According to a Fox News short article on the topic, Fox & Friends averaged 1.8 million viewers, topping CNN's New Day and MSNBC's Morning Joe merged. Finishing the quarter in 22nd put was The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN's optimum rated display. Although it remained ahead of other networks over-all, its early morning clearly show fell out of very first spot for the initial time given that 2001. Trump recommended OANN, which was getting viewers.