sean hannity brought bill shine down to the white house, they had a private dinner several months ago and that relationship developed. i think what this is emblematic of, though, chuck, is something that you touched on earlier in the last block. donald trump is doubling down on his base. he's making no effort to broaden the message. sean hannity is speaking almost exclusively for the most diehard of trump supporters, and bill shine, who for years at fox with sean hannity's producer before ascending into the executive ranks, really has an innate understanding of that diehard base. with him becoming deputy chief of staff and communications director is a signal that this white house is going to laser in on that base and try to bring them out in the midterms. >> so this was what you're saying essentially is it was an optics hire more than anything else. let me ask this then about bill shine. first of all, was he hirable outside of this white house, with all how he was essentially escorted out of fox news, you know, he was -- he wasn't invited to leave. you could say he was truly forced ou

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hannity was sean hannity was the last one in his ear? >> that is a disconnect in the reporting showing amy coney barrett is not one of the final picks. sean hannity may have a final word, but that is a separate story about the tight connections between this white house and fox news, also coming at the same time that former executive bill shine is now taking over the communications job. >> help me, sarah, if you can, and donna here, help me get a better understanding what message each one of these picks would send. amy coney barrett would fire up the base. we know he's all in at his base. there is a different calculus here. how do you see any of these picks sending messages and to whom? >> for starters, all these four picks are strict constructionist. they're all going to be great. the base, any problems they may have had with one individual pick or one case, they would quickly unite behind whoever the president picks. having said that, though, there is a real difference, i think, between kethledge and hardiman and brett kavanagh. this as

of local content been lost there right oh yeah absolutely i mean w a b c at one point rush limbaugh sean hannity mark levin john bachelor all now some of the biggest syndicated shows that go all over the country and occupy radio slots all over the country at the expense of local programming they were all local shows that w.a.b. say at one point and that's just one example plus i had an overnight show you don't get live over night.

content been lost there right oh yeah absolutely i mean i was on the w a b c at one point rush limbaugh sean hannity mark levin john bachelor all now some of the biggest syndicated shows that go all over the country and occupy radio slots all over the country at the expense of local programming they were all local shows at w a b c at one point and that's just one example plus i had an overnight show you don't get live overnight on stations anymore either you have syndicate couple of syndicated shows that take up all the air time over night. steve speak to this whole the overbidding and what's going on we see the the bids first sky the high sky prices for sky and other media then use a bring us up to speed on what's going on between five and comcast and does the and and try to untangle that weird web for us well comcast of course finally just recently dropped out of the bidding for fox disney will be buying the assets of fox

content been lost there right oh yeah absolutely i mean i was on the w a b c at one point rush limbaugh sean hannity mark levin john bachelor all now some of the biggest syndicated shows that go all over the country and occupy radio slots all over the country at the expense of local programming they were all local shows at w a b c at one point and that's just one example plus i had an overnight show you don't get live overnight on stations anymore either you have syndicate couple of syndicated shows that take up all the air time over night and steve speak to this whole overbidding and what's going on we see the the bids first sky the high sky prices for sky and other media then use bring us up to speed on what's going on between five and comcast and does the and and try to untangle that weird web for us well comcast of course finally just recently dropped out of the bidding

you have a sean hannity agenda. i think you're running this presidency. >> sean: that is the silliest thing. >> juan: i am so ridiculous. how could i say such a thing? >> sean: that's what cnn, the fake news, says and they are lying every night. >> juan: look at the polls about the things you are talking about. look at health care. gosh, the majority of americans think we want to keep the affordable care act. >> sean: keep their plan, keep their doctor. >> juan: i'm just responding to you. they want that. a majority of americans don't believe in separating children from their parents. >> sean: donald trump stopped it. >> juan: he is the one who put the policy in place. >> sean: no, it happened under obama. >> dana: i like the subject of this block. i don't think hillary clinton is running again but i think she's causing a lot of problems for the democrats because you won't get off the stage. and if she wants to be helpful to democrats but i think she could do a better job for them if she was behind the scenes. every

