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Weve got clinton. i feel we keep pointing back to nixon particularly because this feels more like watergate than the clinton impeachment. but as someone whos been on the other side of the republican attack mission, on advising hillary clinton, how much information do you have the current information environment means that facts can come out, that people are persuadable, that the 40% of the country that continues to approve him can be brought to the other side? >> naively probably more than you t...

I think the main difference is the president now has fox primetime and that allows his supporters to live in this alternate fact world and, frankly, i think if richard nixon had had fox primetime, he would have never been forced to leave office. thats what were up against, an information environment in which you can live in a world devoid of facts and thats a world, frankly, that is very suitable for a president like this who doesnt have much adherence to the facts. >> so if you plan to counter ...

To live in the alternate fact world. and frankly i think if richard nixon had had fox protective placement primetime he would have never been forced to leave office. thats what were up against, you know, an information environment in which you can live in a world devoid of facts and thats a world frankly that is very suitable for a president like this who doesnt have much adhereens to the facts. >> adam schiff saying its fox news primetime thats the fundamental between now and then. that if rich...

Primetime and that allows his supporters to live in this alternate fact world and, frankly, i think if richard nixon would have had fox prime time, he would have never been forced to leave office. thats what were up against, an information environment in which you can live in a world devoid of facts and thats a world, frankly, that is very suitable for a president like this who doesnt have much adherence to the facts. >> so if you plan to counter that by putting out what you see as the factual r...

And publicly, and its almost like, well, hes not keeping it secret. maybe its not so bad and conditions the information environment especially on the right to adapt to that argument. never seen anything like this in american history, and all of a sudden his supporters on the right will start making those defenses. and the glue that holds this together is, frankly, just hatred for the other party. that drives everything. until republicans -- and the media -- until republicans think that what trum...

Thats whats happening on the right. this shows how polluted our information environment is. scoops do breakthrough. scoops have been breaking through all week long. trump and his media wing men will do anything to deny, deflect and distract. thats whats happening right now. they are smearing a person whose secret complaint. some are saying the whistle blower story is a bust. but we still havent seen the complaint yet. it is like william barr coming out and spinning the mueller findings before an...

Is far stronger than any basis for investigating so-called collusion. keep in mind uranium one calls into judgment the meeting materials for a man whos on his way to conformation for the next attorney general. msnbc nick acruman. i thought that was very revealing. what information environment does william barr immerse himself in? in the informational environment of the trump tv and breitbart that say yo--

Keep in mind uranium one calls into judgment the meeting materials for a man whos on his way to conformation for the next attorney general. msnbc nick acruman. i thought that was very revealing. what information environment does william barr immerse himself in? in the informational environment of the trump tv and breitbart that say -- >> one is the pieces he wrote in 1992. the case for nor carceration. not great. the memo he sent last summer to

A new report out tonight reveals that russian disinformation teams have targeted the special counsel. two reports commissioned by the senate intelligence committee and focused on the internet research agency, the russian troll farm, robert mueller indicted last february. according to one of them, "what is clear is that all the messaging clearly sought to benefit the republican party and specifically donald trump. the goal was to reinforce tribalism to polarize and divide, to exploit societal fra...

Responsibility between the company and the consumer? >> i dont think its solely the consumers responsibility. i think absolutely the companies have a responsibility, but we also just need to be careful about what we put on these things, and we have to be especially careful about the information we consume. the truth is, we are no longer in the world. were 25 to 30 people who decide what is news and what is legitimate journalism. there are a lot of things facebook can do better, but no matter wha...