and have since blamed rupert murdoch and news corp astray for their subsequent falls from pot. the company certainly has the clout, roughly 2 out of 3 newspapers sold in the country, including the australian, the only national paper or murdoch own, as is the 24 hour news channel, sky news, a straight. the petition for a full scale royal commission investigation into the murdoch factor in australian politics was kevin rudd's idea. right, however, has some history. he needs to get past as the company put it to us. it's also important to remember mr. rudd's disproportionate and unseemly efforts to ingratiate himself with news corp this trail. yet when he was labor party leader, both in opposition and government just because you're a hypocrite, doesn't make you wrong. he had no choice. be the label of power, especially by the history of the mint that he could either try and get an unfavorable treatment, get a 5 or he tried to get a favorable one and how to be pushed back to the right age. that would seem very, very good. he was still was ultimately down in power, if not by made up a

no country is more familiar with rupert murdoch and life under one dominant media player in the land of his birth, a stroke, politicians there have come and gone, but murdoch's influence over how the country has been governed, has been a constant for nearly 6 decades. the year 2020 has brought this issue to a head about 65 percent of australians print outlets belong to murdoch's news corp astray and the coverage the company has brought to the pandemic. those huge bushfires as well as the climate change issue, has outraged it's critics. more than half a 1000000 australians have now signed a petition, demanding that their government investigate the murdoch media empire and the influence it has on their lives. they've been led by 2 former prime ministers who have turned on the current pm. scott morrison has it so no one expects him to approve the formal inquiry that his predecessors want. still this petition may just be the beginning of a reckoning. and the way that news corp australia has responded, suggests that the company knows it has a problem on its hands. our starting point this w

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rupert murdoch controlled news corp is saying to things like fox news very influential in the u.s. public the wall street journal also more aimed at kind of the republican intelligentsia both. those some messaging beginnings that comes through this are indicating and sort of messaging to trump you know if the writing is eventually on the wall that he's going to have to accept and concede we're running out of time but i did want to ask you just a little bit this is of course taking place amidst a pandemic how big a role did the pandemic play in this i think it did for a very big role certainly i mean some of the exit polling of votes is suggested that essentially if you were more worried about the pandemic you voted for joe biden if you were more worried about the economy you voted for donald trump go all right richard walker thank you very much for coming at sandown some other stories making news around the world if the o.p.'s prime minister says his air force has bombed and destroyed military hardware belonging to his former coalition allies in the tigre a region tensions rose in

rupert murdoch that says it's over the conversation about an election being stolen needs to stop. so right now we are going to watch and see what those decisions look like. a truck campaign has made it an evidence of voter fraud. they have to make a choice though. do they want to live in the world of complete fantasy, or do they want to still be somewhere on the spectrum of c.n.n. and other larger than you see dealt with big on a shared set of facts. so this is a view, there's a difference among different person now that there's degree shows on fox, you can see someone looking for the cause of the very in the candidates, not. you can't simply tell people to accept an outcome because force doesn't work in a democracy. that's dictatorship, where some are reading the writing on the wall that the election has been decided when we're not there. it clearly shows an institutional crisis. i'm not a crisis, but something going on within fox about whether or not they really want to tie a lifeline to donald trump an e more. but also turn on c, n, n r m s, n b c, and see how much criticism yo

organic but really not so organic to news organizations affiliated with news corp which is owned by rupert murdoch have been in the last 6 to 8 hours putting forward the suggestion that it would be best for donald trump's legacy if he were to concede graciously it would be good for his reputation for his political and historical legacy it's noteworthy that particularly the fox news channel which essentially was considered his sounding board and perhaps sometimes his guidance as donald trump serves in the white house is now was suggesting to its viewers that he would be in a much higher public stead if he were to accept the fact that it's going to be very difficult not impossible but very difficult for him to win a 2nd term in office that is certainly getting a lot of discussion on the cable channels here in the united states which are working overnight as the vote counters process the ballots that were cast for november 3rd ok rosalynn george and they're joining us live from washington d.c. for now i thank you very much. as still ahead here on al-jazeera an escalation we coax prosecutors announced

