states, my friend donald j. trump. rupert murdoch is a direct line of the oval office in a way he s never enjoyed before. proximity to power. there probably would not have been a president trump without fox news. maybe we won t do it anymore with them. you give the viewers what they want. whatever his instinct is, that s what a great leader is. the channel became focused on telling him what he wanted to hear. james is watching this all in dismay. he is getting uncomfortable with the network under the leadership of his own father. but lachlan and rupert s view was why would we change this? we ve never had bigger ratings. and cracks inside the family are starting to appear. it s august 2017 and rupert murdoch invites bob iger, the head of disney, to have a drink with him at his $29 million vineyard in the hills of bel air. rupert offers iger a glass of wine and they begin to talk. like rupert, bob iger s an empire builder too. for years he s been buildin
they have different ideas about management and they have different ideas about politics. lachlan has tailored his politics to suit his father. by the time he s in his 40s, lachlan is described as right of rupert. and he is on board for the trumpification, if you like, of fox news. we have to give you news and information you will not get from the destroyed trump establishment media. rupert and lachlan are quite happy with what fox is doing. the ratings are strong. the network s popularity is growing. but james still believes that he can turn this network, that he can make it a more moderate, more responsible news organization. and in rupert s view, james is just wrong about this. this is a complete non-starter. you would hear people make comments about james as being the sort of squishy liberal in the family. he s not somebody that the fox family should care about because at the end of the day, it s all about rupert going forward and it s all about lachlan going
i don t think he can win. he can t win, i think the media is constantly trying to see the president is good too have his next misstep for example. when you look at this texas situation where the president went down to texas, had a verydi strong coordinated effort between the cabinet agencies and local and state counterparts and it s basically sending a very strong message of unity. we are here for your texas, we want to make sure that we come together as americans. and yet you have those on the not empathetic? r that s ridiculous. i find it to be difficult to watch how the liberals are still trying to nitpick and to find any single mistake of the president would make in a case like this.pr it s incredibly infuriating because what we have seen today is a president who clearly has been a comforter in chief. sean: i ve got a question for you.
president should be getting praise here and instead there is a reflex toward the negativeth every time because that s just the way it s done. sean: you mean like russia and north korea end of the president is good to start a nuclear war? remember what the narrative was, this was the big test for the president, can he pass it? how he s passed it, they tip it to other things that something that may stick. sean: last word.to i really wish the media would unite us rather than divide us, this is a time that we have to come together. we depend on people like you to expose this, we have to come it s time for the media to bring us together, not tear us apart. sean: good to see you both, great points. we re going to focus on the people of texas, when we come t back we ll speak with our reporters live on the ground. talk about the needs of those people and in louisiana and the latest on the catastrophic flooding. the governor of the great state of texas, greg abbott. he s here to talk
and personnel, food and water and shelter. all across the affected area. this has been done because the president took action swiftly, early, coordinated with the state of texas in a way far superior than i have ever seen in the hurricane tragedy.. sean: look at where the media goes, they are worried about she was. i want you to know, texans are genuinely appreciative of the way the federal government and the president have stood up and addressed the needs. if we are suffering here in ther state of texas. what the president is doing is helping texans. sean: by my observations, the costs are incalculable in terms of the damage. i would assume the biggest challenges you have now, people challenges you have now, people are going to be homeless for a long period of time. in many, many cases entire neighborhoods are going to have to be rebuilt. when it comes to the immediate need of food, water, shelter, medicine, cots, blankets.