rush limbaugh, and coulter, and all of those -- ann coulter and all of those. i feel like the generation after me -- i hate to use this term -- but the millenniums coming up, i feel this political partisanship will go away. maybe there is more partisanship that might come, but all the things that made us politically partisan and may does not trust the other side, -- made us not trust the other side, and just for parity, i have a brother that is a staunch conservative, he is not a racist, and he would give you the shirt off his back no matter who you are. i feel the next generation will outlive all of this. host: got you. thanks for the call. ken stern. i hope steve is right, but all the data suggests the trends are going in the wrong way. it is interesting the way he puts it -- we are profiling the side. i think that is a pretty apt phrase where we are assuming a lot about the other side. republicans do it to democrats in terms of, you know, they hate hard work, or they are snowflakes, or a bunch of other phrases, and democrats are doing it with the other side

but as recently as ten years ago, you had congressmen calling into rush limbaugh's office asking him for forgiveness because he had spoken out of turn against them and so, this is something that -- >> you got to continue. >> that's a great point. >> the building block. >> the house pre freedom caucus. >> indeed. the speaker of the house boehner when it came tile to admonish the ten members of the caucus raising whether or not legislation arguing that the president wasn't an american. >> president obama. >> president obama. he said it's not my job to do this. >> he knew. he knew who he was going to be crossing or not crossing when it came to that. >> indeed. this is a republican phenomenon and donald trump is it. >> he's laying the foundation, how do you predict how they will react if and when it happens? >> they are laying the bricks for credibility of bob muller and will work with the base. gaslighting has been talked a lot. the idea donald trump is able to create an alternate reality and convince people only his reality is true and it starts with the foundation principle of lying,

he was very into two things, npr and rush limbaugh.e realized he was more of a rush limbaugh guy then an npr guy. host: is this a picture of him in a double spread? wil: that's alex. host: what did this do for him when this came out? wil: it's interesting. i don't know if i can take blame or credit, but since the story came out and try to figure out who they are and what they are doing, they spent a lot more time in mainstream media. for example, a guy named rahim kassam, the breitbart london editor has found himself eating invited on cnn all the time to give interviews. and joel pollack was the editor-in-chief after andrew breitbart's death, joel is on nbc all the time now. for better or worse i would expect a fair amount of cynicism or normalizing breitbart, which has written offensive things and installed a president that half the country is upset about. not everyone would consider this a good thing, but i think it is true that putting breitbart in the magazine and looking closely at it has changed a little bit the place it occupies

, and i -- is listen to to buy more is listened to by more people than rush limbaugh, and i keep saying steve innskeep should get what rush gets. the difference is about half a million people. it's widely successful in the primary source of news for millions and millions of people around the world. >> and commercial radio has pulled back dramatically, leaving a big opening for it. so, you were paying attention to all of this in california, but you and some of your friends decided there was something missing. what did you see? >> first of all, we had little news on radio, and that is true today. spanish commercial radio, there is no news. it is absent. it is a shocking truth. there is no spanish-language news on radio. we get started in 1976. we got started july 4, 1980. the population of latinos in the u.s. was around 15 million. it was about 5%, 6% of the u.s. population. now it is 58 million and 18% of the population and 72% of latinos speak spanish at home. so, this is not something of the past. a lot of us were young at that time. we had a big dreams but rather , something that can

and wait until you hear what rush limbaugh is saying about mueller's investigation, straight ahead. ♪'s see why people everywhere are upgrading their water filter to zerowater. start with water that has a lot of dissolved solids. pour it through brita's two-stage filter. dissolved solids remain? what if we filter it over and over? (sighing) oh dear. thank goodness zerowater's five-stage filter gets to all zeroes the first time. so, maybe it's time to upgrade. get more out of your water. get zerowater. ♪ >> sean: here with reaction on this important news day is the author of the best-selling book called vengeance. newt gingrich. you have a trump-hating, hillary-loving guy exonerating hillary before the investigatio investigation, and you see what happens with general flynn. and all of mueller's team of misfit toys, if you will, in this christmas season, with corruption and a lack of ethics. i really believe this is a danger to this country and equal justice under the law. nobody in the media talks about it, sir. >> let me say two things, one, i don't think i fully appreciated until thi

