As every cable network,
and every news show was focusing on
the Senate impeachment trial,
what was Fox News up to?
Were they carrying the Senate
impeachment trial?
Of course not.
Now, they did cut away from it, and
they aired The Five.
And it devolved into an interesting
fight.
Okay, so at this point,
Representative Eric Swalwell was
mid sentence, and about to present
a violent clip from January 6th.
And then the moderator of this
panel, Jesse Watters broke in, and
this is how it went down.
>> You may have heard one man
yelled no violence, and another
responded, it's too late for that.
[MUSIC]
>> Hello, everybody.
I'm Jesse Walters,
along with Juan Williams,
Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld, and
Judge Jeanine Pirro.
>> And that was followed by exactly
what you can expect on Fox,
including Jesse Watters saying,
quote, the political math doesn't
add up.
Democrats don't have the votes yet.
They're still pressing ahead.
And then of course, Greg Gutfeld
chimed in and said this is all
emotional political theater.
But then Juan Williams,
he came in to save the day.
Let's watch how that went down.
>> Facing the truth is the way that
we solve is the way we bring
the country together.
Ignoring problems is
never the way to solve.
>> You shouldn't be impuning our
intentions, Juan.
[CROSSTALK] >> I can listen.
I can hear you.
[CROSSTALK] >> And
it comes out wrong.
That's on you, not on us.
[CROSSTALK] >> You don't want to
deal with what- >> It's not my
problem, Juan.
[CROSSTALK] >> You need to deal
with that.
You need to deal with your problem.
>> Maybe you should listen to what
you say, maybe you'd be outraged.
>> Gee, I would be outraged at what
I'm saying?
I don't think so.
I think I'm making sense.
>> Yeah, I think so.
>> Terrible, all right, Juan,
we gotta go.
But what you just did right there,
Juan, that wasn't cool.
You're a colleague of ours.
>> It was cool. It was- >> We've
been talking about this.
>> Yeah. >> We've been talking
about this for
over a month, and none of us
are standing with the mob.
We've never stood with this mob.
We've condemned it outright,
absolutely.
We're not ignoring it.
>> No, we have- >> We just did ten
minutes on it,
so- [CROSSTALK] >> All right.
>> The news.
>> We've denounced all of them,
Juan. [CROSSTALK] >> It's over,
we gotta go.
>> Well, that went well.
Juan Williams asking them to
take what happened
on January 6th, seriously,
it's just a bridge too far for
the fine people over at Fox.
>> Yeah, so first of all, they cut
away from the testimony, especially
because they were showing videos,
and the videos were so damning.
And one of the videos, or
many of the videos have them
attacking cops over and over again.
And Fox News doesn't want to show
that, because for decades, they've
been lying about how, my god,
the right wing are so respectful
of police, and we love the cop.
And the cops are right when they
put down black people and stuff.
And then when you see the right
wing, viciously attacking the cops.
This is really.
Cutaway, cutaway, cutaway.
And then what did they come to?
They came to a conversation about
blaming Democrats for
what's happening.
So that's why Juan Williams
was like,
you're not even covering the news.
The news is happening right now.
You just cut away from it to do
the opposite, right?
And so that's when Gutfeld and
Jesse Watters catch feelings.
So Greg Gutfeld has a safe space,
and I found out where it is.
It's in the back of his chair,
because after he gets offended, and
it happens all the time,
any time anyone challenges him.
He's like, are you [INAUDIBLE]
because you're covering up for
Donald Trump, and
the violence that he created?
And then he leans back,
he leans back.
>> [LAUGH] It's true.
>> And he gets to that little
bubble back here, and then he feels
really, really protected.
And then he thinks maybe he won't
melt over there.
Yes, of course,
you're covering up for
Donald Trump and the mob.
You say well, technically,
we say that violence was bad, and
we're not covering for the mob.
But the person who created the mob,
we won't hold accountable at all.
We think he's an angel.
The mob said hang Mike Pence.
Donald Trump knew that Mike Pence
was in danger.
And then he tweeted out
the horrible things he said about
Pence, while they were within 100
feet of him.
>> That's why they're not
homies anymore.
They're literally not talking
to each other.
They're not friends.
Pence is livid about what happened
that day.
>> Because he was trying to
murder him.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> And so Fox is like,
I don't see it, I don't see it.
We theoretically condemned the mob,
but the guy who started the mob,
we love, and
we wish he'd do it again, wink.
And so when Juan didn't let them
wink, that's when they really,
really needed their safe space.
>> You no like that.
Yeah, no, no, it's totally true.
But look, Fox News has always had
the one person who's typically very
weak, by the way, to represent
the Democratic position, right?
And so Juan Williams is serving
that role in this conversation.
But every once in a while,
he gets pretty fiery.
And every once in a while,
he just very bluntly speaks
the truth about what's going on.
And they're not used to being held
accountable.
They're used to being rewarded for
misrepresenting what's happening in
the country, for
constantly defending bad behavior
by Donald Trump and his supporters.
And so I don't think they expected
Juan Williams to call them out on
the fact that they were not taking
what happened on January 6th, and
Trump's role in that seriously.
So they immediately got super
defensive, cut him off,
started speaking over him.
That's when you know someone is
losing.
And that's when you know that
someone's being called out for
something accurate, right?
That's what
was happening right there.
They couldn't stand it, so they got
into a shouting match, as a result.
>> All right, one last thing.
The reason why they kind of made
a mistake in letting
Juan Williams on the first place
is because of their stereotypes.
So the guys who made these
decisions originally
was Roger Ailes.
Roger Ailes was one of the worst
people to ever live, at least in
American political history.
>> It's true.
>> He was a monster
sexual harasser, assaulter,
deeply racist, and
all the Fox News hosts loved him.
So originally,
he did Hannity and Colmes.
And the late Alan Colmes was
a really decent, wonderful guy.
But honestly, he appeared weak.
He was crosseyed.
Now, that's not my perception.
I'm reporting to what Roger Ailes
thought.
And Roger Ailes picked
Sean Hannity, even though you see
some of the depictions
of Roger Ailes career,
including the one on Showtime.
He thought Sean Hannity was pretty
dumb, but he looked like a guy from
1955, a square head that people
would love.
So he just he figured, that's okay,
I'll just feed lines into this
dummy's head.
And he looks like America,
in Ailes' vision of it,
in conservatorship, and
Alan Colmes looks weak, so
I'll put them together.
And so we'll win, by definition,
just when they see them.
So that was their MO, right?
The reason they picked
Juan Williams is because they
thought black liberal, our audience
will automatically dismiss him.
Whatever he says will seem
ridiculous to them,
because he's black, right?
But it was a mistake,
because Juan Williams is smart,
and often kicks their ass.
So now they're in kind of
a conundrum, but Roger Ailes was
fired from Fox News, and then died.
So now Suzanne Scott's in place,
and she's not ruling with
an iron fist.
In the old days, Roger Ailes would
have let Juan Williams do
that a couple times.
If he did it a third time, he would
have found a way to get rid of him.
Keep it real, okay?
So now they're not getting rid of
him, so Juan Williams is like,
all right, then I can say things
that are true more and more often.
I'll drive you guys crazy.
And I'm here for it.