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The core question, tim, the reason why i mentioned i dont look at this as just a media segment. we dont do a ton of anniversary segments about, i dont know, cbs news division or whatever. the question to you is, is todays republican party different because of the existence of the company fox news? >> look, i think that theres no doubt thats the case, ari. in some ways fox is a reflection of the audience in addition to fox being a driver of the audience. i think both of those things can be happen...

Moderate democrats. and wed all beg him, dad, please dont send us these emails. and then my mother started researching. and she started finally sending him saying this isnt true. heres the proof. you know, whats your source? but it got really bad in the family and eventually we had to block him and not accept his emails. it was really hard trying to avoid arguments. hed pick me up at the toms river bus station in new jersey and hed have rush limbaugh blasting, as if like youve got to hear him. h...

Might be able to provide on issues. what i got back from them was a lot of the same desire for the conspiracy mongering that you were hearing on the prime time shows. and so i think what youve seen over time from fox is this kind of blurring of that, where people are getting conspiratorial information in a very, if you will, straight news type package. and i do think that has an impact on people. i think that it makes people feel more comfortable about believing these types of conspiracies. >> y...

Politically partisan program as if its true will really set you back. it seems that even though very practiced consumers might have a good sense of the difference, the act of getting people in suits and what looks like a newsroom or what looks like a news division continues to give a level of deference that theyre not entitled to if theyre just putting out false information. again, i mention that its not criticism, its for the well-being of at-risk people who might be getting their covid informa...

And i think that that really did have an impact on their audience that primed them for donald trump. they did not any more see the democrats as their fellow americans that they disagreed with on issues, they began to see their fellow americans as the enemy. so when donald trump starts using this dehumanizing language, i think that that resonated in a way that it might not have in a decade or two prior as much as the audience had been listening to fox. and i think that is really the change that w...

Wilmington, north carolina, journalist is standing by for me a senior political reporter for the wilmington star news, in storm coverage mode for the last week so politics aside there tim, you know, you tell me, you know, weve got all these picture of people boarding up, you know, all these store fronts along the main drag there in womenlington, you tell me, are people heeding the warnings to get out of town? whats the story? >> well, as of today, officials with the hanover county government hav...

Leaps and bounds, we have five times as many people living here as did in hurricane hazel in 1954. meteorologists have told me this is a once in a lifetime game changing event? >> so tell me about your newsroom. how you are covering it. where you all are hunkering down. >> reporter: we have some reporters staked at centers in counties and several hunkering down in our building at the star news, which is a brick fortress that has no windows. >> wow. >> so we will ride it out through the storm and...