d.c. pizzeria. sunday, 28-year-old edgar welch, after driving from north carolina, entered the pizzeria and fired shots from a semiautomatic rifle. no one was hurt. he told police he came to rescue child victims but surrender when he was realized there were none. pizzagate proven toor false, it will remain a story." transition sources say flynn resigned before he was to be fired, possibly seconds before.

d.c. pizzeria on sunday and started shooting an assault rifle. r all because of a fake news fakne article.cle. in court documents 28-year-oldyd edgar welch said he read one rdn line there comet ping-pong was hash boring child sex harboring child sex slaves andil he wanted to rescue them. d.c. council expected o toteo confirm the appointment of the city's newest schools wilson fill the positionill following the resignation of of kaya henderson.ende wilson was in town yesterday yey greeting students and familiesdi at tubman elementary in northwest d.c. >> ?? >>> yes, rolling out the red carpet.rp guests at the mgm nationaletal harbor will discover a permanent collection of highcoll quality artwork throughout theor resok rt. one piece of designed by local artist margaret boozer.ret bo she's standing by with our annie yu talk more abo good morning, annie. annie >> reporter: good morning,mning allison. good morning, everybody.ngeryb before we chat with margaret imt want to show you the other oer artwork you'll be seeing asein soon as you walk in. in.

d.c. pizzeria. te text messages he sent to his friends. >>> first tonight, family members of a couple murdered say a monster is off the streets. >> today, a judge centered the man to life in prison for killing a husband and wife in their home in rockville. prosecutors say a neighbor murdered jodi and dick on mother's day last year, stole their money, left to go on vacation with his own family. >> tonight, we have reaction from the victims' children and why he did it. outside the courthouse, chris. >> reporter: jim and pat, you will recall for five days, this was a murder mystery. but montgomery county police tracked this suspect all the way to alaska, and brought him back. today, in court, the defendant, scott tamasheski said he is soar, and his lawyers said he has no recollection of what happened that night. the bodies were discovered on mother's day two years ago, when dick and jodi volarte failed to answer their phone. katie drove over and found her mother and father slaughtered. their neighbor,

d.c. pizzeria and allegedly started shooting. a hearing for the suspect is set for later this morning. edgar welch faces federal charges after a grand jury indicted him yesterday. the feb says welch drove from north carolina to comet ping-pong to investigate a conspiracy theory. he wanted to save children he thought were being held captive there. authorities arrested welch after he allegedly fired at least one shot in that building. fortunately nobody was hurt. >>> 6:35. the family of a man shot and killed by a d.c. police officer is suing the department for $50 million. officer brian trainer shot terrence sterling in september. investigators say sterling was driving erratically in northwest and trainer believed his life was in danger. stermg's family while unarmed and posed no danger to anyone. prosecutors will decide whether to file criminal charges. >>> the officer who shot terrence sterling was wearing a police body camera but it wasn't on. d.c. leads the nation in the number of police officers equipped with body cameras. thi

d.c. pizzeria and viral conspiracy theory which may have nruned the suspect. it's -- i'm going to say cold. it's not chilly, it's cold to me. that's only perspective i have to go by is mine. this morning, you have to deal with rain as well. those are facts that the rain is coming down. make sure you have a coat and umbrella when you walk outside this morning. good morning to you. thank you very much for joining us i'm wisdom martin. >> i'm maureen umeh. >> today is tuesday, december 6. gary mcgrady will talk about the rain and cold moving in and erin como will talk about our traffic hopefully the rain will not have a huge issue today. we'll check in with her for the de meanwhile in the news this morning the man accused of firing an assault rifle inside a northwest d.c. pizza shop that what we're learning about. >> edgar welsh drove from d.c. to virginia to investigate a conspiracy theory that a local pizza shop was part of a conspiracy ring. we have more details. >> let's be clear that all authorities have said this is absolutely fictitious they call around co

