Conservative Media Stumbles As Reporters Court Conspiracies

Two conservative media outlets are distancing themselves from employees who peddled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

Fox News has pulled Judge Andrew Napolitano off the air after he claimed that a British intelligence agency helped former President Obama wiretap then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Meanwhile the conservative website Independent Journal Review has retracted a story that suggested Obama's visit to Hawaii was connected to a ruling by a federal judge there that blocked Trump's revised travel ban. The publication has suspended the author of the story and two of his editors.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks about the controversies with NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik).