A warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me nick allen our top story this hour democrats have labeled fox news an existential threat to the u. S. Describing it as a russian stooge with on the blue half of washington calling for the channel to register as a Foreign Agents. Voices in the mainstream of the Democratic Party have escalated their calls for the suppression of alternative views pacifically about Foreign Policy the target now seems to be the Fox News Network one of the most watched Cable News Networks in the United States prominent democratic voices have called for fox news to be forced to register as a Foreign Agent and specifically a Foreign Agent of russia fox news should register with far as an agent of the Russian Federation if its going to peddle the kremlin agenda and propaganda while hurting u. S. National security interests then it should be treated the same as our t. And nick these allegations and this call for suppression of fox news and forcing