he says, for decades to come. still, despite the fact that sunlight has now been placed on this issue, very the fact of the matter is it's still not clear how long it's going to take before it's put to rest. carol, back to you. >> joe johns reporting live from northwest washington. with me to talk about this is cnn senior media correspondent and anchor of "reliable sources" brian stelter and dino badalla from sirius xm radio. welcome to both of you. so this bogus story, in short, hillary clinton and john podesta, her campaign aide, were supposedly involved in running a child sex ring. there is zero evidence of this. totally, totally bogus. yet michael flynn jr., the new security adviser's son, tweeted this out sunday after this incident went down. quote, until pizza-gate proven to be false it will remain a story. the left seems to forget podesta