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America’s most militarized Inauguration Day in modern history is ours to witness Wednesday when Joe Biden is sworn in as the nation’s 46th president surrounded by 25,000 National Guard troops, armored vehicles and razor wire. The National Mall, which was packed for Barack Obama’s ceremony and less so for Donald Trump’s, will be closed to the public. Things are so precarious since Jan. 6’s deadly breach of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump extremists that American Airlines is suspending alcohol service on all flights to and from Washington, D.C., until Jan. 21.
If only Sean Hannity could be taken off the menu like a single-serving bottle of vodka.
da me dem meaning and undermine thing investigation. the various conspiracy theories and alternatives. as a reporter in washington for the l.a. times, what do you do? how much time do you spend trying to debunk or fact check to figure out versus covering the real issues carl is describing? spend too much time fortunately, it s abbreviated because the conspiracy theories have no basis in most cases. when you see some of the things debunked in the past year, you know, you go from the trump s claim that obama had wiretapped him and 3 to 5 million illegals voted for hillary clinton and that s why she won the popular vote and the dnc staffer seth rich was assassinated and they kept it up even after the morning parents just begged
explosive new allegations are coming to light in a lawsuit filed by a fox news contributor. the story begins last july when democratic national committee staffer seth ridge was murdered in what d.c. police believe was an attempted robbery gone wrong. his murder was spun into a baseless conspiracy theory alleging he was involved in the wikileaks dnc e-mail dump. this new lawsuit alleges that it was fox news who purposely cooked up that false story, with the white house input. more, that allegedly president trump signed off on. cnn s randi kaye tonight picks up the story from there. reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born. caught up in it, this man. i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he s a former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor. and now he s filed a lawsuit against fox news. wheeler claims he was used to help fabricate a story connecting the murder of s
explosive new allegations are coming to light today in a lawsuit filed by a fox news contributor. the story begins last july when staffer seth rich was murdered in what dc police believe was attempted robbery gone wrong. his murder was spun into a baseless conspiracy theory. this new lawsuit alleges it was fox news who purposely cooked up the false story with white house input. what s more, that allegedly president trump signed off on it. randi kaye picks up the story from there. reporter: when democratic national committee staffer seth rich was killed, a conspiracy was born. caught up in it, this man. i do believe i was used as a pawn in this entire thing. reporter: his name is rod wheeler. he s a former dc homicide detective and fox news
thread. reporter: according to the lawsuit, butowsky had also texted wheeler before the article was published saying, the narrative in the interviews you might use is that your and malia s work prove that the russians didn t hack into the n dnc and steal the e-mails and impact our election. i thought it was horrible because what did that have to do with the murder of this guy that i was investigating? reporter: wheeler insists the fox reporter attributed fake quotes to him, one even suggesting he had information that there had been an e-mail exchange between seth rich and wikileaks. he called butowsky to find out why. one day you re going to win an award for having said those things that you didn t say. keep the award. let s just tell the truth here. reporter: in that conversation, was he basically acknowledging to you that, yes, it s true, you didn t say these things but they sound good and we re going to use them? that s exactly what he was saying. he knew it and ed k