we were concerned the knight ridder stories were not getting out.any of these papers did not print. they didn't print them. howie: were they not getting a lot of pickup because of the mindset in the mainstream media? bob wood ward told me afterwards he was part of the mind think. >> we were swept up in patriotism, 9/11. and people went with the group think. the bush administration in a smart way from their standpoint, they never responded to these articles. they gave them no oxygen. they didn't rebuke them or talk about them. so it never got any attention. howie: the underlying attention, the bush administration was lying about iraq. but that as opposed to cherry picking intelligence as opposed to not being sceptical about the intelligence. even john wolcott to this day says he doesn't know people are lying. >> we are saying cheney lied. we are saying cheney lied at this one thing about the idea in general because he had -- he talked about a connection between mohammad atta and iraqin tell jones which didn't exist. they talked about them being on th

wa from knight ridder news in the run-up to thin iraq. and they basically got it all right.> yeah. supposedly, he had weapons of mass destruction, supposedly had something to do with 9/11. all these things were lies. and administrations use propaganda to sell, you know, a a policy or a rationale to go for war. but it's always up to the journalists to keep them honest. anthat's their job. there's a clip in the film. and i think one of the lines i have in there is -- i don't know if you're goingow it or not. but i talk about how when the government says something there's only one question you have to ask. it true? and that is what the journalists have to do. but now it more difficult than ever to get to the truth and inform the public. because unless the public is informed, we don't have a a chance to hold this democracy together. so we're trying, we're fighting. ovd, you know, hopefully we will, because wethis country. and we don't want to see it dissolve. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: absolutely. yeah. it's a great cast, by the way, in "shock and awe." >> yeah. jimmy: i

the courageous reporters from knight ridder out there all alone said there was no wmd. it was a joke. thank you rob, dahlia and karine jean-pierre. i president trump flacks for moscow again heed of ahead of his meeting with putin coming up. once again, trump is pouring cold water on the idea that the kremlin hacked the 2016 election. every one of our intelligence agencies says they did. why is he so hell bent on making nice with the russian strong man? plus a federal judge orders the trump administration to reunite the roughly 2,000 children separated from their parents at the border, but with the children scattered all across the country, how are they going to get those families back together that quick? >>> and with boll's legacy being torn part, what would it take to motivate the democrats in 2018 and 2020? the "hardball" roundtable tackles that and the way forward nancy pelosi her path back to the speakership is getting narrower. let me finish tonight with trump watch. you're watching "hardball." matt: whoo! whoo! jen: but that all changed when we bought a house. ma