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In congress are going to have to do everything that we can to safeguard our elections, to make sure that everybody gets access to the ballot, that we are reducing gerrymandering and the principle of one person, one vote, to continue to guide our constitutional right to vote. >> and i think one of the things we learned from the voters this past election if they are aligned with you. they are tired of these pendulum elections, and they are tired of extremism. i want to bring in this other part of the conversation, because back about 18 months ago, i had to testify on the disinformation spread, a...

Your thoughts on the lightning speed, to ben's point, of how this just spiralled down toward disinformation, that the disinformation itself is trending and we have the most powerful person in the world, and top republican leaders, you know, tweeting within hours, within moments of this happening, and the disinformation spread like wildfire. your thoughts on that and the impact it has on our overall democracy. >> so first, mika, i thought your opening montage was superb, bringing together footage, reminding us of the kinds of things donald trump said at campaign rally, bringing together all the...

It's scary. as the world heats, it's where the countryside spaces meet the city that will become a bigger part of the front line in the fight against wildfires. claire marshall, bbc news. the conspiracy theorist alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $115 million in punitive damages, after falsely claiming that the 2012 sandy hook school—shooting was a hoax. the defamation case was brought by the parents of one of the victims, who say they endured harassment and emotional distress because of the disinformation spread by the right—wing host of the infowars website. nomia iqbal reports...

Anybody realizes unless you're watching the show on a daily basis. >> yeah, and i mean, what the -- what the graphic elements of the piece capture -- and i do try to watch. i do try to watch as much of it as i can. sometimes it makes my blood boil, but as i said, i only turn to it on big news events. what the reporting does, it's beyond dispute and debate what happens there every single night and what his program -- and it's the you and me and them is so thoroughly recorded and reported. it's really an incredible piece of reporting. karen, thank you so much for spending some time with us today...

The question beautifully. i love my husband and hi loe lo me. we have to acknowledge that a lot of this is going to be disinformation spread on the twitter spear of people claiming to be b a part of this faction of society questioning her blackness, who she married. we saw how this information sullied the campaign of 2016. we can anticipate this time. i've seen my own timeline of people who i suspect to be russian bots questioning her blackness. even smaller sects of society tap into us. like i said, she has to do a better job of appealing to voters who question her previous political standpoi...