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Krystal Ball highlights leaked text messages showing Senator John Fetterman canceled a meeting with three disabled Pennsylvania veterans to appear on Fox News. Fetterman also complained about meeting with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia over vaccine and Medicaid cuts.
Fox News fired anchor Maria Bartiromo for leaking a corporate executive's text message to senior White House officials. Dylan Byers reports the leaked text explicitly barred Bartiromo from broadcasting a segment on Chinese interference in the 2020 election.
Anchor Maria Bartiromo has departed Fox News after a twelve-year tenure at the network. Rumors suggest Bartiromo is under consideration to serve as the White House Press Secretary for the incoming administration.
Donald Trump threatened on Fox News to wipe out Iran if conflict escalates a third time. Emily Jashinsky notes that despite the US-Israeli assassination of the Ayatollah, Iranian domestic solidarity has grown rather than triggering a revolution.
Abdul El-Sayed's combative Fox News appearance with Jesse Watters showcased the left-populist strategy of redirecting cultural questions to economic issues. However, Emily Jashinsky argues that El-Sayed's failure to provide direct answers on transgender sports and gender transition alienated the very voters he targeted.
During his Fox News interview, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed compared infant circumcision to gender-affirming castration. Emily Jashinsky warns this unpolished response will damage his campaign on social media, making him appear unserious to swing voters.
Fox News has launched a media campaign to defend the AI industry, comparing data center water usage to local restaurants and framing opposition as far-left nimbyism. Krystal Ball disputes this, pointing out that AI training data centers consume millions of gallons of water.
Fox News contributor Joey Jones drew fierce criticism from Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti after he berated USS Lincoln sailors for complaining about degraded food and water quality.
Saagar Enjeti highlights a Fox News broadcast error that falsely inflated last year's average gas price to minimize public anger over current four-dollar-a-gallon prices.
Trump told Fox News that Iran should surrender and threatened to bomb Oman if it interferes with regional waters. Additionally, Trump blamed the Biden administration for depleting US air defenses by transferring advanced military hardware to Ukraine.
Travis Barker owns a collection of 12 classic cars, including a 1959 Impala and a 1960 Cadillac. For his daily driver, Travis Barker uses a custom 700-horsepower Chevy Silverado built by Fox Factory.
Tucker Carlson claims that individuals connected to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approached Fox News to shop Hunter Biden's leaked digital files. Carlson alleges these Israeli sources specifically pushed false claims that the files contained minor abuse.
In his second term, Trump's government operates with a small inner circle, bypassing traditional interagency processes. Maggie Haberman notes his primary information source is Natalie Harp, who provides constant positive reinforcement, while Fox News has become significantly less critical.
Joe Rogan recalls Oliver North's Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s and the irony of his later role as a Fox News war analyst, noting those who "got it wrong" often received promotions.
Independent creators are thriving; Substack grew fivefold since 2021, and Tucker Carlson's interview with Donald Trump garnered nearly a quarter-billion views, 80 times his Fox audience.
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak discussed Anna Merlin's book "Republic of Lies," which traces conspiracy theories from fringe sites to Fox News and then directly to the president, suggesting state-backed disinformation aims to create information chaos and make objective truth unknowable.
Saagar cites a Fox News poll indicating Democrats lead the Iowa Senate race and have gained trust on key issues: an 11-point lead on inflation (from R+13 to D+10), a 9-point lead on the economy (from R+15 to D+9, highest since 2006), and a 1-point lead on immigration (from R+15 to D+1).
Fox News projected the Senate as a toss-up, with control likely decided by races in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, and Maine; Sherrod Brown led Ohio by 0.6% in RealClearPolitics polling.
Fox News projected Democrats to win the House, with 16 toss-up seats, and showed Democrats leading Republicans by 4% on the generic ballot, a 5-point swing from 2024.
Saagar notes the Iran war is the least popular in polling history, reaching this level faster than the Vietnam War. However, approximately 30% of the country, primarily Fox News viewers in Trump's base, still support the conflict.
Fox News avoided airing Trump’s election speech live and later qualified its reporting, citing legal concerns after the Dominion lawsuits.
Trump stated on Fox and Friends that the US will take over the Strait of Hormuz and that Iran will be forced to reimburse the US for its control.
Fox News host Jackie Heinrich's husband, Brian Fitzpatrick, has received $924,000 from pro-Israel PACs, the most in the Pennsylvania delegation according to Track A PAC.
Kevin O'Leary falsely accused Utah data center opponents, including Elevate Strategies and Gabby Finlayson, of being Chinese-funded, leading to Fox News issuing multiple on-air retractions and apologies.
Steve Hilton, endorsed by Donald Trump, is a former top advisor to David Cameron who moved to California, became a US citizen, and hosted a Fox News show before running for governor.
Rufo identifies a problematic split between the 'institutional right' (e.g., Fox News, think tanks) that gatekeeps harmful tendencies, and an 'online right' consumed by conspiracy and 'psychopathology,' exemplified by Candace Owens. He tweeted this threatens to turn the audience into a 'third-world click farm.'
Ezra Klein argues that Tucker Carlson, while at Fox News, injected a 'white national strain' into the Republican Party, promoting 'great replacement theory' ideas and influencing figures like Scott Greer, who claimed Carlson was 'on our side.' Rufo denies Carlson laundered white nationalist talking points.
Donald Trump threatened Iranian negotiators in a Fox News interview, saying 'you won't even make it back to your effing country' and later posted on Truth Social that the US would 'hit Iran very hard again' if its proxies in Lebanon cause trouble, nearly causing Iran to walk out of the talks.