d.c. pizzeria and started shooting. edgar welch faces federal charges after a federal grand jury indicted him yesterday. the fbi says welch drove from north carolina to comet ping-pong. he wanted to save children he thought were being held captive. authorities arrested welch after he fired at least one shot in that business. fortunately nobody was hurt. >>> if you want to get your presents out for christmas, you're running out of time. >> today is free shipping friday. let's get back to susan hogan in the fedex facility in alexandria. >> reporter: i'm over here, in the center of this organized chaos. all these guys are unloading all of these boxes from these massive crates, putting them on the conveyor belt. this is an incredible sight to see. we're at the fedex processing plant in alexandria. i'm going to get myself through this system here. you guys are looking good. >> thank you. >> tony, come on in here. we spoke to tony earlier. this is a great time of year. it's kind of fun in here. >> absolutely. it's great to ha

d.c. pizzeria reopened yesterday after sunday's incident in which a gunman fired an assault rifle inside the restaurant. edgar welch drove from his home in north carolina.. apparently to investigate an online conspiracy theory known as "pizzagate." he thought hillary clinton was running a child sex pong. when the restaurant reopened yesterday, there was a long line of customers. welch allegedly fired three shots sunday, before he surrendered. he has a detention hearing tomorrow, in d.c. superior court. we are now in the final countdown. the new mgm national harbor is set to open tomorrow night. right now at the massive billion doll the midnight oil getting it ready for its grand opening. here's what you need to know - the parking garage opens tomorrow night at 10:30. the casino and resort opens at 11. if you plan to head out you are encouraged to plan your trip now so you're prepared. you can find much more information on wjla.com and stay with abc-7. we will have live team coverage tomorrow morning begining at 5am. tis the season for giving! and yesterday, the good morning washington team d

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d.c. pizzeria.ice say he went there to quote, self-investigate a false internet story about a child sex trafficking ring that he believed was somehow connected to hillary clinton's campaign. the other businesses in that neighborhood are still reeling from the fallout of this. the owners of politics and prose, a bookstore that is an institution of d.c., it is on the same block as the pizzeria. we should know that alissa was once a speech writer for hillary clinton. guys, thanks so much for being here. i don't even know where to begin because this is all so fantastical and weird but why don't you just tell us what the scene was like on sunday when all of this was unfolding at the pizzeria near you. >> alisyn, first, thanks for having us and thanks for focusing attention on this issue. we were in the store on sunday afternoon, we had an event going on, mark schreiber was there talking about his new biography of the pope. and all of a sudden we saw and heard police converging on the block, closing off t

d.c. pizzeria over a different crazy online conspiracy theory.erstand that there is the debate. why give it oxygen? why talk about it and give it oxygen, but, of course, we're at the point now where we have to figure out how to stamp it out. >> i agree, and there's a difference. previously, we may have considered it a fringe event, but now with the latest political climate and the proliferation of social media, it's having real implications. we do see that people in our society are being affected. and the latest incident, where because of fake news, somebody goes into a d.c. pizzeria and starts shooting off their gun, i think that we have to address this issue, realize it's an issue, and then consider what are we going to do about it. >> and that is where we are. so dr. begg, you've been on the receiving end of these conspiracy theories about newtown and threats? >> yes. >> what do they say to you? >> well, it's insidious, because when you try to be an advocate from my point of view about the public health issue of gun violence, you're willing to

d.c. pizzeria. sunday, 28-year-old edgar welch, after driving from north carolina, entered the pizzeria and fired shots from a semiautomatic rifle. no one was hurt. he told police he came to rescue child victims but surrender when he was realized there were none. pizzagate proven toor false, it will remain a story." transition sources say flynn resigned before he was to be fired, possibly seconds before. >> i talked to general flynn, and his son was helping him a bit with scheduling and administrative items. but that's no longer the case. >> reporter: the younger flynn has also tweeted other bizarre conspiracy theories and racist remarks. scott, the elder flynn, the retired lieutenant governor, has also spread fake news stories about hillary clinton engaging in criminal activity, but so far, his job seems secure. >> pelley: chip reid it in the washington newsroom tonight. chip, thank you. well, could vice president joe biden have won the presidency? hindsight may be 2020 but foresight may be as well

