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As this, the most secure election in the history of this country by chris krebs, lifelong republican charged with securing the vote. The Washington Post reporting over the weekend only 27 republicans have acknowledged the fact of the Election Result, indisputed fact. Post writes that the results of the survey demonstrate the fear most republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party, despite his new status as just the third elected president to lose reelection in the past 80 ...

Passed a milestone with more than 12,000 lies and faults hoods during his presidency to date, according to "the washington post." for those of you keeping score at home, that translates to more than 20 a day. thats a reminder we live in unprecedented times with a unique for the press corps. how do you fairly cover a president who lies all the time inhe twisted fake news and has deployed it more than 400 times on twitter since taking office. thats more than times he tweeted freedom or the co cons...

Control the narrative by having to sort of fact check in real time? its quite challenging. as a journalist, i think the best we can do is go out there and say what the truth is. and when its relevant to fact check in real time, do it, but otherwise, tell americans what the real story is. >> but jim, that really is kind of the crux of the debate, and youre working on a book writ large on this subject now. do we spend all our time fact checking a president who lies 20 times a day, and does it make...

Donald trump hits a dark new milestone, raising new questions about how to deal with disinformation emanating from the oval office. first, the right has long accused the media of bias, but now some on the left are echoing those accusations. bernie sanders lashing out at "the washington post," accusing the pape of taking orders from its own, amazon owner jeff bezos. this comes as tensions over coverage of trump and race hit a fever pitch in "the new york times" news room with slate publishing a...

He directed deals and phone calls and meetings with his self described fixer michael cohen and others. im joined by jim rootenberg and mimi rocca, former assistant u.s. district attorney and msnbc contributor. let me ask you this, jim, about the relationship with trump and ami. what is the deal all these years? >> well, the deal was in august of 2015, david pecker, michael cohen and mr. trump, we had heard this happened in trump tower, cooked up a deal that basically went like this. pecker said ...

And planned it was designed to keep this information from the american voting public. he didnt care about -- he said publicly, as you point out, i can get away with anything. so what does he care if anybody finds out about him having affairs. hes not embarrassed about that. and it is not a crime to have an affair. but it is a crime when you have develop a scheme with a company, with your fixer, and with -- use your own corporation, the trump corporation and you open shell accounts and you devise...

And they are sort of already chipping away at possible defenses if not knocking them out altogether for example by having ami and michael cohen saying this is for the purpose of influencing the campaign which i think we coffin ferred any way. they can prove that now in court. and so it takes away that defense. >> jim, it is great to have you on. we havent had you on for a while and so im going to exploit you now because it seems the big picture -- i watch the power of new york. it helps hillary ...

60 minutes whether or not cambridge analytica was the source of important data for the operations that he pulled off for the trump campaign in 2016. lets just listen to what brad parscale said. >> mr. trump, one, cambridge analytica said it was key to the victory. but parscale insists he never used psycho graphics. he said it doesnt work. so, you didnt use it because you didnt think it really worked, as opposed to you didnt use it because you thought it was wrong, that its manipulative or sini...

Because you lose by being anti-trump, you lose by being pro-trump. its looking like there is going to be a blue wave and theyre not sure how to ride this one out as they are heading into mid terms. >> jim, what do you think about that? >> not only do a play i media columnist on television, but i believe it matters a lot, the media environment right now. there is an entire media eco system in which bob mueller should go, that there is a deep state plot, that this is all very suspect and needs to ...

Produce. that is a normal thing that you would think about. and i think his team has failed in so many ways. not just in the stormy daniels case, but clearly in the case -- the defamation case. they have not done a good job. the court there was very clear in saying he is not immune from lawsuit and i would take that a step further and say that their reasoning is not just that he is not immune from a civil lawsuit, but i would say the same is true for a criminal case. and that it could support hi...