>>> IN JANE MAYERS EXPLOSIVE AND EXCLUSIVE "NEW YORKER"
ARTICLE, "THE MAKING OF THE FOX
NEWS WHITE HOUSE," SHE DETAILS
THE EXCHANGE IN THE SUMMER OF
2017 IN WHICH PRESIDENT TRUMP
REPORTEDLY ORDERED HIS THEN
DIRECTOR OF THE ECONOMIC
COUNCIL, GARY COHN, TO TELL THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO KILL
AT&TS ACQUISITION OF TIME
WARNER WHICH OWNS CNN, A
WELL-INFORMED SOURCE TELLING
MAYER TRUMP CALLED COHN INTO THE
OVAL OFFICE AS WELL AS JOHN
KELLY, THE CHIEF OF STAFF,
SAYING, IM TELLING THEM I WANT
THE DEAL BLOCKED AND NOTHINGS
HAPPENED.
HAPPENED. COHN TOLD KELLY, DONT CALL THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, WERE NOT
GOING TO DO BUSINESS THAT WAY.
JANE MAYER JOINS ME NOW. JUST ANOTHER JANE MAYER.
JUST ANOTHER JANE MAYER EXCLUSIVE IN "THE NEW YORKER."
YOURE DETAILING THIS
RELATIONSHIP WITH FOX NEWS WHICH IS SIGNIFICANT AND ONLY LASTHICH
IS SIGNIFICANT AND ONLY LAST NIGHT THE PRESIDENT WAS DOUBLING
DOWN WITH SEAN HANNITY, AMID NEW
SCRUTINY OF HIS TIES TO FOX NEWS
IN YOUR PIECE.
WHAT IS THE IMPORT HERE?
ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT I
INAPPROPRIATELY ORDERED THE
PRESSURING OF THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT TO BLOCK A MAJOR MERGER.ENT TO BLOCK A MAJOR
MERGER.
>> THE QUESTION IS, IS THE
PRESIDENT -- HAS HE BEEN ABUSING
HIS POWER TO HELP HIS FRIENDS RUPERT MURDOCH, THE MOGUL OVER
AT FOX, AND TO HURT HIS ENEMIES,
THE PEOPLE AT CNN.
THIS WAS AN ORDER FROM THE
PRESIDENT TO HIS TOP ECONOMIC
ADVISER IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO BLOCK A DEAL, A VERY MAJOR,TO
BLOCK A DEAL, A VERY MAJOR, MULTIBILLION DOLLAR CORPORATE
DEAL.
IF THEY BLOCKED THE DEAL IT WAS GOING TO HURT CNN AND HELP FOX.
IT SEEMS LIKE HES TRYING TO
PUNISH HIS ENEMIES AND HELP HIS FRIENDS BY USING THE U.S.LP HIS
FRIENDS BY USING THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
>> ANOTHER THING YOU CITE IN
THIS STORY IS THAT FOX KILLED
THE STORMY DANIELS STORY, THAT
THEY KNEW ABOUT IT BEFORE THE
ELECTION, WHICH WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, SORT OF EXTRAORDINARY.U
KNOW, SORT OF EXTRAORDINARY. YOU WRITE THAT AFTER GETTING ONE
NONCOMMITTAL ANSWER AFTER
ANOTHER FROM HER EDITORS, THE
REPORTER WHO TRIED TO FILE THE
STORY AT FOX, LAST HEARD FROM
THE HEAD OF FOXNEWS.COM, WHO
SAID TO HER, GOOD REPORTING,
KIDDO, BUT RUPERT MURDOCH WANTS TRUMP TO WIN SO JUST LET IT GO.
>> CAN YOU IMAGINE?
IF YOU WANT EVIDENCE THAT FOX
WAS KILLING STORIES FOR
POLITICAL PURPOSES TO EFFECT THE ELECTION, THATS ABOUT AS STRONGE
ELECTION, THATS ABOUT AS STRONG EVIDENCE AS YOU CAN GET.
YOUVE GOT AN EDITOR SAYING
WERE GOING TO KILL A STORY
BECAUSE ITS GOING TO HURT
TRUMP.
