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tremendous number of things that are completely wrong. >> yes, exactly. in recent months it's been about 22 a day. >> from the weather, infamous shark. you can't make this stuff up. >> stronger, bigger, cheaper. >> to immigration and trade. >> we are not paying for the tariffs. china is paying for the tariffs for 100th time. >> that's wrong. >> so we wanted to know, what is the impact of all these lies? in the u.s.. >> repetition increases the belief in false news. >> on capitol hill. >> the president was a factor in my decision not to run again. >> science. >> what's at stake? >> lives. >> and the world. >> the president stands up and basically says. >> what a great outcome. congratulations. >> no, that's not the case. >> most of what he says should be presumably proven to be false until proven to be true. >> i am a conservative

republican. never did i imagine i would be pointing out the gross flaws of a republican president. >> people say to me all the time, what am i supposed to believe? >> what should we believe? who can we trust? tonight a cnn special report, "all the president's lies." >> okay. hi, i'm jake tapper in washington. most presidents tell lies, whether balm's if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, or bushes decoration that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. the notion is not new. what else is new, however, is the sheer volume and degree of false statements coming from this president, donald trump. and as he mounts his defense from the impeachment inquiry on a foundation of lies, i wondered what is the actual impact of this on our nation? and what happens if there is

some major international crisis and he needs all of the american people to believe him, to trust him, to have faith in his words? i mean, god forbid that ever happened. but if your word means nothing, what happens then? >> you'll see that. >> it's are eli kind of mind blowing to think we had a cat 5 hurricane that sat off the coast of florida for multiple days, and we weren't crazy evacuating, and twait was because we had confidence in that forecast. then the story became alabama. >> the alabama saga began september 1st when the president tweetded th twee tweeted that along with other states hurricane was headed there. >> alabama will get a piece of it. >> if you go back through all the forecasting, alabama had a

miniscule chance, close to zero chance of any significant weather. >> alabama residents panicked by trump's tweet inundated birmingham national weather service. >> they decided we'll put out a quick statement to warn people that this rumor is not true. not realizing that the president of the united states had caused rumor in the first place. >> that was the original chart. >> even after national weather service officials tweeted the correction, president trump persisted. >> going towards the gulf. that what was originally projected. >> giving an oval office hurricane update with obsolete weather map. >> somebody possibly the president, i don't know, somebody in the white house took a black magic walker and into the alabama. the infamous sharpie. and it could have decide there. probably would have. >> mr. president. >> yet the sharpie ignited into

firestone when two days later no a which oversees the national weather service released a statement publicly siding with the president. according to some media reports, trump's staff pressured noah to declare his lies to be true. >> no, i never did that. i never did that. that's a whole hoax by lt fake news media. >> you were with no a for more than 30 years. you've seen a lot of president sz. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, i haven't seen like anything like this at all. i don't think i've seen such outrage. when you start to move the focus off of the national service to the white house, then you begin to polite sie lit size this. when we see this representation of things, i think the public's confidence in the accuracy of our forecast is called into question. because the question will be, well stharks the national weather service forecast or is that what the administration told them to do? >> so what's at stake?

>> lives. i think what we are endanger of losing here is people won't take action when we need it, whether it's in hurricanes, tornados, flash floods. and when they don't take akscti, people die. >> way before alabama trump was lying about the weather. >> such on first day in office. >> but i have to say the crowd was unbelievable today. you know, i looked at the rain, which just never came, it's like god was looking down on us, i will tell you. >> meet danielle dale. >> if you were there, you knew it rained during his speech. from literally the first week of his presidency, you can't rely on most verifiable things you can see in your own ways. >> dale was hired as a literally

lie detector on cnn. >> so i thought i would tweet a daily list of false things he said. this is quantifiable matter. if nancy pelosi was averaging 50 false claims a week i would probably do a tally too. but the fact is no one else in public life at least in washington is telling as many lies as the president donald trump. >> we asked the white house to participate in this documentary about the president and his relationship with facts. and they declined. >> first 100 days he averaged about five false or misleading claims a day. but in recent months it's been about 22. >> glen kessler heads up the fact checking team at the "washington post." >> we have a pinocchio scales. four is the worse. three is mostly false. something that is really really bad, what we came up is the bottomless pinocchio because he repeats things over and over

