Heather Nauert: Fake News Is a Real Thing

In an exchange with reporters at Thursday's briefing over the president's attacks on the media, State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert says that "fake news...is a real thing." Nauert, a former journalist with ABC and Fox News, says that since taking on her current post at the State Department she has seen a lot of "inaccurate and sloppy reporting," which she attributes to bias and naivete. "Sometimes I think it's intentional because of bias. Other times it may just be someone's naivete. And so when the president has spoken about fake news, when other world leaders have spoken about fake news, there is such a thing," Nauert says. close