WEBVTT 00:00.766 --> 00:01.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> Sreenivasan: THIS WEEKEND SAW 00:01.300 --> 00:02.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL 00:02.166 --> 00:03.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CANDIDATES AND EVEN THE LONE 00:03.600 --> 00:04.400 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER TO 00:04.466 --> 00:05.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PRESIDENT TRUMP, FORMER 00:05.366 --> 00:06.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR BILL 00:06.233 --> 00:07.800 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WELD, RACING TO EVENT AFTER 00:07.866 --> 00:07.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% EVENT IN IOWA. 00:07.833 --> 00:08.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% MEANWHILE, THE PRESIDENT 00:08.700 --> 00:10.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% REPORTEDLY RAISED $12,000,000 AT 00:10.200 --> 00:11.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% FUNDRAISERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND 00:11.600 --> 00:15.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THEN BEGAN HIS VACATION AT HIS 00:15.233 --> 00:16.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% GOLF CLUB IN NEW JERSEY, A 00:16.900 --> 00:18.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% VACATION THAT INCLUDES A BARRAGE 00:18.300 --> 00:19.866 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% OF TWEETS AND RETWEETS. 00:19.933 --> 00:20.733 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NEWSHOUR WEEKEND SPECIAL 00:20.800 --> 00:21.866 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CORRESPONDENT JEFF GREENFIELD IS 00:21.933 --> 00:23.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% HERE NOW TO TALK ABOUT ALL 00:23.600 --> 00:24.800 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THAT AND MORE POLITICAL NEWS. 00:24.866 --> 00:26.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TO SAY THAT THE PRESIDENT 00:26.300 --> 00:27.366 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% RETWEETING A CONSPIRACY THEORY 00:27.433 --> 00:28.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CONNECTING THE CLINTONS TO THE 00:28.833 --> 00:30.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DEATH OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS A 00:30.100 --> 00:33.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SURPRISE? 00:33.533 --> 00:34.366 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NOT SO MUCH. 00:34.433 --> 00:35.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% I MEAN-- 00:35.233 --> 00:36.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> IN ONE SENSE, YOU COULD SAY 00:36.900 --> 00:39.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WHAT ELSE IS NEW? 00:39.233 --> 00:40.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% YOU KNOW, HE WAS THE BIRTHER 00:40.900 --> 00:41.966 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CONSPIRACY GUY, HE SAID, 00:42.033 --> 00:43.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS 00:43.166 --> 00:44.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% COST HIM THE POPULAR VOTE. 00:44.200 --> 00:45.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% HE THOUGHT JUSTICE SCALIA'S 00:45.300 --> 00:46.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DEATH WAS FISHY. 00:46.533 --> 00:47.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BUT STILL, WHEN YOU READ 00:47.966 --> 00:49.066 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THIS 00:49.133 --> 00:49.966 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PRESIDENT ACCUSING ANOTHER 00:50.033 --> 00:51.400 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PRESIDENT OF COMPLICITY IN A 00:51.466 --> 00:53.066 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% MURDER, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT WE 00:53.133 --> 00:54.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THINK OTHER COUNTRIES WERE LIKE 00:54.533 --> 00:56.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WHEN THEY WOULD JAIL OR EXECUTE 00:56.166 --> 00:56.066 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% POLITICAL OPPONENTS. 00:56.133 --> 00:57.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND THE BARRIER'S THAT ARE NOT 00:57.833 --> 00:58.933 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% JUST PUSHED, BUT CRASHED, 00:59.000 --> 01:00.366 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% COMBINED ONCE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, 01:00.433 --> 01:02.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WITH THE MASSIVE SILENCE OF HIS 01:02.166 --> 01:04.066 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% OWN PARTY, IN ONE SENSE, I THINK 01:04.133 --> 01:05.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% JUST LEAVES YOU, AS A HUMAN, 01:05.400 --> 01:04.733 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% POLEAXED. 01:04.800 --> 01:06.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DID I REALLY READ THAT? 01:06.233 --> 01:07.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AM I REALLY HEARING THIS FROM 01:07.900 --> 01:08.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 01:08.766 --> 01:09.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% STATES? 01:09.500 --> 01:10.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THE SHEER OVERREACH IN SOME 01:10.900 --> 01:12.