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>> he's like the snider of the house. all right. earlier this week miriam webster revealed its word of the year. the word is "surreal" which they define as marked by the irrational reality of a dream or unbelievable, fantastic. yes, 2016 was a very surreal year. remember this? secretary of state. the publishing company picked a surreal based on the number of look ups on theron line dictionary. the liberals were hoping they were living in a scene of "saint elsewhere." for oxford it was post-truth.

Concerns are about things that he's tweeted and a lot of it about also not just the comments about muslims but about fake news. this is a tweet that he put out there in november but has left up, quote, you decide nypd blows whistle on new hillary e-mails, money laundering, sex crimes with children, et cetera, a must read. now here's the issue. there's no basis in fact for that, but we've just seen this week the real life impact that fake news can have when a man armed with an assault rifle went into the d.c. pizzeria, fired shots because of a fake news story tying hillary clinton to a conspira...

On tv when i was a kid for ef hutton whose tag line was when ef hutton talks, people listen. when the president of the united states or the president-elect talks, people listen. what he says has consequence. but now whether it is draining the tramp or repealing obamacare or persuading companies not to leave the united states, we're being told by his staff and by mr. trump, himself, you shouldn't take him literally. except perhaps when you should. remember when candidate trump said this about president obama during the campaign? >> he is the founder of isis. he is the founder of isis. okay? he ...

Completely cosmopolitan city. >> final thought. >> yeah, i think this is a very good interpretation because also when there are a phenomenon of anti-immigration movements, like in north italy. and z as the numbers. the close of the media because of the media. we get to the media without professional media producers. and we become the media producer. and this is, this connections between as a reality through our means of mediation, communication, makes us post-truth, all of us. so it's a snichgs which we created it through and then we believe in it. >> well then, we searched through these new m...

Maybe the lead there is he -- >> what's the message, s.e.? >> i this the idea in a post-fast, post-truth, post-trump world we should all adjust the way he licenses to accommodate the way he talks is dangerous. i don't think that should be the takeaway. he's not traditional, not conventional. maybe we have to, um, take everything he says with a grain of salt. that's why our reporters and press will be so crucial over the next year to four years covering him to really hold him accountable. it's literally the definition of leadership, believing you can take a man at his word. with he need that as...