continuing to fight for what they believe is the president's victory what is noteworthy is that rupert murdoch who is the owner of both news corp and fox news channel here in the united states well 2 of his news outlets fox news channel and now the wall street journal are putting forward arguments for why donald trump should consider being a gracious loser should consider conceding the race to joe biden even before there is an official declaration that one candidate or the other has gained 270 electoral college votes the idea is that doing so would burnish donald trump's legacy now whether or not that argument coming from news outlets that the president has enjoyed to using in public over the past 4 years well that's an outside question but certainly it is being remarked upon here in washington overnight ok rosalynn george and that live from washington d.c. thank you. also more still to come here on al-jazeera including an escalation in ivory coast prosecutors announced new charges against opposition leaders after an election marred by violence. and the 1st mosque in centuries opens in the gre

i think rupert murdoch who is in the cotswolds d id think rupert murdoch who is in the cotswolds didally flirting with the idea that they could move to some further rate trump network which i think is a real threat to fox and a strange situation. can we talk about what happens to cable television here in america? trump television, and i do not mean that by trump television i mean as trump until vision has been addictive for some in america and no cable news networks has set mike and us will happen next. what can they do but the ratings once trump leaves? do you think it is automatic that the news ratings decline here? yeah, i think it is basically automatic. it is the sense of panic who dislike trump and cnn found this amazing form of having its host delivering these outrage monologues to its audience at great length. about trump. i think it essentially propped up television ratings in a moment when broadcast cable is in decline and allowed them to put off the kind of reckoning that the entertainment industry has gone through around how we will have to deliver this stuff and some dig

that jared kushner was on the phone with rupert murdoch, the media tech titan, trying tryingt sort of for joe biden. again, that public narrative, different from the county narrative, they want don't want to mess up the public narrative, as the states were coming in, donald trump was defending, defending, arizona was the one good piece of news early in the evening for joe biden. am maricopa county has done for a democrat since 1948 that would be a big change. part of it is all those people coming in from california which is why it is such an interesting state. >> i want to also, we can talk more about these states. i want to also, nevada is that one other state out there. that is, that prosciutto thin, that phrase john and i were talking about earlier it is less than 8,000 votes right now. there are tens of thousands of mail-in ballots yet to be counted there. we are not going to get any more results we're told until tomorrow so let's bring in enrique acevedo from las vegas, tell us what you are hearing. >> yes,nerra the electoral votes from the state of nevada are cr crucial in pursu

to the point where it reportedly according to the new york times donald trump himself called rupert murdoch head of news corp. and asked him to revoke that call. you're seeing fuse between donald trump and fox in the past. recently he's been accusing the fox polling of being biased against them. the independent polling fox has done on the presidential race, remember donald trumps first presidential campaign backin trumps first presidential campaign back in 2015 he had a feud with a fox anchor megyn kelly. he actually sat out a debate in iowa that was hosted by fox protesting fox news is coverage. they made amends, obviously. fox became very favourable and donald trumps view. he would show up on fox doing interviews with sean hannity in the morning show regularly. that was his primary source not only of communicating with his base but also it seems as a consumer of fox news. he would get his information from fox news was up he would see him tweeting about new stories that would appear on fox newsjust minutes after they aired. so donald trump may feel a bit betrayed by fox's decision on arizo

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that's why i've been saying for some time now rupert murdoch really has a keep role to play.f fox news. he could come out and tell his hosts like hannity, knock it off, hannity. if you want to give your opinions on the election, fine. play with the facts. be grounded in reality. instead, seems that's not happening, because folks like hannity and tucker carlson, and they're continuing to feed a dishonest narrative showing no indication of stopping. >> you mentioned the primetime posts, but we're actually seeing, we saw something interesting yesterday. something maybe out of character, if you were to look at fox, at large, oliver. actually cut away from a white house press conference led by kailee yleigh mcenany saying li and fox's commentator criticized the move. is there a growing divide there? >> i wouldn't read too much in the network cutting away. actually, it's not really the network that cut away. neil cavuto, a little more outspoken about the president's lies, probably made that unilateral decision he was going to cut away. what he cut away from, can't air this in good

