congressional stories he is covering. later, white house correspondent rachel rose hartman talks about president obama's agenda in his second term. ♪ good morning and welcome to "washington journal" on this thursday, may 30, 2013. president obama returned today from a fund-raising check in chicago. in his allies, a reporting that he lands to nominate republican james komi has head of the fbi. this morning, "washington journal" will visit ddc bureau of yahoo! news. would like to share how you get your news. what about social media? have your habits changed? share your thoughts by giving us the call. democrats --(202) 585-3880. republicans --(202) 585-3881.

allers --(202)t collar 585-3882. you can also write us a tweet conversation on facebook. you can also e-mail us -- journal@c-span.org. we're asking you this this morning how you get your news. the pew research center for the people and the press look at what they call a changing news landscape. if that even television is vulnerable. the preservation of the nation's news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, especially print newspapers, but there are now signs that television news, which so far has held onto his audience through the rise of the internet, also is increasingly vulnerable.

the waypoints are some this up is one third of adults get their news on social networks. we are asking you how you get your news. we are already getting, then on twitter. ron uses social media to share wj. thoughts -- c-span another set of i follow the bright shiny objects. let's hear what lorraine has to say, redford, michigan. republican caller. caller: hi. i get my news from fox news. i think they have the best news. host: d look at their website? guest: no, -- caller: no, just there's television. sitesi use the word which are maryland online production. tommy, how about you?

democrats line. caller: i usually get my news from cnn. sometimes i get over my news from the major networks. on the weekends, i like bbc. and tend to be more fair sorrow on the weekends and during the week. i just want to say you are doing a fine job. it is a privilege to hear your voice. keep up your good work that you do and all your workers. host: tommy, thank you for your kind words. tell us more about your news uses. just television, or do you go to online website that match up with those news outlets that you mentioned? caller: sometimes i do. not usually. i listen to the radio a lot. late night. get the bbc on my tv, but i can get it on the radio. i watch -- i listen to the bbc late-night sometimes, not all the time.

bbc just seems to do a better job. i don't know if they're more objective or less subjective or whatever the phrases. but they seem to present their documentaries, report in a way that is easy for me to understand. host: tommy, you said you go there for international news. so that is a concern to you? caller: i'm concerned about my christian brethren in the middle east, especially syria and israel. i feel like the time is approaching that christians are going to be slaughtered. left and right. it may come to our shores. i hope not. host: but go to dennis, fairfax, virginia. independent caller. caller: good morning. through convenience. i'm so busy these days. nobody have enough time for anything. i work a couple of jobs. i get from the ipad and from the phone. anything that is convenient.

to sit down and watch television news today has become a thing of the past because of time and transfer most people. is of my biggest concerns the fbi glitch. the fbi is a premium organization with some of the finest people in the world, along with the state police. i think it is a little strange that a fine person like miller is quitting at this point in time under these circumstances. i think we need to watch that very closely. he is leaving,y but i think that needs to be looked into by the media. i don't know too much about the individuals coming in, but i think we need to pay attention to that very closely because the fbi fbi's one of the finest organizations ever. able toe vigilant as a watch that situation right there. , here at the "washington journal," we use

newspapers. we also use the ipad, websites on our desktop computers. the front page of "usa today" this morning shows that president bush's official is obama's fbi pick. chosen toomey has been replace robert mueller. he is the former senior justice department official under george h of you bush. -- george h. w. bush. this is also being reported in other papers today. comey find out more that was picked over other candidates, including lisa monaco, who is in the white house's top terrorist advisor. comey supervise operations for the justice department. he was a key player in one of the most dramatic moments of the bush admin stretch appeared

in 2004, white house counsel alberto gonzales and white house chief of staff try to persuade the attorney general don ashcraft -- john ashcroft -- host: a little bit of news for me from page of "usa today." we will dig more into the papers. in the meantime, we're asking you how you get your news. democrat caller from florida. caller: i get my news from the newspaper, from the internet, from television, on my iphone. some traditional ways, others more recent. as far as what that one man was saying about robert mueller

leaving the fbi -- i think the reason for that is because they have term limits on the fbi directors, which are 10 years. he has been there for 12 years. that is probably because of the way the terrorism situation -- but they only serve a certain amount of time. that is most likely why he is retiring. more let's look at some from the pew center for the people and the press. we see a graphic that shows where those polled got their news yesterday. this coming to us from september. you see in blue those who watched news on tv. how that has changed over time. the most recent from 2012. this is from .10 and 2008. -- 2010 and 2008. going down is got online, the orange graph going up significantly from where it was. 2002, 2003, upn

to 39 now. and radio news is in a downward trend. diana up next, republican caller. hi, diana. caller: good morning. generally, i am from the old school. i've 16 grandchildren, so i have always been into the news. i've always read the newspaper. within the last year, i went ahead and discontinued my newspaper because i felt that instead of giving us the news and letting us decide how we wanted to -- they wanted to sway us. departed my newspaper. i went to the internet. i still watch television. i love c-span. i think that you are doing a good job. . watch msnbc, cnn, fox news i try to stay current with all of them. -- i feel like the news

mostly the anchors and all the different news media wanted to sway us more than just give us the information. the american people are bright people. we have a lot of skin in this game. i think it is sad is that now people are very leery of newspapers and news media and news outlets because it is likely get news incrementally. we have to do the digging for the news. host: that is diana. let's go to an independent caller in georgia. what town are you in? the last caller that was on, i get my news from suzanne because i can watch the actual news and deduce from it myself what they're saying. for instance, the benghazi irs, hearing the actual people involved, their

testimony, versus hearing it through an agenda of fox news or cnn or msnbc. i also give my urgent news from an app on my phone. if there is something specific i'm looking for, then i will go to twitter. for the most part, i just view the contents myself and then i can hear the news myself. first is what the message of fox or cnn or msnbc or other affiliates want me to believe is happening. host: how do you choose what to look at on twitter? i.t.r: my industry is security. so if there is an advanced ,ttack, the oklahoma tragedy or something like that, then i will #it and follow that specific content. news a tweet from john --

sources include the "wall street drudge." c-span, fox, we have another, from and when --i get my news from local broadcast tv and c- span. i say way from bias programs like cnn and fox news. i also use twitter. you can write to us -- @cspanwj. christine is up next, and the minute, democrat. hi. caller: we watch free speech tv in the household a lot. there are someone a full news programs, no commercials most of the time. like democracy now, you get 15 minutes of international news broadcasting, and in the rest of -- isur is divided devoted to in-depth reporting on something that you hear. ,hey have got tom hartman

which there are some opinion there, but still you you get the news every half-hour. if something happens during the day, you get updates. and we love c-span. we really do. you do a great job. but i really try to stay away from entertainment. it is so hard to avoid anymore. it just drives us crazy. host: how much you go to the internet? probably not but as much as i should. i am busy, and it takes time. serve for me, it is sitting down at the computer. so that takes more time than just having free speech tv on. no commercials. a lot like pbs. thecan donate to keep station going. we've been watching free speech tv probably close to 15 years now. there is so much news on their. so little fluff. we just love it. direct. dish and

direct its 348, dishe is 9415. it is on rocha. it is a wonderful source of information without infotainment. host: christine talking about our habits and not change much in the last 15 years. a republican caller in berkeley's the -- berkeley springs, west virginia. in theyour news changed last 15 years or so? foxer: it has, but i watch news. i also take all three evening news so i can watch all three of them and compare. i am thoroughly convinced that the big three tends to suppress the news. i get the real news watching fox. i will give you an example. when the tea party was demonstrating in front of the irs, janet a. napolitano sent

her goons out from homeland security dressed in civilian closethes, armed, to keep an eye on the processors. this harkens back to the soviet union. i think it is doing dangerous. wish the big three would really cover more news and set of a bunch of junk. they give you minutes of news and 20 minutes of not news. thank you. host: carl in berkeley springs, west virginia. networksr -- news lost their credibility as honest news breakers. i go to the internet and watch bbc and out to zero english. aljazeera english. the pew research center has tracked patterns and news use for nearly two decades.

the latest research that you came out with says -- off by half since a year -- since the year 2000. q says the decline of print on beyond just newspapers. the proportion reading a magazine has declined over the same period. , text messaging, and social networking has become dominant forms of medication. actual letters have fallen from 26% to 12% currently. that is from 2006 to now.

here is where americans get their news. we see here a pie chart that breaks it down for us. you can see 31% cable television. -- 30% network television. then the internet comes the next with 14%. you can see radio at 10%. and in the newspapers at 11%. how americans get their news. how do you get your news? kathy, columbus, ohio. independent caller. caller: thank you for taking my call. c-span is wonderful. i primarily watch c-span, fox, and cnn. every sunday talk show, meet the press, face the nation, state of the nation on cnn. the big three i don't bother with. a limited news. basically sound bites. they tend to omit what is going on.

we have been watching cnn and fox all day, and you get the big three, they really gloss over. more often than not will omit stories. i think there is a lot of bias in the mainstream media. host: thank you. all of those news alice emission, do you watch a close of leon television or do you go online -- those news outlets, do you watch only on television or do you go online? caller: i flip stations in my studio. not online. i have to sit there. i can't do that. ,ost: denver, colorado democrat line. how do you get your news? i used to work for a wierl publishing

company. i've collected bits of news for generation now. i watch c-span. i love it. it is the only thing that you can actually really responds to. i read the "new york times" online. i take harper's magazine. actualll of those magazines, or do you look at those online? caller: no, i think the actual magazines. the coke brothers are in the process of buying up the media now. its is a real worry because used to be that the media outlets could only own so many. they are reduced to six

or seven major news outlets. rupert murdoch is a big honor, of course. -- big owner. "wall street journal." so i switched to fox to check on their untruthfulness. sorry to bust a bubble. is as far as the irs, this an example. the irs investigation. i have a copy of the "los october 16,s," 2006. taxays in july, the irs -- exempt groups across the nation, including churches, nonprofits. at the time, the irs officials said the agency was also excellent writing of charges of improper campaigning under a new enforcement program. we will be talking more

this morning about politics and the issues surrounding the scrutiny of the iris later on in the show with some generals from -- some journalists from yahoo! news. are you looking at a paper copy or online of the "know your times -- "know your times" -- "new york times?" caller: this is a paper i saved. >host: how long did you say thi? october 16, 2006. it was written by a los angeles times staff writer, lewis sajhgun. you, andy, what about vernon, new york. what do you hang onto? caller: i hang onto my own common sense. i watch "washington journal" every morning.

i disagree that it is slanted coverage. i noticed the host imposes their own ideas. and whydings fall down they don't have question the official stories about what happened to the buildings in new york. i watch numerous incident which c-span has decided what is reasonable discourse by treating people who ask their representatives these questions very rudely, cutting them off, completely unprofessional, and really uninformed about their topics. host: where do you go for your news? i go to architects and engineers for 9/11 truth. they will tell you why the buildings really fell down. host: let's go to gilbert, tulsa, oklahoma. caller: good morning. i have been so removed from newse news -- from print because it has been so biased. if you look at the history, it has led us into many wars.

it comes to us with an agenda based, not news base. tofor my news, i go democracy now, free speech, and aljazeera. sometimes i go to the bbc and the cbc because the whole spectrum of print, especially -- i have example heard more talk about the kardashians than what i have been happening in moore, oklahoma. one of them i think is pregnant and she had a swimming suit. i do not want to hear that. that is not news. is this is of it is why the prince news is failing. not that it is not putting out something, but people are saying why are we considering this?

