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Fox news was number one in viewership. today fox news has an average of 1.86 million viewers in prime time. cnn has 722,000. fox more than doubled cnn and msnbc in prime time. >> you came from cnn. what struck you when you got here? >> when i was working at cnn we had a large staff. >> we have a super large staff. >> we have like twelve. everybody has to be nimble in order for us to stay on top, to stay competitive, and to stay number one. >> and you know you talk to roger ailes about that and how you stay fresh, and he constantly encourages us to think outside the box and to do something diff...

Why's this a big deal now? >> i think two things. the competitors are a step ahead. and so, in some ways, facebook realized that they were a step behind. it's also different to be lobbying washington. that's an important thing and these companies do it, giving to lawmakers already there. but it's also important to get ahead of the game for these big-time companies and their employees trying to pick the people that are going to be in congress and hopefully, you know, have a better climate for their company. >> okay. i'm curious about consumers in all of this because with facebook and google inc...

But now we're one year into it and suddenly yesterday morning on the anniversary of the one year of the stimulus, oh, no, no, the impact is going to be in the future and because people really don't feel it, you can understand why she'd spin it that way. >> yesterday on the anniversary, joe biden wrote an editorial how the stimulus had helped people from losing their jobs. he says only 35,000 jobs a month are being lost. then the chair of the d.n.c. was on our show yesterday, tim cane and he said that number was a different number. so which one is it? >> a year ago today, as you know, the econo...

Know, the economy in the last month of the bush administration was losing 722,000 jobs a month. that's what we were shedding. we've now gotten that loss figure down to about net zero. second, we were going through a protracted period of gdp slumping at an annual rate of about 6%. now gdp has grown for two quarters in a row at about a 6% positive. we've seen a dramatic turn around in this economy in the last year and even economists like mark sandy, who was an advisor to senator mccain's presidential campaign, says the recession is ending largely because the stimulus is taking effect. it's grea...

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