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Why do i trust everything? i mean, at the end of the day, and i think trump plays into this and -- and -- and it's part of putin's whole modus ap ran die is to make people distrust the idea of empirical facts. that there is one side that actually has fact and another side that has falsehood. trump plays into that and this video does in a really horrific way. >> shep smith sadly and surprisingly announced his resignation from fox news on friday. but one of my favorite sort of, you know, exasperated sheps was he calls news it's real fake. he calls news that's fake real. and then donald trump in ...

President trump criticized shep. he would tweet against shep. the president seems always to promote the opinion shows on fox and attack the news division. for example, he attacked that fox poll this week that showed impeachment getting a majority support among americans. david, your reaction? >> well, one of the things is, you know, with trump doing that, it really can wear you down. i mean, some of your reporting, you talked about him, about shep just wanting to move on. maybe being tired of this. you know, i heard some of that from megyn kelly when trump went after her on social media. she w...

To have. they a business decision the murdochs are making. it's unfortunate because the fox news audience is not served well by having uncritical views of what the president is saying. there's no dispute about the fact that the president doesn't and unless somebody says that on fox's air, theres no way the audience would know that. that's unfortunate. shep was very good at that. >> julie, you did sue fox for harassment and retaliation. you mention the secondives in in charge. do you have a personal axe to grinds against them? >> i have no personal axe to grind. the person i mentioned is no lon...

News, throwing up his hands after months of tepgzs with fox's opinion shows. shep had the power to speak truth, to provide a reality check to fox's viewers who hear pro-trump talking points all day long. but he won't be there anymore. his last day was friday. and i think this is bigger than fox. it's a sign of what's happening in america and to america. people sorting themselves into tribes. tuning out inconvenient information. and right now this phenomenon is most intense on the right which is why shep smith's exit is a cultural moment and why it's shaking up the journalists who are left at f...

Here is that over the years, there was not a history of fox opinion hosts criticizing the journalists. and over the course of the trump administration, more and more the opinion hosts have been criticizing the journalists. and so that really pits bias against straight journalism. i think julie's pretty much nailed it. that's a huge part of what frustrates the journalists at fox news because they shouldn't be arguing with people who are there to comment on the news and completely neglect what was just reported by the journalists. >> and a lot of fox critics say the journalists are complicit by ...