does seem as if the trump the trump fox news nexus is a special brand of politics here inside the beltway if only by sheer body counts and chris this fox news white house door swings both ways after serving as trump's communication. director whole pecks moves to public relations at fox news and next national security adviser sebastian gorka keeps popping up on fox news we're coming up on correspondents' dinner scenes and i will confess i used to attend the nerd prom during the eighty's and ninety's from reagan to clinton i was not as wary as tom brokaw who stopped attending because he viewed breaking bread even in that collegial way as crossing the line but is not what this new yorker report chronicles something else entirely yeah holland it's really showing the. i would say the maturation but the really meat of this movement away from say you know the anchors we talk about the bridge bears and the and those those guys and women at fox versus the host driven shows and the pundits that they have on there that's where you really see a lot of the interaction with the commentators the pundits that get recycled through there and all the sudden they're in th

communications director, but she left the white house in march, and was soon hired by fox newsrent company, 21st century fox.re for more on thlving-door relationship between the white house and fox news, i'm joined by jane mayer of the "new." york her newest story, "the making of the fox news white house," details the many ways the two intertwine.th welcome back tnewshour. >> thank you. >> brangham: so you report that fox news proudly celebrates its conservative credentials, but if your story you featurein criticde and outside of fox news who say they have never seen it quite like it is today.e what are youring from them? >> so that was the thing thatwa interesting. liberals have been bashing fox forever, but now you hear a o numbconservatives bashing fox because they think it's become a mouth piece for trump t conservative so much as almost kind of a platform for authoritarianism. and they're worried about it. so you don't hear dissenting voices on fox even within the right. you don't hear other kinds of conservatives. >>rrangham: if i were to t on fox news on any given day on

white house. bill shine, former fox news co-president lasted 246 days, counting that to. job as white house communications director. shine issued his resignation and his next move will be working on president trump's 2020 re-election campaign. his resignation to that post brings the total to five. let me bring in now claire atkinson and media editorond jordan fabian the hill white house correspondent still with us. claire, what is the read behind why this happened now? >> well, i think it is very interesting this is happening just days after the new yorker storer which told us things that we already know but put it altogether and shocked, i guess, a lot of democrats that perhaps haven't -- underestimated the extent to which fox news and the white house is in bed together. whether it is bill shine's financial disclosure being paid $8 million by fox and was due all of the bonuses to come, and so i guess that put the heat on fox and bill shine in some ways is the victim here. >> who pulled the lever. >> that is a good question. >> there are other stories out there where it d

instead of those briefings top white house officials would come out to the fox news position here on ite house lawn, and we have to catch them going in. that's the shine effect and it's helpful to fox news but it's not generated better press coverage for the president. >> when you talk about the lack of white house briefings -- >> reporter: it's incredible. >> how can it be just now people in the white house are waking up that there's this relationship with fox news and there's been a lot of hires from fox news to the white house? not just in communications positions. in actual staffing positions. >> reporter: anderson i think they've gotten so use to the sim bee yours truly you can relationship and they feel like it's worked well for them because they can watch one channel of cable news and feel everything is going swimmingly here. when they look outside the window and there are officials who still look outside the window and look at the real world, they understand things are not going well, when the president's former personal attorney is testifying on capitol hill accusing the pres

when the number one rated cable news show is -- appears many times to be an arm of the white house. >> and of course sean hannity appearing onstage and at other events. fox news, we should point out, has some great reporters and correspondents. >> they do, and it's a disservice to them in many ways and i'm sure it's uncomfortable to some of them to have this situation going on. there ought to be a line between politics and news and it seems like it's getting crossed and blurred every day over there. >> jane mayer, great to have you here. >> good to be with you. >>> coming up, why democrats are taking action against a freshman congresswoman from their own party. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >>

white house. this source said that the fox news concern is real. t new yorker article that came out earlier this week really detailing and delving into this cozy relationship between the white house and fox news, that that is starting to make people nervous over here inside the white house. whether or not it makes the president very nervous, that remain to be seen. he just tweeted about fox and friends this morning. but anderson, bill shine really changed the way the white house delivers information to the american people. the white house press briefings have all been shut down. we've only had one press briefing in the last 79 or 80 days instead of those press briefings, the officials will come out and we have to catch them going back in. that's been the shine effect and it has been helpful to fox news about it has not generated better press for this president. >> it is remarkable. when you think about the lack of white house briefings. how can it be that just now, people in the white house are waking up to the fact that there is this symbolic relat

