now the development somewhat unusual when it comes to doj filings, fox not only got the facts wrong but actually called out in a court filing, in writing, by their supposed hero, trump appointee, john durham, in the new filing basically says members of the media overstated, understated or misinterpreted the facts in the motion. fox got it wrong and trying to distance themself from it, muller not that tight lips but certainly avoids interviews and avoids court filing if he can so this is highly unusual. how is fox responding? this is also important, because everyone can get things wrong, in fact, last night we talked about first amendment rules and how the press sometimes makes honest mistakes and corrects them. that s acceptable. fox isn t correcting anything even though their own holy
for nothing. john dern s investigation. the crime of the century. more electronic water gate except at a much higher level. is it? fox cited clinton over 200 times, she noticed. it s funny, the more trouble trump gets into the wilder the charges and conspiracy theories about me seem to get. fox leads a charge with accusations against me counting on their audience to fall for it again. now we track things that come out of d.o.j. we have reported on some aspects of this special council probe, one kept pledging, hasn t led to big indictments but when we heard about th we took a look and found basically the claims misleading and convoluted not news and not worth reporting,
you can only imagine what this does to the minds of some deranged people who might be prone to violence. it s very dangerous to say these things. and you know, fox and others got it wrong but they got it wrong in a very willful way. i mean, i read that filing to begin with and if you understand the technical side of things, you know, it gets technical, i don t want to get bogged down here but clearly did not say anyone was hacking into servers, the white house, trump tower or trump campaign, yet that s what got reported and on fox news they said the clintonites had infiltrated, their word, infiltrated the trump campaign, trump white house. that word doesn t appear in the entire filing. it s just not there. so well that s let s get into that, david, because first of all, friday night on the east coast, some people eating dinner so i appreciate you not taking
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source durham called them out, instead, they have gone silent, according to independent accounts on the very story they claimed was the biggest news of the week. why does it matter? well millions of people heard the initial false version, didn t get a correction and now the network just moves on. this is a pattern we ve seen, not just about hillary clinton and politics, but how they cover vaccine information and other decisions that, well, overlap with what we re covering on the show tonight. a study back in 2012, before trump was in office showed people who watched fox news were less informed than people who just consumed no news at all. joining us now is washington bureau chief journal, david corn, i got to start with a light apology i m sorry we didn t invite you on for a more