this is part of abc's heartland standing strategy. i expect more imitators. >> julie: the white house calling russia's tit-for-tat move to expel american diplomats a further deterioration of u.s.-russian relations but what does it mean for americans and russia right now? >> it definitely raises red flags with me, it makes me a little more nervous, it's more difficult for me to have places to turn to. >> julie: u.s.-russian relations appearing to further deteriorate after moscow's retaliatory decision to expel 60 u.s. diplomats and close the u.s. consulate in st. petersbur st. petersburg. the russian ambassador to the u.s. as the move is not surprising. >> you will retaliate. >> julie: joining me now is mike baker, former cia covert operations officer. listening to him talk, obviously he says an eye for an eye. quite literally this is tit-for-tat, the u.s. expelled 50 russians, russia expelled 50 americans. russia warned it would retaliate, it did. now what? how does this affect u.s.-russia relations. >> listening to the russian ambass

abc did attach the story. in fairness to ed bradley, who did pass away, he did do an interview on "60 minutes" with kathleen and i believe he talked to paula. cnn's evening newscasts dedicated just 26 seconds of coverage. big difference. in 1998, when news broke about juanita broaddrick's serious claims that she was raped by bill clinton in the park should bebe 70s, abc, cbs, they did not find a spare second to cover it. meanwhile, the first interview with juanita broaddrick, according to an report with "the washington post," nbcr chif prevented it from airing becausa they said they were unable to corroborate her story. right here on the fox news channel, brit hume and others were wearing "free lisa myers" buttons to get them to release at interview. when they eventually did cover the story, the reporting was often dismissive. let's take a look at some of the clips provided too us thanks to the media research center. >> it is being tormented by right-wing nuts. she's not a very credible witness. it's not a law

. >> to have abc maintain a broadcast forum. that compared christianity to mental illness is just wrong. >> laura: weeks went by with no apology from either abc or behar. last week the angle reported that abc disney had been bomb barted with more than 30,000 complaints about behar's comments. >> laura: for a business dependent on the families, many of them christians, this seems like the definition of a mental illness if you ask me. >> laura: now it, looks like i was on target because disney might not always listen to reason, but when money talks, that mouth is all ears. this morning, "l.a. times" reporter daniel miller tweeted this, iger says joy behar apologized for the things she said about christians and the trump administration. iger agrees that was appropriate. iger is the ceo of disney, the parent company of abc. he reportedly told shareholders that behar had expressed regret and apologized to pence personally. but that misses the point. >> and it's an insult not to me, but to the vast majority of the american people who

is ben sherwood still the head of abc? he's a smart guy, i know ben. that, especially if he had anything to do with it doesn't surprise me. it is amazing. it is like these people have always existed. they've always been there. we have the coast and then america inoa between. that's tom wolf's line. but then why did it take them so long to figure this out? >> i think the election maybe inspired them. i hopeou they would have this meeting. they were number four, when it came to the network channels in ratings. abc had not been a hit for a whilews "modern family" and the other shows hasn't been working but i won't say "roseanne" is the brand-new answer. "empire" is fox's big hit. "walking dead." a huge hit about zombie. s i don't think it is about middle america. i won't say "roseanne" is a reflex of what americans are looking for, because it is them. >> laura: cathy. 18 million tuned in. >> exactly but there are series. of. >> laura: it is a but you're making my>> point "big-bang theory" is a liberal favorite. aa funny show. i watch it every now and then

abc had not had a hit for a while. modern family had not been working. other shows had not been working. i wouldn't say that roseanne is the brand new answer because they are hitting on middle america. middle america loves empire. empire is fox's big hit ratings buster. walking dead huge hit. that's about zombies. i don't think that's about middle america. i wouldn't say that exactly roseanne is a reflection of what americans are looking for because it's them. >> laura: cathy, 18 million people tuned in. >> exactly. big bang theory. >> laura: big bang theory launched how many years ago. big bang theory a liberal favorite and funny show i watch it every now and then. it's on every channel all the time. >> right? >> laura: mollie, it's not like it's a conservative show. just treats people who are conservative like they are real people have a sense of humor: like "duck dynasty" in the beginning. they were really popular. >> what an audience. >> laura: it's massive. >> reflective of what happens when you make good art. this is such a small thing for a really