fox news. a piece detailing what they're calling, quote, the making of the fox news white house.zine points to the fact that the network has been granted 44 interviews with the president while the other three major networks abc, nbc and cbs have been given ten combined. cnn which the president calls fake news has been granted none. why does the white house give fox so much access to the president. nothing has formalized the partnership between fox and trump more than the appointment of bill shine. joining me now to discuss this, nbc's geoff bennett at the white house, mya wily along with kelsey and sahil. any reaction to the report from the white house? >> not yet. we can expect the white house to push back in some of the more incendiary claims here. in the reporting, they suggest that there is something more to this relationship between fox news and donald trump. they chart this deevolution of fox news as a partisan platform to one being a propaganda platform. look, donald trump is not the first president to have a favorite media organization, and by now there are things we cert

fox news channel. what started all of this? the piece was the making of the fox news white house. fox defenders view such criticism as unfounded and politically biased. the senior manager at fox news for nearly 20 years recently started his own is service told me the people at fox news said the same thing about the press and obama. fox's public relations department offered numerous examples of challenging the administration. miller, a senior cap advisor, grilled on the need for a border given that nearly all drugs seized are at checkpoints. james madison and andrew jackson each boasted of partisan newspapers. let's get to your phone calls. alabama,first from independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i don't think they should reject any media station as a whole. foxink the public sees leans towards the left -- i mean towards the right, and cnn leans towards the left. they should have a mix. host: thank you for the call. let's go to joe in south carolina, line for independents. what do you think of this? caller: as an independent, it does not bothe

fox news. a major report from the new yorker on the proximity of the white house and fox news with the major nextng bill shine. he was still receiving severance payments from fox news while he was earning money at the white house. people at the white house were aware of that. but, there is a lot of pete right now in that relationship between the trump white house and fox news, not only it is something that's potentially difficult for the trump white house but it is something that's potentially risky for fox news. i don't think any of these things happen entirely in a vacuum. there is something a little face shaving of shine moving onto the campaign side. the trump operation being too close to fox news but it does get him being out of that and on receiving payments from fox news. >> phil, there was the president today in what we come to know as his black crisis raincoat regardless it seems of current weather conditions, signing copies of the bible as an author would at a book signing. that's the kind of event photo opportunity that communications director would say either that's a great idea, boss

yet today on fox news, white house counselor kellyanne conway noted the president does have authoritybehalf. >> i will tell you that the president has the absolute right to do what was described. >> in january house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings launch and investigation into house the white house awards cleans but he says so far the trump administration hasn't handed over a single document or scheduled a single interview. he has threatened subpoenas if >> why do they have concerns about jared kushner? why were there over 100 omissions and changes? >> they imposed the jared act which would revoke anyone given a clearance. >>> there's disagram over why president trump walked away from his second summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. mr. trump says it's because his counterpart demanded that the united states lift all of the sanctions. he said they've been making that demand at lower levels. what he actually requesting was a lifting of all sanctions. >>> president trump has returned home to criticism over his comments accepting kim jong-un's claims that he didn't kno

a piece by jane mayer published online today the making of the fox news white house. the article describes the relationship between fox news and donald trump and explains why the 104 lies the president told on saturday will never be exposed by fox news. one conservative commentator quoted will be among our first guest tonight. jennifer ruben. she told the new yorker that fox news has morphed into something that is not everyone news. it's a mouthpiece for the president repeating what the president says no matter how false or contradictory. before the 2016 election, a foxnews.com reporter named dianna had proof that donald trump had an affair with stormy daniels and michael cohen was negotiating a proposed hush payment but quote the story didn't run. it keep being passed off from one editor to the next. at last heard from ken lacorte the head of the foxnews.com and told colleagues lacorte said good reporting but rupert wants donald trump to win so just let it go. jane mayor reports that trump said he has ranked the loyalty of many fox reporters on a scale of 1 to 10. bre

