joining us this hour. if youin watched any hour of fo news yesterday odds are you saw one ofdd these, an ad for electn denier mike lindell s my pillow pillow or an ad infor his my slipperr slippers. we scrolled through in the tire day, time we ll never get back, and counted 30 ads for mike lindell in a 24-hour period. mr. lindell can spend as much of his company suc money on fox ase would like,ne but what is alarmg about the sheer volume of fox ad timoc pied by mr. lindell is this. on december 17, 2020, the ceo of fox news was forwarded this e-mail by an executive in the fox news department. my pillow s mike lindell did makede suggestive comments abou our audience being smaller. the next morning fox ceo suzan scot replied has my personal gift been sent to mike. meanwhile fox continued to let mike on the air so he could push the big lie the election was stolen. yesterday a jugantic drop in the billion dollar defamation lawsuit between dominion systems and fox news was released
but he s been very good. you know, many of them, you guys in the morning, ainsley and steve and you, you become you know, i used to say you were solid six, maybe a seven, but you re getting much better. you re getting great. it s interesting because all the people he mentions that he likes are opinion hosts. is that telling? right. that s right. no, chris wallace, wonderful man. his father, of course, mike set the stage. but he s tough. he s tough on trump. he s tough on everyone. brett bair, shepard smith. there s a whole bunch of people that work for fox and have worked for fox that i would hire in a moment in a good news organization. but unfortunately fox is tagged because it wants to be tagged. let s be honest about it. no one is dragging fox kicking and screaming. the poor murdochs, oh, my goodness. they like it. they like the fact they have a big audience, cable audience, and they re making money. let s talk a little about the g7 and what happened there. in addition to p
he s tough on everyone. brett bair, shepard smith. there s a whole bunch of people that work for fox and have worked for fox that i would hire in a moment in a good news organization. but unfortunately fox is tagged because it wants to be tagged. let s be honest about it. no one is dragging fox kicking and screaming. the poor murdochs, oh, my goodness. they like it. they like the fact they have a big audience, cable audience, and they re making money. let s talk a little about the g7 and what happened there. in addition to pushing for russia to rejoin the g7 this past weekend, the president is also reportedly considering a plan to block $250 million in military assistance to ukraine. something putin would certainly like. why does the president seem to go out of his way to help russia and putin? he helps putin whenever he can, in every way. he still denies that putin had anything really to do with our election in 2016, certainly not
to win one of the great presidential landslides in presidential history. events these days seem to be happening with all sorts of velocity but we are 13 months away from an election and i think it doesn t have too much predict ability. if we had a podcast i d ask about james knox polk. but we ll spare the cable audience for now. director s cut. michael beschloss has agreed to stay with us over the break. when we come back, for one american generation, you heard michael moore talk about this earlier, a big anniversary and a big loss all in the same day. it s time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. you can adjust your comfort on both sides your sleep number setting. can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep us asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts
attorney general eric holder is getting ready to end his six-year run as the nation s top law enforcement official. so yesterday he sat down with cbs, abc, nbc, cnn and politico for exit interviews. but he s refusing to speak with fox news despite numerous requests. fox s executive president for issued a statement saying the attorney general does a deep disservice to the america s largest cable audience and interest of a free press. howard kurtz, what s this all about? i guess the attorney general would rather have melissa harry perry on msnbc saying you re as smooth as a duck and would you please quack for us. i m sure eric holder doesn t want to be pressed on fox news about why he said we re winning