d.c. pizzeria pie twitter battle donald trumpna tp takes on a union official. oic he's also catching some heateat for one of his latest cabinet announcements. >> the countsdown is on everybody. a live look t ahet m cgm nat ional harbor on this thursday december 8th. it is opening day t our annieg yu is there. tre we're going check in with herher in just a couple of minutes.f mt good thursday morning, i'my morn allison seymour.n >> and i'm steve chenevey. chev. welcome to fox5 news morning. mr >> a lot of developing stories from overnight to get to this morning. s his hit it now. first take a look at this.ke a t a car at a station destroyed afterroyed afr catching fire at the pump.he this happened just after 4:00 4 this morning on muncaster milll road. crews were able to safely putrea out the flames and we're toldbld no one was hurt. was >> it is back to court today toy for the man police say nuke ae n d.c. pizzeria on sunday andun started shooting an assault a rifle all because of a fakeak news story n court documentsts 28-year-old edgar maddisonr-ol welch said

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d.c. pizzeria. trump spokesman says flynn jr. had been helping his father with duties but no longer the case. >>> the snowy is now tapering off in the northern plains this morning after yesterday's blizzard but now snowing in boulder and other parts of colorado. the snowplows as you can see there are out and the streets are very slick. the weather is also blamed for several crashes on interstate 70 west of of the lows. 1 degree in denver. 17 in kansas city and you see that minus 10 up there in great falls. that cold is heading south and east. we'll get the forecast from accuweather's cam tran. good morning. >> good morning, diane and kendis. we are looking at blizzard-like conditions across the dakotas and northern minnesota. talking about blowing snow that's going to be making travel quite treacherous and then we've got the coldest air of the week. by wednesday it's going to be well in place across the central plains, thursday in the midwest then by friday it's going to be moving across the northeast where temperatures will be d

d.c. pizzeria earlier this week by a man who believed bogus conspiracy theories about clinton's campaign. i'm joined by the chief strategist to hillary clinton's presidential campaign, joel benenson. i don't want to rehash, but i tell you, some things just came out of the campaign we have to worry about, fake news. you and i were growing up, walter cronkite said something, john chancellor said something, that was about it, the major newspapers. now people are getting information from god knows where, including alex jones and people like that, and they're acting on it. >> yeah, i think the problem for mainstream media, journalists. cable tv, and everybody else, print, television, is they are having to make decisions in real time because we're in the midst of this revolution. it's not completed. every day, we're dealing with new news. when this started, no one was talking about fake news. it's a fairly recent emergence. today also i think president obama asked his intelligence agencies to report to him about what happened in terms of russia's interference potentially in the election. things

d.c. pizzeria that was attacked because of a fake news story. >> holiday travelers arriving in spain are greeted pleasant surprise. look at these images. piles of trash all around the terminals while the passengers are there. that guy even sleeping here. it's a result of cleaning crews going on a five-day strike, protesting changes to their schedules and reduced holidays. the strike has ended but crews are threatening to resume those protests just in time for christmas unless more negotiations made. >> all right, actor judge reinhold, perhaps best known as brad hamilton in fast times as ridgemont high, had a different close-up when he was arrested at a dallas airport for disorderly conduct. the actor's lawyer said he had cleared scute, but he was stopped when his bag raised an alarm. tsa reportedly asked to pat him down once again, which he refused. the 59-year-old will star in the film "highly functional" which is due out in theaters neck year. >> like a holiday movie turned horror film. a real life grinch was caught stabbing frosty the snowman. he pulls up and immediately targets the inflatabl

