Legislation that would end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana. When it comes to the topic of cable news, a new goal from Quinnipiac University has responded about who they trust when it comes to coverage, and the survey concluded that overall it was fox news that led the most trusted coverage. What is your most trusted news source . Whether it be Cable Network local news, or other sources as well. The numbers are on the screen. You can post on twitter, on our Facebook Page and you can email us. It is Quinnipiac University who does many polls on a lot of different topics. Their latest look is at journalistic coverage among Cable Network is and other Coverage Network news and other coverage as well. Mr. Paul malloy joins us. Thanks for your time. Can you tell us about cable news including the result that fox news was on top . Guest we approach the dust we approached this with two things, first, do you trust them a great deal or somewhat and we went down in major cable news networks. And then we asked the question what provider you trust most. In the second want, fox news came up in the second one fox news came up on top. Host did folks indicate why it was the top new source . Guest no, we really just as the questions. Sometimes it has to do with politics and sometimes with the media. We did not ask the why. We just as the who do you think. Host did the people you talk to indicate whether they were republican to my democrat, or independent . Guest we broke it down demographically. There is a fairly layered answer. Host if fox was on top, how did the others ranked . Give us a sense of how that worked. Guest ok, let me kick this off for you. Fox was on top, and then followed by nbc, cbs, and abc. They were all clustered fairly well. The one that did the worst was msnbc. But generally, fox was on top in the horse race and then 22 for cnn. Fox got torn 9 . 15 of the people were undecided. Foxtrot 29 . 15 of the people were undecided. Host one of the topics that came up was the peoples ability to trust in their local newscast. What did you find . Guest we found that the big winner was local Television News from the asked that question. Local Television News was trusted a great deal in the end in large numbers. And we put them together, they ended up ahead of everybody. Local Television News, which takes a bad rap in some cases looked better than others nationally. Host did that surprise you . Guest weve never done these questions before on a personal level, so yeah, a little bit. It may be an indicator of something, that people turn more to their Hometown News as far as what they trust rather than the networks. Host one of the things that folks talked about against the dark about cable and local news, talking about network news folks were asked about brian williams. What were the respondent answers . Guest should he get his job back, and by margin of 42 to 35 the answer was yes. We also asked about bill oreilly, should he be fired for his reporting inaccuracies, alleged reporting inaccuracies. 12 said that he should and 23 said that he should stay. Not a great number for oreilly but not an overwhelmingly damming number. Host tim molloy from Quinnipiac University. Where can folks find the full and refer them the polling and refer themselves . Guest if you Google Quinnipiac poll, it will pop right up. And we break it down by states. Host mr. Malloy, thanks for your time. Guest it was a pleasure. Host and one of the takeaways, when it comes to fox news particularly 20 of those participants said that they trusted a great deal and 35 said somewhat. We want to get a sense from you about what you trust when you are consuming news. The lines are on the screen. You can comment on twitter and facebook as well. And send an email to us. Alice from st. Petersburg, florida is the first up. Hi, would you trust the most when you go to news . Caller i am 56 and i will be 57. I read newspapers. I follow the news on the internet. I follow reporters on twitter and i get news as it is breaking. And i watched all the Network Channels for news. And i think what im when im listening to this quinnipiac poll, but i really think is the people i know that view fox news only look at fox news and they cannot listen to anything that conflicts with their preconceived notions and their political leanings. And i know it in my own family. And its just the latest. Just the way it is. I suspect the reason fox came up highest is because they have loyal viewers, whereas the rest of the population goes to the pbs news hour, or watched cnn unless they are going on and on about old planes that had disappeared for a month or whatever ridiculous thing. But really, i think the majority of people below the age of 65 get their news from a variety of sources. The most unfortunate thing in this day and age is the decline of the local newspapers. Because my newspaper that i get now, well, the thinkers burke times is gone the st. Petersburg times is gone. There is the tampa paper. But its not what it used to be. Host that was alice talking about her News Consumption habits. Its good to lets go to texarkana. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have been trying to get in for some time. I mostly watch in bc and msnbc. Nbc and msnbc. Well, there are certain programs i watch every day. I watch morning joe in the mornings. I switch it back and forth from cspan2 morning joe. Host and when you watch the program, why do you trust what you are hearing from morning joe, or whomever youre listening to at the time . Why do you trust them . Caller they have different people am a different viewpoints, and you know, they discuss unlike fox news, its got to be just their way. If someone comes on that they disagree with, they have a tendency to cut off their microphone and stuff like that. Its childish, really. And i think any network that lets them post continuously lie over the air and doesnt stop it, i dont think theyre very credible. Sean hannity, can you two occasions where he deliver lee i can give you two occasions where you deliberately lied on air. Host that is fair. Maryland, independent line, go ahead. Caller there is no news outlet i mean, cable outlet in this country anymore. The only place where you can get news is on the internet wave is breaking. When it is breaking. Otherwise, you cannot see any good news. Thank you. Host cortez is up next. We are talking about most trusted news source, whether it be cable or local or otherwise. Germantown, maryland independent line. You are next. Caller good morning and thank you for cspan. I tend not to watch tv anymore. I find it to be boring post i do most of my newsgathering through the internet. As an independent liberal, i have trouble with fox news because they have mischaracterized me most of the time. I search for my news all over the world, which might mean south america one day, Different Countries in africa, depending on where the story is coming trying to get a local flavor. The problem is, the news is out there, but you have to go searching for it. And if you search for it, you will find it. The trouble is, it takes some work. That is the approach i use. Host how do you judge the ability as you search through these various news sources . Guest i tried to get duplicate of sources, ones that more or less will back each other up. That is the timeconsuming aspect of what i do. Or example, if im trying to find something out in russia or china, it might not always possible because the sources are limited. But it, you can do it. However, it tends to keep you up at night. Host and that is cortez from germantown, maryland. You heard the court does the quinnipiac poll you heard the quinnipiac poll about most trusted news sources and at the top was fox news. Maybe it is your local newscasts. Weird some people talk about newspapers. And in many cases this morning weve heard the internet. If you want to weigh in, the numbers are on the screen. It was an open letter to the leaders of the Islamic Republic of iran from 47 senators about the nuclear talks. That is headlining most papers today, and also drawing response from the president. This is the wall street journal or cap this is the wall street journal. If you go to senator tom cottons website, you can pull down a copy of this letter and look at it. It is an open letter as its called, 47 senators signing onto it. The same letter that was released yesterday true reaction from the Vice President , drew reaction from Vice President joe biden, a person who deals in foreign relations, saying the president was asked about this open letter during event yesterday, in which he responded directly to it. Here is his response. [video clip] i think it is ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with hardliners in iran stop it is not in iran. It is not the usual coalition. I think we will focus right now on whether we can get a deal or not. And once we do, if we do, then we will be able to make the case to the american people, and im confident we will be able to move on from there. Host the president resorting to that open letter from 47 senators. We will talk about the next segment, a look at the iran negotiations overall. We will hear next from barbara in louisville, kentucky. Democrats line, youre next. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host youre on, go ahead. Caller im very cynical about you sources. On which fox more than anyone else. But im very sake of a News Organization or he knows a news culture that depends on opinion instead of giving me the news. All you have to do is tell me what happened, where it happened, and how it happened and i will figure it out. Im very, very tired of panels of experts pontificating on tv and telling me this is news. It is not. Host is that typically during the opinion programs of some News Organizations, or during the newscast during the day you how does that work for you during a newscaster in the day . How does that work for you . Caller it is agenda and im tired of it. Im tired of being able to tell your politics and who you probably contributed to by listening to you. Im tired of news that is slanted. Im tired of everybody take on it. I spend a lot of time on the internet getting my news. I read foreign newspapers on the internet. I no longer subscribe to my local paper because it is so biased that i dont think in the history of the years ive been reading it they have ever endorsed a republican for office. And i will eat perfectly honest as a democrat, i dont think my party has a monopoly i will be perfectly honest, as a democrat, i dont think my party has a monopoly on good judgment. At this point, im almost ashamed to be a democrat because im extremely disappointed in all of the Democratic Leaders nationally. Host ok, barbara from kentucky. Nick from illinois. Hi, nick. Caller hello and good morning. Nbc news is at the bottom of the news because they are people like Chris Matthews who make comments like why people can only be racist. Then they have people like al sharpton who make over 7 million a year and still of 5 million in owe 5 million in back taxes and is still not in jail. Host sean on the independent line. Caller i think people look at the news wrong. People trust people, and that is were the problem comes in. People should look at folks as animals, you know, how you look at a snake. A snake in a certain tendencies. When you look at humans, humans have certain tendencies. A human tendency is selfserving. A lot of people have an agenda when they are giving you the news. You can never take any news as value of itself. You yourself have to go and research. You notice that is the one thing that every person said mostly that has called. Yes, i look at the news, then i go research. Anything someone tells you, you should research it after you hear it. The actual news itself is maybe 32nd 30 seconds, but they will talk about it for 45 