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Journalism can only get better if we all know how the mistakes occurred in the first place. >> i'll have more on this in the "reliable sources" newsletter. eric, elena, thank you very much. a quick break here. and then the revelations from "catch and kill" that you haven't heard yet. it's either the assurance of a 165-point
Let's talk about the president's statements about syria. the president's misstatements about troops. the president's misspelling of the defense secretary's name today. that and much more with my panel here. daniel dale is a cnn fact checker who analyzes every word the president says. also fact checks other politicians. elaina plott is a white house correspondent for the atlantic and a cnn analyst. and eric wimpl el is a fact checker at "the washington post." so this is a president getting the facts wrong about troops in harm's way. what stood out to you this week? we have a full screen that ca...
Eric, you wrote something this week that really smoke to me. you talked about how it's difficult to use neutral-sounding language to describe what the president does, because that makes it sounds like you have an axe to grind. great example today, the president misspells the defense secretary's name on twitter. mark asps esper is his name. and the president wrote esperanto. but the president should have a proof reed proof reader. and just talking about this, it sounds like an attack. >> cnn gets hammered for this every single day, saying, trump came on the air and just mocked a reporter with a...
I think it does a disservice to other reporters each day who do feel that their job is to go out and report the truth. >> eric, an abc source said to me, there will be consequences, internally, but they won't say what that means. >> and i think they won't explain, either, exactly what happened. beckett adams at the "washington examiner" -- >> has been doing great work on this. >> great work on this and god bless him, because this is important pressure to keep on abc. and good for you for bringing it one too, because i think they want this thing to blow over. i think they should explain what ha...