mark: sean hannity, you were talking about transformational presidents. go right ahead. >> let's go back to the reagan comparison for a second. i'm looking at trump. beside trade, and i know where you stand on trade. mark: okay. >> let's put that aside. mark: right. >> you and i have discussed privately. i think everything is a negotiation, we're never going to get to that point, because i know this man pretty well. donald trump, if you go back to reagan, reagan was hated by the establishment as we were discussing. and all of a sudden, we get 20 million new jobs, longest period of peacetime economic growth. mr. gorbachev tear down this wall, the evil empire. kind of similar to rocketman, fire and fury, and now democrats can't help but acknowledge how great the reagan years were. same thing is going to happen to donald trump, in this sense, the office of the presidency is never going to be viewed the same way again. he has broken every rule of establishment politics, and what the left hasn't figured out is the american people have figured out like for exam

this is basically the sean hannity presidency. and you're going to try to get the very angry, far right ant anti-immigrant nationalist voters out there and donald trump is making the political calculus that there are enough of those people to basically overcome the vast majority of americans and the demographics are working against them. to me, it's a numbers game and we'll see if he bets right. >> indeed. gabriel sherman, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> all right, joining us now is michael beschloss. all right, michael, let's talk about this in terms of nixon's dream and the reality that's now been created by bill shine entering the white house. what do you make of it? >> well, if nixon came back, he would say, i wish that i had been able to have something like fox news. and when roger ailes suggested the idea of -- it wasn't so much a network at that point, because there wasn't really cable, so, it would have been difficult. ailes' idea was -- it was called at one point "gop tv" or "white house tv," where there would be v

we know sean hannity has the ear of this president. what can we make of what this announcement is going to mean for the president? what does it mean for the administration and its message? >> bill shine's a very excellent programmer. he spotted a lot of young talent, brought them into fox news. even as he amplified the reach of sean hannity and others. i think you'll see some much needed organization to the coms messaging. and a greater focus on -- as you just mentioned, the senate races in the fall. i think the supreme court rollout et cetera, that will all be added to by shine's presence in the west wing. >> dana, your response to the announcement that shine is going to become deputy chief of staff in charge of communications? >> a couple of things, craig. i think he will be the seventh or eighth in this spot. some have held it multiple times. it's a particularly difficult one to hold because this president is essentially his own communications director. very difficult to get him on the path you want him to be on. it also is, again,

mark: sean hannity, you were talking about transformational presidents. go right ahead. >> let's go back to the reagan comparison for a second. i'm looking at trump. beside trade, and i know where you stand on trade. mark: okay. >> let's put that aside. mark: right. >> you and i have discussed privately. i think everything is a negotiation, we're never going to get to that point, because i know this man pretty well. donald trump, if you go back to reagan, reagan was hated by the establishment as we were discussing. and all of a sudden, we get 20 million new jobs, longest period of peacetime economic growth. mr. gorbachev tear down this wall, the evil empire. kind of similar to rocketman, fire and fury, and now democrats can't help but acknowledge how great the reagan years were. same thing is going to happen to donald trump, in this sense, the office of the presidency is never going to be viewed the same way again. he has broken every rule of establishment politics, and what the left hasn't figured out is the american people have figured out like for exam

mark: sean hannity, you were talking about transformational presidents. go right ahead. >> let's go back to the reagan comparison for a second. i'm looking at trump. beside trade, and i know where you stand on trade. mark: okay. >> let's put that aside. mark: right. >> you and i have discussed privately. i think everything is a negotiation, we're never going to get to that point, because i know this man pretty well. donald trump, if you go back to reagan, reagan was hated by the establishment as we were discussing. and all of a sudden, we get 20 million new jobs, longest period of peacetime economic growth. mr. gorbachev tear down this wall, the evil empire. kind of similar to rocketman, fire and fury, and now democrats can't help but acknowledge how great the reagan years were. same thing is going to happen to donald trump, in this sense, the office of the presidency is never going to be viewed the same way again. he has broken every rule of establishment politics, and what the left hasn't figured out is the american people have figured out like for exam

