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For the 100th time. So, we wanted to know, what is the impact of all these lies . In the u. S. Repetition increases the belief in false news. On capitol hill the president was a factor in my decision not to lies again. Lies. And the world. The president stands up and says what a great come. Congratulations. No, thats not the case. Most of what he says should be presumed to be false until its proven to be true. I am a conservative republican. Never did i imagine i would be pointing out the gross flaws of a rub kant president. What should we believe . Who can we trust . Tonight a cnn special report all the president s lies. Okay. Hi, im jake tapper in washington. Most president s tell lies, whether obamas if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, or bushs declaration that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The motion of white house falsehoods is not new. What is new, however, is the sheer volume and degree of false statements coming from this president , donald trump. And as he mounts his defense from the impeachment inquiry on a foundation of lies, i wondered what is the actual impact of this on our nation . And what happens if there is some Major International crisis and he needs all of the American People to believe him, to trust him, to have faith in his words . I mean, god forbid that ever happen, but if your word means nothing, what happens then . Maybe i can see its really kind of mind blowing to think we had a cat 5 hurricane that sat off the coast of florida for multiple days and we werent crazy evacuating and it was because we had confidence in that forecast. And then the story became alabama. The alabama saga began september 1st when the president tweeted that along with other states, Hurricane Dorian was headed there. Alabamas going to get a piece of it it looks like. If you go back through all the forecasts, alabama had a minute is kuhl chance, basically close to 0 chance of any significant weather. Alabama residents panicked by trumps other tweet, inundated the Birmingham National weather service. They decided were going to put out a quick statement to warn people that this rumor is not true, not realized that the president of the United States caused the rumor in the first place. That was the original chart. Even after the National Weather Service Officials tweeted the correction, President Trump persisted. That was what was originally suggested. Somebody, possibly the president , i dont know, somebody in the white house took a black magic marker and extended the cone, if you will, of warning into alabama. The infamous sharpie gate. It could have died there. It probably would have. Yet sharpie gate extended into a fire storm when noaa released a statement publicly siding with the president. According to some media reports, trumps staff measured noaa to declare his lies to be true. No, i never did that. I never did that. Thats a whole hoax by the fake news media. You were with noaa for more than 30 years. Youve seen a lot of president s. Have you ever seen anything like this . No, i havent seen anything like this at all. I dont think ive ever seen such outrage. When you start to move the focus off of the National Weather service to the white house, then you begin to politicize this. Now, youve blurred the source. If we see repetition of this type of thing, then i think the publics confidence in the accuracy of our forecast is called into question because the question will be is that the National Weather Service Forecast or is that what the administration told them to do . So, whats at stake. Lives. I think what were endangered of losing here is people wont take action when its needed whether its hurricanes, tornados, flash floods. And when they dont take action, people die. Way before the alabama sharpie stuff, trump was already lying about the weather. Such as on his first day in office. I have to say the crowd was unbelievable today. You know, i looked at the rain which just never came its like god was looking down on us. I will tell you. Meet daniel dell. If you were there, you know that it rained during his speech. From literally the first week of his presidency, trump and his administration taught us you cant rely on what theyre saying about the verify able things we can see with our own lies. Daryl was hired as a lie detector. It would mostly stay on twitter. So, i thought im going to tweet a daily list of how many false things he said. And this is a quantifiable empirical matter. If nancy pelosi was averaging 60 false claims a week, i would probably do a tally too. But the fact is no one else in American Public life, at least in washington, is telling as many lies as the president donald trump. We asked the white house to participate in this documentary about the president and his relationship with facts, and they declined. The first hundred days, he averaged about five false or misleading claims a day. In recent months, its been about 22. Glen kessler heads up the Fact Checking team at the Washington Post. We have a pinocchio scale. What we came up with is the bottomless pinocchio because he repeats things over and over even though theyve been deemed false. Republicans in Congress Passed the biggest