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August 9. hours after sundays incident, the twitter account belonging to flynns son tweeted about the pizza-gate conspiracy theory, to the point of saying, well, prove that its not true. the younger flynn by the way is his fathers chief of staff at the flynn intel group. on "morning joe" today, mike pence said the younger flynn has no involvement in the transition process. but trumps spokesman later said the younger mikel flynn was helping his father early on in the transition, but is no longer ...

Before the 2016 presidential election, articles with made-up news, made-up facts, from made-up sources, shared a higher rate than actual news thats fact-checked from, the so-called mainstream media. as weve been reporting, one of those fake conspiracy theories had real-life consequences. over the weekend a north carolina man was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon. according to court documents, the gentleman traveled to comet pizza in washington, d.c., to self-investigate a fa...

Welcome back. tonight im obsessed with the democratization of media. not all of it, giving americans a voice and liberating the flow of information from three networks and a handful of newspapers, all of whom were run by people who look and thought the same thing. what im talking about is a plague of fake news. there was a dangerous incident at the comet ping-pong pizza restaurant here in washington. its hardly the first time fake news has gained currency. james calendar famously spread rumors a...

Democracy and freedom the like in the open international markets. chinese are writing an international system with its own rules and unsettling in washington and in europe quite frankly, as well and why this relationship is so incredibly important because if both countries are going to prosper, they both need each other. there have been frictions bubbling lately, no we about it. its incredibly important for these leaders to publicly put those frictions aside and maybe solve some of these problem...

Money, trade, the military. human rights. senior white house correspondent ed henry is joining us live. so, ed, we understand that the two have been in the oval office. and they are in the white house now, soon to begin these bilateral discussions. what else would take place? >> yeah, theyve started the bilateral talks, as you know, fred, theyre in the oval office right now as we speak. and its interesting because there are these big substantive issues. but what do think they talked about first?...

Korea which caused some consternation between the u.s. and china? >> certainly, they have their differences. the white house certainly wants to highlight areas where they can agree, but i have to tell you that im not sure they can claim too much credit because a lot of that may just be rhetoric, frankly, because there were other officials before this visit. there is always talks that both sides had beforehand to try to forge deals and what not. the u.s. economic team that met with chinese offici...

Here on capitol hill is effort to defund the health care law and republicans working on that end of it as well to take money from the department of health and human services that might go to implementing the health care law and money going to the irs because the irs is part of the enforcement mechanism of this law later on down the road. you will see republicans going after those two elements as this process moves forward. >> jim acosta, thanks so much. a busy day in washington from capitol hill...

Everybody out in the cold on this cold washington morning for about 40 minutes. lets show you the video now, if you look very carefully between the two leaders, you will see a woman in a red coat falling and she is immediately helped up by a man in a navy uniform next to her. of course, her husband, admiral mike mullen, well zoom in on that. and youll see this lady in a red coat. at first, mullens staff did not acknowledge what had happened. but a short time ago they gave us a statement saying, ...

Later on this afternoon in the house. but you heard mr. cantor talking about how in the senate, it is not likely to have any success, the kind of success that boehner and cantor are hoping for in the house. well keep you posted on the efforts to repeal health care reform in the house today. in the meantime, lets talk about some nasty weather in some parts. this is a picture of misery in parts of washington state. the problem, mud slides. a highway worker said it looks like a bomb went off, see...

House for republicans about their health care overhaul and what is the fate of that. now, at the same time as the president has that huge issue on his plate for domestic concerns, hes had one of the most prominent visits from a world leader. and many people say that the meeting with donald trump and angela merkel had mixed results. air force one back at palm beach airport. the fifth weekend spent here since president trump took office. joined by fir ly melania, herarents and baron trump, who tur...