Due process up this and more im joined by my guests came by percent in los angeles she is host of the game iverson show and in new jersey we have joe concha he is a media reporter and columnist for the hill right across up close and in fact that means he can jump in income what now is appreciated ok let me go to joe 1st here joe over the last 3 and a half years. Weve been fed this russia gate hoax and its been at its very basis it is leaks that are giving up given to prefer news outlets from the powers that be will call it deep we have opinions a new way and. We have a lot of a bloopers in retrospect the the the leaks that no amount to anything or dead ends or basically wrong. Then you know the flip side is over the last lives saved 2 weeks and i have were getting real facts i even to the point of hand written notes something attached to a name a face a big here we have congressional records that is released or madam ships. Investigation with all of his witnesses and the names are attached to the words under oath and never mind it doesnt make any difference its keep moving on i mean i find it really quite a stone age you know we were told that there was a grand conspiracy but now there is a grand conspiracy of silence. Well youre exactly right about innuendo right as far as russia reporting a lot of it was based on unnamed sources id love to meet this guy named a name circumscribes because boy he gets a lot of things wrong right its not like he gets it wrong in reporters made mistakes i heard this analogy once that the White House Press corps and political media in the u. S. In general its like when you go to the beach and you throw food up to seagulls it doesnt matter if the bread is mol good or bad or pop rocks theyre going to eat it gobble it up and not verify what theyre being fed so you know i spoke to one Emmy Award Winning journalist thats been in the business for a while and she said what reporters dont realize is that theyre contes theyre pawns for political operatives trying to push a narrative out there that they know is false but they know this reporters will eat up anyway because there is no accountability when you get it wrong as were staying right because a new cycle is on so fast we forget about it and get the clicks and the ratings anyway so it doesnt matter thats your point around general plan there are documents here its in writing how can we get this got a license we can prosecute him i would think that reporters would be 2 things right now pissed off and carries and when youre those 2 things thats when youre doing your reporting but instead we dont see it at all we saw them put adam schiff on the air for 3 years adam show. Isnt michael evan oddie of lawmakers ok now remember have a not. You know he was on cable news hundreds of its reported lawyer thats now it referred to as yes i heard somebody call him that once on cable news hundreds of times even touted as a president ial candidate and you know what he has president right now of a cell block at rikers but still we put this guy in there all the time just like we did chef and the wall street Journal Editorial Board give them credit because they said dont put this guy on air again it may seem to me he is not to be believed youre going to see a lot more adam schiff and anybody who reports on Michael Flynn like Catherine Herridge of c. B. S. News all now just right wing reporting and conspiracy theories and this is why i trust the media is where it is right now an American Society somewhere around where we view lights and thats not and. Its very interesting can we leave the f. B. I. Knew long before to use the the dossier this new us they they knew it was make or break not using it they willingly use this document and then they did they knew it wasnt. Accurate but they still use it for a finds of warrants i mean its the same thing with joe if youre saying to me we have you have reporters knowingly know that this is a farce its a hoax but they go along with it anyway because it serves a political purpose 1st and foremost so great and an ideological one on top of that ok i mean i well hes made it clear i program i dont really care one way or another about going to the white house ok they come and go ok with this type of behavior if that isnt put in check now will be common normal weight and thats certainly not what you want down so kim and i mean it again you know theres a theres no self interest action no matter what the democrats the introspect after the 2016 election theyre doing it again theyve been hell theyve been shown to be. Showing that they were pursuing a hoax its been shown to be a hoax and now theyre saying theyre going to bigger and us and say were. Ones that are conspiring to look for a way to protect attorney general barr i dont think any of us are doing that at all go ahead. Now i mean you know what it really comes down terry is that the media is really just focused on getting clicks you know im not really 100 percent in the im not 100 percent certain that media is actually part of that in any way i mean they are part of any and that you know that when youre watching stocks are going to get a certain viewpoint if youre watching c. N. N. Youre going to get another i dont know if fundamentally theyre at their core partisan i think what they are is their Media Entertainment theyre trying to get clicks they understand that they need ad revenue they need to they they need eyeballs and they know that emotion sells and so what they do is they fear monger they find a conspiracy that they can get anything salacious that they can just latch on to scandal or controversy conflict in some way and they use that in order to make gobs and gobs of money theyre using our emotions and not the attention to reality yeah but for him to get peoples lives destroyed in the process i mean and i think thats something we dont typically count on me whats going on in hollywood who sleeping with whom and you know whos getting divorced that i mean i guess thats all kind of little lady and all that you know in the end that is the sense that would be agency but theres a lot of people who would be just chewed up and spit out in some people who come to prison and you know her and thats why joe if i can go back to you i think that thats the difference between clip it tame it which one will exactly what it is but at a certain point in the you devalue institutions and very ideas that like me you cant trivialize there are certain things you shouldnt trivialize because its dangerous go ahead. Lets look at michael example exactly were talking about clinton and the team and his audience and the clinton ended up stealing that as far as just barbara for instance and make more sense and remember 2016. 