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Left to win a general election. and the news -- you started out your show here tonight saying you don't like to be the story. we shouldn't be the story but then trump says certain things that demand a response. both of these tools are productive for him in that he is shaping what his opponents are discussing at all. >> steve, as of last week "the washington post" tallied up 4,229 false or misleading claims from the president in 558 days. they also point out how the president often repeats the same false statements. he's trying to get his narrative out there on the economy, on trade and on jobs...

We shouldn't be the story but then trump says certain things that demand a response. both of these tools are productive for him in that he is shaping what his opponents are discussing at all. >> steve, as of last week "the washington post" tallied up 4,229 false or misleading claims from the president in 558 days. they also point out how the president often repeats the same false statements. he's trying to get his narrative out there on the economy, on trade and on jobs. and when we call him out for getting something wrong, we're fake news? >> yeah, don, listen, i've looked at that list, not e...

His screaming witch-hunt as the special counsel. as the russia investigation heats up, he seems to use it more and more. for example, only three times in may of 2017 but 20 times in may of '18. now trump is not the first president to cry witch-hunt. witness exhibit a, richard nixon insisting there was nothing to see in watergate and we know how that turned out. but neither party has a monopoly on virtue or vice and new statistics say democrats may have to revise one of their favorite rallying cries, specifically that the trump economy and the impact of his tax cuts haven't benefitted main stre...

>> laura, thank you very much. great to have you on this morning. >> thank you very much. the rate at which the commander in chief makes false or misleading claims has increased dramatically. according to an ongoing analysis, president trump has made 229 false or misleading claims in his 558 days in average averaging 7.6 a day. that is up from the 4.9 trump averaged during his first 100 days as president. in the first six months of his second year in office, trump nearly matched the total from his entire first year and the rate continues to increase. in june and july of of this year, the pre...

>> and this kind of unfocused visceral anger at the other side of really neutral people like folks in the press corps, it can lead to this. look, according to today's "washington post" president trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days in office. that's an average of 7.6 a day. this is not normal. we shouldn't be in the business of just shruging our shoulders and normalizing it. we'll be right back. alright, i brought in new max protein