fox's priorities, he got to know his base and fox got to know him.ow fast forward seven years. he has tweeted or reliably tweeted about fox more than a thousand times and he has become close to fox uber box robert murdoch who was once openly critical of trump. the two talk weekly, sometimes daily according to the "washington post." rub ert op poepd the acquisition of time warner, of course trump opposed it to. the d. o j tried to kill the deal in court but lost. what happened when rupert struck a deal with disney? trump called to tell him congrats and the same doj lawyers decided to give it a thumbs up. "the new york times" editorial board raised its eyebrows saying this disney/fox deal sailed through a bit too easily. the doj says every people is different. let's get back to fox. what makes it relationship unique and unprecedented is the feedback loop. trump constantly gets ideas and talking points from fox and then when he holds rallies he repeats those talking points and fox carries those rallies live from start to finish. it makes you wonder, wha

disney and fox were at $1,400.ied to tell everybody on monday with the ak and the wording we got from them on friday where it made it very clear at least for the first time that disney might not give its consent or elect to provide its consent to allow fox to go any higher in the bidding. lot of signaling going on here lot of messaging, including today's press release with, again, that quote from mr. roberts so i think it is fair to say at this point the likelihood is comcast wins sky. disney's clearly won fox, a deal shareholders at folks vote on july 27th. highly likely it will be approved what's now left for disney is what bob iger told me this morning. which is basically, focussing can on gaining regulatory approvals, closing the deal, and integrating the assets not an insignificant thing to do, though of course to point out, they've already received the approval from the department of justice in this country given their willingness to divest the regional sports networks but they still need china. and they stil

timing is an issue, given fox meeting, fox vote on this deal scheduled for the 27th of this month. they're only going to have one deal to vote on. highly likely they're going to approve that deal. $38 a share. had a chance to catch up with bob iger who is excited to hear the news, looks forward to receiving the necessary approval and integration that's coming to close said transaction to acquire those assets it is a battle brewing for a long time. in fact, prior to disney's first deal that would require fox assets at 28 bucks a share, comcast is coming back after favorable ruling by judge leon in the at&t time warner versus doj lawsuit, with $35 all cash bid topped by 38 from disney, followed by questions. would they come back, try to put something up at a number that would force the fox board to take a close look, overcome any trust hurdles, and what they believe to be at least the favoritism to a certain extent rupert murdoch showed to disney. comcast again chooses, would be the case to focus solely on buying sky, british broadcaster with a deal for 14.75. it would be $34 billion

for those at fox who are trying to do somewhat of real journalism, this is just further proof that foxs state tv. you have the formered in wo ede former network head now running communications at the white house. >> was there anything from fox executives that tried to reassert their independence that they weren't some arm of the white house, since basically most of fox news' -- most of them still there at one time reported to shine, right? >> no. i have not seen any messaging out of fox news or murdochs or a bit more broad low aboly about a line between the network and the white house. it was fox news that broke the news about shine's hiring. john roberts broke the news so obviously those relationships were helpful in breaking that story. >> it will be a fascinating experiment. mostly i am very curious to see how the fox broadcast organization handles this. i think, you know, in some ways presidents hiring people with media portfolios isn't new, but it is pretty new for an executive this high up to be there. >> without question. i think obviously it's going to make a lot of uncomfortab

and that's fox news. relationship. >> well, and you hit that point, it's very important, you're talking not just about battling the press, which has been going on since the founding, that's why it was the first amendment, there was an awareness that this would happen, but you're talking about something much more theocratic or authoritarian, which is trying to actually replace the entire press or the press that's most heard, take a listen on that point to donald trump in one of his bromance interviews with hannity. >> i will say this, you have been so great, and i'm very proud of you, and you know i'm a ratings person. has anyone seen his ratings? i'm very proud of you, it's an honor to be on your show. >> clarence? >> well, it's an honor for him to be on hannity's show on trump's noretwork. that close of a relationship. both sides benefit, fox and trump both benefit from this close relationship with the stories, that's kind of part of sean's snarky reference to, you know, none of your business, i've got m

