having a big impact. guys, thank you so much. good to see you. we appreciate it. ed rollins, judy miller, ed. i'm maria bartiromo. i'll be back tomorrow on opening bell on fox business network. on the buzz meter this sunday, nine days before the midterms, the media are increasingly making these elections about one issue. barack obama. >> it's like obama has ebola. >> oh -- >> i think in the end, the president really can't get his head wrapped around the fact that he is over. >> will the president really determine whether republicans can win the senate or is that just an easy store line for the media? >> new leaks in the killing of michael brown, describing the struggle that made the police officer fear for his life. is the press being fair on ferguson? >> the death of ben bradley, one of the giants of journalism who led to the washington post on

the pentagon papers and watergate. i talked to bob woodward about the role of his farmer boss and the challenge of investigative reporting then and now. >> publishing these stories, not naming the sources, you believe you've got good sources, but we don't have documents, we don't have tapes, we don't have videos, you go home with a lump in your stomach. >> woodward on journalism investigating the obama administration. plus, monica lewinski calls for a crusade against shaming women online and get bashed on twitter. >> i would go online, read in a paper or see on tv people referring to me as tramp, slut, whore. , tart, bimbo, floosy. even spy.

>> will the media let her move on from the clinton sex scandal? i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. it seemed as first that the media narrative this week was all about barack obama and the pundits have been piling on, especially after he called into al sharpton's radio show and said this about all the candidates would don't want to be in the same zip code as him. >> these are all folks who -- with me, they have supported my agenda in congress. this isn't about my feelings being hurt. >> i will tell you this. it is all about his feelings being hurt because i think in the end, the approximately really can't get his head wrapped around the fact that he is over. >> one of the most interesting,

most sought after rock star, a political rock star on the planet. now he has to hide under his desk until november. this is a total humiliation from him. >> we've got so many different candidates, democrats who are giving, at best, wishy washy answers as it pertains to their relationship with president obama. >> so is the press reflecting realtor making these elections about the president? joining us now, jonah goldberg, editor at large for national review and a fox news contributor. christina balontelli, of roll call. and joe trippy. jonah, are the media, in fact, making these midterm bes president obama or is obama making them about himself? >> i think this is one of the all of the above kind of things. the media likes talking about barack obama. barack obama likes talking about barack obama. and i -- in the setup, you said is it supposed to be the economy? i still think this election is largely about things like economy and foreign policy. >> but you could not tell if you

look at the -- >> i agree entirely. but how is the election going to play out and i don't know that the media is doing the democrats or obama any favorite about making this all about obamobama. a lot of people are tired of barack obama. >> joe trippy, even liberal washington post columnist is talking about president pariah. fair or unfair? >> look, it's the reality. reality is -- and that is what the press is reporting. the reality is in every midterm, it's the president's favorbility and approval ratings that have the biggest impact, the one measure that you can count on that will tell you which parties party is going to win or lose. and his numbers are low and the rest of the election is how far can i get away from him or how can we tie them to him? that's all this election is about. >> it's very easy for the media to point to cq vote studies which we release on friday which

shows you have been anybody voted with or against the president. that's an easy line for the campaign to use against, if it's 97% with barack obama or 100% with barack obama in some cases. so the media reports that. but he isn't hiding under his desk. in fact, he's out there campaigning for gubernatorial candidates and he's been raising money the entire year. so the democrats are taking his money, but not necessarily saying let's show up together. >> but does this easy story line miss the fact that these are a collection of state and local races as well as the overriding question of support for or running away from president obama? >> so i talked to a democratic pollster this week who said to me that if we can make it about local issues in a place like north carolina, where kay hagan has attacked tom tillis, the house speaker on education, if she can win on that issue and we know early enough in the night that she's going to be able to win in that issue by a hair, maybe we're going to be okay. we can get away from the fact that it's -- >> maybe that would be in the local coverage, but i'm not seeing that in the national

coverage. >> if you're a democratic candidate, you're trying to get local coverage and make it a local race. and the national media has a tougher time with that. so the easier narrative is obama. >> remember that barack obama was doing was trying to get out his base. he was talking to al sharpton there. normally you would do that kind of thing a couple days before the election. he's trying to tell the black folks, which is the one monolithic -- don't listen to all these guys trashing me. the problem is you can't -- >> you can't be under the radar any more. >> you can't microtarget any more. >> everybody knows about that interview on the radio. pulling back, a study shows that abc's world news tonight since september 1st and we updated these figures has not done a single story on the midterm elections. cbs evening news, 14 stories. nbc night his news, 11 stories. this is versus a combined total of 159 back in 2006 when the democrats were on the verge of taking over both houses of

