That in just four months, the first presidential debate will be held.

And both parties right now, pretty chaotic. Are they not? It's not focused at all. And the Fox News

settlement yesterday will influence how the presidential primaries will unfold, and that is the subject

of this evening's Talking Points memo.

So we did a search to find out if any news organization, one, said anything positive about Fox News

yesterday, the answer is no.

A hundred percent of the news coverage was negative.

So I got a letter from Dan Schmidt, who lives in East Hampton, New York.

He says, just wondering if this settlement will have any lasting impact on the Republican Party primary or the presidential

election of 2024. It's an excellent question, Dan. So the answer is yes, it will, because

Fox News is going to be distracted. There's another lawsuit coming up, Smartmatic, and I'll get into that. It's not nearly what this is. The Smartmatic lawsuit is much smaller. But Newsmax has to go through Dominion, and that's the other conservative channel. And O-A-N-N is there, but that doesn't reach very many people anymore.

So anyway, I talked about the impact, the presidential impact of this whole thing with Doug

shown yesterday. Roll the tape. Yeah, but it's his polarizing point of view that I still think

he could adjust to, but without, you know, the Fox News machine

behind him, and I don't think most people have taken this into consideration. Trump loses

a lot of power. He does, but his ability to communicate, Bill, using alternative channels of communication, has been second to none.

I say in my book, Power, that he controls the dialogue every day, whether it be Twitter, truth, social, whatever.

Okay. Now, the management of Fox News does not support Donald Trump for president. However, some of the so-called talent, the host, the pundits, still do.

And I don't expect them to be silenced. They're not going to do that.

However, the amount of time devoted to Trump and his rallies and all of that will be severely cut down.

In 2016, Fox News Channel and all the other news agencies on television gave Trump an amazing amount of exposure because

he was a ratings driver. He drove the ratings up. I was there. I mean, I saw it right

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