shouldn t be getting into, ike iraq or vietnam, or just to sell policy, to sell the, you know, the wonderfulness of a new policy. but when you have an administration, that is backed up by essentially state run television, with fox, with now sinclaire, info wars, it s incredibly difficult to push the truth out. you mentioned the iraq war. you actually have a movie coming out about in journalism in that sphere, let s look at this. we don t write for people who send other people s kids to war. we write for people whose kids get sent to war. so when the government says something, you only have one question to ask, is it true?
rob. we re talking about the undermining of institution that is you brought up and the fbi. with all of these conspiracy theoryists and many a number of of the people bringing unthe theories used to be on the fringe. now they re the new normal. like devin nunes. that unfortunate in the conservative party. breitbart was the crazy people. you would have stories come up from them and people rolled their eyes. policy makers won take them seriously nop now you look at the content on fox news which is as you call it the basically trump tv. i call it i call it trump tv but it is state run television. they mice as well run headlines from breitbart. that s the new normal in the republican party. the crazy thing is that all day yesterday, fox news was all over this secret society thing. and other than one anchor today they didn t say one word. shepherd smith. because they ve been
one that s intended is one that s unintended. this is not a game. this is not about his can i puff my chest out bigger than your chest. it s just not presidential. meanwhile, south korea says that the north has made contact. recently reopened cross border communication channel. although mostly a check of the system. which has been dormant for nearly two years. a statement on state run television. said we will connect with the south with a sincere and diligent attitude, adding pyongyang sincere hope that next month s olympics will be successful. still ahead. one college team throwing a national game. plus, lebron versus kyrie,
midnight in north korea. state-run television had a special new year s message praising kim jong-un s achievements in the face of america s opposition. north korea just released this video of kim in a celebratory concert attended by a lot of the senior north korean leaders including kim s sister. kim used it as an opportunity to reaffirm north korea s emergence as a capable nuclear threat to the u.s. north korean defector tells cnn the regime has a sophisticated smuggling network and can easily trade in banned goods. cnn s brian todd has more. reporter: august 2016. a freighter is intercepted heading to the suez canal under neath 2,000 tons of iron ore on board, rocket grenades made in
helped it in some way, they could also be liable. steve schmidt, let me ask you something about mike flynn. so we know, chris christie has been on this program and said that he made his concerns about mike flynn known to the president. he was fired from the president s transition. and there may have been other factors. i m sure there were. but i want to ask you, to sort of drill down as someone who worked in the white house about what could have been going through people s minds when they placed someone who had a book of business that anyone that cared to look could have seen that he was working on behalf of the turks, he had been at a high-level dinner with russian state-run television. what is sort of the process and what do you think the exposure is, not just legally, but on the political front for don magan, for jared kushner, for reince