twenty-one years old, coming to the new york times as a copy boy. what was wonderful about that time and it was probably the most important job of my life. the beginning of the job meant that in a 14 story new york times building, as a copy boy, i would not only walk around the city room, third floor delivering messages and essentially a servant boy. there were other theirs, too. i would also carry messages from certain editors on the third floor to the eighth floor which is the sunday magazine section and the template which is the editorial where the people wrote editorials. and to the 14 ford on the 14th for the ivory tower where the sulzberger family, the owners, head offices. you go to the 14th floor and you saw a statue of the sulzberger's really owe their position to adolph fox who died in 1935 and he bought the paper before the 1900s and made the new york times the great paper that it was and still is. all of this history that i'm getting up and walking down and the elevators -- in those days the elevator men were all african-americans, all wo

what you leaked was published in the "new york times" before trump even tweeted. you were under oath, jim. are you sure you told the truth? so why not leak to the "new york times" yourself? >> i worried it would be like feeding seagulls at the beach if it was i who gave it to the media, sow i asked my friend to make sure it gets out. judge jeanine: weren't you worried some reporter might out you. i have a hard time believing this was your virgin attempt at leaking. who even thinks like that, especially someone who is supposed to be the paradigm of virtue. and your hogwash about that shining city on a hill. you are the director of the f.b.i. acting like j. edgar hoover leaking negative information about the president. doesn't that send a message to the f.b.i. that it's okay to leak? you allow a "new york times" article saying members of the trump campaign had contact with senior russian officials when you knew it wasn't true. you could have put truth to that lie but you refused, allowing the country some to suffer a trauma hyped to watergate proportions. why not lea

then he came to the "new york times" editorial board at the end of the campaign. shook my hands and he called "new york times" a national jewel. so it's just a little disorienting sometimes. >> seth: yeah. >> to kind of place him in his kind of ping pong journey between loving the press and unloving the press. >> seth: the fact that that ping pong game is being played with everything, not just the press. there's pong balls everywhere. [ light laughter ] when you saw the tweet that he asked you to resign, did you have a momet of -- was it terror or was it joy? because -- >> it wasn't joy. >> seth: it wasn't joy. see i think, when you think of it, the class you were in when he attacks you, you are now in meryl streep territory. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] because i think you've earned it.h: a keep up the good work. i really am so glad i found your podcast. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: michael barbaro everybody, new episodes of "the daily" are available weekday mornings. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ before we hit the beach

new york times." ick, your reaction to the president's tweets here, saying first of all that the obama administration did nothing. we know that's not true if you read this massive article. but the idea of him trying to but the idea of him trying to suggest that there was something that the president was colluding. he's using the word "collusion" and obstruction now and aiming it at obama. >> first of all, it is absolutely crystal clear he did not read that entire article. >> well, we know that. >> because if he read that article, he'd realize that he was the but-for cause of all these problems. i mean he was the person that was touting russia to go violate federal criminal law and hack hillary clinton's e-mails. he was the one that was touting wikileaks and saying how great they were. he was doing everything that vladimir putin would have wanted him to do if vladimir putin were simply holding the strings of a puppet and trying to get a candidate for president of the united states to undermine our elect

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very interesting that edward snowden made sure his information did not get to "the new york times" because of the poor way they handled the iraq war who distorted the news they received. and the feeling that's couldn't trust "the new york times" to handle this material in a sensitive way. >> two quick questions. i know they're all flawed but which news outlet do you think is most credible in terms of reporting on this kind of intelligence information and what do you see is underlying political motivation office wikileaks? it's unclear me based on what they expose and when. >> in terms of reliability, only really three newspapers in the country, which is a sad reality that are reeling cover thing issues, "the new york times," in the "washington post" and "the wall street journal." greg miller of the "washington post" is very good. james rosen is outstanning and stood down the obama administration which was trying to put him into jail, which is an incredible violation of freedom of the press. charlie savage from "the new york times," is excellent. i also rely havely on the new york review of

james comey bringing some "new york times" report in question, huh, while he was leaking to "the new wait a second! tim graham, media research center director of media analysis sounds off, that is coming up next. ♪ dearthere's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced. our senses awake. our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say...if you love something set it free. see you around, giulia we cut the price of trades to give investors even more value. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance plan, these hel