could be 55-year-old rupert murdoch. to be complete and rupert murdoch having disrupted the newspaper business and television business in britain. i don't see why there should only be three broadcast networks. i'm going to make another one. this was a big, bold bet. >> meantime, he will have to become an american citizen if he is to own tv stations here. something he says he is willing to do. >> some people are saying it will take you 20 years to get your fox network on par with the big three. are you prepared to wait that long? >> sure. i certainly intend to live that long, but i don't believe in the 20 years. >> the idea of murdoch's idea for a fourth network was like ted turner starting cnn. it's ridiculous. what does he know about television? >> wnks >> we don't think of ourselves as nbc, cbs or abc. we don't have to reach everyone. there's no question we have an inferior lineup of stations to our counterparts. it means we have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. >> we have to differentiat

he's talking about his friend rupert murdoch. there is going to be a vaccine with foovizer. americans are going to have to trust that vaccine and take it. that matters. right now about half of the people in this country, anderson, say they don't trust the vaccine. that's the kaiser pulling the cnn's polls and network polls, all say the same thing that they fear trump politicize the approval process of the vaccine and therefore they don't trust it. nol one no one is going to put a needle in their arms if they don't trust the vaccine. our panel is head by a nobel prize lawyuriet. to the extent of trump and distrust of trump and he politicized the public health process which he did. new york is one of those states. there are about seven. >> when you talk about this panel -- when you talk about this panel, this is not something that you have to wait until the vaccines start to be distributed and you are going to sit around and think about it and make calls about it. this is something that can happen at the same time as the cdc and others are viewing. >> ocf course, the president

pamela, this has always been a marriage of convenience between rupert murdoch and donald trump.rriage of convenience. both sides are saying hurtful words now, but it is still a marriage. trump may be threatening to see other people, but it is still a marriage. he is promoting sean hannity, sharing clips he likes on fox. it is complicated and divorce could be down the road, but not yet. >> right. he seems to like the opinion hosts like sean hannity more than the actual straightforward news journalists. you're tracking other right wing media outlets. what patterns are you seeing among voters? >> when i refer to a divorce, that's because there are other suitors. news max and one america news further to the right than fox news. and trump is promoting those chance now. news max seeing extraordinary surge in viewer ship. this is a channel that had 50,000 viewers before the election, now sometimes a half million viewers. there's an audience for a channel that's so far right they deny biden is the president-elect, that they promote voter fraud innuendo all day long, so some fox fans are

when fox news called arizona for biden, the president and his advisers and jared kushner called rupert murdoch, the owner of the channel, and so many calls to fox anchors, personalities, fox management, trying to get them to reverse course on that decision. that obviously did not happen. fox stuck with their decision, later other outlets included the associated press went with it as well. >> josh, we're going to ask if you have a few moments to stand by for a second because we have breaking news we're following right now. just into cnn. we're learning that president-elect joe biden was taken to the doctor's office after hurting his ankle. cnn is in wilmington, delaware. it sounds like this was out of an abandundance of caution. >> reporter: that's right, boris. we don't have a ton of information but what we just heard from president-elect joe biden's office is that out of an ab abundance of cautious he has been taken to see an orthopedist because we were told yesterday, on saturday, he slipped and twisted his ankle while playing with his dog, major. obviously, you might recall that he had been

posting disturbing sex tapes in which he and his wife are having intercourse below a picture of rupert murdoch's a busy guy-- barely has time to buy and sell urine on craigslist. and, turns out, quaid has been a longtime maga man, and this morning, the president repaid his loyalty by retweeting several of randy quaid's political opinions such as this one: "we've lost confidence in the system that elects our leaders. 79 million americans believe election was rigged, the results fraudulent. we need an in-person-only paper ballot re-vote, especially in the states where flagrant irregularities have occurred. no accuracy, no democracy!" to which the president added "are you listening, republicans?" no. the only person listening to randy quaid is his therapist, which, unfortunately, is an old boot he put a hat on. quaid also got a retweet today from the president for his award-winning pro-administration monologue from last year. >> is this the way america goes? from george washington to george soros? wake up, you sleeping giant. the lilliputians that tie you down with their fantastic dreams of icebe

