see how you sustain that. >> let's talk about the one coming right now. september 30th, government runs out of funding. rand paul and ted cruz, other republicans, marco rubio, saying unless obamacare is defunded, we shouldn't approve the government funding. president obama took that on friday. >> my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail. their number one priority. the one unifying principle. that's the only thing that seemed to get the president really riled up on friday. he says it's an ideological fixation. how does it play out? do you believe that faction is going to succeed in pushing the leaders to hold the line? >> that's a false narrative. he says we're trying to keep people from getting health care. that's just not true. that's an absolute, blatant lie.

we're not trying to keep anybody from getting health care. whether or not they have insurance under an exchange or not does not prevent people from getting health care. >> want to take that on? >> sure. the fact is you have millions and millions of americans who can't afford health insurance. it's helping people get health insurance. republicans have offered no other solutions or plans. >> we have -- >> but at this point, it's just ideology. it's just extreme ideology. >> does the government shut down? >> the congressman says that's a lie. remember when mark stain said the difference between a lie and a cat is a cat only has nine lives? the fact is the president has the power, particularly when supported as this one is by the mainstream media to set the narrative. the narrative will be that the republicans have chosen to cause chaos. it's a bad idea. >> to go down the line. >> you can not govern the country from one-half of the three branchs of government.

can't be done. >> it appears the speaker of the house, john boehner, agrees with that. mitt romney gave a speech, one of his few. mitt romney was warning republicans of being accused of shutting down the government. >> mitt romney, romneycare is obamacare. they're not what i call distant relatives, maybe kisses cousins. but he supported john mccain and others that this is a foolish idea to try to shut the government down. and many of the veterans of previous government shutdown, newt gingrich and others are speaking out as well. >> what's going to happen? >> i don't know. even though we're one-half of the legislating body from which no spending occurs unless we agree, that is a position that allows us to force others to adhere to the constitution. we don't have to wait for the supreme court. we can force that. and we can say you're going to

abide by the constitution whether the supreme court gets it wrong or right. we have the ability to force respect for the law. and some of us think that we ought to force them to do that. >> do you think you have the votes to defund obamacare? >> not right now. we'll see after august after people go home. as far as obamacare, though, when the president himself says it's not ready, so i'm giving this break to all big business. what about the poor guy making $14,000? he's going to pay extra income tax if he cannot afford to pay the several thousand dollars for an obamacare policy. who's caring about him? a lot of us do, but not this president because he didn't let the individual mandate have a year off. that only goes to big business. that's not fair. >> well, i would say, first of all, it's the law of the land. the congress passed it, the president signed it. and a conservative supreme court upheld it. it's the law of the land -- >> so how does he get to they a year for just rewrite and say

we're going to delay it for a year. >> the problem is the house republicans, with all due respect, i'm a former hill staffer, not a member. they cannot agree on spending. just before the recess, they could not pass a transportation hub bill. i don't understand the republican party these days. they have set these budgetary goals and they're afraid to meet them. >> we're not afraid to meet them. >> too extreme. >> but you have to remember, and i think lyndon johnson said it, if two people agree on everything, one is unnecessary. it's good to have a good disagreement. that's how we got to the constitution -- >> lots of disagreements over immigration reform. we heard donald trump say passing it would be death for the republican party. and president obama spoke out on that on friday on friday as well, making this claim. >> i'm absolutely confident if the bill was on the floor of the house, it would pass. the problem is internal republican caucus politics.

>> which means that the senate bill, unlikely to reach the floor of the house of representatives. >> and if it did, it wouldn't pass. >> it's unconstitutional, it goes back. >> what republicans are hearing, the new york times which wants the republican party to go away, saying that if only they would pass immigration reform, it would prosper. there's a dissonance there republicans don't like. i'm much more sympathetic to immigration reform than most republicans are, but how many of your members, probably none, face electoral defeat if they oppose immigration reform. >> i don't know. but i think you would be shocked how many -- i think most everybody in our party would vote for an immigration reform bill once they can be sure the boarder is secure. but until -- >> including legalization for the undocumented in the country? >> i think we could get an agreement on all of those things. but if you pass a dream act

without the border being secured, you're going to have to have another one and another one and another one because people are going to continue to come. george, you had an editorial we had a net zero, but you still continue -- our border patrol are saying we're getting three to five times the numbers coming while we talk about legalization. secure the border and we get the bill passed. >> the number of apprehensions, the crossings is at a 40-year low. we have double the number of border patrol agents than 2004 when president bush was in office. the border has never been more secure than now. >> in 1916 it was. >> right now the plan is to take immigration reform in pieces. take border security first and then consider other aspects. can that work? is there a way to get comprehensive reform? >> as democrats we want a comprehensive bill.