the article titled "the making of fox news white house" suggests the network has become a propaganda on for the president. responding to the news president trump tweeted last night democrats just blocked fox news from holding a debate. good. then i think i'll do the same thing with the fake news networks and radical left democrats in the general election debates. fox news senior vice president also released a statement saying we hope the dnc will reconsider its decision to bar fox news from moderating a presidential debate. during an interview tom perez said it's not about the host but about the top level management at fox news. >> i have great respect for chris wallace and my concern is not about chris wallace it's about people above chris wallace. what we've seen now and it's been really the most recently now in the new yorker story is that at the highest levels of fox news they are not playing it straight. >> joining me once again from washington reporter for "the washington post" eugene scott. i want to turn back for a moment to this delayed house vote to condemn anti-semitism. th

in the new yorker detailing the trump administration's relationship with fox news, titled, the making of the fox news white house. it highlights among many things how under president trump, actions taken by his administration have, whether intentionally or not, favored fox chairman rupert murdoch's business interests. chairman under bill clinton told mayer, there are three moves that have taken place in the regulatory and antitrust world that involve telecommunications that are extremely unusual. the only way to explain them, they are pro fox, pro fox, and pro fox. number one the administration approved the $71 billion bid to obtain fox group. it was blocked in its attempt to merge with tribune media a move some saw as forming a rival to fox news. and this one, how the president wanted to handle the merger of at&t and time warner, the company that owns cnn, back in 2017. the new yorker claims a few months before the justice department filed suit, trump ordered gary cohn, then director of the economic council to pressure the justice department to intervene. according to a well informed source, trump called cone i

white house's ties to fox. tensions were likely especially high this week after "the new yorker's" jane maier rocked the white house with her deeply reported piece on the close ties between the fox -- between fox news and the white house. maier wrote that as a fox news executive, several lawsuits named bill shine as complicit in a workplace culture of cover-ups, payoffs and victim intimidation. and politico is reporting tonight that trump had complained to allies about shine being tangled up in those lawsuits. past trump staffers are also coming back to haunt the president. his former campaign chairman is a convicted felon, and today the president actually says he feels bad for paul manafort. >> i feel very badly for paul manafort. i think it's been a very, very tough time for him. >> the president of the united states says he feels bad for a man who was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud. undeterred by the facts, the president also grossly distorted the words of the judge who sentenced paul manafort. in an effort to claim vindication on collusion, the president made this demonstrably f

president loves fox news, and it seems pretty clear that fox loves the president, but now the new yorker is explosioning just how symbiotic the relationship is. in the making of the fox news white housethe lines between the conservative white house policy are becoming increasingly blurred. >> clearly the president is playing favorites and is very tight with fox. it's a very close loop they have got going. a lot of people i interviewed say it raises questions that are troubling about our democracy. when the number one rated news show is an arm of the white house. >> a political reporter for "the washington post," eugene scott and former tv guide critic and blogger, jeff jarvis. you pay a lot of attention to table news and we all suspected or talked about the relationship donald trump had with fox news a lot in the past two years and the way trump seems to tweet alongside fox and friends segment might be on every morning. and there has been suspicions that fox might be setting his policy more than he is. after all, the shut down was prompted because fox news hosts were not happy with him conceding on the wall. jane lays it out point by point and exposes what is going behind the scenes

if a fox news reporter was blacklisted from the white house, we should all stand up for that fox news reporter. this is a democratic national committee issue. fox's fight is with the dnc, not the media. so many d.c. reporters were supporting fox about going on fox. there was a kind of -- i don't know what that was about. >> if you think -- it reflected someone in fox's response. they said the dnc is banning chris wallace and brett. they made it personable. in that case it's not about solidarity. they're helping out their friends which i think is understandable. i also think that's part of it. the other thing is they're not making the separation between it's possible to have media solidarity and in this context say i don't have to advocate for fox news to be a debate partner for the dnc. i think it's important to make sure -- >> as i say, my view of this is tactic tactical. the dnc can pick its forum. tactic cli, i think they're blowing it. >> we'll find out after the election. quick break here and then more on some of the fall out from the new yorker article. we'll talking to the cong

