Sideshow. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is facing a mutiny once again.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is the Speaker of the House. He was the former 2012 vice presidential nominee to perennial loser Mitt Romney. He knows what losing feels like.
Today, he knows the game's over for Republican nominee Donald Trump.
He said he will no longer campaign with Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He says that he will focus on keeping the House and Senate in Republican hands. He knows that the impact of Trump's words could damage their chances to hold onto the Congress.
Ryan on phone conference said, the Republicans "need to do what's best for their district."
Ryan pissed off the conservative members of the House. Some have called Ryan spineless and a "fucktard" for not backing the nominee.
"I am willing to endure political pressure to help protect our majority."
It seems like the House majority is at risk of being rattled by Trump's campaign.
The move -- highly unusual in US political history -- laid bare the seemingly intractable divisions now seizing the Republican Party with a month left before the presidential vote. Support for Trump among the GOP establishment, already weak amid disagreements over policy and tone, has now eroded to new lows.
Ryan joins a number of many other Republicans angry over the whole Trump ordeal. The tape were offensive and disturbing and it put a major dent in the Republican nominee's campaign.
Rumors are flying that Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence might abandon ship. They flatly denied the rumors of them leaving the campaign.
Looks like Donald Trump isn't taking this one lightly. He went to Twitter to call upon Republicans to denounce Ryan and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). He called upon Republicans to not support those who refuse to support him.
Paul Ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee
Paula Jones along with Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathy Shelton were attending the second debate. Donald Trump wanted to give Bill Clinton a reminder of his past. He wanted to take Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton off her game.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would have been greeted by Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick. It was stopped by the debate commission. The goal was to intimidate Clinton and embarrass her husband by sitting women who accused former president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse in the Trump family's box at the presidential debate. The Donald Trump Presidential Campaign was determined to get Clinton off her game.
Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was unaware of the plan.
This was clearly a move pushed by Stephen K. Bannon, New York Observer's editor and son-in-law Jared Kushner and Sean "Softball" Hannity. Trump gave them the greenlight.
The attempt to bring Clinton's accusers into the prime seats was to rattle him. Cause in the family box, the Trumps would shake hands with the Clintons.
Conservative agitator Rudy Giuliani was hoping to have a moment in the sun.
"We were going to put the four women in the VIP box. We had it all set. We wanted to have them shake hands with Bill, to see if Bill would shake hands with them."
Frank J. Fahrenkopf the debate commission's co-chairman a former GOP chair said, "Hell no!"
He said if Trump brought these women into the family box, they would be removed from the venue.
"[But] we pulled it because we were going to have a big incident on national TV. Frank Fahrenkopf stopped us, and we weren't going to have a fight on national TV with the commission to start the debate," said Giuliani.
The women, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, and Kathy Shelton were seated with the audience. They were no where close to the former president.
The desperate internet creeper Matt Drudge splashes this on front page today.
When Martha Raddatz questioned Trump on his infamous audio recording, he reacted by blaming Bill Clinton.
TRUMP: It was locker room talk, as I told you. That was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country. And certainly, I'm not proud of it. But that was something that happened.
If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse. Mine are words, and his was action. His was what he's done to women. There's never been anybody in the history politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.
Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously. Four of them here tonight. One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years old, was raped at 12. Her client she represented got him off, and she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. Kathy Shelton, that young woman is here with us tonight.
So don't tell me about words. I am absolutely -- I apologize for those words. But it is things that people say. But what President Clinton did, he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law. He had to pay an $850,000 fine to one of the women. Paula Jones, who's also here tonight.
And I will tell you that when Hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago, I think it's disgraceful, and I think she should be ashamed of herself, if you want to know the truth.
It appears that Clinton brushed off Trump when he landed the attack on her.
CLINTON: Well, first, let me start by saying that so much of what he's just said is not right, but he gets to run his campaign any way he chooses. He gets to decide what he wants to talk about. Instead of answering people's questions, talking about our agenda, laying out the plans that we have that we think can make a better life and a better country, that's his choice.
