the fbi failed to connect the dots. howard: right same thing. howard: so if the president and rush limb are ball, sean hannity are all promoting your work, are you concerned that it makes you look like you are an activist journalist for that side? i don t. listen, in 2001 the democrats were talking about all this stuff about george bush asleep at the wheel after 9/11. people see stories that fit their political narrative. i try to stay with the facts. howard: all right. the charge that the ousted ambassador, marie yovanovitch, gave him a do not prosecute list for certain ukrainians. the state department said that was a fabrication. and that was in my first story. howard: okay. he changed the story a little bit saying there was no actual list, telling the new york times it was a translation problem. i know you had a follow-up discussion with him, but
the senate. dana: wow. if republicans can beat donnelly, that means the night is looking good. dana: president is finishing up his campaign i m sorry, last night in indiana. missouri is closing at 8 p.m.? speaking of the president, his final rally with rush limb but an and lot of conservative energy in missouri. that is a state that does not have early voting. so people are going to the polls. dana: we just don t know. it s a state that s extremely close. claire mccaskill has closed the gap. dana: tell me about florida. florida, florida, florida. the race between gillum and desantis looks presentative. dana: okay. then we get to 9 p.m. then you re going up north to wisconsin and south to texas.
he told them himself that he thought it was a really good thing he did this. he loved all the headlines. when he did do that there was some voices on the right, the rush limb because who said the base is going to leave him. like he s reaching out across the aisle. they re going to leave him. and what we re seeing here is that there s a lot of republican voters who are not leaving him, which is the idea this. his base is the trump base. let s remember. the famous quote. ic go on to fifth avenue. i can shoot someone. my supporters would stay with me. it s not a reach across the aisle is not the equivalent of shooting one on fifth avenue in the minds of most, but this is the moment where it s not the republican base that follows donald trump. it s the donald trump base that follows donald trump. a testament to people who vote for him for his personality, for his personal appeal and strength. rick sentencing el, you ve heard it said before. maybe it was thorough who said
responsible, rational, fact-based conservative media does need to push back a little bit about what s happened. what we did and a lot of the criticism of the mainstream media was legitimate. what we did and you ve talked about this is to delegitimize all of those sources of information. and so we do have these alternative reality silos. you can live within those alternative are the silos. why does he lie? because he can. because anyone who corrects him, he ll say that s the opposition. and then he ll have the breitbarts, the drudges, the rush limb because provide him with air cover. my concern is not that s he s lying but it s the concept of the truth itself, you ll have millions of voters who throw up their hands and say maybe truth is unknowable, let s just pick the facts that support our guy and ignore the facts that don t
because anyone who corrects him, he ll say that s the opposition. and then he ll have the breitbarts, the drudges, the rush limb because provide him with air cover. my concern is not that s he s lying but it s the concept of the truth itself, you ll have millions of voters who throw up their hands and say maybe truth is unknowable, let s just pick the facts that support our guy and ignore the facts that don t support our guy and then we re in a very, very dangerous place for democracy. just this week there are now folks that we pick and choose terrorist attacks we report on and that the murder rate is at a 47-year high. and it s not. it s something the president said but it s not. in authoritarian regimes, what the leader will say is the truth. all of those sources of independent information or