science guy coming up. and also making the beat debut is one of the few live witnesses from the january 6th committee hearings, an expert who stuck to the fact about donald trump s lies and found telling the truth can become something of an act in the maga universe. all of that is coming up here but our top story right now is about democracy, and i d like to clearly tell you what we re trying to do around here. so let me tell you up front right now this is a little different than our typical start to this news program the beat. right now i m going to try to walk through the broader path of how democracy is in danger even beyond how that point itself has become a kind of rhetorical refrain in washington, a refrain that is also true. so we re going to go through that right now, me and you together, and then turn to a special expert on this a little later. the mid-term elections may occur on one day in november, and we know that, of course, is election day. but these primari
like one. i should clarify i should clarify i don t say that s why they fired me. i ve heard conflicting different stories, but definitely but definitely fox viewers are not happy with he. it is definitely true fox viewers were not picking up what we were putting down on the decision desk that night. people got very angry about that and i did lose my job. you lost your job, so let s narrow in on that. were you given some other valid reason, written historical performance report, some real reason you were suddenly removed after what unfortunately perhaps for your career became one of the biggest what i call a non-troversy, a noncontroversy but you were associated with this call. were you given other reasons? well, first, fox doesn t owe me a job. i ve worked in the news business for a long time and it s like that, right? you re in, you re out, everybody s fired, everybody s hired. i don t care.
investigator sit. a noncontroversy. it involves the president of the united states. he was talking to a bystander briefly outside the white house because at these invited event, sometimes people can get up to the president. and then an easter bunny mascot walked by. it s a short moment. here it is. that s all it is. so we wouldn t even talk about this on the news, but i want people to understand when we talk about the two worlds we live in in america, we re not talking about debates over policy. you and i, fine, you mentioned you have been at it longer than me, but we have been around where you debate the policy and someone says i think the federal government should spend less on schools. leaf it to local. other people say, no, some of the poorest schools need more federal money. that s just a debate. i m not going to say people have a different view one way or another. those are policy debates.
not do the dougie? what? now they re saying godoogie. don t torment me like this, control room. what is it? anybody? jerks. all right. well, let a take a look at blitzer doing it, whatever it is. see? as i said the dougie. i m going with dougie. as i said, the controversy was a non-controversy, and representative ocasio-cortez responded to it on twitter with this. quote, i hear the gop thinks women dancing are scandalous. wait till they find out congresswomen dance too. have a great weekend, everyone. and she posted this video to go along with it. take a look.
i want to get your thoughts on this, this float appeared in the new year s day parade and it has a lot of people triggered, you can see why. it has a sign saying border detention center with a nearly naked adult in one case and a child in a cowboy hat in the other. your reaction to this. i read the article surrounding this and it s a noncontroversy, it points to the same thing as last year welcome to 2019 where everything is racist and sexist and everyone needs to be offended at that return. we have to stop this, we are killing comedy and killing humor, that s a problem because that s really the glue and the fabric that keeps americans together such divisive times. a couple of decades ago we would all be making fun of each other you would see chris rock at a stand up and he would make fun of me for being black and he would make fun of kathy for being cuban and we would all laugh together and walked out feeling better about