When I hear something like that, I am reminded of what my friend, Michelle Obama, advised us all: When they go low, you go high.
And, look, if this were just about one video, maybe what he's saying tonight would be understandable, but everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point about whether or not the man in the video or the man on the stage respects women. But he never apologizes for anything to anyone.
CLINTON: He never apologized to Mr. and Mrs. Khan, the Gold Star family whose son, Captain Khan, died in the line of duty in Iraq. And Donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion.
He never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who was born in Indiana, but Donald said he couldn't be trusted to be a judge because his parents were, quote, "Mexican."
He never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television and our children were watching. And he never apologized for the racist lie that President Obama was not born in the United States of America. He owes the president an apology, he owes our country an apology, and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words.
After that exchange, it was over. No more mentions about it. Conservatives were hoping Trump kept the heat on her. It didn't turn out that way. Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick weren't happy about the outcome.
"The women were outraged," said Giuliani. "They were in the holding room and ready to go. No one was pushing them. They volunteered. But I knew the minute we got pushback that we had gotten into their heads. [Hillary Clinton] was rattled. They were rattled."
Desperation in the Trump campaign. Today's bitch move was Trump bringing in the mistress and accusers of Bill Clinton to intimidate Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
The leaks of Trump's dirty mouth has Republicans fleeing en masse.
Donald Trump goes low and is willing to take Republicans down with him.
The debate which starts tonight. At Washington University in St. Louis, Trump and Clinton will go after each other once again.
Trump decided to bring Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, and Paula Jones along with Donald, Jr and Eric Trump. He has them in front row.
Reince Priebus considered pulling the funding from Trump. Mike Pence is on the fence. He may end his run as vice presidential nominee.
Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz moderate the debate.
The bro code. Billy Bush was placed in the freezer after being the second banana in Trump's crap shake.
In a stunning move, Billy Bush was placed in the freezer. Under the condition of anonymity, the network put the brakes on the NBC News host. The host of Today was the second banana in the infamous Donald Trump tapes.
A memo went out Sunday announcing this freeze pending further review.
He joined Today two months in.
The 2005 tape was made when Bush was a reporter on Access Hollywood. He was in the ride with Trump heading to the set of a soap opera. In the tape, Trump brags about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife. Bush, joins in, laughing at some of Trump's comments and later encouraging an actress to hug Trump.
Bush had a brief conflict with Al Roker in Brazil. When Ryan Lochte pulled a bitch move, Bush defended him. Roker got angry and let him have it. Lochte and three of the American swimmers lied about being jacked in Rio.
The Access Hollywood tape was an embarrassment on multiple levels for NBC News. The news division for days had been aware of the tape from the NBC-owned entertainment show, but was scooped Friday by the Washington Post when the newspaper was tipped off about its existence.
Today had many other scandals in its time.
Look at the Jenna Wolf mess and the Ann Curry mess. Those were some real issues that drove Today down the crapper.
Bush is a nephew of 41. Bush is cousin to W. and Jeb. His first cousin Jenna Hager is a reporter for NBC News. Her sister Barbara endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
Bush was then a correspondent to Access Hollywood.
Trump hugs his campaign around Bill Clinton's former mistress and accusers.
Desperation in the Donald Trump presidential campaign. The Access Hollywood leak has riled up the Republican and now he's decided to hit back. He's bringing the ghost of the past to taunt Hillary Clinton.
Bill Clinton's alleged mistress Gennifer Flowers will be there along with Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones. The embattled Republican did a presser with the women. He wants to get under the skin by bringing up allegations of Hillary Clinton trashing on these accusers.
Also, Kathy Shelton, a woman who was involved in a rape case as a child in which Hillary Clinton defended the accused rapist.
Trump has decided to throw everything at the Democratic nominee.
He's taking the advice of Stephen Bannon, Roger Stone and Sean "Softball" Hannity. He wants to make 42's past Clinton's problems. In order to rile up the conservatives, he'll bring up Bill Clinton's infidelities.