"the wall street journal" owned by rupert murdoch is sending the same message right now. >> look.what fox and the murdoorurdoch empir thinks, but it's up to the voters. i will also tell you, brian, i think the white house knows which way the voters are leaning right now, how this is going. why? because they've disappeared. we haven't seen anybody really from inside the white house for more than 24 hours. why do you think that is? >> i call it a tug-of-war. i think a tug-of-war is happening in the white house as well. think about the end of a football game or any sporting event. sometimes the last minute is the most important, sometimes the last minute is the only minute you remember, and i think these white house staffers are wondering, how am i going to be remembered? how is this president going to be remembered? that's been the rhetoric on fox. how is the presidency going to be remembered. yesterday some fox members were told to stay away from president-elect after biden crosses the 270 mark. there was internal angst about that idea, backlash, and anchors on fox started to in hy

you are trying to take some measures in australia to, i think, in your words, make sure that rupert murdoch to australia's political culture what his media organizations have done to america's political culture. explain what you mean. >> well, fareed, in your introductory remarks to the program today you spoke quite specifically about how the evolution of the american democracy is seen in moscow and beijing, and, frankly, if the democracy fails or falters in the united states, it is of fundamental importance to the rest of the world in terms of the long-term health of the liberal democratic -- in australia, unlike in the united states, murdoch and 70% of the print media in australia, in my own home state of queensland, 100% of the print media. and so when i look at fox as, in the united states, i do see that that is the long-term trajectory in terms of what he wants to do in my own democracy in australia. we have seen evidence of that in the united kingdom. i doubt very much there would have been brexit in the absence of murdoch's campaigning through his campaigning newspapers there. the bo

well, that looking at now roue be -- rupert murdoch, his goal is to replace fox news.believes that with the 100 million followers that he has, that he will have an institution. >> let me play a little bit -- >> but here is the -- >> let me play, barbara was discussing this as well from the trump organization with us. take a look. >> the notion of being a loser is something that he couldn't even possibly conceive or believe. so i don't think he believes that he's a loser quite yet. it's a matter of resting this loss as it were from the victory of biden and he'll do anything, he will do -- michael is absolutely right. if all else fails, he'll burn down the house. >> i've been talking to michael cohen and i think we have, as i mentioned, sometimes this happens, zoom issues. do i have you back, michael, or no? >> am i back? >> i think you're back. one, two, three. what i was going to ask if you can hear me and if not, we'll make due. barbara was agreeing with you about how much it bothers him to feel like a loser but in distinction of what she said, oh, that he'll do so ma

and, look, loughlin and rupert murdoch, if suzanne scott is not going to do it, maybe they should stephen they drill down into the earth. they drill down into the ground and find a new low. and it is beyond reprehensible. i don't know how to describe it, but if you watch it, you understand that it is just dangerous, dangerous stuff. >> evan, how will president-elect biden navigate this information environment? >> well, it's interesting. the strategy that the biden campaign has adopted, and i was beginning to hear about this in the planning stages, essentially even before election day, look, if it becomes clear that president-elect biden has won this race, what they were going to say, and they are saying, is, look, the law is clear here. the vote counts are clear. the only source of confusion is coming from the out going president, donald trump. and what they did not want to do, and so far has not participated in, is being drawn into the invention of a dispute, to say there is one where one doesn't exist. they are moving ahead. their plan is to convey the sense of inevitability at this

