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But he still wants his people to monitor what they are doing. >> by directing the state guard to monitor the operations -- >> reporter: don't mess with texas is republican governor greg abbott's message to the pentagon. abbott called out his state guard to keep an eye on u.s. special operations forces. the governor says he wants to make sure texans' constitutional rights private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed during an upcoming military war game known as jade helm 15. the site info wars has led the internet buzz insisting it's all a plan for the army to wage war on a...

Are running wild tonight about the army's plan for a multistate training exercise this summer called jade helm 15. well the military says it's just training soldiers for the realities of war critics say the army is preparing for modern day martial law. trace gallagher live in our west coast news room with the story. >> megyn some are calling it a texas take over. a bunch of green berets, navy s.e.a.l.s. and special ops are conducting real life training exercises across the southwest. the goal is to see if groups of these special forces can move around the civilian population without being noti...

That. and the governor says, well, i don't know. what do you mean you don't know? what does that mean? really? you think that like the entire pentagon said, oh, really, you want to declare martial law and take over texas, let's do it under the guise of routine training missions and everybody is going to be -- but they took it seriously. this is in the swamp of crazy that has been fed over and over and over and over again. >> it may not have been totally obvious at the time but jade helm was a kind of an early warning about how fake news can be mainstreamed, especially when the misinformation i...

He wasn't alone. texas senator ted cruz said he wrote to the pentagon to demand answers about jade helm. senator rand paul, of course, a presidential contender at the time, said he was looking into the issue. suddenly, along with legitimate policy issues like guns or abortion, the fantasy military takeover of texas became some sort of sleeper litmus test in republican politics. how seriously you took the threat of this takeover of texas was a litmus test for the gop presidential primary. that is just nuts. now, president obama has cited this very case study, which you may or may not remember, ...

He wants dr. carson on his cabinet and he's glad to serve. >> this nomination was just weird when you consider all of the ways that ben carson has a disconnect with reality. if dr. carson is confirmed, he'll not only be -- he won't be the only conspiracy theorist in trump's inner circle. take general michael flynn, trump's national security adviser. he's been a frequent contributor to the conspire see theorists on twitter and general flynn's son, also his chief of staff and we know how a government transition e-mail account already has been pushing a hillary clinton sex ring conspiracy theory ...