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Unbelievably juicy and i looked at it and said this is too good, its too new. and when i -- i came to learn years later from a senior officer that in fact it was planted in an effort to discredit me. you have to be careful when handling documents to authenticate them and you have to show them to the people youre going to write about or broadcast about and get their responses to it. >> and there is at this point this sort of ratcheting up of the stakes, because of this idea of fake news that if y...

>> and there is at this point this sort of ratcheting up of the stakes, because of this idea of fake news that if you -- theres a real incentive on the part of the white house to kind of get people to get stuff wrong, even on sort of easy stuff, not big cloak and dagger stuff with documents being fabricated but easy stuff. because at this point its such a kind of core narrative that theyre telling the country about basically them against a duplicitous press. >> lets remember that vladimir putin ...

And it tends to get the most attention when it is a personnel issue, like it is right now with mr. oreilly, who again indisputably has very good ratings, and is the king of cable news. so sometimes you get into a pickle with a personnel issue like theyve got right now which continues to seem not just untenable, but increasingly untenable for the outfit that is the biggest deal in this whole business. sometimes its personnel issues. sometimes, though, when cable news gets wobbly, its not on a per...

About the real credibility theyve got with him right now. so cable news as an institution, sometimes does get into a pickle like this. and it tends to get the most attention when it is a personnel issue, like it is right now with mr. oreilly who again indisputably has very good ratings, and is the king of cable news. so sometimes you get into a pickle with a personnel issue like theyve got right now which continues to seem not just untenable, but increasingly untenable for the outfit that is the...

Also, the fine that duke energy is now paying for one of their giant toxic coal ash lagoons bursting in north carolina, looks like its not the second largest fine anybodys ever paid under the clean water act. maybe its the fourth largest? its hard to find a definitive score for this kind of stuff it turns out. other people have reported that duke is paying the second largest fine here ever. but i think now looking at it again, that theyre probably fourth largest and not second largest. in which ...

You dont want to get stuff wrong, but it happens. but then you correct it and then you can move on. chastened, but clean. thats how it works. and then theres this kind of problem. to which the hair shirt apparently does not fit. were still waiting to see if there will be some sort of apology, some sort of corrective action concerning the biggest kahuna in all of cable news, a man with any other news organization would be in a fight for his professional life right now. but so far for him, apparen...

Also, the fine that duke energy is now paying for one of their giant toxic coal ash lagoons bursting in north carolina, looks like its not the second largest fine anybodys ever paid under the clean water act. maybe its the fourth largest? its hard to find a definitive score for this kind of stuff it turns out. other people have reported that duke is paying the second largest fine here ever. but i think now looking at it again, that theyre probably fourth largest and not second largest. in which ...

And correcting the record. so, you know, as much as we beat up on ourselves and the media and rightfully so. when we get stuff wrong, we have a pretty good self-corrective mechanism in this business and a lot of good reporting that told viewers, told leaders what was initially wrong and most from government officials that was passed on. >> for example, "new york times" had done a very good job of this story saying the surviving suspect told fbi interrogators that he and his brother considered su...

Proportion of the money raised by dick morris and his super pac, supposedly to defeat barack obama, was actually redirected to dick morris. nowhere does it say the money that was raised ended up going back to dick morris, either for e-mail or any other reasons. but mr. morriss lawyers confirm that news max is the broker, they confirm that the money was paid to news max. they do confirm that what some of that money was for was the donate for the mailing list. but they dispute it was a substantial...

I do not have evidence it was a substantial portion. so i am happy to correct that part of it. when we get stuff wrong im happy to make a correction. but on the rest of this stuff? no, when we dont get stuff wrong i will not take it back just because you do not like the way it sounds, even though it is true. and hey, while you dont like the sound of something, sometimes ends up being newsworthy in this case. what we learned in this case, one of the most visible pundits is trying to put distance ...