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This. they didn't ask to be in the middle of the media spotlight, and they are perplexed by the fact that anybody would use the murder of their son, a wonderful mid 20-something-year-old kid who moved to washington, d.c. in order to make a difference in this world and who was gunned down senselessly in the streets of washington. it's just ridiculous. >> i have the affidavit here from the lawsuit that rod wheeler has filed. in it he says -- he basically talks about what their motivation was and ed buttowsky, a fox news contributor, hooked up with rod wheeler, sent an e-mail to fox news anchors ...

Collusion like trump with the russians. that was their bottom line, if you believe rod wheeler's lawsuit. what's your response? >> you know what strikes me? you had ed butowsky on tv for about 20 minutes, and he had the opportunity to look the american people in the eye and the seth rich family in the eye and say, you know what, six months after i reached out to you, knowing what i know now, i cannot believe i put you in this position and i am so, so sorry. he didn't even take that opportunity. he didn't even look the american people or the family in the eye to apologize to them and say i had ...

>> so cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter joins us. what a complicated and tragic story this is. basically ed buttowsky, not a journalist, hooks up with rod wheeler, not a journalist and together begin peddling this story that there's some connection between the murder of seth rich, a young dnc staffer and wikileaks and release of documents. ed butowsky admits he's trying to distract from the idea that russia was behind the leaks. >> trying to disprove all the russia theories, create a counternarrative. this is like a media literacy lesson. when you have...