, but fox has agreed to pay more than $71 billion in cash and stock for most of fox's assets comcast is weighing, though, whether to come back with another higher offer, but sources say that today's news actually changes the game and lessens the leakly hood that comcast comes back with a higher bid for fox and instead they say comcast may go all in for sky in order to capitalize on the company's international audience that would mean abandoning its quest for fox, but as disney's stock price gains, the all-cash deal offered by comcast just keeps getting more expensive to boost from here, melissa >> all right, thank you, leslie. leslie pickers at headquarters for more on comcast and fox let's head to julia boorstin is sitting down with peter. >> thank you so much for joining us from here in sun valley. >> my pleasure >> with everyone talking about what's next for fox and sky, you know all of the players and you used to run fox and you advised comcast on its acquisition of nbc universal. >> that was a long time ago. >> but you do know the players >> i do know the players >> which of the

more of the same on fox news. sean hannity spoke to the president and did not bring up the information, but many at fox news did. >> trump clearly should not have created any semblance of moral equivolancy and assurances of vladimir putin. >> this is the time for the president to look putin in the eye and said you will be punished for what you did in 2016. >> he didn't. >> that's what made it disgusting. that is what made his performance disgusting. it is not a right or left thing. this is wrong. u.s. president on foreign soil talking to our biggest enemy or adversary. i don't know how we define him these days. >> abby huntsman, the daughter of jon huntsman, tweeted this. no negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus. there was this perspective from fox contributor ari flesher. tweeting that trump only sees russia interference through the lens of whether he won or lost. that should not blind him for how wrong it was for russia to interfere. i believe mueller and the intel community. tr

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then tagged fox news.a page was set to appear on capitol hill yesterday, she failed to appear in deposition despite subpoena, last night two congressional panels sent letter telling page she can show up at public hearing with strzok or give closed-door deposition. they will begin contempt proceedings if page does not answer questions by friday morning. page's attorney says she has nothing to hide and needs access to relevant and doj didn't grant her request until late tuesday night, heather. heather: we will talk more about this story as well with our in the case guest. trump administration rolling out some brand-new guidelines that could limit the recent surge of asylum seekers, those coming in, now being asked to prove they were mistreated in their home countries and that their government at home mistreated them as well or allowed it or ignored it. border officials are being told to crack down even harder on those trying enter the country illegally, all part of attorney general jeff sessions plans to red

oustay tuned to fox news. stay tuned to fox news. wstay tuned to fox news.ox news. n itstay tuned to fox news. it stay tuned to fox news. hastay t. . . . . >> big rally tonight, 6:00, probably another stem liner, should will have liberals ap toplectic. fox news will take it live in full and not take it and get -- >> let's talk about the race. >> see more of the president. >> talk about the facts. >> you will see more of the president coming up in the mid-term on the road, connecting with the audience in the states where they need to flip the democratic seats. >> the seat is actually going to be -- >> put pressure on the -- this seat will be hard. >> i have news. apparently the president did a gaggle with reporters on the plane, a couple days ago he talked fo scott pruitt, now resigned e.p.a. administrator. the president was expecting it, it is effective tomorrow, the 6th of july. >> some of the scandals are silly, like one scandal he made his staff get him snacks. anybody worked for any boss, the boss sometimes makes you get snacks. on the other hand, okay,

comcast, our parent company, is down a bit but fox is down about 2% why?ell, the likelihood of potential competing offer from comcast. it's probably gone down. how much is very much unclear. while we're reporting, of course, comcast will come back is expected to come back with a higher offer for sky to exceed the 14 they have accepted now from fox and disney for the 61% that fox doesn't own, it remains unclear how quickly that will play out and whether or not there will be a conclusion there that then allows connemcast to k the final decision as to whether to try to compete for fox assets one thing for certain on sky and fox, the prices are far higher than many had believed initially. remember this is a sky board that agreed to $10.75, i think, originally. >> wow. >> and now it's 40% above that and a fox board it agreed to 28 and now at 38. so, if you are the murdochs, you're just happy with it all. all of them are in sun valley. that is brian roberts, bob iger on his way rup earth murdoch there. i think mike cavanagh will be there. who knows. maybe they'l

