Vanan Murugesan

Thanks to all you do, Scott C. Turner.

Scott C. Turner, Oregon.

Look, it is always – I think you better be careful when you call somebody a liar because –

They may truly believe something that isn't true.

Lying implies sort of intent, right?

And how do you know?

Can you crawl inside their head and know that they are intentionally misleading you?

So that's why you see so many journalists sort of couch it.

I think even in the infamous exchange I had with Kellyanne Conway and Meet the Press, alternative facts, I said those are falsehoods.

And I lost a little sleep wondering, should I have said lies or falsehoods?

And I think when you use the word lie, you immediately –

Put somebody on the defensive and then you get to the point where you're no longer having a, you know, I am more interested in.

Well, why do you think that?

Where did you get your information?

And I think that that's the better way to go, because then you find out how somebody came to believe what they espoused.

And I think the role of the journalist role should be more of trying to understand why do you why did you say that?

Where did you get your information?

That's where the interrogation should go.

And to help the viewer understand why they're misleading in that moment.

But look, it's a that's the way I viewed it, is that I didn't want to chase people away.