so they are searching out. it is hurting the american public because now they get a distorted view of the news. but amy goodwin and mother jones. host: gilbert, you live in tulsa, as you have been watching what is happening in moore, oklahoma, have you been looking at your local newspapers? have that brought you back to print? caller: oddly enough, i get that from the weather station. because the weather station goes into details about what has happened with the weather and things in moore, oklahoma. but now it has gotten to the point, when i hear it now, i want to change the station because it has become personality driven. just like they had a big thing going on there. in moore.

the thing is, we live in tornado alley. the people have decided to live right there. go into thewould failings of the structure of the schools that were torn apart -- it was a powerful tornado, i will give you that. let's look atis the individuals who have made it through and who are telling us what we need to do. int: ok, that is gilbert tulsa, oklahoma. in just a little bit, we will be paying a visit to the news operation of yahoo! news. d.c.is their washington, bureau. in just a little while, we will talk with some of their herbalists -- olivier knox, chris moody, and white house correspondent rachel rose hartman. that is coming up soon. yahoo! news one of the source of you can get online.

let's take a look some information about how americans are using digital news as a source of news consumption. how fast are digital platforms rising? this was compiled by the site uberflip.com. it says media publishing as we knew it has been in decline for almost a decade, but what exactly is happening you go where and how our audiences consuming content? here is a look at some trends. how did you read your news yesterday? facebook -- 67% twitter -- 16%. .interest -- 15% instagram -- 13%. finders on social media compared to 25% of people under 40's. use that tot users get their news, and 52% of

smartphone owners use that to get the news. alsoof tablet readers consume news via both computers and traditional print horses -- sources. also says that tv still reigns. digital news has suppressed newspapers and radio as people 's primary source of information. tv popularity has declined, but still remains the lead source of news in the united states. you can see there tv news up top, the rise in digital and mobile news, and then radio and newspaper printing downward. henry, washington, d.c. go ahead. pbc.r: i get my news from host: on pbs? caller: yes. i think it is very in-depth. it doesn't have any commercials. it keeps more to the substance. it dedicates a substantial amount of time to the news they are covering at the time. also, i get my news from charlie

rose. he is very analytical. it has many commentators that specialize in particular issues on the show. it is very informative. . also get it from the world there is a broadcaster the company radio on in pr around 8:00 p.m. and goes all over the world. npr around 8:00 p.m. i also get it from the diane greene show which comes on here in a local station. i think it is wamu out of american university up there. am hearing a lot of tv, public television, and also public broadcasting radio program. did you have the ready one much of the day that you go about your business? caller: no, these are particular radio shows that i tune into at

the time it comes on. also, i get it from rush limbaugh. he has a very unique twist on the news and very different insights that i never thought about before. but propelled me into thinking anyway. , diane greenee show, and rushed the ball. thank you very much. do you consume any of those online, or do you use tv and radio for all of them? i amr: it depends on where at your guy can do it on my peer to sometimes i do it online. but when i go online, i look at more of the international news, different shows, broadcasting streams online. realhen i'm dealing with depth, analytical, that takes time, i like to get people who news.lize in that that is why like specifically

the charlie rose show. host: ok. let's look at a couple of straightening it. michele bachmann, congresswoman from minnesota, does not plan to run for reelection. departure iss and her tied to concerns about being reelected. writes today that the tea party loses their most tea party year. theher political story, governor are broad island is planning to switch parties and becoming a democrat, going from independent to democrat. lincoln chafee was once a republican. for medicare, the immigrants offer a surplus. contributedave millions more to medicare a

pattern of goes against the notion that immigrants are a drain on federal health care spending. news,g at international afghan insurgents had attacked a red cross compound. this is an incident unlike what has been done before. usually, the red cross units have been left in peace, but a man wearing a suicide best stormed a facility in eastern afghanistan. one of two attacks on wednesday that signals a widening offensive. also in "the wall street journal," drone strike kills the taliban deputy. we will be looking at other stories in the news as we talk to the journalists from yahoo! news. it will be talking about everything from international

stories to the white house beat, to the latest in congress. why we ask you how you get your news. eric is next, manchester, new hampshire. republican caller. caller: hello, i love your station. i recently picked you up from comcast. i get my news from you guys. host: do you go on line? caller: sometimes in the library, mostly for fun stuff. for the news, you just "the wall street journal," other newspapers, i am old school. the news around here can be biased to the left, but i take it with a grain of salt. i also listen to the television a little bit, "the wall street

and the radio, public access, when they have people go on the air to talk about political events going on. but free publications, too, magazines. i also listened to a local show where he talks about everything around the manchester area, all local. i have always been a news junkie. i like to read about the news. host: being a news junkie, has the way you have got in your news changed over time, and work -- eric? caller: meaning what? shows, they do that before, do you use the internet? to the i live right next

manchester city library and i get free access to computers. but i do not willing go there for news, i go there for fun stuff. host: 80 in new york. independent caller. -- katie in new york. independent caller. caller: i am a little bit different because i am only 26. personally, i stick to the because -- well, no, i do watch c-span, bbc, but you always have to worry because you are looking at sources.d if you are not conscious of what you're looking at, you could be reading a complete opinion piece and think it is based on fact, but it could be half

truths. i think it is good to have a .ariety of different sources now, so much news is entertainment, opinion-based, not factual. host: how often do you share news stories with your friends, family, and how do you do that? caller: i am also a little unique that i do not have facebook. i am definitely the person my friends -- highlight the news, i bring up news stories. among my friends, i am almost the news source. a lot of young people are not really interested in what is going on but i am. host:. let's look at with a few research center found about the rise in social network for news among the young and not so

young. that has the general public and social network users whether they sought any news on the social networking web site yesterday. among the general public, 19% said they did. among those who use social networks, 36% saw a news story on a social networking site yesterday. here is the age breakdown. the number is similar for those up to 40. the 25-29-year old bracket slightly lower at 32%. it does drop down more significantly once you get over the age of 40. this looking at how folks get their news, if they saw on news on a social networking web site. twitter also came up in the survey. they say twitter was not a major news source but more users

do see news there. you can see the percentage of twitter users who ever seen news .n twitter, 83% 59% tweet or retweet news. a quarter saw news or news headlines on twitter yesterday. california, democrat's line. caller: hi, how are you doing? news.ly watch cable i watched the news on the internet once in awhile. bbc is probably my favorite less-biased news. knowing the history of news, news people are people, too, and they will often have a bias, but often it is a big corporation

owning a new company, and it is their view. we have commentators now who are basically replacing anchors. i am a big rachel maddow fan, and i like to watch her break down with a group of video the bias of fox news. they hold up a piece of paper and called it a fact. i used to read newspapers but i do not really have the time to read them too often anymore. my news fromget cable television and i listen to msnbc on the internet. atlantic" asked people how they get their news.

nora o'donnell said that she starts her day very early at 3:00 a.m., uses her blackberry to get news first, looks at "the the walltimes" and " street journal." about usingks social media as a resource for her news. gerald, how do you do it? cushing, okla., republican. i have been to 27 different countries, so i'd like to get my news from the internet. like the bbc, al jazeera. havenews organizations we

in america are only commentary networks, forse you to get a paycheck, you have to express their views. who did fox news support for the president? you have to go back and see who owns those networks. the same thing for newspapers across the country. most of the thing we out -- we have out there is commentary. the: do you separate out news reporters from the editorial boards? caller: yes, ma'am. foxke to watch abc, cbs, news, bbc, al jazeera. i do a lot of internet surfing. i like to see who owns an organization. if you want to own the

viewszation, that is the they express on tv. host: another story, relating to what we had earlier, fbi director, we expect the president to name a new fbi director. one of the callers talked about the departure of robert mueller, bringing up the issue of terms for fbi director. here is a story from back in 2011, the senate did extend the term are robert mueller that allowed him to serve for two more years. he had been appointed under george bush. there is that 10-year limit that one of our callers brought up but he was allowed to stay on. president obama asked congress to permit that, arguing his national security team need continuity -- needed continuity. theo expect to see

president named former bush official james komi to the fbi director position this morning. a couple other stories this morning. , an army staff sergeant, has decided to plead guilty to the slaying of 16 avoid the a deal to death penalty. today."story from "usa that is from the local paper, " the baltimore sun." we look at these papers because we want to see those who make decisions in washington, what

reading when they start their days? there is another paper with a local angle with broader national implications. renee, starke bill, mississippi. independent caller. where you get your news? get my news from russian news outlets, and i used to watch cctv all the time when i had dish network. for analysis, i go to global i pay attention to fairness and accuracy in reporting. i watched c-span every morning. in terms of blogs, reading whent i read

charles smith, the economist, and i've watched tv affiliated with russia today. and i also watch noam chomsky and bill moyers on pbs. on our facebook page -- comments coming to us on twitter. facebook is a good place to get immediate information on something very local like a fire or lockdown or a bad accident. tony, columbia, illinois. how do you get your news? caller: thank you for c-span. my news like everyone else. i am sitting here right now looking through all the channels, msnbc, fox news, c-

span. it seems to me you do not really get any news anymore. you get everyone's opinion. the only place that you get any real news is on c-span, free- speech tv, link tv. if you listen to one news channel, you think the way they do. you have to be able to get all the channels, use your brain, see what is going on, and make your own decisions. host: here are more comments on facebook. comments toe your

morning on facebook and twitter. we will keep taking your comments as we transition for the rest of the show visiting the d.c. bureau of the yahoo! news. our guest includes olivier knox, chief washington correspondent. he will tell us about the story they are working on. later on, chris moody, political reporter will be with us. we will be right back. the attorney general are trained me, he indicated he wanted the death penalty on each of the three charges. so he wanted the death penalty three times. that made me realize how serious they were, and again, it

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angela davis. she was a real fashion icon. women emulated her hairstyle, clothing. from the second way,istration, and in a the most prized piece of all, because this is the inaugural down. this is her down from 1883, and it stayed in her family and became a wedding dress for her granddaughter. even frances cleveland's everyday clothes were very stylish. a lot of them look like something that you could wear now. this is a jacket. black with a beautiful purple- blue velvet.

this is more of an evening- appropriate piece. you can see the beautiful lace and sequins. daytime more ornate vest. this would have a matching color. -- collar. >> our conversation about frances cleveland is on our website. tune in on monday for her next first lady, carolyn anderson. -- caroline harrison. olivier knox is the chief washington correspondent for yahoo! news, and he brings us inside the operation. we are looking at the d.c. news bureau. caller: thanks for having me. we ask about seeing

what is behind you, why did yahoo! get into the news business? guest: one of our co-founders, one of the first items they put up had to deal with jerry garcia's debt. we have been cultivating an audience ever since. that is continuing with the incredible partnership with abc. the idea is to provide people who come to the site with the information they need and want, keep them coming back. host: tell us about where you are right now, what is the operation we see behind you? guest: i am in the confines of the abc news headquarters here in washington, d.c., and behind me you see the yahoo! operations. hopefully, my colleagues are hard at work. this is where we start our day, where we take stock of the store and we are working on it before our reporters go to their various assignments. host: how many reported to you have in washington, in other locations? guest: we have a congressional

and political reporter that he will speak to soon. we have a white house reporter. we have a talented data journalist in chris wilson who is doing some exciting stuff. when you think of the jack lew signature generator, that was his baby. and then you have me, of course. other reporters in new york. and in some of our yahoo! operations in california. how yourand on relationship with abc news works and what you are based in washington. we have a fruitful partnership with abc news. we produce a lot of original content together, a program that i host with rick klein, and we also have a showcase for some of the abc's prime talent. this mary's our audience and content with their content as well.

