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Or love -- with mr. trump. he will also bring in anti-establishment candidates in the primary. is steve bannon still a powerful force here? >> hes relevant. certainly. he will make a big headache for the republicans. we need to remember who steve bannon is. he boasted his media platform breitbart is the platform for the alt-right, which includes neo-nazis, white nationalists and klans men marching through charlottesville. hes give a platform to people in the republican party but have abhorrent v...

Trump saying, i dont know any russians. that its now a known tool that russia would be the propaganda tool. >> its the greatest media platform on the planet. you said you asked people? theres no proof of it. its 60%, 70% of people get their principal news from facebook. it may be from "the new york times." it may be from rico or other places but facebook is an -- >> its an aggregator. >> its more than that. it directs people. shows you what you see. and its our window into the world. twitter is ...

Ill make a prediction. i think hes going to be just fine. okay? but i wont do it tonight because i dont want to cause any controversy. is that okay? >> reporter: and he vowed to shut down the government if he doesnt get money to build his border wall. >> the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it but believe me we have to close down our government. were building that wall. >> reporter: through it all, the president blaming the media for one of his worst weeks so far. >> i really thi...

Bannon loved the idea. he believes fox is headed into a squishy globalist direction. tv needs advertising, it cant survive on the love of the people who dont like requesting the globalists" and breitbart has had challenges with losing advertisers with anti-semitic, anti-black, you can continue along that vain. does it make sense, youre a businesswoman, does it make sense to launch an entire media platform if youre running people away by becoming more white nationalists? >> well hell hath no fury...

House and uses that influence and the power of the platform that is brietbart and is trying to get through the things that he cares about. >> i think there is a middle ground between he goes out and bashes donald trump or he doesnt do all of that. i think it could put him in a place. it could be that he goes back to a media platform and he becomes a voice of some of the people around donald trump. you go back 30 years to the early days. he was so popular with the conservative base. so what they ...

August. someone is dead. why cant he just go after the people who were perpetrating some of this. >> yes, actually thats what he did -- >> why not mention it immediately? >> thats what he did today. and theres three people that are dead. >> thats true. >> its a very serious issue, but the person hit and killed by someone who had these views is dead and you had two sheriffs deputies dead trying to help deal with the situation that got out of control. >> right. no matter what the president says, t...

The i-team digs into the lawsuit her family has filed against google. heard a big bang, like a crash, and our lights flick erd on and off. and that was it. >> were live in walnut creek where a crash took down power lines and will keep a street shut down all night. the state of the lake from the temperature of the tahoe water to the clarity. well look at whats changing and what we can learn from it. what point did the terrorists make, what was the point that was worth killing this young gir...

Watching the news. >> yes, we have been talking to shawn hannity, my source is him and bill o riley, sinclair wants to build a future of conservative media and empire. they already have boris but this again is the ground work for what i think is the next conservative media platform. >> jon, your thoughts. >> i have to tell you, sinclair bought the nbc affiliate here in las vegas that i used to work for. i looked at my producer, i had a program there and we are not long of the station and a month...

Poaching foxs big names would do that. this is ground work for what i think will be the next conservative media platform in post roger ales era. >> i have to tell you, sinclaire has a presence in nevada. bought the nbc affiliate here in las vegas that i used to work for. i looked at my producer, had a program when that happened, i said we are not long for this station, month later they cancelled the program, not because i am not conservative but they only want to present one point of view. and i...

Them, then what do you do in. >> you have so much money now and they are funding groups like hes ba la. the world is a dangerous place. were not going to make foreign policy on your show tonight, this is a part of the obama legacy and i would be curious to see what the president will say in his farewell address. when you say the world is a dangerous place it didnt just happen. its because of a lot of action and inaction and the fact that president-elect trump through his media platform is tellin...