Go ahead democrats paying for a kremlin designed in part, a dossier that was compiled by this character. It gives donald trump every trump huge card to play to say i told you partisan which, muellers investigation is a partisan witchhunt also cleared present the report says the antitrump was originally hired by the Washington Free beacon. And a republican ripping into donald trump. And much of the press hails flaking and bob corkers as hero. The more these politics will become normalized then we cannot afford that. Far beyond the review this shows the insanity that has overtaken the Republican Party. For all of you sinners heading for the exits, people like bob corker and jeff flake, guess what . Take your other collies with you. Mitch mcconnell, john cornyn, goodbye are the senators courageous or quitters . Plus msnbcs it spends Mark Halperin of a Sexual Harassment allegation so he loses book and movie deals after apologizing. There are dozens of occasions. With so many accusations rocking the media, hollywood and corporate america, has there been a cultural game change . This is mediabuzz. The unsubstantiated dossier about the president and russia has done enormous media attention. But now the Washington Post is exposing hillary anclintons campaign and the dnc funded the research by spending millions on the law from the hired a Research Outfit using gps which in turn hired next british spy with ties to the fbi that wrote this report. And lentils are really talking about the real collision with russia. As with the Clinton Campaign and the dnc on both of these matters. So says Sarah Sanders be joining is now, anna palmer, coauthor of the playbook column. And a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner good and joe, the democratic strategist on fox news contributor. Months of many tributor. Investigations about alleged collusion between the adam oneal and russia, does this story, which is been covered on all networks, make it look like democratic digging . This was an heexcellent report. It certainly changes the narrative. It means that the media really has student brought in the narrative when it comes to russian collision. We are seeing clearly both sides there is an interest in going this route. So this is a big thing. It changes how we will talk about this for the foreseeable future. And it does not make the democrats look good. Joe, you seen most a lot of research. About this british spy, who is paying for this, as they were dealing with russians to find out more about the republican nominee. I think with the media has missed is that all campaigns do this. But no campaign sets out to find fake or phony information. We higher Opposition Research firms defiance of the other side doesnt want the others to know. I agree theyll do this but how many campaigns of someone, that this is all secret obviously, talking to kremlin officials . I mean that has given us an entirely different that is was different. It is not who paid for it, it is about was the kremlin, in both campaigns. I mean was it eating fake information to Christopher Steele . Was a guinea pig information or information in exchange for something for the Trump Campaign . Out of the desert who paid for and i think that is crucial. Some journalists will send the democratic lawyer involved lied for this. And then the New York Times quoting sources saying that clinton didnt know about, the former spokesman now it says he doesnt know about it. The media is going to pursue this question of all the money being spent, who actually knew about it. I think that report is months have been trying to get to the bottom of who funded the dossier. Cnn reported about this a while ago. We have political indolence went to the people i think it is that they did not tell the truth. I think youll see more reports, there will be more digging. And more digging on what happened with the free beacon. I do want to mention people forget that most organizations will not touch this, it was buzzfeed that made it public by saying they had no way of confirming whether these allegations are true. The president tweeting this morning saying it is not all of us al with focus on phony trump and russia stuff what hes trying to get tax reform. There so much guilt by democrats. Not a factor pouring out to do something. So the reader beacon, does the conservative news website hiring fusion gps, the dossier came later but still, this raises a credibility issue. It is a partisan issue. Hiring one of these firms. I think the Washington Free beacons explanation of what they did was fantastic. They were completely open and honest, they did not run from it, they said this is something we did. The only was not subject of investigation. There were other candidates that fusion gps was looking into. I think the reader beacon needs to be careful that there were reporting that fusion gps about disclosing they had hired fusion gps. I think that was problematic. But overall the explanation was good. That is a really important point. There is nothing wrong with hiring some outside form to help you. Firm who is doing this and you explore that hell is not a big conflict . It is. There are things that are conflicts going on here. But we do this for a living, right . But i think whats happening is that if youre trying to find these things, trying to hunt them down, go to where they are. So if the facts are leading you to something with trump and russia, that is where the Research Form will go. If it is in the bahamas and thats where the Research Firm will go. The question, because this is been an internal document, they could go after negative information. The question is if any of it is true. Because from the Campaign Points of view, that is what you want. [multiple speakers] cnn went walltowall starting flooding occurred msnbc as well. They