i'm saying for ari fleischer to be making this point people say ari fleischer's job is to sell sell -- and was ari fleischer says the press is critical -- meme i wrote theay book becausei want our democracy to have the press were people say when somebody says that i trust them. if somebody says that i believe it and i want to press to talk about what happened and leave the interpretations to the people. that's how it works in america. as i told editors of nerc times will become increasingly opinionated and jill edinson the former director of "the new york times" said op editor and i quote her in the book the newspapers in your times and "washington post" were simply anti-trump. that's wrong. and when people inside the media say that about themselves guess i'm going to amplify their voices and my whistle. it's not good for the country. i can easily and probably wear two hats. one is working for the company that are run a sourced company and two being a student and observer of the american media. i have a lot of experience and what i've seen in the media is what led me to write this boo

bush white house press secretary ari fleischer argues that mainstream media has a bias and is dominated by the left. he is interviewed by fox news senior political analyst and author juan williams. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: ari fleischer, thanks for joining us today. >> guest: thank you. >> host: let me begin by giving you the p opportunity to tell people about the book, the thesis. >> guest: my thesis is that the mainstream media is one of the biggest causes of the polarization in america today. that the number of stories they put on the air that were wrong, most of all of which were to get donald trumpmb and hurt republicans or conservatives, the number of stories that they suppressed which would've hurt joe biden particularly during the campaign, have added up to a nation that no longer trust the mainstream media. our democracy needs to have i mainstream media that people rely on, believe in and trust. and the press has let us down. >> host: i think lots of people on the

. >> ari fleischer thank you for joining us today. let me begin by giving you the opportunity to tell people about thehe book, the thesis. >> the mainstream media is one of the biggest causes of the polarization in america today. the number of stories they put on the air that was wrong most of all were to get donald trump into her conservatives and republicans what they suppress to her joe biden duringna the campaign has added up to a nation that no longer trust the mainstream media and our democracy needs to have the mainstream media people rely on and trust and thef press has let us down. >> i think a lot of people on the left would say during the 2016 campaign it looks like c-span ms nbc or fox was very much putting donald trump on the air repeatedly would say it looks like the press was supportive of the 2016 campaign. rebuttal to that is the judgment that trump was newsworthy because the press but he was so bad and outlandish the more they put them on the air the more the american people would reject him but but also this was don

well ari fleischer. congratulations, here's the book. oppression deception snobbery and bias why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care every fleischer. thanks for being my guest today. it was a real pleasure to talk with you. thank you on you're always a gentleman. and just doesn't care every fleischer. thanks for being my guest today. it was a real pleasure to talk with you. thank you on you're always a gentleman. you i'm bill harris. i'm the acting director here at the fdr presidential library museum, and we're so happy to see you here this morning. i can't tell you. we're always happy to see people but after two years it is so nd

well ari fleischer. congratulations, here's the book. oppression deception snobbery and bias why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care every fleischer. thanks for being my guest today. it was a real pleasure to talk with you. thank you on you're always a gentleman. trying to be right here. well joining us now is journalist and author glenn. greenwald will be talking about his newest book securing democracy in just a minute. but glenn greenwald. we're at the libertarian freedom fest festival in las vegas. and you're here. is there an

well ari fleischer. congratulations, here's the book. oppression deception snobbery and bias why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care every fleischer. thanks for being my guest today. it was a real pleasure to talk with you. thank you on you're always a gentleman. and just doesn't care every

ari fleischer fosse news contributor form up white house press secretary.ant to know what history is on this? of the deneb four has ever worked? >> parties are usually reluctant to metal and the other teams primary because typically they backfire and to go you make it what you wish. you could elect the more extreme candidate either rule are conservative. so republicans are loathed to do this they haven't done a very much. the democrats are really making a part of their playbook the cycle especially. >> harris: well and what does it do to the republican party to have money from the other side flowing in from one candidate or the other? >> ari: well there are two levels this. politically i think we'll get it it's kind of a clever ploy if you can get the other party to nominate someone you think is easier defeated. will get politics is a cynical and it can be wrought and that's with the democrats are doing. but the need there is a moral plane. if you are a democrat and you really think it was wrong to support anybody who agrees the election was stolen or it sh