tax cut and reform in the history of our country. Thats wrong. It ranks 8th. Daily uses a spreadsheet to keep track of the claims. Each one say different lie. So, when he repeats it, i count it again. Its like baseball statistics except if lying were, like, for hitters what an rbi is. Listen to this one, president. Trump lies about almost literally everything, every conceivable topic. Over six weeks we tracked this summer it was the economy and trade that had become the number one topic. We cant have a 500 billion a year trade deficit. The number is exaggerated. Its not 500 million. Trump has created a situation where a lot of people who still trust him are not going to believe people who are trying to give them important Accurate Information about their lives, whether thats doctors or scientists who are telling them that clie t mate change is a re problem. Because President Trump does not adhere to facts, he has no apparent regard for science or scientists. Hes rolled back Environmental Policies and blocked progress fighting Climate Change. Climate change is a hoax. Everybody remembers that. Its wrong but everybody remembers it. By the way, today we had the cleanest air. We had the cleanest water weve ever had in the history of our country. We have more Carbon Dioxide in the air than we ever have in the history of human civilization. We dont have the cleanest air. He mocks things and then you have people like me or other scientists like no, its not like that. Its complicated. What this president has been doing is unfortunately numbing us to lies. Kristine todd witman was a two term republican governor and headed the epa for george w. Bush. They have put a gag on scientists. Scientists know if they find something as they do their basic science research, if its contrary to what the administration wants, you dont bring it up. Hes literally taking a half century of environmental protections that were put in place to protect our water, to protect our air, and to act on climate and eliminating them over the course of a few years. As troublesome, according to military brass, trump turning a blind eye to Climate Change poses a threat to our national security. It changes the very operating environment where our soldiers and sailors, airmen, and marines need to work and need to prevail. The arctic is kind of a poster child for that, how the ice is melting out. And although definitive lines between Climate Change and geopolitical impacts are hard to prove conclusively, climb tolgs michaelman has a bigger concern. Syria is suffering from a drought. That drought forced farmers into the cities like alep poe, creates an environment where tourist organizations can more easily recruit people. That is the context in which isis formed. Leading to catastrophe. Up next, perhaps trumps biggest lie. The whistleblowers been very inaccurate. The whistleblower got it all wrong. Its a four pinocchio claim. He said it 29 times. Dad, we need to talk about something important. You dont need to go anywhere dad, this is your home. The best home to be in is your own. Home instead offers personalized Inhome Services for your loved ones. Home instead senior care. To us, its personal. Home instead senior care. Do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back . About 50 of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. Fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. 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This Washington Post headline says it all. As the biggest scandal of his presidency blew up, trump made falsehoods. We had false claims after false claims. Even though we only covered a couple of weeks, it grew to over 250 claims. One of the statements about the whistleblower, that the whistleblower was very inaccurate almost instantly became a bottomless pinocchio which you get if you repeat 20 or more times. Hes referring to marks trump made about a whistleblower complaint that stated that the president tried to pressure ukraine and withheld aid while pushing for dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. The whistleblowers report was very wrong. I think when the ukraine scandal and the Conspiracy Theory that the president is depending on, were seeing lying at a scale that is somewhat new and is very complex. He looks for hints from others. Oh, ukraine was to blame for interfering in the 2016 election, not russia. This is all crazy talk. And all of it is a lie. President , part of his lack of faith in facts is his belief in conspiracy theories. Pushing the ukrainians to investigate this crazy theory of the dnc servers in ukraine. Its head shaking. What matters is shes saying things that are clearly not backed by facts, that are clearly at variance with reality. And that diminishing his credibility. More false claims were found in the transcript of the call between him and the ukrainian president. My phone call was perfecto. It was totally appropriate. He said joe biden specifically pressured ukraine to take a prosecutor off that case. Thats not what happened. If a republican ever said what joe biden said they would be getting the electric chair right now. There is no president that lied as if it were a form of breathing except donald trump. In his mind, nixon thought he was doing