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>> theres been a lot of false assertions and this is one way to mitigate it in the minds of his supporters. he runs a risk of losing credibility. people do migrate to where they feel they can get information about the news and theyre hearing it. >> shepard: they migrate to places that they hear what they already think. some of these other organizations are getting a lot of traction. i dont care what people watch. theres a danger if you were hearing from the white house inaccuracies and reading t...

Fox news makes decisions of all kinds without influence of the white house or instruments of government or anyone else, this will not chase in the face of inaccurate assertions from the white house or any other government intimidation. john bussey is saying is not true. why bother? >> reuters, cnn, fox news, all the local papers had coverage of this through the news agencies. it was covered. now look, theres a couple -- you said the vast majority of those on the list were covered. there were a c...

Its a run-up to this court decision on whether or not he has done the right thing in executing this executive order on limiting immigration into the united states. its partly that narrative to remind people that the world is a dangerous place, as sean spicer said today. he runs the risk of fear mongering, but hes trying to make the point, it is a dangerous place and you should be behind me. the constant litany about his language, the total dishonesty of the media, the tremendous dishonest of the...

Mattis is disappointed but understands and respects mr. violas decision. the secretary will recommend to the president another candidate soon. mark halpern? >> do you know how many millionaires and billionaires he has nominated and picked for jobs and amazing only one said so far he is not able to diseng ta -- disentangle. >> kristen welker, what is on the presidents schedule today? >> good morning. president trump is going to have his first major visit with u.s. troops here at central command h...

Back up his assertions. he was pressed on all of this during a pre-super bowl interview with fox news yesterday. take a look. >> you say, for example, that there are 3 million illegal aliens who voted and you d have the data to back it up. some people are going to say that is irresponsible for a president to say that. >> many people come out and said i was right. >> i know but you have to have data to back that up. >> it doesnt have to do with the vote but that is the end resulted. look. we can ...

The president to legislate off of. >> its also giving trouble for republicans because they have to answer to his statements and his assertions without fact. >> thats absolutely right. and i honestly think his purpose is more sinister than simply the creation of chaos in general. lets just take the constitutionally protected right to vote. the president announces there was massive fraud in the last presidential election. of course there are no facts to back it up. he appoints jeff sessions as his...

And bringing a wide variety of views is also possible. i think the big problem is with every opinion there are assertions made and those assertions need to be checked. i think there should be more people coming on who support this ban if thats half the country or more. they need be -- we all have to be working from the same information pool and thats the confusion right now. >> speaking with a correspondent for major network this morning who said hed be hard pressed to find a singlie journalist ...

Beat, david chalian. drew, youve gone through the facts. were hearing these assertions they say theyll come forward and have names. is it possible theres any way, that theres some evidence the secretaries of state have missed and everyone else has missed and there are millions of illegal votes? >> no. i dont know how else we can go over this but no. the people in charge of the elections are secretaries of state. that was a powerful statement. house speaker paul ryan has said ive found no evidenc...

A presidential race which i think is -- strains credulity to imagine. and i didnt get a lot of comfort in watching him in terms of the way he responded to your questions, but i do think this feeds into unfortunately the fake news phenomenon. and there will be people out there who -- >> were not trying to pile on poor greg phillips here, but kayleigh, the president of the united states is name checking him, you know, on twitter. and as far as we can tell, theres nothing that greg phillips is prod...

His assertions as he continues to push substantiated claims of voter fraud with no evidence to support it. tonight stories with all of those categories starting with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto at the pentagon where president trump welcomed his defense secretary to the job and signed that executive action on refugees that is getting a lot of attention tonight, jim. lets talk about that executive action and what the president says institutes extreme vetting of immigrants. wh...