sean hannity radio, what was your big radio break? >> sean: it wasn't just one. well, you can't deny when you fill in for rush. look, he's the pioneer, he forged a path. we all owe him a debt of gratitude. >> mark: absolutely. >> sean: i'm very appreciative. i grew up listening to these radio guys. farber, barry grant, the money guy. then i listened to the pioneers of talk radio. the big break was dave stone and bill donovan, huntsville, alabama, first paid radio gig. i was doing it for free up until then. i packed up what was my contracting work van and drove across the country. that was break one. break two, was sluggo, eric, in atlanta, georgia. neem, who's now a friend of both of ours, since retired, left one station, which he referred to as his ex-wife, and moved to a bigger station. now i'm on that station, ironically, wusb. the big break, was fox news going on the air. then that led to wabc, roger aeles and phil boyce. i'm friends with every person that hired me. they all critique me to this day. if i'm doing something they don't like, sludgo is saying, sh

he spoke to sean hannity after the nuclear up it. >> the nuclear problem we have to make sure. we have to be very careful. if you look at russia and the united states. that's 90% of the nuclear weapons. lou: joining us tonight, mark simone and doug wead. doug, the hysteria generated across the political spectrum because the president did not insult or act like some sort of street corner thug with vladimir putin seems to have set off a universal cry of outrage that he was weak on communism. excuse me, that goes back to a different era. soft and putin and soft on putin. >> i may be the wrong guest to have on tonight. i thought the whole thing is ridiculous. i saw fdr go to salta. and they make monuments to him today. yet they get angry and hysterical because donald trump isn't saying the word they want him to say. obama in 2014 the russians invade crimea. in october he goes to the baltic states to send the message we are tough, the estonians love him because he's the first african-american president. he missions up the capital cities of the baltic states, he calls an organization

>> guest: sean hannity in particular i've written some tough pieces about him or politico among other places and what is amazing to me is the conservative media was like how dare the media be lapdogs for the administration. have you watched the show lately? at times i wonder if we have a state run media or media run state. >> host: it's become a popular refrain for fox news because at least for the opinion makers very curious about this presidency and what's happening. >> guest: he has an open mic every morning to talk to people largely unchallenged. even when he gets into the territory they say okay you've got to go do something now, cut it off. it's really incredible to watch. >> host: is part of the effect that he only goes to friendly media outlets and will not do this interview is? >> guest: it is part of it but the big part is about the people who enable it. it's the fact that he can call in and be so completely unchallenged. the fact sean hannity focused on the phone with him every night and forgot a script for the next day. they are going along with it big-time. the sky is gre

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because she wasn't as dogmatic as bill o'reilly or sean hannity she did try to be more fair and didn't play the political game all the time and so -- >> host: what do you make of the defense of trump at fox news? >> guest: sean hannity in particular i've written some tough pieces about him for politico among other places. what is amazing to me is all through the obama years, the conservative media was like how dare they be left off the administration. have you watched that show that the? i mean, it's -- at times i wonder if we have a state-run media or immediate run state. >> host: that's become a popular refrain for fox news because at least for the opinion anchors it is very curious about the presidency and what is happening. when he gets into the rough territory they say okay we've got to go do something now and cut it off. it's incredible to watch. >> host: is part of the effect that trump only goes to the friendly media outlets? >> guest: it's about the fact that he can call in and be so completely unchallenged, the people that like sean hannity get on the phone with him and work

sean hannity. >> you know what, you -- i swear to god. >> it's not about you for once. i swear to god. 98 years young. 98 years young. >> i'm so, is there a professional i can give this to. i'm sorry, sir. sorry, sorry. >> jimmy: we have been into a family feud here with the griffin family. we will take a break. take a break. figure this all out. kathy griffin is here. on tour. the kathy griffin laugh your head off tour. we'll be right back! ♪ ♪ i'm to your bumper, cause.... i don't think enough people heard about your big day. but nothing says "we got married" like a 12 ounce piece of scrap metal. yo! we got married! honk if you like joint assets. now you're so busy soaking up all this attention, you don't see the car in front of you. and if i can crash your "perfect day", imagine what i can do to the rest of 'em. so get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. ♪ if you love me, love♪ like you say ♪ darling tell me all the ways ♪ ♪ tell me all the ways ♪ all the ways get more to your door. introducing same day delivery, from target. hey,

