rupert, would of course we rupert murdoch. they do not deny killing the story which did not break until a year after trump became president. he insisted the story, which we now know to have been true, was nowhere near being something that would have passed muster, echoing a comment from fox news last year. the network declined to comment on mayer's new reporting. the decision to kill the story came in october 2016, which you might remember also happens to be when "the washington post" published the "access hollywood" tape in which the president boasts about sexual assault. particularly in the context of that tape, the stormy daniels story could have been devastating. because fox news killed the story and the president pads hush money, the daniels' affair did not get out until after the votes were cast. joining me now are gabe sherman, angela corzon. your reaction on them spiking it with those terms. like rupert wants them to win. >> can we revel in the fact that a fox news producer saying a story doesn't pass muster on a netwo

trump deals with needs murdoch's support. >> he needs murdoch. others are doing similar reporting. others are looking at this relation. what other questions do you still have? >> i started the story taking a look at bill shine and the question i had was does fox program the white house or does trump program fox. is it state return tv or is it a tv run state? i don't think we have a definitive answer on that even though i spent months on the story and interviewed over 75 people. it goes both ways. it's a very unusual situation and particularly for our country. >> we've never -- >> we don't have state run tv until now. >> thanks so much. >> great to be with you. >> so many developments in the days since her story was published. bill shine stepping down. members of congress looking for information about possible white house interference in the at&t deal. then the former fox reporter demanding a release from her nda. all that fall out. let's begin with this debate conversation. the democratic national committee saying fox news won't be considered as a partner or host for a democratic p

maintained that -- murdochs' motives are mixed.'s business is complicated. you get hannity doing nothing reassembling journalism, chris wallace and bret baier and other people there doing journalism. so it's a complicated picture. >> let's go back to the comparison of fox having elements of this story in 2016 before the presidential election. "slate" having many of the same elements of this story at the exact same time. and neither of them published the story. >> again, i hate to be a lawyer about it, but that distinction doesn't take you very far because "slate" is not being credibly accused with an nda hanging over an employee of e-mails, facts and evidence that would put forward the wrong reason. so, you know, everyone goes to work in the morning. if one person goes to work and is accused of committing a crime and another person didn't, i don't think "slate" helps that much. you're here because you were in the middle of it. >> i've moved on to the podcasting business. >> over time. final thought. >> i think you also have to reco

from and it's where a lot of people are blaming the media especially news outlets owned by rupert murdoch for sowing the seeds of the hate unleashed in christchurch. journalism is built through words and images sometimes though the story lies in the numbers a study conducted by one path network and islamic media outlet based in sydney tallied up the number of negative stories that five newspapers owned by rupert murdoch's news corp produced in the year two thousand and seventeen these days islam sells so it's no surprise that newspapers are cashing in. but you might be shocked to know just how much they are it found almost three thousand such stories referring to islam or muslims alongside words such as radical. or terrorism headlines like. the head of the class from syria with. let's just in twenty seven. we're talking with an. islam and muslims once every second day in two thousand and seventeen there was a front page that demonized and spoken about muslims and this is bound to have an impact on the way that australians and mainstream c.v. stand in the slums has personally come out and

spend slim's murdoch has personally come out and attacked muslims on twitter previously his newspapers are quite disproportionate in the coverage when it comes to muslims they exaggerate certain aspects they are quite divisive and dangerous and sometimes are completely wrong if you slam was a person that islam would have a very good defamation case against the mood of press the media is still powerful in the sense that a lot of people turn to it as their primary source of information and certainly for older australians or people who continue to watch t.v. and consume the mainstream newspapers they're not really getting a diversity if you. i don't want this to be a bashing of one particular news organization it's actually across the board some places are just more egregious than others. and while the murdoch media empire is headquartered in new york and entrenched in london it got its start and remains hugely influential you know that's where the christchurch killer was born raised and in all likelihood radical. if australia is mainstream media helped the murderous believe he's signing