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SENSE PROTECTS HIM ,BECAUSE YOU 01:12.300 --> 01:13.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% ALMOST LITERALLY CAN'T BELIEVE 01:13.100 --> 01:15.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% IT. 01:15.300 --> 01:16.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% IT'S-- IT'S-- WE DON'T KNOW HOW 01:16.966 --> 01:26.000 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TO GET OUR HEADS AROUND IT. 01:26.066 --> 01:26.866 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> Sreenivasan: YEAH. 01:26.933 --> 01:28.566 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WELL, LET'S GET OUR HEADS AROUND 01:28.633 --> 01:30.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% ACTUAL NEWS THAT DID MATTER THIS 01:30.300 --> 01:31.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WEEK, THAT WAS SUBSTANTIVE AND 01:31.700 --> 01:33.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% OFTENTIMES IS IGNORED BY THE 01:33.100 --> 01:34.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TWEET STREAM AND THESE KINDS OF 01:34.366 --> 01:35.733 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SPECTACLES. 01:35.800 --> 01:37.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> I THINK ONE OF THE BIG 01:37.500 --> 01:39.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% STORIES WAS THE FACT THAT SUE 01:39.200 --> 01:40.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% GORDY, THE DEPUTY D.N.I., 01:40.900 --> 01:41.733 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL 01:41.800 --> 01:43.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% INTELLIGENCE, WAS FORCED OUT OF 01:43.200 --> 01:45.066 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% HER JOB BY HER BOSS, WHO IS 01:45.133 --> 01:46.200 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% HIMSELF BEING PUSHED ASIDE, DAN 01:46.266 --> 01:46.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% COATS. 01:46.233 --> 01:47.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T 01:47.366 --> 01:48.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TRUST THE INTELLIGENCE HE GETS 01:48.766 --> 01:50.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% OR HE DOESN'T LIKE IT WHEN IT 01:50.700 --> 01:51.400 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CONTRADICTS HIS IDEAS. 01:51.466 --> 01:53.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NOW, SUE GORDY IS THE KIND OF 01:53.400 --> 01:54.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PERSON THAT A GOVERNMENT 01:54.366 --> 01:55.266 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SHOULD EMBRACE. 01:55.333 --> 01:55.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BOTH PARTY INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS 01:55.900 --> 01:56.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% REALLY RESPECTED. 01:56.700 --> 01:58.566 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THEY WANTED HER TO GET THE CHEIF 01:58.633 --> 02:00.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% JOB, AND FOR HER TO BE BRUSHED 02:00.600 --> 02:02.500 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% ASIDE IS A PART OF A PIECE. 02:02.566 --> 02:04.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WE ALSO SAW A SCIENTIST IN THE 02:04.533 --> 02:05.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE QUIT 02:05.700 --> 02:07.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BECAUSE HE WASN'T PERMITTED TO 02:07.100 --> 02:08.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PRESENT EVIDENCE THAT CLIMATE 02:08.233 --> 02:09.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CHANGE WAS HAVING AN EFFECT ON 02:09.900 --> 02:10.733 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NUTRIENTS LIKE RICE. 02:10.800 --> 02:12.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND WE'VE HEARD THE F.B.I. 02:12.766 --> 02:14.366 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY WANT 02:14.433 --> 02:15.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TO FOCUS ON DOMESTIC TERRORISM, 02:15.833 --> 02:17.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BY WHICH THEY MEAN WHITE 02:17.166 --> 02:17.066 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NATIONALIST TERRORISM. 02:17.133 --> 02:18.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BUT WE'RE GETTING, WE'RE REALLY 02:18.533 --> 02:19.866 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% UNCOMFORTABLE IF THAT'S GOING TO 02:19.933 --> 02:20.933 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AFFECT SOMEHOW PEOPLE IN THE 02:21.000 --> 02:21.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PRESIDENT'S BASE. 02:21.833 --> 02:23.200 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND WHAT'S THE COMMON THEME? 02:23.266 --> 02:24.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THAT PEOPLE IN POWER DON'T WANT 02:24.966 --> 02:26.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TO HEAR FACTS THAT CHALLENGE 02:26.400 --> 02:27.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THEIR PREMISES AND WHETHER IT'S 02:27.833 --> 02:29.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BEEN VIETNAM OR IRAQ OR GOD 02:29.533 --> 02:30.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% KNOWS HOW MANY OTHER EXAMPLES, 02:30.966 --> 02:32.566 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WHEN PEOPLE IN POWER DON'T WANT 02:32.633 --> 02:34.