she makes a lot of money for abc. i think it's period that he did that. even if a big shareholder complained. i thought what she said -- i don't care. but she is going into like her 8th decade. i think she is in her 70s. the fact you are that age and still have to go to the principal's office, that scarce me. it will happen to me. it never ends. you can always be in the principal's office. >> the shareholder was justin danhold. >> who is that? >> you would not know. >> what does that mean? >> ponder it. >> i will ponder it. >> from president to producer. barack obama may have a new tv gig. dana perino will fill you in next. mike and i are both veterans, both served in the navy. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she's the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i've had usaa for a while, why don't we call and check the rates? it was an instant savings and i should've changed a long time ago. there's no poin

that got 53 minutes on abc, cbs, ntsb. and isis, 98% of the caliphate has been destroyed that only got 11 or five times less. so the priorities are all out of whack and because of the bias omission we are not hearing about the stories that people actually vote on and care about most. >> sean: so do they eventually get embarrassed when we when a special counsel is appointed? >> do they get embarrassed when a special counsel is appointed last may. >> sean: now we are learning everything reporting crorvet roberted. one year ago we broke this story that a fisa warrant was issued against the trump campaign. everybody laughed at it they laughed at the president when he tweeted about it. but we were right. >> right. and fisa warrant led to special counsel or wiretapping i should say or whatever term you want to use and that story doesn't get covered. still hasn't been explained to me how if the clinton campaign, the dnc, then hired a foreign agent to get information from the russians as opposition research against another candida

nbc, abc, cbs and others featuring saturated coverage of the story. the same level of media interest not present in the early 1990s when then-president bill clinton was accused of having multiple extra marital affairs and even worsen gauging in serious instances of sexual misconduct. with gennifer flowers, she was proven right but i remember james carville, he worked and was one of the people talking about it or dragging her through a trailer park about paula jones. remember her? she accused bill clinton of literally pulling down his pants and exposing himself. and according to the media research center, the first three days of that scandal abc provided a whopping 16 seconds of coverage. nbc, cbs, they ignored it. and next is the case of kathleen willy, she said that bill clinton groped, grabbed, fondled, touched, kigsed her against her will inside the oval office. that story breaks, how's your fake news handle it? abc ignores it, nbc, cbs, 34 seconds of coverage. according to the media research center. cnn dedicated 26 seconds of coverage during thei

abc gave it 16 seconds. and: if fairness to bradley who passed away he did an interview on "60 minutes." cnn different then and now. in 1998 when news about broderick's serious claims he was raped by bill clinton in the '70s. abc and cbs did not find air spare second to cover it. lisa myers from nbc booked the first interview with juanita. for over a month the chief prevented from the interview from airing because they were they were unable to corroborate her story. when the mainstream media covered the stories of bill clinton's accusers, the reporting was dismissive. let's take a look at some of the clips provided to us thanks to the media research center. >> yes, she is not a credible witness. >> i think she is a dubious witness, i really do. >> a lot to talk about this week. including the sexual harassment against the president. >> is she not trying to capitalize on this and to profit from impugning the president? >> i have to profess complete confusion over this entire case. why this is even a case. >> w

abc they didn't bother to even do the story. and that same day cnn evening newscast whopping 26 seconds on the story. 1998 when news broke about juanita roderick accusing bill clinton of raping her, abc, cbs, they didn't care. ntsb did spend 7 minutes covering the story as they should have. this is all shameful and proves just how abusively biased, hypocritical the media in this country is. the media research center, they search their archives and they found these examples of the liberal press attacking paula jones. remember, she won her lawsuit against bill clinto clinton. >> take a look. >> if the case is fomented by right wing nuts and yes she is not a very credible witness and it's really not a law case at all. i think she is a dubious witness. i really do. >> we have an awful lot to talk about this week including the sexual harassment suit against the president. tough to figure out who is being harassed. >> is she not trying to capitalize on this? effect to profit from impugning the president? >> i have to profess complete

