we have to einvestigate to fipd out how they did it. who helped them do it if trump people helped him do it. and what to do to prerent it. that s the important issue. all these extraneous things, with the uranium seven years ago, only determined, only for the purpose of taking attention away from the one real issue. if you re right, the purpose is to take attention away. that may be the case. when it comes to this uranium situation, there are still questions. if you look at plit fact, they ll say you can t totally grade whether this is a come ploet lie. the real issue is that this russian company wanted to buy a company for the right to extract and mine uranium. not the take it out of the united states. not to sell it, get rid of it from the united states, but to deal with it in the united states and this goes before a multiagency committee. none of those agencies, the security agency, the national security counsel, the defense
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now just over a week away and we can tell you tonight, despite repeated inquiries from nbc, they refused to offer any proof he s keeping his word. here are the facts and the law. the constitution requires the commander in chief to be paid. and federal law makes that salary $400,000 annually. trump would have gotten his first monthly paycheck for $33,000 or so in february. now, white house spokesperson sarah huckabee sanders told split fact last month that the president, quote, will be giving his salary back to the treasury or donating it to somebody. now, we followed up. we asked a treasury department, the personnel office, and the white house directly. we said, hey, the president has the president accepted and deposited the funds for his first paycheck, has he donated the money and if so, where did it go and if not, where and when will it be donated. those are basic questions. they should have basic answers. no reply, though. so if trump is is secretly donating his salary, the white
about the proliferation of fake stories on networks. abc is a partner and so is plit fact. there has been a lot of blow back already. why is it a worthwhile idea? why are you helping facebook pry to fact check these fake stories. go to facebook, and they are going about their day looking to connect with friends and family and they see these headlines super dramatic and they are wondering if they re right or not. sometimes they are entirely made up. it is not trying to sensor anything. it is trying to parse out these reports. is there an example of a story you have helped to correct? so far so good. one of the reports that we did and published, the website that put out the fake news got back
misleading stories. that s a huge gray area. you can always find an expert with a title and an agenda to challenge any story you want. that is where some fear the truth police could go in the future. it s just like hiring expert witnesses in court. you can always find one to say what you want them to say. joining us now is molly hemingway and nomiki konst. good to see you both. molly, you wrote about this and talked about some of the specific issues you have. who is going to fact check the fact checker. some of these fact checkers have a demonstrable bent one way or the other. facebook is putting together a panel of people to police and sensor speech that they determine is fact. plit fact at first had a good reputati reputation. in recent years they ve turned out to really lose the trust of