d.c. pizzeria hunting down a fake hillary clinton news story. >>> and kennedy center honors, eagles, james taylor, and others. "early today" starts right now. >>> good monday morning, i'm ayman mohyeldin. >> i'm frances rivera. really tough to start this week with a grim reality with the death toll rising. and now a criminal investigation has begun into that tragic warehouse party fire that claimed at least 33 lives in oakland, california, on friday night. officials say some of the victims were teenagers. one was the son of a first responder. authorities are still identifying victims and have not yet made their way through the entire building, which had been housing artists. nbc's steven luke has the latest for us out of oakland this morning. steven, what more do we know? >> reporter: well, good morning from oakland. we're beginning the third straight morning here of search and recovery efforts. and just over the blue tents behind me is where this is taking place working nonstop through the night. and they still have more than half the building to go through. so that's why they say they ar

d.c. pizzeria. we have a closer look at how the false stories start and then spread so quickly. after being hit by a a car. >> she's natural. she's genuine. and she's a perfect mom. >> why some believe the accident could have been avoided. >>>s parent of a high school boy is suing the school district. the parents say the school's new about their son's suicidal thoughts. >>> a a warning about casino he opens. >> best place to go would be a new casino. >> how many people have been busted. >>> new details tonight from court about the man accused of opening fire inside a ping-pong pizzeria in northwest d.c. edgarwell ch is being held on assault and gun charges. he traveled here from north the restaurant on connecticut avenue and then it fired two shots into the wall and one into a computer. all that before police arrested him outside. the man came to, in his words, self-investigate false debunked reports that linked the restaurant to an alleged child sex ring and the clinton campaign. >>> tonight a closer look at those fake news stories. how did you know if what you're reading onlin

d.c. pizzeria is facing new charges, he is being transferred to federal court. mark? >> reporter: this is his third appearance before a d.c. superior court judge since that incident last weekend on connecticut avenue and like the previous hearings this was very quick. this time prosecutors came in, told the judge they were dismissing the charges. three felonies and one misdemeanor and executing an arrest warrant on him. these are pictures taken from his facebook page. he walked into comet pizza and fired an ar-15 multiple times telling police he was there to self-investigate the fake news reports about children being held in captivity at that recent pizza parlor. felonies and one misdemeanor. today prosecutors again told a judge they are dropping those four charges and instead with one felony in federal court. welch is expected to make his first appearance down the street in federal court later this afternoon facing one charge of felony transportation of a weapon to commit a crime and for the first time his parents were here in court. reporting live from d.c. superior

d.c. pizzeria owner and prominent democratic supporter james alefantis infight them to a fundraiser at theestaurant. they started combing through facebook posts. alefantis said the child is his god daughter and the picture was very innocent. and this picture that con searcy theorists decided must be the secret basement where children are locked up. but in fact it's from a restaurant alefantis considered leasing. and come met ping-pong doesn't even have a basement. but november 4th, six days after the initial tweet of a sex ring, alefantis was officially part of the conspiracy. he began receiving threatening phone call. on november 7th, the hashtag pays zagate was born and by november 16th, people starting showing up at the restaurant to investigate for themselves, like this man who used a video camera to live stream his visit on periscope. on december 4th, edgar welch showed up armed with an ar-15, a revolver and a knife determined to find underground rooms and vaults, firing his gun at a door behind which hoe wouldn't have found anything interesting. >> the bullet went into our computer s

there was a fake news story and it triggered an actual armed confrontation at a washington, d.c., pizzeria. the gunman telling the police he was there to self-investigate a conspiracy theory that he read about online. it seems this is america's new reality. our panel discusses this, next. ♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clorox. that's why this control enthusiast rents from national. where i can skip the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. on average, four out of every five rentals at national is a free upgrade. getting a full-size and paying for a mid-size? ♪ whoa, oh, whoa, whoa, lovin' every minute of it... ♪ as the boys from loverboy so eloquently noted... i'm lovin' every minute of it. go national. go like a pro. who says i shouldn't havmy doctor.very day? my dentist. definitely my wife. hey wait. we have better bubbles. make sparkling water at home and drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water. love or like? na