even though they've been deemed false. >> republicans passed the biggest tax cut and reform in the history of our country. >> that's wrong. it actually ranks eighth. >> dale uses a spreadsheet to keep track of the false claims. >> these are all new lies. each one is a different lie. >> so when he repeats it i couldn't it again. >> it's incredible it's like baseball statistics except if lying were like for hitters what a rbi is. >> right. >> listen to this one, president, trump lies about almost literally everything, every conceivable topic. every six weeks we tracked this summer it was the economy and trade that had become the in um one topic. >> we can't have $500 billion a year trade deficit. >> the number is exaggerated it's not $500 billion. >> what is the fektd of this barrage of lies? >> trump has created a situation where a lot of people who still trust him are not going to believe. people who are trying to give

them important accurate information about their lives, whether that's doctors or scientists who are telling them that climate change is a real problem. >> because president trump does not adhere to facts, he has no a parent regard to science or scientists. he's rolled back environmental policies and blocked progress fighting climate change. >> thank you. >> climb changate change is a h. it's wrong but everyone remembers it. >> by the way, we have the cleanest air and water we've ever had in the country. right? >> we have more carbon dioxide in the air than we ever have in the history of civilization. no, we don't. he mocks them. no, it's complicate zbld what the president has been doing is unfortunate unfortunately numbing us to lies. >> two term governor and headed up the epa for president george

bush. >> they have put a gag on scientists, for instance, scientists know that if they find something as they do their basic science research, if it's contrary to what the administration wants, you don't bring it up. >> literally taking a half century of environmental protections that were put in place to protect our water, to protect our air, and to act on climate, and eliminating them over the course of a few years. >> as troublesome, according to military brass, trump turning a blind eye to climb change poses a threat to our national security. >> it changes the very operating environment where our soldiers, airmen and marines need to work and need to prevail. the arctic is kind of a poster child for that. how the ice is melting out. >> and although definitive lines between climate change and geo political impacts are hard to

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it's an impeachment scam. >> this "washington post" headlines says it all. as the biggest scandal of his presidency blew up he made it his defense. fact checkers were kept busy. >> instantly grew more than 250 claims. one of his statements about the whistleblower that the whistleblower was very

inaccurate almost instantly became a bottomless pinocchio, which you get if you repeat 20 or more times. >> he's referring to remarks trump made about a whistleblower complaint that stated that the president had tried to pressure ukraine and withheld aide while pushing for dirt on joe biden and his son hunter. >> the whistleblower report was very wrong. >> i think with the u.kraine scandal and the conspiracy theory that the president is defending on, we are seeing lying at a scale that is somewhat new and is very complex. he looks for hints from others, oh, ukraine was to blame for interfering in the 2016 election, not russia. this is all crazy talk. and all of it is a lie. >> president part of his lack of faith in facts is his belief in

conspiracy theories. pushing the ukrainians to investigate this crazy theory of the dnc server as ukraine. >> it's head shaking. what the matters is he's saying things that are clearly not backed by facts. clearly at variance with reality. and that diminishes his credibility. >> more false claims were found in the transcript of the call between him and the ukrainian president. >> my phone call was perfecto. it was totally appropriate. >> he said joe biden specifically pressured ukraine to take a prosecutor off that case. that's not what happened. >> if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. >> there is no president that lied as it was a form of breathing except donald trump. in his mind nixon thought he was doing what's best for the united states. donald trump is operating on what's best for himself. >> he weaponized himself to

damage joe biden. and you know what he may have been successful in that. while at the same time blowing up his own presidency. >> republican congressman resigned last year partly after frustration with donald trump. >> i dealt with the president on health care. we had quite a celebrated dust off. >> talking about challenging trump in 2017 over the president's efforts to replace the affordable care act widely known as obama care. that republican bill collapsed but trump has not given up. >> let me tell you exactly what my message s the republican party will soon be known as the party of health care, you watch. >> based on my reporting on this issue, president trump does not understand health care. and so when he dab bles into it he often goes into falsehoods. >> she's a white house core responsibility. >> the drum trags is in a lawsuit arguing that the

