of anti-drug vigilantes. on tuesday, the lower house of congress voted to cut the budget for the commission on human rights which has been investigating the killings to 1,000 pesos, or just $20. cnn philippines reports the budget still needs to pass the senate. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. i'm brian stelter. welcome to viewers in our united states and around the world. this is "reliable sources" our weekly look at the story behind the story, how the media really works and how the news gets made. ahead this hour, robert mueller's russia probe raising tough questions for facebook. we have brand new information from the company about those russian-linked ads that tried to sway the election speaking of last year's campaign, hillary clinton's book has some harsh words about media bias. is she right? and later, making time for president trump's errors and exaggerations, that's the subject of my essay this week.

but first, the world's biggest sports network, espn, is in the cross hairs after "sports center" host jamil hill tweeted that president trump is a white supremacist. hill prompted new conversations about whether the u.s. president is a racist. why did this tweet on monday made on hill's personal account catch fire and back a week long story. she's not the first to call trump a racist or white supremacist and it's the first time members of the media and news outlets have questioned trump's complicated relationship with white supremacy. you can see these magazine covers in the wake of the violence in charlottesville, virginia. this controversy gave espn's rival fox sports the opportunity to cast espn as the liberal enemy. we saw president trump and his

white house secretary being asked about this it seenls the white house embraced this fight. perhaps another example of media bashing. there's a lot of dynamics, includings espn's social media policies. maybe we should call this was what it is. media bashing of another color. let's bring in the panel. great to see all of you. christine, to you, is there something just petty about that that a single tweet, part of a tweet storm by jemele hill while she was fighting the people on twitter on monday was picked up by fox and other conservative outlets, turned into an uproar and caused a week long story. is there something competitive going on here? >> i'm sure there is. this is the world we live in in

social media and that's why journalists have to be careful and i'm so careful about this. if i'm going to write about donald trump it's in the context of whether it's the u.s. women's open golf, talking about the man who brags about sexually assaulting women, hosting the crown jewel of women's golf at bedminster in july, i was there for a week and covered it. to me that's how you deal with these issues but jemele hill is an incredible talent. she's a very smart woman and i think the presidency of donald trump has shaken all of us in a way we never would have thought and certainly in a way we never would have thought and i have never referred more to a president of the united states than i have during the last eight or nine months involving the president and sports, that intersection that i think is so important in our culture, that's where i focus my attention but i think trump is throughout in a way no other president has been. >> brit, am i being cynical saying this was partly a controversy created or triggered

by conservative media that rivals espn? >> a little bit in my opinion, brian. i don't think this was a controversy. fox 1 wasn't calling me or any other conservatives to get in or give their two cents. there was a poll by the -- >> well, fox news made a lot of this this week, not the only network, of course, but this was a big story in conservative media on tuesday. that's partly what triggered all the reactions. >> as you know, i used to work there so i have experience being there and just knowing the conduct policy and i think what really agitated a lot of people was the inconsistency of treatment. if you're going to send linda cohn home, one of the most celebrated sports center anchors because she said the company was too political and then another colleague calls the president of the united states the highest office in the land a white supremacist and essentially anyone who voted for him an enabler of that, that's when

people around the country, whether you're conservative or not, are going to take a step back and say wait a minute, there's the fair treatment here. a poll by "the big lead" which past spring which is owned by "usa today" showed that from a small sample size only 6% of respondents were identifying themselves as republican but you know what, brian? the people consuming this media, sports fans across the country, alabama fans, a red state that voted for trump, they're all over. that's not necessarily what the consumption demographic breakdown is and that needs to be taken into account when a network gets too political more to this case perhaps too far to the left. >> you think espn is simply too liberal? all of espn? >> i think that's a broad statement that i'm not equipped to label, i just will say my personal opinion that this did violate their conduct policy and there have been colleagues including myself -- i had something in my personal life two and a half years ago private

argument that i had that was put out there and i was suspended for a week without pay for something in my personal life and there's other examples of suspensions at the network and that's why there's a feeling of discontent because you see this and people scratch their heads. is that an okay thing to say for a sports network. >> well, espn did not fire you, they stood by you at that time and they seem to have taken disciplinary action against jemele hill. the statement released tuesday indicated they had a conversation and she recognized what went wrong here then later in the week she said she regreated causing this dustup for espn. so there was some disciplinary action even if the company won't describe in the detail. >> well, she was still on air the next day and to echo what christine said, i think jemele is exceptionally talented, she was always very kind to me. this wasn't a specific attack against her but if she's on air the very next day, the white

