Fox News’ Howard Kurtz said today it seems like President Donald Trump may have crossed a line with his latest attack against CNN’s Jeff Zucker and NBC’s Andy Lack.

In two tweets recently, Trump went after both networks––CNN for the Lanny Davis report controversy, NBC for the President’s weird accusation that Lester Holt was “caught fudging my tape on Russia.”

The hatred and extreme bias of me by @CNN has clouded their thinking and made them unable to function. But actually, as I have always said, this has been going on for a long time. Little Jeff Z has done a terrible job, his ratings suck, & AT&T should fire him to save credibility!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2018

What’s going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks – with @NBCNews being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2018

“Donald has every right to to hit back at what he sees as unfair media coverage, including, perhaps especially, this flawed CNN story,” Kurtz said, “but does the President of the United States go too far calling for two executives at private companies to be fired because he doesn’t like the media coverage?”

The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway said there’s certainly issues both networks are facing, but agreed it’s not appropriate for Trump to weigh in.

Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner chief congressional correspondent, noted the back-and-forth sparring between Trump and the press that’s “devolved to a boxing match.”

Kurtz then noted, “If President Obama, who took lots of shots at Fox News, had said, ‘Hey, Fox News, you ought to get rid of Roger Ailes because I think the coverage is so unfair,’ what would have been the reaction on the right?”

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