i agree with rush limbaugh, they're trying to bait him into doing it. it would be a big mistake.re pushing harder and harder. that's what the goal is. >> the president is expressing frustration on a lot of levels. he said much of the bad blood with russia is caused bake of the fake investigation and people that worked for obama. and there's no collusion. so that go crazy. where are we on the collusion narrative here? >> first of all, it's stunning. this is an attack on bob mueller. he now has started going after bob mueller who is a life-long republican who most republicans love. that's an interesting dynamic. so we have learned a lot of information about up from campaign contacts with russians, about -- >> have we? >> yes. meeting with trump's team in trump tower with russians that were telling them -- >> in the transition -- >> before. when they said they had dirt on hillary clinton. meetings where trump campaign officials were told that they stole hillary's e-mails. >> what about the meetings with hillary at the ukraine embassy? >> why do you turn it around? >> because it's a

. >> rush limbaugh has a different view of this. rush. >> the worst thing trump could do is start firing people. that's what he is being goaded into doing. many of you think that's what he should do and think it's the just and proper thing. this is more than just and proper right now. this is about survival. >> michael, it's tricky because there are republicans and democrats warning against the president firing robert mueller or rod rosenstein and they don't find themselves on the same side as rush limbaugh. what do you make of it? >> rush is offering wise counsel because rush is astute enough to know it's not about the act of the firing. it's not about your peak with the subjects, but what happens afterwards. it's about what it would mean to the party and what it will mean this november. it's about what it means when the democrats take over a house. you can slip in and take the senate as well that put this is presidency in jeopardy. rush despite the wise counsel from the two lawyers is offering wise political counsel that trumps the

there's an e-mail exchange i had with bill at some point where i had been listening to rush limbaugh that day, and rush had a tribute about bill, for one reason or another, i can't remember the reason it was that day, maybe rush was just in a grateful mood. so i had told bill, because i'm figuring bill wasn't listening to three hours of rush limbaugh that day, and he said that was stupefyingly undeserved gratitude that rush expressed. the phrase stuck in my mind when you asked about a phrase. but he also did seem a little bewildered by why are people so grateful, you know, on a given tuesday? >> actually, toward the end of bill's life, we got a call from him one day. and my wife happened to answer. the question was, there's a word i can't -- it's just at the tip of my tongue. i can't quite remember it. but it means taking malicious pleasure in someone else's discomfort. i can't remember what it was. but i thought it was very -- it was remarkable that among all the words that bill knew, that he wouldn't remember that one. >> yeah, yeah, very nice. he once said gene kirkpatrick ought to

so i had told bill, because i'm figuring bill wasn't listening to three hours of rush limbaugh that day, and he said, that was stupifyingly undeserved gratitude that rush expressed. and i just -- the phrase stuck in my mind when you asked about a phrase. he also seemed a little bewildered by, why are people so grateful, you know, on a given tuesday? >> toward the end of bill's life, we got a call from him one day, and my wife happened to answer and the question was, there is a word -- i can't -- it's just at the tip of my tongue. i can't quite remember it, but it's means taking malicious pleasure in someone else's discomfort. i can't remember what it was. of course the word was -- but i thought it was very -- it was remarkable that among all the words that bill knew that he wouldn't remember that one. >> yeah. very nice. he once said gene kirkpatrick ought to be woven into the flag at the 51st star. and michael kinsly said, sounds painful. and i mentioned this to kirkpatrick about the 51st star. that the nicest thing anybody's said about me. it's the nicest thing said about anybody. --

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no rush limbaugh or hannity or fox news or breitbart. he could act in the environment he was able to talk to democrats and discuss ideas in the environment not ranting push for power and ratings and quips that has contributed that is not a simple answer or a simple question. >> but really those media only came to be through the 1990s and post- reagan. >> rush limbaugh did not appear till the final moments of the reagan administration he did not have fox news until 1996 breitbart 2006 think of all the things we have now that did not exist back then so the political environment is very different. >>host: craig clearly your biography delves deeply historically and in a way we see that intensification and polarization recall hyperpolarization and the complete loss of civility in politics one of the interesting things that you point out is that the beginning of polarization goes back to 1964 nominating goldwater or when the democrats nominated mcgovern so this is all accelerated but there are some streams of history you could add to the conve

when we come back, rush limbaugh's take on the idea of president trump firing robert mueller. what does he think about that? professor, legal attorney alan dershowitz joins us next. the lexus es, and es hybrid. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. but he hasoke up wwork to do.in. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequote explorer. quiet. i'm blasting my quads. janice, look. i'm in a meeting. -janice, look. -[ chuckles ] -look, look. -i'm looking. it's easy. you just answer some simple questions online, and you get coverage options to choose from. you're ruining my workout. cycling is my passion. you're ruining my workout. >> the revelation of these news is designed to goad trump into firing somebody. firing mueller is what they are seeking. they want trump to do something after whi

