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this all sounds, i know for people watching other parts of the country might be a little like, you guys are really obsessed with this. fair, but it really feels bad out there today. it also gives some context what california and the pacific northwest of a living through. so, at least they have, like, i don t know, it s nicer there generally? maybe once the smoke clears anyway. what a day. thank you, my friend. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. tonight, we have new reporting which confirms something that, up to this point, we had only suspected. former president, donald trump, is officially a target of the criminal investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents at mar-a-lago. that news was first reported today by the guardian, citing two people who were briefed on the matter. multiple outlets are now reporting that federal prosecutors notified trump in the letter that he is the target. nbc news has not independently verified those r ....
we saw a lot of things eye to eye like the cia possibly involved in his uncle s assassination. i even read his book about fauci. so primetime invited r.f.k. jr. on day one of his campaign. we were told we would be the second interview and then third. and then fourth. and so on and so on. and two month later, he has gone on six different fox shows. he has gone on news max. he has gone on breitbart. he has gone on cnn, abc, dozens of podcasts that we have frankly never heard of. now, a lot of these are great shows and we don t begrudge shows for booking him. i m starting to feel like r.f.k. doesn t like me. something has happened. it s never happened to me in my entire career. i m taking something personally. is it me, bobby? i mean, if it is, just tell me. but i m left with no other choice. in order to defend the honor of this show. primetime is hereby rescinding our invitation to r.f.k. jr. we didn t want to do it. but we were forced to. and not only has the invitat ....
Manipulate the media in this way, Plant Stories get their views in the media . It goes beyond your wildest imagination. The extent to which the cia has gone to manipulate Public Opinion with the objective essentially of manipulating the mind and attitudes of workers throughout the nation and the world. Jesse if you think journalists should be smarter than that, well, heres a story. I also was interrogator and, indeed, briefed the press. When we, the cia, wanted to circulate disinformation on a particular issue, we would pick out a journalist. I would go do the briefing. And hope that he would put the information in print. What was your percentage of success . Usually, the journalist would go with it because it was it looked like some kind of exclusive and i would say our percentage of planting that kind of data was 70 to 80 . Jesseof this about 40 years. But we have forgotten ....
got to be some sort of video component to this. i guess a part of the drama of the announcement, no one knows what this thing is going to look like or sound like. we will be interviewing ron desantis and he quite an announcement to make. it will be the first time that something like this is happening on social media and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. jesse: not scripted. okay. this is obviously a nontraditional way to announce. usually candidates have a big rally with a huge crowd behind them holding up signs, clapping. you capture the raw energy of supporters live and then it s distributed everywhere. it s possible desantis didn t want to compete with the trump rally phenomenon. you don t want to get into a crowd measuring contest with the former president. trump also isn t on twitter he is on his own social media deal truth social so that could be a factor here. we are wondering how the event is going to be editing and distributed throughout t ....
are struggling in the heat. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington where the head of the company behind the artificial intelligence tool, chatgpt, has told lawmakers that government regulation is crucial to keep the industry safe. we ve seen tech ceos get a congressional grilling before. but that s not what happened here. appearing before a senate panel, sam altman said that al could be as significant as the invention of the printing press, claiming it had the potential to improve nearly every aspect of our lives. but he also admitted the technology also poses serious risks. my worst fears are that we cause significant. we the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. i think that could happen in a lot of different ways. it s why we started the company. it s a big part of why i m here today, and why we ve been ....