. >> sandra: we have a lot more to get to, abc news giving chelsea clinton a platform to support to the media too movement, but no mention of bill's treatment of women, after another network talk to ivanka trump about her father's mistreatment, is the mainstream media showing the bias? we will discuss that on the couch next. >> your mother and advocate for women and girls, you have in the same way, chelsea, the thing with the me too movement and time's up, what has the past year meant to you? ♪ get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. but he's got work to do. with a sore back. so he took aleve this morning. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can't do that. aleve. all day strong. all day long. and for pain relief and a good night's rest, try aleve pm for a better am. you know what's not awesome? gig-speed internet. when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and

debate over national anthem kneelers hit primetime tv, abc pulled the plug. rob: betting on march madness? an all time high but one problem and we will explain. ♪ we took legendary... and made it liberating. we took safe... and made it daring. we took intelligent, and made it utterly irresistible. we took the most advanced e-class ever and made the most exciting e-class ever. the 2018 e-class coupe and sedan. from mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. jillian: donald trump heading to california for the first time since taking office on the agenda surveying southern border wall prototypes. rob: growing tension between lawmakers of the sanctuary state and the federal government. >> reporter: this is a journey into the belly of the beast which he hasn't been to california since becoming president, the administration is battling the state in federal court, lashing out at sanctuary cities. the white house is the strip is in keeping with what the president has committed to. >> this is an important thing the president has talked about, safety and security of the cou

greg: someone worked at abc for a year and things they could give me advice. >> i used to be cheese and cheese flavored things) went on and i used to always be paranoid about it. greg: i can smell it. you are right. discussing the let's talk the topic at hand. everyone is talking about job changes and the chaos and is this bad or is this a bunch of media hysteria? >> media history. i think this happens every administration that you talk about the people shuffle in and out. the issue here is obviously that is donald trump and everyone is waiting for mostly in the media waiting for the next breadcrumbs to fall so they can pick on it. i think some of these are weird for him like honestly looking at it he iran as a guy who was a noninterventionist kind of guy and that's what i liked about him. i'm a libertarian and i don't want to nation building over there and changing up leadership and now he's picking these hawkish people. greg: both him and they're not on the same page. >> even this lady with the waterboarding, like waterboarding or not she seems very hawkish to me. this doesn't fit the

is this a smart abc decision? >> i think it is. a few, how many people, millions, 60 million people voted for president trump. there is curiosity factor. plus roseanne was successful show first time around. it is reflecting reality. outside of "black panther" it is having a terrible year. putting opinions, ideology aside you might want to address all of your audience. brian: sports, sports networks too. let's talk about how wall street responded. this is your world. i'm surprised about the emotion involved with the way the stocks are going up and down. what happened on friday, and what happened yesterday? >> what happened, wednesday, thursday, and friday is that 1:50, 2:00, 2:05 wall street triggered selloffs in the market to bully white house to back off the trade war. here is the truth. we've been in a trade war with china very long time, minimum, two decades, perhaps longer but we've been losing mightily. when i say, we, the american people. i tell you why there is conflict between main street and wall street on this general mot

just hours ago, abc announced that it is picking up roseanne for a second season. joining us now with reaction from the hill joe concha and founder of turning point u.s.a. charlie kirk. all right, guys, i will start with you, joe, hollywood is so shocked, it just -- it shocks me that they still don't understand how out of touch they are. >> you know, it seems like abc found a starving niche audience gene and that is half the country. even democrats and independents, they have to be sick of what they are hearing on colbert and kimmel and meyers and the tailly show and will and grace and other comedies where the same target is trump and political committee tear dressed up as comedy. very smart of abc to go with roseanne an established brand on the air for nine years. one critic put it best it felt familiar but new. dig into the numbers fascinating. 18 million people highest in four years. after people watched this on dvrs over the weekend talking 25 million. nearly as many as the oscars and 6 million more than the golden globes. break it down even more. in trumps whe

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abc, nbc, also featuring saturation. m the same level of media interest was not present back in the early 1990s when then president bill clinton was accused of having multiple extramarital affairs and even worse, engaging in serious incidents of sexual misconduct. by the way, in the case of gennifer flowers, she was proven right. ii remember james carnival, he worked or was one of the people talking about it, dragging a doctor the taylor park about paula jones. remember paula jones? she accused bill clinton of literally pulling down his pants and opposing, exposing himself. the first three days of that scandal, nbc divided a whopping 16 seconds of coverage. next, there is the case of kathryn willie. she said bill clinton groped, grabs, fumbled, touched, kissed her against her will inside the oval office. that story breaks. how does your fake news handler? abc ignores it.or nbc, cbs gave it a whopping 34 seconds of coverage. according to the media research center. cnn, meanwhile, dedicated 26 26 seconds of coverage.ou you