republicans up here that this was false, there was no such fact anywhere that corroborated what "the new york times" had reported. nonetheless, after that, this committee took data on, one of the things we've spent really substantially more time on that than we have on the russian active measures, we've been through thousands of pages of information, interviewed witnesses, everything else,

for more, we talked to the "new york times" london bureau chief. >> joined live on the phone with steven erlanger, the londonh us. bureau cheap for "the new york k times." tell us what happened overnight? >> what happen overnight? is that brittons voted and saide they didn't like teresa may as much as she hoped they would. they voted in large numbers, and they decided that her campaign for a new mandate three years early, was not something they wanted to give her. and they also in large part, a lot of young people turned out n for jeremy corbyn, a man thief left who ran a very optimistic campaign, criticized the conservatives on austerity questions, policeman, socialma welfare, didn't explain what is going to get paid for, but in general, the problem of teresa may was that the more people heard her the less they seemed to like her. >> was part of this based on the snap election was called in expectations among the conservative party that jeremy corbyn was weak and labor was preparing to get rid of him? >> well, not so much they were going to get rid of him but that he was weak and vulner

even comey discredited "the new york times" article, he said it was false. u go on and on about media stories that have been out there. even though i think we spend too much time on this issue, it is clarifying when people get under oath that a lot of what they are willing to say under oath is much different than what's being reported in the press. >> jon: one of those who seize this issue very differently might not surprise you is chuck schumer, the minority leader of the democrats in the senate. here's what he had to say about comey's testimony. >> after hearing mr. comey's testimony today, america is stunned. the cloud hanging over this administration has just gotten a whole lot darker. >> jon: a whole lot darker, congressman? >> comey clarified that this russia investigation, there is no evidence or even reason to look into the president, whether he conspired with any type of russian actors and that was kind of the cloud let the president was frustrated about. if you read "the new york times" or "the washington post" you that there were some type of evide

to leak it to "the new york times."said he did that because on the friday -- the president said you better be careful, you better be careful what you say. talk about the tapes. all of that. the contents of that memo, the substance of it was already reported in in "the new york times." he goes under oath and says i did this to get a special counsel. by the way, it's impaneled the next day. >> sean: outrageous. >> it's more than outrageous. it's a crime. then he shared this information. could you imagine if an fbi agent did a three oh two, the form that no one has seen but if he leaked it to "the new york times" customer they would go to jail. >> sean: you are 100% right. gregg, jay, you're both right and have done great work here. you agree with jay's analysis, is it that serious and do you think something will happen as it relates to the comey and the law here? >> comey said these are his personal documents. no, they are not. they are government property. read the federal records act. the privacy act. which is actually

>> yes. >> sean: "the new york times" are desperately trying to save face and tweeted... r, publishing a full article titled comey disputes "new york times" article about russian investigation. where they tepidly stood by their reporting and ultimately wondered why comey rebuked their coverage. we won't be holding our breath. or el a full retraction or apol. despite some widespread embarrassment in the .destroy-trump-media, do think e can ever expect them to stop spreading their fake news? in other words, land the black helicopters and get back to reality? or will the crisis continue to grow? joining us now, "geraldo at large." this is a personal thing for meo i don't think the media vetted obama like i did. never gave the full record of obama and now this ten month witch hunt. they are barely, barely wanting to acknowledge how long they have been. >> sean, the media tends to slant left. they tend to be liberal. that's part of the landscape of thea american pop culture. that's the way it is. but this is different than that. this is a meanspirited -- almost a hatred that co

and there was a story this morning in the "new york times," another on the daily beast, i'm sure there are others, that caught my attention. "new york times" story showed the divergent backgrounds of these seven sailors. one came -- they are all americans, but one has roots in okinawa, another's roots were in the philippines, another vietnam, another guatemala. and there was an ohioan, and a named an, and a sailor martin from maryland. they are representative of our united states navy. from different backgrounds, given an opportunity to serve our country, some because they are helping their families,

