Uh, they’ve also tried to cultivate a media of their own, basically to serve as a propaganda vehicle.}

_{Dr. Valda Harris Montgomery:}

_{(We) Fought to get these rights. We finally got the rights. And now we have to teach another generation how to keep [music] those rights. and we seem to be protesting the same things that we fought for 60 years ago. I can’t breathe.}

_{John Ragosta:}

_{And we’re still struggling. I mean, what’s it mean to have freedom of speech today? What does it mean? The Supreme Court has cases every year. This morning at the Supreme Court, faith and the First Amendment are on the docket.}

_{Tom Costello:}

_{Why do we place so much emphasis on the First Amendment now in the 21st century?}

_{Bill Ewald:}

_{It’s an absolutely fundamental amendment.}

_{Donald Trump:}

_{…investigation because it’s a hoax. That’s enough. Put down the mic.}

_{Bazi Kanani:}

_{What is their obligation [music] to the American public?}

_{Martin Baron:}

_{To give the public the information it needs and deserves to know uh so that they [music] can govern themselves.}

_{Bazi Kanani:}

_{It’s often misunderstood, often contested. For many Americans, the First Amendment [music] defines what it means to be free.}

_{Tom Costello:}

_{But from the very beginning, the First Amendment also [music] sparked a war of words and a war of ideas.}

_{Bazi Kanani:}

_{Join us as we look back at the origins of American freedom and its tug-of-war through time.}

_{Tom Costello:}

_{It’s the first.}