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second word in its name. yeah, i think, phil, that s the if you read your paper s piece, it puts a very fine point on this reality that s been kind of evident for a pretty long time, that the fox news channel is not a news channel at all. it s a propaganda network, and i want you to talk about how it worked in those four years. you were covering trump as closely as anyone. your piece in the paper, not your piece, but your paper s piece lays it all out in detail. take us through the way in which, the kind of symbiosis between this cable cabinet at fox news, how it worked with the white house, how it carried its not only carried trump s water but how trump carried a lot of its water, in some ways, in the white house. yeah, john, it certainly was a symbiotic relationship, and my colleagues ashley parker and josh dawsey have this great piece delving into it and trying to connect some of those dots. what we know from our coverage of the trump white house over those four years is tha
brand-new reporting on the work of the january 6th select committee in the last few weeks has pulled the curtain back on the so-called cable cabinet of unofficial advisors as the washington post puts it, a small coterie of fox news channel hosts that played a role in practically every major decision made by the trump administration. one senior administration official telling the post, quote, trump would dial hannity and lou dobbs, whose fox business show was canceled in february, dial them into oval office staff meetings. stephanie grisham, former press secretary to president donald trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many fox news hosts having the direct number to reach trump in the white house residence. there were times the president would come down the next morning and say, well, sean thinks we should do this, or, janeane things we should do that, said grisham, referring to sean
were with the trump white house. they were essentially a cable cabinet of advisors. that new reporting is next. plus, the biden administration under pressure by some of its own former medical advisors to shift the way in which they re approaching covid as case loads and hospitalizations soar. we ll ask dr. ashish jha what it will take to reach some sort of new normal. and right now, a group of ex-trump aides is meeting to plot to try to take down the ex-president. one of those former aides will join us when that meeting ends later this hour. deadline white house continuing after a quick break. deadline white house continuing after a quick break
can control. so i think that, you know, the chairman s approach that, okay, we re going to find out what we can legally do is legitimate and they re going to pursue that. i don t think he s going to lose a night s sleep if he doesn t get jim jordan in the cross hairs. there are enough other angles and a lot of other documents out there. we just discovered from the role that was played by the folks over at fox. how many of those communications actually reference a jim jordan? they talk to jim, well, jim jordan said that s that will be enough as well. yeah. and julian, to that point we have some of that here. the cable cabinet as its called. january 10th, you had hannity texting jordan and discussing how to reign in trump. you can t mention the election ever. i didn t have a good call. he is asking for ideas. and you get sort of a somewhat rare peek at least in usually don t see it in real time, maybe in the history books, julia, of just how the folks are talking