From the New York Times. I Michael, whereby this is due to the arms of murder of second rich, how story spread warped and revealed a truth. Fake news dies hard the two members of the trunk camping who Russia identified as its best chance of influencing Donald Trump, its thirst, may twenty fifth Last week, a story reemerged in the media, a kind of case study of how and why fake news indoors, my colleague, Michael Grim, bomb, trace the story. Back to its beginning, Well, it starts on July evening last summer in the Bloomingdale Neighbourhood Washington, where

a young man in set Rich was murdered. He was shot in the back. His body was found later that night he was walking home from a bar on the phone with his girlfriend. The initial Ports from the DC police was that this was a failed robbery attempt and what significant about this guy separate Seth was a staffer at their Democratic National Committee, which at the time this was in the run up to the political conventions. They were working to help Hillary Clinton campaign. So what's the media coverage of his death early on So it's not every day that Dnc staffer is murdered in the streets of Washington, family and friends are grieving. The loss of a young man killed in DC over the weekend and drastic, and it was reported, as you might imagine, a local crime story was he's from Nebraska. He came to Washington To get involved in politics he wanted to make.

World a better place. The police couldn't find the asylum, and he D is looking into the possibility that reaches murder is connected to other recent robberies. In this neighborhood, the strap of his wrist watch had been torn end and it was essentially a tragedy. Today I talked to his mom by phone life and furnished shrouded in eight just pick his life so window. The varying versions of this story begin to pop up. So the first time that set Rich came up in a different country. Was actually an interview that Julian Assange. The Wikileaks founder gave to a dutch television station of all places, a whistle blowers, going to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. The twenty seven year old. I worked for the DMZ who shot in the back noted just two weeks ago from unknown reasons, as he was walking

on the street in Washington, so that that was just a robbery, I believe wasn't it not that's, there's no finding! So What are you? What are you suggesting? I am suggesting that our sources take risks and they are they become concerned to see things. Hurry like that. But what are you one of your sources them I mean we turn comment on ground sources. I make a suggestion about a young guy being shall in the streets of Washington, because we have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States. I met Assange, gives this gives this interview, it's right as the speculation about The trumps campaign is starting to really pick up a way out of this is not going to go away, despite efforts stepping down from his role in the trunk campaign, and there have been reports from the

the from the intelligence community that Russians were behind the Dnc hack right then This just and russian hackers managed to infiltrate the computer network at the Democratic National Committee. In and what information did they? Apparently, these euro and on. Well, the opposition research file on one Mr Donald J Drum? But it was right around the moment when the notion that maybe set rich, was the source, something that had never been suggested before never been suggested back. When he was murdered in in D C,

We Gillies putting up the reward forty thousand hours to find out who killed the kid who worked at the anti. Suddenly, this idea, floated by by weaken weeks, says we treat threads toward any suspected Wikileaks sources with extreme gravity and some right wing pundits start to pick up on it was this kid the Wikileaks source? Is this an alternate explanation for how these emails got out? Their wonder why this is in the lead in the news of the twenty seven year old? What why murdered Seth Ridge, the twenty seven year old. Is this an alternate theory that would leave the Russians out of this equation? And if you follow that thread, a potentially gives an out. Essentially, should the term campaign and to the Russians and to the Russians, It's kind of interesting, Michael because Julian Assange is seen, as very close to the Russians as a rogue figure costs challenging American

military secrecy, american intelligence, community secrecy, not exactly a friend of the american conservative world, and it sounds like through this process he becomes allied and partner it in some ways, with conservative media in the story. Yet there is no question strange bedfellows, and this actually brings us to shun Hannity, a Fox news. I travel to London to sit down with Wikileaks foundered Julian Assange in an attempt to set the record straight shown lies to England to interview Julian Assange, not specifically about Seth Range, but to talk about his involvement in the presidential. Action last year now the idea of Sean Hannity having exclusive interview with someone who panicky himself was deriding as an enemy of of the american people just couple of years ago is in itself pretty unusual, but during this interview Assange yet again did Russia

