Plus: Canada's 40-year economic slide, a royal rape conviction in Norway, and the F-16 instructor forced out during a pilot shortage. All in today's episode.

Gavin Newsom went on camera Monday and put himself on what he called "Donald Trump's hit list," telling Americans the DOJ is now investigating him and his wife. It's a dramatic story. There's just one problem with the version he's selling: CBS, CNN, and the Los Angeles Times all report the probe was prompted by a whistleblower complaint, is being run out of the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento, and was not directed by Washington. So who pointed federal agents at Sacramento, and why is the Governor so eager to make this about one man in the Oval Office? Chuck walks through what the reporting actually says.

Then the story Chuck wants you to sit with: a forty-year Epoch Times an ...