affordable care health care should be scrapped which would disrupt the health care system. but when you talk about president trump about health care, he claims they are trying to preserve protections for pre-existing conditions. and all of those things are not true based on the administration's position that they are taking in court. >> we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. >> he wants to make the picture seem the best for him politically as possible even if it's not aligned with the truth. >> with deals, that's what i do is deals. >> the president casts himself as a deal maker. but very few deals have actually been struck. >> in january, 2018, during a surreal televised meeting, president trump shocked lawmakers from both parties when he appeared open to an immigration deal that would eventually grant millions of undocumented immigrants citizenship. >> not so far away from comprehensive immigration reform. and if you want it that further step i'll take the heat, i don't

care. my whole life has been heat. >> donald trump has never taken the heat on anything. >> republican linda served as the office of liaison for ronal reagan. >> president trump is not a great deal maker. immigration is one of his issues and been unwilling to consider that he's not acted as congress even as a role to play. >> trump never signed immigration reform. later reversed himself with his sport between immigration bill. >> i hope we gave you enough material. this should cover you for about two weeks. >> again, in february. >> i really see a lot of common ground with. >> trump stunned republicans by embracing democrats on comprehensive gun control law. >> you can buy all these weapons. >> this is what you'll have to discuss. joe and pat, you'll have to discuss that. you'll sit down with diane and everybody else. >> it made for great tv. but that proposed gun legislation never went anywhere.

>> in the wake of several recent deadly shootings, trump has continued to flip flop on gun control. >> frankly, we need intelligent background checks. >> yet weeks after that statement, on fox, he dialed back. >> going very slowly in one way because we want to make sure it's right. >> congress is in a virtual holding pattern on any gun legislation. >> i've said repeatedly that we need some guidance from the president about what kind of proposal that would make a difference he would actually sign into law. >> white house flames democrats and impeachment for the hold up but trump has repeatedly blown up negotiations. >> donald trump has told me he is not interested in making deals that people feel good about later. in fact he doesn't want to make second deal with the same party. he's happy to take everything for himself and move on. so we now have apparelized

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the tariffs are not being paid for by our people. it's being paid by china. >> it's a graduate of the university of pennsylvania. every time donald trump says the chinese are paying those tariffs, that sound you hear is the sound of heads exploding on the school of business. >> that's because the billions of dollars of tariffs that president trump placed on chinese items entering the u.s. is usually paid by the u.s. importer who often passes much of that cost to you. >> they are paid for by the americans that are buying chinese products. so rather than use the word tariff, we should say this is a tax on americans. >> what americans are hurting because of the tariffs? >> well, consumers have to pay higher prices. farmers have been particularly

hurt because of the retaliation. >> retaliation. china placed tariffs on hundreds of american products. >> here's a pretty typical plant. >> hurting farmers such as this man in western pennsylvania who spoke with cnn gary this summer. >> what percentage of your soybeans is exported? >> 100% of my beans. >> 100%? >> right. >> do you know how much of this goes to china before these tariffs? >> i assume they all wient to china. >> farmers are feel ago little bit of relief thanks to billions of american subsidies and move from china to ease some tariffs. along the main coast, lobster dealers have no such relief. >> well, i used to sell about half of my lobsters to china. and now i can't sell any of my lobsters to china. so it's impacted about half of my business.

50% of my sales. >> so why the president decide to tell this lie? >> the american taxpayer is not paying for it. >> his goal is headlines. headlines and provoking rage, polarization. but also part of the administration that china is this camp that really wanted to see the u.s. separating from china that would like to see us have a fundamentally different economic system. and i think that to the extent that it bolsters him with his base, trump is quite happy to go lay long with that. >> china was taking $500 billion a year out of the united states. >> once again, that's not factual. >> first of all, the number is exaggerated it's not $500 billion. >> last year the u.s. trade deficit with china was around $380 billion. >> and we lose for many years $500 billion a year with china. and many other countries who lose billions. >> it's not a money losing thing. it just means that weep buy more

products from china than the chinese buy from the united states. and that's a good example of where its hard to say it's a lie. because i think he really believes we are losing that money. >> if the president says oh they are holding billions of dollars in our debt, that sounds really bad. and he has paved the way for this regime of lying by discreating economic indicators in the past. >> discreating economic indicators by exaggerating. >> republicans passed the biggest tax cut and reform in history with massive tax cuts for the middle class. >> misrepresenting. >> we have no in inflammation. that's a ve f inflation. >> and lying about economic data. president trump does this all the time. >> i talked to the president prior to this and hen phony in past but it's avery real now.

