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August 9. hours after sunday's incident, the twitter account belonging to flynn's son tweeted about the pizza-gate conspiracy theory, to the point of saying, well, prove that it's not true. the younger flynn by the way is his father's chief of staff at the flynn intel group. on "morning joe" today, mike pence said the younger flynn has no involvement in the transition process. but trump's spokesman later said the younger mikel flynn was helping his father early on in the transition, but is no longer involved. in fact, he was getting so involved, they were trying to get a security clearance, bu...

Before the 2016 presidential election, articles with made-up news, made-up facts, from made-up sources, shared a higher rate than actual news that's fact-checked from, the so-called mainstream media. as we've been reporting, one of those fake conspiracy theories had real-life consequences. over the weekend a north carolina man was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon. according to court documents, the gentleman traveled to comet pizza in washington, d.c., to self-investigate a false internet conspiracy theory that had been dubbed pizza-gate. it claimed that theorypizzeria har...

Welcome back. tonight i'm obsessed with the democratization of media. not all of it, giving americans a voice and liberating the flow of information from three networks and a handful of newspapers, all of whom were run by people who look and thought the same thing. what i'm talking about is a plague of fake news. there was a dangerous incident at the comet ping-pong pizza restaurant here in washington. it's hardly the first time fake news has gained currency. james calendar famously spread rumors about jefferson, hamilton and those old enough to walk through airports in the '70s can remember a...

Democracy and freedom the like in the open international markets. chinese are writing an international system with its own rules and unsettling in washington and in europe quite frankly, as well and why this relationship is so incredibly important because if both countries are going to prosper, they both need each other. there have been frictions bubbling lately, no we about it. it's incredibly important for these leaders to publicly put those frictions aside and maybe solve some of these problems. bottom line every china expert will tell you this. china only makes decision based on the best n...

Money, trade, the military. human rights. senior white house correspondent ed henry is joining us live. so, ed, we understand that the two have been in the oval office. and they are in the white house now, soon to begin these bilateral discussions. what else would take place? >> yeah, they've started the bilateral talks, as you know, fred, they're in the oval office right now as we speak. and it's interesting because there are these big substantive issues. but what do think they talked about first? what do two leaders do when they sit down? the weather, if you can believe it. one of my colleag...