Like you and me just yelling at each other. At talking. What draws an audience is when, in fact, we disagree. When, in fact, we get nasty with one another. What Rupert Murdochs demonstrated is that there really was a hunger in america for something that was less liberal than what the networks for putting on the air. So, fox news was born. Fox news has been hugely successful. It earns somewhere between 1. 10 0. 50 billion a year. 1 and 1. 5 billion a year. The folks at nbc took a look at what fox has been doing and figure out if they could make news skewing news to the right, if we could make half of that, lets ask you to the left. And so, you have on Cable Television news that caters to people who consider themselves progressives, news to people who consider themselves conservatives, you have the afternoon radio talk shows, the evening radio talk shows which cater largely to the conservative. You have the latenight comedy show, john stewart, stephen cole there, that tend to cater more
Republican congressman chris collins. Thats coming up. And a big payday for barack obama. I think at a time when people are so frustrated with the power of wall street, and the big money interests, i think it is unfortunate that president obama is doing this. President obama reportedly pulling in 400,000 for a speech to a big firm on wall street. Were going to talk about the controversy around that. Also look at some examples of some expresident s doing similar things. Were going to dig into the archives. You might want to stick around for that one. A lot of fun there. A lot of news to get to. A lot to talk about. We do begin with the top story, trump at 100 or very near to 100 days, of course, the symbolic cigsignificance of the first 100 days. Dates back to fdr. President trump setting day 100. Back on friendly turf. A campaignstyle speech down there in georgia, a state he carried back in november. He was there for the annual convention of the nra. What fun that was. November 8th. Wa
Held, mcconnell rejecting schumers call for witnesses. Lets go straight to the white house. Jim acosta is on the scene for us. This is truly a remarkable leader from the president , defending himself and denouncing democrats. Reporter thats right. President trump is taking some very personal swipes apartment democrats as the house is just one day away from this Impeachment Vote. President fired off an angry letter to nancy pelosi accusing her of orchestrating a coup. He takes zero responsibility for what will go down as a stain on his legacy. His fierce response this impeachment is getting under his skin. One day away from impeachment President Trump is coming out swinging, ripping into democrats and refusing to take any responsibility for his historic predicament. As he told cnn in the oval office. Do you take any responsibility for the fact youre about to be impeached . No. Zero. To put it mildly. They took a perfect phone call that i had with the president of ukraine an absolutely p
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