Two individuals . What makes this so striking is sean hannity has really ascended within the american right as the Republican Party has gone through convulsions during the trump era. It is hannity, his platform, and others at fox news who have often had the president s ear, who are, in their own way, shaping the way Different Things play out with the Trump Administration, urging the president to stick to its hardline positions on immigration, to move forward in a conservative way on health care. And as the president really just turns to his family and more and more, hannity is seen as a trusted friend. And i cant emphasize enough in my reporting how that trust for hannity, that confidence in him as an associate really underscores everything thats happening. And one more before we change topics, and that is your reporting that it was hannity who knew sekulow first and may have handed off jay sekulow, the idea, the lawyer, to President Trump who was in need of counsel. Because of that tr
well, businesses i like to be positive, but i wouldn t call them. signing up to the kind of boosterism that some people accused borisjohnson of. so i was surprised, if i m honest, probably a damning indictment . of myjournalistic instincts, of how big a story that - became on the day. i think it s now fadedl because as i say, that was par for the course. i ve seen him talk to a bunchj of bankers and their partners in davos in switzerland, when he was trying to persuade them not to go to switzerland | after the financial crisis, saying you couldn t do a, well, number two after midnight, i because you d get reported to the authorities. - and everyone roared with laughter. and it was all part - of brand borisjohnson. but i think where the real stuff hit was around - the owen paterson inquiry, which is why we ve - had the by election. yes, there wouldn t be a by election if he hadn t tried to save 0wen paterson. i mean, his suspension would be |almost over by now, had it beenj played s
of myjournalistic instincts, of how big a story that - became on the day. i think it s now fadedl because as i say, that was par for the course. i ve seen him talk to a bunchj of bankers and their partners in davos in switzerland, when he was trying to persuade them not to go to switzerland | after the financial crisis, saying you couldn t do a, well, number two after midnight, i because you d get reported to the authorities. - and everyone roared with laughter. and it was all part - of brand borisjohnson. but i think where the real stuff hit was around - the owen paterson inquiry, which is why we ve - had the by election. yes, there wouldn t be a by election if he hadn t tried to save 0wen paterson. i mean, his suspension- would be almost over by now! had it been played| slightly differently. so i don t think brand boris, - in a way, was damaged too much by the peppa pig thing, - but i think a series of whatever dominic cummings s former aide would call the trolley going off. domi
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anything. they did feel they had no other choice because of the way the coverage had been, their people were so needing this impeachment. howard: susan, all but three democrats voted for impeachment with one independent, not a single republican vote. is that as big a story, and do you agree with molly that media climate was a factor here? i think the media and the political parties field off each ore feed off each other, and i think mostly the mainstream media is liberal leaning. so there s some truth to that sort of ecosystem where i think feed off each other and that they had to go forward with impeachment because the media stories surrounding it would have been too hard to back down. the media always grabs on to the inpeachment story no matter what president it is because it s an exciting story, it s a major political story. and so that is true. i think the fact that only three democrats voted for it and that it was a very divided impeachment just reflects what was going on in t