As this, the most secure election in the history of this country by chris krebs, lifelong republican charged with securing the vote. The Washington Post reporting over the weekend only 27 republicans have acknowledged the fact of the Election Result, indisputed fact. Post writes that the results of the survey demonstrate the fear most republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party, despite his new status as just the third elected president to lose reelection in the past 80 years. More than 70 of republican lawmakers did not acknowledge the post questions as of friday evening. Thats about 220 republicans in all. The 220 elected officials will have blood on their hands if any harm comes to the local and statewide Office Holders now receiving Death Threats from Trump Supporters who believe Donald Trumps lies. Two of the gop officials under the most brutal assault by trump and his voters, georgia Secretary Of State, brad raffensperger, and Georgia Election official Ga
passed a milestone with more than 12,000 lies and faults hoods during his presidency to date, according to the washington post. for those of you keeping score at home, that translates to more than 20 a day. that s a reminder we live in unprecedented times with a unique for the press corps. how do you fairly cover a president who lies all the time inhe twisted fake news and has deployed it more than 400 times on twitter since taking office. that s more than times he tweeted freedom or the co constituti constitution. seriously, and literally. as we approach another election, journalists are facing with pressing questions. how do you cover the blizzard of lies without amplifying misinformation, or if we ignore the lies, do we risk normalizing them? that s what i want to talk to the next panel about. catherine rampell is joining us from the washington post, jim
control the narrative by having to sort of fact check in real time? it s quite challenging. as a journalist, i think the best we can do is go out there and say what the truth is. and when it s relevant to fact check in real time, do it, but otherwise, tell americans what the real story is. but jim, that really is kind of the crux of the debate, and you re working on a book writ large on this subject now. do we spend all our time fact checking a president who lies 20 times a day, and does it make us, as jack schaefer from politico said, the president the assignment editor for newsrooms across the nation? in fortunately in a way, it can. but we re lucky enough, and unfortunately not everyone else is in terms of sides of our staff, where we can walk and chew gum at the same time. now, the industry is changing. a lot of newspapers are losing staff. and you know, there s a resource issue for sure. but what we can t do is ignore misinformation. that s our most fundamental job. the most b
donald trump hits a dark new milestone, raising new questions about how to deal with disinformation emanating from the oval office. first, the right has long accused the media of bias, but now some on the left are echoing those accusations. bernie sanders lashing out at the washington post, accusing the pape of taking orders from its own, amazon owner jeff bezos. this comes as tensions over coverage of trump and race hit a fever pitch in the new york times news room with slate publishing a full transcript of the paper s town hall this 35st week where new york times editor spoke out on covering the president. saying, this is hard stuff. we re covering a president who lies and says outlandish things, but our role is not to be the leader of the resistance. with me to discuss is adam serwer, mary curtis, jim rootenberg and writer for the new york times opinion section,
he directed deals and phone calls and meetings with his self described fixer michael cohen and others. i m joined by jim rootenberg and mimi rocca, former assistant u.s. district attorney and msnbc contributor. let me ask you this, jim, about the relationship with trump and ami. what is the deal all these years? well, the deal was in august of 2015, david pecker, michael cohen and mr. trump, we had heard this happened in trump tower, cooked up a deal that basically went like this. pecker said to trump, you re running for president and we re here to help. if anything erupts in terms of women and your past relationships, we, a., have our ears open and look out for you, and then buy the stories and kill them and now this is a stated as fact in prosecutor documents and prosecutors in new york are certain how this went down and then the next year