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Senator tammy duckworth. she's the first sitting u.s. senator to have a child while in office. it brings me to my question. where does the united states rank in terms of political empowerment of women? 22nd, 57th, 96th or 112th? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. my book of the week is "post-truth" by lee mcinspire. the book looks at one of the most disturbing trends of our time, the increased dismissal of intelligence truth and fact. it's a compelling reminder that we should all fight against this dangerous nilistic idea. the answer to my challenge

Put your big boy pants on, because you're going have to. >> i want to come back to this idea of constant lying and ask you about the news friday night that the entire -- i think there were half a dozen tweets accusing president obama of tapping his wires. it was the first term that donald trump used. doj found that there was absolutely no evidence that donald trump's wires were tapped. so how do we operate in this post-truth, post-fact world? >> donald trump's greatest failings are moral ones. and they're represented in the lies. he has a constituency that believes every day in whatever binary...

He is the vessel of the change they need. and, you know, i think we're in this odd post-truth era. i'll take eisenhower from michael and raise you an fdr, who said on washington's birthday in '42, just as the war was really beginning for america, that the news is going to get worse and worse before it gets better and better, and the american people to have it straight from the shoulder. the american people deserve to have it straight from the shoulder, and we are not getting that by any measure from this white house. >> michael, a last word. are we every day forgetting what we often don't like...

President? >> well, as you said a moment ago, the time has become so compressed. you know, the democrats are leading on the generic ballot in the house race, and that's a moment where lawmakers always get nervous. the approval rating is falling. i think to go to michael's point, the great question here is to what extent are facts going to topple the trump myth, which is the relationship he has with, you know, roughly a third, maybe a little bit more than that of the country that believes -- still believes that he is the vessel of the change they need. and, you know, i think we're in this odd p...

Ruse, that it's fake news. he has gone remarkably far in trying to say that, in fact, he's not even sure russia did the hacking, which the intelligence community unanimously, and as you know, you can't get anything unanimous in government, says happened. so one of the things that he's tsh one of the reasons we continue to have this conversation is he has not been clear about what he knew and whether general flynn was a free agent or whether he was talking to the president or other people around the president about the russia connection. >> yeah. listen, no matter what, how much damage control ...