house press briefing room is discussing this issue, i don't think you can say it's a conservative thing. it's very bold statements about the president of the united states and if other people are literally sent home for a fewer ra -- errant tweets, there needs to be consistency in the media. >> i want to zoom out and try to reframe what happened all week long here. i wonder if the broader point is there's two americas, we know there is a kind of ongoing cultural war. in one america trump is racist, that's accepted, it's believed. inner america saying he's a white supremacist is intolera e intolerable, unacceptable and a fireable offense. how do we get folks to talk with each other if there's such a divide? >> it's difficult. i'm not sure how you do that. he's kind of zeroed in on the heart of this issue. this, too -- part of america is a very mainstream political belief.

the idea that the president of the united states and previously the republican nominee for the presidency has done racist things, said racist things, has been elected on a wave of ideological white supremacy. this is not a controversial stance to half of the nation. to the other half of the nation it's remarkably a controversial stance. so it become this is question of is this an acceptable thing to say in a public dialogue or is this not? beyond that what's difficult here is from a journalistic ethics standpoint, when you employ someone to be a commentator, it becomes inconsistent or confusing to discipline them or attempt to look like you are disciplining them for commentating on things. >> you're saying she's employed to have opinions. that's her literal job. her job is to have opinions about things. >> but about sports. >> well, whatever. yes and no. i think espn has embraced all types, whether it be cultural coverage, whether it be political coverage. and i think we know how the that

journalists aren't people who only care about the one thing they write about or the one thing they're employed to do. we all have diverse interests. we're human beings and at a time when sports are as political as they have ever been, when you're seeing major athletes from lebron james and dwyane wade to the colin kaepernicks, to have people who are employed to be sports commentators and to handcuff them and not allow them to speak about what they believe about what's happening seems inconsistent of what is being asked of them. >> my feeling is she can say a lot, she works for espn, she should write a script, she should hand it over to her producers, it should be prepared and thought through and then deliver the statement but instead she tweeted something in the heat of the moment fighting people with on twitter. >> i think every newsroom grapples with this exact thick. we have seized the means of production, we can pull our

phone out and we can publish ourselves at any point in time ant it goes out with our names and the link to our organizations. that said, when you look at espn's initial statements, i thought there was an inconsistency or some -- there's an idea that we don't want people to think she's speaking on behalf of espn. no one things jemele hill when she sends a tweet back and forth of someone is laying out the stance of espn. >> except millions of people are told that on fox news. that it's msespn, meaning msnbc. meanings opinion is is hopelessly liberal. >> that's part of the culture. so much of the controversy we've seen has nothing to do with the tweets that were sent with jemele hill. >> are people trying to distract with trump's issues with race, from daca and other big news stories? the president tweeted about espn saying they should apologize for an untruth. made me wander if he wanted this fight. >> i think perhaps we overgame or give him too much credit or people around him too much

credit. i don't think clay travis was out here trying to influence what happens with daca. clay travis was trying to get attention which is what he does very well by picking these fights with espn, by driving a specific narrative. >> and he's associated with fox sports so it's a rival of espn, a much smaller rival of espn i think trying to get attention. >> that is my read and i think it's obvious. these are not good faith engagements, things are taken out of context or unfair. jemele hill, whether you agree with what she said or not, is a commentator for espn stating a relatively mainstream political opinion so the idea that this has become a back and forth tells us something about where we are in a political dialogue. that we have half of the nation where multiple times a day they are thinking or saying "donald trump is a racist." and talking with each other about his racism. brit mchenry, do you think that's a mainstream political opinion that donald trump is a

racist? >> i would flip the script and say that that is a huge narrative being pushed and the division of the nation and, yes, she is a commentator but at what point when you work for a sports network does that blur the line? i'm not saying stick to sports but as michael jordan said -- and i'm paraphrasing -- he sells sneakers to both republicans and democrats. so i think that you're going to weigh in, you're going to give your opinion. if it's about kevin durant deciding not to go to the white house or the colin kaepernick situation which has been highly publicized. i have on my own which leans flight those situations. >> are you choosing, brit, to make your brand a conservative leaning sports person as you're looking for a new job post-espn. aren't a lot of people in the sports world embracing politics.

