NBC crew survives assault by Israeli settlers abroad, comes home to a presidential punishment threat.

As it ran on the front

Let's separate two things that keep getting conflated by people who want a bigger story than actually exists. Three NBC personnel and a Palestinian woman were reportedly involved in an incident with settlers in the West Bank — that's a security situation in a hostile region, full stop, and it's irresponsible to draw a straight line from that to anything said in Washington.

Separately, the President expressed frustration with Kristen Welker's questioning and used the word 'punishment.' Is that a threat? I'd call it candid feedback about coverage he considers unfair, which every public figure is entitled to give, and frankly the press could stand to hear more candid feedback instead of — well, 'punishment' is maybe not the ideal word if you're trying to signal it's just feedback, I'll give you that. Words get said in the heat of an interview, and reading a threat into one word is exactly the kind of media overreaction that — actually, NBC's own people are also the ones who got physically confronted overseas the same week, so maybe some perspective is warranted on what an actual threat to a journalist looks like versus a strongly worded complaint from a podium.…