. >> well, i think -- i happened to catch a little bit of rush limbaugh today. and as far as rush limbaugh was concerned, it's 50% of the country already thinks that mueller is completely crooked and this is going nowhere and this is a joke. it's almost as if they shouldn't even fire mueller because what he is doing is such a joke anyways, it's not going to make a difference. and i think that is sort of where they're mutating into. but if they fire rosenstein, they're going to have to go down. they're going have to find some u.s. attorney who stlout in the country who is going to be brought in. and there is going to be -- they're going to have to get very lucky that they get the right one the first time or there is just going to be this trail of people. >> see, that's the problem. >> brought in. will you fire mueller? no. and then to the next person. >> slow motion. and i think you have people whispering in the president's ear, remember what happened when you fired comey. remember what happened, remember what happened. michael steele and sam seder, thank you bot

and wait until you hear what rush limbaugh is saying about mueller's investigation, straight ahead. ♪name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. ♪ >> sean: here with reaction on this important ♪ >> sean: here with reaction on this important news day is the author of the best-selling book called "vengeance." former speaker of the house, fox news contributor, newt gingrich. you have a trump-hating,he hillary-loving guy exonerating hillary before the investigation, and you see what happens with general flynn. and all of mueller's team of misfit toys, if you will, in this christmas

that nobody thinks exactly the way they do and rush limbaugh this victory all and hatred wass 30 years. and those alternative voices. >>host: i think we got the ideaea with the takeover. >> i do know it is the general idea to control much of the radio broadcast talking about control of the news not with the industry bandwidth how special interest to get their nosesr under the tent to make the report and focus on that so now there is some very little difference in those talking points and there is a alason foror that but they are interested in promulgating talking points. then we call that fair with propaganda in my view that people do not want to see on tv. i see that as a diversion it is very easy for someone to bring the stories in the research and the narrative to be cause a reported with that mix and will further those forward with investigation and research. >>host: a couple years ago during 2014 the coke brothers became a big issue as an evil issue for the democrats to be on the senate floor hairy real -- raid -- harry reid was ranting against them and not know who they were. did

then with what the rest of my sisters and then my dad my mom the irish people listening you know limbaugh in an m.e.p. and my lawyer makin amnesty international reprieve all of these you know gathering in that. and so these organizing help me was very effective with me at that at the time and especially through prison it helped me psychologically a lot but the pressure yes. definitely but the feeling just needed a bit more moment to go back to studying but one of the things that sustained brought him in jail were his memories of ireland's beautiful landscape especially this hilltop not far from where he went to school like this is where we meet as friends and as some peter who waited for years to be reunited with their classmates i found the real awkward i haven't seen this guy for years what do i say what you do but it was natural like when i saw it wasn't like i was gone for that long felt like it was just a weekend difference like you know it felt like he was gone for a week and then i saw him for a first time obviously there's a lot of reporters there which is. it would but once once

rush limbaugh on three channels at the same time. and affecting the airways for 30 years, now a crescendo, radio stations -- in seattle. alternative voices, even npr station. >> host: i think we got the idea. conservative radio in the james view takeover of radio. >> guest: a general idea that liberal interests control much of the broadcasts, television broadcast conservative interests, radio broadcasts. when i am talking about control of the news i'm not speaking of the industry bandwidth, don't know about that. i am talking how special interests from both parties and corporations have been able to get their nose under the newsroom, the talking points and lists and report what they want us to report on a given day and focus on that but hired them in our newsrooms as analysts and pundits and managers and reporters, there is very little difference between talking points from an outsider and talking points when you turn on the news and there's a reason for that. some of the people who work there aren't interested in journalism and givi

fox news more and more in that direction, rush limbaugh all the way down to the info war. how does that create and set the scene for the alt-right? everybody in the movement in the rationalization and explanation for the news events and daily this is something i saw them doing in the movement in the '90s they can take any news event and translate it through the prism of that ideology so that a hurricane in florida could be proof that the government was secretly manipulating the weather is a new world order so this is something the universe creates for itself and definitely it is what keeps them because it creates a community now you can contact them on the internet. >> they have a problem when they did it for for instance the critic that they would take everybody's guns and then he doesn't. i know people putting up a propaganda don't care but what about the people that are the recipients was their experience as opposed to what they are being told or they want to believe? >> it entails this compartmentalized thinking or you can hold contradictory ideas in the same place and