>> and press secretary may have sounded like he was joking but he was talking about the real issue president discredit official government numbers but only when it suits him. >> he would say that he doesn't believe what the unemployment rate was announced to be during the obama administration. those numbers are cooked. >> i hear 5.3 percent unemployment. that is the biggest joke there is in this country. >> so now that he's president, he'll site those numbers. >> the unemployment numbers just came out, and they are the best numbers we've had in over 50 years. >> but he'll say i'm the source now. when obama was the source, that was discredited source. but trust me, trust me. >> one result of this misnfrngs from tru information from president trump it may have done the economy.

his latest book looks at how stories or narratives influence economy. >> what is impact on the economy? >> in the long run i don't think it's good to set up lies because it's hard to do business in that environment. but in the short run it can short business by creating some kind of confidence. some sort of false beliefs. >> such as exaggerating communications with kmoochina t make it seem a trade deal is imminent. >> china called about trade and said let's get back to the table. >> there is no evidence that phone call was ever made. that was a monday in late august. the dow had jumped 623 points the friday before. two officials told cnn trump inflated some messages coming from china because he was eager to have op mission that might boost markets. it may have worked. the dow closed up 270 points

that monday. and keep in mind the president's boasting can boost the market or over all economy. it has worked before. >> calvin coolidge was accused of untrust in the 1920s bull market of the roaring 20s. after the 1929 crash he became somewhat subject of ridicule. >> fast forward to today where there is evidence that the u.s. economy is slowing down. but the president refuses to accept that fact. tweeting late august, the fake news lame stream media is doing everything possible to create u.s. recession even though the numbers and facts are working totally in the opposite direction. >> the u.s. economy is slowing. trade has been flat or falling for a number of years now. >> the one word that scares him the most is recession. he almost is like the witch

melting in the wizard of oz when you say the word. he crosses himself no because that will doom him. >> he's run so much on i'm good for the markets. i'm good for the u.s. economy. well, if we are in a recession it's not going to feel that way to a lot of people. >> in this area right here there is probably 30,000 pounds of lobsters. >> it already doesn't feel that way to the business owners struggling because of the president's tariffs. >> we really develop the business in china starting in 2009. this was the focus of my business. and now the canadians have my customers. and i don't know if i can ever get them back. >> as for her future. >> if he's re-elected and the tariffs stay in effect, i quit. and i won't be the only one. >> up next, what the president's lies say to america's allies? it's red lobster's new three-course shrimp feast for $14.99. choose soup or salad. one of seven delicious entrées - like new hawaiian-style garlic shrimp.

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but what i have done is defeated isis. we have defeated isis, essentially. >> we defeated isis. >> isis was never really defeated. >> when the u.s. president lies on the wor doing more than trampling truth. >> we captured many, many isis fighters, most of them came from europe. >> he's up ending world order. >> the united states has

essentially gone from what i would describe as thearchitect r of the world, the preserver of the world, to now we have become the principle disrupter. >> trump's eyes are a big part of that disrupting. richard host was the director of policy planning for state department under george bush. and he's now the president of the council on foreign relations. he believes there are two kinds of trump lies. >> one is to only present one side of a story. >> such as hailing the end to the recent turkish assault on the kurds in northern syria. >> by getting the seize fire to stick, we have done something that's very, very special. >> instead of explaining that he helped facilitate turkey's attack by with drawing the u.s. troops who as part of their duties were protecting the kurds. a u.s. ally. >> and then you have situations

