'Why is it lie after lie after lie?' Shepard Smith has on air meltdown over Trump Jr. Russia story

Greg P. | 7:09 PM on July 14, 2017

Wow, Shep. Maybe turn it down a notch? Yes it’s a story but this is a little over the top:

Shep Smith: "The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling…why are we getting told all these lies?"

Chris Wallace: "I don't know what to say" pic.twitter.com/DQKOAC8a2o

— Leanne Naramore (@LeanneNaramore) July 14, 2017

Angry Shep!

#ShepardSmith is very upset about the #Russian meeting with #Trump jr. meeting. "It's nothing but lies." He says.

— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) July 14, 2017

To the Washington Post, however, it’s a “Cronkite moment”:

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/885977862645440512

Meh. Transcript via Media Matters:

SHEPARD SMITH (HOST): Fox News can now confirm new, more — Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, the lawyer from Russia, the interpreter, this new guy we found out about today, and a mystery person.

John Roberts confirms there was an eighth person in that meeting. We don’t know, there may have been more, but there was an eighth. Jared Kushner filled out his form, I think it’s an F-86, saying who he’d met with and what he had done.

Very important stuff, you can go to prison for messing it up, you know, intentionally. He went back and added 100 names and places. None of these people made it. It’s still not — we’re still not clean on this, Chris.

It’s — if there’s nothing there and that’s what they tell us, they tell us there’s nothing to this and nothing came of it, there’s a nothing burger, it wasn’t even memorable, didn’t write it down, didn’t tell you about it, because it wasn’t anything so I didn’t even remember it, with a Russian interpreter in the room at Trump Tower.

If all of that, why all of these lies? Why is it lie after lie after lie? If you’re clean, come out clean. You know, my grandmother used to say “When first we practice to — oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

The deception, Chris, is mind boggling. And there are still people out there who believe we’re making it up, and one day they’re going to realize we’re not, and look around and go, “Where are we? And why are we getting told all these lies?”

CHRIS WALLACE: You know, I don’t know what to say. I think there’s a lot of truth to everything you said.