. >> i think it's interesting to jux pose the claim that murdoch own fox had an interest and executedtory about trump in 2016 while also recognizing on the other hand that it was fox owned wall street journal that broke the story of one of the other catch and kill operations that happened during 2016 before the election the wall street was the first to report that karen mcdougal had been silenced. the wall street actually led much of the reporting on these efforts to silence these two women who had the damaging stories about trump. >> i think it raises questions. if you're going to say on the one hand if there's a claim that murdoch that fox was working to silence. >> the rebuttal is sean hannity and roger ailes, running fox who went onto advice donald trump of the debate, that part of the company seems to have more political sway than the journal. i think it's an interesting argument you raise. i don't think it's that helpful. it reminds us of the difference. >> it will be interesting to see who they will point finger at. when she shares her information with congress. >> i would argu

i mean what you had was this perfect marriage whether it's heaven or hell i don't know but rupert murdoch with this kind of fed has shut fetish about the quote working class you know as if he knows really a part member that married to roger ailes is vision of fear and kind of the leak to them fear driving it so when they meet together it's this perfect you know like chocolate and peanut butter or kind of match and it's almost fiendish in simplicity. you do you scare people a lot of it is said to say a lot of it has been fear it could be other things as well as in a phobia racism etc etc and you mix that together and you've got this this perfect stew that can be fed to people and then they reflect that back and you know it's a money making venture as well so what's not to like yeah it's really not what you know i mean even roger ailes was you know. when he started out i mean a lot of his thesis of the world was that richard nixon probably would have been president for ever had he had a fox news around sure and now we're seeing you know. posthumously his thesis possibly play you know well y

something murdoch says he is willing to do. >> some people say it will take you 20 years to get yourng? >> sure. but i don't believe in the 20 years. >> the reaction to murdoch's idea for a fourth network was similar to reaction to ted turner starting cnn. it's ridiculous. what does he know about television? >> we don't think of ourselves as abc, cbs, nbc. we don't have to reach everyone. there's no question we have an inferior line-up to our counter parts. we'll have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. >> they had an idea that in order to succeed, we have to do things they would not do. >> fox started throwing anything against the wall not knowing what was going to go. first shows were things like 21 jump street. >> what are we looking for here. >> joan rivers in terms of late night. >> we have been banned in boston which i think is wonderful. wnex. so pick a finger. >> and the tracy alman show. >> oh, please. >> it was a sketch show and they needed something to go between the sketches. they were looking for something different. >> i got to have those can

spend slim's murdoch has personally come out and attacked muslims on twitter previously his newspapers are quite disproportionate in their coverage when it comes to muslims they exaggerate certain aspects they are quite divisive and dangerous and sometimes are completely wrong if you slam was a person then islam would have a very good defamation case against the mood of press the media is still powerful in the sense that a lot of people turn to it as their primary source of news and information and certainly for older australians or people who continue to watch t.v. and consume the mainstream newspapers they're not really getting the diversity. i don't want this to be a bashing of one particular news organization it's actually across the board some places are just more egregious than others. and while the murdoch media empire is headquartered in new york and entrenched in london it got its start and remains hugely influential you know that's where the christchurch killer was born raised and in all likelihood radical. if australia is mainstream media helped the murderous believe he's si

from and it's where a lot of people are blaming the media especially news outlets owned by rupert murdoch for sowing the seeds of the hate unleashed in christchurch. journalism is built through. words and images sometimes though the story lies in the numbers a study conducted by one path network and islamic media outlet based in sydney tallied up the number of negative stories that five newspapers owned by rupert murdoch's news corp produced in the year two thousand and seventeen these days islam sells so it's no surprise that newspapers are cashing in. but you might be shocked to know just how much they are it found almost three thousand such stories referring to islam or muslims alongside words such as radical. or terrorist. and. the head of the class from syria with. let's just in twenty seven. we're talking more than eight articles a day. and most of those negative once every second day in two thousand and seventeen there was a front page that demonized and spoken to people about muslims and this is bound to have an impact on the way that australians and mainstream perceive you spent