d.c. pizzeria appeared in court and will be held without bond until thursday. edgar welch told officers he was investigating the conspiracy theory that hillary clinton ran child sex trafficking operation out of "pizza gate." no one was hurt. alison: d.c. mayor muriel bowser will meet with president-elect donald trump tomorrow in new york. bowser requested the meeting to discuss d.c. statehood, infrastructure, and education. the mayor has not spoken to ceremonial ground breaking of the trump hotel at the post office in 2014. sam ford will head to new york city tomorrow to tell us more about the meeting. larry: new developments from the national zoo. panda cub bei bei is back in front of his fans. this is the first time he has been on display since the surgery last month to remove massive bamboo from the intestine. he is still recovering and will be monitored 24/7 and that is soy biscuits, apples and sweet potatoes. alison: safety and fashion? looking out for a deer. alison: take a look. someone put an orange scarf or the four-legged friend. the hunter recognized

d.c. pizzeria says he's received hundreds of death threats. >> what happened today demonstrates that promotingalse and reckless conspiracy theorys do come with consequences and i hope those involved with fanning feez flames w t contemplate what happened here today and to stop right away. >> that wa h reporting. >>> meanwhile, minister says he will visit pearl harbor this month dent ob. shinzo abe will becom tsitting to visit the site. this is the 75th the attack. they will pay their respects to the victims on december 26th say one person has been found dead inside a submerged inside upside down in this large sinkhole here. rescued from another car that fell into the hole. a woman who kim came to his rescue suffered minor injuries. crews say there's a massive sewage leek laek at the site, but they doept know if it was caused by the sewage or. the excitement is bubbling over on temple's campus. for the second straight season, the owls are headed to a bowl game. temple beat navy saturday to wi athletics rt getting raetd for their date with wake forest on december 27th. matt rule is beam about wha

d.c. pizzeria and on sunday. the left seems to forget podesta e-mails and the many coincides tied to it.outright b.s. for lack of a better term. i had my son's birthday party in this pizzeria. and yet he stuck to it. let's go to the father, michael flynn who's the nominee to be national security advisor. that is tweet he sent out one week before election day. you decide. nypd blows whistle on new hillary e-mails money laundering, sex crimes with children etc. must read. tweeting out a fake story about the democrat nominee one week to election day. so serious allegations and to be clear part of a pattern, erin. >> so that is what is causing this controversy. but now what about the role of michael flynn's son. earlier today they said he had no role with the transition. but clearly that is not the case. >> right. he's now been removed. we know he had a rolle because he's been removed from that role. the way it is described and vice president pence described it this way and others i've speaken with is he was basically a scheduler and did administrative work for his father. enough where they

d.c. pizzeria owner and prominent democratic supporter james alefantis infight them to a fundraiser at theestaurant. they started combing through facebook posts. alefantis said the child is his god daughter and the picture was very innocent. and this picture that con searcy theorists decided must be the secret basement where children are locked up. but in fact it's from a restaurant alefantis considered leasing. and come met ping-pong doesn't even have a basement. but november 4th, six days after the initial tweet of a sex ring, alefantis was officially part of the conspiracy. he began receiving threatening phone call. on november 7th, the hashtag pays zagate was born and by november 16th, people starting showing up at the restaurant to investigate for themselves, like this man who used a video camera to live stream his visit on periscope. on december 4th, edgar welch showed up armed with an ar-15, a revolver and a knife determined to find underground rooms and vaults, firing his gun at a door behind which hoe wouldn't have found anything interesting. >> the bullet went into our computer s

d.c. pizzeria. restaurant owner condemned the conspiracy theories as well as the people who pushed them. >> let me state unequivocally, these stories are completely and entirely false. what happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories do come with consequences, and i hope that those that are involved with fanning these flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here today and to stop right away. >> of course it's a stark reminder that the fake news stories that we spoke about often throughout this campaign actually have real consequences. according to police, a blatantly false story circulated on social media and conspiracy websites led a man to take a firearm into a crowded restaurant to see for himself. joining us now is my colleague jacob soboroff, who has been following this story even before yesterday's violence. jacob, i know you've been focused more broadly on this whole idea, the impact of fake news. you spoke to the owner at comet ping pong n