produces some exciting stuff. to the yahoo! go news site, how much do they see when you and your colleagues wrote, how much from the partners, and how much is aggregation? guest: we try to produce as much original content as we can. on anygo to yahoo.com given day, you may see original content, and abc investigative report, a blend of content. much not do too aggregation, but we do use a lot of parts for content. we try to give our readers and viewers as complete a picture as we can of politics, policy, sports, entertainment, finance. host: if we look at the yahoo! main page, we see a story about a new virus, sports stories,

sometainmentviewers as storiesd news stories. how do you bring traffic into the news portion of yahoo!, and how you keep is there? guest: we find a lot of people start their day on new.yahoo.com. people draw onme their from our sister sites. we get tens of millions of unique reader's every month so we do not have much trouble bringing in the eyeballs right now. operations to make it even more complete and interesting. hopefully, get an even bigger slice of the pie. host: how do you compete with the associated press, bloomberg news, who have scores of washington reporters? guest: we do not always. sometimes we turn to others to fill an hour stuff. we also have a great national affairs writers out of new york.

some news stories. we are not geared to compete with the associated press, for instance, but we are trying to give people that they may not see on another news site. host: how much do you think habits, howe's click long the leader on a story? does that influence what you do? guest: they are very good about not putting their thumbs on the scales at yahoo!, telling us that you need more traffic. they are very good about giving us our editorial freedom and letting our news judgment shape what and how we cover. that is important for me because i do not want to be writing to the traffic. i want to write about things that are important and neewsy. newsy.ot get a --

host: you mention your colleague, chris wilson, something that got a lot of attention, and the jack lew signature generator. remind us about this story and why did it get so much attention? it was a fun tool that he came up with. you could put in your name and you could see what your signature would look like if it were similar to his signature. his signature was getting a lot of attention at the time because it would go on our money. has done some fantastic things, whether it is arranging the internal e-mails on the benghazi situation into an interactive in box. he has done a lot of work like that. he has a searchable

congressional database. job numbers state by state over the last decade. lots of fantastic stuff. host: how do you see the internet and yahoo! presence online as a tool? how can you use it in a way that more traditional media may not be prepared to? guest: i think a lot of people are coming to us to get a balanced sense of the news, not just the dry political stories, the stores that impact you every day. more they want to get sports, finance. we have extremely good resources on both of those fronts. be the site that idea is to people go to before they go to work in the morning, may be at work, and after work. people are increasingly getting their news from their smartphones, and you ought to be there when they do. host: you mentioned the benghazi

inbox. here is a look at it. organizing is as if it was a normal and box -- inbox. what are you looking at right now? guest: we are looking at the likely nomination of james komi to the fbi. we are looking for any aftershocks from michele bachmann not seeking reelection. of course, daily stories from the white house briefing. i cannot really disclose what chris wilson is working on my now, but it will be fun. host: if you want to continue the conversation with olivier knox, chief washington correspondent at yahoo! news, here are the numbers. we have a question on twitter. what our ideas about how to get in news?ple interested

i think trust will become important. guest: trust is important whether you are working for a traditional news outlets, newspaper, radio station, or on line. the most important currency you have as a news organization is your credibility. as far as getting young people involved, it is about reaching the more they are. it is about giving them a news platform on the smartphones, for example. the credibility thing is crucial. host: asheville, north carolina. democrats line. caller: good morning. i would like to know how we can stop the black hole phenomenon where certain news stories are followed, like political gossip or scandal stories, and other stories simply get ignored for years or decades. as an example, 15 or 20 years ago, climate change would have caused nothing but rolling of eyes and a diversionary answer.

now if somebody mentions dust at the world trade center, it is enough to stop the conversation. surely, there should be an inquiry as to whether these things are true. political reporters simply do not follow up on things that have not already been followed by the mass pack of the press. well, i think climate change, first of all, is an important story. we do cover it from a science and political perspective. there is no doubt that it could stand to get a lot more coverage. in terms of things disappearing off the radar, there is certainly an element of the media following the day's stories, sometimes to the detriment of longer-term stories like that. i think you are correct, we need to be more careful

host: we saw a recently news here, an old from "usa today" o yahoo! boldly goes for deals." "the wall street journal" says -- another look from "the new york times" -- a flashy bet on a shift in social media. what does tumblr mean for your newsroom? guest: it would not surprise you that they did not consult with me on expansion. but we provide viewers and readers with a denny -- as dynamic interface as they can. these all fit into the broader

strategy. host: what is tumblr? guest: a site that allows you to tell stories mostly with and i will get in trouble with saying with gifs. it is another exciting place to get your information and share your information. yahoo has a lot of connectivity in the news program and we tell stories sometimes by collecting them from the public. we did that with sequestration. we did that with student loans, and we are committed to doing that in the future. host: kansas city, missouri, independent line. caller: i would like to hear your guest comment on what your take was on the deregulation of the fcc and how it went to getting out a broader news story. these bigly allowed news corporations to buy all the newspapers, tv, and radio stations. direct aike to

comment to c-span here. host: what is your comment? caller: when the initial benghazi hearing came out, for the $130 i pay for a cave girl -- cable bill -- i do not get c- span3 -- when the first initial benghazi hearing came out, you announced it that you could go on c-span 3, and i flip from c- span 1 and c-span 2, both showing the same thing, the senate waiting for a senator to come to the floor to speak for about five minutes. that time would have been better utilized may be showing the start of that , and then not broadcasting a later at 3:00 in the morning when nobody is up. host: you can still find the hearing on our website, www.c- span.org, and you can look at our video library. we have archives there.

generally c-span 1 carries the house floor when in session and c-span 2 carries the senate floor. your cable company makes the decisions about what c-span networks are carried on your particular package. olivier knox the let's get to his question about regulation. guest: first of all, i think any caller who wants more c- span, i think that is the kind of problem c-span once. it is great able are tuning in. a great primary resource. in terms of the consolidation of the media industry, it is an undeniable fact of life. i do not have a particular opinion on the fcc opinion, but it is an undeniable fact of life, consolidation of tv and newspapers and even some sectors of the industry are really struggling. host: a viewer on twitter wants to know -- do you expect yahoo! and similar companies to start their own tv stations? guest: we have rich offering on

yahoo! video programs. i sat down with republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and first lady michelle obama for separate exclusive interviews. we have a pretty rich offering on that front. this is part of where the abc partnership comes in. if you go to either abc or yahoo!.com, you will find original programming. a lot configured for you to watch on your smartphone or imputed. exclusive interviews, reports. this is actually a very vibrant part. host: a look at topline news, a project between abc news and yahoo! news. olivier knox, where's your role and where can people find it? guest: i am a cohost of top line with my friend and longtime colleague, rick klein, political director at at abc. it runs regularly. it runs at least once a week on either of our sites.

typically we like to bring in someone who could share their thoughts on the days news or important stories. we had the earlier caller talking about climate change. one of the most recent top lines we did was on the shameful backlog of disability claims at the veterans administration. an important story that does not always get as much coverage as it should. host: eric in jonesboro, georgia, on the democrats line. good morning. couple ofhave a comments and a question for the fellow at yahoo!. my comment, first of all, profit info is always biased. meaning corporate media equals propaganda. has therporate agent fiduciary duty to serve its rich shareholders. we have six corporations that own almost virtually 86% of the media, meaning they have control over 86% of all the

information that the public hears. we have basically corporate info reaching the public, and we have a profit motive. the fact that this guy is a corporate agent, he is not a journalist, he is a corporate engine and has the fiduciary duty to maximize profit for the shareholders. the idea that we and c-span, you, the host, call him a journalist before the show is crazy. he is serving his boss. his boss is serving the shareholders. their motives are profit. if they do not have a motive give you information. in america, we have to pay for information and order to get more -- good information. the government has to pay for information. we have to pay for medicine -- medicine. there should be no profit in medicine. host: should anyone be called a journalist? is journalist a fair word in the vocabulary? caller: you have to be

independent -- host: do you have to be unpaid? your story can sell independently to whatever corporation but the fact you are on a corporate awol means you have a fiduciary duty to serve your shareholders. host: if you were an independent filing for those corporations, would you also feel a responsibility? caller: you are selling it for the weber will buy it. you are writing first. host: ok, let's get a response from olivier knox. who gives you direction, olivier knox, and what do you consider yourself? guest: i consider myself a reporter more than a journalist because i want to give you the facts and not too much opinion. i understand the criticism. the problem, if you look up fiduciary duty, as the caller suggested, one of the ways the news business workers by attracting readers or viewers or listeners. and we certainly are competing for those viewers and listeners

and readers. but at no time has any corporate -- no onehareholder like that influences my copy day to day were even over the long term. so, i understand the criticism. i heartily endorse the overall sentiment of skepticism about reporting. i want people to read carefully and skeptically. but the idea that somehow this diminishes the journalism of the people at yahoo! i just completely reject. host: expand on the concept of a firewall and how the chain of command works for your news division and how it is different? how is yahoo! news a friend from yahoo! the overall corporation. guest: the firewall makes it sound a little bit dramatic, but basically the way it works is the newsgathering, the news reporting is its own independent part of yahoo!. we do not get our marching orders from corporate yahoo, we do not get our marching orders

from people who are looking at shareholder return. we do get input from people who are career reporters, courier editors, people who really care about the news product we are generating. i think that is important no matter where you walk. it is definitely a fact of life that yahoo. , florida.sonville democrat. caller: good morning. i will make a short bateman and ask one question -- i will make a short statement. mr. oliver, as far as your , iociation with abc goes would want you to triple check every story you look at from jonathan karl. he has sources with the republican party. they rewrote the questions from the e-mails on benghazi and publish them and show them to jay at the news

conference as if they were fact. they were not fact, they were fabricated. circle check every source. if i was yahoo!, i would take -- not take what jonathan karl had to say because he is a planted republican in the newsroom. a reporter ine the newsroom, and if you do, ask that reporter not to ask all of these gotcha questions like every other reporter. poor old jay, he sits there and everybody has a gotcha question. ask a question that is important, something the president is doing, something we might be interested in. don't try to nail him every time the man opens his mouth. thank you. host: part of the savior jay save jayvement -- carney movement.

he walked into the briefing room asking that expecting us to ask tough questions. the point of the briefing is to get as much information as we can and sometimes confront the administration with its own mistakes. that is an important part of journalism. the questions not being asked and we need to reflect some of the public's own questions about how their government acts, sometimes in their own name. as far as jonathan goes, i have known him for years and i respect his work and he apologized on twitter about the error in his reporting and i think he settled that matter. our focus this morning is on the yahoo! news washington, d c, bureau. here are the numbers --

your lessons learned from coverage of the 2012 campaign as he look ahead to 2014 and 2016? guest: if we can duplicate the energy and creativity we had in 2012 and 2014, i would be happy. readers and viewers a fun, it interactive and informative products, we generate something called control room which on election night drew millions of viewers. it offered them the can't -- chance to watch our evening commentary on results while playing with the electoral college map and getting a lot of political information. that would definitely be one of the products that we bring back for 20, that we will improve upon. that was hugely successful and i would like to see it happen again in 2014. we will like to see -- send a

lot of reporters on the field to get the important stories as well as the offbeat stories others are not covering. host: as we look at the yahoo! newspage, we see a range range of stories covering congress and white house. you mentioned congresswoman michele bachmann. what do you make, olivier knox, of her decision not to run for reelection and what does it mean for the overall political -- scape? host: guest: she won a narrow election and some in the republican party thought she was in trouble this time around. she was the face for a long time for the new breed of tea party republicans. one of the cofounders of the tea party caucus in the house. i will say, i share my colleagues view that generally when a politician comes before you and says this decision is not about x and not about white, usually it is about x and y, and they probably read the writing on the wall about the prospects and also the writing on the walkabout inquiry about the financing of her campaign.