just hours ago, abc announced it'sup picking up roseanne for a second season. joining us now with reaction from w the hill, joe concha and founder of turning point usa charley kirk. all right, guys, i'll start with you, joe, you know, hollywood is so shocked. it just -- it shocks me that they still don't understand how out of touch they are. >> well, you know, it seems like abc found a starving niche audience, jeanne and that's half the country, right? even democrats and independents. of whate to be sick they're hearing on colbert and kimel and meyers and the daily show and will & grace and other commentaries where it's political -- it felt familiar on roseanne butut new. 18million people. highest in four years. after people watched it on their dvr's, that's 26 million. in states where trump won handily like oklahoma, 65% of the vote he got there was number one there. in newid york, didn't even break the top 20 in los angeles, not even the top 30. that tells you everywhere where we are right now in this country in terms of polarization and the cities not embrac

that got 53 minutes on abc, cbs, ntsb. and isis, 98% of the caliphate has been destroyed that only got 11 or five times less. so the priorities are all out of whack and because of the bias omission we are not hearing about the stories that people actually vote on and care about most. >> sean: so do they eventually get embarrassed when we when a special counsel is appointed? >> do they get embarrassed when a special counsel is appointed last may. >> sean: now we are learning everything reporting crorvet roberted. one year ago we broke this story that a fisa warrant was issued against the trump campaign. everybody laughed at it they laughed at the president when he tweeted about it. but we were right. >> right. and fisa warrant led to special counsel or wiretapping i should say or whatever term you want to use and that story doesn't get covered. still hasn't been explained to me how if the clinton campaign, the dnc, then hired a foreign agent to get information from the russians as opposition research against another candida

take a look at abc and ntsb. cbs findings. 41 seconds talking about what the house intelligence committee came up with. on abc 27 seconds. ntsb had to wait the entire show to find out nothing was there. steve: how many times have you tuned in to one of the big nightly newscasts and they talked about russia, russia, russia. trump was in bed with the russians about this and that. many, many times. and, yet, when the news breaks that the republicans on the house intel committee have found there was no collusion, less than 1 minute on the big three. which is extraordinary. ntsb, to your point, brian, had zero coverage of this. yet, they did have time to feature a power ball winner and they were able to talk about warren buffet's march madness break the. but they did not tell the viewers of ntsb last night on the lester holt show that according to house intel this first phase there is no collusion. ainsley: does that surprise you? steve: no. ainsley: let us know what you think. steve: it's sad. it's called a news chan

abc they didn't bother to even do the story. and that same day cnn evening newscast whopping 26 seconds on the story. 1998 when news broke about juanita roderick accusing bill clinton of raping her, abc, cbs, they didn't care. ntsb did spend 7 minutes covering the story as they should have. this is all shameful and proves just how abusively biased, hypocritical the media in this country is. the media research center, they search their archives and they found these examples of the liberal press attacking paula jones. remember, she won her lawsuit against bill clinto clinton. >> take a look. >> if the case is fomented by right wing nuts and yes she is not a very credible witness and it's really not a law case at all. i think she is a dubious witness. i really do. >> we have an awful lot to talk about this week including the sexual harassment suit against the president. tough to figure out who is being harassed. >> is she not trying to capitalize on this? effect to profit from impugning the president? >> i have to profess complete

abc news had a story about andrew mccabe. nearly a year before attorney general jeff sessions fired senior fbi official andrew mccabe for what sessions called a lack of candor, mccabe oversight federal criminal investigation into whether sessions like candor when testifying before congress about contacts with russian operatives. the sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire mccabe last friday. last year, several top republican and democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and mccabe. a sessions' personal lawyer said that he is not under investigation and that the special counsel informed him that there was no such investigation. mccabe and the firing, christopher wray, the fbi director, was asked by nbc today about that firing over the weekend. take a listen. >> i'm committed to doing things objectively and independently end by the book. i think that has to extend, not just to our investigations, our intelligence analysis