The debate's tonight and many are either scratching their heads.
Is Trump doing the right thing?
Nonetheless, the Clinton campaign said, "Bring it!"
"We're not surprised to see Donald Trump continue his destructive race to the bottom. Hillary Clinton understands the opportunity in this town hall is to talk to voters on stage and in the audience about the issues that matter to them, and this stunt doesn't change that. If Donald Trump doesn't see that, that's his loss. As always, she's prepared to handle whatever Donald Trump throws her way," said Communication director Jennifer Palmieri.
The Republicans are panicking. Donald Trump really fucked up!
He is going into Sunday's debate a wounded candidate. The Republican nominee got hit with his own words. He said some derogatory comments about an Access Hollywood reporter. It was revealed that then host Nancy O'Dell was the person Trump was talking about.
Now prominent Republicans are denouncing him and some are calling for him to exit stage right.
Not Conceding.
Trump refuses to concede. He warns that the gloves are off and he will play on Bill Clinton's affairs at the townhall debate. He will focus on Hillary Clinton's emails and the status quo.
Trump slams the junk food media for ignoring the Clinton email document drop. In reality, it wasn't ignored. Wikileaks obtained emails from John Podesta, Clinton's top political strategist.
Some of the emails have Clinton talking about her positions and how much she was paid for these speeches to Wall Street. Democrats and the intelligence community blame Russia for the leaks.
Podesta dismissed the leaks. He said that the emails are altered. Most Democrats aren't concerned about the emails. They're concerned about the nasty comments made by Trump.
Bill Clinton on the campaign trail was heckled by a person. The person shouted "rapist" and the audience booed him. Clinton wasn't even fazed by the comments. T he protester was removed.
Desperation hits the conservatives. The struggling Matt Drudge links a partial video of President Barack Obama talking to members of the Harvard Business Review. He reads quotes from Black leaders and Drudge posts "Gotta have them ribs and pussy tool" on the link.
Of course, the Republicans are falling flat on their face.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) was heckled by the protesters. He disinvited Trump from the annual picnic of Republicans, Pence also took a pass on the event. He went to Indianapolis to regroup.
Trump is imploding and he's gonna take Republicans with him.
Republicans will have to cut ties to Trump, The Drudge Report, Fox News, old fart Rush Limbaugh and Sean "Softball" Hannity. They're too damn toxic to the party. If they continue to listen, read or stay stuck in a bubble, prepare for more losses in the future.
HILLARY CLINTON'S CHANCES AT WINNING THE PRESIDENCY IS NOW 80%.
Donald Trump didn't expect this one to happen. Fresh off a week of mishaps comes the "October Surprise". An audio recording from 2005 features Trump talking to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush.
Trump on hot mic talks dirty about women in such a vulgar way, it may have put some major damage to his campaign.
BOOM. The Trump tapes may have doomed him.
Trump on a bus describes his attempts to seduce a woman who's full name is not given in the video.
The Washington Post delivered a major shock to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign.
David Fahrenthold is now getting protection in the wake of him reporting on the audio. The audio is released and it's a doozy.
Bush and Trump arrive on the set of Days of Our Lives to tape a segment of the soap opera. Trump was to do a cameo appearance on the show. In the audio, Trump said, "I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it."
"Whoa," another voice aid. "Whoa my man!".
"I did try and fuck her. She was married," said Trump.
Trump continues on: "And I move on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, 'I'll show you where they have some nice furniture.'"
"I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look."
At that point, Trump and Bush appear to notice Arianne Zucker, the actress who was to take them to the set of the soap opera.
Shit just got real.
"Your girl's hot as shit, in the purple," said Bush. The celebrity agitator is a host on NBC's Today.
"Whoa!" Trump says. "Whoa!"
"I've got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful --- I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait," said Trump.
"And when you're a star, they let you do it," said Trump. "You can do anything."
"Whatever you want," said Bush.
"Grab them by the pussy," says Trump. "You can do anything."
It got worse. Trump gets a rise out of one of the women on the set.
