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  • >> Donald Trump is lashing out at Fox News again.

  • Honestly, he has had a series of tweets going after them.

  • He's very upset that they had a spokes person from the DNC on.

  • I'm tired of reading his tweets.

  • Whatever, I don't care.

  • So, I'm going to go ahead and tell you about the reaction from Fox, because I think that's

  • been far more interesting.

  • Now, Trump believes that Fox should be his news organization, they should be working

  • for him.

  • And if they're not going to constantly do positive coverage on him, well, then he's

  • gonna have to look for a different cable news channel.

  • He said that.

  • Now, there have been a number of hosts on Fox who are saying no, we don't work for you,

  • this is not this is not a cable news channel specifically to bolster your campaign.

  • You have Brit Hume who said Fox News isn't supposed to work for you and then.

  • >> Well look, I know you don't want to read this tweet, but this part is relevant because

  • Trump said Fox isn't working for us anymore.

  • And so that's why Hume and others are saying, dude we're not supposed to work for you.

  • But I like that Brit Hume is like still pretending.

  • >> I know that's the thing.

  • Like so we're about to show you video from various hosts who who think.

  • No no no where we were supposed to call you out but you guys haven't been calling him

  • out.

  • You guys have been helping him from the very beginning.

  • And Guy Benson who's a contributor on Fox says, we don't work for you.

  • Okay now, Neil Cavuto had some strong words for Trump, and I want to show you that video

  • so let's take a look.

  • >> First of all, Mr. President, we don't work for you.

  • I don't work for you.

  • My job is to cover you, not fawn over you or rip you.

  • Just report on you, to call balls and strikes on you.

  • My job, Mr. President, our job here is to keep the scores, not settle scores.

  • Now in my case, to report the economic numbers when they're good, and when they're bad.

  • And when the markets are soaring and when they're tumbling.

  • When trade talks look like they're coming together, and when they look like they're

  • falling apart.

  • It is called being fair and balanced Mr President.

  • Yet it is fair to say, you're not a fan, when that balance includes stuff you don't like

  • to hear, or facts you don't like to have questioned.

  • You're entitled to your point of view Mr. President, but you're not entitled to your

  • own set of facts.

  • >> So I think it's fascinating to see when Fox News hosts actually turn on Trump, because

  • when children were dying in cages at the border they didn't turn on Trump.

  • There were no harsh segments criticizing him and his policies.

  • There were no harsh segments when Trump was ripping children away from their parents at

  • the border.

  • Like when it came to lives being lost, Fox News didn't turn on him at all.

  • When it came to the possibility of a recession, all of a sudden there's some coverage about,

  • we don't know about this trade war, we don't know about this.

  • The economy isn't looking so good, he needs to change course.

  • When it comes to their bottom line, and when it comes to their money, that's when they're

  • willing to criticize Donald Trump.

  • So I think that that's telling, to say the least, but positioning themselves as like

  • these hard hitting journalists who are willing to hold Trump accountable for his actions

  • is crazy.

  • That is not what they've done.

  • >> Yeah, so two points here.

  • One is he's accidentally helping Fox News a lot, because this allows Fox News to go,

  • see we're fair and balanced.

  • Neil Cavuto literally just said it, and look, even Trump criticize us so we must be down

  • the middle.

  • In reality, Neil Cavuto is massively conservative.

  • We've covered him for years, unfortunately, here.

  • And so you wanna give him a tiny bit of credit for calling out Trump 2% of the time?

  • >> No, 0%.

  • >> Right?

  • Yeah so that's better than Hannity, that's better than Lou Dobbs who's just literally

  • lost his mind.

  • And how's Lou Dobbs?

  • >> Lou Dobbs thinks it's okay to run people over if you disagree with their political

  • protest.

  • >> No, you could watch Lou Dobbs any night, he's not talking about business.

  • But if you wanna see someone who belongs in a mental institution, turn on Lou Dobbs or

  • Jeanine Pirro, okay?

  • So look, the mentally insane are still on Trump's side, on Fox News, and yelling it

  • from the rooftops.

  • But the other guys slant the news conservative anyway, right?

  • And they're just not total lunatics, on behalf of every single thing that Donald Trump does.

  • But now, there's a general perception of, Fox is being tough on Trump, so I think that

  • helps them.

  • Now, I think it is an accident, and I thought I was gonna make a brilliant point, but one

  • of you guys beat me to the punch.

  • So I often say as we do the show live after all the breaks, or as we come in from the

  • breaks, I read a lot of your comments.

  • And we read our member comments first, cuz they make this show possible.

  • tyt.com/showing to be one of those members.

  • So G David, VX77 wrote in, in the last break.

  • OMG, I just saw someone suggest that Trump is going hard against Fox News ahead of him

  • making his own News Network after he leaves office at some point, we will see but I wouldn't

  • be surprised.

  • That's exactly the point I was gonna make.

  • And here I thought I was being really smart.

  • Anyway, look, remember when he thought he was going to lose, he started talking about

  • Trump TV.

  • And now a little bit about 14 months before the election when it looks like he's gonna

  • lose, all of a sudden he's down 36% in the polling and he knows the recession is about

  • to come.

  • They're talking about it internally in all of his meetings and if a recession hits an

  • election year, good night Irene.

  • All of a sudden he's like Fox News isn't working for us.

  • Fox News is bad.

  • We might need a new outlet, come on.

  • It doesn't actually take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

  • >> Trump loves to be on television.

  • That's his number one passion.

  • He loves attention.

  • He loves being in the media.

  • And so if that happens, it wouldn't surprise me.

  • But I do think that at the moment, what's driving Trump is his fear and his insecurity.

  • And his honestly, the fact that he's finally recognizing that he's not a popular president.

  • His approval numbers are dismal.

  • They're terrible.

  • And he's starting to get a little bit of backlash from some of his allies because of where the

  • economy is headed.

  • And so, yeah, I just think that this is him trying to hold on to the infrastructure around

  • him that's helped him win so far.

  • >> Yeah.

  • >> Do you get what I'm saying?

  • Without Fox News doing his bidding, what is he gonna do?

  • Who's gonna cover him in a favorable way?

  • >> No, of course he's an idiot.

  • That's why I never thought he was going to last, because he burns too many bridges.

  • I mean, you burn the Fox News bridge, what bridge do you have left?

  • So I wanna read you the last part of that tweet, cuz this was relevant here.

  • The new Fox News is letting millions of great people down.

  • We have to start looking for a new news outlet Fox isn't working for us anymore.

  • >> Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • That was a- >> Okay.

  • >> That was a good hint.

  • >> Yes, here comes Trump TV, and here come Donald Trump realizing that he ain't gonna

  • make it.

  • By the way, if he thinks he's gonna get humiliated, you sure he's gonna stick around, tick, tick,

  • tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

  • >> You're going around on national television, Cenk.

  • You're very confident.

  • Because I believe in logic, and I'm a man of my word.

  • And see months left, 14 months left.

  • I have never wavered.

  • Not gonna make it to that.

  • >> You're crazy.

  • >> Well, here I am.

>> Donald Trump is lashing out at Fox News again.

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