it would appear. yes. but i remind you, in the end, all the investigations of whitewater, that s all they gave us is monica lewinsky. it happens. the public is still more concerned about the economy, job creation and the threat from china. they re not following this. you ll get very high cable news ratings because of this fbi action. but in terms of public priority, the investigations have not cut through the clutter. in the end, people s minds have already been made up and they re more concerned about the stock market, about trade, about jobs and employment. neil: i m glad you mentioned the stock market. any time that doesn t look good for the president this is a crowd that follows green, not red or blue, they get nervous. we got wind of this report. the markets did as well. surrendered a couple hundred points. we were up.
good. you ve been very fair to me that s all i ask for. i call it fake news. there s so much fake news. thank you. president trump there a little bit of sarcasm. just a little. yeah. two things here cnn s doing pretty good. doesn t he have other things to do than paying attention to cable news ratings. i don t know. let s talk about it with brian stelter. what s your take away, here, brian? it s interesting to me that he called in judge jeanine rather than going on camera. donald trump would call in to all the cable news channels for interviews and was actually pretty controversial back then. don t let him call in. he should have to go on camera like anyone else. so it is telling now that the president of the united states, he just shows up by phone for a tv interview and it makes it harder to hold someone
increase in subscriptions. you know cable news ratings are way higher than they were last year because of trump. it is just a good thing. it s a bad thing. okay. for him, it s a bad thing. what about for us? i think the value the media can have is providing context of the tweets. there is times that white house aides will tell me trump has tweeted things to create distractions or story lines to misdirect the media. and i think the media should not chase the tweets without saying, hey, look, look at the hearings on the hill. it s curious that trump is doing this or look at robert mueller s doing it. i wonder why he s tweeting about x. it s clear he uses twitter strategically and tactically and the media should not just blindly follow that. but if he says i don t get enough credit for what i ve done, he is the one who has distracted people from what he has done. that s right. but it just seems to me if we focus this certainly particularly online posts and sometimes ca
but their current guy, current occupant calls the white house a dump. a beautiful, beautiful historic museum that belocbelongs to the american people, a dump. joy, something you might have missed last night because it was another news work, eric trump was on another news network. i leave it to you to guess which show. he was on the highest-rated show, sean hannity show, and people love donald trump. and he is right, come on. people do love him. there are people who love him. a lot of people love him. but i looked at the cable news ratings last night and more people love joy reed because joy reed had, i don t know, maybe double the audience that eric trump add talki trump had talk together people. joy reed, highest rated hour on cable news last night because people love joy reed. oh, thank you so much. thank you, lawrence. sorry, sean.
walter conkites, the most trusted man in america. that s why you don t see an obvious replacement coming right up for scott pelley. the evening news is simply not what it used to be. cable news ratings are rising, the network is losing an audience and they may not be the natural harth that they once were for the whole country. but they still among them bring in about 22 million viewers a night. they re still a big combine franchise. you have about half a minute here. but it seems all the networks moved away from this sort of, again, rather katie model. scott pelley was an excellent reporter. i knew thought he was a natural anchor. i would agree with that. i think he did a very fine broadcast. it had the most news content of all the broadcast, and he s a very good guy.