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In congress are going to have to do everything that we can to safeguard our elections, to make sure that everybody gets access to the ballot, that we are reducing gerrymandering and the principle of one person, one vote, to continue to guide our constitutional right to vote. >> and i think one of the things we learned from the voters this past election if they are aligned with you. they are tired of these pendulum elections, and they are tired of extremism. i want to bring in this other part of ...

Your thoughts on the lightning speed, to bens point, of how this just spiralled down toward disinformation, that the disinformation itself is trending and we have the most powerful person in the world, and top republican leaders, you know, tweeting within hours, within moments of this happening, and the disinformation spread like wildfire. your thoughts on that and the impact it has on our overall democracy. >> so first, mika, i thought your opening montage was superb, bringing together footage,...

Its scary. as the world heats, its where the countryside spaces meet the city that will become a bigger part of the front line in the fight against wildfires. claire marshall, bbc news. the conspiracy theorist alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $115 million in punitive damages, after falsely claiming that the 2012 sandy hook school—shooting was a hoax. the defamation case was brought by the parents of one of the victims, who say they endured harassment and emotional distress because ...

Anybody realizes unless youre watching the show on a daily basis. >> yeah, and i mean, what the -- what the graphic elements of the piece capture -- and i do try to watch. i do try to watch as much of it as i can. sometimes it makes my blood boil, but as i said, i only turn to it on big news events. what the reporting does, its beyond dispute and debate what happens there every single night and what his program -- and its the you and me and them is so thoroughly recorded and reported. its really...

The question beautifully. i love my husband and hi loe lo me. we have to acknowledge that a lot of this is going to be disinformation spread on the twitter spear of people claiming to be b a part of this faction of society questioning her blackness, who she married. we saw how this information sullied the campaign of 2016. we can anticipate this time. ive seen my own timeline of people who i suspect to be russian bots questioning her blackness. even smaller sects of society tap into us. like i s...

Information. misinformation is wrong, but does not require intent. like the conversations you had at thanksgiving with your uncle. >> a lot of disinformation spread in the current political environment. a florida man decided to try hang gliding during vacation in switzerland and was hanging on for dear life. the pilot forgot to connect the harness to the glider. he thought he was going to die through the ordeal. he managed to hang on long enough to fall into an open field field. he said he is ...