you, this information or anybody associated with Russia. Our source is not a state party for the answer, for our interactions is now brings out. The idea that set riches murder is reckless tied to the Dnc leaks again with no evidence, no evidence is offered for this, but other presume, the Julian Assange would possess such evidence Since he has the recipient of those leak, so this is what Hannity is actually now says on a fairly day to day basis on his Fox news show that in all the years Wikileaks eleven years, they ve never been proven wrong. Assange is the one who knows the source. Wiki leaks are the ones who publish these emails, of course, he's an authority on this, of course at sea. To ignore the fact that Assange is in a who, over the years, has been very squarely about the true resources behind his his reporting. Ok, so then what happens with the south restored

this conscious simmer along for a few months who wears a guy. I mean you you'd, think that, months after this law, months after the election was over, that the story of South rich would have would have faded away, but it became more critical to conserve voices on the right wing as the russian speculation heated up. So you know we're now when a stage where almost every day there's some new revelation, suggesting some links between russian intelligence in a member of trumps in circle, that's a narrative that the right wing media is not not thrilled about how you got the tin foil. Had conspiracy there is about president trunk colluding with the Russians. Despite up to this point, no evidence that these liberal crackpots they ve been pushed forever, where's the evidence it undermines the president's demanded a lot of them. Where did during the election. It suggests that trumpet victory was, in some ways illegitimate that he was aided by the interference of a foreign government, so the temptation of a theory that there

no other explanation for what happened during the campaign that maybe the Russians had nothing to do with it. Then maybe that leak came directly from a young, obscure staffer who isn't here to offer his side of the story. Became much more alluring to a lot of these voices, including shot Hannity, and we started to see it bubble up more and more so. What happens to bring us today in investigator, name rod. We Where are you now, after South Rich was killed? A private investigator says he has evidence that could link riches murder to his work with the day and see keepin hired to figure out the truth behind this guy, and he claimed that he had direct evidence that Seth Riches I had been access that he had essentially stolen these emails from the Dnc and provided that Wikileaks. I believe that answer to solving his that lies. Computer now under further questioning, Wheeler

did that he had no corroborating evidence of this, but there was a local Fox news, affiliate in Washington DC that picked up the story and ran with a new information from the families private investigator suggests. There is tangible evidence on south riches laptop that confirms. He was communicating with Wikileaks prior to his death in other continents, felt it in Fox NEWS: the national networking putting a story up on its website. That was really the break moment where what you and I might think about as the main stream conservative press ass to really go to town on the stand tell me what you mean by that when you say, there's a breakthrough in the mainstream concern for us. What kind figures start covering? It was doesn't look like when I talk about the larger conservative press. I mean Sean Henry show that gets around three million viewers a night now, if true, this big could become one of the biggest scandals in american history and could mean that rich could have been murdered under very suspicious circumstances, and then people like Nootka

rich. We have this very strange story now this young man who work for Democratic national committee. Who will pay only was assassinated at four in the morning who went on Fox, shows start talking about it time television, because it turns out it wasn't the Russians. It was this young guy who, I suspect, was disgusted The corruption that Democratic National Committee he's been Apparently, nothing sure has been done to investigate these murders rush. Limbaugh are you wearing, ladies and gentlemen, I am sad rich and he started really making this a major theme of his daily broadcasts. This story is now starting. They give legs that serve rich. Was murdered, asking why his nobody looked into the truth behind Seth Riches murder. It was a contract higher killing because he was leading the Wikileaks. He was the one, so it turns out, the private investigator was recommended to the rich fan.

By a man named Ed boot housekeeper, who we recently learned, is a conservative activists whose tied to the Mercer, who are friends and Steve Ban in bright bar news that whole gang and my belief, funded doll, trumps candidacy for president exactly the rich family has since said they regretted bringing on this investigator and, if disavowed, what he's been saying to the press. Just to sum this up the person who, brings this story to Fox is action. De the investigator looking into this murder on behalf of the rich family, which has in disavowed this investigator and his story and the same investigator was connected to the rich family. By a prominent supporter of doll trumps, you ve got it Michael. How does this story to this point? This journey? It's made illustrate the life, essentially a fake news story. It's like

contagion and some as numbing. Here's a story that grabbed hold of a lot of people's imaginations. Look Fox news retracted this stuff the sweet, put out a statement saying that this wasn't subjected to our editorial standards. We can alone stand behind. It were removing it from the website and yet the day after that, Sid congressmen goes on CNN and says my fear, is our costs and focusing on the Russians is deflecting away for some other things that we need to be investigating it. There are still some question as to whether the intrusion into Dnc server was an insider job or whether or not it was the russian you're not out of their lambs yarn on our I'm. Sorry, I'm sorry very worried the insider job. What are you referring to here, because I hope it's not that this information that Fox NEWS is refused to be reporting, so these stories once they get out there? It's it's

