he did show sympathy was for the fox news host judge gentlemen janine pirro who did not show on her show after anti-muslim comments. donald trump said the radical left democrats working closely with their beloved partner the fake news media is using every trick in the book to silence a majority of our country. jill wine-banks, ron reagan and carlos curbelo. ron, i read what you thought about trump. i don't know what to make of it. going after a man that's passed away. we used to say in society, say no ill of the dead. what's he doing? what's trump up to with his weird attempt to assassinate a guy who's already gone? >> well, trump is being trump. trump is a coward and he's somebody who looks normal human decency. what is it about john mccain that sets him off? john mccain was everything donald trump isn't. john mccain was a man of integrity and a man of great courage. we all remember that moment with the thumbs down that killed trump's chance to undo obamacare. i'm sure he's never mccain for that. and it's not going stop him that john mccain is now dead and can't fight back. that's

janine far remarks islam phobic. what's the deal? >> there are tweets and retweets, probably more tweets on judge janine than there were on the terrorist attack in new zealand. the president clearly has a hang up here. he has a problem condemning anti-semitism and anti-islamic terrorism. he just throughout his presidency, he has had great difficulty coming out saying the things he is supposed to say at the time he is supposed to say it. he gets in a position, oh, they're trying to make me do it, i'm not going to do it because they're making many edo it. the advisers say he said it. not as forcefully. >> i think he feels like he is taking the blame for something that he didn't do. which is not the truth. she a leader. it's not absurd for people wanting him to talk comments. >> you talked about the spectre report in the nation. there is polling from usa today i wanted to ask you about showing a full 50% of americans, this is stunning, half of americans agree with president trump robert mueller's investigation is a witch hunt. is that just a reflection of when you hear something from

what they were saying and five tweets defending fox host judge janine pirro, which many think it happened after she made remarks about muslim women covering their heads. >> it is actually somebody who calls herself a judge actually attacking a first amendment protection, which this country was really founded on. this is why the pilgrims came to america. it is the foundation of this great republic and she was of course attacking freedom of religion. then donald trump has all these tweets to protect jeanine pirro and far more tweets than he put out regarding the slaughter in new zealand. >> religious liberty was called the first freedom because it was, in fact, the driving impetus to get us across -- get many people across the atlantic. george washington in that famous letter to the hebrew congregation in newport in 1790 said the point of the government of the united states is to give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance and said people should be able to come here and center their own vine and figure tree and none shall make him april afrafraid. i was stuck bit wome

national emergency, commenting on fox news personalities, janine piro suspended for comments and the fact that she observes her faith by wearing a head scarf and as you point out, attacking john mccain the late senator, gone now leaving us seven months ago, succumbing to brain cancer. criticizing john mccain on false grounds that the so-called christopher steele dossier was disseminated to the media before the election by john mccain that's false. john mccain said he sent it to the fbi and john mccain did not see that dossier until after the election. president trump insulting john mccain saying he was last in his class in annapolis. that's not true, he was fifth from the bottom, that was the chapters in his memoir and a host of other attacks some familiar on john mccain about the thumbs down vote that mccain cast against the effort to repeal obama care in the sent that stuck in the president's krau ever since. the president active on twitter and yet here we are. >> meghan mccain delivered a strong rebuke of trump's tweets. any other republicans rushing to mccain's defense? >> report

off the air, they have moved others. i do think janine peero could suffer because she just gets on the air and says whatever she wants to say, but i do think it's going to take advertisers standing up and employees inside of fox newsstanding up and pushing back. and it's going to take the public to not just go to the next thing right away. >> on that point, i mean we've seen this before. advertising boycotts, a few weeks pass and lo and behold they're back. and look at the defense you're seeing from fox news and others, its ratings above all else. that's the metric for success here. is this time going to be different in that sense? >> i have to say, i don't see why anyone would think it would. it's roughly an extension on what goes on fox all the time. you watch all day long and what do you see? you see pictures of elon omar, alexandria cortez, the caravan it was supposedly coming to get us all before the election. janine peero took what was on fox and ran with it to another point. i don't see why that's punishable when she's basically doing what the network is created to do. and to yo

friend, justice janine. do we love sean hannity, by the way? i love him. thank to you my very good friend rupert murdoch. there's only one rupert that we know. >> roger ailes is one of the great men in television. >> no question that trump benefited from a let's say symbiotic relationship. aides say the relationship is so key to this president, the one with fox, they're calling the shots. president trump has told confidantes that he ranks the network reporters loyal to him on a scale of one to ten, like in a beauty contest. sean hannity gets a 10, while steve doocy gets a 12. fox says it important for the base. in return, the new yorker finds a troubling pattern in which the president himself works on behalf of foxnews's economic interests. he ordered gary cohn to pressure the justice department to intervene in a lawsuit. i first want to go to dylan. without getting into details of anti-trust and all this, why is the president of the united states working for fox? >> well, you have to almost reverse engineer this, okay? fox news has from its inception been a business, and it is focused on

janine pirro and you really think there's a relationship that's correct. >> oh, there is. sean hannity and trump speak regularly, almost every night after his show, at least that's what sean hannity has told people. but there's also a relationship between rupert murdoch and trump and murdoch and trump's son-in-law jared kushner. you've got this feedback loop going on that's very tight. we've never had a whole national network like this that is basically -- it's incredibly close with this white house. people describe it to me as a wing of the west wing. >> hmm. mike barnicle. >> jane, as usual, an extraordinary piece from you in "the new yorker" this week. >> one of the things that we're living through is the role in fox news. one of the people said fox is not just taking the temperature of the base, it is raising the base. can you speak to that? we all live through it. >> i think it's incredibly important so thanks for asking. what fox does is it makes money by enraging americans. that's how they keep them glued to the television set. and it's very much the same model that trump has to

. sebastian gorka and judge janine pirro fired up their base. laura ingraham revealed to sean hannity, there is a winning formula of how to land a great speech at cpac. >> i heard you gave a great speech at cpac. is that true? >> yeah, it was a lot of fun. we had a good time. you have to tell some jokes and get out. that's my view, tell a few jokes, get a few digs in, talk about how much you love america and get off the spaj. if i can do that, that's always a great speech, hannity. you did a great job with the president. >> how did president trump do? >> tell some jokes. >> when the wind stops blowing, that's the end of your electric. let's hurry in. darling. darling, is the wind blowing today? i'd like to watch television. >> get a few digs in. >> i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. they fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phony deal. they're trying to take you out with [ bleep ]. >> talk about how much you love america. ♪ and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today ♪ >> and get off the staining. if i can do that, then that's always a good speech. >> now let's get