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Their convictions were vacated. the stories of the central park five have been told before, but the director ava duvernay says she was motivated by the ones that arent told enough. >> there is a terrific documentary by sarah and ken burns that explored the case chronicled the legal aspects of the case. i was very interested in the boys. the boys who had become men, their families, the affect of the incarceration of one boy on a whole community, and so what i really wanted to look at this case fr...

Would never lie to the public, asking if he has kept that promise. listen. >> i try, i do try. i think you try, too. i think you say things to me that are not necessarily correct. i try, and i always want to tell the truth. when i can come i tell the truth. sometimes it turns to be where something happens, its different, or theres a change. i always like to be truthful. >> melissa: dagen, what do you think of that? [laughter] >> dagen: he likes to exaggerate, okay? we clearly know that. again, i...

Doubt about that. i think the politically expedient vote was a yes vote. >> why not? >> because this isnt about politics. >> part of the plan to keep hide camps seat is about the uncertainty over tariffs promoted by the white house. how big was a risk was the move? >> i think it was a potential political risk. it highlights what a difficult place this senate is either moderate republicans or democrats. what you see are the people closer to the center speaking the way that senator hide camp spoke...

Well be learning more about it very soon. >> you cant say jeff sessions or presumably his staff were naive about how the federal government worked or the rules. youre right to point that out, michael crowley. the other part of the story talks about what mueller has been able to corroborate and the story says that he has been able to corroborate james comeys memos. and there is one in particular that it highlights. one that talks about reince priebuss handwritten notes showing that donald trump...

Of reports that his family business outsourced labor to mexico. donelly says he sold his company stock. there you see a handful of protestors accompanying the music with signs like "made in mexico" and "outsource donelly out of d.c." capturing attention of democrats. the media strategist telling the hill newspaper the band was a publicity stunt to distract from donellys record. weird tactic, i guess, kind of? >> actually kind of typical these days. you have, people dressed up as chickens showing...

For these individuals to have their private accounts hacked into. even if its not classified information, they still may have personal things that they dont want out in the public ethosphere. so its of grave concern. i think it highlights, wolf, that none of us are really safe in this environment. if youre a major american company and you havent been hacked yet, you have you just dont know it yet. and i think all of our personal e-mail is really vulnerable to this kind of hacking. so its a grave...

>> they are incredibly difficult to stop as well. these are -- at times, bulldozers, armored, packed with explosives, something out of a "mad max" movie. going towards the front lines. blowing up, creating chaos, isis exploits that and is able to take advantage. they are very difficult to stop, the united states government is sending anti-tank missiles to the iraqi government to help stop this tactic. but it has proven very effective. and one thing it highlights, more than anything is isis will ...

Fell apart, thats a symbol of the overreporting of rape. i think you well know rape is underreported. >> there are also people who say rolling stone, ultimately liberal magazine, had an agenda in pushing this story needing to find the most dramatic extreme case it could and, of course, now the story -- >> yes. and it highlights, i think, a big question that it would be incumbent on the media to start looking into. what is the status of rape on campuses? this week, the justice department came out...

Fell apart, thats a symbol of the overreporting of rape. i think you well know rape is underreported. >> there are also people who say rolling stone, ultimately liberal magazine, had an agenda in pushing this story needing to find the most dramatic extreme case it could and, of course, now the story -- >> yes. and it highlights, i think, a big question that it would be incumbent on the media to start looking into. what is the status of rape on campuses? this week, the justice department came out...

One morning and isis, our enemy, that is al qaeda aligned group, theyre even too radical for al qaeda, is suddenly threatening baghdad. its a failure, yet another failure of reporting. eric: tammy, do you think it is a failure of the media also or the administration or malaki for not signing that status of forces agreement? >> look, everybody as, judy says, everyone wants something to be over but we dont think in the long run. i think there has been such a lack of information, i wonder how many ...