whats best for the United States. Donald trump is operating on whats best for himself. He weaponized himself to damage joe biden. And you know what . He may have been successful in that while at the same time blowing up his own presidency. Republican congressman charlie dense resigned last year. I dealt with the president on health care. We had a celebrated dust up. Hes talking about 2017, the president s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act, widely known as obamacare. That collapsed but trump has not given up. Let me tell you what my message is. The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care. Based on my reporting of this issue, President Trump does not understand health care. So, when he dabbles in it, he often runs into falsehoods repeatedly. Abby phillip is a cnn white house correspondent. The Trump Administration is in a lawsuit right now arguing that the Affordable Care act needs to be scrapped altogether which would incredibly discorrupt the health care system. But when you talk to President Trump about health care, he claims h. E. R. Trying to preserve protections for preexisting conditions. All these things are not true based on the position theyre taking in court. We will always protect patients with preexisting conditions. He wants to make the picture seem as best for him politically as possible even if its not aligned with the truth. With deals, thats what i do is deals. The president casts himself as a deal maker, but very few deals have been struck. President trump shocked lawmakers from both parties when he appeared open to an immigration deal that would eventually grant millions of undocumented immigrants citizenship. Youre not so far away from comprehensive immigration reform, and if you want to take it that further step, ill take the heat. I dont care. My whole life has been heat. Donald trump has never taken the heat on anything. Republican linda chavez served as the Public Office of liaison for ronald reagan. Donald trump is not a great deal maker. Immigration is one of his signature issues and hes unwilling to even consider that. He hasnt acted as if Congress Even has a role to play. Trump never signed immigration reform. He reversed himself throwing his support behind a conservative immigration bill. I hope we gave you enough material. This should cover you for about two weeks. Again, in february i really see a lot of common ground. Trump stunned republicans by embracing democrats on a comprehensive gun control law. You can buy all these weapons. This is what you have to discuss. Youre going to have to discuss that. Sit down with diane and everybody else. It made for great tv, but that proposed Gun Legislation never went anywhere. In the wake of several recent deadly shootings, trump has continued to flip flop on gun control. Frankly, we need intelligent background checks, okay . Yet weeks after that statement on fox, he dialled back. Going very slowly in one way because we want to make sure its right. Congress is at a virtual Holding Pattern on any Gun Legislation. Ive said repeatedly that we need guidance from the president about what kind of proposal that would make a difference he would actually sign into law. White house blames the democrats and impeachment for the hold up, but trump has repeatedly blown up negotiations. Donald trump told me specifically he is not interested in making deals people feel good about later. He doesnt want to go back and make a second deal with the same party. Hes happy to take everything with himself and move on. We now have a paralyzed washington. Its very easy to work with because i make all the decisions. Few decisions, few deals. Perhaps that one of the reasons many House Republicans are exiting. I didnt want to deal with the circus. There will be more departures. Coming up the one word that scares him the most is recession. One of the latest samsung phones you get one free. On that. So you can post this. Score this. Be there like this. 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China placed tariffs on hundreds of american products. Heres a pretty typical plant. Hurting farmers such as this man in western pennsylvania who spoke with cnn this summer. What percentage of your soybeans is exported . 100 of my beans. 100 . Right. Do you know how much of it goes to china before the tariffs . I assume they all went to china. Farmers however are feeling a little relief thanks to billions of subsidies and moves by china to ease some agricultural tariffs. Along the maine coast, lobster dealers have no such relief. I used to selfhalf my lobsters to china and now i cant sell any of my lob teres to china. Its impacted by business, 50 of my sells. The american taxpayers are not paying for it. His goal is headlines. Headlines and provoking rage, polarization. But theres also part of the administration that sort of china is an even empire camp that really always wanted to see the u. S. Separating from china, that would like to see us have a fundamentally different economic system. And i think to the extent that it bolsters him with his base, trump is quite happy to go along with that. China was taking 500 billion a year out of the United States. Once again, thats not factual. First of all is the number is exaggerated. Its