i have yet to talk to any republicans who were particularly disappointed with her decision. she was a magnet for controversy, in a lot of cases. this is a party that at least at the highest echelons is trying to spear the path away from those. host: another political story -- the governor of rhode island poised to join the democrats. here it is on the yahoo! news website. what is the significance? guest: another decision made by a politician who saw a difficult reelection fight. lincoln chafee, independent, former republican. he made the decision i think in part to boost his reelection prospects. easier to rely on the democratic machine than to make an appeal as an independent. i think in both cases you saw people making decisions looking carefully at the numbers and their reelection prospects. pennsylvania, republican. go ahead. caller: i have enjoyed c-span and watch it for years. i also am a member of yahoo!

and watching that for years. i noticed over the years when you became affiliated with the slightly news has turned to the left in the sense that -- well, i am from , and we pennsylvania have experienced here a long, brutal winter, and i noticed the snowstorms in the middle of the country, in the north, not really reported that much. floods have been reported a lot. anyway, to make it a long story short, i am just interested in this climate change debate that has been going on forever. i noticed that the people that are for chronic change -- or for the restrictions in our economy to accommodate that,

they are all government- and they are actually dependent on the government for money. and the people who are against the climate change -- like rush limbaugh as an example -- m they uted. never given an equal opportunity on yahoo! news or other news outlets. it would be nice if there was more balance in the news and not a filter. guest: duly noted on the lack of coverage of storms in your areas. we are not affiliated -- we are partners with abc, which is the term would prefer. in terms of climate change argument, the policy level, what to do about it, i think it is generally a pretty decent blend of voices, the skeptics

and the overwhelming scientific consensus that this is a reality. and the coverage has to reflect that scientific consensus. that said, i do not think any of the voices skeptical of climate change are exactly losing out coverage, whether they are on capitol hill or out in the private sector. i think they get a fair hearing. host: olivier knox's chief washington correspondent for yahoo! news. as a reporterears for -- covering president clinton's impeachment to the george w. bush administration -- background in international relations, hasn't masters degree in international masters degree. how does yahoo! news cover international news? how'd you get reporting from countries far and away? how do the stories make it on the website?

guest: we do rely on a lot of partner content for areas in which we at yahoo! news do not have a foothold. we do not have anyone in syria so we rely on abc news coverage or associated press stories. but the flipside, foreign policy being decided in washington, d.c.. we have our team of reporters, including me. i am actually very interested. i am a perfect -- perpetual student of foreign policy. the level of american engagement or involvement in celia's civil war. that is something we can cover pretty easily. olivier knox host: fromolivier knox -- host: this from olivier knox -- this a thing you covered and why was it significant? guest: the debate over drone strikes is important.

not just the targeting of americans but more broadly. one of the questions i have been asking is, whether america 's counterterrorism policy might actually be recruiting more terrorists than it is killing. it was very important because this was a very secretive american program. we learned about the killing of people like a lot the -- anwar al-awlaki from the media of the government kept a lid on that so when eric holder confirmed officially for the first time that four americans were killed in these types of strengths, it was an important moment. americans need to know what is done in their name overseas and they need to know the consequences, ramifications, and how it can impact their daily lives. host: a questionnaire on twitter, jim asks about the story about afghan insurgents attacking a red cross facility. he says he has not seen it yet on yahoo! news. is this the type of store you might cover, olivier knox? guest: i think i saw it yesterday on yahoo! news but it

would not have been an original yahoo! news story but either a wire story or something from abc. i will double check. i think it is an important story as well. obviously, it is very difficult to cover every important story out there. i will double check. host: we have it here for you. yahoo! news on our ipad, a quick search. associated press version. this was posted yesterday. the story goes on to say that in two insurgents attacked a compound housed by the international committee of the red cross in afghanistan wednesday, killing an armed guard before security forces rescued seven foreigners. why is this a significant story? why might somebody who follows up on twitter be interested in seeing it? why should americans care? guest: for starters, there are not quite 70,000 american

forces in afghanistan, and even as they plan to draw down between now and the end of 2014, possibly leaving a residual force, we do not know the size yet, it is important to know. afghanistan was staging ground for the 9/11 attacks and americans need to keep an eye on unstable or fragile states that could be host to the next big attack. assessing the american role in afghanistan, wearing about the americans who are on the ground, and looking at the potential for true -- future trouble. i think all of these elements are important and it makes it an important story. host: massachusetts. independent call. go ahead. caller: thanks for having me on. first, i would like to say i think yahoo! does go a pretty good job on their white -- on the website with the amount of news stories they have. you can scroll across the top. they do have a pretty broad spectrum of news there. but with current news, i am really perplexed with this .hole boston bombing incident

you know, the fact that it looks like this person was unarmed in florida, a friend of -- and an acquaintance of the suspect bomber. and then the suspected bomber that is in prison now was apparently unarmed in the old that was riddled with -- in the riddled with bullet holes. i would not be surprised in the least to find that ultimately the bomber suspect that was himself.s unarmed now we have the director of the fbi resigning. we know, right, that most of these terror attack plots in the made upe fbi actually and they got patsies to go along with it and then they stop the event from happening and that you have headlines

about how they stopped a terror attack. this is a fact. we can even bring it back to the 1993 world trade center phonegs, some actual date conversations of the -- taped phone conversations of the fbi formulating this attack. it seems a lot of the stuff is out there, if you get into the comments that people make on yahoo! news, that is where it is interesting. it seems like the most popular comments are the government version of everything. but then if you click on new list, for the newest comments and you scroll through their using to get a much broader feel.-- i do praise yahoo! for having the comment section and leaving it open, but i do worry about the press just lying down for the government story, even how bizarre it is. i would like your comment on the boston bombing situation. host: let's get a response.

guest: presumably, you learned about these troubling details about the boston bombing in the media, right? this is not an uncommon occurrence. i get people to tell me when will the media cover this story and they send me a link to one of my stories. you want to keep following the media reporting on this. there are people in boston, people tracking federal law enforcement and everything else and they are really working extremely hard to get as many of these details out to mow whether or not the government wants them out. so, keep watching. i can never criticize people who tell me they are skeptical of news reporting. im, two, and i think it is too.tant -- i am, i think it is an important intellectual habit. host: how does the comment section work, olivier knox, on yahoo! news and how often do you look at it? is it monitored for things that

are inappropriate? guest: i don't really have any oversight of the comment section myself. i get so much feedback my phone, e-mail, and twitter that i only rarely have time to go scrolling through. it is a bit of a free-for-all, too, which sometimes make it hard to get the most constructive thing. but we want to keep a very interactive relationship with our reader base. if you look at some of the best things we have done over the past couple of years, they have been what we call crowd sourced stories about things like sequestration. our colleagues at together a piece about the impact of sequestration on the lives of ordinary americans. we have done it with student loans and other issues people have on their minds. so, the interactive is very important, people telling their own stories, and i think the comment section plays a role. host: a viewer tweets in --

trending determined? guest: another internal operation that i am unfortunately not that qualified to discuss. it does not really have an impact on my day-to-day operations. i don't pay attention to that. it is really what i think it is -- is important on any given day. and i hope it goes well. i am not currying favor with anybody. i am sorry to tell you, i don't know how it operates and it does not have a big impact on me. host: ohio, democrat. go ahead. caller: i just got a couple of questions about things. here is my main question. , all theedia newspapers in this country are owned by four or five different companies. who actually owns yahoo news? and you talk about this trust in the press and stuff. atk in 1979, jimmy carter

the head of the cia and they said there was operation mockingbird where the cia was infiltrating and planting news stories for international war mongering. what is yahoo! news going to do to keep from being a patsy for international warmongering. i don't understand some of the news sources that you are reporting on. i do like the comment sections. one thing like -- look at how you did not say anything about monsanto. how you cover ron paul. it's got a look to see what yahoo! news have done in coverage of ron paul, because there are many stories on the website. toler: they did neglect report about the cheating at the caucuses. they did not mention that pretty much as they do not really report good on romney.

us about your coverage of members of congress. we will talk to one of your political reporters to elaborate. how do you dig into these stories, and what do you have to say about the callers concerns? guest: i understand the concerns about media consolidation and corporate ownership. i will tell you, yahoo! news is part of the broader yahoo! corporation. but we are very independent. on a day-to-day basis, as i said to a previous caller. i am not getting marching orders from people looking at our prices. it is just not happening. in terms of looking at the stories we cover in congress on broadly -- and broadly, we are not out to make anybody in particular happy, sad, angry, what have you. again, i cannot criticize people who are skeptical of news media. i think it is important. but read the stuff we are doing,

read our stories, read our work, do it for a while, and i think you will emerge with a favorable impression that we are fair and independent minded, funny when it is suitable, and always informative. host: a story that just got posted in the last hour on yahoo! news -- "privacy is a looming issue as drone regulation loosens." has colleague liz goodwin a story about concerns that a woman in the capitol hill neighborhood of seattle noticed a small camera equipped drone buzzing around outside the third-floor window of her home. and man nearby was operating the small aircraft by remote control, and the woman wrote about it in a local blog. how much do you use online news sources and things like local blogs, community website resources like facebook and tumblr and twitter to inspire news stories?

guest: quite a bit. one interesting development with the internet as there are almost no local news stories anymore. all you need are a couple of keyword searches and you can unearth some you can unearth some interesting stuff. i think back to the incident in which mice president cheney had a hunting incident in which he shot a friend of his. that was first reported in a small texas paper and then became national news overnight. we use all those resources as tips that we check out and do reporting on, we look at local news outlets quite a bit. they often do the best work on those local stories. we use a lot of that stuff on a day-to-day basis. york, new york. republican color. caller: i love when you ask questions about us about different things.

it keeps us up to date. host: are you still with us? your news, do you use the internet to get your news? caller: i get my news from different magazines, c-span, fox news. many different areas that i get my news from. idea, oneet one particular news section. toead many different things get my facts straight. thank you and continue to keep asking questions and keep us thinking and keep us getting our facts right before we call in. ofst: i love the idea

american going to a broad array of new sources. we are trying to provide yahoo!,ng like that at but i love the idea that someone is going to c-span for one thing, for local broadcast for another, maybe fox news for another, overseas newspaper, i love the idea of that kind of balanced diet of news sources, especially when you can pick two competing sites of the same story. knox, chiefr correspondent of yahoo! news, thank you. we continue our look at the d.c. bureau of yahoo! news with political reporter chris moody. he will focus on the top congressional stories. there on we will wrap up with rachel rose hartman. first, an update from c-span radio. >> some international news this

hour. bashar al-assad, quoted by a lebanese tv station today, said the first shipment of russian long-range air defense missiles has arrived in his country. the tv station, owned by hezbollah, will air an exclusive interview with assad later today. an official confirmed that that remark is from the interview. syria's opposition group says it will not participate in u.s.- russian peace talks on the regime is still carrying out massacres in syria. the announcement comes at the end of week-long talks in istanbul tried to come to a united view on whether to take part in the upcoming peace conference next month in geneva. an update on a former cia director david petraeus. word this hour that he has a new job with an investment firm. the retired general is now chairman of the newly created kkr global institute.