two sponsors pulled their funding from this production in new york, but the "new york times" is continuingnd this play as free speech for the arts. carley: the "new york times" covering of the story has blown my mind. they have written several articles over the growing outrage over the play. they can sponsor whoever they want. i'm sure their audiences overlab. but they need to tell the audience that in advance. it needs to be the opening line. the reader needs to know what they are going to read is biased and the publication has taken a side. howie: the front page story on this, inside the paper is in the 27th paragraph of a 28 paragraph story, the very controversy that was being covered. carley: it's pretty crazy. howie: next cosby trial i'll have you back. the "new york times" reviving the discredited story of the shooting of a congresswoman and getting it wrong. but when family members forget, trust angie's list to help. [ barks ] visit angieslist.com today. briathe customer app willw if be live monday. can we at least analyze customer traffic? can we push the offer online? brian, i jus

and there was a story this morning in the "new york times," another on the daily beast, i'm sure there are others, that caught my attention. "new york times" story showed the divergent backgrounds of these seven sailors. one came -- they are all americans, but one has roots in okinawa, another's roots were in the philippines, another vietnam, another guatemala. and there was an ohioan, and a named an, and a sailor martin from maryland. they are representative of our united states navy. from different backgrounds, given an opportunity to serve our country, some because they are helping their families, some to gain citizenship, but all to serve our nation. and all seven of these gentlemen lost their lives. i had the honor of going on a aval sub about 10 days ago, to providence. and i saw the camaraderie on that ship. there were no caucasian sailors or african-american sailors or asian american or latin american. there weren't gay or straight sailors. they were united states sailors. united states navy personnel. and they come together in the camaraderie to serve our country and serve eac

cnn correspondent should get his or her calls returned, new york times reporter, fox news, we can get our calls returned. it is for lots of dozens of smaller news organizations that cover the white house on a daily basis, the briefing is there for them. nothing draconian is having in america because of the briefing policies at the white house. >> donald trump said to make good on two more campaign promises, making america safe again. answering the long-awaited call for justice. here are the details on the bills headed to the house floor. >> just hours, republican lawmakers are taking of a pair of bills the crackdown on illegal immigration, one case law increases penalties for immigrants who try to reenter the us after being deported. the proposal named after a girl murdered by a repeat felon reported 5 times. she was shot to death on a san francisco peer, the shooter, francisco sanchez who snuck in several times from mexico and was supposed to be turned over to federal immigration agents four months before the murder. instead he was accidentally set free. the case shocking the nation

"the new york times," however, is still struggling. at walkout of the entire newsroom protesting the impending firing of various editors to save money. you worry if the new york times isn't, as the president suggested, a failing paper. i don't believe it is, but it is really being rocked by serial scandals now, and it is going to shake the faith that people certainly in the new york area have long held in the old gray lady -- elizabeth: i'm telling you, i understand a skeptical public, i get that. but cynicism is poison, you would agree, right? >> of course. elizabeth: geraldo, we love you. come back soon. >>> billionaire warren buffett, his company, berkshire hathaway, making a quick $12 billion. why? they invested $5 billion in bank of america during the financial collapse. those shares now worth $17 billion. buffett converting the investment into common stock. he will become -- rather, the company will become bank of america's largest shareholder. >>> next up, democrat senator elizabeth warren now saying that she is opposing the gop

what does it matter that the "new york times" is removing this job? >> two things are going on here. this is, again, a tough call. "the times" gives itself good cover when they're laying off editors and people in their newsroom saying, hey, we can't afford this job. on the other hand, they're hiring all kinds of new people. >> they're moving on directors, bringing in new young people. >> which is the only way the newspaper will survive, i get that. i think symbolically getting rid of their public editor matters, but brian, you know that it's a very hard thing for someone to be paid by the "new york times" and legitimately criticize them is complicated. and liz spade, now, she took on values i believe in, is that in covering trump we should adhere to legacy values of fairness and balance and all that. she was constantly in a way, i think, at odds with the "new york times" which has taken a much more aggressive approach towards trump. look, if i'm the editor and i'm getting them 300,000 new digital subscriptions and every week i have to read my public ed

