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Ingraham: Joining me now for reaction is "The Federalist's" Mollie Hemingway,

who's also a Fox News contributor, Howie Kurtz, host of Fox News'

"Media Buzz," which airs at 11 AM on Sundays, and Dinesh D'Souza,

filmmaker whose new film, "Death of a Nation," is in theaters now and

will be in a special showing all weekend long over Labor Day.

Dinesh, let's start with you here. This is wild. I mean, "This is CNN," the

James Earl Jones booming voice, and at one time, back in the 80s when

CNN started, it was considered a gold standard of this new type

of journalism. Where does it stand now after this Lanny Davis story

complete bungle by the network?

D'Souza: Well one can almost think back nostalgically to the 80s.

when CNN would have shows like "Crossfire," where they would have

a liberal, a conservative. Pat Buchanan on one side, Michael Kinsley on the other.

That's not the CNN of today. Now it's one thing to spin the news and interpret it

in a manner that is consistent with your own ideological agenda.

It's a completly different thing to have a story in which you are reporting facts,

the facts are exposed as false, and you dig your heels in and say that

they're true anyway. I mean, this is taking fake news to a new level,

and it is setting, you may say, almost a new standard of deception

that I think will haunt CNN for a while.

Ingraham: Yeah Dinesh, your movie is "Death of a Nation,"

this is like death of journalism.

Now Dinesh, CNN is not the only network under fire

for botching a huge story, getting it wrong. But according to now

new reports, the top brass at NBC tried to put the kibosh on

Ronan Farrow's real bombshell story on Harvey Weinstein's sexual predation,

basically forcing Ronan Farrow to take the story to "The New Yorker" magazine,

where, everybody knows by now, he ultimately won a Pulitzer Prize.

And tonight, rumors are also swirling that NBC News chairman Andy Lack

is on the hot seat. Dinesh, this is unreal. Harvey Weinstein had a lot of power.

D'Souza: I think if the CNN story was a lie of comission, the NBC story

is a lie of omission. Now just think about how powerful their ideology

would have to be, because remember, this is actually not a lie that would have

helped Trump. This actually is a lie to cover up a principle,

the principle of sexual harassment, the principle of sexual abuse, which is

actually a principle on the left. And so, essentially, this principle could only be

trumped by a greater principle on the left, and the greater principle

on the left here is, "We have to protect our own team." They're very powerful

people on the left, George Soros, Harvey Weinstein, and it is an unwritten

rule, in a sense, of progressive journalism that these people are

untouchable, and that you have to run defense for them, and run protection

for them. I believe that's what was going on at NBC.