2015 when President Trump then candidate trump announces his candidacy is on their show on a regular basis phone interviews to the point where publications like Rolling Stone are calling them out for it hes interviews are way too soft theyre way too friendly youre going to put this guy in the white house if you keep propping him up like that and sure enough the president captures then candidate trump captures the primary nomination and the Party Nomination and then suddenly joe meek a term on trump now that they suddenly change their minds now they got out of them what they wanted and then they realize are going to be ostracized the hamptons the Upper West Side of manhattan which if they continue to look like theyre supporting him right now theyre the most staunch critics on trump you just laugh at it because you know its not serious because well why didnt they speak out against him 20152016 then i see the never trumpeters that are on the air mccall all former all i know all 5 ok. Well there may be more actually right you see rick wellstone you see Nicolle Wallace you see on and of are all these republican strategists where i cant name one campaign theyve actually ever won in the past 15 years but theyre put out as socalled republicans and then what their job is to speak out against trying to give the viewer the idea that even people in his own party are against him until you look at gallup polling and hes the highest of any president in terms of Party Loyalty and history so thats the thing this is all a game i dont think really that the ana navarro the world either she was a never republican or b. Now she really doesnt hate trump or Nicolle Wallace hate trump much as they do it just gets them to our next contract it gets them attention and love on social media so when people ask me is there bias i agree with him i think you have to probably is some bias there is some activism but in the end the end this is all bad acting like cinemax at 3 oclock in the morning bad acting like people are just doing it to get people what they want to hear instead of. Really with both of you that youve been here what is the purpose of journalism i mean maybe we should just say dont. Islam doesnt exist anymore and this is only entertainment or not is its a serious question you know because again like i said to me you have left. Youre going to have the f. B. I. Investigating the next president ial candidate ok i mean this is there is consequences for this behavior other than garner clicks and celebrity. Others absolutely really journalism is dead unfortunately there is how i mean you have to think about logistically how would you even support journalism right now with the with the media the way that theyre supported is through advertisement dollars so theyre looking for emotion theyre looking for clicks they need so latest headlines so then your other option would be what government funding well is the government going to Fund Journalism thats going to be criticism criticizing the government so really a very good journalist coming to look at p. B. S. That is not you logically driven. And you go yes i agree yes so it you know where could you find a real journalist who would fund that real journalism journalism is expensive those of us who are in independent media it is extremely difficult for us to to manage i mean just to put on a show like i do online and and then you know i dont have journalists on the ground that are going out investigating thats a lot of money where would i get that money so the real problem with journalism and there are so many stories and so much information out there you know to try to pursue something where youre going to have a constant refreshed news cycle every single day thats a lot of people you have to support that that that that you know enter enterprise somehow so thats the big question is how do you support authentic journalism needing the amount of money that its going to take without them turning into this the same what were saying with every single socalled institution of journalism out there from Washington Post a New York Times to stand and say i am as n. B. C. Fox now all of them how do we do it thats the big question well you know so jim were just stuck with tribalism. Try to tribalism that so people can function and support me you know look over at the interests of the ok they have they have a let me well they can you know give them money to do investigative reporting and its a real mix bag. But you know but also you know i find it really very tragic because were here with the model that kim is describing which i think shes right then there is really no coming together we have to live with our conditions and unfortunately its only getting worse go ahead i agree what can and i understand her context which is political media and she laid out the networks that were talking about writing cable news or New York TimesWashington Post right places you could still get decent journalism now maybe not that it will go heavy on the National Stories but i still think my local news is still good you know id still good because i dont see any of them injecting their dear diary opinions into recording its this fire happened here this person unfortunately got killed here this team won and heres your Weather Forecast so least i know i can get it bear so that at least is comforting on some level and im sorry if you hear my my 4 year old yelling she had made a comment in a shot with then you know 100 seconds i think i saw your dog running behind i dont have space for a willing to you its quite possible you should know i did you know it really is it