or chris when it's like you don't quite know what shep smith or chris wallace or brett bear the news side of the of the organization they do a solid job the other two channels their news organizations have now become there or the news divisions have become opinions but the reason why fox does so well i wish i had a pile with me i don't have to draw a circle here ok split that pie and a half fox gets that fifty percent c.n.n. decided let's go after the other half that m.s.m. d.c. has in terms of liberal and they get about twenty percent of that m.s.m. he gets thirty and that's why they do well because they have no competition from the right and c.n.n. decided to give up the middle so that's basically it and they just simply have more talent more compelling personalities on there it's that simple hold that thought we're going to go to a short break gentlemen and after that short break we'll continue our discussion discussion on the media in the era of trump. thanks guys are. they saying that the balance. this is the central banks that were dying at the moment the problem right. welcome

something that i actually saw on your twitter feed which was a little news bulletin from shep smith who works for fox news and what he was saying kind of reflects maybe the attitude that is actually happening for part of the u.s. as far as immigrants are concerned have a look here on my laptop tomorrow the migrants according to fox news reporting are more than two months away if any of them actually come here but tomorrow is one week before the midterm election which is what all of this is about there is no invasion no one's coming to get you there's nothing at all to worry about when they did this to us got us all riled up in april remember the result was fourteen arrests were america we can handle it. but americans we can handle it why isn't shat on twitter first because i think it was a very powerful statement coming from fox because they usually aren't very broad in their estate and somehow and it was very clear and. sound how he explained the fact that ok they are coming in come on the are two months that we walk. and all these rhetoric that we're listen in these days is about the

smith defeated mike espy in a run-off. the new number is 53-47 in the congress. peter doocy has more. >> shepefed up. so now some of the republican moderates in washington d.c. that take a long time to make up their mind ahead of key votes have less leverage. hyde-smith thanked the president for his help. she took the first flight from jackson to d.c. she said she's not concerned about mississippi residents that said she don't think she will represent them. >> wait and see. they know me. this is not my first race, this is the sixth race i have won. i've been on the ballot five times before this. mississippians know me. other people turn it to something that it's not. they don't believe it. they know who i am. i've been around awhile and i have a long, very good history. >> but the democratic candidate, mike espy thinks there's some scar tissue in this state because everybody has strong opinions about whether hyde-smith was joking about public hangings. >> she has my prayers as she goes to washington to unite a divided mississippi. >> the governor that appointed hyde-smith says he thinks the b

shep smith doesn't get the same intelligence briefings that i do, and there are special interest aliens who at times take advantage of the porous border. we have seen circumstances where africans, middle easterners who we have been paying close attention to as a consequence of some of the training that they've been involved inty do think that's important for us. >> we don't know. we haven't seen the evidence of these people. you talk about your intelligence briefing. i'll give you that. you guys are talking about an invasion. do invaders really give you three months notice that they're coming. >> i don't want them moving into subdivisions in my congressional district. >> i have to stop you there, though. we have had reporters talking with a lot of these people who are coming as part of this caravan. a lot of them -- you know that this is true -- are mothers and children and families who are fleeing persecution or fleeing violence or fleeing poverty in their home countries. >> i don't have to win the argument that everybody in the caravan is dangerous. i just have to win the argument tha

shep smith will have a lot more. thanks for joining us today. >> shepard: and a live look at mission control out in pasadena where they settled down from the initial excite ment but it was great news earlier than expected. the nasa insight spacecraft stuck the mars landing. it's a new home and still a flat region where it's set to study seismic waves and heat deep below the surface of the red planet for a two-year mission. nasa has so much information out there for it. they've been hoping and planning and in the seven minutes of terror is something they'd been talking about. and really, there was no guarantee insight was going to land as planned. one thing they'd expected to happen is a landing and about right now, exactly, about one minute after 3:00 here on the east coast, noon on the west coast, they had expected to get a ping from nasa and let's listen now to the moment it landed. >> touchdown, confirmed. insight is on the surface of mars. >> shepard: and that was the moment. it was certainly a quick cliff with n

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up next shep smith. stories of it was scary trying to go through the fire when it is all around you. you have fire on the left, fire on the right, ashfalling on you. >> we barely got out. we barely got out. there was wall to wall flames. flames going underneath our car, over our car. we thought we were going to die. if we would have waited five more minutes, we wouldn't be here today. i'm grateful that i'm alive. >> search crews say they are sifting through the ashes now looking for anyone that didn't make it out. >> families are looking for loved one the at evacuation centers, at hospitals and the coroner's office. officials calling in scientists and a dna lab to help identify the victims. in southern california, firefighters say they are making progress on the woolsie fire as they call it. that is burning in and around malibu. they blamed that for at least two deaths. helicopter crews working around the clock using night vision goggles to drop water on flames after sunset. >>> two new fires have just b

shep smith will have a lot more.ning us today. >> shepard: and a live look at mission control out in pasadena where they settled down from the initial excite ment but it was great news earlier than expected. the nasa insight spacecraft stuck the mars landing. it's a new home and still a flat region where it's set to study seismic waves and heat deep below the surface of the red planet for a two-year mission. nasa has so much information out there for it. they've been hoping and

