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People trying to do the same thing that the russians did in 2016. >> and joining me now is the executive editor of "the washington post," martin baron, and the executor editor of "the new york times," dean baquet. dean, let me start with this. this is what your chief white house correspondent peter baker wrote very recently. there are days in washington lately when it feels like the truth itself is on trial. well, help us make sense of that. >> i mean, it's true. of course, it's ridiculous to say that truth isn't truth. of course, that's a ridiculous construct. i mean, our job, and it's a hard...

Kate. it's not as if the campaign he ran was a strict ad herniate to the truth. the "washington post" has a fact-checking operation there and they found that two-thirds of the 90-plus things that donald trump said that they fact-checked from the campaign were 100% totally false. and yet, you look at exit polling after the election, more people thought donald trump was honest and trustworthy than hillary clinton. >> right, but -- >> i don't know what you do with that, but it's not new. >> it's one thing to distrust the media, right? but it's another thing for the president of the united states ...

>> well fact checking operation at the "the washington post" has also noted both campaigns have said some things that have turned out not to be entirely true outsourcing specifically as it relates to the campaign. let's talk about dick cheney for a second. we know about the fundraiser out in wyoming, $30,000 a head. some folks who have been saying that mitt romney is not richer, not as aggressive as perhaps he should be at this particular point in the campaign. what does this do? mitt romney hanging out with dick cheney, what type of message does this send to t base? >> sten craig, i hope this...