is now an editorial in the wall street journal which also happens to be owned by news corp and rupert murdoch who also owns fox news channel again suggesting that the president should think very seriously about conceding the election because there is no realistic way given the process the way that the count is happening in these battleground states that he can make up enough ground in order to claim the 270 electoral college votes needed to win reelection so that trend is starting to take off overnight here in the states ok thank you for that update rolls and join in that live from washington d.c. . let's take a look now at pennsylvania there joe biden is ahead of donald trump by almost 29000 votes a wind there will propel biden pasta to 70 mark had it all and is following developments in philadelphia. the secretary of state here in the commonwealth of pennsylvania was very hopeful that the votes would be counted by this time they're not i think a lot of people thought they would be but the group the count has dramatically slowed in stock clear why that has happened what is clear is every tim

his colleagues who are defending trump to the bitter end are only protecting their profits, rupert murdoch'sat paul ryan was thinking when this happened on thursday when fox news and one america news all showed giuliani's melt down for 90 minutes. fox is feeling pressure from the right, from newsmax. i think that's why they aired the press conference because newsmax was airing it. their ratings are going up, up, up because they are providing an alternative reality for trump fans. they claim the election is not over. greg kelly is the highest-rated host on the network. he is saying anything trump says still prevails. kelly and people like him are ignoring trump's delusions. that's what it is at this point. look what happened on his twitter feed the other day. trump thanked his sister for tweeting her support for him. but the account appears to have been a parody. look at the headline in the "new york times." no, trump's sister did not publicly back him. he was duped by a fake account. he was duped by a fake account. he was fooled by someone pretending to be his sister. it's sad at this point.

someone who's not evenin donald trump is someone who's not even in the white house, and that rupert murdoch fox news, last night on fox news saying that, effectively, it will do your legacy good if you leave with grace and good if you leave with grace and good humour. and you are so loved by the people, laura ingram was saying, that this will only benefit you. i listen to that late last night and thought, that is telling that fox news commentators are starting to see that. then use of the wall streetjournal today saying that the writing is on the wall, and the new york post said the same thing. i remember speaking to a republican strategist, not a pro—trump strategist, not a pro—trump strategist, who said to me on the day of election, was, watch fox news, a fox news go hardline, this is not a legitimate election and carry that on, or do they distance themselves from donald trump and the murdoch empire has distanced itself from donald trump in a big way in the last 24 hours. we are joined now bya the last 24 hours. we are joined now by a distinguished fellow in law and government from penn s

rupert murdoch basically engineered much of this predim amt for a big part of the english speaking world. we've seen the seeds of this issue on like climate change where conservatives have been persuaded to ignore overwhelming evidence. watch the former prime minister of australia recently confront a murdoch appear rachic about the damage he's done. >> the company you work for and its friends in politics like trump and others have turned this issue of physics into an issue of values or identity. now, saying you believe -- saying that you believe or disbelieve in global warming is like saying you believe or disbelieve in gravity. you've turned something that should be a question of engineering and economics into undiluted ideology and idiocy and we are paying the price in delayed action to address global warming. >> i mean we've seen the exact same phenomenon play out with covid. murdoch broadcasters turned h h hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug, into a supposed miracle that, quote unquote, experts don't want you to have. now we're seeing it with this broad refusal on the right to accept

fox news channel and now from the wall street journal which are news organizations both own by rupert murdoch's news corp these entities are now trying to make it palatable for donald trump to think about conceding by appealing to his ego by saying think about your legacy if you step aside graciously that's going to look good for you it's going to help your popularity with the american people certainly with your supporters you see this sort of whisper campaign actually starting but it's notable that it's being led by the wall street journal and by fox news channel whether or not that's going to be traction whether it's going to be enough to persuade the president that perhaps he should. say that it's going to be almost impossible at this point for him to try to win reelection and concede to joe biden will have to see but certainly it's notable that you have these 2 very prominent news organizations putting this idea out there where basically everyone who is watching the vote count happen is paying attention to it and talking about it i was serious rosalynn jordan reporting live from washington

