the obligation of the press is to call a spade a spade and not give false equivalency to the arguments. >> let me go to carl and have him respond. >> i agree with steve about what we need to be reporting on in terms of whether trump's statements are truthful or not. my point about fascism is this is a teachable moment about history. we also need report about history so there's a context. i think molly wrote a piece or a tweet about the fact so few people in this country know what the issues were about why the civil war was fought. i would say that look, truth has an awful lot to do with what we're witnessing now. we need truth about what all of the candidates are saying. we need not just fact checking but real investigative reporting on all of the major candidates in both parties and we need a