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Transcripts for MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20210829 04:05:00

Afghanistan that says all u.s. citizens in the vicinity of the airport including the south gate should leave the airport area immediately. there is concern as we understand it about a credible threat aimed at the airport and that all people should leave the area of the airport immediately due to a credible threat. this comes from the u.s. embassy in afghanistan. we know what happened earlier this week, and we know that theh state department and u.s. officials have been asking rt people to stay away by degrees. first it was stay away unless you have a specific way to get here and stay away unless you have specific instructions to come.fi and then the instructions became don t come to the airport, and now the instruction is back off from the airport because there s a credible threat. we ll keep an eye on that and le update you on that as we get more information. but catherine, let me begin with ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20210829 01:32:00

Juice, how much does your horse weigh, some of these terminologies that may or may not be referring to iver meckten. it is going to make people sick. anthony, you have a new piece in which you take on what you describe as america s conspiracy culture. commonly people attack the media for putting forward bad information, but you write they avoid putting blame on what you call the most influential source of bad information in american life, donald trump. elaborate on that. so in that column i was referring to two twitter threads that had gone viral in recent weeks that were shared around very widely. tucker carlson read one of threads in its entirely in a 7-minute segment on his show. so these were influential threads, and the thesis of these threads was essentially you can t blame the people who believe trump s big lie about voter fraud. and you can t blame the people who are vaccine hesitant because the media sometimes gets it ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20210829 04:32:00

Juice, how much does your horse weigh, some of these terminologies that may or may not be referring to ivermectin. it is going to make people sick. anthony, you have a new piece in which you take on what you describe as america s conspiracy culture. commonly people attack the media for putting forward bad information, but you write they avoid putting blame on what you call the most influential source of bad information in american life, donald trump. elaborate on that. so in that column i was referring to two twitter threads that had gone viral in recent weeks that were shared around very widely. tucker carlson read one of threads in its entirely in a 7-minute segment on his show. so these were influential threads, and the thesis of these threads was essentially you can t blame the people who believe trump s big lie about voter fraud. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20210829 01:05:00

Afghanistan that says all u.s. citizens in the vicinity of the airport including the south gate should leave the airport area immediately. there is concern as we understand it about a credible threat aimed at the airport and that all people should leave the area of the airport immediately due to a credible threat. this comes from the u.s. embassy in afghanistan. we know what happened earlier this week, and we know that the state department and u.s. officials have been asking people to stay away by degrees. first it was stay away unless you have a specific way to get here and stay away unless you have specific instructions to come. and then the instructions became don t come to the airport, and now the instruction is back off from the airport because there s a credible threat. we ll keep an eye on that and update you on that as we get more information. but catherine, let me begin with you and the meta fact of all this. this is just one more chapter in a week long story of all the things ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20210829 04:30:00

Users traded dosing directions and purchasing advice. some point people to a pro-trump telemedicine website. those facebook groups are made of tens of thousands of members. just another example how pervasive covid misinformation is online. insider columnist anthony fisher and comedian alonzo bodden are back with us. joining our panel now, since this is your area of expertise i m going to start with you. i know according to our reporting to avoid detection some users have started referring to this in slightly coded language, not referring to it as ivermectin but calling it a mood juice and asking how much their horse weighs when providing information on dosages. what? what? what? it s super dangerous. this is a way people are skirting platform rules and ....

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