. >> jane mayer, the piece is "the making of the fox news white house." everybody should read it. sharing the great reporting with us. >> thank you for having me on. >>> i have to say i had my popcorn there, i was waiting for that interview, i was doo i go to hear your conversation with her. think about the implications of just those three issues you brought up. >> i mean, they're huge. and, you know, again, these are things that were speculated to, but people hadn't been able to completely connect the dots yet. by the way, it's funny, there's a lot more in here as well. >> a lot of dots. >> yes. >>> a potential major breakthrough in aids treatment. a second hiv patient is said to be cured. the details next. ♪ looking to lose weight this year? try fda-approved alli®. for every 5 lbs you lose, alli® can help you lose two to three more by preventing about 25% of the fat you eat from being absorbed. for the only fda-approved otc weight loss aid, try alli®. the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand new way for you to sell you

fox news alert. it's friday. white house communications director bill shine is resigning from his position to work for president trump's 2020 campaign. as the president tours the devastation area in alabama. what to expect when robert mueller's report drops. ken starr is here. plus 2020 candidate senator elizabeth warren making big news, announcing she wants to break up some of the country's biggest tech companies. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." and we

gloria, what do you make of the timing, about the depths of the white house/"fox news" connection? >> it may be connected to it, because, of course, that report showed that it's an incestus relationship between "fox news" and the white house and that people come and go from fox to the white house but i think, you know, that really bill shine is somebody who may have thought he would have a larger role than the role he ended up having which was effectively stage managing the president, that the president is his own communications director and there have been reports at cnn and elsewhere that the president wasn't thrilled with the performance of shine because he thought he would ghet him better press than he's gotten and so i think you put all those things together and i think shine decided to leave and the fact that they say he's going to campaign is really very much of a soft landing. he has no title and who knows how long he'll remain. >> gloria borger, carrie corridoro, thanks ladies. >>> elizabeth warren rules out a plan to break up big tech company like amazon and google. we'll

fox news alert. it's friday. white house communications director bill shine is resigning from his position to work for president trump's 2020 campaign. as the president tours the devastation area in alabama. what to expect when robert mueller's report drops. ken starr is here. plus 2020 candidate senator elizabeth warren making big news, announcing she wants to break up some of the country's biggest tech companies. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." and we begin with news from the white house. bill shine is leaving the position of communications director. he is moving over to the 2020 re-election campaign. this comes as president trump visits lee county, alabama after it was ravaged by a deadly tornado this week. john roberts is live at the white house. john? >> reporter: bill shine joined the administration in june of last year. there was a bit of a surprise this morning when we found out that he left. he was outside this morning as the president, the first lady left the white house, headed f

between bill shine and fox news perm personalities that he used to manage and then stayed in touch with, namely sean hannity, and the synergy between fox news and the trump white house shine came from fox news, his title there was president, and he moved into the white house and tried to manage a lot of the president's stagecraft and his communications from here, craig. >> and of course hope hicks also a communications director for this white house as well. hans, stand by, we'll come back to you in just a bit. by the way, bottom of your screen there, we've just put it up for you, i'll describe it for our listeners on sirius satellite radio, this is air force one touching down in ft. benning, georgia. we expect the first lady and her son to emerge, they're going to be touring some of the areas completely ravaged by those tornadoes a few days ago. again, air force one there touching down in georgia, just over the state line there with alabama. we'll keep a close eye on that. i do want to bring in white house reporter for bloomberg news, shannon pettypiece. shannon, bill shine out as communications director. how surprised are you by this news? >> we had actually been h

except for the jane mayer piece in "the new yorker" criticizing the relationship between fox news and the white house. it would be hardly credible that the president would respond to that. >> my guess is the president is not too worried about "the new yorker," certainly not worried about being too close to fox news. however i think there had been in recent weeks signs of discomfort on his part that there was a lack of chemistry with bill shine, that you saw that bill shine wasn't showing up for some of the major moments when a message chief would have been expected, for instance he wasn't on the trip to vietnam where the president met with kim jong-un, the north korean dictator. people saw the beginnings of distancing there. he's got this campaign job, but that's seen by some people close to the white house as kind of a face-saving gesture. >> it does seem like that in the way it was announced. ken dilanian, you were there at the manafort courthouse, and the expression of shock on the faces of all of the people on the ari melber show on msnbc when it broke, when he said 47 months. here people had bee

