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On Thursday's Fox & Friends, the hosts played snippets of Andrew McCabe's FISA interview on CNN and ripped him for trying to blame everybody else, with guest Brett Tolman, a former federal prosecutor.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer offered some negative bluster on FISA abuse, but CNN analyst Andrew McCabe professed that errors on his watch as deputy director of the FBI were "shocking and horrifying," but their "biggest mistake" was letting the lowel levels botch of the Bureau botch it up.
On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, they offered a ten-second blip on the FISA judge's harsh rebuke of the FBI in their "Eye Opener" video package at the start of the show. That was it. Nothing on ABC. Nothing on NBC.
On Tuesday's The View, Meghan McCain was not accepting the idea that former McCain campaign aides Steve Schmidt and John Weaver should be accepted as moralists in the impeachment fiasco.
On Tuesday's The View, Sunny Hostin touted a New York Times op-ed by four "Republicans" -- three of whom proclaimed they left the party. Meghan McCain was not a fan of several of these former McCain aides.
On Meet the Press, NBC reporter Heidi Pryzbyla sounded in sync with the Democrats on how tremendously weighty this impeachment is as a historical marker: "This president is about to become the first president, in the history of this nation, who will be impeached for violating one of the Founders' most primal fears, which is inviting formal involvement into our elections. We all saw it."
CBS News "embeds" -- reporters following the primary campaigns in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina -- tell CBS correspondent Major Garrett on his podcast The Takeout that impeachment almost never comes up -- at Democrat candidate events!
On his Saturday show, CNN host Michael Smerconish nudged CNN analyst/losing Florida gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum that the Conservative landslide in Britain could herald a bad election for the American Democrats in 2020. Gillum threw gallons of cold water on the notion, even suggesting Trump has done nothing for red-state voters on the economy. He sold them a "bill of bads."
Olivia Nuzzi of New York magazine gave CNN's Brian Stelter exactly what he wanted on Reliable Sources. She compared the Democrat messaging to Republican messaging during impeachment. "It's like comparing a Ken Burns documentary to 'The Wizard of Oz.' One side is dealing with facts. One side cares about what actually happened and that is what they're talking about. And the other side is kind of…
CNBC's Jim Cramer was effusive about the state of the American economy under Trump on Friday's Squawk Box. He said at networks like CNN, "people don't want to say good things" even though the new Labor Department report contains "the best number I've ever seen in my life!"