"Oh, nice legs, huh?" Trump says.
Billy Bush is in some deep shit right now. He may have inadvertently ruined Trump's presidential campaign.
"Oof, get out the way, honey," says Bush apparently blocking the view of Zucker.
The two exit the bus and greet Zucker.
"We're ready, let's go," Trump says. "Make me a soap star."
"How about a little hug for the Donald?" says Bush. "He just got off the bus."
"Would you like a hug, darling?" Zucker says.
"Absolutely," says Trump. As they embrace and air kiss, Trump says, "Melania said this was okay."
Trump and Zucker would appear on the show. Zucker's character is asking Trump for a job at his business and tells him suggestively, "I think you'll find I'm a very willing employee. Working under you, I think, could be mutually beneficial."
Trump gives her a brush off.
"That's an interesting proposition," Trump says on-screen."I'll get back to you."
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee was pissed and he condemned the Republican nominee for this. "No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever," Priebus said in a statement.
Running mate Mike Pence kicked the press out when he got a private call from the campaign.
Clinton slammed Trump. On social media. Clinton said that the comments and remarks were "horrific" and she said that this man should never be the president.
NBC News and NBC Universal haven't commented on the situation but it's clear that Billy Bush is getting loaded into the cannon. He quickly apologized.
Trump said, hell this is locker room talk.
"This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago." Trump said in a statement Friday. "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course --- not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended."
As we are heading to Sunday's debate, Trump is doing damage control over this. He may have sealed his fate.
By the way, Wikileaks done a document drop on Hillary Clinton. Some of leaks include transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street.
O.G. mic drop. Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show rips apart Bill O'Reilly and Jesse Watters for an offensive skit about Chinese Americans.
Got to give it up to the folks over at The Daily Show, they see "bullshit" and their pointing it out!
Trevor Noah and Ronny Chieng lay into Bill O'Reilly and Jesse Watters for doing an offensive segment on The O'Reilly Factor. Watters who regularly ambushes people on the street once again had an opportunity to head to New York City's Chinatown to do a man on the street with older citizens who weren't following the U.S. Presidential Election.
Watters also did a handful of racial stereotypes of Asians.
"Is it the year of the dragon? Rabbit?"
"Do they call Chinese food in China just 'food?'"
"Do you know karate?"
Watch the video here.
The skit fell flat. Now Watters and his producer somewhat apologized for the skit.
But the apology wasn't sincere and it was up to Noah and Chieng to set the record straight.
"Everyone's been wondering who'd be the target for the year’s worst racism," Chieng said. "I didn't even know Asians were in the running."
Fool one.
Chieng, a comedian of Chinese descent raised in Malaysia, said he's especially angry that Watters relied on references to Pat Morita's "Miyagi" character from the original "Karate Kid" movie for laughs.
"That's like me making fun of America for "Saturday Night Fever and Mr. T.," Chieng said. "Real topical stuff, buddy."
Chieng isn't saying Asians can't be the targets of humor, but he wants to raise the bar.
"If you want to come at Chinese people, make fun of China's high pollution or the fact they censor most of the internet which, in this case, is a good thing, since no person in China will have to watch your garbage attempt at comedy."
Chieng also pointed out that karate isn't Chinese. Watters was doing a routine spar with a martial arts trainer.
Chieng actually went to New York's Chinatown to meet with the citizens. He shows the video and asked them questions about Watters and O'Reilly's attempt at interviewing.
It was brutal.
For his part, Watters was promoted to host his own show on the weekend.
Watters was involved in a spat with The Huffington Post this year. At the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, HuffPost chief Ryan Grim and reporter Amanda Terkel confronted Watters at a party. Watters ambushed Terkel on her vacation with her family and she wanted him to apologize for it. Grim records him on his iPhone and Watters got angry. Watters snatched his phone and then they get into a shoving matching. Grim's phone was damaged and Watters refused to apologize for the encounter.