general petraeus served as cia director until last november until an extramarital affair with his autobiography triggered a change. she was a real fashion icon. women emulated her hair style, her clothing. this is a dress from the second administration. in a way, this is the most prized piece of all, because this is the inaugural gown. it stayed in her family and became the family wedding dress. this was used by her granddaughters. cleveland's every day) very stylish. a lot of them look like something that you could wear now. black withacket,

velvet.l purple-blue this is a more evening- appropriate fees. lace,n see the beautiful sequins., -- you could wear this with a skirt. >> the conversation about frances cleveland is now on our website. and tune in on monday for our coverage of caroline harrison. host: we continue our visit to the washington, d.c. bureau of washington news with chris political reporter.

thanks for joining us. among your beats in politics is congress. congress is out this week. what are you hearing in terms of stories resonating back home in member districts? we saw a lot of heated hearings the week before memorial day. guest: there is so much news going on right now with the irs looking at conservative groups to immigration. lawmakers will be facing a lot of questions, not necessarily geared towards them, but washington. is a questionon that a lot of people are asking. the last time they went back to their districts it was all about immigration, but now is about doj, irs, the scandal that we have been reporting on in the past few weeks. 8 "christian science monitor" piece on michele bachmann. tell me why you believe she will not seek another term. question.ood

certainly, she got a lot of attention, had a lot of support from tea party groups around the country, one of the top leaders , perhaps ambassador is a better word for the party. were surprised, they did not see this coming, but they are hopeful for her future and what she will do. she did not passed many bills here in washington but certainly got a lot of ink from reporters, ran for president last year, and this is not the last you have heard of her. certainly, she will go on the speaking circuit, may be read some books, but we will hear from her in the future. host: you report from south carolina. what was the purpose of your trip, what did you come home with? guest: we had a special election with mark sanford trying to run for congress once again. he was here in washington in the 1990's, became governor of south

carolina, and we know how that ended a couple of years ago. he was seeking redemption, so we went down there to see if he could pull off. he ran a campaign against elizabeth colbert bush. you had this disgraced former governor try to get back in the spotlight, and then the sister of celebrity comedian stephen colbert. so we followed both of them, really got a colorful picture of a campaign. the fun part about local campaigns, as opposed presidential ones, you get greater access to the candidates and you can see these things work on the ground in a way that you can not in a presidential campaign. host: you also reported on recent stories, governor nikki haley and challenges she may be facing. guest: she has a democratic competitor that she be in 2010.

he is a state senator there. he believes he is in striking distance again. 2010 was the year of the tea parties, conservative candidates were swept into office across the country. he thinks 2014 might be easier to defeat her. she has a record that he can run against right now. this race is not for another year and a half or so -- the election is not for another year and half, so it is need to talk to the candidates, see how they will try to frame the debate in the coming years. host: we want to hear what our viewers and listeners have to say. catherine is in cleveland, ohio. caller: thank you for c-span. my question has to do with yahoo! news. i am on the internet several times a day although i am not very savvy, but i do get yahoo!.

my question is, it is little tiny bits and pieces but i do not think you cover the whole truth. the people who listen to the news, you have to be told the entire news, not just a tiny bit, and that is my greatest fear with news today. we only hear what you want me to know. i want to know the entire truth. i want to know everything that happened, and then i will make the decision on whether it is good, bad, or indifferent. i will give you an example, the irs. they are doing exactly what they are paid to do. they are paid to make sure that no group, left, right, or anything else, gets through and does not pay their proper amount of taxes. irsmmand -- to amend the for doing their job.

the irs for doing their job. thank you. you are doing your job. i do not think people should be harassed for doing their job. thank you, irs, and thank you, c-span. have a good day. you: before we let you go, share your opinion, but do you want to hear members of congress say whether or not they agree with you, you want to hear about the battles in washington? caller: i am probably your biggest c-span watcher, almost all day, i watched the hearings. i get most of my true information from c-span because i get it right from the mouth of the individual. fox,watch msnbc, cnn, democracy now!, i watch and listen to everybody, because i think everybody has a slanted

view. as an american, i only want to know the truth. thank you for your comments. let's get a comment from chris moody. guest: the duty of reporting on the web is we can provide links and videos to the primary sources. what we are trying to do is pull out the most important pieces. let's say we get a document that is 500 pages long. we will stay late and try to pull out the most important parts of that. what we could not do a few years ago on news or television is giving the whole document on the web. if you feel you need more information, you can see the entire thing, or we could provide the entire video for a hearing. it is wonderful how the internet has democratized information, giving everyone the of opportunity to show what they think is the most important part, and giving readers the access. that is something that we have never been able to do, something

that we will do more in the future. of a embattled irs, part house republican attack ad campaign. we will look at more of your stories, but tell us more about this one. guest: this is interesting because we have the 2014 midterm house elections coming up. i am looking at all the ads that the democrats and republicans are testing out right now. they want to find out how they want to define the other party, testing a lot of different messages. some republicans paying for supporting the irs. it didn't mention anything about the targeting of the tea party, but just the word association of this democratic member and the irs, they want to see if that resonates with voters. we will see in the next couple of months what they will use.

i think is a fascinating story to see what the party will do to message to the american people. host: other reporting that chris moody has done regarding the irs controversy. lerner, whoon lois would not answer members of congress. the former irs commissioners says i am not responsible for creating the be on the lookout list. how much of this is incremental blow by blow storytelling, and if you can, the big think pieces? guest: it is not often that you have hearings on such a consistent basis that are fun to cover. democratsare growing

and republicans. another thing, we do not often see both sides grilling a witness. here it seems to be pretty consistent. we have these irs officials testifying on their behalf to defend themselves, a number of them involved. the drama involved in the last gaveing when lois lerner her statement, there were questions about whether she would be able to leave, the chairman darrell icssa dismissed her, but i think she will be back to give it another shot. i think you have to balance a little bit of both. the beauty of web reporting is you can show to your readers, this just happened, check this out. and in the meantime, you are working on longer pieces as well. both are equally important to inform and give people a full picture of what is happening in

washington. host: stella disagrees with the first caller. please, the irs is way out of bounds. it will be proven in court. chris moody, how you learn about your readers' opinions, folks that visit our website, how you use social media to hear what people are talking about? accessour readers have but they have never had before. 25 years ago, you might get a letter or two in the mail, but now we get instant reaction. if we ever get something wrong as a reporter, you better believe readers will let us know. the nice thing is, if we do something well, they will let us know every once in awhile. you have this interaction on twitter, tumblr, and i think it just makes our conversation more full and complete.

host: jocelyn is on the independent line. caller: thank you to c-span for giving us regular people a voice. i cannot express what that means to me. mr. moody, my question, in the last month, the subject of the upcoming furloughs for the civilian department of defense employees has pretty much fallen off the radar. there seems to be complete lack of interest. nowadays you hear about the more popular subjects, like immigration, gun control, doj. we have mentioned a few today. for me, who is directly affected, we are facing a 20% pay cut for close to three and a and ionths, from july on, really need to have the media give voice to what the real repercussions of this is to my family.

and i would like to know why yahoo! news, which i read every day, has also dropped the ball on that? host: tell us more about the kind of work or family is involved in. my husband is an engineer with the department of navy and his role is quite important. starting july 8, it has been sent to us, he will be furloughed one day a week until october. host: are you reading local news stories about this? caller: no, that is the real issue i am having. c-span covered it beautifully, so thank you. it was in the news regularly and it seemed to become an outcry, but that it just stopped. other things became more popular. unfortunately, with the lack of coverage, the general populace becomes ignorant of it and it

gets swept under the rug. for us, of course, it is very real. guest: thank you for your question. one of the greatest challenges washington reporters have is legislation and what is happening here, the impact it has on people. i hope to do a fair job of showing when we are chasing lawmakers around capitol hill, what does this matter to you outside of the beltway? i think you will find stories on yahoo! news and other places that have told legislation and what is happening those tales of people that have had -- that these laws have had a direct impact on. i think we can and should do a better job of doing that. sun" has abaltimore piece talking about individuals that will be furloughed at fort meade. of thevious guest, part yahoo! news team, olivier knox,

chief washington correspondent, mentioned that one of his colleagues, rachel hartman, who will be our guest, did a sequestration series. we will discuss that. chris moody, here is a question from twitter. this gets to the broader look at what we're doing this morning. laura wants to know what the point of tumblr is, and why did yahoo! news want to buy it? for those who missed it, what is it, do you use it as a source of news or entertainment, and will it affect your news reporting, the fact that yahoo! now owns it? tumblr is just a different way to tell a different story or the same story. the wonderful thing about it is that it is easily sure. it tore down the walls where 1

blogger kercher another story. we can communicate our stories in a way that people want to be communicated to. there is a reason we do videos, there is a reason we are on facebook, twitter. us and other news agencies and other blunders a way to tell their story. i think it is an exciting thing. i think there will be even more mediums and different way to tell those stories in the future. host: what does your typical look like, how often are you in the capitol building, how often do you file? guest: when congress is in session, i am usually working out of the senate added with a with a of other -- attic number of other reporters. then the lawmakers come in and we chased them around the capital. literally, there is a lot of

walking around hallways, and jumping into elevators, trying to put questions to these lawmakers, and then we write on what we find. bighere is a hearing or a buildup want to cover, we will look at who is voting for what and then asking them after, why did you cast your vote that way? when congress is out of session, it gives us a chance to look at different stories, larger stores, or even go on the road. south carolina was a pretty good example of the house race. yahoo! is a wonderful company in that they give us independence to cover what is important. i am grateful to that. to be able to cover both campaigns, capitol hill, and washington in general. a democrat.s go ahead. caller: good morning. i love yahoo! questions and answers. the responses seem to be equal in terms of democrat and republican.

