JILLIAN: AS YOU KNOW 2018
BROUGHT ITS SHARE OF FAKE NEWS.
>> IT'S ALL FAKE NEWS.
IT'S PHONEY STUFF.
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
FAKE NEWS.
[LAUGHTER]
>> FAKE NEWS.
JILLIAN: AND HERE NOW TO WALK US
THROUGH SOME OF THE MEDIA
MISSTEPS OF 2018 IS THE
PRESIDENT OF DISTRICT MEDIA
GROUP AND FELLOW AT HERITAGE
FOUNDATION BEVERLY, HAPPY NEW
YEAR TO YOU.
>> HAPPY NEW YEAR.
JILLIAN: LET'S START OFF WITH
THE HEADLINE FROM THE NEW YORKER
WHICH READS, QUOTE, SENATE
DEMOCRATS INVESTIGATE NEW
ALLEGATION OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
FROM BRETT KAVANAUGH'S COLLEGE
YEARS, WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF
THIS?
>> WELL, THERE ARE MANY
INACCURATE STORIES RELATED TO
THE KAVANAUGH HEARINGS, I THINK
THE NEW YORKER TOOK THE CASE
WITH THIS STORY MOSTLY BECAUSE
EVEN THOUGH THIS WAS A FEMALE
PERSON WHO CAME FORWARD AND
ACCUSING KAVANAUGH, THERE WAS NO
PROOF TO HER STORY, ALL THE
SOURCES THAT SHE SAID WERE
THERE, ALL OF THEM SAID IT
DIDN'T HAPPEN, KAVANAUGH DIDN'T
HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK FOR
HIMSELF.
SO I THINK IT JUST PROVES WHEN
IT CAME THEY DIDN'T REALLY CARE
ABOUT THE FACTS OR SOURCES, THEY
REALLY JUST WANTED A NARRATIVE
TO TURN AUTOA CERTAIN WAY.
JILLIAN: THIS IS WHAT "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" REPORTED, QUOTE, THE
TIMES HAD INTERVIEWED SEVERAL
DOZEN PEOPLE OVER THE PAST WEEK
IN AN ATTEMPT TO CORROBORATE
STORY AND COULD FIND NO ONE WITH
FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE, MS. RAMI
FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE, MS. RAMÍREZ
CONTACTED YALE CLASSMATES ASKING
IF THEY RECALLED THE INCIDENT
AND TOLD THEM SOFT THEM THAT SHE
COULD NOT BE CERTAIN THAT
MR. KAVANAUGH WAS THE ONE WHO
EXPOSED HIMSELF.
THAT WAS A WILD WORLD WIND OF A
FEW WEEKS THERE.
>> YEAH, THIS IS WHEN IT COMES
TO JOURNALISTS ONE OF THE THINGS
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IS MAKE
SURE SOURCES ARE CORRECT, THERE
ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN CORROBORATE
EVIDENCE AND YET WE HAD ACCUSER
AFTER ACCUSER COMING OUT TRYING
TO RUIN NOT JUST THIS MAN'S
CREDIBILITY BUT THE WHOLE
PROCESS OF TRYING TO NOMINATE
JUDGE TO SUPREME COURT.
JOURNALISTS, WE SHOULD HOLD THEM
TO HIGHER STANDARD AND
FORTUNATELY PEOPLE SAW THROUGH
THE STORY.
JILLIAN: JIM ACOSTA, THE
EXCHANGE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP,
CONFERENCE WITH REPORTERS AFTER
MIDTERMS, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
>> I THINK YOU SHOULD LET ME RUN
THE COUNTRY AND YOU RUN CNN AND
IF YOU DID IT WELL --
>> MR. PRESIDENT, IF I MAY ASK
YOU --
>> THAT'S ENOUGH.
THAT'S ENOUGH.
>> PARDON ME, MA'AM.
>> THAT'S ENOUGH.
JILLIAN: THIS WAS SEEN ALL OVER
AND SPARKED SO MUCH, BEVERLY.
>> SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO BE
CELEBRITY JOURNALIST WITH THE
WHOLE GOAL TO GET UNDER THE
PRESIDENT'S SKIN, NOT ONLY IS HE
NOT ASKING QUESTIONS BUT HE'S
MAKING ACCUSATIONS AND THEN
DEBATING THE PRESIDENT AND IN
THIS SITUATION ALONE HE TRIED TO
PUSH AWAY A WOMAN WHO WAS TRYING
TO TAKE MICROPHONE AWAY FROM
HIM.
AT THE END TO HAVE DAY JIM
ACOSTA IS GETTING WHAT HE WANT
AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HIM
THIS MORNING, PERHAPS WE ARE
GIVING HIM SOMETHING THAT HE
WANTS.
JILLIAN: LET'S GIVE ATTENTION TO
BOSTON GLOBE AND CORRECTION THEY
HAD TO MAKE AND THIS WAS ABOUT
ELIZABETH WARREN AND THE
MATHEMATICAL CHANCE THAT IS SHE
WAS NATIVE AMERICAN AND LET'S
READ THE CORRECTION AND SAYS,
QUOTE, DUE TO MATH ERROR, STORY
ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN MISSTATED
THE ANCESTRY PERCENTAGE OF A
POTENTIAL 6 TO TENTH GENERATION
RELATIVE.
THE GENERATIONAL RAPING BASED ON
THE ANCESTOR THAT THE REPORT
IDENTIFIES SUGGESTS SHE'S
BETWEEN 1 AND 64TH AND 1,
1,024TH, COME ON, THE NUMBERS
REALLY?
>> YET, THEY DIDN'T MAKE
CORRECTION TO ORIGINAL
STATEMENTS SAYING THAT THEY
POINTED TO STRONG EVIDENCE THAT
SHE DID HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN
HERITAGE.
SO I THINK WHAT YOU SAW WITH THE
GLOBE, THEY SEEMED TO BE IN
ELIZABETH WARREN'S CAMP, PERHAPS
THEY WANT HER TO RUN IN 2020.
MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS AND
LEARNED IF INTEGRITY IS AS