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With buzzfeed happened on friday night. for 24 hours, many in the media, then on sunday, well, they were vilifying this teenaged high school student who was filmed looking at a native american man as he was, turns out to be preying and drumming, in front of him. the teen was wearing a make america great again hat. uh-oh. the media went with wild speculation. they went with one small clip and raced to a conclusion. they said he was taunting the native american man when, in fact, the native americ...

Comments. >> he is not going to get any awards for being a civil rights leader. "the new york times" to the same thing today. they had a big piece that said, his long history of racist comments. i read every one of them. some of them for doing about race. there were about islam, islam is not a race, but a faith. many of them might be considered insensitive. they want racist. racism is a very specific thing, a belief in the superiority of one race over another. it is taboo the united states as we...

For a time in england. >> he tore the kingdom apart with his break from rome. >> we have wars of religion within england, we have wars of religion between france and england with france being more loyal to the pope, england more loyal to henry. the entire religious landscape becomes weaponized. >> and then henry viii begins to take the churchs wealth. >> narrator: as head of the church of england, henry viii seizes property that belongs to the catholic church. >> he begins to strip all of the al...

Wanted them protected. i havent heard anybody at the left complain about the fbi raid on this guys house, why is that? >> the rage that donald trump -- you have brought this up so many times they cant be highlighted enough. the left which previously aligned with groups like the american civil liberties union was actually interested at one point or more in defending civil liberties has completely abandoned that now. they have now flipped the script entirely as who actually defending weaponized go...

Learned last night from "the new york times" that lawyers for paul manafort have been feeding donald trump a steady stream of information about special counsel robert mueller. information thats likely been loaded into donald trumps fragile psyche and weaponized in the public relations war against that investigation. the times reports on an alliance on information sharing agreement between paul manaforts lawyer and the presidents legal team that continued even after paul manafort entered into a c...

All to create images like this one, a mother and her children wearing flip-flop ands diapers fleeing the destructive force turned against them by the united states of america. democratic congressman joaquin castro. congressman, your reaction to watching that scene unfold in san ysidro. >> well, like a lot of americans, i was horrified to see women and children -- these are folk, babies in diapers, barefoot, being gassed. and i think americans were horrified at the idea of agents of the united st...

One, a mother and her children wearing flip-flop ands diapers fleeing the destructive force turned against them by the united states of america. democratic congressman joaquin castro. congressman, your reaction to watching that scene unfold in san ysidro. >> well, like a lot of americans, i was horrified to see women and children -- these are folk, babies in diapers, barefoot, being gassed. and i think americans were horrified at the idea of agents of the united states government making the deci...

Howie: here is a comment about the significance of the decision. >> this was not just about cnn or even the white house. this is about government officials in statehouses in city halls, whether they can throw out reports they view as annoyances. howie: a justice department lawyer said the president has no obligation to let any reporter on to the white house grounds. that may be true, but it would be politically challenging. mo: i agree with that. jay wallace said it well in his statement from fo...

Press conference right after the election during which the president was speaking, jim acosta from cnn got in a heated exchange with him. a white house intern tried to take away the microphone and there was a little bit of an altercation. the white house said he actually placed his hands on the intern. thats open to interpretation. some saw it as such, some say it was overblown. but the white house pulled his press pass. now he is getting it back according to this ruling from a federal judge. >>...

Actors, they devolve their tactics. they dont do the same thing again and again. we think about our threat model. what are the new challenges that are coming? what are the new things we havent seen before that we could see and what are the new twists that might get thrown to us? and we desk that and run that. >> reporter: another challenge, communication. silicon valley and the government have historically had trouble communicating as platforms like twitter and facebook have become weaponized. j...