congress. your thoughts? >> i think it's outrageous and i think it is -- it's a perfectly legitimate -- mrc is conservative, but those numbers aren't conservative or liberal. those numbers are the numbers. i know this for a fact, that a lot of people are turned off by politics these days. it doesn't get great ratings. but if you don't have a national news media to cover national electrics, what do you have them for? i don't know if there's an fec -- s.e.c. license or whatever it is, they should be required to cover political campaigns and they're not doing it because it's a bad story for obama and democrats and they don't like it. >> i don't think it has anything to do with bad story for obama and the democrats. it has to do with it doesn't rate. when you're going to get this low turnout election where everybody is disenchanted with both parties, what you're seeing in the coverage is a reflection of if we did a show, a segment every monday about the senate races, who would watch? and, you know, in the last

cycle, on bret bhear's special report, i was on every week with karl rove. i don't remember being on once or twice this year maybe. >> is it about getting more airtime for joe. >> no, i'm just saying i think that's legitimate. it's not just nos interesting a story. >> overall, they make it perfectly clear, we have an unpopular president and that we have wanting to talk to that president. but zero stories on the midterms. how is that possible? >> when i read those numbers, that was surprising to me. so i went on the world news tonight app and looked under politics. the lead story was three awkward interactions between celebrities and john kerry. so in some part of this is you get the media that you demand. stories like that are getting clicked on so they're being rewarded. but there is a resource issue. i run a news room and there are

choices you have to make in every case. we focus incredibly a lot of elections and the campaigns. we've been sending reporters on the trail. but if you're a news room that had a ton of resources in 2006, you have fewer of those now. you're not going out and cover it. everybody is trying to save for what they know is going to away blockbuster presidential year which is getting more interested ratings. >> i think those are good points. i would add that in 2006, it was almost sort of a national debate and referendum on the iraq war and you had to come to mark foley's scandal. but these loan numbers, particularly zero, it's just inexcusable. all right. ebola, i was going to say a few days ago, maybe the media fever had broken, was start to go fade a little bit from the news, and then it's come back in a big way. let's take a look at a little bit of the coverage. >> breaking news, a major scare in new york city tonight with a possible case of ebola. >> he comes back into new york city. he knows he's been handling ebola patients.

and he's here for a week, he doesn't tell anybody and if he starts to feel symptomatic before his 103 fever, he's still out there bowling and taking taxis and not self-quarantining? >> she's talking about dr. craig spencer, a new york doctor who went to africa to treat ebola patients and now is hospitalized and the question is who else did he infect? you also had the president's photo-op with the dallas nurse nina pham who is now free of ebola. how much of this coverage of ebola is partially driving the campaign? >> i think it feeds intiet right track/wrong track feelings that people have for good reasons and for ill. it certainly feeds into the sense of government overpromising and jurndz delivering and the sense of they're not competent and how to did on deal with all these things. whoever is planning ebola's pr strategy was brilliant for having the next case show up in new york city. all of a sudden, the self-absorbed parochial media centers think it's a worthy

subject again. >> i can't resist to put autopsy new york post cover from the other day, ebola here, yes, it gets 100,000 times more coverage than it would in omaha. but, joe, i've seen ebola debated, it's showing up in ads. so how much is that coloring us? >> i think you're starting to see it enter and shape it. you're actually -- you're seeing governors start to do their own bans and things, to show how tough they are against obama -- against ebola, excuse me. and the other thing i think that going on -- it's an easy thing to say here is me saying obama is not doing enough if you're a democrat. eye a gym me foor to publiit's politicians, which is a shame seeing as to what the subject is. >> these are people who go to africa and risk their lives. >> this is absolutely ridiculous. its irresponsible.

you're freaking out america for no reason. there are 18 things that are way more risky and things you should be scared about in this cup, whether that's the flu virus which kills lots and lots of people every year. it is a sensational, ridiculous story. >> freaking out america, that puts it as colorfully as i heard and it's sometimes not a difficult conclusion. not that it's not a serious story. but the people who have all gotten it were the people in africa or the two nurses who treated the first ebola patient. >> let me get a break here. send me a tweet about our show this hour. @howardkurtz. ahead, bob woord ward on bradley's passing, watergate and what he would do if he were investigating the irs scandal right now. when we come back, the michael brown killing takes a new twist with media getting leaks about the other side. is this charging the narrative? .

