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Deadline: White House - “Extraordinary tales of a conspiracy”

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Andrew Weissmann, Michael Steele, Kate Christobek, Elizabeth Neumann, Katty Kay, Tim Miller, Dr. Kavita Patel, Mini Timmaraju, and Marc Pitzke.

“Extraordinary tales of a conspiracy”

Hi everyone it's Hump Day. It's not it's only Wednesday.

Doesn't it feel like an 11 day week already? It's not. It's only Wednesday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. We've only had two days of testimony in the first ever criminal trial of an American ex-president. Already we have learned so much.

of a conspiracy to interfere in a presidential election.

Trump ally David Becker, painted an incredibly vivid

picture of that explicit agreement between himself

and the ex-presidentpresident one of mutual benefit,

where negative stories about Donald Trump were bought and buried,

and negative stories about Trump's rivals were embellished

or in some instances completely fabricated.

Stories of women having affairs with Trump were hidden

while fake stories about Hillary Clinton,

Photos were doctored, like one of Ted Cruz's father

Our friend Andrew Weissman referred to on this program as ground zero of

fake news. David Pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today but

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0:00.0	Hi everyone it's Hump Day. It's not it's only Wednesday.
0:09.0	Hi everyone it's Hump Day.
0:11.0	Doesn't it feel like an 11 day week already? It's not. It's only Wednesday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. We've only had two days of testimony in the first ever criminal trial of an American ex-president. Already we have learned so much.
0:23.2	We've heard extraordinary details
0:26.4	of a conspiracy to interfere in a presidential election.
0:30.1	The prosecution's first witness,
0:31.9	former National Inquirer CEO,
0:33.8	Trump ally David Becker, painted an incredibly vivid
0:37.4	picture of that explicit agreement between himself
0:41.3	and the ex-presidentpresident one of mutual benefit,
0:44.0	where negative stories about Donald Trump were bought and buried,
0:47.0	and negative stories about Trump's rivals were embellished
0:50.0	or in some instances completely fabricated.
0:53.6	Stories of women having affairs with Trump were hidden
0:56.2	while fake stories about Hillary Clinton,
0:58.4	Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and others
1:01.0	were quickly written up and published.
1:03.0	Photos were doctored, like one of Ted Cruz's father
1:06.2	and JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald,
1:09.0	all amounting to a phenomenon.
1:10.7	Our friend Andrew Weissman referred to on this program as ground zero of
1:14.9	fake news. David Pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today but
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“Extraordinary tales of a conspiracy”

Deadline: White House

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