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Group they took it down. this is what i want to talk to you guys about today. this is report from 2016. its from jared kushner and from politico. and it says kushner says we struck deal with sinclair for straighter coverage. donald trumps campaign struck a deal with sinclairs broadcast group during the campaign to try to secure better media coverage jared kushner told media executives in manhattan. well discuss that when we come back. you ok there, kurt? were about to move. karate helps... relie...

President trump coming to the defense of the right leaning sinclair broadcast group tonight an a montage showing its local tv anchors reading the same script went viral. the topic near and dear to the president what he calls fake news. >> im jessica headily. >> im ryan wolf, our greatest responsibility is serve our >> eastern iowa communities. >> midmichigan communities, the sharing of bias asked false news has become all too common on social media. the more alarming media outlets publishing sto...

On this evening i want you to viewer to know about sinclairs connection to the trump world. the tv stations, thats the broadcast element of this operation. circuit tv is their digital arm. it was launched in 2015 who traffics a misleading far right stories like the alleged uranium one scandal. and during the election the trump came pain according to politico struck a deal. the report says that jared kushner admitted that the campaign agreed to give sinclair more access to the candidate and the c...

That concerns me, this process of the delegitimatization of these voices. kushners comments speak for themselves. and i cant say, im not in the news meetings, the editorial meetings at sinclair, about whether theyre going easy or going soft or whatever. but these sorts of things are very troubling. and any serious news organization, any serious news organization, should be addressing those and denying them head-on. >> look, though guys were looking for each other when you come right down to it. ...

Lines, and in this case with sinclair its even more dangerous because of that separation. as other guests have mentioned people are watching. they think theyre getting their local news, they connect with their local anchors. but here theyre getting this direction from the top to deliver hyperpartisan news or not even news -- opinions and in some cases conspiracy theories, the deep state and all of that. >> whats interesting i saw on some conservative sites and social media pages they posted this...

E, fake false like hope indorlss trump which moved quickly across social media and result in an ill-informed public. the other false stories like the false pizagate story and result in dangerous consequences. is there a precedent for a mandated anchor read like this? michael? >> certainly not that im aware. 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 ...

Sinclair and hundreds of tv stations across country, and another member of his inner circle has advocated for sinclair before. frank, i held the politico thing up. this was written in on december 16th of 2016. there it is from politico. about kushner striking a deal. 2016, he confirmed the trump campaign had struck a deal with sinclair broadcasting. it involved giving sinclair own-operated stations greater access to then-candidate donald trump in, change for running trump interviews without comm...

Quite critical of president obama. many sinclair stations are also cnn affiliates and share content with us. sinclair is defending itself. what are they saying? >> theyre saying this is just a journalistic responsibility promo. a script handed down from on high and thats why many of the local anchors were uncomfortable with it. it was handed down from on high. the company is defending it. heres part of a news station saying, the promo serve nod political agenda and was nothing more than an effor...

Anchors were reading the same lines. >> they published the sail fake stories without checking facts first. >> the sharing of biased and false news has become all too often. [ mumbling ] >> local affiliates reading scripts provided by the owner but this paints fake stories pushed by journalists as a major national problem and it does so at the same time white house is trying to discredit journalist whos report on him with any degree of scrutiny or fact checking. you might recall he was criticized...

He also defended the conservative sinclair broadcasting company thats come under fire for asking its affiliates to read a statement. the president tweeted, so funny to watch fake news networks, among the most dishonest groups of people ive ever dealt, criticize sinclair for being biased. and he continued to harass "the washington post" and his owner, jeff bezos, who also founded the online retailer, amazon, complaining the post office loses a fortune, shipping packages for the company. he even t...