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And then they re saying this one encounter with a 14-year-old and it was consensual. and consensual, that s true. and there s, you know i just i don t know how you find out the truth. betsy woodruff, the daily beast. kurt bardello, former breitbart spokesperson, joining me now. betsy, i anticipated a fake news attack. i anticipated deny, deny, deny, washington post is fake news. what i did not anticipate was watching a bunch of conservatives today bend over backwards to defend molesting a child, and yet somehow that s apparently where we are. this phrase i don t know how you find out the truth is sort of a profound philosophical moment in conservative media. the idea that there are certain things that are beyond knowing, even when women go on the record, when all their friends and their family members go on the record saying this type of ....
Sexual attack happened, and they still don t think they can believe that, i mean, it s extraordinary. it makes you wonder, under what circumstances would pundits like this believe the truth about sexual misconduct is knowable? do they have to be in the room watching it happen? to believe that it s actually happened? it s astonishing. and i don t really know how else to put it. it s hard for me to get my head around. why would you consume journalism if you don t trust reporters and you don t trust their sources? kurt, there was this really bizarre thing that happened with your old haunt breitbart in which breitbart was leaked that the washington post was working on this story and got out ahead of it to essentially run interference for roy moore. one of their editors on tv today basically talking about the how it s perfectly fine a 32-year-old man was trying to date a 16-year-old. breitbart is all-in on moore. what are they going to try to do? are you surprised by what they are doi ....
Around. why would you consume journalism if you don t trust reporters and you don t trust their sources? kurt, there was this really bizarre thing that happened with your old haunt breitbart in which breitbart was leaked that the washington post was working on this story and got out ahead of it to essentially run interference for roy moore. one of their editors on tv today basically talking about the how it s perfectly fine a 32-year-old man was trying to date a 16-year-old. breitbart is all-in on moore. what are they going to try to do? are you surprised by what they are doing today? no i m not, chris. because it s vintage breitbart. any time that there s an issue that they don t like, any time there s an attack that they don t like, they go right at attacking those who are reporting on it. they go right at trying to create their own alternate reality, really. and they re banking that their audience, the trump audience, and as they say with the access hollywood campaign situ ....
What is the site telling its readers? we looked at headlines. to see whether bannon is going to war against the people he thinks are standing in the way of realizing trump s campaign promises. the answer looks like yes. the site has targeted mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, jared kushner and gary kohen. he spoke up about trump s afghanistan speech, calling it a flip-flop that makes trump s america first base unhappy. bannon told the economist that the harder trump pushes, the more we will be there for him. what does that mean? how important is breitbart really? we re joined by kurt bardello who served as the former spokesman for breitbart. kurt, there s word that sebastian gorka will rejoin breitbart. that s what he said yesterday. this time last year, i think he was a writer or columnist for the site. what s the significance of him ....
Punch on ryan with this. that s what he is doing. he has influence. but this whole thing about somebody here is the other part of this that worries me. here is somebody who is saying, we re republicweaponizing our p. we call our services breitbart news, but we re a killing machine. that goes against everything i believe about journalist. he is important because of what he says, but i think he s not that important in terms of their widespread influence. we overestimate i think his influence to some extent. kurt, your reaction? there are two sides of the coin. the audience. i felt breitbart was never going to be more red and broadly appealing than on the day president trump was inaugurated. it was only downhill from there. it only appeals to a specific segment of the population, the ....