it bears noting that so fraught with mouse was a phrase enemy of the people that even mikita khrushchev forbade its use telling the soviet communist party that the phrase had been introduced by stalin for the purpose of quote annihilating such individuals unquote who digreedith the supreme ader. this alone should be the source of great shame for us in this body. especially for those of us in the presidents party, for they are shameful, repulsive statements and, of course, the president has a precisely backward. despotism is the enemy of the people. the free press is the desperate enemy which makes the free press the guarding of democracy. when a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn'tis suit him fake news, it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.le i dare say that anyone who said the privilege an awesome responsibility to serve in this chamber knows that these reflexive slurs of fake -- those of us who travel overseas especially to war zones and otherre troubled areas all aroud the globe encounter members of u.s.-based media who risk their