the l.a. times festival books did. i mean, that first book fair, i was i was at the first book festival at ucla and i was there as a sales rep for putnam. and i remember it very well. and it was you know, again, it was it was such a surprise and a delight to see how many people came out and how hungry the community of los angeles was for an event like that. and and we have grown, you know, over the years to to what we are today. this this huge event that takes up most of the usc campus and brings in hundreds of thousands of people. but it took us took us a while to get to this point. so i would say the two been patient and to, you know, just to to to work hard and and mine all those all those contacts in in in publishing to to put on a great event. does it cost money for people to attend? it is it is free to to attend in all the outdoor events are free. we have six outdoor stages and all the booths and all the things that you can do outdoors are free. the indoor events require a reservation and there's just a small fee

we know the "l.a. times" has had tough times lately. all the newspapers in southern california have. in the media in general, what's your take on what this means? >> well, i'll tell you right now, tammy, the idea of the media trying to be an impartial bystander watching government is over. there's a marriage between the democratic party and 95% of the media. they're married together. they're working together to conceal the truth. charlie's right. they're lying, in my opinion. objectivity, out the window. if you want facts, you watch it here on fox news. as far as objectivity, they're covering for joe biden. they're covering for kamala harris. everything they do, they have an excuse. they think we're stupid. he they're lying to us and think we'll believe it. i got news for you, the echo chamber of these individuals who honestly believe this, no. most people don't get the news. they get the lies from the left wing media. that's the big problem right now. that's scary as we go into 2024. >> yeah. clearly, joe, your work has been to look an

our books editor and other folks on the l.a. timestorial team that work in the sort of books and entertainment space, start having regular meetings, looking at submissions, and start sort of inviting people and formulating panels. so we, we put the call out widely and then start sort of building, building from there. how many authors are you expecting this year? over 550. so it's it's getting out there. we're almost almost done. but, yeah, it's i think when we're when all is said and done, i think we're going to be at over 550 authors. well, and benny, anybody who's organized an event knows that, sure. you can have the the people there, but there are so much work being done under the surface tents, security at cetera, etc.. correct. oh, absolutely. we have a yes, we have a team of people that build the whole thing out at usc, our partners at usc, we have lots of people on campus who we work with, all the different departments, as you said, from security and transportation and all the things that go into it to make sure that that campu

additional i had a column, a regular column in the l.a. times? in the 80's, the l.a. times had column right and column left. they wanted both voices heard on opinion pages. no longer. same with the new york times. and i wrote for them. did you know i dug up a piece written in the 1980's extolling what a wonderful talk show host i was in the l.a. times? it is such a dramatic takeover of liberalism by the left and the liberal just lay down and allow the left to do this. it is a tragedy. host: dan just mentioned that one of the author discussions we just heard was about book bands. and i wanted to ask you about this, this was a recent headline in the hill newspaper. nearly 1500 book bans implemented in the first half of the school year. should books be allowed to be banned from school libraries? >> books have always been banned in school libraries. it is such an odd question. of course they have. who wants unfettered access to books for eight-year-olds? it's such an odd accusation. it depends on what you're banning. if you are banning things that are appropriate for that

the l.a. times that their reporter did not commit any questions in advance of yesterday's press conference said people who saw that hockey card. ca n you explain how that endednees up there and why the presidentom needed something like that? adv >> look, we we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something that we do. our job is to get a sens whate of y'a what you all want to ask.nse of and that is ou tr job here to gy a sense of what's the news of the day, the topics you all are interested for, for to ask of g. him. >> well, there you go. >> here with reaction becausee u they do have opinions. fox newsrt contributors charlie hurt, leo terrell and joe concha. gentlemen, thank you . i charlie, let me start with you.l i found that l.a. times denial very interesting. they say we don't do this right. this it what we do. somebody did it.er and it's almost as thoughreportr they were throwing u that reporter under the bus because it's not like a leprechaun clipped and on on joe biden's des

now are we just imagining things or did the "l.a. timesgive the president of the united states a question ahead of time? can't be? that's not just something a journalist would do, right? well, luckily for us, the "l.a. times" quickly cleared up the record. there right there in black and white saying our reporter did not submit any question in advance of the q&a with president biden. you would have to ask the white house who prepared the document for the president and why they included that question. well, we did ask the white house, and they did not have much of a response either. >> look, we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something that we do. and, in fact, i would point out the questions that was asked was different than what was on the card that y'all saw. >> pete: do not believe what's right before your eyes. not specific? oh, so general concepts instead. that sounds like a bit of a stretch there, binder. the question was the same, rephrased slightly to look a little bit different right there on the card. but i g

the "l.a. timesd the exact question she was going to ask. >> so it had the reporter q and a at the top you can see. date. someone wrote in question number one it. has her name with her pronunciation. the "l.a. times" and then lists her question, a summary of her yet-to-be-asked question. resureing semiconductor. sure enough the first person called on and she went on to ask a question about semiconductor manufacturing. >> steve: let's listen back and forth and keep in mind joe biden knows exactly what she is going to ask. >> now we are going to take some questions. first question is courtney "l.a. times." >> thank you, mr. president. your top economic property has been to build up u.s. desk manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south korean companies that rely heavily on bay jake, are you damaging a key ally in the competition with china to help your desk politics ahead of the election? >> brian: wow, that means they have well

