nominee over a year before the primary election occurred. jon: she has long been a critic of the democratic national committee and was part of the leadership for a time and then resigned, as i recall. this got zero coverage. no mentions at all on any of the big three networks evening newscasts. does that surprise you? it does surprise me because it s a fascinating attack on a senior democrat in hillary clinton and confirmed, proved what was clear to a lot of people and it was decided a year before the election and supporters have and it showed
good news under their trump administration. joining us with reaction from washington is bob cusick, editor and chief for the hill newspaper. i know i m a business reporter, but 23,000 is a big, big deal, and the network evening newscasts completely ignore it? yeah. that s right. this is something on the president has talked about. he should talk about it. honestly, most voters care far more about the economy and tax reform than any russia investigation. this is something that i do think that some of the media have been antagonistic towards trump and not give him credit no matter what. but it s something that he needs to keep talking about because as we get into an election year, this is important. this is what people vote on. trish: it s not even that they don t give him credit. bob, it seems as though they are deliberately ignoring these important pieces of news. i mean, this is a major news headline.
anyone s mind that the mainstream media wants to ignore good news under their trump administration. joining us with reaction from washington is bob cusick, editor and chief for the hill newspaper. i know i m a business reporter, but 23,000 is a big, big deal, and the network evening newscasts completely ignore it? yeah. that s right. this is something on the president has talked about. he should talk about it. honestly, most voters care from harm are about the economy and tax reform in any rush investigation. this is something that i do think that some of the media have been antagonistic towards a trump and not give him credit no matter what. but it s something that he needs to keep talking about because as we get wind into an election year, this is importance. trish: it s not even that they don t give him credit. bob, it seems as though they are
trump s jr. email dominated the evening news coverage on the big three networks on tuesday night. abc, cbs, and nbc spent a combined 54% of their newscast discussing it and of course russia. if they are spending most of their time on that one story, what are they missing. here to discuss is brian. how are you doing. how are you doing? thank you for having me. steve: doing good. if you are interested in happening on the world and turn into the nightly news, you are going to see happening in russia, russia, russia or president trump and missed the rest of story. on tuesday the donald jr. stuff was obviously a big story that hits home and people wanted to hear about it but, i mean, the senate delaying recess for the first time since 1994. steve: that was big. it was barely discussed. i think nbc was the only of the big three that even mentioned it. and the truth is, the evening newscasts were all down in the second quarter compared to the second quarter last year.
yesterday, this is 10 minutes, nine men on the evening newscasts. are we ever going to see a fair accounting of the factor was a lot of political maneuvering going on at the obama administration? no, you are not. the bad news. here s how the media covers are public kids. create a serious charge and then try to dig up evidence to create evidence behind the charge even though there s nothing there. the evidence presents itself against the person and that s ignoring the evidence all along and created alternative to vindicate the person later on. it s a completely different approach. it s really sad. it s not fair to people who run for office that when you are republican, what is happening right now is a stain on the media s reputation that i think is going to damage them in the future. when you look at republicans in the media, 10% of republicans