than 3 million ethnic uighurs in forced labor camps. it s a shocking and important reality and no americans in your appearance are a part of it for a two week period back. it s not surprising it s unfolding this way. bright, and a typical pattern coming out of the white house we have conflicting messages. we ll get your thoughts on the other side. we support our athletes 100%. all have the ability to freely express themselves. we certainly support their right to peaceful protest. remember that s in stark contrast to when speaker pelosi warned our athletes not to process. don t ruffle any feathers. to jillian s point we could all see this coming. when the ioc made this point to go to beijing games there should have been bigger push back. if god michael waltz in a number
party bid. donald trump was on cnn saying the rnc is being really, really nice to me. has the message been sent to party officials, don t ruffle his feathers? i think the message is very clear. you can like donald trump or not like donald trump but there s no doubt that he s bringing issues into the party. part of reagan s secret, he challenged the political establishment of both political parties. he took one in three of both democratic and republican voters. interesting history lesson for all of us. we appreciate it, craig shirley, for adding that context. you bet. you see it on our dollar bills, on our national motto. aetheists are outraged when one sheriff s department put in god
broadcast producers who don t really want to deal with the headache of it, why put on these controversial stories that we ll have to fight people on, when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don t ruffle the same feathers. martha: wow. very explosive over the weekend. jess a can ehrlich and democratic strategist. katie pavlich, editor of townhall.com news and fox news contributor. welcome to you both ladies. good to have you here. jessica, let me start with you, really stunning statements by sharyl attkisson here. what is your response? well, i think it is always disappointing when there s a situation in which journalists feel they can t have their true voice and honest voice that is out there, gathering information. but i think that this situation now is sort of turned into one where it seems like, you know, she, maybe had a disagreement with the producers in terms of some of her own personal stories that she wanted to have more
producers who don t really want to deal with the headache of it, why put on these controversial stories that we are going to have to fight people on when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don t ruffle the same feathers. so you are saying that you and other journalists have made these observations. are you saying you personally got pushback from the obama administration and white house officials or they went over your head and tried to apply pressure to your boss sns. both. they worked through you me and they often went over my head to the bosses. i didn t always know what they did so. they would sometimes refer to it later or i would be coped on an e-mail or bosses would copy me on an e-mail. they would consistently tell me if i would write an article on line, which would be the fallback position when something couldn t get on television, but it was still a great story and i would circulate it online, they
successful in getting broadcast producers who don t really want to deal with the headache of it, why put on these controversial stories that we are going to have to fight people on when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don t ruffle the same feathers. so you are saying that you and other journalists have made these observations. are you saying you personally got pushback from the obama administration and white house officials or they went over your head and tried to apply pressure to your boss sns. both. they worked through you me and they often went over my head to the bosses. i didn t always know what they did so. they would sometimes refer to it later or i would be coped on an e-mail or bosses would copy me on an e-mail. they would consistently tell me if i would write an article on line, which would be the fallback position when something couldn t get on television, but it was still a great story and i would circulate it online, they