you all went so [bleep] far out. >> jimmy kimmel who is permanently anti-trump is the reason abc and his parent company disney have often been criticized for being too liberal and ignoring conservative viewpoints per the analysts say 18 million plus viewers are proof that politics from both sides of the aisle can be profitable. watch again. >> and jackie thinks girls should grow up and be president. even if there are a liar liar pants on fire. [laughter] >> i think we know who's a liar and who is on fire. >> the white house has weighed in. >> martha: fascinating. here now, mike huckabee. good to see you tonight. interesting. what you make of all of this? >> first of all, it's a nice start. they have somebody on a network television who voted for donald trump and who carries the star of the show status. if they really, really want to go for diversity, let them do a show in which the real trump voters are also pretrade. i'm talking about evangelical voters, people who are pro-life, able who are pro-biblical marriage, people who are very family oriented. this was refreshing, just to see

to put this into perspective, the repute of "american idol" idol on abc brought an 8 million viewers. when you think about all the technology trying to get our attention, why did it bring in so many viewers? a lot of people feel like roseanne is more conservative or that its representative of a blue-collar working class family and it lightens things up with some comedy in the very heavy times in our country. no matter what, hollywood is listening. after the first episode, they renewed their show, technically in its 11th season after one episode. unheard of. >> shannon: those are incredible numbers. easter weekend now upon us. there are several big-budget faith-based films of the box office. hollywood always seems surprised by this, it seems like the genre is doing better than ever. why do you think i do so? what can we expect? >> gone are the days and people can say that faith-based films are cheesy and low-budget. you have three major films this weekend. first, "god's not dead," the third installment of the incredible trilogy. i think we have some film right now, also cut must, "i ca

an interesting move by abc. >> and you bring up abc and tim allen, that was on abc and he played a conservative character. that show was canceled despite positive ratings. we'll see what happens. >> sandra: sounds like you watched every minute. >> my first time -- i wasn't allowed to watch roseanne when i was a kid. >> sandra: sounds like my house. turn that off. thank you, carley. >> bill: breaking news, a violent deportee escapes capture at the airport and hails a cab. where is that suspect now? it's 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and at our factory in boston, more than a thousand workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we're bringing you america's number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i'm proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. gillette - the best a man can get. was a success for lastchoicehotels.comign badda book. badda boom. this year, we

i am an abc, an american black conservative. and i'm probably on that list also, sean. but what they don't know is that many black people aren't living in the past. they're living in the present and what the future can be. >> you're also on the shga list, the sean hannity great american list. how is it that these congressmen and all these people associate with this guy and there is zero coverage and condemnation? because if it was a republican associated with anybody similar, it would be the biggest news in the country. how is that possible? >> it is possible, sean, because these organizations are afraid to criticize a black personality like farrakhan. i didn't say he was a good personality. and then when you have black members of congress who affiliate with farrakhan, they are afraid to attack them because they don't want to be accused of being a racist. that's how they get away with it. but the thing that they don't realize is they now represent the minority minority of people who think like that. and that's probably the best news about all of this racist rhetoric tha

abc tv news cameras are on the scene to report history as it's made in this culmination of sixteen weeks of the billy graham new york crusade... what a thrilling and wonderful sight this is. i wish that those that were sharing the service by television could see what i see. [narrator] billy graham was affectionately known as america's pastor. he had quickly become a national sensation. you say, "but billy, i'm different. "i don't think religion takes with me. "i don't think i'm the kind..." [narrator] but his unlikely journey began far from the glaring lights... every afternoon billy came through the door, "mother?!" those were his first words, and i knew billy was on the premises. [narrator] as a boy growing up on a north carolina dairy farm billy's childhood was about as ordinary as it gets. (morrow graham) he read every tarzan book, and then he would go down in the woods, and he would try to act out some... [chuckling] didn't work too well. he and melvin worked on the dairy farm. melvin loved the hard work. billy frank really didn't like to do physical work. never did. (melvin graham)

who is also a senior legal correspondent and analyst for "abc news." she later clarified that she was in no way advocating violence towards the president. i don't know about that. we should also note the cohost concerns about a double standard being applied when it comes to what biden said versus the president's words. i would also know that he was talking about he would hit the president based on what the president said about women when it shows how out of touch he is with young women because i don't want anyone grabbing me and i don't want anyone hitting someone else for saying what they're going to say. i can take care of myself, thank you very much. i don't need joe biden defending me. that's besides the point. >> harris: i took it differently. i didn't take it as a vice president defending anybod anybody. it didn't seem like he was going after somebody. when people fight for relevance, sometimes these things get said. i was at that joe biden really wanted to run last time, and we covered it on this very program the day he said he wasn't running in