from and it's where a lot of people are blaming the media especially news outlets owned by rupert murdoch for sowing the seeds of the hate unleashed in christchurch. journalism is built through words and images sometimes though the story lies in the numbers a study conducted by one path network and islamic media outlet based in sydney tallied up the number of negative stories that five newspapers owned by rupert murdoch's news corp produced in the year two thousand and seventeen these days islam sells so it's no surprise that newspapers are cashing in. but you might be shocked to know just how much they are it found almost three thousand such stories referring to islam or muslims alongside words such as radical. or terrorism headlines like. the head of the class from syria with. let's just in twenty seventeen. we're talking more than eighty articles a day trying islam and muslims negatively once every second day in two thousand and seventeen there was a front page that demonized and spoken to people about muslims and this is bound to have an impact on the way that australians and mainstre

we have seen there were a lot of favors that were done for rupert murdoch by this add plrministra.i wouldn't like to see in this country where we have state propaganda coming out of one of our largest cable companies. >> it's a fascinating article. it's in the new yorker. i recommends people read it. thank you so much. >>> new insight about the lengths that president trump's friends made sure his high school transcript never got out after he heard president obama was a terrible student. new report frg ting from the washington post. i'll speak to that reporter next. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk

but for traditional broadcasters, the fact that even rupert murdoch but rupert murdoch thinks he is too compete isn'tjust ——is terrifying. apple is expanding its horizons beyond hardware to hollywood. call for change. hong kongers are asked for ideas on what to do with its disused public phone kiosks. let there be no more war or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. very good. applause so proud of both of you. applause with great regret, the committee have decided that south africa should be excluded from the 1970 competition. chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. onlooker: wow! this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon, in singapore. i'm babita sharma, in london. our top stories: british mps have voted to take control of the parliamentary agenda on brexit — they're now expected to hold a series of indicative votes to help decide what to do next. there's confusion in thailand, with two rival groups trying to form a government. the official election result has been delayed until may. let's take a look at some front pages from

for punters that is great but for traditional broadcasters, the fact that even rupert murdoch thinks, it's terrifying. you are watching bbc news. hello there. if you like your spring weather dry, well, i think you will find plenty to like about this weather forecast. very little rain in the forecast for most of us. we will see dry weather. sunshine amounts will vary. often i think there'll be quite large amounts of cloud but the temperatures as we head towards the end of the week will start to creep upwards. high pressure then in charge of the scene, that's what's keeping things settled and, as i run the sequence through the next few days, this high—pressure barely moves. so for most of us, things stay pretty dry and quiet. up to the north, notice frontal systems scraping into northern scotland so here we will see patchy rains at times and it will be breezy. for many of us, we're starting tuesday morning on a chilly note, particularly down towards the south, where we've seen the lion's share of the clear skies, but that's where we'll have the best of the sunshine through tuesday morn

for punters that is great but for traditional broadcasters, the fact that even rupert murdoch thinks with its iphone business slow down and maybe even peaked, apple is expanding its horizons beyond hardware to hollywood. amol rajan, bbc news. you may have heard of a cat cafe but how about a corgi cafe? one hasjust opened in bangkok where customers pay around $11 to spend an hour petting the pooches. the cafe has 12 corgis and the breed is become increasingly popular in thailand and as a result the sessions get quickly booked up. hello there. if you like your spring weather dry, i think you will find plenty to like about this weather forecast. very little rain in the forecast for most of us. we will see dry weather. sunshine amounts will vary. often i think there'll be quite large amounts of cloud but the temperatures as we head towards the end of the week will start to creep upwards. high pressure in charge of the scene which is what's keeping things settled and as i run the sequence through the next few days, this high—pressure barely moves. so for most of us, things stay dry and qu

and the owner of this company, the mover and shaker, rupert murdoch, wants trump to win, so they killed it. so the stormy daniels story didn't come out until a year and a half later, long after trump was elected. >> and we now know potentially the president was paying illegal hush money to kill the story at the time, he was so worried about its outcome on the election. let me ask you about the first republican debate where fox, according to your reporting, leaked debate questions that megyn kelly was going to ask. we don't have any idea whether she was aware of this. >> i think she was not aware of it, is my sense. and so megyn kelly asked a famously tough question of trump in the debates. and according to several sources at fox, trump was tipped off in advance to this. and we do know for sure that he called fox the day before the debate and he was agitated and was upset that he heard there was going to be a tough question. he spoke to someone and according to two sources who were fox insiders, one of whom is an eyewitness that ailes tipped off trump. >> the late roger ailes, then in ch