d.c. pizzeria, because he fell for a fake news story.y fake same news story that general michael flynn also fell for. so let's get to the bottom line with cnn executive editor mark preston. mark, great to see you. so, the pizzeria story, i mean, it was so outrageous on the face of it -- >> and it was looked at. the idea that, you know, the story wasn't like so nobody looked at it. it was looked at. there was no basis of the allegations made in the story that took on a life of its own. just so people know. looked at. debunked. >> sure. and so we've now seen violence as a result. he fired his gun. but this is something that some people in the trump administration, or certainly his pick for nsa, fell for. what are we to do about this scourge? >> a couple things. one, i think it's the media's responsibility as we're doing now, talking about how fake it is and the fact is that it's, you know, not only providing entertainment for those who want to read these type of fake stories, but quite frankly they have real-life consequences. to have some

d.c. pizzeria owner who received threats after his restaurant was targeted in a conspiracy theory tied tolinton's campaign. and we'll continue to watch those developments today. also president-elect trump will head down to louisiana today to help out a republican senate race down there that is still ongoing. there's a runoff happening tomorrow. >> tracie potts, thank you. >>> now to sports, a year ago there were no nfl teams in los angeles, but soon there could be two. the rams moved from st. louis back to l.a. before this season. now sources say a plan to move the san diego chargers is almost a done deal. the team has reportedly expected to sign a lease to play in a new staydium which would open in 2019. the chargers would share that space with the rams. the chargers have been in san diego since 1961. i hope l.a. is ready. i hope they can bring it for their two teams. that's what they need. >> i still find it amazing that teams can just move. at least this is a small move. not -- >> same state. >> not too far. but i don't know. just can't get my head around that side of it. >> crazy, rig

d.c. pizzeria targeted all because of conspiracy theory set to reon today. this is man behind the attack makes first court apeerpz new york city for a meeting of president-elect donald trump and fox 5 also on a train to the big apple right now. we'll tell what you the two plan to discuss in new york. >> liver look outside on tuesday two things you need to know when you head out the door this morning. don't forget umbrella and jacket those are the two. "weather and traffic on the 5s" at 6:05. good tuesday everyone i'm allison seymour. >> welcome to morning morning you'll get reminder for both if you forget. we fwin with undate on sinkhole northwest d.c. major traffic jams last night. overnight d dot made temporary repairs to the hole and 6th caused that sinkhole last night. >> developing right now. at 6 a.m. prince george county police investigating two shootings one deadly. last night a man was shot and later died in the 4100 block of southern avenue in capitol hight and then just moments later police responded to another shooting on curtis driver in tenl pl

. >>> a man armed with an assault rifle bursts into a washington, d.c., pizzeria yesterday. he claimed he was there to self-investigate an outrageous and completely false online conspiracy theory. an imagined pedophile ring being run out of the pizzeria. edgar madison welsh, it's a case of real life consequences of fake news. my cnn political commentators join me. good evening to all of you. you have been talking a lot about fake news during this election. this is a prime example of what can happen when people latch on to these conspiracy theorys. is there a way to keep this fake news from circulating and inspiring these extremist views? >> this is the question i dread this is a hard question, it doesn't have a satisfied answer right now. there are lots of things individuals can do. some things that newsrooms can do. i didn't take pizza gate seriously, when it started to come out in early november i thought it was so ludicrous, so disgusting, people trying to link her to a pedophilia ring. i just dismissed it. maybe i shun the have. maybe we should have tried to debunk it mo

d.c. pizzeria was home of a sex ring. armed man to enter the restaurant 24 this weekend he claimed to investigate the allegations. he was arrested only after firing several shots. and yet on sunday flynn junior was still defending the conspiracy theory tweeting until pizza gate proven to be false, it will remain a false. the le today flynn junior was dismissed from the transition. the decision coming directly from the president-elect. i've spoken to people who see mattis's selection as press secretary as balancing general flynn. mattis respected by both parties and many i've spoken to note he outranked flynn four stars to three when they were both in the military, and that kind of stuff matters. >> jim, thank you very much. donald trump, could his choice for defense secretary balance out concerns about general flynn? we'll talk about it next. once i heard i was going to be a park ranger, i got really excited. gabe's obviously really sick. and there's a lot that he isn't able to do, and make-a-wish stepped in. we had to cl

