i mentioned you re a former fox news contributor. there was a controversy about why you left fox. you mentioned you weren t being booked much anymore because you weren t promoting trump. is that what happened? to some extent. it was getting more uncomfortable to be there. i have tremendous respect for fox, they re good people, but if you were not a trump conservative, just a conservative, it was harder and harder to get air time. honestly, i ve been on tv more in the last two months than i was on fox. what does that tell us about fox, though? they were putting conservative writers who weren t always pro-trump out to pasture. listen, i think this is a trend. it s not just me. there have been others as well. it got to a point on certain shows where i learned if a family conflict came up and i wanted off the show, i could tweet something about trump and
person to respond to it viscerally. fox news newsroom could have sent people to the border to find out what s really going on. instead they make it really scary and we see days and days of coverage. i think the rest of that headline, there was an episode stil of what are the people fleeing? what are they dealing with on a daily basis that s causing them to flee? without using that as a moment of empathy, trump is using this as a reason to strike back. 20 minutes later the president tweeted, not once but
home and maybe watches 15 minutes of fox news. this can be as simple as must-runs at the end of the show or it could be copy fed from sinclair headquarters to one lone producer inside the studio. it also affects journalists because they tell you what stories you can and can t do and what angles you must take. this has been going on for years. let s be clear, you left sinclair years ago. what i m getting from these stations is it feels like it s getting more oppressive. this is something that seems to be increasing and now president trump is in office. olivia is with me. you had an experience with david smith, long-time ceo. tell us what he put in an e-mail message. he said to you the print media is so left wing as to be meaningless drivel which accounts for why the industry is
belief about foreigners taking advantage of us and ripping us off and killing our buffalo or whatever he s into, that is at the core of trump s world set of beliefs. he has believed this for 30 years. so it s not just that fox & friends are sending out false information about anything in particular, they re hitting the note that most is likely to get trump riled up. there are those at fox that wouldn t come near this. it s not that he s just listening to fox, he s listening to the very source of misinformation that comes unmediated. it s not like any of those fox. so he may be the right or wrong
it s about the commentators on fox news. those commentators love to blame obama like the democrats like to blame this president. now that we have new pictures of another chemical attack in syria, i guess i just wonder if president trump is going to take fox s advice. you would have to watch, particularly, fox & friends, because as we ve seen for the whole administration, it s almost like a pass-through. there are two questions about this. one of them is shock revelation. this is a different kind of president than anything we ve ever seen. most presidents, whatever their idealogy, they might believe things, but they would not issue preside president.