Lying in state

If there's one thing we know about our current president, it's that he lies. Donald Trump's lies are so ubiquitous, so incessant, and so habitual that they have become inescapable - from his false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd to his whole cloth invention of a terrorist attack in Sweden to his assertion that Democrats are planning to give free cars to undocumented immigrants. But while he may lie more frequently and brazenly than any other American president, he is certainly not the first to mislead the public. With 'Lying in State', historian and commentator Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief - and what consequences his serial mendacity might have for the future.