we may not like sean hannity but sean hannity is almost inevitable as a part of the media universe. the things that lead to success, with the standards of success in the motivations that drive people are different on both sides. were it not sean hannity it will be someone else. the roots of these things are structural but it's not personal, not a matter of integrity, honesty or any of those things that it's just the deep ecosystems which have been decades in the making producing the outcomes and that's what we have to grapple with the. >> i want to throw one more thing by this lens which is thinking about the sources of this information and media. there's a lot of culprits out there. there's facebook algorithms, there's crazy uncles, but close to home when you say bob, but i'm around some okay with it. media manipulators, click the factories, people with a mix of commercial and political motivations that people partisan bs for they are out there, but what we see is that they are interacting through these existing media ecosystems and for me it's less trouble some, is less consequent

tomorrow is friday and sean hannity is right now. sean? sean sean all right, tucker in helsinki, you're a troublemaker. i watched you steal desserts. that's all i'm going to say. i'm not going to give you up. welcome to "hannity." >> trump supporters beware. midterm elections are fast approaching. many on the left are ramping up the insane rhetoric pushingny identity politics, demonizing ideological differences because to them, if you support president trump, u well, it's nt just a political choice, it's a mortal sin for which floss forgiveness, ever. now, in a moment, we'll show you how our own m judge janine pirro was literally shouted down face-to-face by some of the trump-hating ladies of "the view." she'll give us the behind-the-scenes story. we have the latest absurd shark-jumping psychotic rhetoric from the left, their neverending obsession with russia. the president, the administration facing many complex issues all around the world. today the f.b.i. director, right, he warned that china, not russia, was the single most significant

sean hannity brokered that introduction and helped develop that relationship. he brought bill shine to the white house several months back at a dinner with the president, and clearly they hit it off, and. president wooed him into joining the white house. bill shine does not -- as we were talking briefly, he does not have experience dealing with the press which is going to be part of his brief here at the white house. he was a programming executive. he was roger ailes' right hand man, and he is going to be responsible for broadcasting the white house's message and dealing with the national media. that is clearly not part of his background, but donald trump felt because he has that connection with the right wing fox audience, clearly he knows how to get that message out there. >> there is some public scrutiny at him after the tweets his wife allegedly sent out. in and around the sexual harassment scandals at white house. it seems clear this white house didn't care about that. >> clearly not. i think of it almost as an act of trolling. bill shine was too toxic for

brian. >> sean: welcome to hannity, broadcasting from london ahead of the president's first official visit here in england. there is so much happening right here in europe and at home, without a doubt this is one of the busiest news cycles in years. we have a lot to cover tonight, we have a huge show. newt gingrich, and much more. earlier today president trump attended the annual nato summit where he had some very tough talk for european leaders, the ones that relied on your taxpayer dollars to pay your defense. that will explain why under president trump of america will no longer serve as the world's piggy bank. also today the president singled out the german chancellor, angela merkel, for what is her country's obscene dependence on russia's energy. and for the billions and billions of dollars flowing from germany right into vladimir putin's pockets. meanwhile the mainstream media right here at home in america once again spinning out of control and for months they were just hysterical over the fake news narrative that trump is vladimir putin's puppet. tonight they are freaking out o

and, i mean, frankly, it's disturbing, too, because, you know, sean hannity, the second most powerful guy in the country, we're not talking exactly brain trust here. and so i think, you know, what we have is donald trump increasingly speaking only to his base. and creating a second sort of narrative of what has been going on. you watch fox for a day, you will hear none of what the rest of the world essentially is reporting about the trump administration. >> clarence, building on sam's points, and given your role as a student of american politics, there's an argument that this goes -- say again? >> and television. >> and we're on television right now, if you want to get into it. there's a larger argument, right, that the blurring between the campaign season and the governing season predates donald trump, famous books like "the permanent campaign" argue that, but donald trump has played it forward to the degree that in the hiring of bill shine and all these other people from fox, it's almost like the lack of interest in governing has dropped to zero and the interest in content is somewh

