stephen bush is political editor at the new statesman.lls is deputy political editor at the spectator and michael friedenberg is also here, he's president of reuters, the global news agency. now michael, we are going to talk to you a little bit later on in the show. but first of all i just want to hear a little bit about this story of reuters, a little bit of history. once upon a time if i'm not mistaken there was a mr reuters, wasn't there? that's right. absolutely, the baron. reuters is a 170—year—old media company. we've gone from producing news via carrier pigeon to today's future of producing news in artificial intelligence. we've gone the entire gamut from carrier pigeons to ai. 170 year history, very proud of 2500 journalists in over 200 locations. of course. michael, people think of reuters and they think of it in a kind of traditional telegram messages kinda way. they think about breaking news. but you do a lot more than that as well don't you? we do. i think we take great pride in producing objective unbiased news that brings to

stephen: i think fascist is nicer than what you're saying. >> ( laughs ) okay. >> to each their own. a bunch of mo-rons. when you have george w. busho didn't hear, that the g.o.p. sounds increasingly isolationist and nativist especially when talking about immigration. >> there's a story out today, though, about liz cheney in the "times" and robert draper wrote a story talking about liz cheney, one of the more conservative people in washington, d.c., conservative with a capital "c" and draper interviewed a republican who said she used to be a conservative until she said donald trump should be impeached, which is just absolutely ridiculous. their definition of conservative, their definition of what a good republican is somebody who's in this personality cult following donald trump, and it's sad because conservativism has suffered because of it, the republican party is, i think, going to suffer in the long term because of it. >> stephen: we have to take a quick break. back with more joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. we're going to find out who they want to get high with. ♪♪ counting your veggies can be hard. so we did it for you. v

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where i stand on these issues, was at the white house correspondents dinner when stephen colbert confronted george w. bush. >> that moment allows him to stand on stage five feet away from president bush and really change satire history. >> now i know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. we know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. and reality has a well-known liberal bias. >> we started with nervous laughter, and it ended with crickets. >> you would never see johnny carson do that in front of the president of the united states. he didn't get good reviews for that. what happened -- and this is the burgeoning power of the internet -- was a clip of that went up online. and that started to get a lot of people who agreed with the political side of what colbert was saying and the comedic guts to do that in front of a president, like, oh, you can do this in political comedy and be rewarded for it? ♪ the light. ♪ it comes from within. it drives you. and it guides you. to shine your brightest. ♪ as you charge ahead. il

let's discuss it with the political editor of the new statesman, stephen bush.ink that assessment _ feel about it? i think that assessment would - feel about it? i think that assessment would be - feel about it? i think that l assessment would be very feel about it? i think that - assessment would be very hard to dispute. i think the one more troubling thing for labour is, it's not totally clear what the labour party and keir starmer�*s complete control would look like. most after a reshuffle, we gain an insight into the politics of the person and what their objectives are. i have been hearing most from labour mps since the reshuffle, they don't understand the reshuffle, they don't understand the logic of it and the one thing they are united on is the belief that keir starmer has revealed he does not actually have any politics. in terms... i know you are not going to give names away, so what's their point with regards to that? so there is not principle there?— is not principle there? usually what ha-iens is not principle there? usually what happens when _ is not

stephen colbert confronted jooush. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> that moment allows him to stand on stage five feet away from george w. bushe satire history. >> i know there are polls out there that say this man has a 32% rating. reality has a well-known liberal bias. >> we started with nervous laughter, and it ended with constricts. >> you would never see johnny carson do that in front of the president of the united states. >> he didn't get good reviews for that. what happened -- and this is the burgeoning power of the internet -- was a clip of that went up online. and that started to get a lot of people who agreed with the political side of what colbert was saying and the comedic guts to do that in front of a president, like, oh, you can do this in political comedy and be rewarded for it? uses unconventional thinking to help your business realize new possibilities. only one 5g partner offers unmatched network, support, and value-without any trade offs. this is a tempur-pedic mattress. and its mission is to give you truly transformative sleep. so, no more tossing and turning... ...or trouble falling asleep... because only