reported that romulans brought the first indictment, except a little detail that we dont know who is it there were a few mentions but then the political, Washington Post, did not have a story. Is it hard to stay away from story that is not confirmed when it is all on certain Cable Networks . Frenzel as reporters us what we do. Youre trying to confirm but you have to be right. I think k youre trying to confirm what happens, everyone is focused on it. Obviously the president is as well. It might not be a huge depending on who it is. It could be someone very low level. I think lets move now to the republican and citing. Steve bannon has turned himself into a major media figure. Working the press, using breitbart and herecruiting candidates has he become a media and Political Force in this cycle . Absolutely he is actually really i think a media manipulator. He knows what narratives will energize his base, energize what has become the trump base. Get back to the president and other president s set the narrative is huge would you say that admiringly or as an miinsult . It depends. Sometimes i think the narratives he latches onto are very true and are very helpful and there are not a lot of other people calling them out. So circumstances, absolutely. And you got kind of famous running a campaign. Is it a mixed blessing when the operative is a bigger media figure than the candidates hes trying to recruit . That is definitely the case that can be a problem. I think steve bannon was a base waited for the Trump Campaign. He was just not as high profile. Now that it is time i think he is more powerful and having a bigger effect particularly within the Republican Party. The lead story the other day, Steve Bannons efforts, due to his efforts to recruit today warned that kind of media treatment . Isnt as big a deal oh just let you write about it and talk about it . I think any time there is tension there is a bias in the meeting. Imagine if emmanuel went out when clinton was president said im going to recruit candidates you dont want. I think that is the tension on obviously very interesting. We are following this on a day by day and minute by minute basis. Youre saying is a really good story. Lets arget a break. Let us know what you are thinking. When we come back, to republican senators and the president. Is this war being trumpeted by the press . And the top contributor with more Sexual Harassment allegations. Depresses brenda a republican civil war. This was to republicans trigger an avalanche of coverage. Is difficult to win a republican primary these days if you disagree with the president on anything. Or if you counter his behavior. Which i do not think that we ought to mobilize. Any other republican must now look in the mirror and ask themselves whether they have the courage to do what jeff flake and bob corker have done. I mean jeff flake has nse as part of the business. We dont need him, lets put it bluntly, left his own devices do think that they president is a threat to National Security . I did there is several people around him that work in an effort to contain him. As i mentioned at the open, have media organizations largely fourthgrade jeff flake and bob corker as courageous . I think theres a lot of focus for two reasons. Theres a lot of people are saying behind the scenes as they are coming forward. Again, this is a fight brewing in the Republican Party and be love nothing more than to cover a good story about a fight. Ali also saying things that journalists and commentators have said both publicly and privately and they can say that look, this is not as being biased, look at jeef flake and bob corker. Trump is chaotic and i think theyre very convenient proxies were reporters. The majority of them would never consider themselves part of this. But they do not like trump and when speaking about all of this language they become i think really convenient proxies were reporters. I think we do not hear a lot about the democrats. First of all there is tension on the democratic side but you never see, i mean this is new. With two senators the other side of this, if you are a reporter and you are hearing from republicans on this come behind the scenes come off the record athen it is fair to convey that these people are heroes or courageous for stepping forward. In the middle of congress, it is very mean this does not happen. I absolutely agree that theres a lot of coverage. Its the way it is framed. The president , one of many tweets, lets put one up. He said jeef flake cannot get elected dogcatcher and is now fighting caskets. And in both cases, bob corker was on bunch of morning shows. And then the president was attacked and he counter punched. Does it seem to you that both sides want despite . Certainly, you do not see bob corker or jeef flake shying away from the dialogue. They clearly have put this and are driving the narrative. That the second way of stories and things being retina says, you know jeef flake and bob corker dont make the harshest criticism for they both announced not running for another term. And they were safely out. So theyre not brave after all. I think that is fair. Because if you go with bob corker was in contention for a vp slot. Secretary of state at one point. Both of them, if you are of that mindset you can say it enables the trump phenomena appears another facing 10,000 electorally, i think is a fair point. But i think you can point out that if you look at jeff flake, part of the reason he could not reelected because he wrote a book about this. Said he was brave maybe we werent paying attention but he has been at this for a long time. Some say that these retirements are a win for donald trump because he is getting rid of two senators clearly that have very strong feelings against him. And of course it all depends on whether democrats