theoretically, if you did it piecemeal, if you had a bill for each piece, you could send it to conference, have a final conference bill and have each chamber pass it. but that's not the intention of the republicans in the house. >> they're cherry picking. do you support the kids act? i guess it's the dream act. >> i support securing the border, and until that, with i don't think we ought to be talking about who gets legalized. once we secure the border as determined by the border states within not homeland security. your new, brilliant, one of my favorite democrats -- >> here comes the but. >> what i've learned in my eight years, when you hear comprehensive, republican or democrat, it means we have a lot of bad laws to pass, but can't do it unless we have a big bill. >> george, you get the last word. >> furthermore, the well has

been poisoned by the president insisting on his unilateral anti-constitutional power to rewrite laws and not enforce laws he doesn't like. no one on the republican side believes that anything in the immigration bill will be binding on an unleashed president. >> we're going to have to leave it right there. great discussion. the billionaire founder of amazon buys "the washington post." how did bezos change the news business? that debate's next. ezos change the news business? that's coming up next. "the wash post. how did bezos change the news business? that's coming up next. " how did bezos change the news business? that's coming up next. my dna...s me.

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amazon founder jeff bezos send a thunder bolt through the media world with the surprise purchase of the washington post. we've got an expert panel on what it means for that world and

what bezos may do with the post. rebecca jarvis has background. >> reporter: the paper that brought down nixon and breaking news for more than a century this week made news. after 80 years, the graham family sold the washington post for $250 million to amazon founder and ceo jeff bezos. >> we will become a place that does its traditional jobs but tries things. and i hope it will succeed. >> reporter: it won't be easy. sales and profits both are shrinking. circulation is down 40% in the last decade. bezos told employees in order to turn it around, we will need to experiment. which is exactly how amazon got started. today it's worth more than $130 billion. surpassing expectations as he told cynthia mcfadden in 2009. >> did you have any idea how it was going to work? >> no, the business plan was

very modest compared to what happened. >> reporter: bezos isn't alone. other billionaires have jumped into the print business. what does he do next? it's innovate or die. >> it's dangerous not to evolve. if you want to ensure your extinction, cease to evolve. >> reporter: for "this week," rebecca jarvis. abc news, new york. >> joined again by george will, your cool yum has been in the washington post for, what, 40 years? and david, for ten years. and bloomberg west tv, and arianna huffington, editor and chief of the huffington post. started the new media. your selling price was higher than the washington post just a couple of years ago. >> yes, it's interesting how everything has changed. but it's interesting how much faster you can create a brand now. obviously the washington post is a historic, legendary media brand. but look at brands that were created, you know, in the last few years.

twitter, 2006, instagram, 2010, huffington post, 2005. so that changes dramatically the media landscape. but i think this is wonderful news. >> and everything arianna mentioned, i believe you can add tumblr, instagram, they all went for higher prices than the washington post. >> the boston globe was bought for $1.1 billion in 1993, and sold for $70 million. they gave it away. he's earned a place in the pantheon of american business with forbes, jones, sears and roebuck, all of those. but he's a genius, maybe not a magician. >> does he have to be a magician? >> i think he bought it for the sheer intellectual challenge of it. that's a big one.

>> i want to get to that question, but first about donald graham. one of the old media families. they loved the washington post. clearly didn't to want let it go. you wrote about his final speech to the post and said this was kind of a tragedy. >> i think his heart was broken to have to give it up. but the post was diminishing year by year, losing money and circulation. it was losing and there was no answer. there was no answer. >> was it avoidable or not? >> even if he made different moves, made it more national than local, embraced politico in some way and made it his own. i don't know. i don't know if that would have saved it. new york is very different from washington. the new york times is very different from the washington post. and the new york times has enough challenges as it is. here's what interests me most, though, jeff bezos is a great innovator in technology. that's terrific. he has vastly more money than the grahams, which is important to invest in the newspaper. but will he run a newspaper that puts pressure on power. that's what interests us most. that's not a value, that's a

universal among anyone, much less -- >> some have suggested the opposite. perhaps he's buying protection for his business. >> precisely. >> cory johnson, you cover jeff bezos. you've covered -- and as i talk about his motives, george will says it's the intellectual challenge. >> you talk to people who know jeff bezos, the first thing out of everyone's mouth is he's smart. it's interesting in a world of smart people, hedge fund managers, entrepreneurs and technology. he's the guy they say is smart. he's quick and he's thoughtful. one of the interesting things is he built his business initially on books. of all the things he could have sold, he chose books. he chose seattle because there was a distributor that helped him take on barnes and nobles. now they are struggling. similarly, he has a love of the written word. one of the interesting anecdotes that i have picked up from