his tour will include a morning interview with former clinton hack turned abc's soul called journalist george stephanopoulos. he said clinton's bff and another with professional late-night trump hater stephen colbert. let's say the mainstream media can barely contain their excitement. watch this. ♪ >> james comey for the first time since he was fired by president trump is ready to tal talk. nothing is off-limits. >> i'm excited because i just found out, april 17th my guest sitting in that chair will be former fbi director james comey. [cheers and applause] that's what i said. >> sean: can you really expect stephanopoulos to ask the tough, important questions that you of the american people deserve answers to? for example, are they going to ask comey why he never investigated hillary clinton's lies? the exoneration before investigation? will the so-called journalists at abc ask comey how a seasoned independent fbi director was bullied into calling the clinton criminal investigation a matter? is colbert going to process before on why he look the other way when bill clinton come out lib

we're talking about abc, cbs, msnbc. supposed to be nonpartisan. 24 million people watch those shows a night. that's a lot. more than average for the world series. when nine out of ten stories are negative towards an administration, that is bias and broad daylight. what you have here is a president that is over 40% in the real clear politics average, over 50% in the economy on approval. >> sean: 48% in zogby, 58% in rasmussen. >> yeah. >> sean: his numbers keep going up. people are adjusting -- donald trump is different. his a disrupter. i think they like it and it will help him in the re-election. things have gotten so bad -- i've watched you battle that idiot at fake news, acosta. if they want to call him a journalist, this is the same network that we saw go dumpster diving in st. petersberg and now they went to a jail in thailand to interview a sex coach thinking they're going to crack up the trump collusion story. >> first of all, before we get off the numbers, i just want to say congratulations on the ratings. seems

so, when i heard that abc had a program where my christian faith was described as a mental illness, i thought it was important for me to speak out. not on my own behalf. we know the criticism comes with the public life. i wanted to defend the faith of millions of americans against that kind of slander. and i did so. i give joy a lot of credit. she picked up the phone. she called me. she was very sincere. and she apologized. one of the things my faith teaches me is grace. forgive as you have been forgiven. >> sean: so does mine but i'm not as good as it as you. >> vice president pence: i said of course, i forgive you. that is part of my faith experience. but i did encourage her and i am still encouraging her to use the form of the -- forum of that program or another forum to apologize to ten of millions of americans who were equally offended. >> sean: she makes me question the sincerity of it. it wasn't just a shot against you. it was against -- i'm a christian -- anybody of faith. >> vice president pence: for me, it was never about me. >> sean: understood. you don't take it personally

what's troubling about this as we are talking not about opinion shows, we are talking about abc, cbs, nbc, the nightly news, supposed to be nonpartisan, via three. 24 million people on average watch those shows a night. has influence. 24 million is a lot. it is more than the average for the world series. 1 9 out of 10 stories are negative towards an administration, that is bias in broad daylight.at what you have here is at president whose over 40% in the realclearpolitics average, over 50% on theov economy in terms of approval. how'd we get back to -- >> sean: 40% -- 49% on rasmussen, haven't checked the last couple of days, i mean, his numbers keep going up. it. seems to me that people are now adjusting, donald trump's a little different, he's a disrupter, and they are beginning to like it and i think it will help them win reelection. things have gotten so bad. i've watched you paddle that idiot over at fake news -- acosta -- if they want to call him a journalist, the same network that we saw go dumpster diving in st. petersburg and now they went to a jail in thailand to interview a

i'm happy that abc made her do it even if it was forced. i give abc a round of applause for that i didn't expect them too. brian: evidently bob iger sat down with a bunch of investors and they wanted an explanation for her comment and they basically had none. doesn't that turn around to the talent and put the pressure on her to speak up? >> i would hope. so and i would hope in the future the commentators on "the view" of all places would keep that in mind because there are probably a lot of viewers out there that happen to be christians and then, you know, to hillary's comment, white women as well. they really need to watch what they say if they want to have an audience. steve: coming up, the audience of "the view" is going to see the former fbi director james comey sitting around the coffee table as well because he is going to be out promoting his new memoir. is he going to go to the ladies of "the view" to help sell books. what do you think of that? >> he is going to go to get softball questions and get a pat on the back. these are the pe

