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President trumps war on the press and his administrations own credibility problems played a major role this year in the media. >> from late-night comedians to the serious business of finding the truth, brian stelter takes a look back at the top media stories of 2017. scoops, falsehoods, feuds, firings, and a cultural reckoning. here are the top seven media stories in 2017. >> number seven, late-night in the age of trump. from jimmy kimmels emotional obamacare appeal. >> if your baby is going t...

Strength and weakness of journalism. if this story had come out 5, 10, 15 years ago. that he didnt and he almost won speaks to the credibility problems the general media establishment had. but the strength of the story held under under scrutiny unlike other people trotted out by attorneys. the "post" stories did hold up under scrutiny. but the danger is that because it was even this close shows people arent trusting the media. >> im not sure you can take the failure of roy moore to quit the race...

When you see the way this has played out from flynn and some of the earlier charges. the charges that are brought are based on the investigation, not the initial reason for the investigation at all. so i think as we see this progress if youve got credibility problems and the investigation itself is not even getting to the point of the investigation in the first place, why, what are we doing here? >> julie: it will come down perhaps to credibility. david, you say when it comes to credibility betw...

Will decide the supreme court for the next 30 or 40 years. >> there are a lot of really important issues at play and the voters of alabama will decide among those -- >> if we let the lynch media decide -- >> i am asking for a answer. final question to you, roy moore has not been on cnn to answer these questions for himself since february -- >> i can see why. >> he did an interview with chris cuomo who is sitting next to me. why would he not come on and talk to us? >> theres a reason why you have...

Somehow imply that the election was rigged and trumps collusion is why hillary clinton lost. i think thats ridiculous. to date, robert mueller has provided no evidence that that is the case. >> neil: its still early on as smart folks like you remind me. they spend $7 million on the investigation, which im told is chump change in the scheme of things for investigations that cost tens of millions more. so where are we in this, you think? >> we just ran a big editorial on robert muellers credibilit...

Attorneys enter into a cooperating witness agreement because for many millenia, prosecutors have realized to catch a criminal, you often have to get information from a criminal. so that is the hobsons choice, that is the catch-22 of all cooperating witness agreements. yes, the prosecution is getting vital information about their prosecution, but its coming from the mouth of what is usual low a convicted criminal with credibility problems. and particularly so when your star witness has been convi...

Get involved with fellow criminals in order to implicate more criminals. so, this is, again, standard operating procedure. any time you have a cooperating witness like flynn, hell be open to cross-examination based on his credibility. not just his credibility, and particularly in the case of a crime that involves deceit, but also because as the defense attorneys at trial would obviously point out, hes singing for his supper. hes sitting there testifying, not out of the goodness of his heart. not...

That he now says came to mind. you know, namely the fact that he said he told papadopoulos not to talk to the russian government or to any other foreign got government. thats a new piece of information that sessions said he now has been able to remember despite not being able to remember a host of other basic facts that journalists and members of congress have been pressing him on. even if its possible, the case that the attorney general is being completely forthright and that his memory was jog...

I do. >> too weird as well? >> well, i dont want to get into a discussion of this legal term weird. certainly, you assess witnesses and their believability to juries. carter page would have some issues. even george papadopoulos has some issues because hes an admitted liar. those are all things that you consider in deciding whether somebody makes a good witness. but you can often bolster a witness who might have some credibility problems if you can have objective evidence to corroborate their sto...

Whether or not washington free beacon had any say in the dossier, thats very unclear. as we go forward, i think thats definitely something that were going to see in the news cycle, to try to bring the blame away from the players and to try to kind of muddle the conversation were having. >> and kevin, you spoke about next week, but all of these developments are happening on the heels of learning that president trump is essentially interfering in this new uranium one congressional investigation. h...