thank to you my very good friend rupert murdoch.here's only one rupert that we know. >> roger ailes is one of the great men in television. >> no question that trump benefited from a let's say symbiotic relationship. aides say the relationship is so key to this president, the one with fox, they're calling the shots. president trump has told confidantes that he ranks the network reporters loyal to him on a scale of one to ten, like in a beauty contest. sean hannity gets a 10, while steve doocy gets a 12. fox says it important for the base. in return, the new yorker finds a troubling pattern in which the president himself works on behalf of foxnews's economic interests. he ordered gary cohn to pressure the justice department to intervene in a lawsuit. i first want to go to dylan. without getting into details of anti-trust and all this, why is the president of the united states working for fox? >> well, you have to almost reverse engineer this, okay? fox news has from its inception been a business, and it is focused on bottom line. the

rupert murdoch was a critic of trump's in the beginning of the campaign. then roger ailes, who was running fox news at the time, as you say, was very uncomfortable with the situation. among other things, it was true that trump was getting glaet ratings. and it's still true. i mean, the thing is he's bankable. and there's a financial incentive actually for fox to do good news about trump. their ratings go up when trump looks good. and people -- their audience sort of turns away when there's bad news for trump. so they actually make more money by making him look good. >> you talk about in the beginnibegi beginning of the article whether fox is a propaganda basically machine for the administration. do you believe it is? >> well, i mean, i think it's a big concern. i think there are a lot of questions raised by all of this reporting i was doing. and there's more reporting to be done. but we've seen that there were a lot of favors that were done for rupert murdoch by this administration. it could be there are innocent explanations. people need to know more abou

i think murdoch wanted to keep that going.t the end of the day, he's a businessman. >> that's what created his base. jerry conl gerry connolly was on the show and he said part of the reason why the bar is so much higher for impeachment today is because donald trump has an outlet like fox news protecting him. >> absolutely. i think one thing many people thought were that some of these fox news only viewers were ignoring the stories coming out and other media outlets bringing critical examination to the trump administration. they may not be getting the stories at all and it's not just fox news and there are other outlets as well. when i think of conservatives and done reporting, their ideas and stories and topics that i will mention that they were not aware of because they live in a silo. >> what can you count on for unbiassed reporting right now at fox news? i know a lot of the reporters there and they do really good work and they are fair reporters, but the lines are being blurred between where that reporting goes and where it

even rupert murdoch back in 2015 was tweeting things that were 15 islamo phobic and disgusting and they package this and do it 24/7 and lies and hate and it is c a awful and disgusting. >> there is a vanguard part of it too. they are appealing to the base but we've seen with the green new deal, this just full of -- a assault., >> and it has [ inaudible ]. >> the degree to which the whit. house and they are intertwined is indistinguishable and there s is also a useful propaganda on this -- >> trump introduced billions of dollars of cuts to medicare and they are not covering that because they want to see the idea of through new browning america and the aoc and the ilhan omar of the world are the ones that want to -- at the end of the day, this is where the fox news executives come into play because at the end of the day they peddling these conspiracy theories because they don't want people to vote to raise taxes on them to make sure everyone in the country has health care and that is what is so sad and sickening by fox news,ality the end of the day the reason we can't have nice things in

of the biggest ever entertainment industry acquisitions disney finalizing its purchase of rupert murdoch's twenty first century fox deal brings mickey mouse the simpsons and star wars together under one roof is costing the hollywood entertainment giant more than seventy billion dollars disney is hoping to better arm itself in the battle against rivals like amazon and netflix is planning to launch its own streaming service later this year. germany's national football team and its top automaker volkswagen both are still looking their wounds from past mistakes from one to poor showing in the world cup for the other a much more serious diesel emissions scandal now the two are teaming up hoping to sell more cars and more jerseys and of course to boost their public images of the new partnership takes the pitch for the first time wednesday with a match against serbia. the look has certainly changed the new outfit may be a step toward polishing up the w.'s image and that of the german football association the d.f.t. as can be also may well succeed studies show that its involvement in football so f

