But what I can tell you is that Lester Holt's discussion of Alex Jones' comments came after a number of things. One of them was Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich getting on air and starting a contest where they were going to pay people to go on live TV and yell CNN is ISIS. It was a formal contest that Alex launched, promising thousands of dollars to people to equate a news network with a terrorist organization that we're presumably at war with. A little bit after that, Brandon Griesmer was arrested this January after he made four calls to CNN on January 9th and 10th, in which he made terrorist threats and talked shit about the Jews and black people. In one call, he said, quote, I'm coming to gun you all down. I'm on my way right now to gun the fucking CNN cast down. I'm coming to kill you. He referred to them as fake news and dropped a couple N-words for good measure. The president of this country had previously called the fake news media the enemy of the people. He had frequently attacked CNN at rallies, press conferences, and on Twitter. It's no surprise that Lester Holt would take something appearing to be a threat seriously, seeing as that's something that's happened quite a bit to him recently.