it really is the model that were having to deal with but it is politicized and im really worried about it because we have to account so kind of trust in some some things that are that we all can agree upon if we cant do that were in trouble ok were going to go to a short break and after that short break well continue our discussion on the media lens. You cannot be both with the yeah you walk. Past. It. d comes. Down. To negotiate a good citizen who said look no problem when i woke up bucking the. Clock that just a month. To say no more. Shows off the stuff but dont take the sides faked fixing to force if he puts thank you everybody we know its a way no matter more left it allows. For more. Or less deprives your life of the most bucks in the switch if the politically to use a functioning bank levy the police and such and i know that some function is likely to finish it should just. Not. Welcome back to cross up where all things are considered im peter love to remind you were discussing the media landscape. Cam let me go to you i know this state. Miss hayes from minnesota b. C. Give a major interview i think was meant to be fair and then i thought it really light in a sound he wanted lets remember that chris hayes is supposed to be the smart one over m. S. N. B. C. He supposed to be the intellectual over there and number one during all of this hope you never had a confrontational guest on his program not once. Not once i dont think imus and b. C. In general ever. Box news doesnt all the time but i give them credit for particularly on Tucker Carlson is not like most of his program is about 5050 which i think he stands unique in the media landscape when it going going back to chris hayes if you if you distill his interview on what happened as an embassy and the scene he said the russians made him do it now its heres some context one of my favorite films is dr strangelove and remember Brigadier General jack ripper remember that crazy general that you know that launches the b. 52 and he was saying that you know the russians have him infiltrated and poisoned our bodily fluids and i couldnt believe that someone having chris hayes a statue or at emmis n. B. C. Could say that and get away with it i mean there is no agency nobody has any agency in thats exactly with the peddlers of this hoax did they you know its not our fault that they were reacting to what someone is doing it was just exactly what is being done to them again that is such a total disservice to journalism go ahead well i didnt know chris hayes was the intellectual want to Read Everything before carefully. I thought that with a Rachel Maddow our somebody. You know i didnt catch his interview this whole this whole narrative that has just continued on for what now 7 days i think is ringback where were at with the whole you asked. A conflict and of course there were some points where it was very legitimate. And you know but but since then its just become this its become insane i mean its it really is truly insane and theres never an apology theres never a correction if there is a correction its buried somewhere very small where no ones paying attention to it because everyone latched onto the salacious headline and russia hacked vermonts electricity grid or russia hacked into cspan or you know theres all of these different hoke says that a bit that they have claimed oh you know russia did it russia made me do it russia put trump and power russia you know russia russia russia all the time. You know and theres never any any chance to look at oneself and say maybe we did something wrong maybe were the ones that are upsetting the voters maybe maybe we no longer represent the American People and instead theyre trying to paint this dichotomy well its either you go you know youre with us because were americans or if youre not with us then youre with russia which is not america we cant you know if there is no one to fight on both said you know joe one of the interesting things that you know i have noticed here is that it and this is my theory about the hoax of russia gate hoax is it it was one way for the democrats not to have any introspection after 2016 and youre absolutely right if you want to blame someone for trump selection blame the media i mean all they did was demonize him and anyone that would vote for him well you know voters dont like to be demonized theyre doing it again in this election cycle. The focus of their anger on the wrong issue ok because i could i was i grew up in a red state i dont like hell they know the National Media the bi coastal media talks about Middle America clinton really. Condescending and rude and arrogant very very arrogant in. Theyre doing it all over again if number 2 is to keep the left together because one of the interesting thing about this is if you had civil libertarians cave on this one its very interesting theyve been completely changed on this and its i think its really remarkable for the end of this big primary that the democrats that late again Anonymous Sources the kremlin is supporting bernie ok again theyre using this to corral people and what it and of course bertie you know has no backbone at all he did fight back you would have issues of this ounce of you to do this again to was but no he couldnt form and so its a very interesting way they keep the left under control but basically in the insurgency of the progressive which is they are under control now because you have nowhere else to go which is their usual mantra its very it it is nothing as ive said many times in this program theres not much russia or russians in russia ok its really of trying to control the political and media landscape in the us. I think about the premise of the whole russia hack the 2016 election thing for a moment ok because they bought minimal ads on facebook a fraction of what the clinton and Trump Campaign spent on bashing each other that somehow it changed the election where lets say im supporting Hillary Clinton and im on facebook and im looking at you know some my friends kids get yours and then this adds up and i say you know a lot going that ad makes a good point i like taylor but i think im going to support from