S1E6: Episode 4: “Fox News fiction”
Conspiracyland
Yahoo News
4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dallas money man Ed Butowsky decides to change the narrative of Russian meddling in the presidential election, working behind the scenes to get Fox News to go big on a story that Rich was the leaker to WikiLeaks.
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking News tonight, President Trump has fired FBI Director James Combe. |
| 0:06.0 | It's breaking news coming out of the White House. |
| 0:08.0 | It's May 2017, barely three months into Donald Trump's presidency, and the Russia story was blowing up big |
| 0:14.9 | time. A stunning development that seemed to come with little warning. |
| 0:18.8 | Justice Department is appointing a special council to take over the Russia investigation. |
| 0:24.4 | Mr. Mueller's purview will be the entire Russia issue. |
| 0:27.9 | The whole question. |
| 0:29.1 | At the very moment the news is playing out non-stop on television, Trump's allies in the political world and |
| 0:34.9 | the news media were crafting a very different version of events, and it had nothing to do |
| 0:40.0 | with the Russians. |
| 0:41.0 | Instead, it was a story rooted in an unsolved murder on the streets of |
| 0:45.6 | Washington and a giant deep state conspiracy to cover up the crime. |
| 0:55.0 | Tonight, another massive breaking news story, explosive developments in the mysterious |
| 1:00.6 | murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich that could completely shatter the narrative that in fact WikiLeaks was working with the Russians. |
| 1:09.0 | Within eight days the explosive story that set Sean Hannity off would be retracted and stricken |
| 1:15.4 | from the Fox News website. |
| 1:17.7 | It was a huge black eye for the Conservative News Network. |
| 1:21.1 | But how did this embarrassing episode come about in the first place? |
| 1:24.6 | What role did the Trump White House play in pushing it out? |
| 1:28.0 | And why, even after the fake story was taken down, did it continue to fester in the dark corners of the internet. |
| 1:36.4 | I'm Michael I'm Michael Ickov and welcome to Yahoo News's conspiracy land the |
| 1:40.4 | untold story of Seth Rich a special six-part podcast brought to you by Scull Duggery. |
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