>> i think people are are embracing -- showing sports isn't just selling. in 2017 with social media, all these digital platforms to stand out more than ever is something you could argue anybody in the media may be trying to do. i'm not trying to brand myself that way. i've always been a republican, i'm registered a republican. i couldn't say things at the network so that's when you get into this discussion, eck speak that this isn't a narrative from my stability point i know what i was allowed and not allowed to do there and whether other reporters or commentators are allowed to do there and that's where it's a blurred line and there will be more instances of this happening if it's not a more distinct line of what is allowed? >> i see what you're saying. christine, does espn have a profound business problem here? they've come out with a statement saying we are not about politics we are about sports, they're trying to move

past this. >> you know, there are the 10,000 pound gorilla and so they're probably going to be getting more than all of us but each individually news organizations, sports organizations, this is a new world and everyone is trying to work their way through it. and i think an important point to make here is that jemele hill with her statement of regret acknowledged, obviously, you wouldn't put out a statement of regret if everything was fine so i'm guessing jemele agrees with some of the things we're saying here and i was always felt as a journalist and jemele is a friend, a colleague, she is a talent and an important voice in our national sports conversation and culture and how sports and culture collide in so many ways now but i have felt as a journalist all these years there are ways to tackle these issues but you do in the the lane of sports or the lane that you have as your vehicle in the media and i think jemele would say that as well and so this is going to be a conversation, brian, we're

going to keep having with social media, with donald trump and the presidency, obviously as controversial a president as we've ever seen and sports journalists should not shy away from these issues but i believe the forum can be a column for me or a commentary about, say, nfl protests, that's where you then talk about donald trump's dreadful response to charlottesville. and that's how i have decided to make those decisions and write those commentaries in that format. >> thank you all very much for being here. appreciate it very much. coming up here, what happens when the white house press secretary says criticizing the president is a fireable offense. we'll talk about the white house's reaction to jemele hill right after this.

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three days in a row, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about jemele hill's saying trump is a

white supremacist. >> i think that's the most outrageous anyone could make and a fireable offense by espn. >> i think espn should take action. >> i made a comment, i stand by it. >> sanders is facing ethics complaints for suggesting a private citizen should be fired for criticism of the president. joining me now is the head of news at npr and nancy gibbs, the outgoing editor of "time" magazine. there's a couple issues to unpack. does it have a chilling effect when the press secretary says they should take action against the press critic. >> it takes more than that to chill the press corps. it's inappropriate for a press secretary to take a position like that. in a complicated debate, that's the easy part. that's not the role of the press secretary. >> is the hard part the social media policies? what would happen if you had a

staffer at "time" magazine who tweeted "trump is a white supremacist." >> i think it would be a problem and it's because while we're all first amendment purists, twitter is a public platform and and so those statements are associated with our institutions so an addad hominem attack is not present. it's not a matter of opinion so much. commentators and political columnists tweet opinions all the time. so there are a lot of complexities on what kind of commentary is appropriate. >> maybe a part of this is opinion journalists versus straightforward journalists just sitting in the briefing room asking questions? >> it's part of the tension

although not the core of this problem. there's a couple intersecting issues. first just to get it on the record, the white house doesn't make social media policy for any news organization. the president and his staff -- we have to have a thick skin, it shouldn't chill us because it can't chill us. the people in charge are the executives of espn. they have and should have a clear coherence transparent policy for handling smeed ya. we have such a policy, "time" magazine has such a policy and you need to be consistent and clear about why you're doing what you're doing and i think part of espn's problem is they've had a lot of different situations and they've handled them differently. mike lupica our friend and colleague has a wonderful column in the "new york daily news" in which he describes social media policy, and i don't think he was singling espn, but he describes social media policy as a little

bit like what captain barbaroso said about rules for pirates in "pirates of the caribbean" they're not really rules, they're guidelines. you have to stick to them. twitter is a problem because it provides pithy to the point of there's nothing there but a statement and the heart of journalism as practiced at npr and, by the way, at espn which is a very good journalistic organization, the heart of journalism is showing how you got to whatever your con electrocution is. the problem with that tweet, it was a conclusion without any background at all. i don't know if it's an opinion piece or journalism or what. >> michael, nancy, stick around. much more after the break here how did russian prop bannists use facebook to meddle in the election and is anyone holding mark zuckerberg accountable? we have a brand new statement from facebook right after this break.

