He was. To suggest that is in doubt is simply not true. It is a lie. Today without a hint of an apology or the faintest whiff of humility donald trump cast off that falsehood while spreading others. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what i mean. President barack obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. Thank you. Thank you very much. So there is no evidence that Hillary Clinton started this. Likewise it is untrue that donald trump ended it. Plenty to get to tonight from Donald Trumps non apology retraction to his vailed reference to violence against his opponent. Lets start with that. And Phil Mattingly outside of trump tower, the comments from donald trump about secretary clintons secret Service Detail, what exactly did he say . Its worth noting some context here. Donald trump often goes on a riff on the campaign trail talk about the
responsible for doing it? they claim to be offering a different viewpoint, asking questions, challenging the narrative. which veers into seeing conspiracies, seeding doubts and mistrust. the companies that put sputnik on the air are forced to register as foreign agents with the justice department. sputnik is required to tell listeners who backs them, a media group funded by the russian government. moscow russia. reporter: none of the hosts we reached out to would speak to us, except scotty nell hughes, who was a cnn host. we no that russian state media is putting out lies about this conflict. i say that as someone on the ground in ukraine. why should the united states tolerate having russian state media on the airwaves? let the american people to
calls himself pro-russian, and while the world condemns russia for the atrocities in bucha, where ukrainians were bound and executed, some sputnik hosts aren t convinced. there s not much dispute about whether these atrocities actually occurred. i think the question is who s responsible for doing it? reporter: they claim to simply be offering a different viewpoint, asking questions, challenging the narrative, which often veers into seeing conspiracies, seeding doubt and distrust, classic elements of disinformation. the companies that put sputnik on the air are forced to register as foreign agents with the justice department. sputnik is required to tell listeners who backs them, a media group funded by the russian government. none of the sputnik hosts we reached out to would speak to us for this story except scotty nell hughes, a former cnn
contributor, who is a temporary fill-in host. we know that russian state media is putting out lies about this conflict. i say that as someone who is on the ground in yoix. so why should the united states tolerate having russian state media on its public airwaves? let the american people make that decision. trust the american people to hear what they re saying and make the decision for themselves whether or not they believe that that is the truth happening. reporter: after the 2016 presidential election, the u.s. intelligence community led by james clapper put out a report accusing sputnik of being part of russia s interference efforts. there s this gray area of first amendment protection rights versus an insidious presence in our country that is really there to weaken and destroy our system. that s really what this is about, and it s state-sponsored. reporter: sputnik programming is only broadcast in two u.s.
about all kind of things. you re great when you talk to him. you re fantastic. over here, hate the media, can t stand them. we have all had these experiences with him personally and did he it with the pakistani prime minister. as ruth and michael suggest you can t do that as president of the united states. you are in a different position and you have to be able to make that pivot alone. is there somebody who is going to tell him that? apparently there are people inside telling him that now and does it take it and internalize it in a way it manifest the next public gathering he has and the answer is not so much. maybe people are not telling him that because they are parroting back what he says at this forums. i have to play another clip. this is one of his paid supporters i guess that appears on another channel. listen to what scotty nell hughes who is a paid person by cnn to be a trump supporter. listen to what she said about facts.