like infowars? >> one at a time, please. >> let me finish. i let you talk. let me finish. so the idea that because of the technology wave and the rush to get the story right out there the first time, not right, but just to get it out there, we have seen a degradation of the quality of news. you see a lot of fake news, opinion leaking into the hard news cycle. that is real. if journalism just wants to say that doesn't happen, there is no such thing as fake news, i'm sorry. the public isn't buying it because it's not true. >> senator, here's the difference. i want to give you a chance, because i cover this deeply. fake news is a real thing. fake news is something that's been weaponized by authoritarian states such as russia. it was injected into our election in 2016. absolutely fake news. the thing is i'm not denying there is mistaken reporting out