it does seem like as a political gesture, being able to say, i sued "the new york times" for defamationut on legal grounds, i don't think, if "the new york times" said it was their opinion of this was true and she's a public figure, i guess i don't understand. >> martha: it established to not be true. gentlemen, thank you very much. good to see you both tonight. coming up next, they must must here update on the story of alleged feud between the president and the happiest place on earth. how could this be happening? plus, james rosen is here with a really important look into the future. >> martha, when the robots take all of our jobs, maybe even yours and mine, should the government step in and give us all a paycheck to make ends meet? stay tuned. ♪ hey richard, check out this fresh roasted flavor. looks delicious, huh? -yeah. -richard, try to control yourself. -i can't help it. -and how about that aroma? -love that aroma! umph! -craveability, approved! -oh, can i have some now?! -sure! help yourself. -wait, what? -irresistibly planters. your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and

during the hearing, james comey said that a major "new york times" story claiming that the campaign aideso the russian intelligence was full of pulses. >> "the new york times" wrote an article that suggested that the term campaign was colluding with the russians. so the american people can understand this, that report by "the new york times" was not true? is at a fair statement? >> yes, in the main, it was not true. people talking about it, they really do not know what is going on. at those of us who do know what is going on, we do not talk about it. we do not call the press to say, hey, you got that thing wrong about the sensitive topic. >> tucker: well, that is weird, "the new york times" is full of pulses, that is so strange. at cnn, one of the analyst was claiming comey would refute trump's claim that he was not under fbi investigation. >> he would dispute that he ever assured the president that he was not under any kind of investigation. >> tucker: keep in mind, we know that for sure, because it was from an unnamed source of impeachable integrity, except it turned out to be a lie. oo

someone as high in stature as james comey decides to leak to "the new york times." >> kat: i think you have, if he was concerned, to have said something at the time rather than waiting until after he was fired. you do something after you get fired -- he said, who does he talk to? president trump being the president on the way he operates, whether it's good or bad, you have to admit it's different and normally there isn't direct contact between the fbi director and the president. he may have not known what to do. i don't think anyone would argue that the way he handled it was good, because of course are going to have the defense. >> eric: trump didn't accuse comey of doing anything but comey leaked the document. sometimes there is false stuff, reportedly don't get involved. >> mary anne: the biggest source of leaks today is the white house. >> eric: not necessarily the trump white house but holdovers from obama as well. >> mary anne: i would say the trump white house. >> eboni: you have to have corroborating evidence. coming up, kat on the streets. what do regular americans think about

if you look at the "new york times," if you look at cnn, does c-span think that the "new york times" and cnn have anything positive to stay about donald trump? this guy can't get a break. let's say he's a terrible person. okay, he's a terrible person. they've proven he has no collusion with russia. this is i wish democrats will wake up to. the democrats don't care about collusion or russia. they don't want donald trump to succeed. barack obama did not vote for him i don't care for him. i think he was an awful president, barack obama while he was in office, gathered our information and george bush started it. barack obama used the i.r.s. to target americans before an election. host: we're going to have to end it there. i do want to show couple of more tweets this morning on this topic as we've been having this conversation. i do appreciate our twitter audience. t.j. says, why are they calling trump people into a hearing. it was obama and his clowns in charge ewhen the russians were hacking. brian tweeting i respect the office of the presidency too just not the idiot holding it. james

this is eric lipton with the new york times. he serves as their washington correspondent and has a recent story taking a look at the pharmaceutical industry. i will show you the headlines and we will start from there. drug lobbyists cry over prices, blame the others. can you give us a setup? mr. lipton: there is a lot of debate and pain going on relative to the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs in the united states and that is why many people's health care plans have risen so people have to pay more out of pocket for what they need to treat various conditions. because there has been a lot of anger that has emerged as a result of that, there is a fair amount of discussion in congress about possibly finally doing something to try to understand why prices are so high and to perhaps consider price controls to reduce them. the pharmaceutical industry, one of the biggest injuries in the united states in manufacturing, is trying to stop legislation that would hurt their part of the sector. we looked at all the lobbyists that are conven

the "new york times" tried to follow up with the four sources that he used the unnamed ones and they t be found at this time to corroborate what they originally had said. that's pretty telling. >> so let's talk about the excitement that built up to it. i hate to use the word skycam to talk about the senate intelligence committee. but dc with all the bars open and a lot of people out watching this, high expectations, i believe after we saw that opening testimony, i didn't expect any bomb el from a few things yesterday and i think a lot of people were like, is this it? >> well, it was -- what i liked about it was the fact that it was two hours and 45 minutes, commercial-free, but more importantly pundant free >> that's exactly it >> i could see adults, senate intelligence committee i thought they conducted themselves very well and comey giving answers, where we're at with russia and the bottom line is i still don't know what the crime is or evidence of company he collusion between trump the trump campaign and russia. >> this didn't seem like one of those hearing, you'll see hearings whe

