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good morning. im erica hill. >> and im jim sciutto. this morning mexican authorities have just finished autopsies, sadly, on two americans killed in mexico, now their families are waiting for answers with just how this happened when a group of four friends were kidnapped just across the southern border, two survivors are now recovering in a hospital in texas. ahead, what were learning about their ordeal, the effort to bring them home and broader law enforcement issues in mexico. plus...

To anything resembling journalistic ethics. of course, the larger stakes arent just the misinformation being fed to fox viewers, its the degrading of our democracy, our ability to reason together, and thats why this trial matters so much. its not a corporate scandal, this is something that affects the whole country. whats been revealed is that fox is not primarily a news organization, it is a partisan political operation and it is far closer to "the national enquirer" than the national review. >...

Pretext for what you saw but as usual was seen and youve got to wade through a lot of lies to get what actually happened. so what happened next is cnn? first is to get rid of the unique and his weird pop by accomplice, theyve made it clear they want to destroy free speech. no news organization temporary employee people like that it is disgraceful. as for who replaces ogre, we hope it is somewhat better. with him gone it is at least theoretically possible that it will happen. we didnt like zucker...

Company and we learned over the weekend he made many of the programming decisions. james is trying to assert himself but hes limited. >> it remains me of president trump and his children. in some cases ivanka trump getting credit for trying to moderate our father. maybe the same thing happening here with the murdochs. >> i think all of us back in july of last year wondered, why the hell, youre getting rid of roger ailes and yet you keep in place his, you know, his right hand man, and then now we...

>> as a public service, a politician -- >> are you going to share -- >> im going to share what you do in a situation like that. >> tell us. >> when somebody is screaming and everybody is uncomfortable. >> and screaming "f" bombs at you. >> you stare and smile and then at the end you take off your glasses and you turn to somebody and you go, an old harry truman joke, well mark her down as undecided. everybody laughs and then you go and find the first baby to hug and move through the crowd. >> and...

>> sean: i think first of all, you reaction to it. then an issue of okay, they have been suspended. the broader point here. they apologized. what should happen? >> its not a free speech issue, because its a private company making ils own programming decisions. its a question of taste. i think from what we heard of the clip i dont listen to the show, i regret to say. it sounded like it was tasteless. i cant blame people from objecting. on the other hand, it sounds like they are in business of bei...

>> sean: i think first of all, you reaction to it. then an issue of okay, they have been suspended. the broader point here. they apologized. what should happen? >> its not a free speech issue, because its a private company making ils own programming decisions. its a question of taste. i think from what we heard of the clip i dont listen to the show, i regret to say. it sounded like it was tasteless. i cant blame people from objecting. on the other hand, it sounds like they are in business of bei...

Gu lating to chris christie, a viable candidate to the president, encouraging him to run and inviting him to talk with rush limbaugh and being impressed with him. two things going on. from a business standpoint, roger made a lot of programming decisions and a serious smart political mind and knows chris christie is, a, a great candidate and, b, makes for great television. imagine the visuals of chris christie running against barack obama, just the physical differences makes for compelling televi...

Does. i watch them on tv just like everybody else. i dont ask to see them before he does them. you know, i dont ask what the topics are. i dont look to see if they impact our advertisers. i just want him to go out and do the story right. and theres other -- you know, i look at it as doing the right thing and supporting journalism and theres other projects im doing as well. >> one fact is media writers arent reporting on dan rather because theyre not seeing the reports. hdnet is in about 23 milli...