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Country, we're not talking exactly brain trust here. and so i think, you know, what we have is donald trump increasingly speaking only to his base. and creating a second sort of narrative of what has been going on. you watch fox for a day, you will hear none of what the rest of the world essentially is reporting about the trump administration. >> clarence, building on sam's points, and given your role as a student of american politics, there's an argument that this goes -- say again? >> and television. >> and we're on television right now, if you want to get into it. there's a larger argument,...

O'reilly, roger ailes and then shine himself. we're going to cover this from a couple important angles. first, joined by clarence page to look at the politics. sam, why does it matter if a president is hiring an executive like this? >> well, i mean, aside from his record in terms of dealing with sexual harassment -- which we'll get to in a moment. >> the relationship he's had with fox, and the way that fox has been responding, tony snow came and worked for the bush administration. but there was some daylight between fox and the bush administration at that time. not -- they were more focused on...

Trump both benefit from this close relationship with the stories, that's kind of part of sean's snarky reference to, you know, none of your business, i've got my secrets, but the fact is that they are very close in terms of setting policy as well as setting the public image. trump, one of the great legends, one of the great myths is that donald trump hates the media. as we've seen. we loves the media, that he can manipulate and only hates when we don't cooperate in the way that he would like. so it's going to be interesting to see how effective bill shine is in helping implement that game plan...