fox has fantastic assets but it wasn't necessary for comcast own. the fact they are stepping away at a price that doesn't show they are desperate helps reinforce that. does it showuch that they are focused on international areas, in particular by scooping up sky? jonathan: right from the beginning, they have said what was most important for them in their consolation of fox assets with the international peace. the biggest piece was sky. -- fox international, star india, and other minority stakes, but we always thought that strategically of all of the weres, while they compelling assets, the most important for them was sky because it gives them a tremendous foothold in europe with a direct to consumer platform that they can build on and expand, and a very well-run business with a great brand. abigail: how much do think antitrust -- caroline: how much do think antitrust plays into this? do you think comcast factoid from fox because they were worried about competition and the ruling? jonathan: it may will have played into their calculus. what we were sa

is not controlled by the government, but it is just friendly interviewers on fox.nd today, if i.c.e. were to be abolished you could not leave your house, because it is too dangerous the leave your house. b but it is not chaled by anybody on fox, and so we have to keep on challenging. >> and we are showing the pictures of the president return t returning to the white house, and a wave to the press and he did not make any statements or answer any questions. brian stelter, don't forget your show coming up sundays at 9:00 a.m. "reliable resources." >>> and what does the relationship mean between the upcoming meeting with president trump and vladimir putin? behr presents: ordinary versus overachiever. behr premium plus, "behr" through it all with a top-rated paint at a great price. right now, get incredible savings on behr. exclusively at the home depot. >>> it is ofishlg, president trump and vladimir putin are going to be face-to-face in helsinki later in the month, but the president is sending mixed signals of how he is going to broesh the subject. he is going to say

so you have the fox bid from comcast. in talking to the media moguls in sun valley, the folks here in sun valley say that that ruling definitively in favor of at&t's acquisition of time warner is really seen as an endorsement of the potential for deals to go forward. we heard that from david zaslav, and steve case who is the epic aol-time warner deal 20 years ago, and i think everyone here will be shocked by this decision to appeal especially now a month after judge leon's ruling. >> this has to be viewed as a setback to win over fox. with the shareholder vote, the disney-fox shareholder vote on the 27th, there's not that much time to figure this all out. >> well, i think you have to break apart what's going on in the fox, disney, comcast, sky sort of battle/triangle right now because it really doesn't impact sky it is a regulatory company it could make fox more interested in sky because it could indicate that there could be regulatory roadblocks for comcast in its pursuit of fox. of course, disney already has the doj app

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in the international piece of fox, which is really sky and star india than anything that fox owns ino you're figuring they don't go after the entertainment assets? >> friday is put up or shut up day, at least for the sky piece, they have to follow through on commitment to 15 pounds. >> 1250? >> so there are three options, they can drop out of both, the market would love to see that if you're a comcast shareholder, comcast shareholders have never wanted this deal, either of the deals, anyway. they could drop out of fox and continue to pursue sky, but that means an awfully rich price for sky, and without the studio assets of fox to help sky with the transition to being primarily proprietary content company, so there's problems with that. or alternatively, there's the kind of the milk toast, we will satisfy our commitment to bid on sky but won't raise on sky, that sounds like dropping out of both. we'll see on friday i think. liz: of the three names, do you have one pick? >> well, look, i think sky has been -- fox has been the name to own. it's been the belle of the ball. liz: the 52-we

and so, now you have this sort of merger of fox news and state, right? with bill shine going into the white house. has there ever been any equivalent of that kind of a relationship between a white house and any form of media? >> not really. you know, andrew jackson, for instance, would have a very friendly newspaper that would say a lot of the things that he wanted to say, but one newspaper did not have the kind of power that a tv network like fox news does now. so, this is something that we have not seen before. >> yeah, and i wonder if it's amplified more because you have sinclair broadcast network that is taking that strategy out to the local news. in a way, has nixon's dream been super fulfill? because fox is just one media network that is carrying that unified message. >> this is exactly what nixon dreamt of. and we could see a situation where the president is able to get a lot more things done and is able to survive challenges and criticism and opposition by, you know, the opposition party, in a way that nixon was never able to do, so -- in a way,