. >> oh, yeah, sean hannity. he defends trump, barbs the media, turns a mind sigh to trump world scandals and gives his guests free rein to calling for the jailing of trump's opponents. and that's just on the air. when hannity is off the air he goss sips with trump and gives advice about who to hire. let's just underscore how weird this is. no tv host has ever had this kind of relationship with a u.s. president before. and to take it a step further, no network has ever propped up a president quite like this before. sure, obama had big fans on msnbc, but there wasn't this kind of constant coordination. no one ever thought keith olbermann was obama's shadow chief of staff but that's how some trump advisers describe hannity. this is new and it's weird and we shouldn't get used to it. there's been almost a merger between a culture war tv station and a culture war president. now, it started as a mere acquaintance. fox and friends gave trump a weekly spot way back in 2011. >> the donald now makes his voice loud and cle

i've heard this many times, because she wasn't as dogmatic as a bill o'reilly or sean hannity. she did try to be more fair and not play the political game all the time. who is in her spot now? >> host: right. what you make with the defense of trump at fox news, place you and i have worked? >> guest: it's something to watch. as sean hannity in particular i've written very tough pieces about him for politico, among other places. what is amazing to me is all through the obama years, considered meeting was like how dare they me to be left of the administration. have you watched that show lately? at times i wonder if we have a state run media or a media run state. >> host: that's become a popular refrain for fox news because at least for the opinion anchors, very incurious about this presidency and what's happening tragic essential as an open mic make every morning to talk to three people largely unchallenged. even when he gets into character, okay, don't you to go do something now? cut it off. it truly incredible to watch. >> host: is part of the gaslighting effect that trump only

sean hannity right now. >> sean: thanks. the first time since getting fired by abc over what was in her own words a tweet that is indefensible. roseanne barr will sit down with us for a one-on-one interview. we were supposed to air an interview for jim jordan whovulning for speaker of the house. that will air tomorrow. reports that a u.s. military plane is in en route to north korea to pick up the remains of u.s. servicemen killed during the korean war. our interview with warren. we will warn you. some will find it offensive. roseanne barr became a household name starring in her own sitcom. a huge hit on abs. -- abc. she won an emmy and golden globe before it wrapped up after 9 seasons . in 1990 she was booed off the field for her rendition of the nashlt. -- national anthem. she said sarah palin was a slave to right wingmen and compared all republicans to pedophiles. she floated the idea that practicing catholics should lose custody of their kids. in 2012 she ran to president in the green party primary. early this year after

>> sean: i don't know if you read a lot about sean hannity. >> i do. people that work on your show are like that? >> sean: there's plenty of people that disagree with what i say and hate what i stand for. i signed up. i give strong opinions and some people disagree, but i have no problem with people disagreeing. >> i don't either. but that's what upset me so bad. i like to hear all sides. that's how i form a story. >> sean: i have a whole list of stuff you have said about republicans and catholics. >> listen, i hate everyone. >> sean: but, obviously, you are kidding. >> everybody deserves to be joked about. anybody who is in any kind of position of power deserves to have a joke about them. if they can't laugh at themselves, that means something. if you can't laugh at yourself first before you start laughing at everybody else. >> sean: isn't that how you started your career, domestic godess, you started poking fun at yourself. >> to make comedy personal, it makes it funny. that's why people liked the roseanne show, people in their family had a loud, out

sean hannity is up next. >> sean: great to see you tonight. i know where you got that stake. from del frisco. >> tucker: yes, i did. [laughter] >> sean: goodd to see you. welcome to "hannity." we are 439 days into the trump-russia collusion which meant, and still, nothing, zero evidence that donald trump or his campaign did anything wrong. the president rightfully isn calling out to mueller and his extreme conflict of interest and has blatant political bias in a huge way. rodents attorney rudy giuliani will set the record tonight with a very latest. also, if robert mueller is really concerned with russia collision, well, i'll be happily be glad to point them in the right direction. all the evidence he needs.. in fact, there are many real examples of hillary clinton, oh, adam "shapeless" schiff colluding with russia, before, after, and during the election. we've agreed to take tonight. so many important topics that we have to cover. jim comey may be headed back to capitol hill. the president is now heading back with a strong plan on immigration, which is now an important issue

