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Quickly as well, you made a decision to pull some of your campaign ads. youve spent quite a bit, especially for first-time candidate on the air. from sinclair broadcasting, can you explain that decision? >> yeah, i can. i mean, what sinclair has done with making their local reporters read their corporate script, which is sort of right wing script, this is the kind of thing that you see in places around the world that have authoritarian regimes. and its really quite scary. when i saw it, which wa...

Stories that built up and angered him over time. they covered him with scrutiny and rigger. it bothers him. he is a creature of the media. now that he is president who does he like? fox news and sinclair broadcasting going to bat for these people that want to carry his water and will willing to do so and attacking every other network and newspaper. and obviously, you know, we talk about how much of this comes from a fragile ego. my mom is the trained psychologist, not me. but any time you are cl...

Sinclair now mandates that his commentary be run nine times per week, on all stations across the country, 40% of american households and growing if a pending merger goes through. what did the president do after the sinclair story blew up? he tweeted support, calling sinclair superior to cnn and another news organization. thats fake news if ive ever heard it. lets get to the real news now. so lets get to real news now. so lets begin tonight with frank rooney, a columnist for the "the new york tim...

The democrats have really let them down. its a shame, and now people are taking advantage of daca and thats a shame. it should have never happened. >> didnt you kill daca, sir? didnt you kill daca? >> whose is this? >> president trump, you could answer these kind of questions if you held a real news conference. but that hasnt happened since february 16, 2017. thats 410 days ago. and speaking of news theres this story about sinclair broadcasting. thats a conservative leaning media company, the la...

Yes. we dont do that. cnn doesnt do that. nbc doesnt do that. "the new york times" doesnt do that. but those are the bad guys at least according to the world according to the president. look, journalism is supposed to be about coverage without fear or favor. >> yes. >> journalism is supposed to be about holding the powerful to account. >> yes. >> the powerful have every right to criticize coverage, to say its unfair, to say its sensational, to say its unbalanced. criticize but dont delegitimize....

Trump in, change for running trump interviews without commentary, which means without fact checking, without scrutiny, without anything. and then sinclair, lets see, i want to get their response in here. the vp of news said, were all about tracking the truth and telling the truth and thats typically missing in most political coverage. go ahead, respond. they said both candidates were given the same deal. is that an unusual arrangement? >> yes. yes. we dont do that. cnn doesnt do that. nbc doesnt...

They hired epstein as a chief political analyst. the russian born political strategist was a senior advisor to the trump campaign who went onto become a special assistant to the administration. sinclair now mandates that epsteins commentary be run at least nine times per week, 40% of american households and growing if a pending merger goes through. so what did the president do today after the sinclair story blew up? he tweeted support calling sinclair superior to cnn and another news organizatio...

I wish everybody in america could see the viral messages that went out depicting the hundreds of stations that they own all reading from the same script, and i think sinclair is probably the most dangerous company in all of our american media. its the most dangerous company that most people have never heard of, and the fix has been in for this merger for quite some time now. theres been cooperation between the trump campaign and the company. the company has a long reputation for twisting and tur...

President, you ended daca as my cnn colleague jim acosta pointed out to you today at the white house. >> should they worry about whats going to happen to them, sir? >> the democrats have really let them down. they really let them down. they had this great opportunity. the democrats have really let them down. its a shame, and now people are taking advantage of daca and thats a shame. it should have never happened. >> didnt you kill daca, sir? didnt you kill daca? >> whose is this? >> president tr...

It was launched in 2015 and headed by the editor of "the washington times," who traffics misleading far right-leaning stories like the uranium one story. and during the election the trump campaign agreed to give more access to the candidate and the campaign if they broadcast the interviews across the country without commentary, which means without scrutiny, without criticism, without fact-checks. shortly after the inauguration, sinclair hired boris epstein. he was a supporter of trump on this ne...