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Feels like its surrendered to trump. theres a sense that trump is in charge of fox. at least parts of the fox line up. >> is it a financial decision? obviously theres some politics. is it political purely or financial as well? >> its partly political and definitely also financial. viewers -- fox viewers expect a certain message. in some cases fox viewers reject anybody who is not delivering it. look what happened with shep smith who was at fox. we are suffering through truth decay. the echo cham...

Feels like its surrendered to trump. theres a sense that trump is in charge of fox. >> is it a financial decision? obviously theres some politics. is it political purely or financial as well? >> its partly political and definitely also financial. viewers -- fox sure expect a certain message. in some cases fox viewers reject anybody who is not delivering it. look what happened with shep smith who was at fox. we are suffering through truth decay. the echo chamber is a big reason why. its like plaq...

Flawless feedback loop. the people on television who tell trump all the things that trump has either tweeted or said or felt at some point are reinforcing his legal theory of the world, and the people who tell trump things he doesnt like kind of get fired. >> i noted earlier in the fall caroline, youre on fox from time to time. you took a side on a spat that happened. and you basically were like yes, its possible that criminal conduct was admitted to by the president here. i know this ukraine sc...

Media. whats going on here? >> hes coming under withering threat. promoting his political action committee, asking people for donations in order that he can make political donations. hes out there, hes active on social media. but hes not testifying. and many of the i are plies hes getting are saying why -- replies hes getting are saying why wont you testify. hes working on a book thats due out election day next year. hes letting the legal process happen in the courts so his testimony is required...

Investigation of the crossfire hurricane that basically looks at what the fbi was doing investigating russia meddling and the connections with the trump campaign. according to everything weve seen and hear from people who have gone in for this report, it shows that this was a predicated, a legally predicated investigation, that it had to be done by the fbi. >> crossfire hurricane. yeah. all right, evan perez, thank you so much. greg brower, really appreciate your insight here. despite a warn...

Republicans. again over the northwest five, ten years. because at some point, youve this -- what we are confronting got to look more about defending the constitution as defending today is not going to be with us one human being who is sitting forever. >> thats right. in the oval office. and chris wallace and shep smith before he left fox news and >> kurt, donny deutsch. everybodys saying what does trump do now? judge napolitano and there are obviously we cant have the others at fox news who will...

Im not concerned about this one. we dont set out to be pro trump. we dont set out to be anti-trump. we set out to be pro truth. i understand in this day and age why being pro truth could be seen as anti-trump. but thats not our problem, thats not our fault. were just here to ferret out the truth. >> shep smith shocked me by quitting fox two weeks ago. the question ive heard is, do you want to hire him? >> shep is a great journalist. i understand hes not able to take any job for the foreseeable f...

Certainly shep smith was another person. but you do think what happens during the day at fox and whats important is if you watch individual shows, a host will not be opinionated, a host will ask questions and get answers from the guests. its the topic selection, its the guests who come on, and fox can book republican guests, they will not appear on other networks. >> a lot of these gop senators are afraid to go anywhere but fox right now. >> correct. so what you get is a very -- obviously a very...

This is how propaganda works. if you repeat something both sides, there will be a "both sides" that occurs, a normalizing that occurs. this is a great skill of trump, he knows he riles up his opponents. thats emotional engagement, which is the lifeblood of social media. >> thats whats happening on facebook. sarah, will trumps fox force field hold? whats the current answer to that question? >> well, i think youve seen some high profile departures. certainly shep smiths daughter was a big moment. ...

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