hannity i think it's a shame we're talking about nuclear proliferation we're talking about humanitarian aid we're talking about all these different things and we get questions on the witchhunt. that witchhunt alexander we're talking about is donald trump done from cold the russia investigation just briefly is he getting any recognition at all for having sat down and opened a dialogue with russia. there are few republicans in the house like rand paul for example i'm sorry he is a senator from kentucky kentucky saying that it was the right thing to improve relations between the two countries however we have to say that it seems like most republicans are really criticizing the president for what he said and how his performance was in helsinki. aleksandr phenomena with the latest reactions from washington for us thank you very much. as president moves to erect barriers to trade the e.u. and japan have just signed a massive free trade deal that will create the world's biggest open economic area speaking after a signing ceremony in tokyo you council president donald said the deal sends a stro

sean hannity did not speak to the president and many at that news network did speak up. >> trump clearly should not have created any semblance of moral equivocacy and assurances of vladimir putin. >> this is the time for the president to look putin in the eye and said you will be punished for what you did in 2016. >> he didn't. >> that's what made it disgusting. that is what made his performance disgusting. it is not a right or left thing. this is wrong. u.s. president on foreign soil talking to our biggest enemy or adversary. i don't know how we define him these days. >> the daughter of u.s. ambassador to russia, jon huntsman tweeted this. no negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus. there was this perspective from fox contributor ari flesher. tweeting that trump only sees russia interference through the lens of whether he won or lost. that should not blind him for how wroong it was for russia to interfere. >> community leaders standing by the assessment of the russian threat like dan coats who said friday the warning lights are blinking. he reaffirmed aft

hannity he is doubling down claiming the special counsel is the biggest wedge driving the us and russia apart. john barrasso is fourth ranking member of the senate republican leadership who joins us live shortly and the exclusive history making interview with vladimir putin, we will air this in its entirety. exclusive interview with two pres.s at the center of a global firestorm of controversy. let's get started with the latest on helsinki from john roberts. good morning to you, john. >> reporter: good morning from helsinki where it is 6:00 in the morning and another beautiful day, donald trump back in the united states after his summit with p income of a been back in moscow, the president came here to reset the russian relationship with the united states, the obama administration tried to didn't get far, the president believes he has set this relationship on a new course but the big headline of the day came when donald trump after saying twice last week he was going to be very direct, frank and tough with vladimir putin about allegations of meddling in the 2016 election the president b

rosanne barr holding nothing back during an interview with sean hannity. first tv interview since abc fired her over a racist tweet aimed at valerie jarrett. >> reporter: i have always been against abuse of power towards all marginalized people but now i feel both the left and right have marginalized the middle and it is too crazy. america is a place where i, a loudmouth, old gorgeous jewish woman comedian, m allowed freedom of speech. it cost me everything. now i wish i had worded it better, but i won't let them tell me what i meant and that makes me so mad. let's discuss this. don't assume you know what i meant. i think you don't know what i meant and i would like to make it clear to you what i did mean and i would like to find a way past all that, to discuss the issue at hand and to try to find common ground. i am sorry you thought i was racist and that my tweet was racist and for that i apologize. i never meant to hurt anybody. or say anything negative about an entire race of people. >> editor of the halftime report, i remember you were a voice of caut

. >> sean hannity haranguing paul ryan as a weak ling. and so it does get out in the ecosphere. the real question is whether it has real world impact. >> ryan will try to contain this, but there will be escalating pressure from this caucus to move forward. >> sean hannity haranguing paul ryan as a weak ling. and so it does get out in the ecosphere. the real question is whether it has real world impact. in the short run, it does not. in the short run, the investigation is going forward. and trump does not have the nerf to remove rod rosenstein or mueller. what comes into play is if we get the results. and what credibility does the findings have. >> they are claiming one thing about the recent cohen conversation or not. willing to lie and undermine the belief and fundamental evidence. it does have repercussions and consequences. >> jennifer rubin and angelo carusone. >>> the big trump/putin sequel is off for now. with an official statement saying meeting should take place after the witch hunt -- his words, is over. mike pompeo getting ready to address. >> has the president told yo

sean hannity had an interview with trump. it was more like a chat with friends. interview started with hannity complimenting how strong trump was at the conference. >> let's take a look. >> you literally finished the press conference with president putin moments ago. a lot came up. you were very strong at the end of the press conference. you said where are the servers. what about what peter strzok said? where are the 30,000 e-mails. there was a mystery answer that surprised a lot of people by the president of russia as it relates to the mueller investigation. >> right. first of all, there was no collusion whatsoever. if they had it, it would have been out. >> i don't think russia is our close friend. of course they tried to interfere in our an feffaaffair. they had for a long time. some have done for years. mexico is routinely interfering in our elections. >> bravo, sir. i did not see mechanixican elec interference. >> stunning comments when you take a moment to think about them. not surprising. these guys have been on fox news supporting the president day in and

