David Wright is right. Trump is running rings around Fox.

Trump is doing two very smart things.

First, he is not limiting himself to Fox. He is happy to shmooze all the non-Fox media, such as Raddatz and Halperin in the helicopter, CNN, Morning Joe. This is like Ronald Reagan in the pre-Fox era, a Republican who successfully shmoozed the media. This is smart strategy for the general election.

Second, he criticizes/challenges the other Republicans very effectively. For example, Bush is a puppet. He knows he has to beat them first. This really puts Fox in a bind, far beyond his specific attacks on Megyn Kelly. He is provoking a Fox civil war. This keeps Fox off balance enough that Fox cannot coherently challenge him.

Two points.

First, this whole show was as fair and balanced as Fox ever gets, because there were both pro-Trump and anti-Trump views. Either Ailes made a deal with Murdoch or decided himself to show both sides. It shows how much Trump has split the right.

Also, Michael Cohen did not 100% agree with Hannity. I really like the part where Cohen diss’ed Hannity’s concern about Trump running third party. Hannity kept complaining that Trump was leaving open the possibility of running third party. Cohen kept saying it was too soon to discuss it and he told Hannity that Hannity should call Trump himself if he had a problem.
Finally, at about 11:18, Hannity gave up and said. “We’re not there yet. I understand that.”