ari fleischer, thank you. larry trump as always, thank you.ty" coming up after this. hour steroid free spray. while other allergy sprays take hours astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can... astepro and go. hi, i'm nancy. i've lost over 80 pounds with golo. i have tried to lose weight in the past and i've lost 80 pounds several times, but i was not able to maintain it. with golo, i've maintained this weight loss for over a year. it just works. >> it is very sad when a country goes through this action because of one person, they don't want him on the ballot. and that is all the time we have left this evening, thank you for making the show possible, please never miss an episode of hannity. but don't worry, don't fear, laura ingram is next. >> thank you, sean hannity. that was the best appearance i have seen on any form since 2010. >> this is not how such a republic acts and 30 dossiers, nobody is held

bush white house press secretary ari fleischer argues that mainstream media has a bias and is dominatedby the left. he is interviewed by fox news senior political analyst and author juan williams. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: ari fleischer, thanks for joining us today. >> guest: thank you. >> host: let me begin by giving you the p opportunity to tell people about the book, the thesis. >> guest: my thesis is that the mainstream media is one of the biggest causes of the polarization in america today. that the number of stories they put on the air that were wrong, most of all of which were to get donald trumpmb and hurt republicans or conservatives, the number of stories that they suppressed which would've hurt joe biden particularly during the campaign, have added up to a nation that no longer trust the mainstream media.

well, eric trump, i don't i think ari fleischer's right. v ifer you watch what they've done over the years, they don't get the benefit ofdoub doubt t anymore because they lied and they tried tor take your father out for three years and they used a dirty hillary dossier to do it. they spied on him illegally.ll nobodyy, was held accountable. she wasn't held accountable. acno raid on hunter's house. they had the laptop longer thann anybodyge. director , i don'tkn know anything about the laptop and we certainly haveo a politicized department of justice, there's no doubt about it. th beingre, thank you for d with us tonight. we appreciate it. all right. we're r r going we'll get reactn from newtt gingrich in justso a minute here with other reaction and some breaking news on this front.. just the news.com founder and ceo editor in chief john solomon is with us . john , i think you have a theory, an idea as to whyat this might have happened. now, what i? yeah, i mean, i've been doing r reporting for the last couple-- hours. this is what we've got.

you know, ari fleischer tweeted out all they can say is the fbi better have a slam-dunk criminal caseherwise the biden administration and the doj have crossed a line of no return. look at it possibly think existed inside of mar-a-lago in a box that was taken from the white house that was so damaging that the fbi director the attorney general of the united states would have to read a former president's residence and grab everything out of there? because that doesn't make sense. what could possibly -- what secret documents could possibly rise to that level? >> i don't know, they will probably find a note for me telling me help -- telling him how proud i am of him, they might find some pictures of my kids, maybe some nice headlines, maybe a nice note from you, sean. it's insane. how many times can you cry wolf? i mean, the fbi dragged this whole country through hell for three years based on lies and deceit and dirty dossiers and fisa warrants and everything else. and everything proved to be incorrect, fraudulent, made up, and absolute sham. they dragged this country through hell and here

ari fleischer said this, all i can say, the fbi better have the goods, this better be a slam-dunk criminal case, other wise biden administration and doj have crossed a line of no return. if they have the goods announce, otherwise this raid is a disgrace. democrats on capitol hill are trying to be careful how they characterize the raid. >> comments are premature. >> the department of pursuing this in a nonpolitical way. >> kevin: that is one way to look at it, the former president's son, don jr. accusing the doj and the fbi of "ripping the country apart and openly targeting their political enemies," and it remains to be seen if and when the doj will respond to questions. there are those in washington that are speculating that as pressure builds, leadership at doj may be forced to do that and right soon. >> carley: thank you for that great reporting, we appreciate it. tom fitton joins us now. tom, without more information, it looks like the biden doj raided the home of president biden's future political opponent, is that what happened yesterday or is there any other possible justification fo