now one person does that one and only does that i get a robo call being like you know youre making a good point here i talk a back to me and so that part is ridiculous and i think a lot of journalists think that their viewers are stupid and maybe they are brainwashed to a certain extent because again they want to hear what they want to hear and instead of what they should be hearing right i subjoin read over the weekend shes on m s n b c you know one of the actual ones that said that you know we should come to the point now that we have to. Except that President Trump may not embrace the results of the 2020 alexion when you look at the big think it is from 2016 because thats what i said about trump and no and who is the day who is the candidate who did not accept the results Hillary Clinton has been the public therapy door for the last 3 years talking about how she should have won the election and instead of saying you know i probably should campaign in wisconsin i guess my final note is dr strangelove you brought up jack tripper wasnt that i thought he was and. Ripper were it per not tripper ok i guess jack tripper was in the a. B. C. Comedy Threes Company and then eventually the spot on jacks piece trail thats a tangent but i didnt mean to go off on that but one final serious point to those in Middle America you grew up in or red state the reason why the 2016 election everybody says oh my god we didnt see this coming how can that possibly be because our men are staying in their ivory towers known as t. V. Studios in washington and new york and washington donald trump got 4 percent of the vote and then had he got 10 percent of the vote and thats where all political media is concentrates of course are going to hide mentality and you may miss whats happening in wisconsin pennsylvania michigan and ohio where the election was won and its probably going to happen here again because no one learns to kens point theres no accountability theres no introspection and i dont think its not because they dont want to do it no actually they dont want to do it but i mean if they you know given the way the introspection that they d. N. C. And the democrats had from 2016 theres one very important lesson to be drawn from that if you run for president have those macedonians on your side because it seemed like they tipped it all ok. Jim you know one of the bombshell over the last few days and im using it in illegitimate way not like how the word phrase was abused between i have used is that we had testimony from Ships Committee then the the c. E. O. Of crowd strike then you know made the russians very of a high dollar servers well in test. Similarly under oath facing the charge of perjury said no we dont have any evidence of it at all if that was not reported widely what so ever that is one of the triggers for what weve gone through the last rina half years and i remember during the last 3 and a half years talking to people that were experts in the field and they said yeah thats probably people and it probably was a leak probably not a hack but you know we need to look at the server and now the whole basis or one of the foundations of this oh is that it can completely dispel and dismiss and theres no reaction to i mean the thing was on it obviously now is on slim because its a very personal story but you know one of the whole foundations of it has been blown away and there is no introspection this is why theyre going to continue to lose ok and i think thats objective because if you cant understand your own actions and behavior how can you navigate your way through the next president ial cycle i dont think that they have the capacity to do it go that well you know and what the real losers are everybody in america its not just the democrats that are losing on this its when the media and even officials and government make it sound like our democracy and our nation is so weak and were so still bad in American People are so dumb that we can just allow russia russia russia that would be an advertisement on facebook or you know all of these were writing things that are saying oh you know russia did it russia debt its just making america look very very weak it makes us look like we just you know were just built on a house of cards that are just collapsing underneath underneath us just because somebody put a advertisement on social media or made a bot that started spreading you know that started amping up twitter or trans these things everybody in america lives and its not just the democrats are losing but its all about us its just. Making us look like fools you know thats exactly true and again from my bar away her ive often thought about is that how could this strongest most powerful country in the history of the world be so very vulnerable to some teenagers in St Petersburg 300 kilometers away from me here and those those kids were a. Group when they were indicted by a loner and when the case went to court the other team walked away because these kids said well you have a judicial system we understand we want discovery what do you have on us and as soon as they were asked that they close the case because they didnt have any discovery i mean then what this says is that its a. Make it what you will of democracy but its the rule of law ok because when those indictments were made i remember the reasons in comes out its a big breaking news story all the networks are covering it and it was all nonsense it was absolutely all nonsense and again how many people know that that piece was dropped no one but when it was when it was when the charges more made it was news all over the world joe so i mean finish it up for us me again but i guess Im Old School here i believes in some form of accountability are we going to get any good 30 seconds here the bow tie absolutely makes rules go and i say that the most complimentary of ways believe me when i hear it in erica took a back quote while we were concentrating so much on russia right and then eventually impeachment as it has pertained to ukraine in january and february there were actual president ial debates a. B. C. N. B. C. C. B. S. 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