but these are multiple stations, and the only thing that would have made it transparent enough to make some sense was if they said this is something we re putting across the sinclair network and been flat out about that. if they wanted to communicate the dedication and commitment to reporting real news in real journalistic terms that should have been a memo that went to the editorial staff that said we now support and we re going to back this reporting. and put that in your editorial process. the problem is when they mentioned pope endorses trump and the pizzagate they could have said it was fake news, and they didn t mention that initially on the air. liz, you resigned on the air from russia today now and known as rt some three years ago because of what was categorized
campaign will pick up and use against their political opponent. and then vice versa. if the trump campaign or now the trump administration makes a false claim, the russian propaganda lines will pick that up and duplicate it as well. the reseptemberability of the trump campaign impresses me. they go to go to sputnik. they know where to go to pick up this russian help. i think the question is is this coordinated or opportunistic? on one hand you could say they must have worked together hand and glove. i think more likely it was just opportunism, but why would you look to a russian news outlet as your source of information to batter your political opponent? that doesn t make sense. we tend to rely on traditional media outlets because they re vetted. there s facts behind them. there s editorial process. what do you think the russians are up to right now because it s hard to read putin. on one hand he says he wants a reproach manhattan with the west like we had during gorbachev s time
national security adviser and his team and her team, then, you know, that s where people talk about how it becomes politicized. sure, yes. there s an editorial process where they start picking and choosing what they are going to pay attention to and it s not just the current administration or the next administration. it s the previous administration and down through the ages since the beginning of the u.s. intel system. so, mike flynn, lieutenant general, he s going to be national security adviser for president-elect in 2015 came out and said listen the cia under president obama has been politicized, dismissing a lot of its conclusions. have you heard that? does he have a case there? that s before he got this job. right. and to be fair, general flynn who is extremely well experienced and very capable individual, he s had his differences with the cia, both when he was in the military and now that he s out. it s not always been a smooth relationship, and in part when he was with dia,
for us? of course not. i have no idea what cnbc would do. i can t imagine they would surrender control of their editorial process to somebody else. the cause of that disaster of a debate that cnbc did, i do not know, and i cannot tell you. and i don t know what arrangement they had. but now we are going back. we are going to the natural place. we are going to the place where in previous cycles we have been where everybody has been, which is we put on debates. we invite candidates to attend. they will either attend or they will not attend, and we will be part of an iterative, collaborative not collaborative but certainly open process with these campaigns talking about what kind of debate we re going to have, and then we come to a conclusion and have a great debate, everybody watches and we hip pick a president. okay. all right. i m going to look forward to that. now, let s get on to you make it sound spectacular, and i though it will be. let s go now to the power index that you
detailed in rolling stone magazine last fall. in november the magazine detailed the brutal assault of a female student at a fraternity party. rolling stone later apologized for the story when discrepancies were found in the reporting and account. they never however retracted the story and it remains unclear what happened inside that house. soon police will publicly discuss the results of the investigation into the controversy. rosa flores live in charlottesville with more. good morning. good morning, carol. we re expecting a press conference by police at about 2:00 p.m. today revealing their investigation. let s not forget that s not the only investigation going on here. there are three different reviews, the police looking into those allegations, the state attorney general. that investigation is still pending and you have the columbia journalism review also reviewing the editorial process. let s start with police. today at 2:00 p.m. we re expected to hear the results of