to bring him back in to your saying that the damage is done. That's right, even when Fox NEWS retracted. The story Can anyone on television a few hours after that? I totally completely understand how upset how hard this is on this family, especially by the recent coverage assess death, said out of the sympathy for that. Emily I am not discussing this matter at this time and he said to my loyal audience. I promise you. I am not going to stop doing my job to the extent of my ability. I am not going to stop trying to find the truth. He made it clear that this is going to be a crusade that continues one way or another Michael. Thank you very much thanks for having me Michael

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That what are you and your colleagues now learning about the russian side of all this work Running is that you know the Russians by early summer were talking and debating deliberating about what they wanted to get done. My colleague Matt Rosenberg how far they wanted to go in the election and kind of interfering it in meddling, and they were talking specifically about individual trump aides and associates who they thought they could work with who they thought. These are guys who we have ties to, and we think we can use them to either influence from Paris to aid our efforts, that's a big wow. Of debates that Eu S intelligence, when you can over here about how they're gonna metal, who do the Russians, decide that they should go after so weary there.

Lot of conversations focus on Paul metaphor, who at the time was trumped campaign chairman and Michael Flynn, who was at that point, is kind of senior now security adviser would go on to become the National skirt adviser in the White House when trumped up office. What is it tell us about the term campaign that it was filled with? people who could have been targeted in this way that the russian saw as ideal potential targets any tells you kind of how much of a group of outsiders it really ones. There are a whole lot expression, the national sturdy Southern, a whole lot of the national security types in Washington who or potentially pro russian or have any substantive ties to Russia in General Flynn. Surly did have ties to russian officials matter for had spent

years lobbying Fur Viktor Yanukovych Shoe is the deposed president of Ukraine, immersion August, that there'd been millions of dollars in payments that were shown in a secret ledger to him from the Party of Mr Yanukovych she's political party, and when that came out, they destroy his position. The Trump campaign became told the untenable. You know you can't be taking secret undisclosed payments, millions of dollars worth but oppose ukrainian President, who is now in exile in Moscow right and is seen as like. You know, incredibly closer Russia Intelligence at the second, I in these are just now the standard, gonna profiles of of typical right kind of campaign. People and look. That's, though, is a bad thing. You know there are a lot of things by Washington that a lot of Americans would change if they could and Trump solemnly promised to do that and in some ways the people established campaign reflected that with that in mind MA am we give listeners update after update into what we describe as ties between

tromp world and russia- and I wonder if there's anything you can say that helps make sense of why we keep reporting on this day after day, when it's now entirely clear that there is any wrongdoing, that's taken place within the trunk and paint Trump administration. Ministration. Think about this for a second, I think our country deserves to know who would elected under what circumstances, but also one of the ways we find out who was elected as we find out how they address this level of adversity. Do they come out and say you know what this is bad way to get to the bottom of it and on the support? Whatever investigations need to be supported, and if people did wrong they're going to prison or whatever you do or do we just existence?

and there have been really interesting moment: racy people on their right, you're fervently anti Russia making ceases people on the left kind of sounding like their red baiting. Sometimes I mean it it's a confusing time and that's why the recent keep reporting on it as well. But it really does any tell us a lot about where we are that this issue could divide us so deeply and so Whitley Matthew. As always. Thank you very much, for example, here's what else you need to know today something else, but that bomb together and are you searching for that person is a search now report. I think it's very clear that this is a network that we are investigating on Wednesday fish police raised to track down other suspected members of what they are now calling a network that they see helped Solomon Abbadie, the sewers.

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the final nail in the coffin of the republican effort to sabotage our health care system. Finally, hours before, voters in Montana went to pick their next congressmen in a closely special election argue about it yet, but there's nothing between registers, changeless fired. You guys they did. The same thing did now. I'm a reporter for the guardian Ben Jacobs asked the republican candidate Gregg Gian Forty about the sea. Your report, according to Fox NEWS, reporters in the room, Gian Forty Grab Jacobs by the throat, threw him to the ground and began punching. Yes, you just wrote you last got due to fame damned thing you're just body. Finally, it brought by us get the hell out of here you'd like me to get the hollow threat of electrical

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