former executives and board members, he starts the meeting with study hall. if you're an executive, and you want to bring a project, launch a multi-billion dollar business, bring the plan to the corporate meeting or to the board meeting, single-spaced, no graphics, no powerpoint slides. everyone sits and reads a multi-page memo in silence and discusses it. he loves the written word and the language. i think that's interesting. >> that is fascinating. >> tell us about the washington post. >> and he's a distribution master. somebody who can actually come up with different distribution channels for great journalism. and to david's point, somebody who really can use the internet to keep the feet of the powerful to the fire more effectively because the internet allows you to do that constantly. >> one of the ways the internet is doing it, and those who have succeeded in the new media tend to have, george will, a more

clear ideological bent. arianna, the huffington post, and others on the right. and even the billionaires who bought big newspapers seem to succeed when they have a political agenda rather than a general agenda. >> to the extent we know his political philosophy, it's a techie libertarianism. for gay marriage, against taxation on people like him which is perfectly sensible in my point of view. it seems to me his ideology is less important to his motives than the challenge of seeing if he can make this go. when gutenberg started with the printed word is not over because of the digital. >> but it's changing dramatically right now. >> and it would be incredibly important if he can establish a beyond left and right position for the washington post. just look at the things we are not covering at the moment because they are divided in the absolute left-right way.

the war on drugs, today in the new york times, what's happening to the california prison system. we're having a major incarceration drug war crisis. somebody -- >> we know about them because we are covering these things. one of the very few places that invests in it, that puts in the investment is a place like the washington post or the new york times or i should say the new yorker as well. now, mike bloomberg is a great innovator, but i have to say i've heard straight from the horses mouth, from mayor bloomberg that he detests the new york times. >> does he want to buy it and change it? >> he might want to do the latter. but it's not up for sale as they have made clear for the moment. but bloomberg thinks it's an opinion on the front page. he really loathes it. that may be because he's covered day after day and has an ego the

size -- >> i wouldn't imagine a new york mayor thought differently. >> no one was the richest mayor and has the capacity to buy it. he's done astonishing things in the media. being a newspaper proprietor is the exception. so jeff bezos may in fact be a wizard in many ways. but it remains to be seen if he has the same values as the grahams. and if you trust don graham as i learned to in ten years at the washington post, i never had to trust him more than in his judgment to revive the washington post. >> cory -- >> but one quick tng, it's not just about strengthening journalism. it's also about looking at news and seeing how can we reinvent it, how can we redefine it to move beyond simply what is covering corrupt and broke ton cover what is working. with his foundation, he's done an amazing job. >> but all the journalism experiments, they are trying cover what is working and don't end up creating a profit.

you guys at aol had to sell patch covering local news because it just doesn't work. >> our coverage of what is working has been one of the most profitable. the public and readers love it, advertisers love it. but it's critical when you have a more and more dysfunctional government to focus on what individuals, communities, startups are doing that is actually working and help scale it. it's essential right now. he can help do that. >> in five years, what does the washington post look like based on what you know about jeff bezos? >> to throw it back to the earlier premise, taking aside his work online. if you expand the conversation wider, what's worked in sports and celebrity coverage. there are passionate sites that cover culture and sports that haven't had to take a left or right view. it's not just old media in a new world. i think what you can expect from bezos is investment. the way they're investing in amazon is incredible. they have spent more in the last

six months investing than any year in their history. their spending like crazy to build up and invest. but also experimentation. you would expect him as an owner to push hard to find new ways to develop media that's appropriate for the new age that maybe the graham family couldn't figure out. don graham sits on the board of facebook. he is not a rube when it comes to technology. >> didn't invest enough. george will. >> hard on bookstores, not on books. people are reading a lot. i'm in 400 newspapers, i have no idea how many people read my column in the paper or on web. i'd like to find out. maybe he can help me. >> great discussion, everyone. thank you so much. and the senator who turned his legislative work into an action-packed thriller. action-packed thriller.

time now for the "sunday spotlight." shining on byron dorgan.

the former senator from north dakota caught us by surprise when he started penning spy novels after retiring from the senate. as he told john karl, the plot of his latest thriller is based on intel he picked up in congress. >> reporter: it's the terror plot in the movie live free or die hard. >> it's crashing. >> they just hit the entire financial sector. >> and the top of the real-life u.s. threat list. >> the next pearl harbor could be a cyber attack. >> reporter: and now the key plot in a new book called gridlock by former senator byron dorgan. >> it might be terror, cyber terror shutting down an electrical system. i decided to write a thriller. >> reporter: the one-time author of appropriations bills is churning out action thrillers. this is the second. when you were writing the bills, they didn't read like thrillers.