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TO HEAR EVIDENCE THAT MAY FORCE 02:34.300 --> 02:35.900 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THEM TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS, YOU 02:35.966 --> 02:43.366 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% GOT A PROBLEM. 02:43.433 --> 02:44.266 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> Sreenivasan: THIS WEEKEND WE 02:44.333 --> 02:45.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% ALSO SAW EVERY DEMOCRATIC 02:45.500 --> 02:46.600 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CANDIDATE RUNNING AROUND, AND 02:46.666 --> 02:47.733 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% OBVIOUSLY BILL WELD AS 02:47.800 --> 02:49.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE EATING 02:49.233 --> 02:50.833 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% TURKEY WINGS AT THE STATE FAIR 02:50.900 --> 02:52.500 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY HAVE TO 02:52.566 --> 02:54.633 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DO IN IOWA. 02:54.700 --> 02:56.600 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BUT YOU ALSO HAVE SEEN A STEADY 02:56.666 --> 02:58.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DRIP OF STORIES OVER THE PAST 02:58.366 --> 03:00.266 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% FEW DAYS ON JOE BIDEN AND THE 03:00.333 --> 03:01.766 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% VERBAL GAFFES, AGAIN, IN THE 03:01.833 --> 03:03.433 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% CONTEXT OF THE TWEETS AND SO 03:03.500 --> 03:05.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% FORTH THAT WE WERE JUST TALKING 03:05.166 --> 03:07.166 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% ABOUT, THEY PALE IN COMPARISON. 03:07.233 --> 03:10.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BUT WHAT'S THE NET RESULT? 03:10.366 --> 03:11.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> THE PROIBLEM, AND I THINK 03:11.766 --> 03:13.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NORMALLY I'M INCLINED TO SAY, 03:13.166 --> 03:14.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% COME ON, YOU KNOW THIS IS HYPE. 03:14.533 --> 03:16.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% BUT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THESE 03:16.200 --> 03:17.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% EVENTS HAVE A POLITICAL IMPACT, 03:17.600 --> 03:19.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND THAT IS WHEN THEY TEND TO 03:19.533 --> 03:20.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% REINFORCE A STEREOTYPE ANYWAY. 03:20.600 --> 03:21.966 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SO, FOR INSTANCE, WHEN GERALD 03:22.033 --> 03:23.133 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% FORD, THE MOST ATHLETIC 03:23.200 --> 03:24.566 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD, PRO 03:24.633 --> 03:26.266 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% FOOTBALL PLAYER HAD A FEW TRIPS 03:26.333 --> 03:27.700 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND CHEVY CHASE OF "SATURDAY 03:27.766 --> 03:29.100 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% NIGHT LIVE" TURNED IT INTO, 03:29.166 --> 03:31.300 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% I GUESS, A MEME, THAT ALL OF A 03:31.366 --> 03:32.666 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SUDDEN WAS CAME, HE'S A KLUTZ. 03:32.733 --> 03:33.566 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DAN QUAYLE. 03:33.633 --> 03:35.500 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THE QUESTION ABOUT HIM WAS IS HE 03:35.566 --> 03:36.866 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% REALLY UP TO THE JOB? 03:36.933 --> 03:38.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND SO WHEN HE MISSPELLED THE 03:38.600 --> 03:39.933 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% WORD, IT WAS, WELL, YOU KNOW, 03:40.000 --> 03:40.800 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THERE IT IS. 03:40.866 --> 03:42.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SO FOR BIDEN, YOU KNOW WHAT'S A 03:42.400 --> 03:43.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% DILEMMA? 03:43.400 --> 03:45.033 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% HE'S, HE'S OLD AND AN OTHERWISE 03:45.100 --> 03:45.933 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% UNMEMORABLE SLIP, PARTICULARLY 03:46.000 --> 03:47.600 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% IF THEY'RE A COUPLE, BEGINS TO 03:47.666 --> 03:49.000 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% RAISE THAT QUESTION, SINCE IT'S 03:49.066 --> 03:49.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THERE ANYWAY IN THE POLITICAL 03:49.600 --> 03:50.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% FIRMAMENT. 03:50.300 --> 03:52.200 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% AND SO I, I HATE TO SOUND 03:52.266 --> 03:53.333 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% SUPERFICIAL ABOUT THIS, BUT 03:53.400 --> 03:57.233 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% THOSE THINGS CAN MATTER. 03:57.300 --> 03:58.366 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT, JEFF 03:58.433 --> 03:59.466 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% GREENFIELD, THANKS SO MUCH. 03:59.533 --> 04:03.533 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% >> THANK YOU.