he goes on morgan ortagus, ari fleischer and leslie marshall, democratic strategist. re political implications here and there is thoughts on both sides. >> bret, i think this is wrong. when you ask for a loan the proper procedure is not to pay it back and expect it to be dismissed as if money is for free. when you ask for a loan you have a fundamental obligation to pay back that loan. and the government should not do this. why are they doing this one? why not taxpayers who have loans out to the irs? the irs has told a lot of taxpayers that you owe us money and we are charging you interest on it. should the government dismiss those? what about people who owe car companies for car rentals for car loans? what about people who own mortgage debt. should that be forgiven? no. the answer is when you apply for a loan, you pay back your loan. and for the government to be the one dismissing this is just irresponsible and also a fundamental redistribution of wealth from high school students, people with high school diploma to college students. it doesn't get more wrong. >> bret:

ari fleischer said in essence what kevin's last quote was. i can say is the fbi better have the goods, this better be a slam-dunk criminal case. otherwise the biden administration and the doj have crossed a line of no return. otherwise searching a former president's home is a disgrace. a lot we don't know tonight but who would have to have approved this affidavit seeking the warrant and getting the warrant itself? >> i think this kind of decision can't be made and lessons made by the attorney general himself. merrick garland. in addition to the deputy attorney general and other aids, this is an unprecedented step. this has never happened before. even if there was probable cause to think the former president might've committed a crime, there are former constitutional issues about not trying to create bad incentives to presidents when they make decisions to worry about their future legal liabilities. that is why presidents have absolute immunity, we do not want them being harassed by the archivist of the united states trying to -- i don't know,

. >> shannon: bring in our panel former white house press secretary ari fleischer, mollie mollie hemingwayeff mason white house correspondent for reuters. welcome to all of you. you saw a little bit of the revolution there of what the president had to say early on his hopes for unity, getting rid of division and his more recent comments. he has this speech coming up thursday night as somebody who has worked on white house communications what would be your advice for him at this point? >> well, it really is striking to me how he is in campaign mode. he overtly today at this event, which was a government taxpayer funded event called for the election of a democrat to the governor's race. so, i hope now people will make the appropriate claims here and make sure that the taxpayers don't get stuck with this trip. but he is clearly in campaign mode. is he turning up the rhetoric to appease the left, to show anger, to show flashes of anger. that's what progressives want. they want to seat fight. he really has abandoned any talk of national unity. it a also notable today for what he didn't say. he

answering, saying that the white house did not know, hard to believe that the president did not know, ari fleischer an important reminder and i want to put this up, talk about this from the podium during my tenure, joe biden himself in an oval office meeting on january 25th, 2017 before trump took office with president obama, sally eights brought up the logan act in an apparent suggestion to yates that one could be prosecuted. maybe joe biden did not know about the warrant, but he has a history of publicly telling doj what to prosecute as he did in 2021 when he said anyone who did not cooperate with a january 6 committee should be prosecuted. the point is this, he is vice president then in the oval office come out of nowhere he says let's use the 1799 statute to prosecute anyone successfully to go after an incoming trump personnel and has a history that should be looked at and scrutinized. and it is fair to ask them questions now given that. >> raymond: it's a very dangerous game they are playing here, the fbi was artie tarnished after the russia collusion nightmare that they forced on the entire c

here with reaction fox news contributor ari fleischer and the founder of the committee to unleash prosperity, steve moore. $17 billion in new taxes for people making under $200,000 a year. the people that said don't raise taxes during a recession, that would have been manchin, obama, and pelosi, we have them on tape we played it before. a lot of pork in this bill a lot of it related to the green new deal two we are nearly up to $4 trillion in new debt under joe biden and under 18 months, that's got to be a new record. >> that is and you did a great job of summarizing this bill. i want to amplify one thing that you said which is the state that is the biggest loser here from this massive green energy agenda is clearly west virginia. i do not understand why joe manchin sold out his own state. he thinks somehow this is going to lead to more coal and oil and gas production. are you kidding me? with the epa and interior department of joe biden wants to kill these industries? that's not going to happen. this is the fourth major bill as you just said to that massively increases the amount of green e

. >> ari fleischer thank you for

speeone's are to pick him on that thread, jason, ari fleischer told fox news yesterday and on fridayvery reliable source has told him that they are -- the facts are the president trump did not know what was inside the boxes, he had never looked at them. if that is proven to be the case, does that change any of the legal or even the political arguments surrounding this? is that something that could have a huge impact here? >> i don't think so, no, not necessarily. i think what we are seeing here is a pattern. donald trump was accused of violating political norms, sometimes fairly, sometimes unfairly, and then his political opponents violate norms in response to that. mrs. never happened in u.s. history, president's home being rated, and there's a -- you know, donald trump spent off to out of office for 18 months. if these documents are so sensitive, nuclear secrets, highly sensitive material, why did the justice to permit wait so long? with the urgency here? i did the justice department wait so long to do this? and the public here is asking these big picture questions, is this a fishi

