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Journalism can only get better if we all know how the mistakes occurred in the first place. >> ill have more on this in the "reliable sources" newsletter. eric, elena, thank you very much. a quick break here. and then the revelations from "catch and kill" that you havent heard yet. its either the assurance of a 165-point

Lets talk about the presidents statements about syria. the presidents misstatements about troops. the presidents misspelling of the defense secretarys name today. that and much more with my panel here. daniel dale is a cnn fact checker who analyzes every word the president says. also fact checks other politicians. elaina plott is a white house correspondent for the atlantic and a cnn analyst. and eric wimpl el is a fact checker at "the washington post." so this is a president getting the facts w...

Eric, you wrote something this week that really smoke to me. you talked about how its difficult to use neutral-sounding language to describe what the president does, because that makes it sounds like you have an axe to grind. great example today, the president misspells the defense secretarys name on twitter. mark asps esper is his name. and the president wrote esperanto. but the president should have a proof reed proof reader. and just talking about this, it sounds like an attack. >> cnn gets h...

I think it does a disservice to other reporters each day who do feel that their job is to go out and report the truth. >> eric, an abc source said to me, there will be consequences, internally, but they wont say what that means. >> and i think they wont explain, either, exactly what happened. beckett adams at the "washington examiner" -- >> has been doing great work on this. >> great work on this and god bless him, because this is important pressure to keep on abc. and good for you for bringing ...