As we enter the final weeks of the U.S. presidential election, the September's job report release makes strives. The month gave us 156,000 jobs. It also ticked the unemployment rate to 5 percent. It's starting to cool off again.
Once again, the jobs report becomes a partisan event. The conservatives will always deny the economy is improving. They will calculate the half truths about the 95 million Americans aren't working.
Americans are losing their homes to the wildfires, tornadoes, floods, and the looming Hurricane Matthew. Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States. Service jobs are stressing the working class. Wage theft and lots of Americans being overworked is an issue that conservatives ignore.
The reasons to why conservatives ignore the real reasons for 95 million people not working.
1. BIRTH 2. DEATH 3. RETIREMENT 4. FIRED OUT THE CANNON (LAID OFF/FIRED FROM JOB) 5. QUITTING A JOB FOR A NEW JOB 6. UNDER 16 (NOT OF WORKING AGE) 7. STAY AT HOME PARENT 8. DISABLED 9. COLLEGE STUDENT STUDYING 10. IN THE IRON COLLEGE (PRISON)
Okay, if you're seriously believing that 95 million people aren't working (just because), then you're a Donald Trump and Mike Pence supporter. If you choose to not factor the obvious reasons as mentioned above, you're obviously a listener of agitators like that old fart Rush Limbaugh, Sean "Softball" Hannity and readers of that internet creeper Matt Drudge.
Yes, people are searching for the "right" job. There are plenty of jobs out there. Some are willing and some are giving up. It's a part of real world.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected employers to add 175,000 jobs last month.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said the economy needs to create less than 100,000 jobs a month to keep up with population growth.Average monthly job gains have been about 180,000 this year, which Yellen has described as “unsustainable.”
The unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.0 percent last month, though the increase was driven by Americans rejoining the labor force.
Friday’s employment report will be the last before the Fed’s Nov. 1-2 policy meeting. Investors see almost no chance of a rate increase at that meeting given how close it is to the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Yellen said last month that the Fed will likely raise rates once this year, but prices on fed funds futures suggest just above even odds the hike will come at the Fed’s last policy meeting for the year in December.
Hourly wages for private sector workers rose 2.6 percent in September from the same month a year earlier, in line with economists’ expectations. The annual growth rate has shown signs of accelerating over the last year although it remains slower than before the 2007-2009 recession.
Three Fed policymakers voted for a hike last month when the Fed kept rates steady. However, Friday’s data could boost the case of Fed policymakers who have vocally defended a go-slow approach to rate increases.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused the Fed of playing politics by holding rates low, a charge Yellen and other Fed policymakers have denied.
Trump has also made reversing job losses at U.S. factories a central campaign promise. Manufacturing employment fell by 13,000 jobs in September and the sector has shed jobs in three of the last five months.
At the same time, the job market on balance continues to firm, even if at a slower pace, which could be an asset for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who has argued that President Barack Obama, also a Democrat, has helped the economy.
The Fed lifted its benchmark overnight interest rate at the end of last year for the first time in nearly a decade, but has held it steady so far this year amid concerns over persistently low inflation.
There's a viral video online of a mom being pissed off at Def Jam's Vince Staples. The Long Beach rapper got Krystle Partido's attention. The mom from Oklahoma was ranting for 11 minutes about the rapper's song. She heard the song on a local radio station and she got emotional about this song.
"Norf Norf" just got more attention. I haven't heard the song but I will give it some attention.
Staples's Summertime '06 was released as a double album. It was released in June 2015 and it was critically acclaimed.
"I cannot believe this stuff is on the radio." She called the rapper's song "crap". Then she starts tearing up about it.
She reads the lyrics and said the N-word.
The online community went after her. She got death threats and criticism for attacking an entertainer.
However, one vital person in the mother’s corner is Staples himself. He’s saying that people online should respect an opinion that’s different from their own.
"I don't really have much to say about the video — I don't think it's funny at all," Staples told The Independent on Wednesday. "It's not right to attack someone over their stance, their opinions, and their religion. I think that's very immature."
