radicals in the age of trump . i said, you are an expert on hoaxes like this. i said, if we find out more on this smollett case i hope you will come back and you have. my first question is, what about the stats that you often hear about these hate crimes? i always hear, one of five will die in a hate crime or whatever. they seemed very large, are they real? the short answer is no. if you look very carefully, it is easy to misrepresent. there was an increase from 2016 to 2017 in hate crimes, but if you look, more agencies reported data to the federal government that year. just counting the issue more accurately will make it look like the problem is getting worse when really there werere fewer people participating in this scheme to count hate crimes the year before. statistics about anti-semitic hate incidences they said there
he has never apologized or acknowledged the harm he did to this country by lying about her case. no one has forced him to. the lesson of al sharpton was clear to everyone watching, there are no penalties for hate hoaxes. there are only rewards. not surprisingly, there have been many more since. the incident escaladed dramatically after the 2016 election. the muslim student who claims she was assaulted by racists in trump hats. the muslim woman in san diegoo who alleged the same. an anti-asian attack in minnesota. an anti-gay attack in california. racial in delaware. racial graffiti at the air force academy. anti-semitic threats phoned into jewish centers. all fake. those and many, many more. the much-hyped epidemic of hate crimes we have heard so much about is essentially is made up. the premise is absurd. america is not a hateful country. it is the most welcoming place on earth.
misleading laura: how so? he stated that he had clear and articulable facts for opening up in fbi laura: what were the facts? i m still waiting for the facts. he said the president criticized our investigation, that was number one. not a reason for opening up a case. he said the president directed james comey to let michael flynn off the hook. no, he didn t. if you go back and look at james comey s notes, he didn t say that. he said that rod rosenstein s prescient but the rush investigation there was all these things that don t rise the level of opening up legitimate laura: he looked really earnest. he looked really earnest. malcolm nance was on msnbc, former counterterror specialist, and this is how he describes mccabe last night. these phrases, taking down an elected president. bureaucratic coup. this is donald trump s characterization of what the patriots at the fbi and department of justice who were
through. the left never let s go. they hold on and they have like a death grip on an issue case and you ve got to give them credit because they don t say let s just move on. they say how can we make the next point? joe, thanks so much. get this. some folks on the other networks are seriously referring to disgraced former fbi director andy mccabe asked a patriot. up next, two former high-ranking fbi officials are going to tell us what they think about his actions. did you see that 60 minutes interview? oh, my goodness. we are going to play parts of it when we come back. stay there. (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.