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the x1 voice remote. xfinity. the future of awesome. welcome back. if you've wanted to meddle in an election, where would you start? you might start on the world's biggest social network. facebook is now a foe cans of robert mueller's investigation into russian interference. on friday, the "wall street journal" reported mueller's team obtained detailed records about the ads bought by russian-linked accounts. these were ads targeting american voters. i spoke with a facebook rep this morning. they declined interview requests on television but the company is confirming that facebook is providing information to special counsel mueller including ads and related account information.

there's more to this story and a lot facebook isn't telling us. joining me now is spencer ackerman from the daily beast. he's been breaking news about this throughout the week. cnn confirming the "journal" reporting reporting there's a search warrant. why is it significant that mueller was able to get a search warrant for this facebook information? >> this is a company that has a tremendous, tremendous amount of data on its servers about what these illicit and fraught ledul account that spread russian propagan propaganda. it also has data on its servers about information the trump campaign and its associates had through facebook during the 2016 election. >> we know the trump campaign had those interactions? >> we know that facebook not only, a, like it would with any campaign, provide add team to the trump campaign to help it target voters using facebook and simply elections in significant ways occur on facebook as much

as they occur through other medias so what we can do with this data is figure out if there are some hard correlations between between what we see with russian propaganda and what we see with the trump campaign or pro-trump information and that is what it looks like robert mueller is going after. this is something that would at least allow mueller -- would allow investigators, would allow congress to see if even outside collusion emerges, this would give you prima fascia evidence. >> you reported these russian troll farms posting stuff on to facebook surreptitiously created real life events, including one in twin falls. >> this is significant because it a test first time we see confirmation of russian propaganda occurring online influencing -- we don't know the size and scope but influencing real life behaviobehavior. >> there was a small protest in twin falls, idaho, an

anti-immigrant rally? >> that's right. what facebook subsequently described as -- i think they used the term divisive social messages, this is how this plays out that there's a fraudulent account linked this this russian troll farm that promotes all of this really hard-core anti-immigrant anti-muslim information and they say that they're holding a rally against immigrants in twin falls, idaho. we don't know, honestly, if this was really a significant event. we don't know the number of people claimed on the facebook events page went but we know it's information from russian propaganda trying to get americans who think they are receiving information from other americans to do something physical and political. >> so part of this is about media literacy. when you're on facebook you may not know who's corresponding with you. the whole world is addicted to facebook yet these giant take companies, facebook and google and others are under a lot of

scrutiny for good reasons. you've reported on these hateful ads that you can use facebook or google or twitter or other companies to target hateful ads to people? >> i would mention when we're looking at the question of media literacy, the company doesn't give users information by which they can reasonably adjudicate what's legitimate and what's not, what's coming from other americans and what's not. it's up to you even though you don't the tools as a facebook user to make this determination and it becomes either on the one hand a default assumption that you are seeing credible investigation from other americans or alternatively it's up to you to say this whole thing is fake, i don't trust whatever i'm giving you. >> and fake news came from a lot of sources before election day. it wasn't just russian propagandists in moscow putting up bs stories on the internet. but the point is mueller honing in on to what extent russia was responsible for some of the lies and propaganda that was out

there. >> that's right. and facebook has a ton of data that can help investigators sift through and figure out how these connections are genuine. >> thanks for being here. one more note, hillary clinton is also speaking out about facebook. here's what she told rachel maddow earlier this week. >> i mean, transparency would be the best way of undermining putin so we're going to make facebook own up to everything. they've just begun to own up. they have a long way to go before they get to where they need to be. up next, clinton's media criticism. she says reporters can't bear to face their own role in helping elect donald trump. plus, is she calling for the creation of a liberal fox news?