meanwhile, the elder murdoch fortune will shrink to just $7.3 billion. that is your bloomberg business flash. still ahead, elon musk has said his goal is to have the safest factories in the world. why that is not panning out for the electric car company. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is "bloomberg markets." i'm vonnie quinn. is up .6%. we got the announcement, stadia, a new game platform, streaming games, according to the google ceo. he said that there would be a and the controller streaming service has been working at google for two years. related stocks are jumping on the announcement. look at these semiconductor stocks. nvidia, micron among them. advanced micro devices at session highs. they were higher all day on more that this announcement would be coming out. a little bit of a twitch for the masses apparently. it will be available for everybody and it will not be blocked to children, it will be more friendly games for a wider audience. ,he google ceo taking the stage speaking at the gaming developers event, saying they have been working on stre

doesn't kowtow to murdoch, but murdoch also doesn't do that to him. good morning. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. i heard jane mayer speak about fox news. cnn,they say fox news, nbc, msnbc, it is corporate media. their bottom line is to make money. fox is about making money. msnbc and trump make them more money. cnn would be out of business if trump was not present. let's get serious. it is corporate media about making money. fox is about making money. msnbc is about making money. they are not trying to inform us. they are trying to make money. host: thank you for the call. (202) 748-8000 that is our line for democrats. (202) 748-8001 four republicans. sophia is joining us from new york. steve? yes, how are you, i don't know if you can remember, october 2018, i called you and made a comment about sarah huckabee sanders, and i said she is a robot. when judge,ne is the supreme court, when he was interviewed for the job, he was there at fox first. how they ask question what they 2015, iim because in remember, all his speech he made, he was a differe

. >> so i think it is interesting to juxtapose that murdoch was involved in suppressing this story and also recognizing that it was "the wall street journal" that broke the story of the other catch and kill operation that happened in 2016 before the election. they were the first to report that karen mcdoogle was part of it, and "the wall street journal" had two of the most damaging stories. >> which means what? >> if there is a claim that murdoch owned fox -- >> the rebuttal to that is that sean hannity and roger ailes who were important at fox at the time went on to advice hvise hi the debates, that part of the company has more political way. >> it will be interesting to see who they will point the finger at when she shares her information with congress. >> let me push you a little more, they're pointing a finger at le cord. they're saying there is a false cover story. >> they're saying it goes higher, and if i remember correctly i think the fox story suggested as high as mur dodoch that's why i make the connection, and it helped the silencing of this come to life. >> this segment is

they had window dressing with a liberal co-host but a propaganda for murdoch and the republican party. >> jennifer ruben, this is an article in the new yorker about fox news that by the time we get to it and read it, it is telling us things that we know but. you know, i've known what you said in the new yorker but i don't have the proof of it in the way that you do with your experience having dealt with fox news and never have stories about fox news spiking and killing the stormy daniels story even though the reporter had it at a crucial time. that's excellent reporting. let's make a note of that. that someone was doing excellent reporting that's someone higher up at fox news was saying no, we're not going to use. these specifics of roger ailes or spiking the story, that's all new information we never had before. >> right. the beauty of the reporting that jane has done is that it combines the things we do know and trump goes on sean hannity show for softball interviews, that he watches fox daily for hours on end. those are the sort of things that we already knew and combines it with s

but he's taking money from rupert murdoch while working for the american people. >> some might think that's -- >> stinky at the very least. >> you never know when somebody leaves the white house whether it's a break up or whether the kamm main has a bigger need for bill shine. >> with less scrutiny. >> this is clearly -- this was not a relationship that was actually very close. bill shine and donald trump didn't know each other well before he got the job. donald trump hired him largely because of his close relationship with sean hannity. so this was not a close working relationship. my reporting indicated to that the two had been growing apart as hans pointed out. you cannot be a communications director in this white house when your boss is doing all the communicating and not taking any direction. it's at odds with the job. >> i wish i knew that. anybody who thought anything different. this is a man who ran on i and i alone. and communications and branding, if there is one thing that's his jam, it's that. so there are no surprises. >> no surprises there. bill shine, i think he was ba