>> you were in politics, now you write fiction, same thing. not quite. >> reporter: gridlock traces a global conspiracy engineered by iran and venezuela. using a hacker in amsterdam to shut down the u.s. power grid. with the action colliding in where else? his home state of north dakota. >> it's a novel, but it relates to some really serious issues in the country. if we were to lose power for a week, a month, could ruin the american economy. >> reporter: droe -- he isn't the first senator to dabble in fiction writing. it includes former senator bob graham, and current senators mckulski and boxer. you will not find deep human insight in a novel written by a senator. you need to sit in on a committee hearing to know that. can we find deep human insight from a u.s. senator? >> i hope so. fiction is a different genre for me but i hope that you read that and can't sleep after wards, and

can't stop reading and can't get to sleep. >> reporter: for "this week," jonathan karl. >> thanks to byron dorgan for that. now we honor our fellow americans who serve and sacrifice. this week the pentagon released the name of one soldier who was killed in afghanistan. thank you for spending part of your sunday with us. check out "world news" with david muir tonight, and i'll see you tomorrow on "gma." i'll see you tomorrow on "gma." the nest has been getting a little too quiet of late.

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>> business news from the capital region. this is "washington business report" wi abc7 national correspondent rebecccca cooper. >> thanks for joining us. began with a bomb shell. news that amazon.comm jeff f bes will be purchasing open colo the washington post" from the grant family. what will this mean for its readers, employees, and advertisers? we will tatalk about t that witr

roundtable panel, bobob garfrfid of "on the media." things s to plenty of talk about lately. is the ceo of mdb commmmunicions. she also serv on the executive committee of the greater washington board of trade. then fisher has been covering the e storyor "the washington business journal." buy now, we know the headlines, the post has been sold, $250 millioion sale. a surprise owner for a lot of pepeople. i understand you have been digging into the sec filings. what do we may be not know w abt thsale >> there is a lot we do not know, but some of the details that may notave de the headlines,s, the grant family keeps a viable business to selffter the sale, en

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as he goes through the process. whher these arere quickr long term, it is hard to say. people think there wille changes eventutually.. hhas been in the amazon business for two decades. he is thinking long term. .e will l do nothing hastyty while he isis, cleaear digitalnd retail visionary, he d does not have te por to alter time and space. the laws of economics are looking very much against him or any otother owner of a major newspaper. it is lucky that he can afford to lose $150 million a year, because that is what he will do for a long time. >> when you look at the way media consolidation has hahappened, in television, you e

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entrepreneur, but it is also a bit didisheartening. if corporatitions are givg up on nenewspapers, that is a sign tht -- a sign of their p prospececta business. >> i is print still a viablble y to reach an audience? ihink so. we sll have some rununway. it is still a viable ave. the question is, can remain media?tive against other and how the make money anyre? here in the washington area, we want to beeve ththat theost has a believer. this may be the best w to do it. p peoplu are advisg -- i understand this is a b of crystal ball -- but do you s him as someone whoho is digil

thinker that can perhaps cree new a avenu that would build their business model digital? >> absolutely. there a are so o many options ty that we did not have 25 years ago. this i is certainly part of the mimix. we have to look at surround sound marketing, including reaching different audiences in different ways. generational a, you want to include people in the 60-plus set, who still r read things in the tactile sense. but in manyy cases, many of thoe peopople are multi-platformrm viewers, and t that is an opportuny for advertisers to be at every different screen d touch point. abouthere been talks hohow the post expands or changs under this new leadership, which would keep t the same executive structure? >> there has been plenty of talk speculation,around

but that diversifification the audience, that advertitisers are ying to target, is something that amazon.m has done virtuaually bebetter than anybo. while the newsper has gotten better, they still put out a newspaper every day that is supposed to reflect what everyone is interested in. that is not the way that things work anymore. people have a lot of faith that they will fd a new wayy to be all things to all people,ut still be different to all people. i want to t talk about what he is up against. classified advertising is gone. advertising, the rates have gone down becau there is such a glut of inventory on the

internet, nobody is paying for the reader'sttention the way they used . the prices a a publilisher can d are much lower than they evever re, and thee audieience has dropped precipitouously. so wn you combine that with smaller ad rates and no classifieds, you are in a disaster area. that is what jeff bezos paiaid a quarr of aillion dollars for. thehey'rein n newspapers, critical to our democracy, but it will be a struggle. >> we are goining to come back afafter the breaknd then continueue to talk about the pot sale, what it means for readers, journalism, and advertisers, coming up.