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when michael brown was killed two months ago, there was a missing piece of the story, what was officer darren wilson's side? this week, unnamed government officials are saying wilson told investigators that he was pinned in his police car and feared for his life as michael brown reached for his gun and he fired twice. the st. louis dispatch obtained a leaked copy of the autopsy report showing michael brown had been shot in the hand at close range. >> ironically, i gets leaked. this is all in an attempt to paint michael brown in a negative manner to set up a defense for officer wilson. >> christina bell, tony,

journalist love these. are these sources and the "washington post" sources, as well, on this whole narrative, giving this stuff to the press? aren't they basically subverting the grand jury process? >> i don't know that i would go that far with an accusation like that. but they're working the rest, in a way, they are trying to paint a different picture. look what they were up against. all they had was what was on social media which looked real, real bad. if you had a photo of a kid laying in the street, you know, and an officer standing above him, like this is the only thing they have to combat that. so i don't blame them for leaking it. but, yeah, it completely colors the investigation. >> for the record, the justice department has denounced leaks and the other said says it is not responsible for the leaks. but the commentators, nationally about this missouri town, are they refusing to seriously grapple with this new evidence? >> yeah. look, in the setup, we asked is this undermining the narrative? it's not undermining it.

it's completely refuting it and destroying it. >> that narrative being unarmed teenager gets shot six times, some witnesses say with his hands up? >> yeah. the whole -- barack obama talked about ferguson and -- the u.n. im pleasitly conceding this was a narrative about america's fault and buying into this narrative that, you know, we talked earlier about lack of resources complained why network news isn't covering midterm electrics. lack of resources didn't keep them from flooding the zone in ferguson for months, putting on base speculation, talking to people in the streets, fuelling this idea that this cop of 60 years just decided to be racist one day and shoot a black man because he was black. >> the press only had what they had, which was people out there, witnesses saying what they saw. >> it was frustrating to me, to interrupt you for half a second, that the police department didn't put out what the officer's side was.

but now it almost seems like no more riots in ferguson, some of the peat ya have moved on. >> well, no, but the other thing is, i think i don't mind obviously you get a good leak, you report it. but there's no real look at -- hard look at the motive and why these leaks are happening and question what's going on and educating the public about that, as well. you don't see that on the other side. it's just now go, run with the league. >> and you saw a similar reaction with the trayvon martin situation in florida. you had one side of the story, then they release it, whatever was in the kid's system. it was a terrible circumstance, right? and everybody acknowledges that and the investigation should play out as it is. both people are getting information coloring that investigate from the press. >> it's true that the media can only report what they had confirmed, but looking back, it may be that we rushed to judgment in this case? >> it's obviously the case that the bulk of the media rushed to judgment. they very much wanted one story line to be true. they very much wanted to

protesters in ferguson to be champions of racial justice versus a racist law enforcement system. >> why, because they don't like cops? >> i think they like narrative civil rights. a lot of people go into journalism because they see themselves as pure vaers of truth and justice on the civil rights agenda and -- >> but there were parts of that story that were true. it's a city that's overwhelmingly african-american and there are no african-americans on the police force. >> but the media goes -- >> hundred oefs journalists camping out for weeks on end in ferguson, missouri. >> the town was in fire. >> that's why the media are attracted all these outside people to set it on fire. >> journalists get arrested and journalists tend to flock to their own. but nobody is wantsing for one narrative. >> we still don't know was going to happen. we'll have to see what the grand jury comes up with. up next, monica lewinski trying to rebrand herself as a crusader against online

harassment. are you media buying it? and in a few moments, bob woodward on how he and ben bradley got scooped and how they missed a major journalistic fraud. >> i was the supervising manager. let's put the blame where it belongs, on me. ♪searching with devotion ♪for a snack that isn't lame ♪but this... ♪takes my breath away flabbergasted when wen regecreamed a $300 cream.eam, for about $30, regenerist mico-sculpting cream hydrates better than over 15 of america's most expensive luxury creams. regenerist. olay, your best beautiful.

