Brian Stelter Explores White Houses Unprecedented Alliance With Fox News in Hoax

Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 9 a.m.

b'To CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, President Trump\\u2019s ongoing, mutually-reinforcing alliance with Fox News gained permanent traction in January 2017. That was when Trump, enraged over CNN\\u2019s coverage of his sparse inauguration crowd, found refuge in sympathetic reporting from Fox News. Stelter says from that point on, the network became Trump\\u2019s \\u201chumiliation-free zone\\u201d and his chief source of information. As detailed in Stelter\\u2019s new book \\u201cHoax,\\u201d it also marked the start of an alliance in which Trump and Fox worked together to cast the rest of American media as \\u201cfake.\\u201d Stelter joins us to talk about what he uncovered about the evolution and impact of the Trump-Fox partnership.'