trixie had an awkward time they needed that to avoid damage to their pause from salt and snow. that's it for the fox report thanks for watching. "life, liberty & levin" starts now. mark: hello america i am mark levin this is "life, liberty & levin" with our guest. how are you? we will talk a lot tonight the president of the media research center the largest watchdog organization in america and i rely on that a lot. you are an author in the columnist.

you and i have been around a while we have seen presidencies before that i have never seen anything like what we have today. groupthink, with the media platforms incredibly hostile to this president. why do you think now more than ever the media shows the collective fangs quick. >> i have try to put this into historical perspective. look at how the media have analyzed republican presidents going back to nixon. they did not like him but they respected him especially on foreignfo policy. then reagan came along they did not like him either/or his policies, but they were

constantly frustrated he was such a nice guy and he was the teflon president whatever they threw at him it bounced off. they couldn't makete anything stick so there was a respect there as well. bush 41 comes around. they liked him to the degree with the tax cut increases but anything supportive of conservatives they went after him. then bush 43 comes around they considered him a dunce and white privilege. that is how they saw him. they never had respect foror him but they did not dislike him. trump.es donald it is interesting. he was born in the media to

his fame is the media as "the apprentice" onon nbc. but the way they look at it is they have created a monster in donald i trump. it's not that they disagree with his policies, which they do but they are consumed by hatred for this man. they despised him personally. when reagan died suddenly the media treated him like they were his oldest friends but they did do a good job when bush diedn recently. they were so classy the way they covered his funeral. when donald trump dies, the media's reaction will be why could he have died in 2015? this is the degree to which they despise this man. one of the reasons is because

he declared war on them. there is an arrogance that no one should ever question them and trump was the first one who declared war on them. and it worked. mark: this is a great point. republicans know the media and they try to appease them so whether it is legislatively they will take shots at their president or they go alone against their party leaders trump doesn't play this game. he is what you see that's why he has such strong support among his base but look at

romney he still failed to beat obama he is the chameleon he was one thing ran for governor another thing when he ran for president and very vain now as the senator from utah and he writes an op-ed that is not news but they make it news than the front page of "the washington post" he goes onst cnn which despises trump across the board and the republicans undermine themselves. . >> look at conservatives and romney. i am convinced when jesus talked about turning the other cheek. [laughter]k, because this is the problem. there are so many because they are afraid what "the

washington post" might write tomorrow. so now donald trump took a very different attitude and also saw the political opportunity to go after the press. the only thing people who have less of an approval rating so they were twice as good as there's so that data went to met romney. if he is on a mission to revive and restore and rehabilitate his image with the american people that was shattered, he is doing that

and will run for president in 2020. if you were met romney and running for president, what would you do? what would i do? i would write about that in "the washington post" i wouldn't wait to be bothered to be sworn in. this is the first struggle mott - - mitt romney trying to get the moderates to back him you are right about his chameleon nature. he will be a liberal when he needser to me he is no different than 90 percent of the republicans. you can count the conservatives on one hand. you can count 40 of them when they need to. orrin hatch, lindsey graham, allds of them to behave

like conservatives to win elections that romney is no different but he was so grateful for and helped him to get elected. to say it is disgraceful the spanish word someone who just takes advantage of the situation. mark: what is troubling to me that these are troubling political times because of the constitution the democrats and the media they want to take out this president they have wanted to since before he was elected just in case he was to talk about impeachment from day number one and indictments every time somebody else's charged, somehow s it's the shoe that will fall on trump. but for somebody like mitt

romney who ran for president of the united states with tens of millions of votes from republicans the same that voted for this president, does he not see the battle this president is facing on legislation, the silent coup taking place on the constitutional issues? he really must be an egomaniac to overlook all those things to promote yourself to the opposition. >> he's a politician he doesn't care what you just said he cares about getting elected. think about him with romney car care. he was the first to introduce socialized health care in his state that along comes the first presidential campaign in 2008 he should have said no one understands the problems of socialized medicine better

