people and the narrative became war between ken starr and the white house and my favorite was from "usa today" at the time. "clinton versus starr turning nasty." who can claim truth or objectivity anymore? who indeed? there are specific people who are called upon to play this particular role. in the d.c. business of partisan scandal making and scandal distracting. people who are called upon to muddy the waters, shift the focus, confuse the narrative. during the benghazi investigation, joe digeneva was back tedling claims the obam marg was intimidating witnesses. during the presidential campaign, joe digenova was back regularly citing supposed inside sources telling him that hillary clinton was definitely about to be indicted over her e-mails. she was guilty of several felonies. she couldn't be elected because she was definitely going to jail. and now act 17 in this life-long play. late last night a conservative website posted a story claiming that obama national security adviser susan rice ordered intelligence agencies to compile spreadsheets of intercepted communications between don

under that statute, that was the one with ken starr and a lot of other special prosecutors, when theyould do their investigation at the end of the day, they would issue a long report. and everyone would say, ok, now we understand what everybody did, who all -- what the roles were, what their conduct was. soledad: that's not how it's done today. peter: not anymore. soledad: what shuts the -- should the strategy be? if there is a sense that people have lost confidence that there's a nonpolitical investigation that could be done , what would you recommend? peter: ideally they would have an independent commission, the 9/11-style commission. the problem with that, of course, is it requires, as i understand it, legislation, which would have to be signed by the president. and i don't anticipate president trump signing off on that. and failing in that, a select committee, as opposed to a special prosecutor, isn't trying to bring a case. they're investigating these facts. and they're doing what they can do in public. and at the end of it, they would make a report and they would make their find

born dilution, and contracted by evidence reviewed in at least six investigations, one of them by ken starr. hard lay bill clinton defender. otherwise, ry ridiculous and shameful, gain, this is not a pro clinton position or anti-trump position, it is a pro truth position. only 14% of the republicans say they trust the news media this year. i want to bring back our panel and talk about this. most importantly, talk about what journalists and what come men tatter what we can do in the media to got the numbers back up. every day, we can either remain the people's trust or lose even more of it. [applause] a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. they are the enemy of the people. >> please join me. [applause] >> so we have the pleasure of the winners in our national categories winning for individual achievement in national journalism, jorge ramos, jake tapper and katy tur nal the western for natio network news program is cnn's t briane sources with hos stelter. you welcomed them warmly, but why not do it again? [applause] >> in a little while, we will have a ch

murder, fiction and contradicted by evidence reviewed in at least six investigations, one of them by ken starr, hardly a bill clinton defender, to say otherwise is ridiculous and hardly shameful. this is not a anti-trump position, it is a pro-truth position. >> only 14% of republicans say they trust the news media this year. i bring back my panel to talk about this and talk about what journalists or commentator to get those numbers back up. we can either regain people's trust or lose even more of it. president trump: i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are, the enemy of the people. martin: please join me. [applause] martin: so we have the pleasure of the winners in our national category, winning for individual achievement in national ournalism, jorge ramos, jake tapper and katy tur and winner for national network news program is cnn's reliable sources is host brian stelter. you just welcomed them warmly, but why not do it again. [applause] martin: in a little while, they will be given their trophies and we'll have a chance to thank and say what else they want to say, but r