it kind of gives the american people a glimpse of what we deal with day in and day out with the abuses, not so much with bob mueller but the people who work with him. what do you think? what do you feel? it is like, come on in and commit perjury. kate, if this is giuliani s message to robert mueller, why make the distension between him and his lawyers on the team? i think he s, still, like you said, rudy giuliani has basically become the story himself. as far as putting distance between staff and mueller, i don t know there s a specific strategy behind that, but you are seeing rudy giuliani become the story himself. he s trying to deflect that, calling it a witchhunt. a judge in the paul manafort case on friday said, basically
puppets. maybe you ve seen one of these or maybe one of these. there s a rainbow buff ball sock puppet. pretty cute. on the internet, and that one there is distension wished, refers to any false identity used to secretly attack or praise someone. so when you hear about russian bots they re sock puppets on steroids, not only wreaking havoc in 2016 but molly mccue writing they were an influential hidden part of this recent push to get that nunes memo out. conservatives latched on to #release the memo. but the sock puppets got the movement started. the first time the phrase was used on twitter came from a fake russian account a few weeks ago. then the term was spreading with boosts from those bots shared over 500,000 times. all the facts i just reported are kurtzsy of molly mccue who
calculated 5 1/2 mistruthz ps p day. i think it is a dicey question to even raise. it is controversial to say lie because lie suggests intent. i think it is our job as journalists to point out when things are not true, to point out when they are exaggerated, but to say something is a lie, i think it is a very different thing. yet, a lot of viewers at home are screaming at the tv saying he s lying, say he s lying. i respectfully disagree. part of our job is to call a lie a lie and a fact a fact. we need to insist on a fact-based debate. sometimes it is very clear, if he s reversing himself on the access hollywood tape and this belief that other people won t remember what we have seen and what he said, that goes to intent or a distension from reality. for donald trump, the baseline is what he called when he was a real estate magnate truthful hyperbole. i was going to put that on
anger a few white nationalists because we re taking down a statue of robert e. lee, fine, get mad. i ve been skeptical of the rush to tear all these things down. there s a distension between robert e. lee and nathan bedford forest. an early figure in the klan. but if these monuments are going to become rallying points for neo-nazis, maybe they do all have to go. and you wonder, why would you erect a monument? the confederacy waged war on the united states. so the idea of putting up those monuments didn t happen right after the civil war. it happened during the 1960s. it happened over the fight for desegregating schools. these monuments immediately in the immediate aftermath of the civil war, no one would have thought of putting up the flag of the confederacy because they were treasonous. in the 1960s, the idea was to make a statement. the statement was being made to black people. it was being made to civil rights advocates that we re going to put up these statues of the confedera
i ve been skeptical of the rush to tear all these things down. there s a distension between robert e. lee and nathan bedford forest. if these monuments are going to be rallying points for neo-nazis, maybe they have to go. why would you erect a monument the confederacy waged war on the united states. so the idea of putting up those monuments didn t happen right after the civil war. it happened during the 1960s. it happened over the fight for desegregating schools. these monuments immediately in the immediate aftermath of the civil war, no one would have thought of putting up the flag of the confederacy because they were treasonists. in the 1960s, the idea was to make a statement. the statement was being made to black people. it was being made to civil rights advocates that we re going to put up these statues for a reason. that s why those statues are there. that s when they went there. let me throw this challenge at all four of you. nobody here thinks president