so i think that there should be fewer of them, but i will also say, you read "the new york times" and you see that the white house says things anonymously. so it works, again, both ways. if the white house wants the news media to be more specific about who the sources, then the white house should be equally specific. i think the real danger now -- you brought up the fact of mistakes and retractions and journalists work really, really hard to get things accurately. and i think it's -- and they make mistakes. i mean, the pressure. there's a lot of news that's being made today in a minute-to-minute news cycle. they make mistakes. and the public seem to be much a little more forgiving in the past when they would make the mistake, they would correct the mistake, acknowledge it, talk about what changes depending if it happened in a news organization depending on the seriousness of their mistake and move on. and now i think there's an article today, do the press have the right to be wrong, and i say yes, they should, but they don't. and making mistakes seems to be red meat for the white hous

charlie: media or new york times? hugh: it is beyond the new york times.the direct recipients of the blow. but it ripples out. because if their paper record can be that wrong about that big of a story, it ought to have everyone to reflect upon anonymous sources and whether there are pieces of permanent government -- i reject the term deep state. we do not have a police state. if comey could ignore the president, we would have a police state. the elected people still controlled the appointed people. nevertheless, you got to worry about, why is this antagonism to the president so deeply embedded that there was an avalanche of leaks on a weekly basis? and why is the media so gullible that there are agendas other than doing the right thing for the american people? some people are just protecting position, status, authority, and they hate donald trump, and they are leaking. charlie: why you think they are leaking? >> people leak for a variety of different reasons. as we have seen, comey was talking about himself having leaked things for one reason. others will

. >> your comments made the front page of the new york times today do you think it makes jeff sessions testimony any harder to day or impact we will hear?. >> added however some the cover of the new york times. so thank you.ming i think jeff sessions coming before congress is part of whole administration's approach to this from the very beginning we have nothing to hide. we will cooperate this isnv now been going on six months . everybody keeps saying there is no evidence of obstruction but yet everybody keeps suggesting there is something they are hiding. if you go look through and white house has been very cooperative with the senate and house committees they could have pressure them to slow them down or close them down but there has been none of that. so again the sessions' o testimony is part of the administration that has been very forthcoming and the president has been forthcoming. there will not be any surprises. >>host: ceo of news max a confidante of a the president?. >> i am a friend but not more than that. i support the president even though as a journalist i criticize him i

it, we get crucified and all of these attacks been so wrong. >> the most damning story, "the new york times" story alleging that the contact with the trim campaign and transition team and russian intelligence operatives. that is with "the new york times" said. that's what comey denied ever happening. it's a huge embarrassment for the old gray lady. they got it dead wrong. president trump, , and as much s we love him and want him to have a successful presidency, there is no doubt, however it was not obstruction of justice but it was clumsy and ham-handed. you don't ask the chief of staff and attorney general to leave the room so you can have a private chit chat with the director of the fbi. if you are an experienced politician, you know you have to cover your behind. a very clumsy the president. like his tweets. reince priebus apparently wanted, are you sure? are you sure you want me to leave the room? the president has to listen to the professionals about how he conducts his office. like his tweets. god bless them. i love the fact that he talks directly to the people. obama tapped his offic

yes yet that struck strange bedfellows right well it's weird when the new york times literally prints an article after that shooting at steve's belief that blames the progressives and bernie sanders support that literally went in their newspaper and that's their that's their version of look at the equal coverage we're giving a totally laughable but see bernie i want to i want to ask you have bernie sanders who still ostensibly is in the democratic party do you think he should you know try and take over reform the democratic party and if that's ever worked before should he started third party should people give up on bernie sanders as a figurehead where do you stand on that. i think bernie sanders should give up on the democratic party how many times you need to be proven wrong about the democratic party they're not capable of reform it doesn't appear to be rightly because what they did after they lost to don first of all they smeared bernie wrecked the primary because as schama so want reset at my show which is true the democratic national committee would rather lose to a republican t

