tucker carlson, sean hannity, there following their audience. which is why i'd rather be on bill ham or or chris wallace. social media is an insidious, corrosive influence on the responsibility of the media to get the facts and not slant to them. and not be playing to their twitter feed. we go through this. with each new technological advance. i have the confidence we will work ourselves out of it. we say one more thing in response to senator flake with whom i worked for seven years at the white house. we had a good relationship except, you may not notice, he's an unpaid agent of fidel castro. [laughter] he's in favor of a lot of things with regard to cuba which i oppose. this guy goes down there and lays around on the beaches. incentives. talked about this isn't going to change until incentives change. maybe. i've got to tell you, i see it particularly in the senate among the younger group of senators. democrat and republican.they did go there to engage in a political food fight for their careers. my sense is, given the right moment, you're sta

and that is very often filtered through the spin of someone like tucker carlson or sean hannity.now, if there's a fear that attorney general barr isn't doing the president's bidding, there's a sense that folks at fox news are, and i guess with this, the official line from the white house about bill barr's reaction to president trump's tweets was, you know, the president isn't bothered by this, this is relatively benign. the reaction from fox news has been wildly disproportional compared to all that. and you know, you sort of wonder at what point there's a lack of shamelessness in the way they respond to news that they feel doesn't reflect well on the president. >> elise? >> i think back about how fox has evolved within the conservative media ecosystem just since the george w. bush administration. i really don't remember there being a full court press defense of scooter libby totally blanketed across the network. there might have been commentators that defended, i am sure sean hannity was probably for getting rid of all charges, pardoning him, but i don't remember being this full

tucker carlson facebook page and share with us. be back monday 8:00 p.m. the show that's the sworn enemy 6 lying pomposity group think. sean hannity takes over.d with the ones you love. ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannity. we begin tonight a fox news alert. big, breaking positive developments to share surrounding the deep state. this is very detailed. pay close attention. i have to unpeal the layers of this onion. first, i have to admit the mccabe news on the declination of prosecution is frustrating especially when the ig had identified four separate incidents of lack of candor. that means lying. seems as i said last night only conservatives they seem to get punished for that in today's america. now, what we know is this is the single biggest abuse of power scandal, corruption scandal in modern american history. and it is playing out before our very eyes. we now see that the corruption at the highest

tucker carlson facebook page and share with us. that's it's for us and the week. be back monday 8:00 p.m. the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, and, groupthink. sean hannity takes over. have a great weekend with the ones you love. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity."v. we begin tonight, a fox news alert. big, breaking, positive developments to share surrounding the deep state. this is very detailed. pay close attention. d i have to unpeel the layers of this onion.ti first, i have to admit the mccabe news on the declination for prosecution is frustrating, especially when the ig had identified four separate incidents of lack of candor. that means lying. seems, as i said last night, only conservatives they seem to get punished for that in today's america.igse now, what we know is this is the single biggest abuse of power scandal, corruptionn scandal in modern american history. and it is playing out before our very eyes. we now see that the corruption at the highest levels of government, what we have been talking about, unequal justice. a lack of equal application of our laws, equal justice under the law. a two-tiered justice system operated by a group of, again,