CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Back in 2007 I wrote a piece in The Nation, Eric, called the NAFTA Super Highway, and it was a long piece in which I had heard about this NAFTA super highway was going to be four football fields wide, going to run from Canada down to Mexico, right through the heartland of the country, and there was all this panic about it. Republicans were getting asked about it at town halls. Conservative media, state legislatures were passing opposition to it. It didn't exist. There was no such thing, and yet this entire flourishing universe had grown up around this thing, and I keep thinking about that, when I see Trump talking about, you know, the tape of the Muslims cheering 9/11. Right? Or this tape of the unloading cash. It didn't matter it didn't exist. They were able to kind of create this alternate world around it.
ERIC BOEHLERT: Yeah, he continually crosses new markers, right? This is unusual in that his campaign stepped forward and debunked this Iranian video clip and he goes out and says it again. So he is saying, “I’m in a bubble, no one can touch me, my campaign -- no matter what anyone says, I'm going to do this”. So, in the past, the Republican Party kind of became unhinged from reality around policy, right. Climate change doesn't exist, unemployment numbers are faked under Obama, and people thought this was crazy, but it was based on policy. Trump seems to be doing this to everyday life, right? When you see him talking about the video, you can almost see him conjuring up the image in his head while he's talking out loud. And he’s decided he’s going to stay to this fact. So, there's a conservative media that has been helping him, nurturing him, creating this and now the mainstream media has to come to the realization what the Republican Party is, that he's a pathological liar and no one signed up for that, for a campaign.
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BOEHLERT: This is kind of like Breitbart got in trouble because they just this day, they put the wrong photo. They said it was a huge rally for Trump. And it turns out it was a rally for the Cavaliers when they came home from the NBA championship. And you laugh at that, and you laugh at Alex Jones. And he's running for president. So go back to my point earlier, no one signed up for this, to cover a presidential campaign. Nobody thought they were going to cover a pathological liar, and now all the rules, none of them apply and the fact-checking isn't going to work.
