The ongoing battle between the President and the Press establishes legal benchmarks for how power is shared between the executive branch and the news media.
"We try our best to respect the game and showcase and display it in a fashion that might be a little bit more appetizing for a different group of people that are watching alongside the best play commentators on Earth."
All three Fox News Channel prime time programs — Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle — from Aug. 8 each drew audiences well above their regularly potent levels.
"The FBI -- somebody at the FBI/DOJ -- gets ahold of their media friends. 'Let me send a quick text message. No we didn't, he's lying!' Media immediately begins to run with the story."
The biggest example of hysterical reaction, according to O'Reilly, came from longtime ABC News reporter Sam Donaldson, who compared Trump to Al Capone.
"We try our best to respect the game and showcase and display it in a fashion that might be a little bit more appetizing for a different group of people that are watching alongside the best play commentators on Earth."