regarding the scandal, other in 2001, gore v. bush there have been specials on tv showing how easy it is to program the outcome. who recently believes that mark sanford won? what you think about covering , having anike this investigation into this? to me, this is a big deal. democrats seem to be asleep at the wheel. i love yahoo!. it is easy and i love being on. thank you for your question. covered the integrity of the elections is important and public officials work hard to make sure that is done. we have of accountability locally and nationally to make sure that the integrity of our elections are sound. i have not been able to let them

specifically in the past, but with so many reporters and bloggers, campaign watchers looking at these things, it would be difficult to get something passed all of us watching eyes. experience moody's crewmember,ng a fishing up in alaska. he is currently at john hopkins university. we are spending the morning visiting the yahoo! newsroom, the washington bureau. chris moody, political reporter is our middle guest. stay tuned. we will be hearing from white house reporter rachel rose hartman. next caller is in newburgh, north carolina. hello, isabel. caller: how are you? what i wanted to say was, i cannot imagine anyone thinking that the irs has done nothing wrong in targeting people who

were just really speaking out against too much government, taking over your life, and spending, which we all know is a terrible problem in this country. anyone who does not, i cannot imagine that they listen to anything or read anything. is, to give eric holder the benefit of the doubt, when he absolutely lied, is absolutely killing me. i do not know where these people come from when they say maybe he forgot. heaven forbid he forgot about the gun running. anyway, i appreciate the show this morning. any comment, chris moody? guest: that is what congressional investigations are for and the watchdog role of the press. we are all watching this play out right now and it is yet to be seen what the outcome will

be. no one is ignoring what is happening in washington. there is a microscope on this town internally and externally. moody, immigration. something that we will see congress return to when they come back after the memorial day recess. what are you watching to happen next, what are some of the big stories unfolding? guest: there have been so many developments. one of the fascinating stories is marco rubio's effort. earlier in the year, he went on a blitz of conservative talk radio shows trying to explain, make the case that his bill was a conservative approach to immigration reform, and that conservatives and tea partyers should be on board with him. by now there is a movement of what should happen in the future and how they should approach this, but the bill went through

committee, and it will get to the senate floor here soon. there will be quite a bit -- a bit of drama here in washington. the question is whether they can get it done this summer. i think they need to. recall 2009, health care, all the lawmakers went back to their districts over the recess and koppell for it. right now, house and senate republicans who support this immigration legislation really want to get this done, by the latest, july, and have been on the president's desk by then. host: how much power does the senate gang of eight bring to the table? guest: they are the blueprint, it was more to make it a bipartisan gang. moderate republicans and conservatives. you look at their record, how conservative groups have raided his voting. all of these groups give marco rubio top billing, one of the

most conservative members of the house. i think it was important to have him there, if gave some credence to other conservatives, maybe giving them some cover. a lot of people said that if marco rubio does not sign off on this, it will come crumbling down. there are some crucial pieces here. the gang of eight is important, although it is kind of out of their hands now. the most prominent part of what they did will now go to the senate, the larger body. so you will see a wider debate, now that we have an actual bill. host: bernadette in new mexico. democratic caller. caller: my concern is when you do report, for example, on domestic drone surveillance, you give us little pieces of it but you do not tell us how we can protect ourselves. what is our recourse? it is wonderful to know the

news, but there is also fear. we are given a sense of fear because we do not know how to protect ourselves. how do we deal with this? guest: that is something perhaps for a lawyer to answer the question. you also have to see the consequences unfolding of the drone program. it is not fully complete here. these are all new questions. you have to take babies steps in approaching what is actually happening. the most important part right now is to get information out, the facts, these are the facts on the ground, and then people can weigh-in based on that. host: this morning we are visiting the washington the new bureau, talking about the stories they are reporting on. -- yahoo! washington bureau, talking about the stories they are reporting on. based underare you

one roof or several different buildings? tell us more about the operations of yahoo! news. guest: good question. we have a team here in washington, a person on the white house, capitol hill, a couple of other reporters. we have editors in new york city, national affairs reporters. we have bureaus here in d.c., new york, and then a step in california at our headquarters. it is a national operation. while still being a small team, we have the backing of a great company, putting forth what we hope is a superior product delivering the news accurately and fairly. host: you talk about being a reporter on capitol hill. how are you received as a member of the yahoo! news team and internet news service? are you printed as a print reporter, broadcaster, and how

is the infrastructure? guest: things are changing. a web reporter would have been treated differently 15 years ago and now. there is no such thing really as a web reporter. nobody is really looked down upon because they write for the web. that has changed. what we now see our web sites that have print publications, as opposed to publications that have websites. things are going more to the web because that is where people can get information the fastest. there will certainly be a place for print and television in the future. the beauty of online reporting is you get to do multi-platform reporting. you can do print, videos, interactive, you can do video chats. it involves a bit of everything. now we're getting to the point where reading a traditional print publication on your ipad

is hardly different from reading it on paper, and the technology is getting better and better and people have more access, and that is a good thing. host: joe in new jersey. republican caller. caller: i am calling in response to someone two callers ago, she says she watches c-span and fox and said the irs was doing their job. the irs was doing their job, but the problem is, they were focusing on conservatives, not liberals. the liberal groups got streamlined. the big thing here is the fact that the irs took information and turned it over to liberal organizations. that is totally wrong. you do not give personal information that somebody provided on their taxes to a -- like people

crossroads, an organization that could pick an outside people's houses, so one and so forth. secondly, i have been around for a long time. normally puts people in place, is responsible when something happens. in the situation, i do not know, i do not know what is going on. it is ridiculous that people are listening and swallowing this. host: have you had a moment to absorb the news that the president is appointing danny wore full to head the irs? does that mean anything to you? caller: let me tell you something. ,ou look at people's judgment and we see his judgment. ,is judgment is eric holder whatever her name is, the woman

in charge of homeland security. sebelius, in charge of health care. when people make mistakes picking people, they continue to make mistakes. there will not be an epiphany that he will pick some person that will actually run these improperly. i expect continued problems. host: let's look at a column written by rachel rose hartman. are you hearing reaction from members of congress, chris moody -- they are all in their home districts or traveling -- but are we getting an initial response yet? guest: the fun part about having them in town is that you can literally chased them down the hallway and ask them for their response. these days it takes a bit longer because they are overseas or in their districts. you better believe that if the responses have not come in yet,

they will come quickly or the next coming hours and days. host: cindy is in texas. an independent. isler: all i hear now scandals and talking points on talk radio. 2004t to know why, between and 2008, our soldiers were fields.nto land happened, bush brought over the bin laden families, past security, everyone wondered why. what was he doing bringing the bin laden family over here in the first place? those are scandals to me. no one talks about 10 and 1 want to give me answers. they are always talking about things that do not matter. -- no one talks about that to

me, wants to give me answers. host: where do you get your news? iller: i listen to c-span, listened to my local news. a lot of it is on c-span. i watch a little bit of cnn. i do not listen to one station. guest: i think there are a lot of stores that are important. we spoke to someone earlier today about sequestration, and that is having an impact on her family. anytime you can talk about how actions in washington, d.c. are having an effect on your family, even here in the beltway area, that is an important story. host: adrian rights in an e- mail, any thoughts that mainstream media practices omission in order to change

public perception? guest: the college that i work with here in washington and yahoo! news or car to show a full picture. every reporter has there lens about how they represent a story. you could read five different writers and glean something different, but that is the duty of reporting. i know that everyone works hard and makes it possible to provide information as clearly as possible and as fairly as possible. twitter, how do other reporters treat yahoo! reporters? any difference about online content with more traditional media? how're you perceive? hope we are perceived well. twitter will show you what they really think. shoulder toing bare shoulder with every other reporter on capitol hill trying

to go after new and interesting stories. i think there are a lot of wonderful news sources, including yahoo! news, that are breaking stories, competing with traditional media. you present yourself as an honest broker, someone that offers a competitive edge, and you will be taken seriously. because there have been so many online news organizations, everyone seems to get a fair shot. when you have a new kid in town, the person is not blacklisted or anything. they are given a shot to see what he or she can do. that is great. the more voices, the better. in florida. democrat line. caller: i do not think either party represents american any more. i think our country has been taken over by lobbyists. corruption is blatant. it controls both parties.

my question is, it seems to me, all news networks do not dwell on this enough and i think they need to. posthe need to put pressure on .ongress 47% of members in congress are millionaires. do is represent large corporations and people that have a lot of money. i appreciate your comments. thank you. have spoken a lot today about the beauty of the access of information online. right nowl there are more places -- right now, there are who is givingo see whic money to lobbyists. there is a website called can seeets where you

how much money they are given from lobbyists, donors, special interest. some believe that lawmakers should have to wear endorsement stickers, like nascar, to show who is giving them their money, we have the ability to do that. that is really good based on the open sourcing information. not just reporters in washington but regular people who have blogs. and they can look at that information and clean but they want from that. host: you recently reported, house republicans make repealing obamacare an annual tradition. looking at a house vote to fully repealed the federal health care law. how is yahoo! news covering the rollout of health care, and how were you watching the politics in the house and senate? guest: sometimes the politics

and policy are different, and sometimes they blend together. i believe this is the third time the house has repealed it in three years. politically, as far as messaging, it gives members the opportunity to take a stand on molalla, especially the new ones, so they can go back -- on the law, especially the new ones, so they can go back to their districts and say, i stood up against this. 2014 will be the year that a lot of the obamacare provisions are implemented, so i think it will be a fascinating story to be able to tell. not only about the politics and how it will impact the election, but how it will impact people's taxes, will they go up, will people received benefits they did not have before? i think you will see a mixed bag of the good and bad. ideally, we will be covering it over the next year and half, to see what it affect -- to see

what affect it has on people. yahoo! i believe the chief executive officer is marissa meyer. i believe in was reported that she was one of the top 2012 obama campaign fund raisers and bundlers. not thethe ceo and owner. i want to know it is this true? and the person at the top setting the tone. how does that set the tone for journalists, knowing that their ceo is an insider in the obama ?hite house guest guest: anyone can look up online who has given to the administration, but we are an independent news gathering source. nobody from corporate yahoo! tells us what to cover.

we cover what we believe is important to the american people, whether left, right, center. we are an independent news organization. host: a story from bloomberg news, looking at marissa mayer, an early backer of president obama's reelection campaign. we talked earlier with olivier knox about the firewall, a strong word, but the division between what corporate yahoo! and what yahoo! news does. tell us about how that works, how much do you know about the overall operation? guest: i do not pay attention to the corporate side of things, we've pay attention to washington and what is going on here. a lot of news organizations have corporation that oversee them. we are one of those, but like i said, we are an independent news agency. host: a couple of questions on twitter.

yahoo! news customized news for its viewers? if so, what purpose does that serve? rich wants to know if yahoo! has an e-mail alert system, and if so, how can he signed up? the nice thing about online is we know what our readers want to know. we can gain a picture of that through comments, tweets, in ways that we could not before with additional newspapers. we try to write on what is important for people coming here in washington, in a way that people want to read about and will be informed about. there are several products on yahoo! news that you can sign up for, e-mail alerts, whether on the news, finance, or sports side. is an independent caller. caller: thank you for this

fascinating program. i feel like news organizations isusing on the irs spreading misinformation about who is really being oppressed. .he real issue is 501c4's this is a diversion of the actual issue, which is the destabilization of the old parks to control the media. is yahoo! news willing to challenge the corporate political machine at all? guest: in washington, i mostly cover politics and lawmakers on capitol hill. if there are stores out there, we tried to investigate to see if there is more to say. host: when will you be watching as congress returns to washington from the memorial day recess? we talked about immigration, the irs hearings. one is on your agenda? guest: those are the two things.