rush limbaugh is not talking about the problem with steve bannon, but mitch mcconnell.at is undeniable and he is a very dynamic speaker and a motivate the troops kind of guy. he is telling the folks you just quoted to be ready. what the moore race showed you have to be ready to beat the democratic and republican establishment and they will play just as dirty as the democrats. he is telling all the guys that you have to be ready to face sexual stuff and the sexual questions and you have to be ready and want to do this more than anything. we will see if that enthusiasm translates to the polls in the swing states. i can say also that republicans on the ground in alabama, the turn out surprised them as well. they were celebrating early and had a number of vote counts for moore. not only hit that, but exceeded it. as we saw tuesday night, the cities came in and took the camp by quite a bit by surprise. >> that's the same thing that happened in virginia. gilespie is like i'm doing okay, but the urban areas and the suburbs came in and boom. listen to nancy pelosi. just one rac

rush limbaugh spoke to this point earlier today. let's get your response.ahead. >> mueller team is comprised of not faithful and non-partisan objective law-abiding investigators. it is populated by trump-hating, pro-hillary, pro-obama partisans who have been given unlimited money and unlimited purview to use the power of the federal government to implement their political ideas, not enforce the law. david: boy, it is hard to argue with that, isn't it, fred. >> i think he exaggerates a little but certainly not entirely. look at the original hires by special counsel here, robert mueller, however you pronounce his name, were people democratic donors. one was a lawyer for the clinton foundation. these were people who came with a partisan tilt. why they were hired i don't know but it was clear who they were, what they had done, and then we see, then we see this fellow who was, this fbi guy who was removed a few months ago, i mean it was just reported. david: peter strzok. we're looking at a picture of him now. >> we would have known months ago if the subpoenas h

the same with rush limbaugh. a coup. >> mueller has always been an investigation leading to impeachment. not crime. i think there's and has been ever since trump was elected, a silent coup to get him out of office, ultimately. >> this whole investigation stinks worse than cabbage cooking in a small unventilated kitchen with sardines on the side. there needs to be an investigation of the investigation. >> that there is a former governor and the father of the current white house press secretary. your view as a conservative about how people should meet this sort of extremist rhetoric which relates to potential action. >> i think it is shocking to which these supported conservatives are willing to bend the rule of law. why did they put some importance on appointing justices to the supreme court. those judges are supposed to uphold the rule of law. and yet clearly, this trump chorus is seeking to undermine the rule of law and another thing jumps out at me, that trump and his supporters spent so much time attacking peo

. >> what do president clinton, conservative radio personality rush limbaugh and rock star billy idol common? they've all got electronic mail addresses on computer systems linked to the internet. >> who are these other people that are on it? >> other people just like you. >> how did they get on it? who regulates this internet and who decides who gets on this highway and who doesn't? >> the services we're talking about today are commercial services. you spend money to get on there. there's no real regulation per se. you use your phone line and your computer and you get online. >> and compuserve was for the tech savvy people. prodigy was for shopping and aol was the first one that had a vision to get everyone connected. [ computer handshake ] >> when i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. >> welcome. you've got mail. >> compuserve charged by the minute. it was like a taxicab. aol's invention was to forget that and charge $19.95 a month, all you can eat. and that changed everything because now you could afford to be on the intern

rush limbaugh and conservative people have brainwash body 5% of the electorate into thinking that democrats advocate abortion. abortions. democrats hate abortions, far ore than republicans and we're the only really pro-life party. to republicans have nothing do with child after its born, take away insurance, they don't want to educate them, they do everything against a poor baby. i want to say. democrats need to explain what stand for instead of allowing these republicans to lie. your point in ot alabama. let's talk about the abortion issue and how it played out in alabama special election and in that template for this issue races?r guest: how much time do we have this morning to unpack the abortion issue. robert, abortion and choice are one of the issues that still i think the s, country and two political parties who interesting in the race, which i'm sure robert was voting and a part of, nominee, , democratic senator elect was pro-choice and taking t people are different things from that. there is a sense that choice and abortion doesn't matter, democrats shouldn't be afraid of that stanc

