believe these things about donald trump, we ve seen an increase in the number of those folks who say, you know what this now i m not sure. that number when say they don t know about these kinds of things have gone up. so trump s defenders have dropped from defending him to saying i ll have to take another look at that. there are very small movements in both the independent and the trump defenders and they re movements that they need to pay attention to. very interesting. patrick murray. thank you so much. my pleasure. this just in, fox news is responding to a decision by the democratic national committee not to have the network host a democratic presidential debate in the wake of a damning expose in the new yorker. i want to bring in chief media correspondent brian stelter. this, brian, was an expose that basically said fox news, while it has had an agenda in the past, has been operating essentially as state media for president trump. yeah. propaganda. jay mayer s story put t
become so normalized that we hardly bat an eyelash when trump mimics something he hears on fox & trinfriends with more e than anything he hears in an intel meeting. but who s running the ward, it seems like a media-run state. now this, the extensive reporter from jay mayer from the new yorker provides an answer the piece shines new light on previously unknown products of the trump/fox relationship. for starters, a fox digital reporter uncovered proof of the stormy daniels relationship and ensuing agreement with trump. but, quote, after getting one noncommittal answer from her editors, the last she heard from fox news, good reporting, kiddo but rupert wants trump to win so just let it go. the piece also describes through several sources two instances where trump was given advance
site that he is so associated with. what does it mean to you? well, just add to your list of sayings, he who has the gold makes the rules. that is the golden rule of politics. and i think what you saw here is the idea as you suggested that populism could meld with low tax conservativism was always troubling from the very beginning. jay mayer of the new yorker reported that the mercers had already started to break with bannon when bannon basically said he didn t like this trump tax cut because it tilted too much toward the rich. and so i think it will be very interesting to see does this push regular conservatives even closer to donald trump and donald trump everyone closer to regular conservatives. that is certainly the first effect of this book. one other quick point if i could, the reporting of michael