sean hannity is connected to the investigation. tucker carlson at this point given what his ratings are, i think it's important that we remember the president is literally propping up a business in a world as well. you talk about choosing -- he's propping up a business in order to promote authoritarianism. that's a danger for the future of the country. >> and continually attacking the "washington post," amazon, other businesses that are parallel to it in trying to denigrate them. gabriel sherm han and eric, tha you very much. >>> the three democrats who could win big from the appointment of brett kavanaugh. we're talking 2020 next. [ drum roll ] ...emily lapier from ames, iowa. this is emily's third nomination and first win. um...so, just...wow! um, first of all, to my fellow nominees, it is an honor sharing the road with you. and of course, to the progressive snapshot app for giving good drivers the discounts -- no, i have to say it -- for giving good drivers the discounts they deserve. safe driving! crisp leaves of lettuce. fresh

liz: i can catch sean hannity's felt interview of trump tonight. on fox. >> crise stirewalt -- sorry, chris wallace will do a interview with putin 6 p.m. eastern time, he can't separate the issue of russian sabotage, meddling in the election with collusion. >> he not wrong about the russia collusion lie, which was created as a know in early days of the investigation, created by trump adversary in u.s. to try to undermine his candidacy and cripple his presidency, to a large extent it has worked. we can't go into a conversation with a russia president over legitimate issues. liz: john brennan saying this is on level of treason. >> some people say, again these are early days. but john brennan was parts of the obama team, that sort of led the charge to develop this story line around donald trump. i think there is a lot more to be told. liz: a lot of layers, all right, president trump given several chances, to condemn russian attempted ted to bee sabotage t, elections. but he says he does not see how it could be russia. , trump claims that relations hav

the president is defending his remarks in a sit down with our own sean hannity. watch it. >> president trump: he said there was no collusion whatsoever. i guess he said as strongly as you can say it, they have no information on trump. but i thought that president putin was very, very strong. at the end of a long period of time -- it was just the two of us. and interpreters. at the end of this meeting i think we really came to a lot of good conclusions. >> harris: the president also told sean hannity that the meeting was a success. the world tweeted that the world's to most nuclear powers must all get along. >> at the summit yesterday was like an x-ray machine. revealing that america first is a really just trump first. our country needs to see the republicans in the senate and the republican party to stand up and show through action that, unlike our president, they will not tolerate russian aggression or accept putin's allies. >> harris: kristin fisher is live at the white house. >> hello harris. so far the only two republicans that have come out and publicly defe

. >> earlier today, she sat down with fox's sean hannity. >> i thought the [ bleep ] was white! >> you have said in the past that you suffer from multiple personality disorder. >> i don't suffer from it anymore. >> you don't in. >> i enjoy it. >> i have crazy moments. >> you shouldn't call a mental health patient crazy. i take an antidepressants. at one point, roseanne talked directly to the target, valerie jarrett. . >> i'm sorry y. >> before she got in a new jab. >> she needs a new haircut. >>> now the latest on troubled singer demi lovato >> after three days she suffered that shocking drug overdose, new details have just surfaced. >> authorities have released the 911 call made from demi's home tuesday morning. >> this is a medical emergency. i don't have control over that. sorry about that. ♪ >> it's unclear if the singer who was hospitalized at si cedar-sinai medical center. her family is worried that because she thinks she can control her addiction. lot of red flags that demi was still struggling i'll still struggle with past behaviors. >> the singer recently severed ties

this also underscores the power, i think, of sean hannity. bill shine was hannity's first producer. they're the best of friends. i do think this will only strengthen, really, the links between the white house and fox news, something that's really unprecedented, i think, in modern history. >> and sean hannity and the president, we know, speak frequently. thanks to all of you. we have a lot more news coming up. >>> he may not have been thinking outloud, but president trump's question about, yes, invading venezuela, a country, puts an army there on high alert. >>> plus, an alarming development in the uk. we're told that a couple that has been poisoned by the very same russian nerve agent used in the previous attack on a former russian spy inside the uk, now we're learning whether they knew each other and what it is that might have exposed them to this substance. ♪ you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. yo