thought back to the beginning of the obama administration when i was in the administration, rush limbaughm rooting for the president to fail and i thought particularly at a time of national emergency, that was a terrible thing to say and so i felt you owe the next president that same presumption. we're now ten months in. where do you think, how would you evaluate him? >> well, when we were at, back in the golden months of last october, you know, before the election, you know, the people stick microphones in your face. you think donald trump's going to get collecte lected? i said no way. you don't elect a guy like that president of the united states. and i thought that all the way up and i said something glib or flip, if that's going to happen, well you know what, then aliens are going to land on my front lawn u and dinosaurs are going to wear capes. it was a silly answer for something that was impossible. >> did you check your lawn? >> if i had said instead, if that happens, we're going to, neonazis are going to hold torch light parades in charlottesville and pocahontas jokes will be said

thought back to the beginning of the obama administration when i was in the administration, rush limbaughd i'm rooting for the president to fail, and i thought particularly at a time of national emergency, that was a terrible thing to say. i felt you owed the next president that same presumption. we're now ten months in. where do you think, how would you evaluate him? >> well, when we were at -- back in the golden months >> people -- do you think dunkin donu donuts -- you don't elelkt a guy like that president of the united states. and i thought that all the way up. i said something, you know, like if that's going to happen, aliens are going to land on my front lawn and dinosaurs are going to wear capes. it was a silly answer for something that was impossible. if i had said if that happens, neo-nazis are going to hold parades in charlottesville, and pocahontas jokes will be said in front of the navajo -- >> we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. >> that would have been just as held lash shus. >> what more did he say about real

how is this dramatically different than rush limbaugh on the xm for air and others on the air that you >> my philosophy if is there speech you don't like the answer is not suppressed speech but fight for more speech. the speech you don't like is more speech. i defend the right of those who i disagree with and those i consider vial like steve bannon, frankly, have the platform to speak. seth rogen is hilarious and i wish he would come on my show and trash steve bannon on my show nightly when i do the same thing there. steve bannon is unique character. let's be blunt about this. it's not typical left versus right. this is a man who turned breitbart into a bragging for the alt right which is is synonymous with white nationalism. steve bannon has turned breitbart number one place for anti-bigots and in the law center that bigots to write articles to demonize me and my opportunity. yet, at the same time in this country you want to defeat steve ban owen and donald trump in that rhetoric? it's the game of -- and my show is on a channel. the number one priority of my show is defeating steve ba

a lot of people all the looked at that and say that they are conservatives and rush limbaugh and all this rise of conservative talk radio, and there is a link saying the deregulation allowed more vibrant opinions, so just be. the conservatives in general were against eliminating the fairness doctrine. newt gingrich, james falwell, ardent conservatives were opposed to that reagan era deregulation policy. they wanted to re the fairness doctrine. host when there was a fairness doctrine, you and i had to walk somewhere and find the person responsible for dealing with a complaints. where would he or she be? tom: at the federal communications commission -- brian: how many people fussed over the fairness doctrine? tom: is good over decades. you know, i cannot give you the numbers -- brian: small dozens? tom: i was there in 1991 and 1992 and the chairman of the commission was appointed by the chairman and george h.w. ush. so, you know, the media bureau gets these complaints. the staff goes through them and obviously tries to formulate some kind of policy. consistent over time. again, it is n

oops, i started channeling rush limbaugh for a second.for some refugees coming to the u.s. isn't the end of their problems. it's the beginning of a whole new set of them. and that's especially true for the lgbtq community. i'm headed to meet with ruby corrado, who runs casa ruby, a home for people in the lgbtq community who need a safe space. when lgbtq immigrants come to you, what are the challenges they're facing right now? >> it's quite interesting that washington, d.c. is very far from the border, right? and every year we support almost 600 lgbt immigrants from across the globe. and it's just the same pattern. they were different, and people deemed them less valuable, so therefore they want to go where they're loved, where they're accepted, where they're embraced. and they find their way to casa ruby. >> so what are the kind of things you experienced when you got here at 16? >> i ended up being in the washington, d.c. area homeless with no resources. eventually i transitioned my gender and things got worse because i couldn't find empl

