Since the fall of the former Afghan government on the 15th of August, media in Afghanistan has been facing new challenges that has led to the closing of many outlets, and has caused many wo
Since the fall of the former Afghan government on the 15th of August, media in Afghanistan has been facing new challenges that has led to the closing of many outlets, and has caused many wo
of the border has to deal with very, very quickly. guys. steve: on february 16th, the day after they figure out whether or not the government is going to shut down again. griff, real quickly, i know mexico is encouraging migrants to stay and work. how many people are taking him up on that offer? griff: hard to say. i would like to get back down there, guys. one migrant received that asylum and he actually text me over the weekend and asked if he could have funds wired to him to take a bus to the u.s. border line as he called it i presume he intends to cross illegally. ainsley: he was asking you personally? steve: yeah. griff: he was. we did not give it to him. journalism rules predict from giving him free bus tickets. it s an indication, listen, there is no surprise here, final destination for the majority of these migrants is the united states. they say they want to come for work and because of the horrific condition in their own country. ainsley: mexico s new president is saying you
cnn was liberal, i think, for a long time. this is different from what we have seen before. it s not just cnn. it s other news organizations. h what changed? i worked there a long time ago from i think it was 1990 to 1993. but i think a lot of news organizations in the past three to four years have undergone aea huge seed change last two months to three years campaign 2016. i talk about in the book, i there this is a confluence of6. factors including we have now invited pundits and political operatives into our newsroom not just as commentators and pundits but reporters, anchors in but reporters, anchors in editorial positions. sometimes little meaningful difference now i think betweenns the people reporting the news and the political operatives who want to advance news narratives. that s a problem. i also think that the establishment, i m talking democrats, republicans, and the media establishment have exempted themselves from the normal journalism rules and rules of political behav
normal journalism rules and rules of political behavior because they see donald trump as such a big threat. they would say a hitleresque threat. that means they don t have to follow the normal rules of journalism in this case. i think it s more of a threat to the system of favors, money, and access that has been developed through what we have known as a political establishment. tucker: it s not just the conventional left-right thing. they are liberal, trump is conservative, they hate him. there is something different going on. populism with trump that scares them? i think it s the fact that washington survived, as welyouknow as well as i do. access and money where people have spent decades paying into certain politicians, democrats and republicans alike, to make sure certain political hearings don t happen. to make sure certain laws have provisions written in. all of a sudden, overnight, all of that access they have bought, all the hard work they have done as lobbyists and so on is