steve: abc has not responded. she said once she was kidding. i don't think she is going to touch it with a 10-foot pole. ainsley: rush limbaugh calls it a double standard. listen to this. >> a liberal democrat is gonna talk to god and god is gonna talk back. now, isn't that what they have been making fun of mike pence for for about a week? it wa maud behar on the view. mike pence is mentally ill because jesus talks to her. as big a risk for you recall oprah winfrey a democrat to acknowledge god number one and then she says she will not move forward unless she hears from god in such a clear way that she couldn't miss it. so she's expecting god to talk to her. anybody else see the contradictions here? ainsley: several things came to mind. when i heard oprah say that i was like -- see, i love oprah. i love that she is willing to talk about that and talk about her faith. and when you watched her show, she was always so generous and talked about her faith a lot and giving away cars and everything. steve: you get a car. you get a car. ainsley: she al

telling abc news "i don't think it's a witch hunt, there is a lot there there and that's the sad truth." he says he never personally worked with anyone who is unethical including his boss and mentor roger stone. who has denied any wrongdoing. he says he is "very worried about stone." pardon my cold, it's a challenging day for me on this monday morning. what do you make of all the latest developments here? certainly seeing that this is not over. >> corey: i don't think the investigation is going to wrap up anytime soon and with the president has said, they've been willing and able to cooperate on everything the team has asked for. they've turned over emails, made people available, the team has investigated or sat down with 14, 15, 20 people that currently or have worked in the white house. that shows an unprecedented level of cooperation. i think what's been clear from everybody is that there was no collusion here. if he wants to find out, was there any collusion with the trump campaign and russia. people lied to the mueller investigators, they should be held accountable for that. we've

abc is chief correspondent treating "tillerson stood 100% against russia, that's why he got fired, because trump won't." here to discuss, howard kurtz, host of "media buzz" and author of the new book "media madness." thanks for being here, i appreciate it. these tweets are remarkable, i want to quickly run through how there has been this crazy 180 and tillerson. saying, by firing tillerson monday after stating that russia was behind the wnd attack, we now have proof trump is colluding with putin. i don't know if we did in the election, but he is doing it in front of our eyes, he is kremlin-owned, then from the right, i guess you could say trump chose putin over tillerson. >> there is another possible explanation. trump didn't get along with rex tillerson. >> ed: that would be facts that would get in the way of a narrative. >> the way tillerson was brought in, he did a lot of business, of course this is an assault, got in a big award, but as he took a harder line as secretary of state, it's like, of course. it's fascinating, journalists who never much liked tillerson because he openly disda

days after abc's "the view" joy behar was forced to do an on all apology for mocking mike pence, the mainstream media is at it a gone. now they're scoffing at larry kudlow for saying he trust god's will. we'll talk about it next. >> as larry kudlow says, it's god's will. it's spring and you're right where you want to be here's to the season that takes you there. cabela's great outdoor days, family events and amazing deals. get 20% off all in stock cabela's rods, reels and line and 25% off over 18,000 fishing lures. shop in store and online >> happy friday, everyone. more "outnumbered" in just a moment. let's get to harris on "outnumbered overtime" in just a few minutes. hi, harris. >> harris: a former assistant fbi director will join me. he will tell me what's happening as the clock ticks down on deputy director andrew mccabe. will jeff sessions fired him before his pension kicks in after decades of service and what should jeff sessions do? plus, four republican senators are calling for a second special counsel to investigate the doj and fbi. is that second special counsel necessary?

