福克斯新闻主持人布赖恩·基尔米德周六表示，媒体对唐纳德·特朗普总统弹劾听证会的报道只不过增强了他的支持者的决心。
基尔米德是周日早间节目的常客，《福克斯和朋友们》他周六早上在另一个福克斯新闻节目上发表了这番言论，沃特斯的世界。基尔米德的话，据报道中间石这是对主持人杰西·沃特斯声明的回应，他说公民不相信他们从媒体听到的关于弹劾的消息。
基尔米德说:“问题是，杰西，他们不像我们那样跟踪[的弹劾案。“我们每天都跟着它。”
此外，基尔米德说，在他的全国旅行中，宣传他的新书，萨姆·休斯顿&阿拉莫复仇者联盟他发现，他与之交谈的人对总统的看法并没有因为弹劾听证会而改变。
“我去了俄克拉荷马州、内布拉斯加州、得克萨斯州、[，但是]他们没有跟上，”他说。“这样他们就不会心烦意乱了。他们没有改变主意。事实上，在他们看来，这让特朗普的支持者更加坚定。这让矛盾的特朗普支持者更加坚定，因为他们认为这不公平。”
周六沃特斯和基尔米德的节目中还有德罗伊·默多克，福克斯新闻的撰稿人和作家国家评论。默多克同意，在弹劾听证会开始前，大多数支持总统的人到目前为止并没有因为支持他而退缩。
默多克说:“我想我最近看到的[的调查报告显示，大约90%到95%的共和党人支持特朗普，在弹劾事件后支持他。”。“他们认为他是无辜的——因为一个可能有点不寻常的电话，但在越来越多的人看来，没有什么是非法的或不可弹劾的。”
默多克的话似乎呼应了最近的一些民意调查。正如基尔米德暗示的那样，弹劾听证会似乎没有对总统在共和党及其最忠实支持者中的声誉造成太大损害。
例如，一个有线电视新闻网民意测验调查于11月21日至24日进行，11月26日公布，发现只有10%的共和党人认为总统应该因7月份与乌克兰总统通电话而被弹劾；而89%的人仍然认可他的工作表现。又一次民意测验益普索的调查结果于11月27日公布，调查发现79%的登记共和党选民认为总统的所作所为不值得弹劾。
默多克说，这种反应不是民主党人所期望的，并暗示弹劾调查的相反效果是让总统的支持者反对他。
默多克总结道:“所以这在他们的脸上绝对是回旋镖。”。
FOX NEWS HOST CLAIMS MEDIA COVERAGE OF TRUMP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IS EMBOLDENING THE PRESIDENT'S SUPPORTERS
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said on Saturday that media coverage of the impeachment hearing against President Donald Trump has done little more than strengthen the resolve of his supporters.
Kilmeade, who is a regular host of the weekday morning show, Fox & Friends, made the remarks Saturday morning on another Fox News program, Watters' World. Kilmeade's words, as reported by Mediaite, were given as a response to a statement made by host Jesse Watters, who said that citizens do not trust what they hear from the media about impeachment.
"And the thing is, Jesse, they don't follow [impeachment] like we follow it," Kilmeade said. "We follow it every day."
Further, Kilmeade said that in his travels around the country, promoting his most recent book, Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers, he has found that people he talks to have not had their opinions of the president changed by the impeachment hearing.
"I go to Oklahoma, go to Nebraska, go to Texas, [and] they're not following it," he said. "So they don't get upset. They're not changing their minds. In fact, when they view it, it has made the Trump supporters more determined. It made the ambivalent Trump supporters more determined because they see an unfairness to it."
Also on the program with Watters and Kilmeade Saturday was Deroy Murdock, a Fox News contributor and writer for the National Review. Murdock concurred that a majority of people who supported the president before the impeachment hearings began were so far undeterred in their support for him.
"I think the last survey I saw [reported that] something like 90 to 95 percent of Republicans are supporting Trump and are behind him after the impeachment thing," Murdock said. "They see him being victimized over nothing—over a call that might be a bit unusual, but nothing illegal or impeachable in the view of an increasing number of people."
Murdock's words appeared to echo some recent polls. And, as Kilmeade alluded to, the impeachment hearing does not appear to have done much damage to the president's reputation among much of the Republican Party and his most devoted supporters.
For example, a CNN poll conducted between November 21 and 24, and released November 26, found that just 10 percent of Republicans believed the president should be impeached for his July phone call with the president of Ukraine; while 89 percent still approved of his job performance. Another poll from Ipsos, the results of which were released November 27, found that 79 percent of registered Republican voters believed that what the president did was not worthy of impeachment.
Murdock said that this reaction was not what the Democrats expected, and implied that the impeachment inquiry had the opposite effect of turning the president's supporters against him.
"So this has absolutely boomeranged in their faces," Murdock concluded.