not 500 billion. Last year the trade deficit with china was around 380 billion. And we use for many years 500 billi 500 billion a year with china. Its not a moneylosing thing. It just means that we buy more products from china than the chinese buy from the United States. Thats a good example of where its hard to say its a lie because i think he really believes we are losing that money. If the president says theyre holding billions of dollars in our debt, that sounds really bad. And he has paved the way for this regime of lying by discrediting Economic Indicators in the past. Discrediting Economic Indicators by exaggerating. Republicans passed the biggest tax cut and reform in history with massive tax cuts for the middle class. Misrepresenting. We have no inflation. Thats a very big thing. And lying about economic data. President trump does this all the time. I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly, they may have been phony in the past, but its very real now. Then sean spicer may have sounded like he was joking, but he was talking about a serious issue, the president s willingness to discredit official government numbers but only when it suits him. He would say that he doesnt believe what the Unemployment Rate was announced to be during obama administration. Those numbers are cooked. I hear 5. 3 unemployment. That is the biggest joke there is in this country. So, now that hes president , hell cite those numbers. So, the unemployment numbers just came out and theyre the best numbers weve had in over 50 years. But hell say im the source now. When obama was the source, that was the discredited source. But trust me, trust me. One result of this misinformation from President Trump, it may have helped juice the economy. Thats according to robert shiler, a Nobel Prize Winner in economics. What is the impact of his lies on the economy . In the long run i think its not good to set up an atmosphere of lies and counterlies because i think its hard to do business in that environment. But in the short run, it can boost business by creating some kind of confidence, some sort of false beliefs. Such as exaggerating communications with china to make it seem as though a trade deal is imminent. China called last night our top trade people and said lets get back to the table. Theres no evidence that phone call was ever made. That was a monday in late august. The dow had dropped 623 points the friday before. Two officials told cnn trump conflated some messages coming from china because he was eager to project optimism that might boost markets. It may have worked. The dow closed up 270 points that monday. And keep in mind, a president s boasting can boost the market or the yoer all economy. It has happened before. Calvin coolidge was accused of untruth in the 1920s in promoting the bull market of the roaring 20s. After the 1929 crash, coolidge became subject of ridicule. Fast forward to today where there is evidence that the u. S. Economy is slowing down, but the president refuses to accept that fact. Tweeting late august, the fake news lame stream media is doing Everything Possible to create a u. S. Recession even though the numbers and facts are working totally in the opposite direction. The u. S. Economy is slowing. Trade has been flat or falling for a number of years now. The one word that scares him the most is recession. He almost is like the witch melting in the wizard of oz when you say the word. That will doom him. He has run so much on im good for the markets, im good for the u. S. Economy. If were in a recession, its onot going to feel that way to a lot of people. In this area right here theres probably 30,000 pounds of lobsters. It already doesnt feel that way to the Business Owners struggling because of the president s tariffs. We really developed the business in china starting in 2009. This was the focus of my business. And now the canadians have my customers and i dont know if i can ever get them back. As for her future if hes reelected, i quit. And i wont be the only one. Up next, what the president s lies say to americas allies. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . 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We have defeated isis, essentially. We defeated isis. I sis was never really defeated. When the u. S. President lies on the world stage, he is doing more than trampling the truth. We captured many, many isis fighters. Most of them came from europe. Hes up ending world order. The United States has essentially gone from what i would describe as the principle architect and the principle general contractor of the world, the preserver of the world, to now weve become the principle disruptor. Trumps lies are a big part of that disrupting. Richard haas was the director of planning under george w. Bush. Hes now the president of the council of foreign relations. He believes there are two kinds of trump lies. One is to present only one side. Such as hailing the end othe recent turkish assault on the kurds in syria. By getting this cease fire to stick, weve done something thats very, very special. Instead of explaining that he helped facilitate turkeys attack by withdrawing the u. S. Troops who, as part of their duties, with protecting the kurds, a u. S. Ally. And then