like we saw more recently in the wake of his decision to turkey and syria where the president stands up and basically says this is a great success. >> and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. >> weno the case. >> the case was kurds living near the turkish border with syria lost lives, homes, territory. >> we have done a good job. >> that's not what the president's lead adviser on syria and against isis testified on the hill just 90 minutes before president trump delivered that victory speech. >> the turkish inkurgs into northeast syria is a tragedy. it was long standing u.s. government policy in two administrations to keep that from happening. >> we were telling the kurds to make sure they weren't murdered or tortured. >> but the president had also promised that he would bring the

troops home. >> i campaigned on bringing our soldiers back home and that's what i'm doing. >> he sees election coming with americans in syria and he pulls them out. he's trying to fulfill the campaign promises as an inokay lags against t inoculation against the lies. >> he moved them out of syria but they remain in syria. >> those that remain stay inning close contact with the syrian democratic forces fought alongside us. additionally they'll maintain u.s. oil fields. >> they are there but not protecting kurds who lost thousands of people while helping the u.s. fight isis. >> we certainly betrayed an ally in the kurds. >> and this amplified an ominous message that has been rec o'shay go over the globe since trump

took office. >> we don't stand behind our deals. we are not honest. and the world doesn't trust us. >> what does that do to other allies of the united states when they see, oh, the word of the united states, the word of president trump is actually worthless? what effect does that have? >> read the israel press makes israel more uncomfortable about taking risks. saudi increasingly believe they are on their own. >> he has made it so that now the japanese and the south koreans are looking swreel to deal with kim jong-un because we don't trust the united states to be there for us. >> by definition, if you are an ally of the united states, you made the consequential decision to place your fate in our hands if it's determined that what we are shag can't be taken at face value, they'll say we can't depend on these americans, they are not being honest with us so we'll maybe develop nuclear weapons of our own. so i think that's the danger

with our friends. >> and the enemies? >> i think our foes are going to be much more prone to testing us, whether it's iran or putin. >> on iran, the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. trump saying he didn't like the deal. and that iran was not complying with it. >> but they are not 234 compliance with the agreement. >> both u.s. allies and some of the president's own advisers says iran was in compliance. it's not anymore. the iranians are now enriching uranium and using it under the deal. all of this designed to pressure europe to change the things of the deal to compensate from the u.s. withdrawal from it. >> just pulling out in some ways under cuts our standing in the world stage. any country that signs a deal with a democrat has to believe that if a republican comes in or vice-versa, that that agreement

is going to stand. >> that has added yet another reason fort global community to question mr. trump who has threatened military action if iran steps out of line. he tweeted if iran wants to fight that would be official end of iran. >> why should iranians worry over what we might do? they may say they didn't help the saudis after the saudis were attacked. >> then there is russia. >> putin what really worries me is how do we know that he won't basically say, well, i've gotten away with this on ukraine. >> he's talking about russia illegal crimea. >> i gotten away with this on syria. >> he's referring to putin's decision to move troops into the territory recently abandoned by the u.s. >> maybe he's going to probe us with another country.

and my concern is that this unwillingness to stand by what we say and to be consistent with what we say, i'm worried that it's go go to lead to a lot of the tests of the united states. >> more tests he believes because the u.s. president has less credibility. >> and there is no persons credibility that matters more than the president of the united states. it is the person in whom billions of people around the world through their governments have placed their futures their faith, their security, their confidence. >> up next, the impact of trump's lies on the human behind. >> dishonesty gradually increases, the reaction of the public actually decreases. you don't use this old thing, do you?

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closed captioning brought to you by -- november 4th, in lexington, kentucky. >> you haven't heard about the whistleblower, have you? >> as impeachment loomed, the president did not let up on false statement ss. >> the whistleblower said lots of things that weren't so good, folks, you'll find out. >> he believes that if he says

it over and over again, it will somehow make it truer. and it doesn't. >> as you know. >> trump lies are growing and getting bolder. >> a lot of people, man. >> one might have hoped that he slowed down. but instead he's actually gotten worse. >> some of his defenders will say, he doesn't get every detail right. you guys in the media make too big of a deal out of this. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> look, every politician sometimes lies, at least gets things wrong. trump isn't always intentional. but after thousands of these, at some point i think those defenses just start to sound silly. with this frequency, this quantity, there is an intentional strategy. >> conservative analyst amanda carpenter believes that strategy is gas lighting. it's an ab struck concept of manipulation making people believe things that are not