. >> joining me now is ari fleischer, former white house press secretary, author of suppression deception, snobbery and bias why the press got so much wrong, as well as jason chaffetz, formerr house oversight committee chair, and sean duffy, former . sconsin congressman all three fox news contributors . mr. duffy, i want to start with you because obviously wisconsin would have benefited greatly from this power plant. the evaluations were complex and incredibly thorough. look, democrats, republicans looking at this whole plan foror this plant. the federal government comes in just says, no, this this isn't working. your reaction to this? yeah, this is outrageous. yours?number one , this is not h area. the size of wisconsinic was in my old district in an area for 40 , 50 years. northern wisconsin waslu alle.ta blue norther. minnesota was all blue .. hard corest is now red because of crazy policies like this that come from democrats. laura , it gets coldno in northern wisconsin. it gets to be 30 below. weel need reliable, cheap energa to make sure we can heat our homes. and what's outrageous

with that, i want to bring in ari fleischer, fox news contributor and mick mulvaney. president trump's former chief of staff. mick, let's started with you. this is what went from the white house to mar-a-largo and the process of understanding what was in the boxes and the back and forth with the department of justice. if this was so urgent, we're taking the espionage act here. what do you think is going on? >> i don't know. i don't think anybody knows. that's part of the problem. i don't think what merrick garland did yesterday helps solve that year dealing with a fog of war situation, which is just making things worse for in. the department of justice, and you talked about this earlier is uniquely situated to come forward by releasing the affidavit. we're guessing to why they were there or guessing the documents. we're guessing whether or not they went in to look for something, couldn't find that but found something else. was this a back door investigation to january 6. there's a hundred questions that you folks have raised in the last hour and they're all really goo

well ari fleischer. congratulations, here's the book. oppression deception snobbery and bias why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care every fleischer. thanks for being my guest today. it was a real pleasure to talk with you. thank you on you're always a gentleman. good evening, everyone and welcome to pnp live. i'm brad graham the co-owner of politics and pros along with my wife list the muscatine. and we're very pleased to be hosting journalist brian carham this evening here to talk about his new book free the press the death of american journalism and how to revive it. a couple of brief housekeeping notes first though the post to question at any point during the discussion. just click on the q&a icon at the bottom of the screen. and in the chat column, you'll find a link for purchasing copies of free the press. brian's journalism career has ranged across print broadcasts and online media and stretches back nearly 40 years. we currently serves as the senior white house correspondent for playboy. he also hosts the podcast j

ari fleischer writes this column explaining why he is voting for donald trump. erickson, prominent conservative. none of these people have any room to all of the sudden now condemn what is happening. they chose to pick power over principle, over character and intense and that is the fundamental problem here. it is all they care about. and so why are they surrounded with him? because they want to maintain power. these people have no decency, they have no honor, and any republican that is willing to stand with donald trump and maga needs to lose in november and that is why democrats sitting out there watching had better stop playing around, hoping for oh my gosh i haven't done everything i wanted, because what the hell did these people plan to unleash on america. you have no idea, and we had better understand who they are targeting, black folks are the primary target and it is because white fear is driving this because it is about maintaining power and control. >> power and control. that is a scary thing. because when when you think about that jason, i think about

ari fleischer and others also weighing in.inal case. otherwise, the biden administration and doj have crossed a line of no return. he said if they have got the goods he said they should announce it otherwise, this search of a former president's home is a disgrace. very, very high emotion here in the nation's capital. i suspect we will hear a lot more of that later on today guys but for now back to you. >> ainsley: kevin, thank you so much. schools across the nation are grappling with staff vacancy rates that are so high they are getting creative with different solutions. some are changing their bus schedules. they are shortening the school week while others are going virtual and even putting students in community college classes. joining us now two administrators who are facing this crisis firsthand. we have maggas duluth school superintendent and -- in texas. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> ainsley: chris, i will start with you. how is it affecting you this year? what are you all doing to mak