Rapper appreciates the concern. He didn't condemn Oklahoma mom. He actually praised her.
In the mother's recording, she describes the 2015 track as "crap" and says that the lyrics infuriated her. "I remember listening to the top hits as a kid," she says. "You know Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, and N'SYNC. Those were the top hits when I was a kid. Nowadays it's not the same, not the same at all."
She admitted that the curse words were removed from the track but encouraged fellow parents to pay attention to music their children are listening to.
"I'm raising four little girls and that just breaks my heart," she says while sobbing. "I tell you right now, music has a strong influence on our children. I normally never listen to that radio station, it's almost like I was meant to hear to let you guys know about it."
To be clear, "Norf Norf" depicts the harsh reality of growing up on the north side of Long Beach, where folks have nothing productive to do but gangbang—a problem Staples has tried to remedy by investing in youth programs in the area.
Oklahoma mom cries over Vince Staples song.
Still, Staples believes that the negative reaction to the mother's video underscores a deeper problem in the states.
"We already have a lot of issues between black and white relations in this country based on misunderstandings," Staples continued. "In my eyes, she doesn't look like a racist. She doesn't look like a mean person. It's not very responsible for people to try to take that and jump, looking for some sort of commentary on these issues."
"It's just not right that’s she’s being attacked—it’s not okay."
Partido was surprised when the rapper gave her praise. She was thankful that the rapper appreciated her stance and hope they could one day meet and talk about it.
Staples has often talked about his life in Long Beach and the violence he grew up in. He works at community centers when he's not rapping.
The fallout of Roger Ailes. The former CEO of Fox News was accused by Gretchen Carlson and Andrea Tantaros of sexual harassment. He continues to deny the accusations and the folks over at 21st Century Fox had promptly fire him out the cannon. Now he is an informal advisor to the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
The person who brought him down was unexpected. It was Megyn Kelly.
Kelly is getting mad props from liberals and conservatives for standing up to a culture of corruption at Fox News. She was a victim of Ailes' sexual harassment and was pretty pissed that he didn't stand up against Trump when he was dogging on her.
There been a feud for years between Kelly and the softball. It's been mostly subliminal. Now that Ailes is gone and Trump is tanking, the feud is now out in the open.
The softball got pissed when Kelly said that Trump needs to get out of the bubble.
Kelly said this on her show yesterday.
"Donald Trump, with all due respect to my friend at 10 o'clock, will go on Hannity and pretty much only Hannity and will not venture out to the unsafe spaces these days, which doesn't exactly expand the tent for either one of them. There. That's my two cents."
Well the softball was not happy about that comment. He went to social media to blast Kelly.
Mind you that Kelly has went after Clinton constantly for them goddamn emails. She basically tried to "whitesplain" police brutality to comedian D.L. Hughley. Kelly has hosted extremists like Wisconsin sheriff David Clarke on her show. She said that Jesus and Santa Claus are White and everyone "knows" that.
Kelly has been pretty brutal to liberals and Democrats. She is in no way voting for Donald Trump.
Oops, I meant Hillary Clinton.
When someone told the softball to stand by his colleagues for the sake of his network, the softball scoffed.
In 2013, Sean "Softball" Hannity was demoted from his 9pm spot. Kelly took his spot and he's pretty pissed off about this. He lost his spot after his ratings started tanking after President Barack Obama winning his reelection.
Donald Trump enjoys a game of softball. He never loses.
When Trump finished his first national debate between his challenger Hillary Clinton, he quickly went over to the softball for an impromptu post debate interview. Kelly made a snide comment about it.
"We've got Trump speaking to our Sean Hannity. We'll see whether he speaks to the journalists in this room after that interview, let's listen."
Right now, the softball is enjoying some healthy ratings for the time being. When Trump's on that right wing carnival, the softball gets a boost. Because he's the only source for Trump. Trump enjoys playing softball. He's had over 60 interviews with the softball.
It would be over 130 interviews if you throw in Trump kids, Ivanka, Eric, Donald, Jr., Mike Pence and pollster/campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.