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Half sentences from the front runner to every issue that we just listed? well, he thinks that he knows. >> reporter: he's got basically the guard of the conservative media, fox news, the websites, all the stuff. they just don't hold him accountable because they're worried about losing viewers and they don't want those ratings to go down. that's just the reality and just the truth. i'm not complaining about it. i would rather that not be the case, but it is an objective reality. >> joining me now is the special correspondent, he's also the author of network of lies, the saga of fox news, donald...

Governor kemp, those are complicated cases. those two gentlemen fought, you know -- refused to go down the trump road, refused to become an election denier. beat david perdue in 2022, and then won by nine. you know, that's a guy who's been rewarded political. in a state like georgia where a lot of suburban republicans don't have any taste for donald trump, there's an incentive structure that's set up there that could reward politically reward taking -- doing the right thing there's also a lot of crazy there. all right. no one is going anywhere. after the break, we'll turn to another story ou...

Of the party is very much with trump and they create an incentive structure that forces republican politicians to act in ways they probably know fundamentally are a little bit off. >> and the problem is, they're not -- i don't think it's that they're not smart enough. most of these people come from deep red states or deep red districts. they just don't give a damn about the party. republicans lose in '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23. that's not tuberville. he thinks, i'll keep being re-elected in alabama. meanwhile, swing voters, independent voters, republicans in suburbs are going, wait a se...

Overarching point that it was political performance. that it speaks to the incentive structure right now in our politics. where people aren't focused on trying to gin up public outrage, and trying to keep the base activated and motivated by having stunts like this on the house floor. two point, george santos, someone who has fabricated nearly every imaginable part of his background, really getting off scot-free as it relates to the support of his republican colleagues. >> adam schiff did his job on the january 6th committee, on the impeachment committee, you have witnessed all of the various i...

On the one hand, he is the only person pulling in double digits. so in a way, trump going down is great for him. but the problem is, his whole strategy has been to try to co-opt trump space by going even further right than trump. trump's mean, i am meaner. trump does not like schools? i am going to chase teachers into the coat closet and slam the door behind them. i am going to persecute lgbtq people, i'm going to persecute black folks, i'm going to persecute the immigrants who literally fuel the economy of my state. i'm gonna persecute mickey mouse. i am even wilder than donald trump. so the ...