>> yes even from people, no question rush limbaugh wishes him well.on a lot of people on our network said, mr. president, restrain your impulses are saying that because they wish him well. they want a president to stay in office and do what he was elected to do. he sometimes is so strong-willed he will do things against advice of some of his advisors. david: particularly if you think some of the absurdity going on, i would put some of that in regards to the raid on the lawyer's office but we may disagree, we got word from john roberts, there is confirm pages that the raids had to do with "access hollywood" tape. how does that fall in the purview of special counsel mueller? or how does that, is that significant enough to violate lawyer-clint privilege in order to be done? >> i don't know how the "access hollywood" tape would come in but i will give you a little basics. there is no lawyer client privilege if the client is using the communications with the lawyer in order to discuss or mask an ongoing crime, an ongoing fraud, an ongoing tort, private civ

no rush limbaugh or sean hadn'tity no breitbart. he was able to act in an environment in which he was able to talk to democrat to be able to discuss these ideas in an environment that was not this kind of ranting push for power ratings and clicks that i think has contributed to that i just described. but it's is not a simple answer or not a simple question. >> all those conservative media places you mentioned only came to be like 1998 and post that period of time. >> fairness doctrine went down until 88. and rush limbaugh didn't appear until the end of reagan, didn't have fox news until 2006, breitbart 2006. you think of all the thing we had now that did not exist back then so the political environment is very, very, very different. >> thank you. so, craig, clearly your biography is really delve deeply historically, and in a way that we have seen intensification both of porlarization we haul hyperorganization and the complete loss of civility in politic. you point out, and build from is that at the beginning of porlarization in u.s.

radio advertisers this tactic as we now know it really came of age beginning in twenty twelve when rush limbaugh insulted sandra fluke and ever since cable news and radio talkers have learned the hard way to choose their words carefully or have they and with bullhorns outside that philadelphia starbucks store and that company in damage control will they to suffer let's ask michael harrison the publisher of talkers magazine michael welcome back to the big picture great to be with you holland thank you very much laura ingram has lost at last count twenty seven sponsors cinci dissed parkland school shooting survivor david hog and sean hannity who has been targeted by and survived several advertising boycotts has caught heat for defending the president's lawyer without disclosing that he too is a client then came this starbucks thing in philadelphia what are the talk radio callers telling you about the boycott as a protest tactic. well the callers don't like the boycotts because the callers are listeners and they obviously they're very very active listeners they like what they're listening to so the

here's rush limbaugh over syria says chemical weapons inspectors should do their job as quickly as possibleand without any interference staffan de mistura has held talks with russia's foreign minister in moscow where a challenge reports. following last week's anger over syria moscow seems in a restrains mood in an interview with the russian state information agency foreign minister sergey lavrov suggested last week's u.s. air strikes had been within limits acceptable for russia because. they were informed about where our red lines are including geographical red lines on the ground in any case the results show they have not crossed these red lines. and he said neither sides generals would be drawn into open conflict in syria. i'm sure the need to president putin nor president trump will allow this to happen they are after all leaders who have been elected by the people and they are responsible to these people for peace and calm muted is for quizzed. diplomatically russia can afford to attempt a pause in hostilities with the us is on the ground much is going its allies way following the fall

his last name mostly by some kind of put away that was russian rush limbaugh. i don't even know what that allusion ship but see accuse this composites beauty guilt by association and they accuse him of being you know the strong clique and when they believe they also say is that i support you know this trump. trump trump yes yes but you know when you go into arts you go into composed of course you know no political correctness if we apply political correctness to all the arts course the good that it of when you classical star fiesta you know when you cross a cool star support if you care when their names are so and we still listen to their music we listen to carry on who was in this as some go larger wilder yes that it was on and on and some of us were some classical composers you don't want to meet some was people personally when you did their level of so long you're a musician so now the political climate changes you're ukrainian and ukraine is very much on the front line of a massive political confrontation between east and west i think it's fair to say and y

