That is all in on this Tuesday night.

Alex Wager tonight. Starts right now. Good evening.

Good evening, Alex.

Intimidations. Yeah, that is the story of today. Thank you, my friend.

So Donald Trump's war against a free press has reached a new level.

Over the weekend, we learned that ABC News had settled a defamation lawsuit with Trump for $15 million.

The lawsuit alleged that ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos had defamed Trump when he misspoke several times during an interview and said

that a jury had found Trump liable for rape when it actually found him liable for sexual abuse.

It's worth noting here that the judge in that very case clarified

that the jury's verdict did not mean that Trump's accuser failed to prove that Mr. Trump raped her,

as many people commonly understand the word rape. But it's hard to imagine that Donald Trump

brought that lawsuit because he really cared about the legal distinctions here.

Trump likely brought that lawsuit as part of a campaign to silence his critics and to keep controversy at bay.

And that campaign is ratcheting up.

At a press conference yesterday, Trump celebrated the ABC settlement and indicated that he wanted to bring lawsuits against even more media outlets.

I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time.

And then just before the election,

she said I was going to lose by three or four points. And it became the biggest story all over the

world because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points. That was the Des Moines Register. And it was

their parent. We'll probably be filing a major lawsuit against them today or tomorrow.

The newspaper Donald Trump was threatening there is the Des Moines Register, the paper of record

for the state of Iowa. The pollster, Trump mentioned, is veteran pollster and Salser, who published

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