comey dismissed the "new york times" for reporting fake news. this one. >> so the american people can understand this. that report by the "new york times" was not true, is that a fair statement? >> in the main it was not true. all of you know this and the american people don't. the challenge -- and i'm not pick on reporters writing about classified information -- the people talking about it often don't know what's going on, and those of us who know what's going on are not talking about it. and we don't call the press to say you have got that thing wrong about that sensitive topic. we have to leave it there. liz: he's referring to a story in the "new york times" that there was a lot of communications between the trump campaign and russia. james comey said that was flat out wrong. it didn't happen. what are your thoughts? >> it proves the fundamental take-home for the american public is you cannot trust the "new york times." you can only trust them to take shreds of what they might have and opinion them into whole cloth to create misrepresentation

plus, we've got "the new york times" reporter whose story was attacked by james comey and my multiple republican senators at today's hearing. the "times" is sticking to its guns on that story. lots ahead. stay with us. ♪ ♪ isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business. built for business. >> "the new york times" wrote an article that suggested that the trump campaign was colluding with the russians. you remember reading that article when it first came out? >> i do. it first abo

taken these memorandum and then he sent them to a friend, and the friend released them to the "new york times" in part, and it's unclear whether he just read them or read some of them and gave some of the others. what can you help us understand about that and what the "new york times'" response is to the accusations by the trump administration? >> so what comey said yesterday was that his friend who he told to put out this information had a copy of one of the memos. from comey's understanding of it, these memos are not classified. these are simply his recollections of his interactions with trump. we have never had copies of the memo. as we pointed out in our stories, we've written three or four stories about the memos. parts of them were read to us. contents of them were read to us, and we cited parts of them in our story, most prom fiently the story on back in may about how trump had asked comey to end the flynn investigation, which led to a day later bob mueller being appointed. but we ourselves do not have any of the memos. there was an incorrect accusation out there yesterday from trump's

conversation is what led him to leak the memo to his friend at columbia who leaked it to "the new york timeshat was the employment of the special counsel. >> that statement from donald trump, that tweet came a day after "the new york times" had a story about a leak that was that donald trump has demanded loyalty and comey had demurred. he was leaking prior to the point of trump tweeting. >> if there was one up out of a conversation with the president? >> he was sharing information. it was damaging to the president. >> but the leaking of the memo? >> you can argue with that, but if it is coming from government documents, and we still do not have -- you have random professors at columbia having the information, but not the reporters. >> they are not that random, right? it is a friend of james comey. i thought actually, one of the things about today was how much some of the information that we the media, not to be on this panel, are promoting it. we already had. so for example the idea that the tarmac meeting with bill clinto bill clinton, and loretta lynch was generated the james comey public

betsy: "new york times," "the washington post" finished. fred: cnn was a big loser. s slim "new york times" will continue with their agendas. it's absurd. but i want to ask you this. why in the world is this even continuing? everyone with the i.q. reasonably, 3-digit i.q., knows after all that's happened, that there is nothing do to this senate intelligence and house intelligence committee hearings and their investigation. why isn't this thing being disband, dismissed, the special council is the brain child of the discredited comey. fred, what's going on? >> i think it will get wrapped up pretty quickly. but having a special prosecutor won't be wrapped up. fred report intelligence -- fred: the intelligent thing would be to not have a special pratt cuter. that could be called off right away. betsy: it should be. the republicans yesterday should have made it clear the president of the united states has the constitutional authority to fire the head of the f.b.i. any time he wants to. lou: it may be a news break for the senate intelligence committee. lou: thanks for being

we talk to zanny minton of "the economist" magazine and roger cohen of the "new york times." also al hunt of "bloomberg view" and robert costa of "the washington post." >> there's a sense in new york that the u.s. is no longer exerting the leadership of the western system, that, under donald trump, the america-first agenda is one way he views the world as a zero sum world where america's interests can't be different to those of the rest of the world, it's no longer a community of nations as h.r. mcmaster and gary cohn penned in the "wall street journal" last week and i think it's a big shot. i think the climate accord and pulling out in paris is the latest. >> rose: we conclude with a conversation with actor brian cox in his new film, "churchill," he plays the prime minister in the days leading up to d-day if june of 1944. >> we have churchill the hero, churchill the master of the second world, churchill the great rhetorical speaker and broadcaster, the guy who got us through war with his broadcasts through there wasser churchill. >> rose: the challenge facing donald trump, ja