bill shine was a central figure in this article, and has been a central link between the white house and fox newst, it became embarrassing for the white house to sort of have this relationship where the most -- the network for the president enjoys watching most is seen as this propaganda arm of the white house. and to get rid of bill shine might be a signal that they're sort of taking a step back from that relationship. but on the inside, you know, from what i'm hearing from white house officials, it doesn't seem like anything is going to change. both operationally and in terms of the relationship between the president and his favorite fox news hosts, people like sean hannity and lou dobbs and just the coverage of that network of his administration. >> okay. so really quick question for you. fox news and president trump have a symbiotic relationship, codependent on one another. going into 2020, who needs the other more, do you think? >> they both need the same thing, which is the audience. and i think it's true they have a symbiotic relationship. it's hard to think of them as two separate entitie

news from the white house today. bill shine is at. word is the president was starting to lose enthusiasm for his communications director, so what went wrong for the former "fox news" executive? >>> we're also following reaction to paul manafort's sentence and the judge's comments, how can it be said that manafort lived an otherwise blameless life. we'll discuss. >>> and who are the 23 republicans who voted against condemning hate and bigotry? dana bash knows and she'll join me to talk more about this. th ? we're ok. just ok? we got a saying here. if the brakes don't stop it, something will. that's not a real saying. it is around here. i wrote it. just ok is not ok. especially when it comes to your network. at&t is america's best wireless network, according to america's biggest test. now with 5g evolution. the first step to 5g. more for your thing. that's our thing. sometimes, bipolar i disorder makes you feel like you can do it all. but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by asking your healthcare provider about vraylar. vraylar treats acute mania of bipolar i disorder. vray

fox news alert for you. bill shine has resigned as white house communications director. he says he will join the president's re-election campaign. he was a former fox news channel president. shine saying in a statement, serving president trump and this country has been the most rewarding experience of my entire life, to be a small part of what this president has done for the american people has been an honor. i'm looking forward to working on president trump's re-election campaign and spending more time with my family. we'll bring you any more news about this as soon as we get it. fox news alert. new reaction from the president in a bipartisan group of lawmakers to the passage of a house democrat resolution condemning all forms of hate in the wake of anti-semitic remarks by congress woman ilhan omar. republicans and some democrats saying the measure falls short and president trump not holding back in his criticism. this is "outnumbered." this is melissa francis. kennedy is here with us. anchor dagen mcdowell. and jessica tarlov is here with us. joining us on the couch the

and will be seen as good news for the white house, a senior department of justice official telling fox, quote, special counsel mueller not recommending any further indictments. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying in a statement he hopes barr will release as much information as possible and, quote, i sincerely hope you will do so as soon openness transparency as possible. washington's top two democrats also pushing for transparency, saying it's imperative for mr. barr to make the full report public and provided underlying documentation and findings to congress. >> attorney general barr must not give president trump, his lawyers, or his staff any sneak preview of special counsel mueller's findings are evidence, and the white house must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings are evidence should be made public. >> reporter: in addition to the special counsel's investigation, there is another probe by the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new too could have some legal jeopardy for president trump. live at the department of just

fox news. the democratic national committee citing a report in the "new yorker" about the mutually helpful relationship between fox and the trump white house. the story includes new details about fox news essentially catching and killing the stormy daniels story before the election to protect mr. trump. and candidate trump being tipped off about debate questions. >> democratic parmtsity chairman tom perez says fox news is, quote, not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate. the network saying it hopes the dnc will reconsider. the president trump weighed in, democrats just blocked fox news from holding a debate. good. i think i'll do the same thing with the fake news networks and the radical left democrats and general election debates. noting the president on his own cannot prevent the democrats, those are set up by a commission jointly sponsored by the republican and democratic parties. >>> martha mcsally revealing she was raped while serving in the air force. the arizona republican speaking at a senate hearing wednesday on sexual assault in the military. mcsally the first american woman to fly in combat says she did not report it

