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Figure out trump supporters and their loyalty to the present. a sociology professor at columbia university may have figured out why they keep getting it's all wrong. he was on radio this morning, and now he joins us with more. professor, good to see you. thanks for being on in the morning and at night. doing double duty. appreciate it. what's going on here with some of the polling and some of the research you've been able to cull through? >> there is a few things we see in a lot of studies intended to understand that 2016 election. the main problems seem to be things like prejudicial study des...

About why would someone vote for hillary clinton? is it because they are anti-american? so there's this sort of prejudicial study design is a big problem. sometimes there are glaring errors, statistical errors that somehow get through by people who know better and by editors who know better. they are cited by other people who know better. not on purpose. i don't think it's a cynical thing. i think for the most part it's just an issue where the studies are confirming something. a view of the world they strongly believe and want to believe. these kinds of errors creep in and get unnoticed. >> la...

Newsrooms across the country, that's until a new study design is finalized. the firm hired to do the study, social solutions international, has a background that largely focuses on public health, not the media. so how did this plan get close to reality in the first place? we'll ask the fcc chairman who first put this story out there, nice the see you this morning, sir. >> great to be with you. >> i think we are all scratching our head as we are wondering how this got close to being implemented in the first place, and you had to come out to blow the whistle on this thing. how did this fast five...

Cutting off much needed water supplies in an unprecedented move and how it blows you have your grocery bill. and tonight, a young woman overcoming incredible odds. she fought her way to the summer olympics and took home the gold and now wants to do it again. >> i am harris faulkner. a plan to put government researchers in newsroom is on hold now. the fcc scrapped that idea after back lash from news outlets and republicans and journalist. it would cover how we do do the nows. it is a victory for the first amendment. he's acknowledged that the study design came to close to the line when it came ...

Was this idea ever even voted on by the commission? >> it was not. >> who came up with this idea? do you have any idea? >> that's one of the questions that i have, but unfortunately we don't have any insight into the process by which the study came about. but the good news is, going forward, current chairman wheeler announced that any study that fcc does in any of these markets is not going to require media owners, news directors or journalists to answer any of these kind of intrusive questions about editorial judgment. >> i applaud you. but i must say i'm a little bit taken aback by the commi...