CNN came under fire this week after Anderson Cooper interviewed conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who veered into questions about former President Barack Obama's birth certificate and whether slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was involved in the DNC email hack. If CNN thought Corsi was newsworthy, should they have better handled (or packaged) the interview?

On this week’s edition of Beat the Press, Adam Reilly is joined by Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, Callie Crossley of WGBH News, Lylah Alphonse of U.S. News and World Report and Tom Fiedler of Boston University.