my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer. coaches at notre dame found out about the hoax on december 26th. and of course they kept quiet because their national championship game was on january 7th. we know for a fact that te o lied twice and notre dame swept this under the rug to save face. but something tells me there s a whole lot more to this story. and we ve got a lot of questions coming up next about this hoax. we ll get to some of those answers next. stay with us. six hours ago i just found out my grandma passed away. you take, you know, the love of my life. coming up, the editor of the website that dropped the manti te o bombshell. tom skoka on how deadspin.com got the sports scoop of the year. and howard fineman of the huffington post on how every other journalist dropped the ball. and another big-time ceo picks another fight over obama care. the fascism in government
is he a perpetrator? let s bring in tom scocca, who is the managing editor of deadspin.com, and howard fineman, also with us tonight, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. gentlemen, good to have you with us. tom, you first. rather bizarre story. how long did it take your staff to unearth this? it took about five days from when we got the first tip to being ready to publish it. because we got this tip, and it seemed like it had to be crazy, that this widely covered person didn t exist. so we put jack dickey, one of our reporters, on the records and tim burke went after the online side of it to try to find any evidence that she existed. and it was it was sort of a scary or confusing thing to do because what kept happening is we just kept not finding her. and then the question was at what point as you re not finding this person, you know, as you
a college football star s emotional story turns out to be a hoax? we ll have the latest on notre dame linebacker manti te o and the mystery surrounding his online girlfriend. with deadspin s managing editor tom skoka. and howard fineman of the huffington post will weigh in on it tonight. and another business owner comes out against obama care. find out what ceo of whole foods has to say about the affordable care act later. you can listen to my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using the #edshow. we re coming right back. with the spark cash card from capital one,
a college football star s emotional story turns out to be a hoax? we ll have the latest on notre dame linebacker manti te o and the mystery surrounding his online girlfriend. with deadspin s managing editor tom skoka. and howard fineman of the huffington post will weigh in on it tonight. and another business owner comes out against obama care. find out what ceo of whole foods has to say about the affordable care act later. you can listen to my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using the #edshow. we re coming right back. with
a college football star s emotional story turns out to be a hoax? we ll have the latest on notre dame linebacker manti te o and the mystery surrounding his online girlfriend. with deadspin s managing editor tom skoka. and howard fineman of the huffington post will weigh in on it tonight. and another business owner comes out against obama care. find out what ceo of whole foods has to say about the affordable care act later. you can listen to my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using the #edshow. we re coming right back.