福克斯新闻主持人告诉“媒体中的你们”做“您该死的工作”

       福克斯新闻主持人马克·莱文（Mark Levin）与福克斯新任首席国家通讯员埃德·亨利（Ed Henry）进行了热烈的交流，此前，这位记者就唐纳德·特朗普总统对乌克兰采取的行动日益严重的丑闻提出了合理的疑问。

       往返发生在福克斯新闻周日早间节目《福克斯与朋友》（Fox＆Friends）上，亨利试图让主持生活，自由与莱文的莱文（Levin）提供理由，以证明他认为特朗普对乌克兰没有做错事。

       莱文似乎对亨利甚至会问特朗普丑闻感到沮丧，认为记者应将报道重点放在特朗普及其支持者关于前副总统乔·拜登掩盖乌克兰的腐败活动以使他的儿子亨特·拜登受益的无实指控上。

       “如果媒体上的人愿意做你该死的事情，问乔·拜登和亨特·拜登到底是怎么回事，也许总统就不必提这个问题了，”列文显然很生气。“总统为什么要提出这个问题？”

       莱文认为，关于拜登的指控是由“纽约时报” 提出的。但是，几年前首次报道拜登及其儿子在乌克兰工作的新闻记者公开指出，右翼媒体完全是在没有背景的情况下转载他的报道。右翼特朗普的支持者认为，拜登为迫使乌克兰解雇前检察官所做的努力是保护其儿子商业利益的一种方式。

       但是，西方国家领导人和国际货币基金组织（IMF）广泛支持罢免检察官的愿望，因为他为解决东欧国家的腐败问题做出了不懈的努力。实际上，检察官维克托·肖金（Viktor Shokin）曾对英国对拜登儿子参与的公司的调查进行过调查。如果有的话，Shokin的解雇使拜登儿子的商业利益面临问题的可能性增加了，而不是减少了。

       尽管如此，特朗普及其支持者仍在继续推动阴谋论。总统还向乌克兰官员施压，要求对拜登一家人展开调查，据称是中央情报局的举报人，率领举报者提起正式申诉。投诉的一部分集中在7月25日的电话中，总统要求乌克兰总统对他进行“帮忙”，然后展开调查。

       同时，特朗普暂时扣留了对乌克兰的3.91亿美元军事援助。这些资金得到了共和党和民主党议员以及五角大楼和情报机构的广泛支持。乌克兰卷入了持续不断的与俄罗斯支持的分离主义叛乱分子的内战，共和党和民主党人认为军事支持对抵抗俄罗斯的地缘政治影响至关重要。总统的批评者认为，他是在阻止援助，以帮助乌克兰调查其政治对手拜登。乌克兰官员还表示，他们给特朗普留下的印象是特朗普对其政府的支持可能取决于他们是否进行调查。

       这些消息促使民主党在过去一周在众议院发起了正式的弹劾调查，特朗普已将其驳斥为“游击队”和“猎巫”。但是，一些杰出的共和党人批评了总统的行为，并为民主党领导的调查提供了一些支持。

FOX NEWS HOST TELLS 'YOU GUYS IN THE MEDIA' TO DO 'YOUR DAMN JOB' IN HEATED EXCHANGE OVER TRUMP-UKRAINE SCANDAL

       Fox News host Mark Levin got into a heated exchange with Fox New chief national correspondent Ed Henry after the journalist raised valid questions about the growing scandal involving President Donald Trump's actions towards Ukraine.

       The back-and-forth took place during Fox News morning show Fox & Friends on Sunday, as Henry attempted to get Levin, who hosts Life, Liberty & Levin, to provide reasons for his perspective that Trump did nothing wrong with Ukraine.

       Levin appeared frustrated that Henry would even ask about the Trump scandal, arguing that journalists should focus their reporting on unsubstantiated accusations promoted by Trump and his supporters that former Vice President Joe Biden covered up corrupt activity in Ukraine to benefit his son, Hunter Biden.

       "If you guys in the media would do your damn job and ask Joe Biden and Hunter Biden what the hell's going on, maybe the president wouldn't have to raise the issue," Levin said with apparent anger. "Why is the president having to raise the issue?"

       Levin argued that the accusation surrounding Biden had been raised by The New York Times. However, the journalist who first reported on Biden and his son's work in Ukraine several years ago, has publicly pointed out that right-wing media has spun his reporting entirely out of context. Right-wing Trump supporters argue that Biden's effort to pressure Ukraine to fire a former prosecutor was a way to protect his son's business interests.

       But the desire for the prosecutor to be removed was widely supported by western leaders and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), due to his lax efforts to tackle corruption in the Eastern European nation. In fact, the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, had stonewalled a British investigation into the company Biden's son was involved with. If anything, Shokin's firing made it more – not less – likely that Biden's son's business interests would face problems.

       Despite that, Trump and his supporters have continued to push the conspiracy theory. The president also pressured Ukrainian officials to open an investigation into the Bidens, leading a whistleblower, reportedly from the CIA, to file an official complaint. Part of that complaint centered around a July 25 phone call in which the president asked Ukraine's president to do him a "favor," and open the probe.

       Meanwhile, Trump had temporarily withheld $391 million in military aid to Ukraine. Those funds were widely supported by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. Ukraine is involved in an ongoing civil war against Russian-backed separatist rebels, and the military support is seen by Republicans and Democrats as vital to counter Russia's geopolitical influence. Critics of the president have argued that he was holding back the aid as leverage to get Ukraine to investigate his political opponent, Biden. Ukrainian officials have also said they were under the impression that Trump's support for their government could hinge on whether or not they pursued the probe.

       The revelations led Democrats to launch an official impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives this past week, which Trump has dismissed as "partisan" and a "witch hunt." However, several prominent Republicans criticized the president's actions, with some voicing support for the Democratic-led investigation.