. >> ed: and reince priebus said that on abc. don't look at the zigzag, look at the results. >> i agree. the chaos stuff as been overwrought in comparison to the achievements. this, i think, is a policy that goes in the exact opposite direction. that's what worries me. it's anti-growth. it's going to hurt republicans in the elections if they follow-through on it. it just contradicts the mess single of growth. >> ed: so you think hearing the criticism, the president may back off, use it as a negotiation tactic. john cornyn in the senate said he wants this to be more surgical instead of across the board. >> that's what speaker paul ryan is trying to do, to narrow it. i take it that it's a bad thing all the time because it harms innocent people. if he can narrow it, it's good. the reason i think it's bad is it's just anti-growth. it cuts against the president's other significant achievements in the economy. >> ed: thanks, bill. >> thank you. >> ed: good to see you. >> melissa: a show of force here at home as people in colorado are a

abc news says according to sources mccabe authorized a criminal inquiry after a top democrat senator patrick leahy and al franken wrote a letter in march 2017 to the fbi urging agents to investigate. >> it may have been the case that that's what got, triggered the investigation but i don't think that was necessary. it was public debate about what jeff sessions had testified to and then also what he said in response to a letter to senator leahy on january 17. to pick up on david's point, i think the indications are president trump wants to fight this more aggressively now. if you look at the hiring of joe digenova. john dowd leaving. part of the challenge. i would argue john bolton, the addition of john bolton, even though he is the national security advisor, and wouldn't have anything necessarily to do with this, i think he's a fighter and we know the president doesn't limit his questioning or seeking advice to people who are in certain subject areas. if you are in front of him, he's going to ask your advice about what ever is on his mind. >> shannon: he was asked on the way out of t

laura: silence like a cancer grows was written, and the sound of silence is all we are hearing from abc after the network was bombarded with more than 30,000 complaints about joy behar's comments about christians. the immediate research center organize the protest against "the view" host. she mocked the christian faith of mike pence earlier this month after a discussion with her cohost. >> i don't want that i want -- know that i want my vice president speaking in tong. >> like i said before, it's one thing to talk to jesus, it's another thing when jesus talks to you. that's mental illness, if i'm not correct. >> laura: hence called out nbc for giving a platform to mental intolerance and for supporting a show that compared christianity to mental illness. critics have said "review" should no longer fall under nbc's news division, but nbc news and its parent company, disney, have yet to respond to the complaints of their own viewers. for a business dependent on the family, many of them christian, this seems like the definition of a mental illness, if you ask me. in the meantime, joy, we ar

that's at abc it. has been a big hit. another middle class family and go to church and love each other, no matter their dysfunction. who can forget, i loved "everybody loves raymond." that ran for nine hilarious seasons. remember tim allen in the "last man standing" which was curiously canceled last summer, despite that it out performed on friday nights. it too skewed conservative. let's face to. for too long many of you have felt increasingly isolated from the popular culture. because the popular culture seems to have nothing but ridicule and distain for you. so not surprisingly there was a pinned up yearning for the type of show that rows ann bar produced. real families. real problems. and real intrafamily political divide to provide real laughter. will the huge success of "roseanne" expect we can see similar efforts at other networks? i wouldn't hold your breath. over the years i've had the chance to meet some of the folks, whose job it is to green light these series. they actually admit that they have alienated a wide

abc news quoting anonymous sources who said mccabe months ago oversaw criminal probe of weather sessions made false statements, a leak that seemed designed to question if this influenced passions' decision to terminate mccabe friday night for ironically leaking and lying. the key for sessions that it appears the investigation of him is over. people note the removal of mccabe was all about the fbi's own office of professional responsibility saying that mccabe had to go. sentiment the fbi director christopher wray seemed to endorse today in an interview. >> i am committed to doing things objectively and independently and buy the book. that has to extend not just to our investigation, intelligence analysis but also has to extend to personal decisions. >> officials made clear tonight president trump is livid about a separate leak of details of his phone call with vladimir putin. white house chief of staff john kelly thought he had weeded out the leakers but we are told he's frustrated, deeply disappointed, because clearly they still have at least one wall inside the white house. they are par

fox news alert, live pictures near the white house right now, picture courtesy of friends at abc, it appears park in north lawn, a lot of police activity there. this was what was essentially pennsylvania afl, reports of shots being fired and we emphasize that there were reports of. there's no verification for police or anyone else that shots were actually fired, we are told that they are sheltering in place in the white house briefing room, part of that has bullet proof windows and in typical secret service form, they cleared out all of the pedestrians from that area that you see there in lafayette park and clear any time there's suspicious activity. this obviously as you can see a little bit and secret service and also washington fire department, fire rescue there as well, nobody seems all that concern, you don't see people running with rifles as we have seen in the past, for example, when the car crashed into a barricade. so reports of shots fired in the white house, no confirmation that shots were fired. we will monitor this and continue to check with secret service contacts and f