i think there's one other point, the white house has had one press conference in 2019 and so their press operation is fox newsway they communication is through fox news. and it's now an extension of the white house. >> and part of the reason why donald trump has 38% irreducible core, incredibly, incredibly high core but incredibly low ceiling at the same time. >> all of these swing voters are not guessing messages from him because he's only talking to his base. >> an interesting conversation. i want to have more later but after this break, we have to do a commercial here, the leaks are coming from inside the white house. not just inside the house, the white house. why the administration's objection to congressional scrutiny may have been in vain. that's next. ret weapon... ret weapon... the scotts turf builder program. it's the best way to get the yard you want all year long, guaranteed. all it takes is 4 feedings, with a scotts solution for every season. and with a customized plan from the scotts my lawn app, your yard can look like pete's. it's that easy. this is a scotts yard. download the scotts my lawn a

bi shine, who was a powerful executive at fox news, got into the white house and decovered ma he didn't have that same power and trump is the one who decides hiswn message and conveys that. robert: susan, you wrote about the white house's lack of having news conferences anymore, how they'rell rin a bunker mentality inside the media operation around president trump. you've also covered foreign affairs f years. we saw the president referencing the paulanafort sentencing, 47 months in prison, significantly less than what was expected by osecutors and sought by robert mueller's team. what is the significance of paul manafort getting t reduced sentence? susan: she's now going to be sentence oon the other setf violations here in the district that he has pleaded guiltyo so he may well get more than these four years once addedp. let's pull back to president trump who's the main subject here.er nune, you have his former campaign chairman, his former national security adviser, a whole array of people around him who are guilty of criminal conduct org plead guilty to it. this is extremely significa

fox news a 2020 primary debate, they got it this weekend. days after a "new yorker" piece painted the network as an extension of and beholden to the trump white housenews is dealing with pay mare of new and unflattering story. the first has to do with host jeanine pirro and comments she made on her show about congresswoman omar. >> this is not who your party is. your party is not anti-israel. she is. think about this, she's not getting this anti-israel sentiment doctrine from the democrat party. so if it's not rooted in the party, where is she getting it from? think about it. omar wears a hijab, according to the koran, 33: 59 tells women to cover so they don't get molested. is her adherence to this islamic doctrine indicative to her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is an that athlete cal to the united states constitution? >> the backlash swift, apology not so much. pirro insisted, my intention was ask a question, start a debate. but when one is muslim does not mean you're not supporting the constitution. and tucker carlson is facing his own backlash following a dump of audio recordings taken from radio appearances he made from 2006 and 2011

they see fox news and has reported as in essence and extension of the other party and the white houseto defeat and so i think they don't want to lend authority to that voice. republican party and fox news have a common strategy which is to alarm and appeal to older white viewers and voters. as that group shrinks, the republican party and fox are forced to try ever harder and harder to alarm them which carries them further and further from a realistic discussion of the nation and its problem. the democratic party has made a decision that they don't want to ratify in a firm of movement by the fox. >> if the at the debate held in fox news, would management ensure the debate is as hard on democratic as possible. >> the moderators draft the question but this is something that is managed from the highest levels of the network's executives. so, i more agree with what john was saying. i think the individual questions themselves may have been fair. the larger point is fox is not a legitimate news organization and never was one. roger ailes spent his career as an image maker before transferring

many people are concerned by the media happening between fox news and the white house. >> if i could ne that knows her. to sort of classify her as a fox news contribute to i think really undersells a lot of what she will be able to bring to the administration. she is c to be a good spokesperson but being able to pivot. it won't be about her own views but about the views of the administration. it includes top key communications jobs, other departments. are there any risks associated with this? >> not for the president, no. >> it is his network. he is not a huge fan. that's okay. for him he loves fox. there is absolutely no downside. >> he watches a lot of cnn. >> that is absolutely true. he absolutely does as made clear by his tweeting. at the end of the day there is no downside. if you look at republican voters get a lot of their news at the end of the day there is lot of good solid and people. i don't think there's that much downside. it is about what she can do. >> i mean more broadly. >> if you look at her jobs she had worked in governments before. she is somebody that has become a