in washington, garrett tenney, fox news.emocratic party is embracing socialist values, but what does that mean for voters who doesn't? jillian: former national justice director for the bernie sanders campaign says socialism sounds good when democrats talk about it but the reality is they don't make good on their promises. >> things that democrats have lost their way with not being able to balance both conversations to talk about americans, particularly the african-american community which is why tom pÉrez is now apologizing to black women, but have done nothing to work on policies and principles that matter to people like myself. it's all about money, power and respect and the squeaky oil always gets the wheel, unfortunately african americans certainly agree with what i said the message hasn't been brought out with him but the left-wing media doesn't want to cover. the reality is who is going to scream the loudest and african americans have been screaming for a long, we have been screaming, shouting, we have been marching, r

, in particular of fox and disney. those long-term deals with disney. media consolidation including at&t's recent acquisition of time warner is a win for the sports rights holders in general for all of the leagues. it brings more technology and data and tools to their fans. back over to you. >> so, julia, i'll tell you what my question was and there were a lot of articles written yesterday before the raised offer and that was, you know, rupert and brian are both out there but they can't talk to one another. how would they -- and iger too, how would they, if they really wanted to not get in to something that is extended and cost both companies a lot of money, how would they come to the table together to split the baby up if they wanted to? and there were these scenarios where comcast would show its intention that what we really want is sky and sort of read the body language that we're not going to stand in the way of you getting the rest of fox assets is that what we're seeing here because it would be cheaper for comcas

fox news alert for you, preparing for a fight. it is full speed ahead for president trump supreme court pick with the stage already set for bruising confirmation battle. >> and i will nominate judge bret kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. constitutional rights. heather: can republicans rally to put kavanaugh on the bench. phase 3 underway right now. the world watching as navy seals could be hours away from rescuing four boys and soccer coach. we are live. ♪ ♪ heather: playing party politics, how the british press just got the royal treatment. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: busy day today. thank you so much for joining us. i'm heather childers. we begin with fox news alert. supreme court nomination. president trump announcing judge bret kavanaugh is his choice to sit on the nation's highest court but the left is already vowing a confirmation fight. garrett tenney live in washington, d.c. for next steps towards confirmation. >> heather, good morning to you, usually takes a come of months to get judge

they haven't knocked fox out of the water. mark: it's not huge premium to fox.knockout price? some investors are greedy and they want much higher. what's realistic? >> the shares are trading about 15 pounds. perhaps an offer in that region. the question is how much fire do disney and fox comcast have in this battle. we will have to say. what was the significance in the u.k. today approving the fox sky bid? does that have any bearing or not? >> the market had pretty much come to the conclusion that clearance was going to happen. the previous culture secretary said he was happy for the deal to go through. it has taken 19 months for rupert murdoch to get that clearance. he a very controversial figure. what would you expect the next move to be? from what i understand comcast does its bid won the backing of skies independent directors. it is lining up financing. do we know what sky's thinking is right now? >> at the moment martin gilbert has been simply recommending the offer at the higher price trade yesterday recommending the fox offer. this morning recommending th

this is the fox report. pyongyang slamming talks with secretary of state pompeo calling them, quote, regrettable and gangster like. this despite pompeo telling reporters his third visit to the country since april had yielded a great deal of progress. meanwhile, back at home, the white house telling fox news president trump and vice president mike pence discussed the looming supreme court announcement over dinner in new jersey friday night. the president is set to reveal his decision on monday evening. we've got fox team coverage for you. garrett tenney is in our nation's capital with the latest on that process. rich edson is in tokyo where secretary pompeo is briefing allies after leaving north korea. we begin with ellison barber who is in new jersey not far from where the president is staying this weekend. so ellison, the white house is getting ready for monday's major announcement. how many justices are in the final running? >> the president -- well, president trump says he has narrowed it down to four fro