end up winning but could this be seen as trump taking over the party and other people are having to leave . The party is taken over. I mean this is, these are two wins for him. That is why there are struggle in the party. Did you look at polling data, 57 presort of the party in terms of the coverage, is it properly cast as a deep divide . For one, it is being called a divide. The most coverage has been, brave and courageous for these guys to do it. And not so much of this is a big win for donald trump. Okay thank you. It is good to see you all this sunday. Coming up, the new york reports on another actors accusing Harvey Weinstein. His is producing a change in the culture . And the republican civil war. If you want to stay on top of your health, one simple thing to do is take the pledge to go and get screened for the cancers that might affect you. So stand up to cancer and take the pledge at getscreenednow. Org it only takes a minute to take care of yourself, and nothing rhymes with org. With the russia investigation and the political wars hitting up we have mark joining us originally stuck dons vice this story about Hillary Clinton and the democrats funding dossier, it was broken by the Washington Post. We looked at cnn and msnbc, they were blaming us all as fictitious creation of fox news. They ignore the fact that it started with the Washington Post. This is just fanother example a fundamental disconnect between some of the media to have been banned in reporting. Fox report has a bigger audience and reading them cnn and msnbc combined. Speaking of ccnn, went to get your take as a former reporter. They had this story based on the source that Robert Mueller has someone he knows is sort of been confirmed king announced monday. Hours and hours of talking, we do not know who it is. It could be a small fish, could be a big deal. What you lemake of this endless speculation with the missing facts . You want to look at who leaked this. If that is in fact what happens tomorrow. But the other factors give some liberal outlets jumping to conclusions and speculating on when it could be what we do not know. Will is seen in the past is that they rarely actually result in charges or issues that are related to what the original charge was. It was usually something completely unrelated to what they were originally looking into. We just do not know at this point. Im not trying to outlaw speculation on igtelevision but the identity of the person that legibly is going to be indicted, obviously is a big deal. Let me move not to this internal battle of the Republican Party. With the president going after jeef flake and bob corker. And they both announced that they returned to does is great with the white house would call a distraction of other issues for example, the president having his big presentation on the Health Emergency on opioids . Because the press loves these fights. I dont think so. I heard Ari Fleischer say, there always it does only stores at any given moment about the white house. So work on tax reform, work on repealing and replacing obamacare. All of those things continue regardless of what may be being discussed in the media. But the one thing, and i will say i have faith and the elected leaders. All of them on the republican side. When it comes time to vote in on something that the president and the other republicans are talking about for a long time like tax cuts, reforming the tax system, that is something that they will have to vote for. Say do not by this distraction, the idea that love the media oxygen is consumed by the political sniping, less on the issues of the white house is pushing. This legislation was actually done on personality and relationships, obamacare would already be repealed because of lindsey graham. As i mentioned, do think that mike pence has been covered fairly . Or is there been an attempt to drag him into the russia situation saying that he should have known something or does know something . Avenue b there is always this tendency to try and draw distinctions between the Vice President and the president on any given issue. We saw this during the campaign. Mike pence makes it hard. He makes it very difficult. But the thing people dont understand, i think some of the media are starting to get this. Remarkably Close Relationships with the president and the Vice President that they have. They are in constant communication that can become good personal friends. This is one of the biggest champions out there for the president s agenda. So i think a lot of the narrative is shifting recently. And had to get them moving. Has the media covered the Vice President fairly . By and large i would say yes. Great to see you thank you for coming in. Coming up on mediabuzz, the president says that this makes him look more uncivil. Is this true . And sexual allegations rocking hollywood, msnbc, fox news, even a former president. Well take a closer look a flood of Sexual Harassment allegations have now reached morning show. Msnbc suspended the coauthor of game changer over accusations reported by cnn from five women unnamed when he worked it abcnews a decade ago. They say that he kept propositioning them for sex or engaging in unwanted kissing and groping. While more women are going on the record saying the Washington Post that he kept pushing her to sit on his lap. All this prompting and apology. Our hearts break for mark and his family. Because he is our friend. But we fully support nbcs decision here. We want to know more about these allegations. We want to hear the stories. We need to know what happened. And were not going to avoid the story just because he is our friend. Meanwhile the latest New York Times on bill oreilly having had his fox contract renewed after privately settling a 32 million Sexual Harassment case with former fox analyst which we