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Case get made. And ill talk to one of the smartest judges, a former cop, about what it would take to get the feds to act. Plus, stolen valor. The shocking video of a pretend war hero, and the real hero who confront ed him and shared the story with millions. All that and a lot more. Lets get started. Up first, a case of rape that may instead be a hoax. University of virginia has been rocked in recent weeks by an explosive article in Rolling Stone about a woman named jackie who tells a terrible story of a gang rape at a fraternity party. So terrifying was the story, the university immediately su...

Become a major figure in the russia story because he had nothing to do with it. As far as we know he never met with secret agents in prague orn texted Vladimir Putin on hiswe blackberry. He never managed a macedonian content farm. If barr betrayed this country for a sack of rubles or a case of vodka, nobody has ever proved it but it doesnt matter. The russian story cannot die. Cnn, the washington post, many others have too much invested in that story. The fact that has been untrue is irrelevant. He is a handy way to keep russia and the news. Watch todays talking point in action. Somewhere in t...

Influence the investigation. Its arguing that the Mueller Report is far more damning. Its not pretty. An ugly, damning piece of business. I agree with him that its absolutely damning. Democrats say the report is damning. The report, apart from the special counsel is more damning than all the reports. Far more damning to the president than the attorney general initially indicated. But its still very damning. Tucker as we told you damning. That is what the geniuses concluded before a single one of them read the report. In fact, they still havent read it. But other people read it or skimmed it an...

Asking questions. did we get any indication in which direction the federal judge might be moving? >> reporter: he asked some skeptical questions of the cnn lawyer. he also spent a long time talking with the government lawyer. eric wempel said he couldn't tell which way kelly was going to go. cnn's reporters were in the courtroom, heading outside now. so we'll hear more from them about some of the details of the proceeding. but we do know, the government lawyers took a relatively radical position about the first amendment. and about access to the white house. the government lawyer representing ...

"the washington post." eric, from a journalistic standpoint what bothered you in terms of what level of fact checking took place? >> thanks for having me on. the thing that bothered me about the story is something you find in the very best journalism, which is a reproducibility standard. i found nothing -- almost nothing in that story that i could hang on to or someone i could call or a document i could cite or an authority i could say go to and say, is this true. there was nothing, very little in that story i could hang on to and if i chose to, basically confirm the story on my own terms. the...