an upstanding young man. that is not something that hillary clinton ever said. both the quote was fake and the story was fake, but, boy, did that circulate in the lead-up to the 2016 election. as did so many other of these false stories that were designed to freak people out and/or drive people toward one of two candidates in the general election. during our 2016 election there were a lot of foreign entities. there were russian government propaganda entities but also hidden authorship entities like bots and patrols that literally created untrue news stories out of thin air, stories that were designed to exploit and exacerbate existing divisions in the united states to turn americans against each other, to turn people generally toward the trump worldview, especially enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasn t worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible barbarism to make you feel like we we
around a fake quote from hillary clinton in which she supposedly praised donald trump as honest and as a man who can t be bought. the story was that clinton in 2013 had said she would like to see a man like donald trump run for president because he s such an upstanding young man. that is not something that hillary clinton ever said. both the quote was fake and the story was fake, but, boy, did that circulate in the lead-up to the 2016 election. as did so many other of these false stories that were designed to freak people out and/or drive people toward one of two candidates in the general election. during our 2016 election there were a lot of foreign entities. there were russian government propaganda entities but also hidden authorship entities like bots and patrols that literally created untrue news stories out of thin air, stories that were designed to exploit and exacerbate existing divisions in the united states to turn americans against each other, to turn people generally toward
much of the approach the secretary has taken has been the kind of reflection of the state department s culture, i think that is not a culture that is particularly hospitable to the trump worldview. that goes back to my point about jim baker, if you are of the white house at the state department you are going to have a different role than if you are carrying a state department message back to the white house. it would make the state department a more important body in the functioning of foreign affairs if they weren t excluded. julie: that s a good point. we will have to see. it seems that president trump is optimistic but certainly has not been shy that he means business with north korea and if it takes military action we will do so. thank you very much, always great to see you. guard to be with you. julie: why more is giving up, he is challenging the results of the alabama election.
being trump s son-in-law and have him as a serious voice in the white house amazed discussions. bret: ab, what about this confirmation hearing, where democrats are as they prepare for the beginning of these hearings, where they do not have the votes to really stop these nominees? i think they know they don t have the votes to stop them. unless there is the unknown, the unforeseen, scandalous fact that emerges, you know that that has happened in the past, it could happen to anyone of them. that could derail them. this bunch, looks like none of them will have any stumbles on the way to confirmation. the democrats will use the process to obviously prosecute the case against trump. they will ask him about his views on russia, his business conflicts of interest. all sorts of things. particularly, obviously, the national security team will be under pressure to answer for sort of the trump worldview, isis, what are his plans for russia s involvement in syria,