they love it. from secret collusion with the trump boy asked the firing top executives to appease election deniers, damning new revelations in the dominion lawsuit and the fox news struggle to undo the damage they ve done. my man, donald trump then you ll never guess why republicans are suddenly finding reasons to bail on cpac. and is the supreme court about district on student loan debt forgiveness? senator bernie sanders on that and much more, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. i am back and very happy to be so. while i was on vacation, i missed a shocking story that just broke. we knew some of the contours, i ve been following it closely. but now, we got a whole host of damning new details on what may be the single most destructive institution in all of american politics. of course, i am talking about fox news. this fox door is the rare kind of story where the truth turns out the be even more cartoonish really terrible than
the trump boy asked the firing top executives to appease election deniers, damning new revelations in the dominion lawsuit and the fox news struggle to undo the damage they ve done. my man, donald trump then you ll never guess why republicans are suddenly finding reasons to bail on cpac. and is the supreme court about to strike down on student loan debt forgiveness? senator bernie sanders on that and much more, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. i am back and very happy to be so. while i was on vacation, i missed a shocking story that just broke out into the open. we knew some of the contours, i ve been following it closely. but now, we got a whole host of damning new details on what may be the single most destructive institution in all of american politics. of course, i am talking about fox news. this fox door is the rare kind of story where the truth turns out the be even more cartoonish really terrible than anything you could h
confidence broadly matched his account of schlapp making unwanted sexual offenses after buying him drinks at two atlanta bars that night in october. for some republicans going to cpac every year, it s been a chore, not one party upper sums of the situation this year, we all wanted an excuse not to go, and schlapp give it to us. tara setmayer worked as a republican communications director on capitol hill, a senior adviser for the lincoln project, and she joins me now. i guess first question is, what do you think this is about? it is notable and the run up to a primary presidential year when i think these events tend to have the most cachet, precisely because people are trying to chase after those voters, that so many people are not going this year. well, there is a couple of reasons, one, they are scared to death of donald trump. let s not forget that cpac pretty much made donald trump and accepted him into the conservative mainstream, even coming to cpac for many years
there are other institutions, whether it s the black church, but the it s the labor unions that have really grounded institutional relationships with the phrase constituencies that are not just fox and rupert murdoch in a boardroom like, what do we have to feed this people? that is exactly right. and treat, joe biden as president is a testament to the fact. there are these big ideological differences within the democratic coalition. the fact of the matter is, it is such a diverse coalition, that any successful politician within it is going to have to appeal to all parts in order to win anything in the national officer statewide office. that only is not the case of the republican party but fox acts as this truly unusual institution in the republican politicians are responding to fox, not so much to voters but to fox. voters are responding to fox,
there are 70 million righteous first of all, we are 70 million races in the country, so don t worry about the. i think when you vote for trump, he thought to be a racist, but you have to be willing to think that something is more important to you than having a versus president. they just embrace that. i always thought that if you did what trump did, you would lose the voters you gained, the slope propensity voters, that you would lose them at the other and, the college educated voters, and that s what happened in 2016 right up to the comey does voters came home. i think that will be the test that those voters will stay with trump again. finally, jamelle, there is a symmetry here that is important. there is complicated politics on the democratic side. one of the things that you think is different is because it s a multi racial coalition, because it is institutionally different, there s nothing that has a single solitary effective fox does.