ARI MELBER (HOST): It didn’t even last a week. Because by Monday, things you know, if you follow the news, meaning other news channels or the video online or any number of reputable outlets, you probably know that what they were saying that weekend wasn’t true. And this video evidence plus the pushback plus objections from Republicans, led Fox and its guests to start backing off those misleading claims.
We have some new reporting tonight as part of our special report, and I want to read it to you. Trump basically saw that the misleading claims were failing on TV. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Trump’s concerns grew as cable news commentators picked apart comments made by his top officials, with even some of his allies noting on TV their words were not supported by the video. And that fed Trump’s worry that, quote, his administration looked chaotic, not strong, leading him to change course. A stunning shift, the journal suggests, on a policy that’s core to his political identity.
So for Fox audience, just think about if that was your source of information. Viewers who watched Saturday tuned back in to find a contradicting presentation of reality by early this week. And that brings us to some video you also have to see. While we don’t make it a practice here to re-air a bunch of misleading claims, unless there is a strict reason or accountability or reporting, I’m going to show you, not the weekend stuff, but what we got to by early this week as contributors and even some hosts took this all in, contradicted their own channel over the weekend. And this is how they’ve sounded this week.
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That’s the pushback on Fox.
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