boycott against fox news for what laura ingram has done before that o'reilly before that glenn beck rush limbaughlost all his brand advertisers on radio because people have taken control of their media and they are using their media their social media to rally against the big guy and frankly information has been commodity when you say the evening news it sounds arcane you already know the news by evening it out and on your phone all day as you said in the w p p story. a moment ago every ad dollar is now under the microscope and money is not leaking but flowing from legacy of media to digital so there is a desperation to the legacy media in general and maybe sinclair is trying to do it bottled water they're going to flavor it and maybe they are taking a fox news type stance to try and bond these roseann viewers we'll see if it works but they've had a rough week as you saw from that stock price yeah well i mean it seems to me they do have the ability and they certainly have the right to do it but boy you hate to lose that trust that you have in the local anchors you do rely upon on them from everyt

david: and rush limbaugh brought up a great point, speaking of mocking, the democrats have done moree russians wanted us to be in where not only are we mocked by the whole world for what's going on here, for the absurdness of some of the investigations and how it's crippling some of our attempts to do good things, whether it's domestically or foreign, but it's also calling in a lot of americans' minds a question of what's going on. is this system really functioning as it should be. >> yeah. and imagine if through the mediy process we uncover the collusion between the media and the dnc in an attempt to destroy any enemies or opponents of hillary's. the list goes on. they have set their own traps and they're walking into them and we're witnessing history like we've never seen it before. david: how is all this going to play out with the general public do you think? are they finally -- even folks who might veer to the left toward the democratic party going to timely realize that they've been had? >> i don't think so, david. on the left, there is a thirst -- conspiracy plays well with any

and when you walk him, the neighbors go, "why is rush limbaugh on all fours." ( laughter ) it's a heavy a little bit. >> it's hilarious. steve, though, explained it this way to the audience. he said-- so i did have to do the show with a cane for four shows because the knee was all screwed up. >> stephen: how did you-- you said, "i have a fat dog," and that's all you've said. you haven't explained why you needed a cane. i said, "why did you need a cane?" you said, "i have a fat dog," moving on. >> you try lifting food from gelson's every day. it hurts you. no, no, he went after a little yorkie-- ( barking ) and i went down. he tripped me and i went down. >> stephen: what i like about a lot of your sentences is they don't have a lot of words in them. just noun, sound effect, object. it's really-- >> ruff, ruff. ( growling ) >> stephen: you are the greatest talk show guest of all time. >> oh, i don't know if that's true. ( cheers and applause ) i don't know if that's true. >> stephen: no, just absolutely, until aisha tyler gets out here, you are number one. >> hey, we were in a movie toget

earlier today, the king of talk radio, rush limbaugh, the great one mark levin, both exposing what theiberal media is doing. let's start with rush, what he said on his radio show earlier today. >> let me tell you what this so-called attack on sean hannity is, what it really, really is. it is another, and a long line, and a many years of effort to destroy the credibility of advocates for conservative conservative/republican or anti-democrat issues and personalities. the purpose of this is not to put hannity in legal jeopardy, although they would love to if they could. but the real purpose here is to simply discredit hannity as a known effective public advocate for donald trump. donald trump is the enemy. donald trump must be sent packing. donald trump most not politically survive. and the people who make effective cases for trump are going to be hit and are going to be targeted. but there is so much glaring hypocrisy. hypocrisy never sticks to these people on the left. the defined collusion. they define conflict of interes interest. they are architects of deceit. they are never forthcom

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yes, kennedy was close with "the washington post" editor, and george bush had rush limbaugh over at thebut we've never had anything like this where sean hannity is advising president trump. trump is promoting hannity's show and hannity is attacking trump's enemies and it goes back and forth every day like this and that's really valuable for president trump. you know, you've got a guy with 3 million viewers a night and reaches tens of millions on video and tv and whose talking points spread throughout conservative media and you have a really strong defender who is able to shelter you from bad news. >> and his sons, donald trump jr. and eric trump are like ambassadors and right in the middle of it. >> eric and don junior sometimes go on hannity's show. they appreciate the attention from hannity and they appreciate the appearances on the show and boost their own brands and help them with speaking engagements and things like that so you see a mutually beneficial back scratching relationship here. viewers like that and appreciate that and the concern that he has that as bad news piles up for