minutes. They will give you 30 seconds of news and then the rest of the 45 minutes will be about what they eat and what they see and feel. Host you say cant take nothing at face value then. Caller i take absolutely nothing at face value. This is the most true thing anybody i dont care what it is, if a human being has something to do with the, nine times out of 10 you need to research it. Host lakeland, florida. Lets hear from george in mississippi, democrats line. Caller i dont trust fox news no further than i can throw them. They spend too much time criticizing and disrespecting the presidency. I think that i watch a lot of msnbc and abc world news and stuff like that. I believe that they give me better news and give the facts better. Host does it surprise you that when it comes to most trusted news that fox news was top of the list . Caller it shocked me. The reason i say shocked me i thought republicans would wake up and see that they were misleading in a lot of ways. Host john from northport florida, republican line. Thanks for calling. Go ahead. Caller hi, my name is john. Im calling from northport list of good morning. Im calling from northport. Good morning. The station to listen to his al jazeera. We trust them a lot more than the other stations compared to fox news and cnn and msnbc. When we had a situation down at the everglades and they started to do natural gas and oil fracking that was the only channel that came to help the people because they were blindsided when that happened. We feel that is the station that helped us down here in florida. Also, where i live, they were mostly ukrainian and russian people who live here. And most of the people who live here listen to that station. Host when you say help the people do you mean help them understand, or advocating against fracking . What did you mean by that . Caller picture yourself when you wake up in the morning when there is a Fracking Company 1000 feet run your house. You had no idea that this happened. You had no voice. Even the commissioners did not know about it. What happened was, they called al jazeera for their help, because that was the only news channel to try to get the word out to try to help them stop fracking in that area. Because who would ever think you would ever do any kind of fracking in the everglades . Host sherry in North Carolina independent line. You are next. Caller hi, this is cherie. Am i on . Host yes, you are. Go ahead. Caller im calling because i was next republican and now im independent. I was a diehard fox news person and back in 2008 and 2009 i started doing Fact Checking. I was just called at some of the things we were being fed. I went on cnn, msnbc, and i tell you, we need to fact check what is coming off of these new stations. I would not watch fox news more than 20 or 30 minutes before i would fact check what i was seeing. When i watched cnn and msnbc, i fact checked like crazy. Host when you say fact check given example. Where do you go to do the Fact Checking . Caller there are four different ways on the net that you can fact check. You can go to different newspapers, go to google go so many different ways. Go and find out what the truth is because a lot of times what you are seeing on fox news is their perspective. My generation may come home from work and they watch their evening news, or they watch an hours worth of news. And that is all they have time for. They feel like most of the time its not true when they are walking watching fox news but they dont have the time to fact check. And they are matt and they are angry. We need to make sure that no matter where we are watching or what papers we are reading lets see what the facts are. Host that is cherie in North Carolina. A couple of stories from the come the Congressional Budget Office when it comes to the Health Care Law and the cost associated with that. This is in the wall street journal. If you go to the pages of the Washington Times, a similar story about estimations on Health Care Law. They added this when that it was the cbo. And from washington ed from washington, d. C. , democrats line. You are on. Caller i would like to give credit to that lady who said to fact check some good to good for her. I listen to cspan a lot and im very annoyed and very sad of what is coming over lately. You can tell what people are listening to. And rachel maddow, she is worth her weight in gold on msnbc. And tamron hall, those people fact check their information they understand what they are talking about. The Keystone Pipeline, for example, they have guests on that have phd. What is coming over the networks and fox news is hurting america, i believe. I want to encourage White America and other caucasians to listen to those people who go to college and the universities and academia. They are mostly democrat sources of news information. Check these things. We are hurting our country. And we dont have a Space Program now because we have turned our back on our educational sources and this is hurting our country. Host republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I trust fox news. I have not found them to be wrong. We are not ignorant people listening to them. I have gone to the other channels and i cannot trust one that would hire out sharpton. Al sharpton, really . And cnn, they have spent so much time on bill cosby while i was wondering what was happening in the world. So i go back to fox. I trust them, and i go to the internet. Plus, i still go to the local paper. Host a couple of things. Yolanda, when you say you trust fox news, what are you basing that on . Caller i look into it more like i said, on the internet and i get some papers, usa today and i watch cspan also. I listen to news pretty much all the time. Host what is your local paper and why do you still subscribe to it . Caller mansfield news journal. Just to find out and keep up with what is going on around here. I want to keep up with my city, too. I still watch fox, and