than i do. we tried it's a failure i will make sure it doesn't happen. what would you answer? obama never did it he took the same position on abortion he was pro- abortion his entire career now suddenly he wanted to be pro-life to say i've had a change of opinion like reagan maybe yes maybe no but he denied he ever was. this is callous calculating political stumps that is what got donald trump elected because people are sick and tired of this. this guy is just a political animal. what he sees as a republican party who doesn't like donald trump. mark: the media in the aggregate, why is it soe,

libera liberal, progressive, statist? it wasn't always that way. is that because this progressive enterprise devoured our politic politics? . >> you just hit it. the three power points today of the left or academia and the news media and social media those withs, institutions where they can change society and use them to change society. they see the work there is a book called how many words do you want? who was cronkite's longtime producer and talks about the vietnam war and how walter cronkite was in favor until he decided to change his opinion so he gave him a two or

vietnam. walter cronkite spent the rest of the war advocating he denied that at every opportunity in this book but the final sentence is we were doing the work of the lord. this is how they see it. they really see themselves a knight in shining armor the as poor uneducated member those of the conservatives. henry hyde has a a wonderful term and that's how they see the conservative movement. >> is cnn conservative? . >> no. when tom johnson was running it he was a liberal democrat in the "miami herald" i think it was but tom johnson was committed to news. there could be. problems.

and they did a lot of wrong things but but that was not the norm it was the exception. cnn is there to do nothing but anti- trump. i was going on a fox show a few months ago and i looked on my phone and i looked at the app on cnn they had 15 storiesey on their app and 13 attacked trump over something he had said the day before the 14th attacked trump on something else 15 the story was like a world war or something that 14 out of 15 were attacks on donald trump and variations of the same attackd. it is so over-the-top and so obvious. they don't report news how

many news programs do they even have? they are all talk shows. >> do you know, the difference anyway? so when we come back the government shutdown is it? as most of the government shutdown? whathe percent how does the media report this? why is it that there is a government shutdown it is republicans fault both houses of congress and we will explore that when we return. ladies and gentlemen, almost every week night you can watch me on levintv. join our community or call us at a 44 levintv we would love to have you over there. we will be right back.

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security medicare military , federal law enforcement, border patrol so with all of these carveouts , 75 to 80 percent is t fully . so it is little pieces but they keep running to air and space museum to show the trash piling up but it's a shutdown over what? budgets over $4 trillion? we have annual deficits now that are $1 trillion almost 22 million of federall operating debt unfunded liabilities of $200 trillion over the wall which is 5 billion? the government spends that on mustard every year and the same democrats, schumer and they are all on tape to support securing the southern border calling illegal aliens, illegal aliens now

today all of a sudden they pose and the media doesn't bring up those old clips they don't put things in context in terms of spending or theco budget. i set another blatant example? . >> sure. this has nothing to do with the budget. the american people have watched our government spent $8 trillion but they can find 5 billion? this is a joke. a very bad joke if the media was doing their job they would be blasting the democrats to be dishonest first and for being absolute hypocrites in 2006 senator clinton and schumer and obama they all supported building the wall is what you just said so it is falsehoods and hypocrisy.

but something else isg going on. mark: that almost the point you were making when new goingin gingrich shutdown in 94 wasn't the story on one network that talked about the workers in washington making over $100,000 a year this is the story that john q public says i'm making 30000 but now they don't talk anymore about these democrats that don't have jobs so everybody in this town knows everyone who has been laid off is on a paid vacation. because everybody will get back pay on this.

