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Are talking about how there are 17 intelligence agencies that concurred on russia collusion in the election. there are 16 agencies plus the director of national intelligence. there were three relevant agencies that did the investigation into the cia. >> eric: what does this do to the view of journalism? >> it means that you cannot separate the journalists who make mistakes. correcting them. you have to be careful. on the other hand, a media segment, i wanted to bring up that the media has to be very, very careful to be accurate and double check everything. that does not take away the basic rol...

This is a media segment, on the journalist to get something right. i think the story, as judy noted and "the new york times" noted, had parts that had to be retracted. there is a huge responsibility for a paper with all of the resources it has all of the editors and fire power it has to get things right and deal with sources in a fair way so that sources have a chance to reply before a story is published in a way they could fully understand what the story is about. i think, let's just stick to that for the moment because i think that is where the politics of this is. the damaging story was put...

Lie? >> i think david got very, very nervous in terms of his own reputation and his own character. this whole issue on benghazi is an issue of character. and i think petreas got nervous about it, that's why he made those notations, that's why he tried to express to people that they ought perhaps not to use what had evolved as talking points. and i find it ironic, a maybe that's the wrong word, but i find it ironic after a couple months after petreas expressed that, after he abandoned the team that petaras -- >> we have to go. our media segment is next and with the new staples rewards program y...

I, and i'm speaking for bernie now and he can correct me in a moment if i'm wrong. what bernie and i are trying to get across with this media segment every week is that many in the media, powerful people don't want to tell the truth to the people. it's more important to them to get their ideology in play than to let the folks know what the truth is that's a total change from what the media was 30 or 40 years ago. >> that's pretty close to my position although i don't know if you are suggesting that they consciously wake up in the morning and say i'm going to try to help barack obama. >> no, th...

I, and i'm speaking for bernie now and he can correct me in a moment if i'm wrong. what bernie and i are trying to get across with this media segment every week is that many in the media, powerful people don't want to tell the truth to the people. it's more important to them to get their ideogy in play than to let the folks know what the truth is that's a total change from what the media was 30 or 40 years ago. >> that's pretty close to my position although i don't know if you are suggesting that they consciously wake up in the morning and say i'm going to try to help barack obama. >> no, they...