to assume that there s any vindication in the absence of such an allegation here. thank you very much, and to viewers just tuning in and learning of sock puppets and troll farms, perhaps someday we ll have a chance to pull back and list these new definitions that are new to the american lexicon, i for one, can t wait to find out what they grow at these troll farms and could i bring my family to one? are they within driving distance of the new york metropolitan area. two pieces of business, number one, let me show you air force one on a rainy tarmac that those of a certain age will always call andrews air force base, rather than it s clunk i can new name of air force base andrews. you know what happens, the helicopter lifts off from the white house, nicole, seven minutes by air?
puppets. maybe you ve seen one of these or maybe one of these. there s a rainbow buff ball sock puppet. pretty cute. on the internet, and that one there is distension wished, refers to any false identity used to secretly attack or praise someone. so when you hear about russian bots they re sock puppets on steroids, not only wreaking havoc in 2016 but molly mccue writing they were an influential hidden part of this recent push to get that nunes memo out. conservatives latched on to #release the memo. but the sock puppets got the movement started. the first time the phrase was used on twitter came from a fake russian account a few weeks ago. then the term was spreading with boosts from those bots shared over 500,000 times. all the facts i just reported are kurtzsy of molly mccue who
joining me now is actor mandy patinkin. for so many, you re saul berenson. i used the show a couple times in the last few weeks because of the explanation of fake news happened almost simultaneously with the testimony in front of congress about how the russians create fake news. did you realize at the time how on the news you re supposed to be on the news but did you realize during the taping how on the news you were? we didn t. we were in the middle of shooting episode 5 west thought there would be a female president. so we had to change narrative. the writers went back to the writer s room and started making adjustments. in terps of the sock puppets in the box, that story was already in but it wasn t going to be shown and introduced until episode 8.
on. we ve always had this concept of grand jury secrecy in the united states. to ensure grand jurors can testify in a hear testimony, that their testimony will be preserve skbld well, the testimony isn t secret phenomenon. the testimony of the transcripts were released. but there s a law in missouri that says if you err a grand juror and you talk about evidence that you ve heard and the vote of the grand jury it s a crime. so what do we do? put the law in a wheel barrel and wheel it out the door because tv wants to know? i mean mel we ve been arguing about this for a day. mel things you throw these things out the window because well gee that s not what i think, paul. let mel answer beyond the sock puppets. what do you have? i think this will be auk
sages of the beltway and their sock puppets at mslsd, mark levin. they said that we had to give up on our principles, give up our principles because they said the train of history was roaring to the left, so jump on board or get left behind. but then something happened. that hope and change, it went from a catchy campaign slogan to a reality and along the way, hope and change, yes, we can, it became no, you can t. no, you can t log on to the web site. no, you can t keep your health care. no, you can t make a phone call without michelle obama