monica lewinski talking about being called a slut and worse and blaming it on what was called the worldwide web. >> overnight, i went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. i was patient zero. but having survived myself, what i want to do now is help other victims of the shame game survive, too. >> in other words, lewinski

wants to use her media notoriety to lead a crusade against online harassment. joining us now from fran is sara lacy, founder and editor in chief of the tek sightte pando daily. is she, to put it mildly, a messenger here? >> i have a lot of sympathy for monica lewinski, too. when i heard about this story, i was totally anticipating fist bumping and being like, take your story back, do it. no one should have to pay for the rest of their lives for a mistake they made between consenting adults when they're 24 years old. but, you know, a lot of people are just going to hate her no matter what. she's got to get the message just right and she really didn't, in my opinion. i think if she had said slut shaming, fat shaming, misogyny, i think all of it would have worked. she erred to me in saying cyber bullying. because cyber bullying to me is

a kid today in middle america is someone who is driven to suicide on those feelings of suicide because of who they are and they've done nothing to cause it. and this wasn't cyber bullying. >> no. not by any means. but, you know, with bill clinton traveling around the world for his foundation and much in demand by democrats as a campaigner, should the media let monica lewinski moch on or is she using in a way what happened to her to in a way extend the indelible brand about what happened with her and that oval office? >> look, i don't think it's totally fair, everyone who says she just wants to be is in the spotlig spotlight, and is making all this money off of it. she has turned down a lot of opportunities to make money off what happened.s very silent for years. she is at least trying to do this for a good cause. but i think everybody in the media feels like the time is more than a little suspicious with hillary potentially running for president. part of me thinks, good for her.

if she should have to live with this for the rest of her life, shouldn't the clintons? >> well, could lewinski be kind love like an ex felon who brings up prison reform, could she bring a lot of attention to the abrasive and misogynistic comments that often mar the neighborhood of social online media? >> yes and no. the thing that irritated me in her speech was i was just a young girl in my 20s who fell in love with my boss. come on, you were not three people on a team working shoulder by shoulder, long nights for 18 months. you were an intern in the white house working for the president. and to try to say that was an everyday situation, again, people just don't buy it. and i think the more she pushes it too far, she isn't a good spokesperson for it. that said, i think what is interesting is if i was looking at the replies to your tweet this morning that we were going

to talk about this and how many horrible sexist things that were written about her, things similar to the comments that were made that she wrote about being calling her the blow job queen. just as she pushes it a little too far on trying to garner more sympathy than maybe she deserves, every time she opens her mouth, there are others who push it too far and kind of keep proving her point. so in that respect, i don't know. >> i've got half a minute. you know shrinking violence, do you get a lot of abuse and sexism and -- >> i get a lot of abuse. frankly, any woman whether it is internationally known and locally known, they're reading these and are like, yeah, women to being a woman. you're a celebrity. i think most women, unfortunately, just get numb to this as they get older. >> well, you should certainly know. tara lacy, thanks so much for getting up early and talking with us about this. >> thanks, howie.

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heavily armed soldiers are guarding polling places right now. those pro western candidates backed by ukraine's president are likely to win. but the elections also fuel new tensions with russia. i'm eric shawn. i'll see you at the top of the hour for america's news headquarters. now back to media buzz and howard kurtz. ben bradley died this week at the age of 93. as somebody would once worked for him, i couldn't help but remember his swaggering style, the larger than life permit, that gravelly voice that was often teasing or swearing or both and he was deeply skeptical of politicians. >> people don't tell the truth. you don't tell the truth in a hundred different ways. i now do not believe -- i just do not believe the first version of events in this city. i don't believe it. >> bradley was far from perfect. he was too close to jfk in his

newsweekdays. although he wound up writing a tell-all book that prompted jackie kennedy never to speak to him again. bradley first published the nixon papers. he'll mostly be remembered for watergate. when i saw down with bob woodward, that seemed like the place to start. welcome. >> thank you. >> when you and carl bernstein were deep into watergate when most of the media were ignoring those stories, what role did ben bradley play? >> he was the general. we've often said that he, in fact, had the courage of the whole army. and the idea was, let's get to the bottom of this. a great believer in the truth, no sense of, you know -- he didn't approach journalism as a way of making moral judgments. it was a way of finding out what