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disney, comcast and fox all intertwined.stay focused on a recommended offer for sky. ofwe know, fox on the part sky, comcast is interested in acquiring sky. and if disney gets fox, that would create an asset that would then be somewhat owned by comcast, if comcast actually won sky. jason: that was amazing. alix: did you follow that? jason: i was trying to draw it in my mind as you said that. alix: comcast stock is also up in free-market. there was a lot of conversation on this, that comcast did not have the balance sheet like disney did. and the other part of the story was comcast was ultimately trying to dig up the price, rays of the price to put the screws to bob iger a little bit. mike: this is obviously a distribution play, but also the content play. i think back to earlier in the week when we had results out of netflix, netflix plays into this, amazon plays into this. it is a new world of media companies, as well. it will be interesting to see, because we have the early market reaction, and it will be interesting to see

fox news alert. the manhunt for a cop killer in hawaii ramping up, a 10 year veteran on the fourth shot and killed at a traffic stop, the sixth incident involving an officer this week, shocking numbers show an escalating war on cops. >> abolish ice or stand with it, republicans forcing democrats to choose. >> politicians, members of the legislature would rather abolish a law enforcement agency than fix the law. >> the next move from republicans to give the border wall a boost. >> couldn't shake his tail fast enough. a military union that will make your morning, "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ heather: it is dark out there. rob: it better be dark. heather: you are watching "fox and friends first". rob: thanks for starting your day with us. we have some whether to start with, fox news alert, manhunt underway for a cough killer on the loose in the state of hawaii marking the sixth police officer shot in the us just this week. jillian: we have more on the latest attacks on our men and women i

first, anchor of fox news at night, shannon bream. what do we know about how tough the confirmation battle could get? >> dana, no matter whom the president names tonight, we expect it could get ugly. this reminds me when we were waiting for the name that turned out to be justice gorsuch. there were groups on the left that had banners and posters that opposed and a black line so they could fill in the name, which signalled to us there will be groups unhappy no whom the president picks. there's a protest scheduled for 10:00 p.m. it's being led by senator elizabeth warren and a number of pro choice groups as well. democrats are warning no matter who the president picks, there will be a roll back of abortion rights to civil rights. here's democratic senator patty murray. >> there's no question he's hoping to put a justice on the bench that will deny women healthcare rights and patient's access to affordable healthcare. we need to do everything we can to prevent that from happening. >> not clear they have anything they can do. we'll talk t

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disney is interested in fox and more interested in fox owning sky.t's a very complicated dance with powerful figures all of whom are in the same room for the next few days. maybe they can go what water rafting or golfing this afternoon and come together on their differences. vonnie: why doesn't binder come in and take out sky, ed? ed: that's a good question, he could come in in do that, but i think there is an issue with him doing that, he would also have to take out the portion that fox still owns. i'm not sure whether the murdochs want to just exit and be left with a legacy news business in the u.s.. they are very clear that they want to be out of the news business in the u.s.. doing just the sky deal won't cut it for them. they want the whole thing and if they can acquire it through fox, that makes the fox assets that disney would ultimately end up owning more valuable and gives them a better egg that. lastly, he says to go write about something else, but what else are you writing about or talking about? ed: this is the deal that everyone is focus

fox is just one media outlet xaerg same unified message. >> absolutely. this is a network where the president can survive challenges and criticism and opposition by, the opposition party in a way that nixon was never able to do. so in a way, richard nixon has won. >> and i have to ask you. it will be a lot of fun for to you tell the audience who it was. >> it was a guy named herb kline who was nixon's press secretary in 1960 when he ran for president and lost. nixon thought he wasn't tough enough so he kicked him upstairs by creating this title. director of communications. that job has become a lot more important. i think what we'll see with bill shine, not only optics and this is how you stage a rally but this is the kind of language that works on fox news. those are the things you should say. >> and i wonder what he'll say about how he deals with every other part of the media. >> i can only imagine and you can, too. >> indeed. micha michael, thank you. >>> parting is such sweet sorrow. scott pruitt, the epa chief who until now has been like teflon when

