alex, did sean hannity ever apologize to seth rich s mom and dad after he got murdered? i don t know if he had a direct apology. he pulled back on the story. we would have to see if he ever actually apologized to the family. i don t know. that was russian propaganda pushed seth rich and we saw signs in the audience, even though it s been disproven. it s been completely disproven. we have an indictment to show it, most detailed indictment really in terms of cyberattacking. these are propelling an alternative universe people believe falsehoods. what kind of person believes lies that could be so easily disproven by going on google? it is what i call the preference bubbles and social media nations. i m going to pick out information that suits the story that i want and that suits my community. so, you know, implicit by us, i want to believe this. my friends want to believe this. we re going to push it. i feel angry.
and smart attorney. he knew very well if he talked to the president or then candidate trump about this or ask him for money for this, that would have opened up a host of issues for the candidate now president. he is smart not to do. that he acted on his own volition which is what a smart attorney does. i hope to have friends like that. he knows in the long run, he will be okay, he will be fine because he did something that he felt was the right thing to do outside of the fact that donald trump is a billionaire. i appreciate it. thank you. next, the man stormy daniels attorney called a thug. later, his murder became a right wing conspiracy theory. how seth rich s brother is
news.com. reporter: seth rich s family released a statement. the amount of pain and ang witch this has caused us is unbe unbearable. shaun hannity later declared. out of respect for the family s wishes for now, i am not discussing this matter at this time. reporter: but in case hannity s fan thought he never would mention this again, he threw them a bone. . the lawsuit filed by seth rich s brother, aaron is against the washington times. the deft named in today s lawsuit, can you explain how
the treatment of bernie sanders and the fix was in to put hillary in that position? reporter: again, there wasn t any evidence at all. it was made up. seth rich was murder but evidence pointed towards a botched robbery. despite, that hannity continued to fan the flames. fox finally took action releasing the statement. also now being sued by seth rich s parents. the article was not initially subjected to the high degree of scrutiny we require for all reporting. upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed. i am not fox.com or fox
butowsky, was encouraging wheeler and fox news.com to public the story. why is that significant? it s significant because butowsky has some ties to the administration. and sean spicer took a meeting with butowsky and they did end up talking about the seth rich theory at the time. sean spicer and this donor and this fox news contributor are talking about a conspiracy theory involving the dnc? actually it was interesting was when fox news published the story and sean spicer was asked about it, he said he didn t know anything about this democratic staffer and he needed to get updates on them. but previously he had been briefed on the investigation purposely by the private investigator investigating seth rich s death. he told you it was no big deal and there was no follow-up. the lawsuit alleges that there was followup.