welcome back to "reliable sources." hillary clinton's account of what happened last year includes major media failures, she believes the press went too easy on trump and tilted the playing

field in his favor. >> i don't think the press did their job in election this election. our press which is such an essential part of our country, our democracy, has to take some hard look at how it covered what was the first reality tv candidate. she's going to win anyway so let's cover the other guy because he's a lot more fun. >> in the boork she makes a remark shl assertion, she says many political reporters "cannot bear to fair their own role in helping elect trump by giving her e-mails so much coverage and by giving him so much airtime." are clinton's critiques fair? joining me, the "new york times" lead reporter covering clinton's campaign. she's on leave from the paperworking on a memoir about that experience. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> we used to sit together at the "new york times," i know a lot of folks in the press have talked about what this campaign was s like but isn't there right

that there hasn't been enough soul searching about the press's responsibility? >> i agree with hillary clinton that for an industry that thrives on investigation we're bad at scrutinizing ourselves and there could be more soul searching about our role in 2016 but the way she presented in the the book is a little like it was our job to get hillary clinton elected. our job was to inform voters about their choices and how those choices would impact their lives, whether it was about hillary clinton or donald trump or any other candidate. that's where we could have done better and we could do soul searching. >> has there been soul searching? >> i think we're quick to move on to covering this massive trump administration, this is a huge story so whether it was looking forward or backward i don't think there was scrutinizing ourselves. we know the media hates to scrutinize itself. but she points out the first reality tv show candidate. i think it's worth analyzing how we covered that as it is with any seismic news event we missed or didn't see coming, whether it was the iraq war or anything

else. there's room for self-reflect n self-reflection. >> sometimes she talks about what it was like to go up against a reality tv star candidate. she knew that the moment she entered the race. she knew a year and a half before election day she was up against a reality tv star. >> don't forget they wanted him to get the legitimate republicans out of the way. looking at hillary clinton's criticism of the media, her book, which i think is very good, focuses on 2017 but you can't look at her antagonism through the filter of trump and 2016. this happened a long time -- you have to go back to the '90s with hillary clinton, the white water story. the "new york times" breaks the story about the clintons losing money on a land venture in arkansas, that turns into the ken starr investigation, paula jones monica lewinsky investigation. she thinks the names is too soft on obama in 2008. so she enters 2016 very much fw from the stance of not trusting the political press. >> many voters believe she's right. and we have to recognize that in

the way many trump voters hate the press. clinton voters have antipathy as well almost one year later. >> and i think their antipathy is legitimate in terms of her criticism of why the e-mails overtook everything else. i covered all of her major policies, all of her speeches, that kind of thing wasn't breaking through so when they tweeted a me but what about her e-mails every time trump does something outrageous, i think they have a legitimate claim and there's been bipartisan studies about how much the e-mails overtook everything. that said, i think part of a campaign and a candidate's job is if you don't like the conversation, change it. trump was very good at that for better or worse. hillary clinton, the "times" probably put in 50 interview requests to talk about her jobs plan, economics, national security, foreign policy. i asked too talk about her work with women. >> but she was interview shy sometimes. >> they were very cautious. i think those stories would have broken news and perhaps kicked e-mails off the front page, she probably says it would haven't helped? >> one more interview.

here's what she said about a liberal version of fox news. >> the other side has dedicated propaganda channels. that's what i call fox news. it has outlets like breitbart and crazy info wars and things like that. i don't understand why people who share our views aren't more willing to invest in media that competitive because what you've got is a right wing advocacy propaganda and you've got a kind of mainstream media that engages in false equivalency. >> so she doesn't think the media leans left. she wants an actual liberal media infrastructure. >> i think that's such a fascinating evolution for the woman whose career really calls the rise of right wing media -- what would fox news have been if they didn't have hillary clinton through the years to beat up on? she's the one that coined the vast right wing conspiracy which at the time was very much in the shadows. now it's very much -- it's in the white house, it's everywhere

so i find it an interesting evolution that she's given up on the ma the mainstream media. >> going back to a more partisan press. >> exactly. >> amy, great to see you. up next, a plot twist in the coverage of president trump this week. i'll explain why i mean right after the break. that goes beyong ingredients are safe... to knowing they are. going beyond expectations... because our pets deserve it. beyond. natural pet food.