i spoke to a advertiser who was boycotted several years ago by people who didn't like rush limbaugh. he said to me this is not a boycott. this was an organized terror campaign. his life was threatened. his business was threatened. his employees were harassed. >> laura: if conservatives want to be part of the social media system, they want to be part of it, it's important for connecting with friends or advancing your product line or whatever. facebook is still really important. so is instagram, so is snapchat and all the other means of communication. what do you do? >> you've got to, he got a question today about who was his competition. effectively the answer was he doesn't have any. i would certainly hope there are conservatives out there who are young and enterprising and entrepreneurial minded to challenge this. that certainly can be done over time. other than that at the moment, i think you are serious here on defending the first is excellent. we've got to publicize it. get the word out whether it's on television or the internet or print and let people know how this game is worki

rush limbaugh picked up on that. this ♪ just based on polling and focus groups.f you go across the country. >> laura: those were wrong in 2016, terribly wrong. >> and they have been wrong in other places they were right in 1994, they were right in 2006, and they were right in 2010 on wave elections they were correct. that's what we have got right now. >> laura: 2016 was a wave election. it was a populist wave. >> it was different because did you not have one party winning everything. >> laura: yeah. >> i think the senate is in jeopardy for the g.o.p. as well for the same reason. have you got low turnout for g.o.p., for republicans. you have democrats nor activated than they have been for no reason other than to send a message to donald trump and, third, it's that a generic ballot democrats have a 7 point advantage. >> laura: they have tightened that went to six now. up 7 and a half. let's move to the senate for a second. you know, the house -- probably going to lose the house. which would not be great. but the senate 35 races. democrats have to defend 26. republi

and then rush limbaugh uploading this theory. he says he doesn't think mueller has anything on the president. so this is the purpose of the raids. here's what he said. >> the drive-bys want trump to fire himself by firing mueller. they are asking if he is going to. they are goading him into doing it because that's the only way they think they are going to succeed and be able to participate in the great project of bringing down donald trump. >> shannon: what is your take on that theory, governor? steagall it occurs to me that the only people who honestly think that donald trump is goino fire mueller are the press people who hopes he does. the president has not said that. his staff hasn't said that. they have acknowledged he has the power to do it but having the power to do it and actually doing it are two different things. i see no indication that president trump has an intention to fire bob buehler because i think he knows the firestorm itd create. but this is the narrative that the media has created to discredit donald trump and

exchange that fascinated me, so far the only person besides myself shown any interest in it is rush limbaughtween stephanopoulous and comey. i want to play that exchange. get your reaction. go ahead. >> did you tell him that the steele dossier had been financed by his political opponents. >> no. i didn't, i didn't think i used the term steel dossier i talked about additional material. >> did he have a right to know that that? >> that it had been financed by his political opponents. i don't know the answer to that. it wasn't necessary for my goal which was to alert him that we had this information. david: not to alert the president of the united states that another party had used all this salacious information which had been used by the way as basis at least in part for a fisa warrant against him, that this was, this was opposition research from the democratic party using -- he didn't think that was significant? i find that extraordinary, don't you? >> i do, around i think the exchange is very significant. i give stephanopoulous credit for asking that question. of course this is part of an ho

yeah, i think this speaks to the fact that trump likes him, that folks like rush limbaugh are praising pruitt because of all the regulations he's rolled back at the epa. of course any republican epa would do the same thing. it's not even unique to pruitt but, listen, trump likes him. >> real quickly? >> congress has been gone for two weeks. >> they're back. >> and i talked to a republican congressman today who said we're all going to start getting asked about this and that means the next shoe to drop we're all going to say, enough, or at least many of them, and the president will hear from members of congress in a way he hasn't been for the last two weeks. >> jamie and dana and nia, thank you so much. >> thanks, brooke. >>> up next, president trump promises he will make it up to farmers, that they'll come out of this stronger if they're hurt by this trade war with china. what that would look like, how that would work. and more details about the fire in trump tower. what we learned about the smoke alarms and sprinkler systems in the building. and we wait now for the comments from the u.