by donald trump, which may be why you have seen some very influential republicans, including rupert murdoch's is inevitablejoe biden will be the next president. let's go to las vegas, where james clayton is. you told us that it will be the hour when mr trump's's supporters come out. i can see them behind you. it doesn't look like there are terribly many. what are they doing, what is their mood, and are there more coming? yes, there are there more coming? yes, there are not loads of people here, probably about 50—60, but i would say that there are people with guns here. i willjust show you the kinds of people here. heavily armed, one man wearing a hawaiian shirt, which would suggest that he is part of the boogaloo boys, an american militia responsible for some terrorist acts. we are getting a lot of anti—media staff here at the moment, obviously, a lot of suggestions and claims that the vote has been stolen. not providing any evidence of that. just hearing that right now, some shouts about the media. i was here last night at another protest, and it was a pretty good spirited protest. once agai

rupert murdoch is saying it through "the wall street journal" and through "the new york post." i mean -- >> the world is saying it. >> george w. bush is saying it. other republicans are saying it. there's no upside for mitch mcconnell to continue this charade. >> no. these lawsuits that we have seen already time and again have been rejected not just at the state level, but by the supreme court in some cases and i want to underline the point you made about recounts. there was a recount in 2016 in the state of wisconsin because that state was so close, it was actually jill stein who initiated it and then hillary clinton's campaign joined it. donald trump actually picked up votes so his margin got bigger in a recount so that's a lesson that the trump campaign might remember as they ask for recounts. but shawna thomas, joe is right, that the more time republicans spend on this, the more time they go down this path that has no end to it and less time they're looking at the senate seats in georgia and mitch mcconnell knows that. it's a little bewildering why more republicans -- you b

i wonder if it might be someone like rupert murdoch. it's interesting, actually.twork has been pretty much rolling on these... i don't want to call them demonstrations or process, because there is no trouble at all here, this is more of a carnival atmosphere. there are no reports of any trouble. lots of people walking around having a good time and singing and dancing and all of that kind of thing. but the fox news network has been rolling on these scenes all afternoon. that won't please the president whatsoever. he was pretty swift out of the blocks calling the race forjoe biden along with the other networks too, and of course, you will remember from election night, that long, long election night, that long, long election night, that long, long election night that you've sat through and we sat through, that fox news called arizona very early, which absolutely infuriated the president. so, yes, it could be a family member, couldn't it? but i do wonder how long and how far it will ta ke wonder how long and how far it will take perhaps for the realisation to sink inf

and he calls it as he seesit rupert murdoch and he calls it as he sees it without fear or favour orgets. there is about 20 ca rs president gets. there is about 20 cars in that. yes, which must be about what the beast takes up when it travels round washington, so we have to stop everything while the motorcade moves round the place. joe biden, i guess will come out, if true to form, what he will do, then is come out of that motorcade, get up is come out of that motorcade, get up on the stage, and address his supporter, and —— supporter, and what i am seeing from democratic strategists and hearing from them, the message seems to be patience this is what we expected. could happen, obviously it is not what they wanted to happen, but they are urging patience on their supporters to wait for their results in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. if he were to win the blue wall and won it already we would be having a different conversation but we don't know which way the states are going to go and we don't know when, even we will know who has won the states because that will decide presumabl

i respect rupert murdoch for what he did in building fox, he was a pioneer. >> is that what you wantt least compete in that space, and take market share primarily away from them? >> cable news market is a $6 billion market. fox has had half of it they have no competition we are the first we have the distribution now to compete with them head on. and i think that the country needs -- fox was very schizophrenic, joe, in this previous election. in its support and consistency about the president. i think newsmax was consistently supportive of the president. i think he was very disappointed, he has told me personally that he wasn't happy with the fox news coverage, and you know, the election night where they called arizona but they wouldn't call florida and a number of other things, you know, they won't report on vote fraud. newsmax is talking about that. we don't believe there's a conspiracy but we are talking about those issues, and i think the president should have the right to contest the election if it's that close. >> but saying that fox wasn't -- that you were supportive of the pre

