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b"First today, a reminder of how close the election results still are between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in several key states (WI, MI, PA). We continue to watch and we continue to call for hand-counts to determine who really won the election. Then, after Trump agreed to pay $25 million in a massive fraud settlement concerning his 'Trump University' scam late last week, the U.S. corporate media became immediately distracted by a his tweets about Mike Pence being booed at a Broadway play over the weekend. We imagine how the media -- and GOP politicians -- would have reacted differently if it was Hillary Clinton who had agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to settle multiple fraud cases after the election. At the same time, word comes in from the foreign press that Trump has been cashing in, since the election, on business deals in India, the Philippines and Argentina, while unconstitutionally strong-arming foreign diplomats to do business with his new Washington D.C. hotel. So what, if anything, explains the U.S. media's deferential treatment of Trump? Author Eric Boehlert of Media Matters joins us to discuss the extraordinary disparities between how the media cover Republicans versus Democrats and how they utterly failed the nation in the lead-up to the election. Also today: Police unleash water cannons and tear gas in North Dakota overnight against Native American protesters trying to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while climate scientists are freaking out as the Arctic is now some 36 degrees (!) warmer than usual for this time of year, and as global sea ice area is now lower than it has ever been in recorded history. It is, in fact, off the charts from even previous record low years."