. >> fox chairman rupert murdoch was opposed to the deal.e know murdoch and trump spoke often and we know the whether you want to call it a revolving door or just an open door between fox and this administration is a pretty incredible one. right? you've got a whole lot of people that have gone one way or the other, whether it's john bolton or bill shine. >> the line that really stood out in this piece that hit in the "new yorker" that jean may wrote was that there's never been anything quite like this in the history of television, media, and presidency, and that is that it is the closest thing to state-controlled television. right? you have this -- and by the way, i say this as a former fox news employee. i was a commentator at fox news from 2008 to 2012 before i came to cnn. fox news was different then. fox was run by roger ailes, who we all know had a dramatic fall from grace. but there was still in its own way a sense at least in some quarters to have certain lines in terms of reporting and what would be appropriate in terms of -- for exa

that's a newspaper that happens to be owned by rupert murdoch by the way ken lacorte says in this piece called him back she never did. never had the case practicing. >> martha: he had talked to her about another story and collaborated with her and cooperating with her on another story and then he was surprised when it came to this piece he tried to reach out to her but he never got the call returned and then when he saw the piece he was somewhat surprised. just remind us of the history here with this reporter who has been around a long time jane maher also had some similar issues with kavanaugh's stories, correct? >> yeah, jane maher was the co-author of one of the stories of one of the sets of allegations in the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearings. it's not christine blasey ford. it was one of the people whose tale largely discredited in the aftermath. i'm not casting aspersions on her as a reporter. she is a reporter who has special lived going after president and vice president trump and billionaires. new yorker a very liberal magazine regularly mocks donald trump. and by the way,

and i think that rupert murdoch has very close relationships with governments all over the world, and so why should it be any different in america? this situation with fox news as jane details in the new yorker story, there are plenty of examples that are shocking on the face of it. sean hannity attending the rally. the number of execs they share in common raises issues how close the organization is with the white house. that's not to say that previous administrations haven't had a close relationship with other media outlets in the past. just on the topic of whether any governments have raised issues with mergers before or problems, there was a situation in 2013 with the ftc was looking at google and google -- the issue was is google manipulating search results in a way that's anti-competitive. the ftc looked into that for two years and ultimately found that wasn't a problem. so folks also raised that as an issue, the relation between the tech guys -- >> not like cnn, would he be angry he was trying to block the merger. that's the interesting question. claire, good to see you. claire

you report found the stormy daniels story and had it quashed asked fox news and specifically rupert murdochrelease her from the nondisclosure agreement on the topic of her reporting on stormy daniels. we will wait to hear from that. final question here. do you think that shine leaving changes anything about the fundamentally bizarre co-dependant relationship between the white house and fox? >> i don't think to. the relationships go so deep, so many layers. rupert murdoch, the chairman of fox, and talks frequently to the president and to the president's son-in-law jared kushner, to sean hannity, who is the marquee talk show host at fox who says -- has told colleagues he speaks to the president after his shows in the evening. there is so many different levels of communication and such an open kind of feedback loop there. i don't actually think that that's going to change just because bill shine is leaving. >> sorry. final question. i lied. the dnc announced, i believe it was yesterday, that they would not have fox host any of the democratic primary debates and one of the things they did was c

by blocking the at&t/time warner merger, a business rival of the murdoch media empire, that is something they will dig into. also, we should point out that there was a southern district investigation of the fox news of how roger ailes possibly used company money to cover up the sexual harassment claims after donald trump fired preet bharara, that investigation slowly went away. house democrats judiciary committee could presumably do an investigation to find out what happened. why did the sdny drop its investigation of fox news? >> it's not that president trump is worried about he's tied in. >> serious corruption issues that they could investigate. of course. >> maya, the democrats passed hr-1 today. it's a very comprehensive bill. it would make a particular day -- the voting day. it would make it a federal holiday so that people could vote. it would deal with registration issues. it would deal with gerrymandering issues. it will deal with tax returns. it was a good symbolic move to pass it in the house. it's not going to get through the senate. is that going to hurt republicans if it doe