the rush limbaugh variety of talk radio that's all over the country.ou look at that sinclair broadcasting -- >> that's terrible. >> -- wall of commentary last week, which was chilling. it had a totalitarian feel to it. >> every anchor across the country is ordered to say exactly the same thing, regardless of their own opinion or local conditions, ordered to say exactly the sam thing. does that kind of thing bother you? ? oh, very much so. and there was a specific deal made by sinclair with somebody in the white house giving them special access in return for them parroting the trump line. and then fox news has played a major role. not everybody there. people like shep smith and others do an outstanding job by my lights. but the main message there is almost like a state propaganda channel. and you add all that together with vladimir putin and the hol hacking of our system, the stealing of e-mails, and then the very precise use of that information to try to elect donald trump. was it responsible for it? well, there are many separate factors, and it's hard

rush limbaugh's out there on the radio every day telling peopley they'd be cr vote for this guy. io>>rator: the oppositn to mccain came to a head here-- at the annual meeting of cpac,va the consve political action conference. they reluctant agreed to hear john mccain plead for their support. (crowd booing) >> i've never seen an instancen where somebodyhis position,o whis the de facto leader of the party heading into the next election, walks into an audience like that and gets the kind of boos that he got. (booing continues) i mean, it was extraordinary to hear it.s it's not aough everybody in the audience was booing, but ita was loud and ireal. >> it's been a little since i've had the honor of addressing you, and i appreciate very much your courtesy to me today. you know, we should do this more often. (laughter, light appuse) >> john wanted to make the case that, "here's who i am on judges, here's who i am on taxes. i believe in limited government. here's why i fight earmarking. earmarking is a corruption of i believe today, as i dlieved 25 years ago, in small government, fisccipline,

his career he gets to be the biggest star in right wing media, i would say, probably bigger than rush limbaugh at this point. and hannity is famous for telling friends, he does don't this for the money any more, that's probably true. he's fantastically rich. he's doing this because he in his wildest dreams probably could never imagine being as influential as he is. >> gabe, let me ask you a question, though, about what goes on inside fox news. there is not comfort in all corners of fox news with the line that sean hannity takes, the absolutism that he takes in defending everything donald trump does. with this development today, i looked back at some of the die hard conservative supporters of donald trump's, people like ann coulter and laura ingraham who didn't hesitate to take their shots at donald trump when he seemed to back pedal from a campaign promise like the wall. not so with sean hannity. sean hannity has donald trump's back in a way that totally transcends policy. does today's development give us a clue into why that might be? >> without question. i mean, obviously it raises the quest

and even rush limbaugh today warned you against firing him. the tweet ends like this. you conclude, except rosenstein, who signed fisa and comey letter, no collusion, so they go crazy. rosenstein is functioning as any deputy attorney general for the united states of america would function and the only person going crazy is you. >>> did i miss anything? >> no, that's right. >> any time trump goes with the parentheses on twitter, parentheses are the best part. >> you missed one thing. >> tell me. jump in. >> you missed one thing. that last charge is so brazen because he's the one that essentially forced rosenstein to write the comey letter. he basically put him to it. >> that we know was a lie because he confessed to lester holt, like within a 24-hour window that he was going to fire comey all along because he hated the job he was doing on the russia investigation. >> right. >> the president doesn't separate it, these things. that's why the tweet is so illustrative. he's always believing there is a deep state that is working to undermine him. >> but he is the deep state

rush limbaugh has a different take.n. >> all ever these things that trump is up against and yet he is at 50% approval. how in the world has this happened? not to mention 100 percent, 90% negative media coverage. the "new york times," "the washington post," the "l.a. times," cnn, "u.s.a. today" will help, msnbc. every media outlet out there is lined up 100 percent opposed to it. you would think that with all of this his numbers would be plummeting. i have long thought that this never ending, unreasonable attack on trump is going to have a backlash. is going to cause a backlash at some point. you cannot maintain fevered pitch emotion over anything, pro-or con. at 100 percent intensity for very long. brian: jeff flake has 16 point advantage head to head with governor kasich. soon to be giving him primary challenges. he has a 6 point advantage. 90 plus percent in the media. this is not exaggeration. against president trump in 95% of coverage. there is not even a positive story unless it's a reader. if you put it from anders

not talking about rush limbaugh 30 years ago but by the time they appear that shift of media values has already happened going back to the 40s and 50s and the origin of a powerful idea liberal media bias this emerges in the 50s at a time trump in journalism was 80 or 90% and if there was a bias it was a conservative bias and they tended to be conservative so the idea that had to be constructed and sold. and it was and had real consequences when they took up this idea with the underlying argument all media is ideological only driven by ideology so to figure out how to trust a media source figure out the ideology so seek out those sources that is important because from the objective media trust us because we are right wing. in this is how they make the argument to bifurcate what is necessary with conservative media about the world. that becomes part of the conservative identity very early on by the 60s to have those media sources like national review or human events no way as powerful but it is central early on what it means to be a conservative in the united states. that has a real impac