so to suggest this government shutdown is a running joke it is an insult to the american people. so where are the republicans? ac the president is here who stands i'm all alone he is where is senator mcconnell? where was the rest of the republican leadership standing with him to sayhe we are here. they had such an opportunity to w really show the face of the radical left. they are so invested in not having borders in this country that they lie through their teeth in the media gives them all the support that they need. >> nancy pelosi is in hawaii

at a five star resort and trump is here to say i'm here willing to negotiate if the shoe was on theer other foot and nancy was up in the house at that point to say i'm here are ready to negotiate would be totally different media scenario. yes. look at the whole mueller investigation. we have had two years of nonstop coverage over 2000 hours t of coverage day and night and what have we learned about donald trump? nothing. w manafort but he had nothing to do with donald trump. where is the evidence of any wrongdoing? it is nowhere to be a found. barack obama gave a speech

that said there were some in his administration nevermind the irs. >> unmasking of american citizens, then gauzy. >> it goes on and on that yet he said what scandals? the media has reported it that way. guess what he has been saying that for two years? he has said it a thousand times that goes in one ear and out the other. this is one great big fake news story they have not delivered. ultimately somebody comes up with something than the media will say see? but up until then they have thrown out all sense of objectivity against this guy. he has been on trial since day number one.

mark: is the way to look at the modern media as an appendage of the democrat party or maybe otherwise because i don't see more conflict between the democratic party agenda and ideology and most of the people in journalism. >> there is>> none. the democratic party is an appendage of the media it is so blatant with their agenda. there is no such thing as pure objectivity. you said initially in television news is what they say it is imprint is what the editor says and that's true it's very much subjective. in the case of the news media that subjectivity comes to the

prism of our radical left worldview so anything that doesn't reflect the radical left worldview is perceived that way and that's how they look at this the democratic party is following it in that sense it's not the media. mark: when we return i want to address meet the press last sunday in which there was an announcement that climate change is in fact, a scientific reality there will be no contrary views because they are legitimate otherwise you are a climate change denier and that is it. i want to know what you think about that. we will be right back.

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. >> live from america's news headquarters the partial government shutdown in the 22nd day making it the longest in history lawmakers on both sides wrapped up the week without reaching a deal to fund more than $5 billion the president wants for border security. earlier in the day he fired off a series of tweets including one he urged democrats to return to washington to and the shutdown

800,000 federal workers are not paid as a result winter storm turns deadly at least by people in kansas and missouri have died while driving on icy and snowy roads. st. louis saw up to a foot of snow that same system is moving into the mid atlantic and could dump several inches of snow around the beltway. now back to "life, liberty & levin" and for all headlines log on to foxnews.com. mark: so chuck todd decides the science is settled the government has put out another report by the obama appointees at the climate change was global warming or global cooling and now heading into global coolingng again. with those scientists and climatologists cannot predict the weather ten minutes from

now not the climate because it changes. so in order to for all your radical anti- capitalist pro-government control the economy ideology into the environment really is distractible so he get on there and announces the date - - the debate is political and he calls people who disagree with him climate deniers. first while he's not an expert or scientist look at his background it ishe very thin when it comes to academic or to experience. he worked for the harken campaign his wife is an active democratic consultant. so that ideology permeates his daily thinking and these deniers are top scientist. top climatologist.

so in all kinds of expert field fields, they know far more but he is just a player. that's it isn't this exactly the media despotism you're talking about. he was considered the gold standard. tim russert was a liberal democrat but yet conservatives respected him because tim would bring on guests that were learned on any different subject and ask questions to let there be an exchange of ideas why meet the press was such a a benevolent show but now look where we have devolved now the host who will not allow speech at all and takes the position one side deserves

to be publicly humiliated and to be sent to the woodshed for having such an outrageous believe. this is censorship pure and simple fascism. parent simple so what does this say about the news media as the exchange of ideas and the whole concept of free speech? this is the founders like jefferson talked about they would be shocked to see we would go there i think it will only get worse because they enable each other cnn had this about climate change for a long time but once he does it that happens with other networks w as well so the science that says it does not exist, the reality the climate

change people have been caught cooking the books all that now is very troubling. mark: what about these big companies if something that concerns me even more? chuck todd at 3 million or facebook and twitter they have 2 billion worldwide every single day so now you have these absolute radicals in all of these. do you know, in twitter you cannot use a dead name? this was something by one - - created by a professor in canada that is the original name you had before you transgendered into something