you have situations like we saw more recently in the decisions with turkey and syria where the president stands up and says this is a great success. Now people are saying wow, what a great outcome. No, thats not the case. The case was kurds living near the Turkish Border with syria lost lives, homes, territory. Weve done a good job. Thats not what the president s lead adviser on syria and against isis testified on the hill just 90 minutes before President Trump delivered that victory speech. The turkish incursion into syria is a tragedy. It was longstanding u. S. Government policy in two administrations to keep that from happening. We had been telling the kurds that we would try to make sure that they werent murdered or tortured. But the president had also promised he would bring the troops home. I campaigned on bringing the soldiers back home, and thats what im doing. He sees americans in syria and just pulls them out. Hes trying to fulfill those Campaign Promises as an inoculation against the lies. He pulled them out of northern syria, but there remain u. S. Troops in syria. Those who remain will continue to execute Counterterrorism Operations while staying in close contact with the Syrian Democratic forces who have fought along side us. Additionally, the United States will control oil fields in northeast syria. U. S. Troops are still there. Theyre just not protecting kurds who lost thousands of people while helping the u. S. Fight isis. We certainly betrayed an ally in the kurds. And this amplified an ominous message that has been ricochetting around the globe since trump took office. We dont stand behind our deals, were not honest, and the world doesnt trust us. What does that do to other allies of the United States when they see oh, the word of the United States, the word of President Trump is actually worthless. What affect does that have . Read the israeli press, makes israel more uncomfortable about taking risk. The saudis increasingly believe theyre on their own. He has made it so that now the japanese and the south koreans are looking at were going to have to deal with kim jongun because we cant trust the United States to be there for us. By definition, if youre an ally of the United States youve made the consequential decision to place your fate in our hands. If its determined that what were saying cant be taken at face value, theyre going to say we cant depend on these americans. They dont speak consistently. Theyre not being honest with us. So, were going to develop new clear weapons of our own and cut deals of our own. Thats the danger with our friends. And the enemies i think our foes are going to be much more prone to testing us whether its iran or putin. Only iran the u. S. Pulled out of the u. S. Iran deal. They are not in compliance with the agreement. Both the allies and the president s own advisers said iran was not in compliance. Not anymore. The iranians are enriching e uranium beyond the limited amount. This is pressuring europe to change the terms of the deal to comp state for the u. S. Withdrawal from it. Just pulling out in some ways undercuts our standing in the world stage. Any country that signs a deal with a democrat has to believe that if a republican comes in or vice versa that that agreement is going to stand. That has added yet another reason for the Global Community to question mr. Trump who has threatened military action if iran steps out of line. He tweeted in may, quote, if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. Why shouldnt the iranians worry over what we might do . They might say well, they didnt help the saudis after the saudis were attacked. And then theres russia. Putin, what really worries me is how do we know that he wont basically say well ive gotten away with this on ukraine. Hes talking about putins illegal annexation of crimea which happened during the obama administration. Ive gotten away with this on syria. Hes referring to putins decision to move Russian Troops into the syrian territory recently abandoned by the u. S. Maybe hes going to probe us with some nato country, maybe montenegro, maybe estonia. My concern is this inconstant si, im worried its going to lead tie lot of tests of the United States. More tests haase believes because the u. S. President has less credibility. And theres no persons credibility that matters more than the president of the United States. It is the person with whom billions of people around the world through their governments have placed their futures, their faith, their security, their confidence. Up next, the impact of trumps lies on the human mind. As dishonesty gradually increases, the reaction of the public actually decreases. Dad, we need to talk about something important. 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The whistleblower said lots of things that werent so good, folks. Youre going to find out. He believes that if he says it over and over and again, it will somehow make it truer. And it doesnt. As you know trump lies are growing and getting bolder. One might have hoped that he would have slowed down, but instead hes actually gotten worse. Some of his defenders will say he doesnt get every detail right. You guys in the media make too big a deal out of this. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Look, every politician sometimes lies and gets things wrong. Trump isnt always intentional when hes getting things wrong. But after literally thousands of these, at some point i think those defenses just start to sound silly. With this frequency, this quantity, there is an intentional strategy. Conservative analyst Amanda Carpenter believes that strategy is gaslighting. Its an abstract concept of manipulation, making people believe things are not there. I wrote the book Gaslighting America because i see it as bigger than lying. He finds the narratives that are floating around the Conspiracy Theory blogs and picks up on them because theres an appetite for it. Ukraine is classic gaslighting. He just doesnt tout simple lies. Hes doing government investigations to find things that werent there. Carpenter is talking about falsehoods spun by trump and his personal lawyer rudy giuliani. Conspiracy theories that joe biden pushed out a ukrainian yan prosecutor because he had been investigating his son hunter. Thats false according to mounting evidence including testimonies from top diplomats who paint a vivid picture of giulianis efforts to coax ukraine. Take a look at biden and youll see tremendous corruption. The trouble comes when the public believes these false claims rather than the facts. He is excellent at spinning these things up, trapping people into the narrative. And people want to believe it. Historian Timothy Schneider has another theory. He lies all the time but he doesnt lie all the time out of conviction. He lies all the time to make sure were all confused. Its similar to another leader across the ocean. The single most alarming similarity between mr. Trump and mr. Putin is the basic pattern of lying. First you lie all the. Why is it only the United States putting up the money. Then you say its lakeeffect the journalists who are the liars. Obviously, its fake because almost everything the Washington Post does is fake. Then you rely on confusion you have the best spectacle and platform, the president of the country. Could the persistent attacks affect other leaders and other countries. In 2017, they seized on a fake news tweet on slavery in libya. Others around the world have gotten a message. They wont pay a price if they behave badly in this realm. Were no longer setting an example individuals around the world want to emulate. The president s weapon of choice for spreading falsehoods is twitter. The bate and speed with which his comments travel is very different than anything weve ever seen in president ial history. When we analyze all of the true and false verified news spread on twitter, was we found was false news diffused farther, faster, deeper more broadly than the truth in every category of information that we studied. His studies show lies stick the more we heard them. Research shows repetition increases the belief in false news. Even if i am repeating to you the false news headline in order to tell you its false news, hearing it again and again will make me believe that falsity. So how does all of this lying affect us . What happens when a lie hits your brain. Repeated lying is like perfume. The first time you put it on it really smells quite strongly. The next time you put it on, less so. After a few weeks you cant smell it anymore because you desensitize. Last week, our colleague put our perfume test to the test. We made a prediction we will see the average amount of falsehood increase everyday from the oval office and at the same time we see less reaction from the public and inner circle. It turns out that is exactly what happens. As dishonesty gradually increases, the reaction of the public actually decreases. According to a recent poll, while most Americans Trust the news media over President Trump when it comes to whos telling the truth about important issues, threequarters of republicans trust President Trump over the news media. There is an echo chamber. Folks werent necessarily willing to fact check this president. He gets away with it at least with a segment of his supporters because they dont trust institutions, right, because he has told them those folks are not to be believed. Im the only one to be believed. Some in his own party are losing faith. I have loyalty to people i work with. Theres also limits to a Political Party when you see things happening. Dont try to ever defend the indefensible with the president or explain the inexplicable. Im terrified this lying will become the new norm in politics. Is this the new norm . What impact will this ultimately have on the nation . The u. S. Is still scarred by lies around watergate and vietnam. Will President Trumps false hoods forever mark this era . How can we trust the next president . I think these are all challenges and totally normal. We have to remember democracy is not given to us. It is something we have to work really hart to create. Part of that hard work these days is seeking out the facts and agreeing to accept them as facts. Tapes dont lie. The president lied. Mr. President , is not the fake news you have to do your own research or go to an independent source to see if its true. Its not my job to tell citizens, voters how to behave. 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