Actor George Clooney said “it’s a scary time to be a news person” under President Donald Trump’s administration during an interview on Wednesday.

Clooney told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that “most news organizations are under fire” by the Trump administration and that Cooper and CBS’ “60 Minutes” have been specifically “picked out.”

While the actor expressed concerns about the current state of the country, he did push back on Cooper’s assertion that America is currently at its worst.

“I can make an argument that we’re not. I can make an argument that we’ve had much worse times in our history. You know, 1968, every city in the United States was burning and there was — National Guard was surrounding the White House and the Capitol, and we’d lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy

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