here's our senior correspondent ted koppel. >> folks, i've been told this by high-up folks, obama andr. >> reporter: there's nothing new about using media to commit political slander. 1796, an editorial accused thomas jefferson of cowardess, running away from the enemy. our founding fathers could sling mud with the worst of them. it's not the nastiness that's new, it's the delivery systems. a radio talk show host by the name alex jones can be heard nationwide spreading the manure that fertilizes conspiracy theories all over the internet. >> pizzagate, as it's called, is a rabbit hole that is horrifying to go down. >> reporter: the charge that hillary clinton and her campaign manager, john podesta, were running a child pornography ring out of the basement of a washington pizza restaurant did not, as best we can tell, originate with jones. the accuser remains anonymous. but that story had real consequences. >> 28-year-old edgar welch, after driving from north carolina, entered the pizzaria entered the restaurant and fired shots. he told police he came to rescue child victims. >> reporte

i'm watching "nightline" with ted koppel appears rudy giuliani is being entered to and he barely mentions. instead what he says is my policies are working. new york is safer than it's ever been and i have the most restrained, best behaved police force in the united states. and i am thinking, your policies are working and you've got an unarmed man with no criminal record who has just been coming down? there is something going on here. so as a scholar and continuing to work and then ferguson in 2014. all of the pundits regardless of the ideological venue are asking why are black people burning where they live? they are talking about this black rage as buildings are on fire. i'm shaking my head no going this is white rage. i have lived in missouri for 13 years. i saw what policies could do and how they undermine access. i suffered an out in a city like ferguson that is 36% black but the voter turnout was only 6%. think about the kind of policies for 67% of the population into 6% of the voting population. i saw a school district on probation for 15 years. .. at emery university and i teach hu

i'm watching nightline with ted koppel, rudy giuliani is being interviewed and he barely mentions itrea he barely mentions how they do and instead what he says is my policies are working. new york is safer than it's ever been and i have to restrain the urge to lean forward in the united states and i'm thinking your policies are working and you've got an unarmed man with no criminal record who has just been gone down? that's not safety. there is something going on here so as a scholar , your continuing to think about that and then ferguson blows in 2014. and all of the pundits, regardless of the ideological strike of the venue are asking why are black people burning where they live? they're talking about this black rage as buildings are on fire and i'm shaking my head no, this is white rage. this is white rage. i lived in missouri for 14 years. i saw what policies could do, i saw how they undermined access. i saw how in a city like ferguson that's 57 percent black that the voter turnout only six percent were african-americans in the 2013 election. think about the kind of policies that