GREGORY: “It’s so unoriginal, too. There’s no president or political figure who likes the media. So he’s trying to outdo Nixon —“
BLITZER: “It’s one thing not to like the media. We’ve all worked in this news business for a long time. Everybody is always criticizing us, and not happy with our coverage, whether it was President Clinton or President Bush or — they all criticized. But it’s another thing to say it’s not North Korea, it’s not Iran, it’s not Russia, it’s not China, it’s journalists, like us, who are the enemy of the American people.”
GREGORY: “One of the things that bothers me the most about the President is I don’t take what he says seriously. He’s just so casual about throwing out language. You really undermine the presidency when you do that, because there will be a time after Donald Trump, believe it or not, and he is doing damage to this notion of do we believe what the president says? We live in an environment where social media principally allows so much hyperbole, and now the President engages in it and it becomes kind of a bloodstream of our public discourse where you could say something that over the top and it would be the President of the United States who says it. And I don’t take it seriously, which is a problem, too, because he’s not really being serious when he says it.”
UNKNOWN: “A lot of people do take it seriously, and it’s having an impact.”
BLITZER: “A lot of his supporters believe that we are the enemy of the American people, and that is really an awful situation. We are not the enemy of the American people. We love the American people.”