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Options, while the las vegas attack is still being investigated. james. >> james: micah, thank you. president trump will go to las vegas tomorrow. he has spent much of today coping with another catastrophe and an area touched by that disaster. this one produced by nature, the present to speaks with officials and citizens in puerto rico. two weeks after hurricane maria devastated the island, we have fox coverage. we are in san juan with a look at conditions on the ground, outside the glare of a p...

Janice: yes. arthel: irma is not done with florida just yet. packing high winds and causing storm surges that threaten the entire state. bill hemmer is live in orlando home to disney world, irma is the big attraction there. hows it looking? reporter: good evening to you and eric in new york city. coverage will continue at the top of the hour, two hours of "fox report" and see what we get central florida. we just were given a hurricane warning alert. sandra smith, co-anchor with me as the fox cov...

Poll numbers would remain flat. the market only effects, you know, relatively small number of people. and, remember, the market response is anticipating what hasnt happened. everybody is assumed we would be on tax reform now. we are so far behind on tax reform. and also incidentally on infrastructure that we may not get tax reform at all. the best we might get is tax cut. because everybody agrees on tax cuts. and that could blow a hole in the budget. so i think -- rocky days ahead. >> bret: all ...

Market would go up and the poll numbers would remain flat. the market only effects, you know, relatively small number of people. and, remember, the market response is anticipating what hasnt happened. everybody is assumed we would be on tax reform now. we are so far behind on tax reform. and also incidentally on infrastructure that we may not get tax reform at all. the best we might get is tax cut. because everybody agrees on tax cuts. and that could blow a hole in the budget. so i think -- rock...

>> but exactly how liberal, how biased is the press? for the answer to that, we have to go to social science and now for the first time in a while, we actually have some real data. a new study from researchers at harvard university looked at ten major news outlets, found the overwhelming majority of coverage of the new administrations first 100 days was hostile. >> yes. thank god for social science. joining me, author of the study, thomas patterson, professor of government and the press at shore...

The health care issue and of the immigration issue, its also overwhelmingly negative. there wasnt very much good news for donald trump in those two issues in the first 100 days. so to some degree, the press is reflecting whats going on out there, but again, theres shrek activity to focus primarily on whats going wrong, rather than what might be going right. >> finally we put on the screen a graph that shows the seven outlets, overall the coverage they had for president trump and people can see, ...

Not. but its not cater of bias. it is an cater of negative bias, the press is looking for whats going wrong in an administration. when you look at trumps first 100 days, it is more negative than clintons or george w. bushs, but this has been a tough 100 days. i think even if you asked donald trump would you like to do it all over again, i think he would say yes, lets restart the clock. so this has been a very rough 100 days. i think press coverage reflects that. >> and to your point, if you roll...

These policy and leadership controversies, how big they were. they got twice as much coverage as substantive policy issues. in hillary clintons case, her e-mails got about four times the coverage of what she was saying on all of the issues of the campaign, domestic and international. and she said a lot about the issues. so it wasnt as if she wasnt talking about them, but the press was concerned primarily about her e-mails. >> shifting to president trumps first 100 days, well put another graph on...

The press is looking for whats going wrong in an administration. when you look at trumps first 100 days, it is more negative than clintons or george w. bushs, but this has been a tough 100 days. i think even if you asked donald trump would you like to do it all over again, i think he would say yes, lets restart the clock. so this has been a very rough 100 days. i think press coverage reflects that. >> and to your point, if you roll out a travel ban and it gets stymied by the courts, and you camp...

Politics. at the same time, we have the polarization, you had that wonderful tape out in montana about peoples reaction to the body slam. you can see that we are polarized. a lot of that is working its way into political discourse. so it is more negative but the press is concentrating on whats going wrong. >> professor, we love to claim that we yes or arn for more substance. theres a pie chart that says coverage was 42% in the 2016 race about the horse race nature of this. only 10% of coverage w...