>> emily: the "l.a. timesw denying any wrongdoing after yesterday's presser telling fox news, "our reporter didn't submit any questions in advance of the q&a with president biden." courtney covers the white house for "the los angeles times" and as such, she's in regular contact with the white house press office seeking information for her reporting. you'd have to ask the white house who prepared the document for the president and why they included that question, kayleigh, word-for-word! >> kayleigh: it's really something. the question involved semiconductors it also involved alliances and how it would be affected. i never had that level of detail to provide from president trump from a legacy print media outlet like this one. occasionally you'd have a foreign reporter saying i have a nuanced question trying to ask him this, trying to get the leg up. in a briefing, the idea an "l.a. times" reporter would give this is really something. perhaps she went to the office and said i'm interested in these two topics and

the "l.a. times," the card also detailed the exact question she wanted to ask. it was about semiconductor manufacturing right on cue, biden called on the "l.a. times" reporter for the first question. guess what she asked about? semiconductor manufacturing. the "l.a. times" and the biden white house are denying that there was any collusion at all whatsoever. take a look. >> the "l.a. times" submitted the report advance, people who saw that card, can you explain how that ended up there and why the president needed that? >> look, we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something we do. our job is to get a sense of what you all want to ask him. that's our job here. the news of the day, the topics you all are interested to ask of him. >> sean: why live? there is photographic evidence that biden got the question in advance as senator marco rubio tweeted. biden has media in his pocket and it's really in his pocket -- by the way, we knew this for years but didn't we always know that there wa

taking questions from the community and that was a lot of fun about the l.a. times. walk around, enjoy it, be inspired by it. i'm glad we could host it, it's a big community event. a big literary event nationally. it's a great time, a way to connect people with each other. >> what were some of the questions you got today? >> there were questions including what is different between the media in los angeles and the east coast media in terms of is there anything different than what people are consuming and walking and how have you adapted to los angeles being from the east -- there were a lot of great questions, great questions about tourism, coverage. it was a fantastic session. >> how did you answer that question now that you have been executive editor of the los angeles times for two years? espn, washington post is his background. >> the thing is the largest news organization west of the potomac river, we are in a big vibrant place. hard to understand and get your arms around it. second largest city in the country, 100 languages spoken here. the largest diasporas that

the "l.a. times" to clarify our reporter did not submit any questions n advance of the q&a with president biden. >> to people who saw that pocket card, can you explain how that ended up there and why the president needed something like that? >> so, um, look, we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something that we do. we do our best to make sure that the president is ready to communicate with all of you and the american people. >> meaning white house aides probed reporters about their top inquiries and gave guidance to biden who today got some help from a youngster about where he was just two weeks ago taking questions from kids on bring your child to work day. >> what was the last country you traveled to. >> where was the last place i was? it's hard to keep track. >> ireland. >> you're right. ireland. >> 80-year-old got assist yesterday speaks to voters' concerns about his age. fox news polls show voter concerns about the economy are more pervasive. 78% rating the economy negativel

while we are getting the microphones in place, it is a moment to say thank you to the l.a. times book festival, c-span's book tv for bringing us together. writers and readers. [applause] it is always a joy, isn't it? it is also a time of tremendous purpose. >> i want to thank everyone today. you were marvelous. in my readings, it is a scientific fact, there is a family of human history that originates in africa. we are all african. i have african genes. everyone in this audience has african genes. was that mentioned in your books? if so, how did it impact your stories? there is a science behind the family history of genetics. without that black history, human beings do not exist. >> thank you. families? genetics? dna? we are all africans? >> i do go into this in the book and i feel it is a very important to talk about this connection to africa. there is no america without african-americans. there is no american history without black history, and there is no human history. so thank you. >> would that be important in the future to mention that? >> i think you have done that for us,

," the "l.a. times" now saying they didn't give the white house this question but, boy, it was very close, jason and they got the information somewhere. not sure where, but they got it from somewhere. >> maybe they cheated themselves and they stole the notes from the reporter and gave them to the president. i think most of the -- the reason why this isn't becoming "the biggest" story of the day, even though it should be, is you've got left wing media outlets including the "l.a. times" interested in helping joe biden. they're going to do their best to try to cover for him. sure, they'll ask a question or two about his age but ultimately what they're going to do is make excuse after excuse after excuse because they don't want donald trump in office again. >> trace: see you later on in the night cap. thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: the fox news @ night commonsense department says sometime in the next 12 hours, the california air resources board will vote on whether to ban the sale of new diesel big rig