we have more hearings on tuesday were the house ways and means committee will bring out people to show that there were targeted by the irs. it will be interesting to hear their stories. immigration will be heating up. we are coming down to the wire. they need to get this done by the summer. when we get back, we will be in june. it will probably make up most of the news that you will hear from washington over the next few months. yahoo! newsmoody of to you can follow him on twitter and find his articles on yahoo.com. we wrap up our look at the yahoo! news washington bureau with rachel rose hartman. she will take us behind the scenes of the obama and attrition. first, a news update. >> jobless numbers in this hour showing americans seeking benefits rose 10,000 last week

to a seasonally adjusted 354,000. a sign that lance had increased. still, that little is consistent with steady hiring. the labor department says that over all the unemployment rate has dropped to 7.5%, a four-year low. meanwhile, the u.s. economy grew at a modest 2.4% rate from january through march, slightly slower than initially estimated. consumer spending was stronger than first thought but businesses restock more slowly and state and government cuts were deeper due to the sequestered. an update on eric holder's plan to hold meeting to press on justice department guidelines. the associated press issued a statement saying it wants any meeting to be on the record. the new york times, huffington post, and cnn also said they will not attend because of the

off the record ground rules. but political posted a an item on its website saying the editor in chief john harris plans to attend one of the meetings with the attorney general. the meetings come as the department deals with reaction over secret gatherings of ap records and secret conversations of the fox news journalists. the attorney general arrange me in california after the extradition, he indicated that he wanted the death penalty on each of the three charges. so he wanted the death penalty three times. that made me realize how serious they were, and again, it made me realize that it was not about me. first of all, i could not be killed three times. it was about the construction of this imaginary enemy. i was the embodiment of that enemy. >> she was not that interested

in talking about what happened, this period, the crime, it implications of being chased by the fbi. she was not that interested in talking about it. she is also one of these people that you do not necessarily go to directly. i was tried to get to her directly. i figured out there were very important people in her life, and i chipped away at the people she knew and trusted, was able to get them involved, let them see my previous work. slowly, she came around, and agreed to meet me. on themaker shola lynch life of angela davis. ."nday at 8:00 on "q&a host: rachel rose hartman is white house correspondent for yahoo! news.

we continue our look behind the scenes at the washington bureau. thank you for joining us this morning. tell us about your coverage of the white house. do you have a traditional booth at the white house, how is yahoo! news treated as a news agency over there? guest: we work in the white house basement. i work there because that is where my predecessor, olivier knox, worked. we work and one of the desks there. yahoo! news is treated as any other news organization. every organization hopes for more access, lots of access. i am there every day that i can be, almost every day of the week, attend a briefing. we are situated there and are treated just like any other news organization. we are granted access when appropriate and get to speak with folks in the press office, and other officials. host: are you called on to ask

questions at the press briefings? guest: every reporter raises their hand. traditionally, jay carney has a system, and a lot of people criticize him for favoring the front of the room. we do not have a seat in the front, so i am with other reporters raising my hand, hoping to get called on. it happened last and i would like, and other reporters would say the same thing. has: rachel rose hartman been with yahoo! new since 2010, has experience at congressional quarterly. how does outsourcing work at yahoo! news? without divulging your sources, what kind of access does a reporter like you have, and how much does that contribute to your storytelling? do you get the sense it is different from prior administrations? guest: i have not covered prior administrations from the white house specifically, but i have heard from other folks that things are tougher right now. i do not know if that is true for every reporter. for me, from my perspective, i

request things from press officials, talk to officials, you try to establish a relationship like for any relationshipbeat. any beat.-- like for sometimes that is helpful, sometimes it is not. host: rachel rose hartman writes, the attorney general meeting with media bureau chiefs. what is the latest? do we have a fuller sense of who is accepting, who is rejecting, and what will it all mean? guest: i have not seen a complete picture. i think people are keeping a tight lid on this, especially as we saw reports yesterday of news organizations pushing back on these meetings because they have been deemed off the record, which some news outlets say for these typeste

of meetings. we may not see a complete picture of who goes into those meetings, or what comes out of them. host: as you watched developments at the white house, the response at the white house has given to pressure the phase i number of fronts, the justice department looking at reporter records, irs scrutiny of tea party records, questions over what happened in benghazi, are you and your colleagues calling them scandals, how do you report on them? guest: we have gained some of them as scandals, the irs scandal, the benghazi scandal. i think that is an appropriate term for these two events because there is a lot of controversy surrounding them. i think a scandal is and a corporate word because we are seeing the administration react -- is the appropriate word because we are seeing the in

ministration react to these things. earlier callers talk to your colleague chris moody, and she brought up sequestration. she said her family has been affected by the sequestration, cuts -- the word i'm looking for --what am i trying to say -- the furloughs, sorry. people that are keeping their jobs but seen their pay cut, up to one day a week off, one day a month off. your colleagues say that you have been working on a series looking at sequestration and what it has meant. refreshed that for us, and what are you looking at now? guest: yahoo! has this amazing reader base, and in the past, i had seen some of my colleagues tap into our reader base to develop a story.

sequestration, i was interested -- i was hearing stories in local papers, reading about them, and i thought, what a great way for our national organization and for me, in d.c., in this community, to get a broader picture of what sequestration is doing to regular americans. we used a yahoo! contributor network as well as regular crowd source to all of our readers, asking them how they believe sequestration will possibly impact them, negative consequences there were about, and we got some amusing responses. we heard from folks being furloughed, we heard from active duty military worried about tuition. just a wide range of stories from people, as well as a few people who said they were not concerned about sequestration.

host: how does that ability to cross swords influence or reporting, how did you come away with that to use as a model in the future? guest: it is a unique thing for yahoo!. i know we have done another one host:on the long-term unemploye, another on student loans. both of these efforts have been fruitful. we get a whole range of readers, so we get a whole range of stories from them. i'm interested in doing more crown sourcing work. host: a question on twitter covering the white house. one of them wants to know, how hard is it to get information from your sources? how many sources do you try to get before you run with a story? another question, whether or not the white house leaks or freely gives information. how much do you have to pull teeth to get stories? guest: the first question on how many sources i have, the question may be referring to how many sources you get to run with a story when you have no one on

the record. i would say, it is up to the discretion of each story. whether a source is a strong source. you know perhaps you cannot use their name. fortimes we must ask them their reason to want to be unnamed. as far as leaking from the white house, you will see in the morning paper, a store that only one news organization has. -- a story that only one news organization has. that is usually a leaked story, helping to shape their message. a lot of the news organizations are on the receiving end of those. host: if you want to call an and speak with rachel rose hartman of yahoo! news, here are the numbers.

alan is from michigan on the independent line. thank you. thanks, rachel. since september of last year the important question was where was the president during benghazi? we need a timeline of every minute of that debacle started and ended. once we get the answer to that, the truth about hillary clinton and others, will follow. the question was asked a week ago in the white house and the spokesperson said it was irrelevant. it is not irrelevant. it is a simple question and we need the answers. just as we knew where he was when he ordered to take down osama bin laden. what is goose is good for the gander. we need the truth on this. if we get that, then the other

question will be answered. that is the main question. thank you. guest: i think the white house tried to mitigate some of the controversy important question y releasing those benghazi e- mails, which we and other news organizations received. that gives a detailed picture of each minute and e-mail was sent. they did not disclose all the people sending and receiving them, but the content was designed to show the public what went on behind the scenes. as far as brenda president was or what he was doing, saying, that is up to the white house. the way the administration handled the press on this is one reason they had to backtrack and continue to release more information because people were not satisfied with what was out there. host: we talked about this earlier with olivier knox. chris wilson created the

benghazi inbox. the e-mails one by one, and formats them as if they were in an e-mail what they would look like. james says holder has been thrown out under the bus to reject hillary from her role and what is giving us a cover-up. how does hillary clinton factor in? guest: she is on the sidelines from the scandal because after her testimony before congress, she left and she is no longer actively serving in office. she is kind of on the perimeter of this in terms of the day to day activity. we're seeing members of congress trying to pin down more specifics about benghazi, but hillary clinton is not an

officer she is not someone they are targeting but they certainly have a lot of questions for her and there is a lot of folks to a biker to continue being more forthcoming about the events of what happened. as far as attorney general eric holder, he is the lightning rod of many of these scandals nowadays. host: and the latest news story .rom cnn rajoy hartmann, our guest from not who news -- rachel hartman, our guest from yahoo! news. the video we're showing on the screen is from many months ago. what is he doing and what is his

role in the white house? how is 2016 influencing his presence now? guest: i think he has been a mediator between the president and congress as a former senator he is someone who knows these folks personally and the white house is hoping to capitalize on the relationships he has with some republicans to work on issues. he was made the front man for gun control. it did not end up the way the administration had hoped, but biden was the front person. he has been active on other issues, women's rights, and doing travel this week and last, but he is very much an active presence at the white house and it continues to be a source of music for a lot of folks. host: our next caller, democratic line. caller: thank you. my point is that even though it has been said that we can go and

look at how many democrats and republicans get money from the lobbyists, i still consider that our government right now is a hopeless situation. it is more than aristocracy instead of a democracy, in my opinion. when you have john boehner and mcconnell constantly state that will do everything they can not to make obama look good, and they have all the stalemates. what do we do? we have been educated population -- and i educated population in the majority, that don't even watch the news. the people that come out to vote are the really interested, educated people. published -- and that is not enough. guest: i think there is a big

push for members of congress to reveal more about who they are accepting money from. their places online you can go to find out where members of congress are receiving donations, but they don't disclose everything. there are some folks would really like for the senators to reveal all of their campaign finance information online, for example. the caller also mentioned stalemates. that is something both the white house and congress and the public are frustrated by, and i think it is up to members to find a way through that. host: pennsylvania, republican, go ahead. caller: i think is very refreshing that yahoo! has dealt with the issue of sequestration. i have been very disappointed the mainstream media has not dealt with it.

they have been very dismiss it. i have written to congressman, to policy, to john boehner, to chuck hagel and they can -- the canned responses to not even address the issue. lossequestration is not a of day or week, but a loss of pay. for employee who does not get a cost-of-living increase, that was recommended at half a percent, and that was turned down. this can wreak havoc on the middle class budget. so if yahoo! can do something to bring this to the national attention, good for you. thank you. guest: thank you so much for saying that. i hope the crowd source peace we did shed some light on what is going on around the country. i do expect we will continue to do more stories about sequester. right now we're still hearing there are select members of congress and the white house continues to talk about

sequestration. you saw jay carney mention that even yesterday at the briefing. it is an issue they keep pushing, but with republicans unwilling to find a new replacement for sequestration, that is the way things are right now and the white house has -- you have seen them scale back their talk about sequestration lightly. host: rachel hartman, tell us about your reporting on student loans. what have you been revealing? guest: we did a great package of student loan store is pulling from all of our great reporters here. i did one on who is making money off the student loans. i have learned a lot during this and i hope our readers did, too, which is that the federal government, who is now the controlling student loans for folks, is making billions of of this, more than exxon made last year. make moreexpected to

this year according to the ceo. congress and the white house are busy trying to figure out what to do about that to make things fair. host: how much response to get your stories? how much do read the reader comments that, at the bottom of your stories? how much do you use social media to interact with those who read what your write-in? guest: i do look at the comments and i also received emails. a few years ago i had written a story based on some, is because folks were asking about other candidates i was writing about and wanted me to compare them to obama. that does factor into the environment here at yahoo! but we still operate independently with our editors and reporters, we have a team here, so story ideas can come from, it's sometimes but they are generated hear from us. host: florida, independent line. caller: i have a serious problem

if i wereedia because born to draw a political cartoon would have a hamster on a wheel in the middle of a field. the hamster would be the media. all around it would be a major -- would be major events happening. all of the effects of theestration, and next to we would be republican. when the hamster slow down, he would throw them a piece of things and would be labeled irs or benghazi or whatever and that is what the media concentrates on. lk --fact awarded the gop that deathyear award panels were contained in obamacare. lie ofhey awarded the the reward for takeover of government -- by government health care with obamacare. these lies have been

perpetrated thousands of times. is something to find a something, a statement made knowing it is false with the intent to deceive. so the media seems to be so easily manipulated and not actually reporting the facts. papers,sk or read the ec obamacare is opposed by the majority of the people. the cnn poll shows 59% of the people really support it. 43% like it. 16% don't like it because it doesn't go far enough. that means they really like it, but they want more. but it is not reported that way. the reports are always that obamacare is opposed. host: let's get a response from rachel hartman. guest: the caller brings up many important points. it is natural for folks to be

skeptical of the media, especially when they see things being picked up they believe are politicized events. but i think here at yahoo! like other credible news organizations, we have a team of smart people working to be as fair and objective as possible and that is what we strive for each day. i hope the caller, if they check out our website, will feel the same, that we are objective and fair and we do try to get to the facts. host: rachel hartman, tell us about the affordable care act, and also known as obamacare, how will your team be covering that as some of the main components become released in coming to lock in the next year. do you have a game plan that? guest: i don't have details to released today, but we will be covering from many angles. we have our politics team here

in d.c., national affairs. there are a lot of stories to be told related to obamacare and i feel if folks tune in to us, they will see a lot of coverage on important events related to that. host: we see coverage of new jersey governor chris christie, his time spent with president obama this past week. this is chris christie is in an impossible situation rid he is operating run the jersey shore with president obama because he wants to be president and the president he had to be reelected as governor in 2013, but the atlantic wire says all of the things chris christie had to do in 2013 are going to kill his chances in the republican primary of 2016. this is on yahoo! news, but content from the atlantic wire grid tell us about the visit president obama had with governor chris christie, rachel hartman, and what are you watching politically to come out of it? guest: there were some good photo op moments in that visit.