later tonight, sean hannity will speak with the president off of the meeting. president trump and vladimir putin agree that ensuring israel's security is a priority, but what action will they take? plus putin weighing in on the 12 military officers indicted in the mueller probe. the offer he's making to the special counsel. >> just to say it one time again and i saw it all the time, there was no collusion. i didn't know the president. is there was nobody to collude with. let's take a look at some numbers: 4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease? preventable. and 149 dollars is all it takes to get screened and help take control of your health. we're life line screening... and if you're over 50... call this number, to schedule an appointment... for five painless screenings that go beyond regular check-ups. we use ultrasound technology to literally look inside your arteries... for plaque which builds up as you age- and increases your risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease. and by gett

sean hannity wanted bill shine to be the chief of this white house. this is the sean presidency. you're going to get people on the far right out there and donald trump is making the point that there are enough people. it is a numbers game and we'll see if he bets right. >> it will be interesting. thank you. gabriel sherman, thank you. >>> joining me now, michael bechloss. let's talk about nixon's dream and bill shine in the white house. >> if nixon came back, he would say i wish i had been able to have something like fox news. when roger ailes suggested the idea, wasn't so much a network at that point because there wasn't really cable. it was called at one point gop tv or white house tv. there would be interviews with nixon's staff, interviews with the president and this stuff would be flown by airplane. if you can see think of nixon with watergate, he might not have survived that scandal but he might have been able to hold a little longer. you can imagine nixon having a friendly network like fox saying, archibald cox is a bad man. he is surrounded by people who love john kennedy

sean hannity, of course, was not critical at all. we'll see what he says today. >> jeff, if i just can, you returned from helsinki. you were there. you speak to a lot of folks in the white house on the president's team. do they feel that this was a particular mistake, that it's something that the president has to correct? i suppose the next question s if they do, does that matter? would the president listen to that kind of criticism? >> well, two things. one, i flew back on on air force one last night because i was in the pool. we did not see really any white house advisers. a couple came back briefly to the press cabin but didn't have much to say. i think that was a sign that they were already sort of getting into bunker mode and fixing -- how do we fix this mentality. they've scheduled these remarks this afternoon at 2:00. we'll see if the president decides to roll back anything that he said or double down or if he'll take the model he used after charlottesville, where he sort of tries to roll it back and then gets irritated about

in order to help sean hannity's rating. wow, wow, and with an episode that big there is no way trump is going to miss it. look, i am honored to announce that i hearby nominate-- hold on, hannity's on. , oh, he's got trump. he's announcing something. i don't know what. he's pausing, he's pausing right now-- i-- i do not trust that guy. well, we'll have more on this continuing story as-- as america continues? (laughter) now while we were on break, trump had another rally. this time in montana, in montana. and he went off script and on crazy. he just road crazy off a cliff into beautiful coo coo canyon, for one thing, he attacked elizabeth warren's claim of her native american heritage. >> let's say i'm debating pocahontas, right? i promise you i will do, this i will take-- you know those kits they sell on television for $2, learn your heritage. we will take that little kit and say, but we have to do it gently, because we're in the metoo generation. so we have to be very gentle. and we will say, i will give you a million dolla

we may not like sean hannity, but sean hannity is almost inevitable as a part of this be a universe. ,hings leading to success standards of success, and motivations driving people are different on both sides. roots of these things are structural, not personal, not a matter of integrity, honesty. the ecosystems have been decades in the making produce these outcomes. it is what we have to grapple with. thinking about the sources of disinformation in media, there is a lot of culprits. facebook algorithms, crazy uncles. close to home when you say bob, but i'm a rob, so i'm ok with it. people with a mix of commercial feedolitical motivations people partisan bs. they are out there. russians, those kinds of things. they are interacting through these existing media ecosystems. troublesome, less less consequential the source of disinformation than the ability of the disinformation to gain mediaon with ecosystems. conservative media because of the structural elements are more vulnerable to disinformation than fact-based journalism rooted in many tickets -- in many decades of practice. it is wh