you are watching "fox and friends first". rob: a fox news alert.t could be becoming reality. >> remains will be coming to back. they are going to start that process immediately. jillian: the remains of us service members flown out of north korea overnight in what the white house calls a significant first step. rob: griff jenkins has more in washington. >> reporter: 6 decades later they are coming home. 55 cases containing what the us believes are the remains of soldiers killed during the korean war by a c-17 cargo plane out of warsaw. on the 65th anniversary of the armistice that ended, the president applaud the efforts, american servicemen will be leaving north korea and heading to the united states. this will be a great moment, thank you to kim jong un. the commanding general in south korea calls the mission successful saying we are prepared to honor the fallen, continuing their journey home. the white house saying this represents a significant first step to recommence repatriation of remains from north korea and resume field operations to search

i am shannon bream for fox news at night. ♪ shannon: it is thursday, july 26th and this is "fox and friendsirst". a fox news alert, blast in beijing, an explosion rocking the us embassy. rob: a device detonating at the gate. new information breaking overnight. shannon: is deputy attorney general rod rosenstein on his way out? rob: the step republicans took toward impeachment. >> the president told you what they discussed in the closed-door meeting. >> you had private 1-on-1 meetings in your life as well. shannon: mike pompeo letting lawmakers have a during a fire meeting on helsinki. rob: "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ shannon: the start in new york city, 4:00 on the east coast. rob: it will never stop. it will rain until the world ends. rob: i am sure they will tell us. welcome to "fox and friends first". shannon: thank you for starting the day with us. a homemade bomb exploding overnight near the embassy in beijing. the blast injured at 26-year-old man holding a device, the us embassy was not damaged. rob: the suspect identified himself by his last name, treated at a hospital

secondly, if you look at the top opinion monitors in fox, "fox & friends," he's been comfortable withone who knows him said, this is a guy who pored over the ratings minute by minute and knows what subjects turned the fox viewer on and what kinds of subjects caused them to take their remotes and turn to another channel. and he is going to be exquisitely attuned to the rhythms of what a fox viewer, a trump-based voter, is going to want to hear. he'll be a base message strategist. that is gorbaching to be the aue he's playing to in the lead-up to the election and the lead-up to a reelection campaign in 2020. >> david, thank you very much, the media correspondent for npr joining me here in new york. >>> we're two days away for what president trump promises will be a big prime time announcement of his nominee for supreme court justice. he teased it on twitter. he has a list of three finalists, brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett, and raymond kethledge. joining me now is a supreme court reporter for bloomberg news. greg, great to speak with you here. i want to get your sense of what the pre

as you know owns fox business and fox news. he's at this company conference, so is bob iger, the chief of disney, so is brian roberts and from what i understand brian roberts and bob iger aren't on great speaking terms these days, and i'll tell you liz, deal talk is rampant here, all the major ceo's are here as i reported earlier on cavuto. sin clair, there's a deal going right now to buy the tribune assets a lot of people think that could be done getting the seal of approval from the fcc as early as friday. one of the top executives of sin clair could be here as well, so they're all here. i thought i saw jack dorsey, the ceo of twitter, the tall good looking guy with a beard sitting next to me at lunch. i've been told by people close to twitter that was not him. liz: no he's not that tall i don't think so. charlie: i know how much you love him. liz: well listen we were the first network to put twitter on the air back in 2008 during our first three days in the valley coverage, so yeah, i think highly of him. charlie: it's on th

shine was too controversial for fox news. people in the administration who are likely troubled by the fact that he was hired. >> he should come out and answer some questions from the podium, a man who is a deputy who is described as a monster. that is who bill shine is, that is what he has alleged to have done. and the man hired by the president. thank you for joining us. >> next, the president narrows his decision for the potential nominee for the supreme court. the potential front runner next. i'm alex trebek here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price? you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i just turned 80. what's my price? $9.95 a month for you, too. if you're age 50 to 85, call now a