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chuck schumer recently called president trump saying "fox is praising you and cbs and msnbc is praising me." positive attention for the president and he seems to be basking in it because he crossed partisan lines working with the democrats like big issues like daca and tax reform. this democratic shift is a lot of attention there week. i'm wondering how long the positive attention might last. so i think there's this sense, michael, that the president's been enjoying some more positive headlines than he usually receives because of these deals with democrats. number one, is that an accurate perception? >> well, i think the coverage of the last week, i wouldn't necessarily brand it positive or negative but i think journalism in general tends to focus on what's unusual or new and bipartisanship has -- is pretty unusual. >> it's new. the new story. >> so i think it's gotten a lot of attention and if you want to

read that as positive attention, i think you could. i think the whole crew both on the hill and at the white house probably need to focus more on their work and less on their press. >> on the headlines. nancy, is this a case of journalists loving a plot twist? >> well, this is the plot twist presidency. when are we going to stop being surprised at being surprised by what he does? this is someone who wants to command attention, he says it's all about the ratings so we really shouldn't be surprised anymore. i think certainly he -- the point everyone has made that he wanted a win makes perfect sense. i think he would obviously prefer putting some wins on the board with his own team so putting paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and for that matter maybe more importantly the freedom caucus on notice that if you won't help me do this i have other places i can go. it may suggest a more strategic plan than just the improvisational nature of this presidency but there wasn't a big down side, especially around

daca where you have an overwhelming majority of people who agree with him. or for that matter hurricane relief. holding hurricane relief hostage to any other agenda is terrible politics and terrible policy and so he was on marley solid ground whether you're looking at it left or right in both of these moves. >> one of the headlines that intrigued me most was a buzzfeed article. this was a leak about leaking. the trump administration again trying to combat leaks from the government, launching an anti-leak program and the information immediately la lly to buzzfeed. is this the thing to stop leaks -- tell people to stop leaking and it leaks? >> well, we all need to lighten up. this instructed the key agencies of government, everything from the pentagon and the defense agencies to the department of education to give instruction to their staff about the rules for handling classified information

and there's another category that's not quite classified but still supposed to be protected, it's perfectly reasonable for the government to explain to people in the government how they should handle the secrets of the government. and the government has a job to protect secrets. the problem with the whole conversation is that it's become sufficient fused with both the and the now several administrations old campaign to keep journalism from doing its job of bringing out government secrets that need to be brought out. so when the government does a perfectly ordinary thing, like how to protect classified information, it becomes part of a controversy that actually transcends an issue which is actually what they're doing here which is in itself not a problem. >> i want to ask you about your

announcement this week to step down as editor of el magazine. >> we did not conspire. i think for each of us, there's a feeling that there's a time for everything, and i'm enormously proud of what i have done at "time." i have loved every minute of it. it's like when you graduate from college, it's time to move on. the thing that really concerns me right now is how and where are we having a conversation that is not yelling at each other, where the issues that the

country is facing and wrestling with are serious, and i feel like we're getting worse and worse about talking about issues that are more and more important. i have loved figuring out at "ti "time." >> that's no more important conversation, she was the first one to run "time" magazine, i gather you held the record for the most cover stories. but in my mind is really taking journalism into this new world. if we don't preserve the idea that there really are facts and

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before we go today, let me show you what the trump white house's credibility crisis looks like on a daily basis. this is president trump seemingly making up a poll the other day. >> paul rya is on board, mitch n board and we all agree on daca, but what we want is very powerful border security. >> there's no ed to back eviden up that 92% of americans are in favor of daca. >> and they got hit with the strongest winds ever recorded, it actually hit the keys with a category 5, i never even knew a category 5 existed. >> it was not a category 5.

but florida did not experience the strongest winds every recorded. this may not seem like a big deal, but it is a big deal to the scientists and meteorologists that study this. his audience is well aware that he has a credibility problem, that he has aa lot of errors an exaggerations when he speaks, that's why his misstatements matter. trump made this video -- the shot at the very beginning is not an airfare plane, it's a boeing fa-18 superhornet made by the navy. it's not just a little screw up, it's each individual screw up. sometimes he's just mistaken, sometimes he's down right

inaccurate. >> here's the thing, when i make a satatement i like to be correct. this evechbnt just happened. before i make a statement, i need the facts. >> until that's true, journalists need to keep fact checki checking. escalating threat. north korea fires another missile over japan. as the u.s. raises the stakes. >> there is a military option. >> how will president donald trump respond to this latest provocation? ambassador to the yuunited neids nikki halle is