‘You have to have a battle plan going in’: Maria Ressa on how the press must prepare for Trump 2.0

Liz Cheney was a prominent Republican congresswoman representing Wyoming .

She was one of the few Republicans who refused to fall in line when Donald Trump and his supporters baselessly claimed that there was widespread fraud during the 2020 election.

Trump has called for her to be investigated, jailed, and suggested she should see how it feels to have guns trained on her face.

Maria Ressa is an award-winning journalist born in the Philippines .

Philippine Constitution is patterned after the US Constitution . It's about checks and balances. In the old days , we all used to cheer for each other.

In these new days , that's all out that's thrown out.

Journalists have to actually give more context, have to give the whole story.

But the flip side of that is, you know, where is the line? Where's the line between journalism and activism, Right?.

Ali : Will the Republican Party act like checks and balances? What will the Democratic Party do? The politicians, legislators have to have courage to stand up. Will the journalists come together when the journalists are under attack? If people, the citizens of a democracy, don't stand up and demand better, then all of it gets systematically worse. We would not have survived without our community, Ali says.