else so if you say bruce jenner. you are not allowed to say bruce jenner it is that bad. it isn't just censorship in the united states but think about this the greatest censorship of's free speech in the history ofns man because what can and cannot be said on any given issue i am frightened when an entire culture worldwide is updated by these handful t of companies that have that power nobody has the power that they have. >> they say the enemy of the people the people go crazy that they are a grave threat the president hasn't taken any governmental actions against

the press he has not done things that prior presidents have done like the sedition act or the council of propaganda or to shut down 200 newspapers like lincoln did. but he speaks and confronts them and points out news organizations and specific journalists and they accuse him to destroy freedom of the pressee are they losing credibility? . >> they are so obsessed they are not reporting news there isis news worldwide even in the economy in the united states so with free speech if not donald trump it is the news

media i just have this feeling he gets up and then says i will call for government action i have a feeling he truly enjoys slapping them around because they have no sense of humor and they are so filled with the arrogance of the left. mark: we will be right back. come here, babe.

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mark: welcome back so with this generation of journalists

different from previousst generations are they any more willing to show their ideology? what do you see if he word pine for the good old days? that is compared to nothing with a happen now. but today what you have is fakery. there is a world of difference between the two there is bias there is bias by omission there is false news just like going on five networks to blame a video. they were reporting false news

so now look at fake news it is everywhere. n example the ferguson missouri that was completely made up but yet they continue reporting that over and over and kavanaugh is a perfect example not only was it false but we kept seeing reports were some people in the media were so vicious that one said you t deeded to keep him away from playgrounds with children so not just harassing but now a child molester there was never any evidence provided. in fact, every single person whose name was cited denied it. >> and then waiting until after the hearings were over

that the accusers made no sense and contradicted herself. >> yes what is left on the cutting room floor is interesting which is trooper gate there was one dan rather completely lost it. it wasn't that it was a person bush family or just the evidence was a computerized piece of paper with the public didn't know is there was a whole slew of people to tell dan rather it's not true but they chose not to interview them that is an example of fake news that ushered in a new generation of news that is deliberately fake

to give a narrative that the media believes transcends journalistic efforts so the ends justify the means. mark: the idea used to be to be concerned about the big corporations cnn is owned by time warner and nbc, cnbc, msnbc is owned by comcast? and they tend to be conservativ conservative? . >> the media is the only institution where management isn't accountable in any other business there is that separation between comcast or nbc they don't want to tell them what to do so they let them runnb t amok. so no they are not conservative companies what so

ever. while we're at it one place i cannot stand whoever gave them the right the arrogance of the press. mark: you rarely hear the t word liberty. mark: ladies and gentlemen, don't forget most week nights you can watch me on levintv sign up by calling us at teefive we would love to have you 844-levin-tv. we will be right back. there goes our first big order. ♪ 44, 45, 46... how many of these did they order? ooh, that's hot. ♪ you know, we could sell these.

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mark: where do you see the media in ten or 20 years from now? i will put cable, satellite, do you think we are in the dying days if they don't reverse course to build more credibility? do you think competition from digital tv or podcast or other

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that is where we are headed and the networks will be dinosaurs but the problem they have is leading up to that is that people just don't believe them with the biases may be 1 percent of the public believed at the end of the 2016 campaign the media was out to get donald trump. that's why nothing happens to his numbers they don't believe in the press but their issue is a social media component it has a great healthiness the whole world becomes a marketplace and participates in the conversation but it's also the feeding ground for a lot of bad stuff to happen i'm very worried to have one side against each other.

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the ambassadors of it. he said last year i lost 25% of my audience this year we became the oj network and our audience went up four 100%. if you are in my shoes, what would you do? their question. in today's world we need to aspire to be better than that as a society. the thing i would say to you is you do not know it was coming. your show is so extraordinary because an hour long discussion about a serious issue going in depth with your guest. we must have more of that in the public conversation. i salute you for it. you did not see it coming but that's the limit. mark: i appreciate that and think the public wants more of this. i know it for my radio three hours a day and my ratings from this audience. what do you think your organization would keep at it.

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