presidential announcement, president biden laid out the stakes and took aim at what he calls magats republicans when i ran for presiden four years ago i said we are i a battle for the soul of america. and we still are the question we are facing i where they re in the years ahead we have more freedom o less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answe to be. and i think you do too this is not a time to be complacent that is why i am running for reelection and with former president donald j. trump, the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024, a rematc is an actual possibility the biden campaign will put hi policies front and center, including his agenda on th economy, just hours afte launching his reelection bid president biden spoke to union workers in washington d.c. where he focused on his record one of the first things i did as president was signed th american rescue plan, whic helped save the nation from pandemic, vaccinate millions o p
fox news have had to learn tha this power of resentment can b turned against them. that was in why you associate professor of journalism, jay rosen, talking about the state of fox news on our show just two months ago a lot has changed since then of course, last week fox settled its defamation cas with dominion voting systems for almost 800 million bucks and just yesterday the company said it was parting ways wit tucker carlson, it s top rated host i am glad to welcome jay rosen back to the 11th hour. so much has changed since th one i spoke in february. what is your biggest take away over the last couple of weeks? about the trial especially, there was a moment, stephanie, when a kind of accountabilit returned to fox, where it ha to face reality that normall it can just dispense with. a good example is when the judge ruled that you will no
they are fun for two days an they give you some hints about the messaging, particularl with the president i thought his video, i gave it a b plus i was in a good mood. i thought it was pretty flat but the fundamental message wa okay the republican video is a pres stunt. that is the a i hook i remember way back in the early 90s, i had a long shot candidate for president, lamar alexander, and when we announced that we are the firs candidate in american histor to announce on company serve compuserve - when we did that at school i knoxville. so, the republicans are goin to be 100% grievance they are going to try to kee raising biden s negatives, which they have some success with but when the swing voters show up, i think you re going to se a more adult message biden s numbers are so wea right now that if they do no fix them, he s incredibl beatable but he has a secret weapon, th republicans, who, if the nominate trump again, which actually don t think they will but if they do, they get b
be allowed to say that maybe some of these crazy charge against dominion are not reall true you cannot do that during that broadcast day, fox can do anything it wants and the return of a kind of, more of a flicker of accountability is, i think what caused them to sell the settle for $787 million. 0.5 nothing really comes of it fox is the powerhouse. but things have changed. there are so many independen outlets, people can get thei voice out there. look at the power of a joe rogan. it does not have a major cable network or broadcast new network. yes, and that could happen. i still think the odds favor the company. it is true that the company is always bigger than the individual, but it is also tru
that the audience is bigge than the company with fox, because that is another lesson from this trial. is that the combined power o the core audience of viewers a fox forced the company t support stop the steal and t give it time and space to thes crazy accusations abou dominion and so it may be that tucker carlson is able to lash back a fox, but i think the power o an individual against a compan s flight, but the power of th audience is huge let s talk about that las lash back at fox, do you foresee other right-wing media outlet outlets now going further to the right and looking at fox as now fox corporate and woke i think there will be a kin