happened. and then let that unfold. >> given the enormous aches and you two were a couple of young pups we can now say at this advanced age, did you worry about keeping his confidence or what was he like to deal with personally when you were deciding on difficult stories? >> he never suggested he was going to take us off the story. and he said subsequently, that we were getting new information and he knew this was coming from the nixon campaign treasurer or the bookkeeper or people who witnessed the massive housecleaning andy instruction of documents after the watergate burglars were arrested. that we had somebody in the justice department, as we now know mark phelps, of the fbi giving his guidance and assistance about what directions to look in and what the consequences might be. so at the same time, as ben

said, you -- publishing these stories, you're not naming the sources, you believe you've got good sources, but we don't have documents, we don't have tapes, we don't have videos. you go home with a lump in your stomach and it's a kind of -- it's not doubt. it's -- as catherine graham said, when is the whole story going to come out? we kind of thought maybe never. >> it's easy to go back and say nixon's resignation was inevitable at the time. you were doing it piece by piece. but how did ben bradley reaction when you made the one significant error in your reporting, saying that a witness named h.r. holderman, nixon's chief of staff to the grand jury. that must have been a tough moment. >> yeah, that was a very tough moment. he said why, how did this happen, what's really important about that moment, here, a lead

story in the post accusing the president's top aide of being involved in all of this and controlling a secret watergate fund, which turned out to be true, but we've said there's been grand jury testimony to that effect. there had been because no one had asked the witness about halderman. the witness would have said halderman controlled that fund. there was no anger or ranker on the part of ben. it was let's get this straightened out, let's untangle it. let's be calm. there was never a day, a thrown book or a fist on the table. it was more reporting is always the solution. i think the great lesson in all of this for older reporters like you and myself and for younger

reporters the facts, you know, who are the witnesses? how do they know this? do they have an extra -- is the reality now in my view that in the obama administration, there are lots of unanswered questions about the irs, particularly. if i were young, i would take carl bernstein and move to cincinnati where that irs office is and set up headquarters and go talk to everyone. now, there's been political spin put on this by lots of people, including fox news, including the white house. questions, what are the facts? what really happened? and that was the bradley method. get the facts. listen to everyone, see what the official version is, but always doubt and be skeptical of that.

>> are you suggesting that fox news is not trying to get the facts or just that the opinion of people on both sides, you could say, are turning some of these issues? >> yeah, i think there have been -- there has been a lot of fast fact-based reporting and there's been a lot of political spin on all sides on this. and bradley, were he editor or if he were roger ale at fox news, would be saying, what exactly did you ask these people? what did they say? what evidence is there? who else can we talk to? how do we verify this? he had a whole litany of questions and that's how you do good journalism. >> you mentioned mark phelps. known him for 33 years, known only as deep throat. in 2005, you faced a situation

where a very elderly mark had a discussion with vandy fair. you had a discussion about should you go first, should "the washington post" acknowledge he was the source? >> he said he was deep throat and made it very clear to his family and lawyer, mark phelp did. the question was, that was an older mark phelp who had dementia to a certain extent. and the deal i made of nondisclosure of the identity was made with a mark phelp who was senior executive in the fbi. and the question ben asked, which was a good one, he made the deal with that person, do you have -- can you kind of change the rules now, even though he has acknowledged it? and i was hesitant and both carl and i, carl bernstein and i were worried that somebody was taking advantage of mark. and we saw that picture of him with his walker in his pajamas

with a smile of liberation on his face that i had never seen before. and ben said, look, you have to acknowledge it. it's over and, you know, once again, we listened to him. >> in a moment, woodward on the impact of the watergate movie and the biggest blunder he and bradley made, janet cook. and later, a "new york times" columnist apologizing for speaking at a fund-raiser. [ male announcer ] it's a warning. a wake-up call. but it's not happening out there. it's happening in here. [ sirens wailing ] inside of you. even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert advice tool at crohnsandcolitis.com. and then speak with your gastroenterologist.