you saw them playing carnival games on the boardwalk. i think what reporters are looking for in these or in this meeting and other ones is, yes, what chris christie is planning next but you mentioned things he is doing now may hurt his chances in the future. chris christie is someone who kind of -- he does his own thing. he says what he thinks, he is blunt. he kind of cannot be told what to do. much andooking too how he is behaving today is not necessarily a great indicator of what he is gone to do tomorrow. host: tennessee, a democrat. about: i have a comment the media. and about this thing got the trial going on, the hearings? benghazi trout going on, the

hearings that, of the purse person not subpoena it is that romney, then it is a shaft. he was the first person to mention it was an uprising. regardless of where his information came from -- find where his information came from and that is where you'll find the beginning of the scandal. host: i think the white house has been at romney as the first person to politicize the incidents, which is what the caller is referring to. democrats appointed him as in the first person to make this an issue from a political issue. that is something they're pushing back on. the white house has said for a long time that benghazi is not something that should be politicized and they're trying to turn it on republicans, republicans to protest about the whole situation. they're saying, you're just trying to politicize this, moving focus away from the

tragedy that happened there. they are turned and -- turning it on its head by fingering that romney. host: we're taking a look today newse the yahoo! washington, d.c. bureau. we talked to several guests. rachel hartman at a recent story with this headline -- do some light or time into reporting sometimes, rachel hartman? >> definitely. there are stories that we get to do that are lighter and fun. that story was about jay carney who have been very tough on the media in the prior day's, calling one of the reporters petulant for asking questions. he suddenly said this diffusive

praise for the present and it happened is birthday, so i wrote a bit of a tongue-in-cheek piece about that. there are plenty of opportunities. the chief of staff came down the other day and give the press donuts. there are lots of things that happen that i think regular yahoo! readers and of the public are interested in finding out the human elements of the white house as well. host: why is the press secretary get to control who gets to talk at the briefings that go and what it does go down the line, each in their own turn? guest: each press secretary gets to decide how he is going to do things and jay carney has made it a practice of going through the ap first, and that front row, and usually moves on to the second row after that and makes other folks in the briefing room -- they would like to have the same opportunity to ask a question. that is something he has done at his discretion. no one knows if he would change

that our plans to change that, but i for one and you shall not in the front of the room would hope he spreads around a little more. host: republican, go ahead. caller: i was calling to let rachel hartman know that obama and holder have been lying to the american people for the last five years. how are we supposed to respect anything he says? guest: i definitely understand your concern about eric holder and i think that is why we are seeing some criticism directed at him. he is part of many of these scandals and a lot of folks are saying, yes, how do you restore credibility for the justice department after fast and furious and other things have happened yet, i think the administration has a lot of work to do to build eric holder back up or find some way to restore the public pulse trust in what

they're doing there. biggest twitter, the problem with today's media is that they operate as a pack. throwing a question on to that, how do you differentiate your reporting? how you make it stand out from what everyone else is doing? guest: that is something that i work for every day. you try to see the same story or the same briefing or the same new information come out as every reporter and you try to find your niche. you try to find something you can take out of it that you think is unique and folks would find informative, interesting, fun, whatever your aim is. that is the challenge of every reporter. like ever reporter, that is what i do. host: independent line, ky. caller: i would like to make a historical comparison between some of the things that our

government is doing today and some of the conditions from second world war germany. was, mr. hitler gave a speech to the citizens of munich. i am paraphrasing because i don't have my notes. this is essentially what he said. he told the citizens of munich to vote for him to punish his opponents by going to the polls and voting for him because their enemies were his enemies and as such the enemies of germany. now i know who that sounds like, ok, but i want to tell you something. fascism devolves over years. the techniques of idealization, marginal station and demonization are the cornerstone of pacifism -- fascism and sneaks up on you before you know it. when it happens, it is bad. host: who do think it sounds

like? caller: mr. obama and his people. if you read all the works of hitler,d hess and even they never mention a final solution in any of their work. it was not until after they were in power those powers came into fruition. fascism slowly descends and evolves, it does not jump on you overnight. host: ok. rachel hartman, yet a recent story about president obama, the codepink activist medea benjamin heckled the president at a major speech that he gave last week. why did to cover the story and wanted to learn? guest: it was an incredibly speech for the president. he was talking about drones, closing guantanamo bay, so we were covering the speech because of that. medea benjamin decided to protest during this and once

that happened, there's a new element to the story so we decided to write a separate piece just on her protest. she was protesting drone strikes used by the government as well as guantanamo bay prisoners. that felt like a unique angle and interesting, an expected part of the speech. we both had in a primitive the -- and format of side to the offshoot well as this piece on medea benjamin herself, the co-founder of codepink, which is a peace activist organization. host: kentucky, republican. seeer: i would like to those look into the net worth of these politicians when they go into office and the net worth after they get out of office. it is just like harry reid getting at $150,000 politico

contribution from this guy that supposedly was an illegal contribution. this back could get five years in prison and harry reid will not get anything out of it. this stuff has got to stop. that is the only white -- the news are going have to stand behind what the people want, not with the politicians or hollywood once. that is the way a used to be and that is the only way they're going to get any credibility back from anything they do now. guest: there are a number of politicians and members of congress to either came into congress with money or have made money since they have been in congress, but their salaries are standard. they are not making money off of government dollars -- government dollars per not cutting into them. the caller brings up a lot of problems but congress has, people are not having confidence in their ethics or other things. that is something that is working against them.

they won support from their constituents, support and the legislation they are doing. until they can restore some more credibility, it is difficult for them to operate back, as well. and our guester, comment on the obama administration is unprecedented targeting of whistleblowers? is this making news gathering harder? guest: i have not experienced that. there is a real concern in the news media about whether there will be a chilling effect investigation and the idea that the government is monitoring reporters phone records are coming and going. we have yet to see exactly how this is one of play out, but there is a lot of concern about what kind of impact this will have on media gathering in washington and elsewhere. host: our guest is rachel hartman, reported for yahoo!

news the attorney general is still planning to meet with the media bureau chief but there has been some push back from the new york times and associated press because the attorney general has said it will be off the record. we will be watching to see what develops. florida, independent caller. caller: good morning. i have a few comments to make regarding what i consider to be a really important issue for our country, and that is the abuse of the filibuster. i think most americans are not aware of the fact the filibuster, the word filibuster does not appear in the constitution anywhere. it is merely a rule written by the senate. the one political organization i belong to and support is common cause. common cause is suing the senate, claiming the filibuster rules are unconstitutional. i completely agree with that.

the american public are really ignorant and this is a critical issue because it has frozen our political system. we all know congress is not working, but i don't think enough people realize how important the abuse of the filibuster is contributing to the paralysis of the government. terrific a tropical -- article in the washington post around the time of the presidential debates of the last campaign. the title was "it is the filibuster stupid?" i would ask people to read that, and for this young lady to asa read it and maybe be moved to pay some attention to this really, really important issue. we are being controlled by attorney of the minority. this cannot go on, and the the republican or democrats should rule the country.

nor the republican or democrat should rule the country. guest: i think a lot of the american public is still trying or requires new media to inform them of exactly what the filibuster means for america and legislation and we will continue to try to do our job to educate people about that, but the filibuster is a large reason why things are not getting move through congress and a lot of the source of frustration for but lawmakers as well as the administration. host: richard, a democrat. caller: hello. i am going to ask you a question which is different from what you've been talking about today. and the constitution, it says there should be a freedom of church and state. this seems to be shoved under the carpet.

we are governed by religionists in this country. there are people who want no part of religion have to abide by this. why is this true? richard, why does this matter to you? why are you calling about this? caller: i happen to be one of the victims that has to abide by the mythology called religion. host: ok, any comment, rachel hartman? guest: there are a lot of folks that would like to see more religion in their community, and their government, but there is a separation of church and state and that is the way things are right now. host: virginia, republican. caller: good morning. hearty thank you to c-span. from what i gather, most of the conversation is more about the media and media forces and their impact on the political process.

mediample of where the stacks the deck is if you take a look at katrina, when that hit, it was up to the governor to allow or disallow the fed's in. we could all but our bottom dollar the media knows full well it is up to the governor, right there in the u.s. constitution, and media forces knew full well that the louisiana governor would not let them in. she delayed it for three full days. fema, michael brown, fema, their manpower arm is the army corps of engineers and they were there two days before katrina hit, as has been their practice for decades. there was no delay. she would not let them in for three full days. the media pointed at michael brown and george bush and people fell for that. they swallowed it and pointed at the city of american president. contrast that with the bp oil

gush. the letterernor of she had the governor screaming for help and you had hollande and the dutch are number one in oil reclamation, the offer help instantly of president obama would not let them in. holland is going to attack as come on. he put it in the hands of bp and would not help and later said there were a bunch of bumbling idiots. president obama took the worst environmental disaster in u.s. history and put it in the hands of what he later called a bunch of bumbling idiots. what does that make him? there is sure media bias. they never reported on any of this with the bp oil ashbritt -- oil gush. guest: i think the caller is skeptical about the media, and that is understandable but there

was a lot of criticism coming from the media of how katrina was handled and the demonstration handle it. but we're seeing in the last few weeks, like the tornadoes in oklahoma, there are a lot of opportunities the president has to show how they can help -- how fema can respond in the government can respond to national disasters. i think lately they're hoping that can build back some credibility for fema and the administration in general. host: rachel hartman, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you to all of the yahoo! news team who lettuce and behind the scenes for our focus on the yahoo! news washington bureau. that is all for ""washington journal." we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013]

>> a live look at the capitol this morning, both bodies of congress out this week in their districts for the memorial day recess. they return for legislative business next week. economic news out of washington -- the number of americans seeking unemployment aid rose 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 354,000 assigned layoffs increasing. still the level of application is consistent with steady hiring. unemployment rate has dropped to 7.5%, and that is a four-year low will stop that is from the associated press. also, the economy grew at a fromt 2.4% annual rate january through march. that is