d.c. pizzeria while self-investigating an online conspiracy theory now faces federal charges.legedly traveled to the shop to check out whether the business was harboring child sex slaves. he's being charged with interstate transportation of a firearm with attempt to commit an offense. >>> trial resumes this morning in south carolina in the church shooting case. chilling new video released into evidence. that's the video, dylann roof taking target practice. he's firing a gun at balloons. last week the jury heard roof confessed to the killings of those nine parishioners at ame church. the prosecution is expected to rest its case today. >>> new developments into the investigation into that cargo ship that sank off the coast of the bahamas a year ago. the ntsb just released more than 500 pages of audio transcript from the el faro, highlighting communications between the captain and the crew in the final moments. a crew member says i'm a goner. the crew members died in that incident. >>> the president of the philippines has admitted to killing suspected criminals while he was servi

. >>> the man accused of firing gunshots inside a washington, d.c., pizzeria while pursuing the internets pizza gate faces a federal charge of violating gun laws. 28-year-old edgar welsh was planning a possibly violent raid of the pizza place for days leading up to that incident. >>> and china is firing back over donald trump's remarks over the weekend that he doesn't feel bound by the one china policy. a beijing spokesman for taiwan affairs says any change in the policy would, quote, seriously damage peace and stability and warns it would undermine u.s.-china relations. the president-elect set off that diplomatic squabble after he broke a longstanding u.s. policy by taking a phone call from taiwan's president. louis? >>> donald trump took his thank you tour to wisconsin last night, where he was joined on stage by speaker of the house paul ryan, who gave the president-elect a customized packers jersey. with a stormy history among top republicans in washington, on displayed where ryan was booed by the audience and trump issued a very public warning. >> speaker paul ryan, i've really come

d.c. pizzeria was home to a child sex ring, visited by clinton campaign staff.tory led an armed man to enter the restaurant this weekend, he claimed, to investigate the allegations. he was arrested only after firing several shots. and yet on sunday, flynn jr. was still defending the conspiracy theory, tweeting, until pizzagate, proven to be false, it will remain a story. the left seems to forget podesta e-mails and the many coincidences tied to it. today flynn jr. was dismissed from the transition. the decision coming directly from the president-elect. >> regarding his father, i've spoken to gop and democratic lawmakers who see the madison selection as somewhat balancing flynn. mattis enormously selected by both parties. he outranked flynn four stars to three when they were in uniform. that has relevance, they say. >> thank you very much. let's bring back our panel. you think general flynn is the right guy to be the president's national security adviser in the white house? >> absolutely not. zero chance. let me transfrigs being a cnn commentator to a form he off

man inspired by a fake conspiracy theory about clinton allegedly opened fire in a washington, d.c., pizzeriallo has that story. >> reporter: under arrest 28-year-old edgar welch accused of firing an assault weapon inside a pizza restaurant. he came to investigate pizzagate. >> let me state the stories are completely and entirely false. >> reporter: the pizza gate conspiracy began with a clinton wikileaks and email stolen from john podesta about a fund-raiser involving the restaurant. users of the anonymous online message board 4chan known for rogue political discussion suggested without any proof that the word pizza was code for child sex trafficking at the restaurant. the conspiracy theory spread to r reddit and youtube, and officially the thread was banned. police and federal agents say the story is false. the website claimed there was a secret tunnel running up to the store to the politics and prose book store to traffic children but the book store says there is no tunnel. for weeks the restaurant and book store have received dozens of threats each day. >> we don't see this as a left/righ

