resignation at the white house, sebastian gorka, a familiar face to fox news viewers. he submitted his letter of resignation. others say that he was fired. and in that letter, gorka wrote that people who reject the make america great again agenda are now ascendant at the white house, and he cited as evidence the president s speech at fort myer on afghanistan. he wrote, quote: the fact that those who drafted and approved this speech removed any mention of radical islam or radical islamic terrorism proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost. gorka was also very close ally of steve bannon, a sign that the bannon wing of advisers is now no longer ascendant but is, rather, descending. mike, back to you. mike: doug mckelway live at the white house, many thanks. laura: and, mike, critics questioning the timing of these latest moves by the white house. some accusing the administration of using the hurricane as a distraction to avoid a lot of negative coverage.
but to see scott pelley take that on as congressman scalise is an assault and self-inflicted, it s to levels that we haven t seen. i have a new term. we all heard about one upsmanship. this is downsmanship. we had president trump calling for unity. the democrats and republicans praying on the field. politicses acting for the most part responsibly here. but harmony doesn t work with some members of the media. is the main street media a joke? because you know where the bias is? look at the numbers from the harvard study. new york times, 87% negative coverage. cnn and nbc, 93% negative coverage of this administration. it s going to skew negative with numbers like that. that shows me a reflex for the negative and an agenda.
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interesting thing to look back at. that point specifically that line, i alone can fix it, was misread by so many people. so many people said it looks like the performance of power and the performance of competence. it s not the same thing, but that message cut through as we saw in the election and both conventions if you look back at the coverage, there was a lot of negative coverage for being haphazard compared to the democrats. if 25 years of reality television has taught us anything, it s that the hot mess is always way more interesting to watch than the pageantry. we have seen that in the roll out of his cabinet and seen that in the twitter statements about the nuclear arsenal. this chaotic and unconventional approach to messaging captivated people in a way that the traditional. and the rules. the round table is staying with us. they will tell me something i don t know. you are watching hardball, the place for politics.
administration that is mostly the .1%. the conventions are an interesting thing to look back at. that point specifically that line, i alone can fix it, was misread by so many people. so many people said it looks like the performance of power and the performance of competence. it s not the same thing, but that message cut through as we saw in the election and both conventions if you look back at the coverage, there was a lot of negative coverage for being haphazard compared to the democrats. if 25 years of reality television has taught us anything, it s that the hot mess is always way more interesting to watch than the pageantry. we have seen that in the roll out of his cabinet and seen that in the twitter statements about the nuclear arsenal. this chaotic and unconventional approach to messaging captivated people in a way that the