the new york times has this story too.t's a feature looking at how two decades ago a modern and prosperous hong kong was a model of what china might one day become. it says that hope is now fading. the caliphate has fallen: that's the headline from the independent looking at the battle in mosul against the so—called islamic state. the us—led coalition says a victory there is now imminent. mumbai's business standard looks at the introduction of a goods and services tax in india. it reports that finance minister arunjaitley has met a handful of top business bosses, urging them against increasing prices. in the guardian, the brexodus of banks. ireland's capital, dublin, claims more than a dozen london—based banks plan to move part of their operations there because of brexit. and britain arguably does quite well in the parliamentary pomp and circumstance stakes. well, it's finally loosening up — just a little bit. male members of parliament will no longer have to wear ties. that's in the times. not in this studio, not this mor

"the new york times" is backing up comey's description of this. >> yeah. in fact, it seems pretty clear cut, george, because the tweet that was referenced by comey actually came on may 12th, "the new york times" story that quoted the memos came on may 16th, so a full four days later despite the fact that the charge here made by the president's lawyer was that the story came a day before the tweet. it seems that it simply did not. it came well after. >> john, pretty clear here that the president's attorney is digging in and doing what a personal attorney would do. i wonder what the white house is going to do when these questions quite naturally the next time a presidential spokesman is in the briefing room, how they're going to handle it? >> my only real reference to something close to this was the days of the clinton impeachment scandal, and i remember well-being in that briefing room with mike mccurry, the press secretary and on questions related to the legal case would constantly refer it to the legal team and would not take the questions from the podium.

does something, the story-- i no longer trust the national security reporters who produced that "new york times" piece. they were completely and utterly buffaloed by somebody. and so the media took it on the chin beg time today, charlie, big time took it on the chin. >> media or new york times. >> i think it's beyond "the new york times." they are the direct recipient of the blow, but it ripples out because if they, they have paper of record, can be that wrong about that important of a story, it ought to cause everyone to reflect upon anonymous sources and blood there are, indeed, pieces of the permanent government. i reject the use of the term deep state, we don't have a police state f director comey could ignore the president, we would have a police state but the elected people still control the appointed people. never the less, you've got to worry about why is this antagonism to the president so deeply embedded that there is an avalanche of leaks on a weekly basis and why is the media so gullible that there are agendas other than doing the right thing for the american people. some people jus

information, but the people talking about i don't know what is going on. >> that report by "the new york timeswas not true, is that a fair statement? >> in the main it was not true. >> on february 14th, "the new york times" published a story, trump campaign aides have repeated contact with russian intelligence. you were asked earlier if that was an inaccurate story, you said in the main, would it be fair tor characterize that story as almost entirely wrong? >> yes. >> sean: i do appreciate that you guys have the story, you need a little bit more sourcing, wrap it up, but i trust everything that you are saying is t true, because you have been way ahead of the curve, john, what is your reaction to that. more importantly, for ten straight months, the news media in this country has just gone with, again, clapper, comey, brennan, rogers, all of these people, and maxine waters and mark warner, diane feinstein, and also the same thing up until a week ago, no evidence of collusion, but the black helicopter tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist on cnn, msnbc, the thousands hours of coverage, they lied to the

comey also going after the "new york times." >> that report by the "new york times" was not true, is that true? >> in the main, it was not true. i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. howie: leaking, does that undermine comey's credibility? does the media care about the allegations about tv's popular dad or are they treating it as old news. this is "mediabuzz." it wassed a buildup of watergate or portions in which the former f.b.i. director made a series of allegations against the president. >> the admin then chose to defame me and more importantly the f.b.i. saying the organization was in disarray. those are lies, plain and simple. i don't know if the conversation with us an evident to obstruct, i took it as a very disturbing thing. howie: joining me, gillian turner, mollie hemingway, and juan williams. is the media takeaway from this hearing that it was a terrible, horrible day for donald trump to be called a liar by his former f.b.i. director? gillian: it was an earli' christmas gift. 19 million people apparently tuned in to watch this. journali