. >> harris: fox news alert, just moments from now the white house is set to hold a briefing on the administration'st proposal which seeks a $.6 billion in new wall funding. it comes ahead of it critical vote in the simplest week. where a number of republicans are expected to vote against the president, draining democrats. the president's decoration of an emergency at the board approved the power panel now. dan heninger, deputy editor of "the wall street journal" editorial page. judy miller, the pulitzer prize-winning author and both foxes contribute of. this is a battle of them up. i had on senator bill cassidy losing earlier, and he said the president is going to win this. >> it depends on what you mean by win. politically, more money? presidents have a tendency to get the money they want even if congress doesn't appropriated. so that's the pattern we have seen so far. he's basically asking for six times the amount that congress appropriated. >> harris: let's talk brass tacks. senator kennedy and i were talking about the mainstream media coverage now. "the new york times" of that article about how

white house while he's been there. while in government shine received money from "fox news." ars, according to the reporting. he gives hannity high-five at trump event. strips fox competitor of white house credential, ends press conferences thereby giving fox an advantage as to its access to president. who's going to take on that new role? >> it's hard to say because it seems that the president has just gone through this communications director appointing person after person and know one seems to be able to really last in that role. you would think that bill shine would be the person that really fit in with it due to his close rapport and close relationship with "fox news," however, that didn't seem to really please the president. i think the president is almost his own communications director. it's so difficult, whether it's the chief-of-staff or communications director or press secretary to really reel him in and keep him on message and have a team message in that regard. i think it'll be difficult for the white house to essentially find a replacement for him. however, i mea

. >> yeah, i used to think that fox news was the arm of the republican party. now i think the white houseis a farm of fox news. and you know the white house is staffing up with people who were either contributors or ran the network, bill shine ran that network. and it's paying off for the president right now and it's paying off for fox news with ratings, but i think that the -- i think as we get into a 2020 election, i think it's going to be a very difficult spot for fox, especially post election, if they are still tied to this man and we're seeing whatever may happen with mueller or what may happen with these investigations, if he's such a damaged person either heading into the election or if he even doesn't make it to the election, where does fox news go from there? i don't really know what -- >> that's a conversation we'll pick up but i think the biggest problem is fox news now stands for someone who is neither republican nor conservative. we will see how that ends. >>> after the break, the wild ride cpac edition. ride cpac edition. biopharmaceutical researchers. driven each day to pur

white house staff. you also had thaew yorker" article earlier in the week that highlighted the very close connection between this white house and fox news. i think that was, to some degree, embarrassing for fox news and embarrassing for the white house, as well. >> let's turn to paul manafort. he was sentenced yesteo 47 months. federal guidelines give a range generally of 19 to 24 years. this is for fax and bank fraud. there's a new trial, for which he will be sentenced. it will take place a little later this week. the judge in that one is ov seeing the roger stone case, knows a little more about the robert mueller investigation. what should we expect toteing this week? >> well, jackson has a much different attitude toward the special counsel and robert mueller than judge ellis did.e justs not finished speaking yet. 47 months was way below t .entencing guidelin amy vernon jackson can give ten years to pau manafort. the question is whether that is consecutive or overlaps with the sentence that paul manafort's already got. this is a 69-year-old man. he'll do a considerable amount of time in jailn any case. you can expect less of a deviati

sides. >> as for the communications director at the white house a source close to the white house said there were growing concerns, cozy rip with fox news. shine was partly responsible for the reduction in press briefings. top officials are routinely on fox news instead of on other news out dplets. the source told me earlier today it is dangerous to have shine so close to the decision making in the west wing but shine is not going far as he is take ago position advising the trump campaign, wolf. >> thanks very much. let's talk more about michael cohen and manafort. since the president claims cohen personally and directly asked him about a pardon is mr. trump now potentially a witness if this becomes a major legal case? >> he could be. they both kind of have issues of telling the truth. one prosecutor would use them in any kind of a case without any kind of cooberation without thinking about bringing any kind of perjury clarharges. it is whether or not he lied when he testified. if there is cooberation out there but without that you can't really trust either one of these guys. >> in addition to congress will they look into this allegatio

