top fox executive. continuing with our theme from earlier for fox the stakes are high, $1.6 billion high but fox kept lying anyway with ingram, tucker carlson and hannity right in the middle of the hypocrisy. guess three really is the magic number. her newest piece titled what fox news says when you re not listening. michelle, i will start with this. hypocrisy, racism, stoking none of these things are new for fox news. none of these things are new for tucker carlson, but i think this is different because it appears as though similar to maybe how they handled covid, that they are treating their viewers as idiots. is that something. is that something you discovered or came to a conclusion writing your piece? i think it s both contempt
they literally sued stormy over which was their way of corroborating they paid for it. well, i don t really know what they re talking about because the payments are documented now with checks. i think they re doing gobbledygook, as in watergate where hush money was an important part of the picture and ultimately i think was the downfall of a part of the cover-up, i think these payments are going to be very, very important. interesting. and that s interesting coming from your watergate experience and sdny. nancy, i do want to make sure we re clear here because this is a dispute. i want to read what a fox executive says about this, which is, quote, daniels and her associates were actually playing a bizarre cat and mouse news game with fox and other news outlets, trying to get their story out, without fingerprints and ultimately without enough proof to publish. isn t that a fair defense for journalistic outlets who said they needed to be sure before they went with something?
a lot of people talked up bill shine to the president. the president believed he was going to be, in donald trump s words, a killer. somebody who was going to be able to strongly impact the media coverage around the president and it became clear after a couple months that nothing much was changing. bill shine was really well liked by his colleagues but over time many would say the same thing over and over again, he didn t have grand ideas. what he was willing to do was absorb a lot of the heat from the president that flows downhill towards the staff. he was willing to take some of the bruises in these fights and that meant a lot to his colleagues. at a certain point that stops being useful to donald trump. obviously the president and fox news have close relationships. one would think would else but a former fox executive would be equipped to build on that and to fill this role. again, as you said, it s the president is the communications director and seems more than
here, that he tried to influence the justice department. he campaigned he didn t want this to happen. everybody knew that the president didn t want this to happen. so gary cohen going to tell him, hey, the president doesn t want this to happen is some how an impeachable offense? i want to ask you more details about the hush money payments. fox news had this story before the election but fox news killed the story. they report when her story didn t run fox news reporter told her colleagues that a fox executive said to her, good reporting but mur dock wants donald trump to win so let it go. that s according to the new yorkers report. do you think if that story had come out that it would have had an impact? i think it is impossible to know. possibly because for some people that is the kind of issue which they would vote against someone. there was so much for what was
fascinating. one thing we should point out, and you don t see this very often, there was a separate stage set up to sort of the side of where we are in these press risers, and a fox & friends personality was set up on that riser with the president, the president came out and it was i think it was very noteworthy, don, that the former fox executive, bill shine, who is now the deputy chief of staff over at the white house, over sarah huckabee sanders, the press secretary, he was sort of looking on and almost giving instructions to the crew as they were setting up this interview, but during that interview with fox news, the president talked about the new york times op-ped, said that he believes that that is an act of treason then he went on to talk about the nfl, pledge of allegiance, national anthem controversy, excuse me, and then also talked about what he sees as this priority of his, to build the wall and the border and whether or not he thinks there should be a government shutdow