disinformation that i think was intended to foment violence, but not only that, but "the new york post," rupert murdoch's "new york post" came out last night after that and you look at "the post" this morning and blasted donald trump. downcast donald trump makes baseless election fraud claims. >> wow. >> in white house address. that's "the new york post." this is fairly universal. mike, i talked to one of trump's closest confidants yesterday and he was laughing at the fact that donald trump is looking for his james baker. and this confidant of donald trump said he got rid of all of them four years ago. it's laughable. like when hitler invaded russia, stalin's generals couldn't fight them because all of stalin's generals had been purged five years ago. so trump finds himself in his own political battle of stalingrad and he doesn't have any generals around. he doesn't have any james bakers around. he's pushed everybody out of his orbit that had any intelligence, any capabilities, any abilities to actually work on issues like this because all he wanted were yes men and relatives who quite frankly have never

it is rupert and lachlan murdoch , it is the people run breitbart runople who smacked -- who newsmax.they say the election isn't legitimate, that is where the energy is. what we need to be watching is all those entities over the next 75 days. where did they land? because where they land is where think most republicans feel they have to follow that. , let me allow you to wax philosophical. given what david highlighted about the media and polarization at this emergency of a reality where facts are not agreed upon, how do we find common ground? is it possible? theomebody who works at failing "new york times" where do we find common ground? maggie: it's a great question and one that i have been asked a lot and one i wish i had a better answer for. i'm not sure. the nature of partisan news david was describing is one of the biggest impediments to moving forward. the 2016 election was the first time it wasn't just a difference of opinions, but a difference of describing which reality people wanted to see. i don't know how that genie gets put back in the bottle. process.e a very slow what wi

it is rupert and lachlan murdoch, it is the people run breitbart, it is the people who are running newsmax they say the election isn't legitimate, if they say trump is the thing we need to double down on, whether trump's head of state or not that is where the , energy is. what we need to be watching is all those entities over the next 75 days. where did they land? because where they land is where i think most republicans will feel they have to follow that. alex: maggie, let me allow you to wax philosophical. given what david highlighted about the media and polarization alternateergence of realities and parallel universes where facts are not agreed upon, how do we find common ground? is it possible? as someone who works for the alternately very successful and the failing "new york times" where do we find common ground? maggie: it's a great question and one that i have been asked a lot over the last four years, and one i wish i had a better answer for, other than i'm not sure. the nature of partisan news david was describing is one of the biggest impediments to moving forward with an agreed-

laughlin murdoch yeah rupert's son rupert son just said we love competition i see trump's plan b. and it's not the 1st plan b. . the gag about w was that he was running to puff up his resume he really wanted to be the commissioner of baseball and the commission itself writes about it in his book. for the love of the game bud seelig said i didn't want to be commissioner george would have done a great job he had a great personality and i love the game but i'm funny thing happened in florida and chad so that's how it happened yeah well known documentary that's out there right now i think i might be in it i think a star and we're going to be right now that special 2020 election night coverage i'm rick sanchez with will expect that you'll be with us in just about 45 seconds. on larry king question being listening learning you know i've always said i never learned anything when i was talking it's important to listen to. question more. major questions birth new questions numbers just as stars and lists as the sea and bring you all inside just to see death and. if drive all that remains i

ruperts are ultimately responsible for what's on the network in the coming hours. one member of the family agreed earlier with what you said on fox saying she agrees the murdochs haveibility in the moment. >> it's so odd because there is no credible evidence of widespread fraud. none. so if you are a fox reporter or anchor, somebody not on the opinion side and you're going to abide by this crazy instruction, you might as well hand in your press credential at the same time because you can't be taken seriously as a journalist. >> fox is acting as an arm of the trump campaign. and trump is treating fox as an arm of the campaign. they've been on the phone all week haranguing people at fox about the arizona call that jim acosta said, they're furious about. the trump campaign wants fox to get in line, and it sounds like, based on brian's reporting, they are getting in line. >> i think you're right, abby. i wonder if this memo had gone out had the president and his family members and aides not completely freaked out on fox for calling arizona. from everything i'm hearing and we're seeing it on the air, there is a -- despite what some commentators have said on the air, the