you can catch it all on fox or stream it live on fox sports app.ide oracle arena, the ball hogs dominating that first half behind jermaine taylor. this one has been so exciting early on. but the first game really sets the tone early on on facebook. remember, al, ha hair /* clear clear we had emmett taking it to the rack and making it look easy and how about this guy, big diddy, baron davis putting on the show and pulling up from outside and this one for the win, 3's company wins it 52-50 and trilogy still winless on the season. but how about al harrington. 6 boards and we go to the game winner from baron davis he was 8-12 from the field and 22 points and again that game was on facebook. every friday night facebook will be your exclusive home to the first game of the big3. next week we roll into the motor city and detroit michigan. at 6:00 p.m. eastern only on fox. and jermaine taylor with a huge first has ever for the ball hogs. he's in just about everything, guys. getting into the paint and you can see it here hitting it from the outside for three

i was not at fox, never employed there. wasn't there day-to-day basis but obviously did a good job professionally. with a lot of lawsuits and corporations and government, as county executive, had lawsuits every day, i was named in all of them because i was at top. i had no idea about any of these things or people. sometimes people get caught up in things with nothing to do with it. >> at fox it was pervasive and bill was integrated enough into the workings of roger ailes, he knew about the chaos, cases, no way he didn't know. we know he didn't no because named in all the cases. >> everyone could be named in everything. >> that's not the case here. >> no criminal charges, be clear. >> do you really think he had no idea? >> who knows? >> is it appropriate for a person who did what shine did to be working in the white house? for a person accused of harassing and assaulting women? >> he's accused. there's accusations every day. that's the part of all of society we've got to be very careful about right now. accusations can ruin

the white house and fox news.u know, what we have in this country right now and people need to be aware of it is we don't have what we have traditionally seen as the media's role in this country as having essentially a free press. we have what i consider to be a system of state supported media. you have a white house, a president that lends so much support to one individual news network which gives them beneficial coverage that it has changed the nature of what we view as being our system of delivering the news in this country. i think we have a system where one network benefits from a very symbiotic relationship from the white house. and we all have to grapple with that on a daily basis as you know. on a daily basis, we think the president is watching "fox & friends" that he's going to tweet about it every morning. we spend every day is he going on fox news to talk to somebody and we have to cover that. his top aides go on fox news. you see this in the driveway of the white house. they'll go out and then the pres

, fox business and fox sports disney shares, for their part, also upper so slightly, but that's a trends through next week. >> do you think that will force them to raise area offer and it's capped at this level from fox? >> we asked last week, and neither side was in a position to necessarily buy both, given the numbers that they had gotten to in the valuation level. they went from 28 to 38, an enormous industry. and sky as well, which was at 75 and is now at 1475, just percentage increases, which had been agreed upon deals >> and then down the road, when disney, if in fact it does succeed and acquiring fox, which looks much more like lie, would it be interesting in selling the 39% ownership that it owns in sky to our parent company comcast? perhaps. and would comcast be interested in selling it's 30% of hulu. >> all this as netflix prepares to report its earnings this afternoon. i also want to update you on president trump and putin, we're looking at a live picture right now of helsinki where both president trump and vladimir putin are holding a joint press conference they did wrap up

commcost throws in the towel on its bid for 21st century fox's building, paving the way for a disneyakeover. good morning and welcome to asia business report, live from singapore, with me, mariko oi. it is earnings season singapore, with me, mariko oi. it is earnings season in corporate america and tech giant microsoft posted a 10%jump in and tech giant microsoft posted a 10% jump in revenue and tech giant microsoft posted a 10%jump in revenue to and tech giant microsoft posted a 10% jump in revenue to almost $9 billion compared to the same period last year. some say they are on their way to be the worlds‘s first trillion dollar company along with the likes of apple, alphabet and amazon. taxing analysts say that investment in cloud has been a big investment in cloud has been a big investment for microsoft. investment in cloud has been a big investment for microsoftm investment in cloud has been a big investment for microsoft. if you think about the digital transformation of their customers, a lot more customers an moving their workloads and applications to the cloud, driving a lot of

