In the United States, the foreign agent label is usually assigned by the government to identify foreign lobbying groups. For now, press advocates and news organizations said they were waiting to see how Russian authorities put the regulations into effect. Christiane Amanpour, the veteran correspondent who hosts a show on CNN International, said in an interview on Monday that she had been stunned by Mr. Trump’s remarks. The president of the United States on Thanksgiving weekend would say something like that?” she said she thought upon reading the president’s tweet. Ms. Amanpour said that Mr. Trump’s anti-press rhetoric gives “an automatic green light” to foreign authoritarians that want to crack down on journalists in their countries.

Source: New York Times November 28, 2017 00:24 UTC