megyn kelly was a huge star here. number two show on cable. impact on fox, fox, i compare to the university of alabama football program this week because alabama keeps playing for championships every year yet they are graduating players and going to the nfl. i looked at the two examples. glenn beck leaves, highly rated host, fox takes off their bench five people and puts them around the table and say talk about stuff, highly rated show, same thing with greta, she leaves 7:00 o clock, tucker carlson comes, if you compare them year over year. i think the bottom line, howie, fox bus not rebuild, it reloads and that s scary if you re a competitors. howie: right. starting a show at msnbc. some people say that megyn kelly left for money. i believe she s taking somewhat less money to go to nbc.
howie: as we were saying, it was front news this week when megyn kelly decided to leave, here is what megyn said on the kelly file about feeling a rapport with her audience. that after all is why we believe here we are, human connection. the truth is, i need more of that in my life and in particular when it comes to my children who are 7, 5 and 3. so i will be leaving fox news at the week s end and starting a new adventure. joining us now media reporter from the hill. joe, let s start with the obvious.
howie: he s a fugitive from justice, i want to underscore that hold in ecuadorian embassy for sexual assault allegations. great to see you this sunday. up next, tucker carlson on the challenge of succeeding megyn kelly and responding to critics and next time
now fox doesn t have a skeptic, fair on unfair? voters want deep skepticism taped on washington specially but on all concentration of power. there s not enough about that at all. at all. our team and their team, it s very partisan but i think there s a lot of sucking up to power. now more than ever. howie: you said trump wasn t your first choice for president and you weren t sure if he wanted the job. when you launch the choice, you want to hold people accountable and people tend to lie and does that apply to the new president and the new administration? of course, it does. it will apply to anybody who is taking my money and power over me. of course. despite his flaws as a man, he was saying things that no one
for the first moment out the gate they had the story out there. when i woke up when i saw this this morning, i thought to myself, you ve got to be kidding me. howie: within hours reversed the vote on the ethics office. a lot of people credited trump tweeting but wasn t he in part react to go negative headlines. in the sense he didn t know it was going to happen in advance, he probably just read about it in the papers and it s a tribute to donald trump s common sense if he was able to see that what everybody else saw which was a bone-head move and terrible he could have said nothing. leads me to my next point, in the whole matrix of factors that cause gop representatives to back down on this, the trump tweet was the most important and showed that he was willing to go up against them and sort of bring them into line and, you