>> we are back with cary hat, ceo of mdb commumunications, bob garfield, co-hosof "on the ben fiscr.and you could pos -- papaint a doomsday picicture for newspspar rightow, but theseoutique folks that he come in to buy nenewspapepers, ththe boston gl, the shington post -- is that good for journrnalism? is that good for the post? for the washington post because it gives them time. 013, theyrst half of lost $54 million.

annualized, $108 million. they lost about $30 million last year. they could not stain those losses. jeffezos can shakeke that money out t of the cushions. ifif he can come up with something magic to change the economic reality of the newspaper marketplace, he has time to do tt. he can afford to lose on the way to findingng a profitality model. >> cary, from the post perspective, what would you do to provideore revenue? they only have ann ipad app. at are some obvious spots you see? >> that was the first one. they were nonot able to pivot quickly y enough. this is a necessary result of not being teered to the heart.

the thing that i love about what bob said was the fact that this would be privately held now, away from m the spotlight, youre not going through the interrogation of wall street. he has time to fix this in a meananingful way. the digital conversion and data mining that can come from this a and maybe this will become construct of amazon.com, and we can see ideas from the post being applied to amazon. the goal here is preserving the quality of the jourlism and content. >> the p post has experimented with aggregating before, notot successfully.. bestzon is one of the examples of an ligator on the internet. one thing that we have heard people say is, regardless of when it hapappens, the post haso get leaner because of the way it has been losing money.

final thoughts on the sale, whwhere things go in the short te? >> as w we were talking earlier, the evolution away from publicly-held newspapers to privately-held newspapers, it is a reorientation of what we think out newspapers. we need to think o of these as start-ups, a very well-knowown ststartup, buthe pblem is, a lot of f start-t-ups fail and la lot of money before its all figured out. i am m not a a spiritual man, t i am praying foror jeff bezos. the washington post t is a priceless institution f for the shington region and for the country and worldd. i do not like his chanc, but i certainlhope that he pulls it off. there is a l at stake.

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solace. the fourth thing is your area. tie yoself to the largest metro area possible. washington, d.c. compared to fairfax, virgini when people see that you have only oner two connections, they know that you are not active. >> what have you done to maximize your linkedin experience? >> i do have an inresting title. i updated my job description today. i am constantly reviewing them. when i connect with a potential customer, whether it is government or commercial, i go immediatelyi to linkedin to look at their profile. we use that for customer information, we use that to page for have a company information experts. we really use it for a job promotion, recruitment, customer connection, personal profile advancement. we use it extensively.

>> you looked at my profile, rebecca cooper's prprofile. we are both pretty savvy outut there with social media. wh do i need to work on? >> you have a professial picture, which you upded. make sure that you utilize the summary section. everybody is not utilizing the summary section, and that is important. the headline will draw interest, but when they scroll down, they need to see something else that interes them. summary usingng the section as a second resume, talk about what you arare passionate about, who you w want help,p, e challenges that you can solve for the business owners you want to be in front of. >> where do you use linkedin compared to getting a deal the old-fashioned way? are there specific times when

linkedin works better compared to the o school way of networking? >> i am a huge fan of doing in- person that working. i think they y work together. when you meet someone at a networking event, iyou want to know someone better, definitely link to them. i know there are times where my customers follow me on linkedin, and they will reach out to me constantly updating my status. when i go to a networking at the event, i i willll come e back and the first thing i do is connect with them on linkedin. they definitely go hand in hand, they are not exclusive.. >> what is the biggestst mistake peopleake with linkedin? mistake is at the not

personalizing their message. let's takemany peoeople connect. when is the message you usually see? i would like to add due toy linkedin network. that really says i have not taken the time to look in your profile. when i reach out to you, chris, i will say, great meeng you today, would you mind connectitg with me to linkedin? that is personalize. whenmeans am a serious the murder. >> to i want to connect with everyone that wants to connect with me? >> do your reseah and review ththeir profile before you acce. i do not cept everybody a i do my research. i want to keep my networtight, i wonder to be high level of credibility. i do n not accept everybodody, i do accept a fair amomount. >> i do peect. thank you rselves for example. for joining us. we are out of time. rebecca cooper will be back with

you next week. thank you for watching.

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