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[ expletitive ] what is somebody going to go on the record in this story? >> you guys are about to write a story that says the highest ranking law enforcement officer in this country is a crook. just be sure you're right. >> jason robards, i asked bob woodward whether the film had been good for journalists or overly glamorized what they did. >> first of all, robards and bradley, it's almost as if they were brothers. you know. you saw the movie. i mean, it is stunning, the mannerisms, the confidence, the kind of, hey, what's going on here, you know? it was the style that he captured and it was real.

and i think if you look at all the president's men, you talk to journalists, you say, you know, that's the way it is, and it's not about -- it's about the hard work, one of the things in seeing that movie, it's all at night. you have to go out in the night and you have to go to people's homes. you have to go into the underground garage, you have to do, you know, we almost came up with the cliche, lies during the day, the truth at night. >> you were an editor at "the washington post" during probably the biggest embarrassment, the fabricated tale, the heroine addict. how did ben deal with that? >> well, i wasn't just there. i was the supervising editor of janet cook. let's put the blame where it belongs, on me.

and i wasn't skeptical enough. and when it turned out it was a fraud and she won the pulitzer prize and we gave the pulitzer prize back, then solution was a typical bradley solution. he said we've got an om ombudsman, bill green, saying you are going to investigate this, you are going to talk to everyone, you are going to go as deep as you can and he published this volumus article in the post. it went on page after page and it was tough on bradley, tough on me, tough on the culture of the post. and what ben said afterwards, there's nothing about janet cook affair that wasn't in that article. no one found out anything more about it because he turned the ombuds pan looks like he turned his reporters loose.

and he had to take the punishment. i remember the new republic wrote a very mean article about ben and the post and the whole culture and so forth. and ben ran into the editor of the new republic. and this is the bradley we knew. he looked at him and he covered his privates and smiled. >> now, bradley stepped down as executive editor of the paper in 1991. i remember because i wrote the story. two decade webs he was the vice president of the president company. he still came to work almost every day. >> yeah. he would go into the cafeteria. look, he's a presence. he's a symbol and people think of the glamourus bradley, which was there. they think of the persona, the charm, the laughter, the, hey, you know we're going to have -- life is great, his memoir was

called a good life, and it was a good life. but it's the nitty-gritty of journalism. >> he was an editor who rolled up his sleeves. bob woodward, that you can very much for helping us remember ben bradlee. i conducted the last interview bradlee did. he was scar castic and funny. they don't make them like bradlee any wore. coming up, meredith vieira and her producer get mammograms and it doesn't go according to script. and bristol palin got mauled in a scrap in alaska. our video verdict is next. sometimes, healthy's not on the menu. luckily, always keep my meta health bars handy. my favorite bar, hands down.

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the brawl in alaska involving sarah palin's family has gotten a lot of media attention. they played it and, boy, did she think it was a hoot. >> i'm just going to come right out and say it. this is quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we've ever come across. sid back and enjoy. >> tell me what happened. >> some old lady just pushed me -- she just hit me. some guy gets in my face, pushes me down in the grass. [ bleep ] you [ bleep ]. i get back up and he pushes me back down again [ bleep ]. >> how on earth is that funny? would carol costello said enjoy

if chelsea clinton was getting roughed up? they have both said this is an example of media hip pock racy and they're right. to make fun of the woman is hoshbly insensitive. she's apologized. meredith vieira went for a mammogram with her producer and cameras. the visit took an unexpected turn. >> part of this is being able to open up the breast tissue and see all the areas clearly. >> i have to have a biopsy on the right side. >> i was a little stunned. i thought, this is kraicy. the doctor said let's stop, which i thought was the right thing. then i thought, we can't do this and not do it. >> my mom had breast cancer, my grandmother died of breast

cancer. >> good for her for admitting she had stupidly not gone for a mammogram for years. that had to be hard to cope with a diagnosis of breast cancer, but to do it on television. we wish her the best. still to come, the new york times columnist apologies.

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conclusion. time for your tweets. the question, first of all, why would the media so respected, because most of the media would not cover the same story today, especially with obama in office. not a serious question. big 3 network news, a few major newspapers, political correctness very series hate obama. most people in the middle. two things, they drew attention to the story and not themselves and they didn't traffic in rumor and speculation. years ago, i was working on the jason blare story. i ended up working my wedding weekend. bradlee said, i wonder how long that marriage is going to last. >> we hope you like our facebook

page where we post original content and videos. we are back here next sunday with the latest buzz. show of american support for ebola stricken west africa. our government making a high-profile visit. samantha power has arrived in guinea. it's part of a three nation swing that will also take her to liberia. hello every one and welcome to "america's news headquarters." >> well, the ambassador's visit coming on the heels of grim numbers on ebola released by the world health organization reporting nearly 10,000