call one eight hundred, eight million former house speaker, paul ryan, is facing questions about being on the board of fox news parent company. well several fox hosts pushed election lies. here s what ryan said in an interview with commentator charlie sykes last thursday, days before the explosive filing about dominion voting systems that revealed more fox if you are on the board of directors of the company that is pumping toxic sludge, racism, disinformation and attacks on democracy, if you don t stand up now, then when? so, what do you really think? well, and i m sorry it got lost in the mail do you have any response to that? i have responsibility of my opinion in perspective when i do that, i don t get on tv and do it. so, i have a responsibility do you? i do. i offer my perspective in my opinion often. i ll just leave it at that. so, you have raised these particular i ll just leave it at. that is their red line for you at any point where yo
the most shockingly aggressive rescue bill of my lifetime is very likely to be signed into law. saturday after an all-night session, senate democrats passed the $1.9 trillion covid relief package in a strict party line vote. because senators made some changes to the bill, it now has to go back to the democratic controlled house which is expected to pass the identical senate version this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. so the bill would then go to the president, president biden for his signature. we re in the early part of march. not the 100-day marker yet. this is an incredible victory for both the country, the biden administrationings the democratic party which held together. they didn t get a vote in either house. they tried to break the party apart. that s bryns did by forcing tough votes on amendments and arguing against the bill in public. democrats won. and as a result, a lot of people s lives are going to get better. by passing this plan we would have delivered
Price in serving our country. We can answer that question tomorrow resoundingly yes, absolutely think about how generations of americans throughout our history have come together to meet the tests of their time, our parents, our grandparents, our great grandparents defended democracy. They built the Great American middle class. They marched for civil rights and Voting Rights for Workers Rights and womens rights. For lgbt rights an the rights of people with disabilities. And tomorrow we face the test of our time. So remember, its not just my name or Donald Trumps name on the ballot, its the kind of
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different perspective, or do you tune in to confirm what your perspective really is? this is the problem with anger attainment, which is a phrase ryan used. this is a problem with news confirmation bias, masking as news. this is the problem of our time. the reason democracy is in difficulty right now, because of polarization, hyper polarization. being fed by these organizations, that are dumping people into believing they are being told the truth, when the people saying it no they re lying. and corporate media, right, the wall street journal did not cover this. it s as though it didn t happen. even if the bigger story for several days, we re still talking about today. not just for cnn, but because we care about the facts. we consider ourselves a news organization. we put balanced discussion on a platform for people to listen to, but we also don t say that there are alternative facts. there s only one thing that happened with respect to the legitimacy of the 2020 election. and even
else. 18 years ago the bosses here at fox promised me they would never interfere with the guest ibookstore question i asked and they kept that promise. howard: i have known and respected chris for a long time and back in the days when he was at abc and nbc and he s the most the best interviewer. he has a seasoned judgment that only comes from so many years of covering political issues and he may be the best debate moderator. hyper polarization, chris wallace has been tough on democrats and republicans and no matter what some partisans may say. cnn is reporting that wallace will join their streaming service with a weekday show when wallace says he s thrilled. major loss for fox news, no question. as a colleague i will miss him and as a friend wish him the best. chris cuomo along with his brother andrew cuomo were discussing ways to discredit fox senior meteorologist janice adina according to cnbc and the new york post dean has criticized that