my point is, you don't ever really think they were ever as intertwined with the obama white house as fox newswith the trump white house. i mean, that's just -- it just didn't exist. >> i would say that the reporting of msnbc during the obama administration was as pro-obama as the fox reporting is of trump. i mean, you can say they may not have had the personality entwinement, but if you look at what they reported, what they emphasized, what they failed to report, what they -- it's very, very similar in the way they approach both. >> all right. rick santorum, appreciate it. kirsten powers as well. >>> secretary of homeland security kirstjen nielsen faced lawmakers today about, among other things, the administration's family separation policy. nielsen previously told lawmakers the policy was not at all intended as a deterrent, but that, of course, was later exposed as a lie. other members of the government said that was the idea of it. what she said about it today. we're "keeping them honest." we switched. i switched to chevy. i switched to chevy. we switched to chevy. i switched from a ram to

particular thing that got me going on there story was that bill shine, the president of fox news became the white housedirector. you literally had someone from fox in the position of the top job controlling the president's message. it's been -- there's been coordination ever since. >> your article opens up with sean hannity press core being less in. sean hannity is already on location and he's part of the administration entourage. >> he's literally hugging members of administration and the other press are kept behind the rope lines by the secret service. i've been a white house reporter. i was during the reagan add plr -- administration. i've never seen anything like it and a lot of presidential lis t -- lis thistorians have never anything like it. the country's biggest news would be use as a mouthpiece or state news. there's a lot of conservatives who talk to, people who used to be on fox who say there's fo kr -- no criticism of the president that's getting through on fox news. there are exceptions. let's be fair here. the good reporters. the overall message is straight out of trump's mouth and back a

white house, some staffing news. the search is on now for a sixth communications director. bill shine, the current one, he's a former fox news ed >> hallie jackson at the white house. thank you. >>> now to that sentence for paul manafort. just u feral guidelines suggest. it's a sentence that stunned many attorneys and advocates who say it shows a major disparity in the criminal justice system in america. kristen welker explains. >> reporter: tonight paul manafort's sentence still shocking many. less than four years for bank fraud and cheating on his taxes, when guidelines called for anywhere from 19 to 24 years. >> it's very unusual for a defendant in paul manafort's sentencing guideline range to get a sentence this low. but it's ndefense attorneys argue it highlights sentencing inequalities between those who are wealthy and those who are not. >> the american system of mass incarceration is deeply racist, it is deeply unjust. >> reporter: scott heckinger is a public defender in new york. he says many of his clients are low-income people of color. one of them now facing serious time for stealing $100 worth of quarters fr

bill shine, the former fox news executive, left his white house post and will advise the president's 2020 campaign. the president is also attending a number of fundraisers this weekend as part of his re-election effort. reena. >> ninan: errol barnett, traveling with the president. thanks, errol. california legislatures are exploring ways to make police liable for the deaths related to concluded that the officers who shot and killed stephon clark last year did not commit a crime. clark was unarmed at the time of his death. meg oliver has more. shouts of "stephon clark" have pitted police against the community. >> stephon clark! >> reporter: the shooting death of 22-year-old clark by sacramento police last year, and other high-profile shootings of unarmed black men, have also pivoted elected officials to introduce legislation to make police criminally liable for such deaths. >> most of the officers are not being prosecuted for the use of lethal force, and so california would be among the first states to actually implement a statewide policy. >> no racist police! >> reporter: as the pro

news. president, you can see him there, touring storm damage with the first lady as big changes take place back at the white house. president's communications chief, former fox news executive bill shine is out. shine resigning and taking a senior post at the trump reelection campaign. it comes as the president gets a first-hand look at the devastation in alabama after a tornado outbreak killed 23 people including several kids. president also flew over the tornado's path of destruction. you see that right there. the first lady, melania trump, posting a photo from a disaster relief center they visited. a live look at ft. bening, georgia, where the president is about to take off. he's landing there. gonna head to florida for the weekend. jonathan serrie is reporting live in lee county, alabama, where this tragedy happened. what have you been seeing today? >> reporter: hi, ed. well, plenty of destruction wherever you look. and president trump got to see it for himself up close and personal after taking an aerial tour of the damage aboard marine one, he and the first lady toured one of the neighborhoods on foot, one of the hardest hit areas. there they met with s