d.c. pizzeria, fired shots because of a fake news story tying hillary clinton to a conspiracy theory thate wanted to, according to his own words, investigate for himself. lynn, to you. you wrote in your column today that the oxford dictionary's word of 2016 is post-truth. this is a serious problem. how should flynn be addressing this? >> well, i don't know because you're dealing with somebody in a new world here, somebody, a prominent public official going into a public administration who wants to push false news stories. this is somebody who comes out of the world of intelligence. he is somebody who has vast responsibilities to advise the administration on what is true and what is not in the world. now you mentioned a moment ago that groups complained about him. well, those are all democratic allied groups, poppy, so i don't think they'll have any sway at all on the situation. >> but i think, you know, errol, to you, when you look at the bigger concerns over fake news, those aren't just among democrats. i would argue there are many conservatives that are concerned about things like that,

d.c. pizzeria, invaded by armed gunman who believed online story about a child sex trade headed by hillary. >> there's nothing but about fake news. it's been with us since the world began. whether it's the weekly world news or what you can get an facebook. this is a desperate attempt to not deal with the reality that the media doesn't do a very good job covering the news this year. you can hunt down literally every corner of the internet trying to find any possible evidence of fake news. or you can just do a better job doing your own job and that's why if the media would focus on rather than cinching for enemies, real or imagined. >> is the narrative being pushed by progressives? >> oh, no. i mean, look, we have to be able to agree on a few things in this world. there's not that much left and right agree on in this country but we have to be able to agree, i would hope that if somebody is sitting at home and intentionally put some stories out that they know to be false, like that pizzagate thing, that we have to collectively do something, make some effort to try and stop that from happening

d.c. pizzeria where a gunman opened fire after he said he wanted to look into a fake conspiracy story himself. ali? >>> he was a warrior, test pilot, astronaut, businessman, senator, candidate for president, but john glenn was much more than the sum of his biography. the last surviving original member of the mercury 7 died yesterday. he was 95 years old. his aviation accomplishments defied belief. he flew 149 combat missions during world war ii and the korean war, and setting the transcontinental speed record as a test pilot, but it was his flight on february the 20th, 1962, that forever married him to history. his mercury atlas rocket made him the first american to orbit earth, and he returned to space 36 years later at the age of 77. the president-elect remembered his legacy yesterday at the airport named for the astronaut in columbus, ohio. >> of course, senator john glenn, the passing, he was really, to me, he was a great american hero. truly great american hero. i met him on two separate occasions. liked him, always liked him. but he was, indeed, an american hero. >> glenn ran for presid

d.c. pizzeria and it's the center of a baseless claim.o the restaurant to investigate the claim that clinton ran a child sex ring out of the building. he was armed with an ar-15 assault rifle, handgun and a knife. he fired several shots and no one was hit. >>> a south carolina judge today declared a mistrial in the case of police officer charged with murder in the death of a black motorist. the decision came after jurors told the judge they were unable to agree on a verdict for michael slager after 22 hours of deliberations over four days. he judge told jurors they could also consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. slager was standing trial for shooting 50-year-old walter scott to death after stopping him for having a broken tail light. >>> an industry group supporting the dakota access pipeline is hoping president-elect donald trump clears the way for its completion. the group says the army corps of engineers decision to deny a permit for construction under a mississippi river reservoir in north dakota is, quote, arrogance th

d.c. pizzeria is until jail. edgar welch pled not guilty.uiy.until next january. he's accused of firing insideide the comet ping-pong after reading a fake news story thatk claimed the restaurant was at the center avenue child sexild ring organized my hillaryllary clinton's presidentialton's prel campaign. >> president obama held his last news side conferentnce of 2016 o20 today.toda he spoke with reporters foror nearly 90 minutes. minut some of the issues include thede war in syria the election oflecn donald trump and russia's suspected hacking of the dnc during the election. the president stopped short of t saying vladimir putin orchestrated the hack but didid say the highest levels of thes t kremlin authorized thed hacking. hacking. >> what i can tellyou is is i that the intelligence i'vee i' seen gives me great confidenceid in their assessment that theth t russians carried out this out t hack. i'd make a larger point whicht h is not much happens in russia without vladimir putin. p >> the president vowed to retaliate against russia for s memed

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