rush limbaugh is describing it as a coup and guests on these programs are comparing the fbi to the kgb. conservative media quichoir is telling trump that the special counsel is out to get you. former spokesman for breitbart. a cnn reporter who covers politics, media and business. and the media correspondent for npr. kurt, what is going on here? >> i think you're seeing exactly that fox news has become defacto state controlled propaganda. i don't know how anyone could look at what's going on and not reach that conclusion. >> the white house isn't literally running fox, or are you saying they are? >> it seems like they are. i remember the days when what you saw on breitbart was considered the fringe, so far beyond the mainstream not even fox news would touch what was on those pages. fox is going farther than breitbart. advocating and attacking the mueller investigation. >> so, david, do we call this collusion? >> i think you've seen an almost total erosion between what you're hearing from trump administration officials desperately spinning and trying to defend the president, trump surrog

. ♪ >> chris: if you've ever wondered who will eventually succeed rush limbaugh and sean hannity is thenion, it may just me ben shapiro. who's that? here's our "power player of the week" ." >> in a free country it is up to you to succeed or fail on your own merits, so get off your ass and do it. if >> chris: he talks fast. but for most of his 33 years he's been a man in a hurry. >> and ben shapiro, this is a ben shapiro show. >> chris: the host of the most listened to conservative podcast in the country. >> i do love the trump has a rotating series of about ten insults. >> chris: the editor of the daily wire, which gets 100 million page views a month. and he's a big presence on college campuses where his militant conservative views spur protests. >> you are not a man if you think you are a man. >> chris: over transgender identity has attracted 47 million views on facebook. >> why can't you identify a 60? what is the problem with you identifying a 60? age is significantly less important than gender. you can't magically change her gender. you can't magically change your sex, you can't mag

>> if everyone who will eventually succeed rush limbaugh and sean hannity is the voice of conservativell is back. this is our power player of the week. >> in a free country it is up to you to succeed or fail on your own merit. get off of your bike and give a request ben shapiro talks about. then for most of his 33 years, he has been a man checked the cost of the most listened to conservative podcast in the country. plus i do like that tranquilizer proceedings there is about 10 insults that he uses. they keep going around and around.>> editor of the daily wire that has 100 million page views per month. and a big presence on college campuses. for his militant conservative views for protests. you're not a medic you think you are a man. this exchange is a 22-year-old college student over transgender identity has attracted 47 million views on facebook. is like can you not identify as 60? you cannot magically change agenda. you cannot magically change her sex. you cannot magically change your age. >> university of utah listed what he calls a hierarchy. >> you have black and hispanic folks th

much a product of certain types of right wing media, fox news, more and more in that direction, limbaugh all the way down to info wars and what is that and how does that create and set the scene for the alt-right? >> well, it gets everybody within the moment a sort of rationalization in explanation for news events and this is something i saw them doing in the militia movement in the '90s that they could take any days new cement and translate it through the prison of that ideology so that a hurricane in florida could be proof that the government was secretly manipulating the weather as the new world order. literally anything so this is part of the universe that they have created for themselves and they definitely -- it's what pulls them and reels them in and keep them within the movements because it creates self reinforcing community. the only people who are part of the community are people who think like you and now you can contact them on the internet. >> but they have a problem, don't they? when they predicted obama will take everyone's guns and that he doesn't. he doesn't take anyone'

with that, rush limbaugh who had been a noon time talk show host in sacramento on radio moved to new york to try and make his way and then the pay raise gave him the rocket to start up. and that created talk radio as a political phenomenon, and it began the tradition of media that we have now. all of those things mattered and all of it became amplyfied as we moved through into the obama era and then what we saw was the economic strains and the populism that emerged full-blown with the financial collapse in 2008 and the response of the elites as president george w. bush and his treasury secretary hank paulison and the chair of the fed ben bernanke and previous members of fed met with leaders of the congress, the entire economy could collapse and we have to act now. the tarp program, the troubled assets relief program. what many people remembered, it failed. despite the urgency and importance in the house of representatives, because a group of radical house republicans said why should we believe any of this. then the dow dropped over 700 points which back then was a bill deal and they

