stories we re watching today the first is joe biden heading to monterey park, california the president will deliver remarks on gun safety. we are also following a developing situation out of ukraine involving a u.s. intelligence aircraft that was forced down by russian war planes but we start today with the race to the bottom in the republic primary the leading contenders for the presidential nomination making clear that they will not stand with the fledgeling democracy. a statement from ron desantis in response to a questionnaire than none other than fox news and america s most prominent putin defender tucker carlson reads in quote, while the u.s. has many vital national interests, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the chinese communist party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not
shows but i suppose someone finds them humorous otherwise they wouldn t be on the air. juan: i think your munchkins stay up and watch. melissa: i am going to check tonight. juan: at some point, do you think it is too much? they are jumping on the guy and it s easy material. i think combat, come back to the ratings business. you look at the best seller list, it s filled with anti-trump books and these shows. jimmy kimmel, crying over the health care business. crying over his son. i think it s helped his numbers. melissa: i would say, then why isn t there a late-night conservative media? kimberly: greg hasn t really worked hard enough. if greg wasn t such a slacker and underachiever. when i got divorced the first time. i was watching jay leno or
nation s anthem. you know as well as i do you lead from the front. that s the military s concept. you lead from the front. here we have roger goodell who is leading from the rear. there has been precipitous drops in ratings. it really begs the question of what is he doing as a leader to mend the fences here so to speak? one thing i think he should do is take a major out of the nba s. requirement to stand for the anthem as opposed to roger goodell unfortunately he withered under the pressure of the players. i think it s a travesty in the wake of the nfl trying to do better things for the community. pete: you raise a great point about ratings. they are down significantly this year from 2015 to 2016. i m a cowboys fan, too. i m sorry for that i m a vikings fan. we are in the ratings business as well. if our ration are down significantly you wouldn t be signing a big shiny contract. you would be leading from behind. thank you, darren. as always, pete. pete: planned parenthood under
megyn kelly, bill o reilly and bill bickle was fired this weekend. the worst problem for them are the ratings. we have had how many years of number one fox dominates now we have got a situation where fox is third in the demographics and they have had this massive turnover in their primetime lineups. i think this ratings business is a real problem. here s the danger, the only thing fox has going for it right now is they think to be the place, if you voted for trump and you want to see positive cover raage coverage, you turn to them. if this president goes down in flames, what s left at fox right now? i really think it is a dangerous
other. trump brings ratings to fox and they re in the ratings business. fox allows trump to reach the very voters that he needs to get nominated. so it s a good thing. over the weekend, actually this time last weekend we saw fox basically ignore trump and once ailes and trump got on the phone they seemed to make nice and fox ratcheted coverage of tr trump back up. he s back. donald trump joins us on the line. good morning to you. glad you re back with us and you re friends with us again. we ve always been friends. great to be back with you. let s start with the elephant in the room. the fox issue is resolved. how did that come about? i have a great relationship with roger ailes. actually i didn t understand what went wrong because i felt it wasn t really i was not treated fairly beings and roger called me the other day, and it s absolutely fine. now, that was as of tuesday. it seems like the tensions have ratcheted back up, though. on friday we heard trump talking about m