you've been involved in the stop rush limbaugh campaign, bill o'reil o'reilly, sets.ffective david hogg has been? he's a kid, 17. he tweeted -- one tweet where he said who are your advertisers, laura ingraham. already something like 16 advertisers have pulled out. there they are, i mean a flight. >> he obviously has been effective. in terms of the overall national@advertising base, the advertisers represent 20% so far, her entire advertising base. very, very fast. by comparison it took days, weeks to reach this amount with glenn beck back then, and there were other organizations involved, color of change, that were driving it. it took time, energy, to organize around it. the reason this is effective, why are they going after the advertisers? usually you go to the employer. you would say, hey, your employee did something bad using your resources, you should hold them to their standards. both the nra and fox news in particular this is why they hired laura ingraham. this is why they did it. why this is effective, he didn't bother appealing to fox news for decency and for

on is that scott pruitt has become somewhat of an unlikely hero for the right, for people like rush limbaughave defended him. >> who among us would not like to run lights and sirens when we're running late to a restaurant reservation. >> and i do love le diplomate. >> they'll giveaway. >> he has become a hero to the right. i think all of us get a lot of e-mails from conservative activists and organizations defending him. i think the president's decision to defend him today is remarkable. in any administration, he would have been out the door by now. even in this administration, he'd be out the door by now. how is his offenses less bad than what pushed tillerson out. i mean, gary cohn, other people who have left voluntarily or not so voluntarily. but i think that must be why the two things that jonathan mentioned, one that trump likes him, which holds him in good stead and the conservatives are defending him. >> i think it's actually exploring why does trump like him. and the reason that trump likes him, and rachel -- rachel maddow does a beautiful piece, it's the connection to carl icahn. so

these -- the first one i went to was in '93 called rush limbaugh fat and i think they should pull thelug on dinner because it is for a liberal left leaning president or mean spirited not necessity to have it anymore. >> fascinating because i want to -- what were they doing inside the room? i got to give tribute to sarah sanders for sitting there she could have walked it out and took it in good spirit although mortifying for her but -- a lot of class. a lot of class. thank you. yeah. by the way wait a second emac you have a new show and starts tonight. it's called the evening edit it will be at 5 p.m. eastern time starting today. weeknights 5 p.m. evening with elizabeth macdonald. now, it has a spinoff in your own life. now check that market please we're going to go up at the opening bell roughly 100 points stay right there please we're going to take you to wall street. opening bell monday morning, after this. >> almost there literally 15 seconds away to the opening bell on a monday morning get some exciting this time of the year who knows where we're going. well above 24,000 is the an

i trust rush limbaugh can lately. i have -- completely. listen to it him since he came on the air in 1988. i hits the nail on the head, would say, 99.9% of the time. use the media to get their message out, and they bash republicans every chance they get. i am telling you people out there, if you want, for example, men going into the women's becauseoom or restroom they feel like they are a woman , you just vote democrat and tell me how your daughter or your wife or any of your female relatives deal when pervert,eel when some or to be a woman, goes in there and rapes somebody. host: we go to jeff in michigan. on the set,ume down otherwise we will get an echo, and it will be difficult to hear you. caller: ok. host: good morning. caller: good morning. i want to say that, yes, the fake news is at an all-time high. really, the only channel i trust anymore is fox news. this business of putting all the illegals on welfare and everything else and taxpayers having to pay for that has to stop. trump is the ticket. host: is there somebody on the other

have got so many people that called in on the show, mainly republicans, got their nose in fox and rush limbaugh people like that. kellyanne conway came on nationwide television to say we are not going to deal with the facts. we are going to deal with alternative facts. these people living under a rock? they do not want to know the truth. that is all i got to say. host: a few tweets. dana says -- i am concerned the press has an obvious agenda. lizzie says -- the press has too much freedom. from robert -- i am more concerned about freedom of speech. james from north dakota, the line for republicans. are you concerned about the freedom of the press? caller: let me get this big rock off me. i was under a rock. listen to all the networks and i have been a c-span junkie for 20 years. you have some really good calls. three great ladies that just called, and ohio lady, i agree with her, and the lady from virginia. i do want to say that i just , and i have got to say that i'm so grateful to be this age because i do remember being a kid until early junior high school, i remember brinkley and huntley and