Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwaySpecial counsel investigating DeVos for potential Hatch Act violation: report George and Kellyanne Conway honor Ginsburg Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE on Friday about whether President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE's rhetoric on the media should be "cleaned up," one day after a newsroom shooting that left five people dead.

Conway appeared on Fox News's "The Ingraham Angle" on Friday, one day after a gunman killed five people at the offices of The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. Ingraham asked Conway if the president is "reconsidering his language" toward the press in light of the incident.

“I don’t really like any of it,” Ingraham said, referring to both the president's use of "enemy of the people" to refer to the media and critics who refer to Trump as a "Nazi."

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“I think all of it has gotten way out of line," she said.

Conway, who agreed, in response referred to Trump's comments at a White House event earlier in the day, where he said journalists should be "free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.”

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"Violence should not be an occupational hazard, the removal of your life should not be an occupational hazard if you work in this administration, if you work in journalism, if you work anywhere and that I think is what the president is saying," Conway said.

She added that the gunman in Maryland had a history with the newspaper.

Police said the suspected shooter, Jarrod Ramos, had a long-running dispute with The Capital Gazette over a column about a criminal harassment case against him. Ramos, 38, brought a defamation suit in 2012 against the paper, but it was thrown out by a judge.

"It’s very clear that people at the paper said if this person ever comes in here call 911," Conway said. "The former editor said he had never met anybody so angry, as a journalist, in all his life. So they knew that this guy was bad news for them."

Conway said she's called for "tamping down the rhetoric," but blamed reporters for playing a part in the tensions between the press and the administration.

"Those who actually call for it sometimes, if you listen carefully enough you look at their own social media feeds, they give license sometimes to something I think is a little bit hotter than covering the next story," Conway said.

Ingraham argued that the press has treated the administration unfairly in some cases, but suggested both sides could improve their relationship.

"I don’t really like any of it, and I think it all could be cleaned up," Ingraham said. "You can have a tough relationship, aggressive relationship, that’s fine. It should be tough and fair, but I just think all of it has gotten way out of line."

"I completely agree and I’ve been saying it for a very long time," Conway responded.

Critics have accused the president of stoking hostility toward the news media since he hit the campaign trail. He has frequently labeled journalists as the “enemy of the people,” and has singled out reporters at raucous campaign rallies and on his Twitter account as “fake news.”

At the conclusion of Friday’s event where Trump addressed the shooting for the first time, CNN’s Jim Acosta asked the president whether he would stop deriding the press as the “enemy of the people.” Trump did not appear to hear the shouted question over cheers and applause from the crowd.