when rush limbaugh said, we remember this, i hope he fails right before barack obama took office, theertainly the progressives in the democratic party, which is a lot of them. they're more nuanced but they hope donald trump fails because in the world of partisan politics our team can't win unless your team loses. they need donald trump to lose and that's why i say i don't think they will help them in 2018 with legislation. the loyal opposition has become the resistance. i am not saying that the republicans would be any different. right now the democrats are the party of no. >> rick: the president said he believes the democrats will work with him on infrastructure. the president is saying that he believes in 2018 -- >> i've lost your audio. >> rick: maybe we should have bernie talk for the next four minutes. oh well. it was a pretty clever article and i do encourage people to go to bernard goldberg.com and watch and read and i hope we get him back. >> julie: we'll work on that. it's the end of the year and there are always little elves and gremlins that work. the elves report back to s

ed: let's ask a russian limbaugh. >> mueller did the deed on the right day. deal off the table and to tick everybody off. this is, in john omar continue's opinion the swamp banding together. the establishment coordinating its efforts to continue to destroy trump and muddy the waters. the tax bill is going to pass. as far as mcconnell and ryan are concerned, none of this today is a legal problem. it's a bit of a political problem but it doesn't present any legal problems to them or their tax bill. the tax bill is going to pass. but i don't have any doubt that the timing of this thing today may not be coincidental because look at all of the news it swept off the front pages and look what it put back on the front page. trump colluded with the russians to steal the election from hillary. pete: so what of the news we have today proves as rush said that trump colluded with the russians? ed: there is no new evidence of collusion. that's where this started. pete: nothing. ed: i agree with you this sort of grand conspiracy pushed by democrats is not there yet. where i

this reminds me of a boycott for rush limbaugh. a lot of the good remaining a.m.n avenue said it's too controversial. we're withdrawing funds. that hurt the small portion of a.m. liberal radio. i think it's good people are mad about steve bannon being on sirus. it's homophobic, racist, it's everything. it's disguessinesdisgusting. fy w-- if i were running sirus,i wouldn't give a paycheck. >> during the 2016 steve empowered patriot listeners to have a voice. the result was a lasting bond between steve and his audience that eagerly anticipated a return to radio. i should disclose i'm a fill in radio host at sirus xm. i should disclose that. >> she'll be on. >> do you support the cboycott? >> i don't. they are a bad idea for the opinions these men stated. i'm glad the people are angry and there should be other ways to express anger. he shouldn't have a show, but this is going to hurt the progressive side. >> to the point -- >> go on. >> quickly, i would also say free speech doesn't necessarily include hate speech and any company that's brand is being damaged in this

rush limbaugh said we are not going to send those kids home. we have said we are not going to send those kids home. the president says he loves the dreamers. there is no excuse for us not aving put it on for -- put bill on the floor to resolve this issue. over 300 members of congress will vote on that when you put it on the floor. the only reason it is not on the floor is because the leadership has refused to do so. that was very important to us. to the leader over and over again, i have raised in colloquy over and over again. opioids, as the leader has spoken of, we should have resolved that bill, the perkins loan program, we should have resolved that issue, community health centers, we should have resolved that issue come up medicare extenders, we should have resolved that issue, fire grants, in the dreamers as well. here we find ourselves less than 48 hours before the end of the cr,, the end of the current and nothing has been resolved. no discussions have led to resolution of these issues. reading their phones. perhaps what i am saying is n

here is rush limbaugh on the president's first year.alism or whatever, in his mind, he is restoring greatness to america. and whoever is in the way is who is in the way, and they are going to get taken care of. through it all, trump triumphs. through it all at the end of every day, donald trump is still the focus the virtually everywhere in the world of politics and most of the people in the country. every day. through it all, donald trump doesn't cower in fear and through it all donald trump is never afraid of the media. the republicans are watching all. this and at first it's making them nervous as they can be. now, and even before the tax cut bill was passed there has been a change. and the republican party is happily on donald trump's team. and it's genuine it is real. what they are realizing is that donald trump will win. and they want to be part of a winner. pete: donald trump has given the republicans the best gift he can give them in 2017 which is to teach them how to fight and therefore team them thousand win saying end, are th