Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warns that the state of democracy in the U.S. is at stake as President Donald Trump continues to attack the press.

"You lose journalism, the way we practice it, you lose democracy," she said.

The Trump administration announced last month that it will decide which media outlets will be part of a pool of reporters that cover smaller events and travel with the president, changing how reporters traditionally cover the president.

The White House also blocked access for the Associated Press over its refusal to follow Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."

Ressa, author of "How To Stand Up To A Dictator," ran the news site Rappler under the autocratic regime of President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.

She spoke to PBS News Hour's @IAmAmnaNawaz about the parallels she sees between the Philippines and the U.S. under President Trump.

"The role of journalists in a country, in a democracy like the Philippines, like the United States, is to hold power to account," Ressa said. "You're not going to have an influencer or a content creator stand up to a dictator."