. -- thehe world oldest of murdoch's sons will not be a movie mogul.achlan murdoch and the renamed to fox corporation with a domestic wants to he increase the output of scripted programs. manufacturers are feeling the headwinds of growth and the trade war. markets are down 4/10 of 1%. the report showed mixed reports and construction replies the climbing. -- declining. >> it is such a mixed bag. retail, the parent company of droppednd taylor ulta, taylor, and across soaring to record highs. bloombergr opinion columnist joining us from washington. let's escalate into the optimism here. what is ann taylor getting wrong at the moment? the bottom end, the cheaper area that is not doing well, right? >> yeah. getting wrongena at this point is the real question. down 8%,e sales were and they said this was a fashion business,eir tops they made a lot of bad calls and they were not offering clothing that their consumers wanted to buy and that was a culprit here. bryant's business in particular, plus sized is the category to a lot of other retailers are coming for

the murdoch family wraps up the disney deal. >>> a new name for the school district in the north bay. some residents calling the name offensive. some residents of san rafael see the dixie name as racist. the name, of course, synonymous with confederacy. however, folks who want to keep the name say it is named after an indian woman named dixie who knew the man that donated the land for the school in the 1800s. pete suratos joins us. question one, tell us what's happening today. question two, what are the other names being considered throughout? >> reporter: they consider two names and live oak elementary and so journey truth elementary. they said they wanted more research and they didn't want to do the decision and pushed it back to this meeting so they're going to decide between the two names. live oak sojourney truth elementary. we'll see if they decide to change the name tonight. >> what if they can't come up to a decision? >> reporter: yeah. if they don't come up to that decision, laura, what will happen is it comes to a community vote. a ballot measure in 2020. but obviously, the

no one is standing up to rupert murdoch. >> that's not true.former member of congress, that's exactly what i did. he talked about s-hole countries, i went after him. i spoke out against it. there are people doing that and calling him this is why it's so important to make sure that you hold everyone out. accountable to the principles that you believe in, democrats and republicans. and you can't follow a person blindly because they have an "r" behind their name. i would actually say that we've probably been republicans longer than the president has, and i think it's important for us to hold him accountable for the principles and platforms that we believe in. that's what's going to save the party and, i think, help heal what's happening in the united states. but to say there aren't people coming out and holding the president accountable is not true. we need more that have but we need each of us to hold each other responsible. >> do you think muslims are waking up every morning, seeing the president degrade muslims, and saying why is this man presi

the americas just like syria has become a contained in the middle east it's quite likely that mr murdoch will eventually leave that challenge will be how do you go about doing that i think that the chinese government in the russian government have privately come to terms that the relationship that's important with venezuela is a commercial one so this is now about how do we extract what were owed and how do we do it efficiently with respect to the biggest problem now is where does it go because the likely place would be cuba and of course cuba is relationship with venezuela is well known but the problem is that if cuba were to say to mr dural come here and if mr murderer were to leave then for a moment cuba would be looked upon as great you've helped solve a problem now we can move forward but the problem with that is immediately the united states and other countries then we have another problem in terms of mr. he's played a useful role but i think that the mistake he's made thus far is not announcing that he would not stand for president. so to say to the venezuelan people and the inter

bret require was a rupert murdoch publication, the "wall street journal" that broke this story. there were other organizations that didn't run with it either, but i wants aware we had anything prior to that. howie: "times" jay carney became a press secretary, and george stephanopoulos, so this is hardly unique to fox news. bret: i'm disconnected from the opinion side. i like to think we have horse blinders on and we let news bubble up on our program. the democrats who come on say that was fair. tough and fair. i think that's what you would get if you had a debate on fox. howie: it's my job to sometimes criticize what happens on fox. to me this is like saying it's unfair to fox. you don't see long opinion pieces about whether nbc and cnbc criticize trump as crazy, unhinged, dangerous. should the dnc consider that as a standard for awarding debates? bret: i will leave that to them. i agree with you. i think there is a disconnect between how we are treated on the news side and how other open races are treated, given how their opinion in primetime deals with the president. the presi