AND THE OWNER OF THIS COMPANY,
THE MOVER AND SHAKER, RUPERT MURDOCH, WANTS TRUMP TO WIN, SO
THEY KILLED IT.
SO THE STORMY DANIELS STORY
DIDNT COME OUT UNTIL A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, LONG AFTER TRUMPD
A HALF LATER, LONG AFTER TRUMP WAS ELECTED.
WAS ELECTED.
>> AND WE NOW KNOW POTENTIALLY
THE PRESIDENT WAS PAYING ILLEGAL HUSH MONEY TO KILL THE STORY ATL
HUSH MONEY TO KILL THE STORY AT THE TIME, HE WAS SO WORRIED
ABOUT ITS OUTCOME ON THE
ELECTION.
LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THE FIRST
REPUBLICAN DEBATE WHERE FOX,
ACCORDING TO YOUR REPORTING,
LEAKED DEBATE QUESTIONS THAT MEGYN KELLY WAS GOING TO ASK.
WE DONT HAVE ANY IDEA WHETHER
SHE WAS AWARE OF THIS. >> I THINK SHE WAS NOT AWARE OF
IT, IS MY SENSE.
AND SO MEGYN KELLY ASKED A FAMOUSLY TOUGH QUESTION OF TRUMP
IN THE DEBATES.
AND ACCORDING TO SEVERAL SOURCES AT FOX, TRUMP WAS TIPPED OFF INS
AT FOX, TRUMP WAS TIPPED OFF IN ADVANCE TO THIS.
AND WE DO KNOW FOR SURE THAT HE
CALLED FOX THE DAY BEFORE THE DEBATE AND HE WAS AGITATED AND
WAS UPSET THAT HE HEARD THERE
WAS GOING TO BE A TOUGH
QUESTION.
QUESTION.
HE SPOKE TO SOMEONE AND
ACCORDING TO TWO SOURCES WHO
WERE FOX INSIDERS, ONE OF WHOM IS AN EYEWITNESS THAT AILESHOM
IS AN EYEWITNESS THAT AILES TIPPED OFF TRUMP.
>> THE LATE ROGER AILES, THEN IN
CHARGE.
CHARGE.
AND BILL SHINE FROM FOX, NOW THE
WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTOR, THEYVE HIRED A LOT OF
PEOPLE FROM FOX, WE KNOW HIS
APPEARANCES, THE PRESIDENTS
APPEARANCES ON FOX, MIKE POMPEO, NOT KNOWN FOR DOING A LOT OFPEO,
NOT KNOWN FOR DOING A LOT OF NETWORK INTERVIEWS, ABOUT THREE
FOX INTERVIEWS IN ONE DAY. >> I THINK AT THIS POINT FOX HAS
GOTTEN SOMETHING LIKE 44
PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEWS.
PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEWS. THE REST OF THE NETWORKS HAVE
GOTTEN TEN ALTOGETHER.
I THINK CNN GOT NONE. CLEARLY THE PRESIDENT IS PLAYING
FAVORITES.
FAVORITES.
HES VERY TIGHT WITH FOX.
AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF FOX WHO IS NOW HIS COMMUNICATIONSOX
WHO IS NOW HIS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR.
DIRECTOR.
ITS A VERY CLOSE LOOP THAT
THEYVE GOT GOING. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF
PEOPLE I INTERVIEWED SAID IT
RAISES QUESTIONS THAT ARE
TROUBLING ABOUT OUR DEMOCRACY,
WHEN THE NUMBER ONE RATED CABLE
NEWS SHOW IS -- APPEARS MANY
TIMES TO BE AN ARM OF THE WHITE HOUSE.TO BE AN ARM OF THE WHITE
HOUSE. >> AND OF COURSE SEAN HANNITY
APPEARING ONSTAGE AND AT OTHER
EVENTS.
EVENTS.
FOX NEWS, WE SHOULD POINT OUT, HAS SOME GREAT REPORTERS ANDT,
HAS SOME GREAT REPORTERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
CORRESPONDENTS.
>> THEY DO, AND ITS A
DISSERVICE TO THEM IN MANY WAYS
AND IM SURE ITS UNCOMFORTABLE