it's not just fox news. of people when he came out and gave him another mulligan for immediately embracing this guy who has accused nfl players of being anti-patriotic after he surrendered the country essentially to vladimir putin. he looked submissive and looking for his approval. >> to do talk tough about the president or comes time to vote, they fall in line. >> let's talk bigger picture. one of the other things, you talked about the poll poll, eric. even if it's just 15% of republicans that said that donald trump was not solicited enough of vladimir putin and not far enough in praising him. you have a lot of thinkers. we're talking about the advance of -- you have a democracy but there are elections. but. a they're not representative of the majority view. fewer votes become president more than once in 20 years. also, you begin to have a segment of the population be okay with the deck lynnation of democracy as long as they remain in power. they're talking about that hang in the united states. >> that's on

fox news. >> actually, that is not a bad idea. will look into that. >>> weather-wise, the last two weekends, we talked about the fire warnings, there is still is an elevated fire danger. so take a look at the forecast for tomorrow morning. temperatures are in the upper 50s and 60s. temperatures are in the upper 90s, around 100 degrees and very dry in this area. it is not like the red flag warning that we had last weekend. some high clouds moving across california in the bay area. right now it looks like we have some patty fog on the coastline. this'll probably be be the case as we headed to sunday morning. temperatures will start out in the 50s and 60s. livermore, 70 degrees. san francisco, upper 50s. here is a live look. we are in the clear right now, maybe some patchy fog will show up around 5 am or 6 am tomorrow morning. we start out with patchy coastal fog tomorrow morning. there is a strong area of high pressure building in. not too much change, this is the microclimate, -- a little bit of a drop off in the numbers for the ex

and first, fox news blasting the media for attacking trump on russia after fox news attacks trump ona. we'll explain when we're back in just 30 seconds. ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? >>> the other top story tonight, donald trump's putin summit has obviously yielded one of the most criticized weeks of his presidency. that's sure to bother a media obsessed leader. but there are reports trump thought he did well initially on monday and then his advisers and this ensuing media coverage moved him to walk back some of the statements. a lot of that we know. this week also marks something else though, the most high profile trump diplomacy, this big mission, since he has added someone to his team, former fox news president bill shine. fox was ground zero for hearing from the key players at the summit this week. note, both trump

life looks good . >>> fox 5 ex fusive. be back behind the wheel of his truck. but first, someone in his neighborhood ran a stop stein and t-boned h and a car sleeperrecked it again. >> reporter: an employee took his fordf-150 in alexandria across county lines nrly 30 minutes away to prince william's county and crashed it >> what i thought was a g asset, was kind of not an asset >> matthew becker took his truck to the shopnd this is h he got it back with front end damage which he said totally mo. but he said the damage from before he took it in. it was caused boy an employee at ive.y's for taking it on a testr >> the employee was trying to test drove it and they needed to give it eno t t fugure out what was wrong with becker 2016 ford f-150 had jus repaired and needed one last part frym's ford. he didn't expect to find out an ee of jerry's would crash the truck 15iles awayn prince william's county >> he said you need to talk to our lawyers because this is it getting too complicated >> becker is waiting on the company to mak

and the fox assets would have gotten them there.was also valuable longer term, are we looking back and say comcast missed the opportunity to make a strategic pif oh on the it needed to make in order to be competitive in the new world of media >> well, there is some chess here to play out still disney could bid higher for sky. even if it doesn't think it's going to get it, that allows -- forces comcast to bid higher, ultimately giving disney the opportunity to get more for sky shares effectively a higher bid allows disney to pay itself back at a higher rate but disney has to face comcast here on the hulu 30% comcast owns has to face comcast on the content that disney has tide up in sky that it would very much want back for international distribution purposes. and so comcast has some leverage here in terms of ultimately where in goes. would they have preferred to get the fox asset? yes. but comcast has been dogged by regulatory political issues that everybody knows has been a constraint as to what they could do and that constraint con