out of an nda after reports that fox killed the story on that before the election because rupert murdoch put a thumb on the scale and get trump to win, releasing a statement that quote, the public has the right to know the truth. fox news has denied this. davidson weighing in saying the fox reporter called him for comment right after the "access hollywood" tape came out with factually specific details that 3450ig9 have informed that story which didn't originally run. here with me now exclusively is the lawyer for that former fox report, nancy erika smith, a leading civil rights lawyer who also represented gretchen carlson in a sexual harassment lawsuit against former fox news ceo roger ailes. and former chief counsel of the senate watergate committee who knows a thing or two about investigating political crimes. thanks to each of you for being here. nancy, before we get deep into the details, what do you think mr. davidson, whatever his credibility, the core of what he's saying, does that help the case against trump? because it seems like another person corroborating that this was campai

but there's also a relationship between rupert murdoch and trump and murdoch and trump's son-in-law jaredyou've got this feedback loop going on that's very tight. we've never had a whole national network like this that is basically -- it's incredibly close with this white house. people describe it to me as a wing of the west wing. >> hmm. mike barnicle. >> jane, as usual, an extraordinary piece from you in "the new yorker" this week. >> one of the things that we're living through is the role in fox news. one of the people said fox is not just taking the temperature of the base, it is raising the base. can you speak to that? we all live through it. >> i think it's incredibly important so thanks for asking. what fox does is it makes money by enraging americans. that's how they keep them glued to the television set. and it's very much the same model that trump has to keep his base engaged. so you've got a rage-based model for both of them and what it's doing is it's spinning the country in an increasingly inflamed direction. and so it has a huge effect on our national politics. >> in part an

could be 55-year-old rupert murdoch.business and television business in britain. i don't see why there should only be three broadcast networks. he says i'm going to make another broadcast network. >> meantime, he will have to become an american citizen if he is to own tv stations here. something he says he is willing to do. >> some people are saying it will take you 20 years to get your fox network on par with the big three. are you prepared to wait that long? >> sure, i intend to live that long, but i don't believe in the 20 years. >> the idea of murdoch's idea for a fourth network was like ted turner starting cnn. it's ridiculous. what does he know about television? >> we don't have to reach everyone. there's no question we have an inferior lineup of stations to our counterparts. it means we have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. >> we have to differentiate ourselves from the networks. we have to do things they would not do. >> fox started throwing anything against the wall not sure what w

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media, online as well as print and others, newspaper models, editors, like fox news under rupert murdochhe sun and others have consistently ran lies and lied about all of these communities. to show leadership and a step forward, a proper legislation and regulation because not only should no family lose a loved one is such horrific circumstances, they should not have to then find out that the brutal murder of a loved one was streamed online for 17 minutes and is still going around online now. i hope the honourable lady, when the whatever comes —— i hope the honourable lady, when the white paper comes out is not disappointed. if everybody moves is there sites to places like cuba and nothing can change. next, it was back to brexit as mps grappled with the implications of the speaker's announcement earlier in the day. the brexit minister kwasi kwarteng declared that, as an optimist, he thought there was still a chance that theresa may's brexit deal could be approved by parliament. these further exchanges came during an urgent question from the conservativejustine greening on delaying the uk'

for punters that is great but for traditional broadcasters, the fact that even rupert murdoch thinks he is too small, is notjust ominous but terrifying. with its iphone business slowing down, apple is expanding its horizon beyond hardware to hollywood. amol rajan, bbc news yesterday felt a bit cool in the shade. that will change this week. the jetstream to the north of the uk. delivering fast flowing. keeping it to the north but separating cold airto the it to the north but separating cold air to the north and warm add to the south. the former and pushing around a static and pressure. 18 celsius in one 01’ a static and pressure. 18 celsius in one or two spots. mostly dry. some sunshine but not as much as at the start of the week. a frosty start to the south. cloud increasing from the north and it could be thick enough for one or two isolated showers. parts of northern scotland the rain will come and go through the day. temperatures similar to monday but factor in the blue sky. overnight, we start with lots of cloud. clearer skies towards the south—west. a high—pressure system starts