we have about two minutes before shep smith is going to take over.o get my speech coach there in anchorage on the phone, but her battery is very low. they have no power in their house, but they are safe which, of course, is the good news. in the minute and a half we have left, tell us a little more about what we can expect in the coming hours. there is only about six hours of daytime this time of year in alaska. >> reporter: it's interesting. alaska's power grid is pretty deregulated. they've got multiple power companies serving those 280,000 people who live in anchorage. we've got reports from those multiple power companies. it seems like they've got about 60,000, by my count, about 60,000 people out. could be more than that. they got most of their customers who still have power. they've got all hands on deck, obviously. they will have everybody in and then some coming to the area to restore power. that's the big issue. they do have multiple watermainbreaks. you have students sitting at the schools in buses waiting to get picked up. some of the stud

up next, shep smith. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in washington where president trump's lawyers are getting inside info on the russia investigation. from lawyers for his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. even though manafort is supposed to be cooperating with the special counsel, robert mueller. and now there's word, this is brand new, the president has just said he will not rule out a pardon. also, the secretary of state mike pompeo says there's no direct link between the saudi crown prince and the murder of a "washington post" columnist. but the c.i.a. has recordedly

. >> laura ingraham -- >> i watch shep smith every day rip the president for an absolute hour.dless about the fox issue. getting to the actual commercial. here'sy don't think it's racist is america is not a race. we're a multiracial, multieth c multiethnic -- >> no, i'm black. let's get this clear. we've got a bunch of races up here. and i'm not part of that whole colorblind -- >> we're all americans. >> we're all americans -- >> but the blessing about -- >> either by birth or by choice, legal choice, right? doing it's legal way you become an american. >> have you heard of slavery? >> it means you believe in our constitution, our shared value -- >> have you heard of slavery? >> nobody here's a slave. >> but have you heard about it? >> i'm well aware of it. >> what choice was that? >> that's not the reality today. >> so are you not an american? >> i'm an african-american. my family came in from the west coast of africa. we went through bondage, slavery, rape and pillaging. then we went through jim crow, slave codes. we came here. and so now we're at this point where we have 400

shep smith had a fact check on that. meanwhile, the president is toying with the idea of writing a government news network. >> doesn't we have one? >> before we get to that, bill karins has a look at the weather. >> washington, d.c., you have your wettest year on record right now. so that rain storm in the mid-atlantic yesterday is now a snowstorm in the new england states. careful on the roads there. additional snowfall -- and, again, some areas have already picked up 10 or 11 inches in new hampshire and vermont. careful driving from syracuse to buffalo. bi binghamton and tiger woods erie, lake-effect snow will be kicking off. how about our friends in the west? pretty good storm coming in for you, too, soaking rain from portland and now california is getting in on the mix now. storm after storm, let's build the snowpack up and continue to fill up our reservoirs with rainfall. and if you want cold -- i don't know who wants it, but if you want it, you got it. minneapolis to chicago today, 23 to 24 degrees. so the bit er c

shep. >> shepard smith reporting now. there's breaking news out of florida. time is up for the battleground state to finish their election count. this is susan booker, the supervisor of the county board of elections. she said their machines overheated and couldn't get it done. she's about to testify in front of a judge about their problems. let's listen. >> the recount could have changed the numbers? >> no. we're searching for the numbers. >> you're confident everything is great? >> i am. the questionable votes go to the canvassing board. thanks very much. we gave it all we had. i'm very proud of my team, proud that we had partners at palm beach county and we're a good election office. i have a great team. i think that we just got stuck with some mechanical issues that were inherited. >> [question inaudible] >> that's in the senate race. we're required to review. >> [question inaudible] >> we counted every vote and uploaded our respects and they're accurate. we conducted an accuracy test. the machines were working properly. it was during the recount that we d

shep. >> shepard smith reporting now. there's breaking news out of florida.e to finish their election count. this is susan booker, the supervisor of the county board of elections. she said their machines overheated and couldn't get it done. she's about to testify in front of a judge about their problems. let's listen. >> the recount could have changed the numbers? >> no. we're searching for the numbers. >> you're confident everything is great? >> i am.

here is part of the take yesterday from fox news host shep smith. >> president trump stands with saudier the intelligence community concluded the saudi crown prince ordered the murder of the "wall street journal" journalist, jamal khashoggi. today, the president insulted the murder victim and sided with the saudis, who said, our cia is wrong. the point is, the intelligence agencies have determined that the crown prince and day to day runner of the kingdom, our ally, murdered a guy, who has american children. >> from the "wall street journal" to fox news to ben rhodes. you don't hear that very often, ben. >> usually a different segue. >> it is today, which i guess is a good sign we should take hope in. yesterday, you said this wasn't an american first policy. you said this was an american farcel policy. explain. >> it's been clear now for a long time that mbs was responsible for this killing. frankly, for the cia to arrive at this assessment, we have to know trump has been aware for weeks that there was information in the system that pointed to mbs being responsible for this killing. wh