there. >> i wrote the book gas lighting america because i see what trump is doing is so much more than lying. it's bigger than that. he finds these narratives that are floating around the conspiracy theory blogs and picks up on them because there is an appetite for it. ukraine is classic gas lighting. >> >> he just doesn't tell a simple lie. he spins things out. look, he's doing government investigations to find things that weren't there. >> carpenter is talking about falsehoods spun by trump and his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. conspiracy theories that joe biden pushed out a ukrainian prosecutor because he had been investigating his son, hunter. that's false according to mounting evidence including testimonies from top diplomats, who paint a vivid picture of giuliani's efforts to coax

ukraine into launching a probe into joe biden ahead of the 2020 elections. >> take a look at biden, and you'll see tremendous corruption. >> the trouble comes when the public believes these false claims rather than the facts. this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. >> the terrorists are saying they'll blow up the school, killing all the children inside. >> the german police have been waging a relentless war against the terrorists, capturing some, killing some. almost everything "the washington post" does is fake. >> you try to thrive in confusion by the fact you have the best spectacle and platform

because you're the president of the country. >> could trump's persistent attacks on the press influence other leaders? other countries? in november 2017 they tried to see a cnn investigation report on slavery in libya. >> around the world they got the message, they won't pay a price if they behave badly in this realm and we are no long surter setting an example. >> the president's choice for spreading falsehoods is twitter. >> the breath and speed with which his comments travel is very different than anything we've ever seen in presidential history. when we analyze all of the true and false verified news that was spread on twitter, what we found was that false news diffused

farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth in every category of information that we studied. >> his study shows lies stick, the more we hear them. >> research shows that repetition increases the belief in false news if i'm repeating the headline to tell you it's false news, hearing it again and again will make me believe that falsity. >> so how does all of this lying affect us? happens when a lie hits your brain? >> we petrepeated lying is like perfume. the first time you put it on it smells quite strongly. the next time less so and after a few weeks you can't smell it anymore because you desensitize. >> last week she put her perfume hypothesis to the test forecasting how trump's lies might affect the american psyche

over time. >> we maded ed a prediction wele the falsehood increase and at the same time we'll see less reaction from the public and inner circle and it turns out that that is exactly what happened as dishonesty grad w yy increases, the reaction of the public actually decreases. according to a vent poll, while most don't trust the news media over trump, three quarters of republicans trust president trump over the news media. >> there is an echo chamber folks weren't necessarily willing to fact check this president so he gets away with it at least with a segment of his supporters because they don't trust institutions, right, because he has told them that those folks are not to be believed. i'm the only one to be believed. >> some in his own party are

losing faith. >> i got loyalty to people i work with but there is also limits to loyalty to just the political party when you see things happening. >> don't try to ever defend the indefensible with the president or explain the inexplicable because you just can't explain it. >> i'm terrified this level of lying is going to become the new norm in politics. >> is this the new norm? impact will this ultimately have on the nation? the u.s. is still scared by lies around watergate and vietnam. will president trump's falsehoods forever mark this era? how can we trust the next president? >> i think these are all challenges and they are totally normal and we have to remember that democracy is not given to us, democracy is something we have to work really hard to create. >> part of the hard work these days is seeking out the facts and agreeing to accept them as facts. >> tapes don't lie.

>> the president lied. >> unfounded. >> mr. president isn't the fake -- >> you got to do your own research or go to an independent source to see if it's true. it's not my job to tell citizens, voters how to behave but as a fact checker, there is nothing so small that i can trust that it's true from trump. every single thing has to be verified. it exhausts people. >> lying. don't do it. >> the president -- >> exhausting. but necessary. >> president trump i think fairly deb lib rdeliberately ml the point there. whatever happens out there today, remember,

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this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. >> the terrorists are saying they'll blow up the school, killing all the children inside. >> the german police have been waging a relentless war against the terrorists, capturing some, killing some. >> the finnish army are the terrorists. not us. >> no one, even the most powerful, has immunity from these urban guerillas. >> there are 298 people held hostage. >> those people, they have good ideals. they're just going about them the wrong way. >> we are ready to go on into martyrdom. >> the communique ended with the ap