now, the question that the "l.a. timeser did ask did not exactly match what was seen on the card but the topic was the same. we'll send it back to you. >> steve: all right. alexandria thank you very much. and we were talking about this yesterday. and we said, you know, ultimately the "l.a. times" is going to have to explain and they said we did not coordinate with the white house. >> rachel: you can decide whether you believe that or not. >> brian: i decided. >> steve: the question was so close to the stuff we saw on the card it just looked kind of suspicious. >> brian: there you go. >> steve: looked like they were trying to protect the president as he rolls out this first week of his campaign. >> rachel: exactly. and look at those poll numbers and how low they are and imagine how much lower they would be if we had a free and honest press. the media runs cover for him. we had the proof with the cheat sheet there. by the way, yesterday, the president asked by children -- because it was bring your kids to work day. >> steve:

when the l.a. timesyesterday, responding to pro public has amazing work, the l.a. times reported that their 2004 story apparently had an impact after it was published justice thomas stop disclosing gifts all. that was almost 20 years ago and today reacting to th propublica article, justic thomas explained why he said quote, only in my tenure at th court, i sought guidance fro my colleagues and others in th judiciary. and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality fo close personal friends, who di not have business before the court, was not reportable. i have endeavor to follow that council throughout my tenure and have sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines. unquote. for someone who call themselves, and original us, this is a stretch. while it's true the suprem court justices aren't required to follow a code of conduct, they have a disclosure wir meant. besides, he's saying h accepted all those expend, jus luxurious gifts including 500,000 dollar trip to indonesia. and nearly summer retr

but now the l.a. times and the ther biden white house, they're denying that there waswa any collusios ann at all whatsoever. >> take a look at the l.a. times that their reporter did, not to mention any questions in of yesterday's press, people who saw that hockey card. can you explain how that ended up there and why the president the something like that? >> look, we we do not have. th specific questions in advance. that's not something that we do. our job is to get r joa sense of what you all want to ask him. that is our job here to get a sense of what's the news of the day, the topics you all are interested for, for to ask of him. >> okay, why lie that there p is photographic evidence that biden got the question in advance as senator marco rubio tweeted, quote, biden has the media in his pocket h and it's little it's really inbt his pocket by the we knew this for years, right? a >> didn't we always know that they were an extension of the biden press office? right. and so this is not journalism. this is tea

he had a cheat sheet that not only had the questioner of the "l.a. times," what they looked like, but the actual question the reporter would ask. joining us now to talk about why this would be, why this isn't normal, is larry elder. first watch for this yourself. >> it is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters who will be asking questions at a press conference, and issues that we expect they might ask about. >> really? is that totally normal, larry elder? >> there's been some sort of communication, let's put it that way, between the biden administration and the "l.a. times" reporter. the question that was asked was a question on the card. it wasn't verbatim, but certainly suggests that the topic was offered, either by the reporter or offered by the white house, and the reporter parroted it. either way, it's bad news. there was a study done by "the federalist" that showed the democrat who covered the president's reporters outnumbered the republicans 12-1. joan walsh is a left wing reporter. she covered the obama administration in 2008. s

. >> the "l.a. times writing, quote: our reporter did not submit any questions inned a advance of the q&a with president biden. as such she is in regular contact with the white house presses office seeking information for her reporting. you would have to ask the white house to prepared the document for the president and why they included that question. now the question that the "l.a. times" reporter did ask did not exactly match what was seen on the card but the topic was the same. ashley, todd? >> todd: alexandria, thank you very much. radio host charlamagne tha god fed up with the dnc for not scheduling any debates this primary is section. >> it's whack that the dnc won't do any primaries next year. do a [bleep] primary. put joe biden up on that stage with bobby kennedy who is challenging him and marianne williamson and whoever steps up to the plate and let's have a [bleep] discussion, yo. >> joe concha joins us now. i have to put this in context for those who may not remember what charlamagne is. this

the l.a. timestelling us "our reporter did not submit any questions in advance of the q & a with president biden. courtney covers the white house for the los angeles times. as such she is in regular contact with the white house press office seeking information for her reporting. you would have to ask the who who prepared the do you want for the president and why they included that question." well, the briefing is going to happen in about 15 minutes, it would stand to reason that the white house will get lots of questions about this. aishah. >> aishah: i would hope so. >> john: howie kurtz, put on the screen the cheat sheet, it had her photo on it, probably so the prose could recognize her and further caption of foreign policy and semiconductor, etc., etc., and then the question. listen here. >> thank you, mr. president. your top economic priority has been to build up u.s. domestic manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south k

according to the l.a. times, quote, carlson's exit is related to a discriminatio lawsuit filed by abby grossberg. the producer fired by th network last month carlson senior executive producer justin willis also ha been terminated. the times also reported that murdaugh was really concerne about carlson's coverage of th january 6th attack, and also carlson's dismissal may be linked to the landmark 787 million dollar defamatio settlement with dominion votin systems. the president reports quot carson's comments about fo colleagues partly revealed the dominion case played a role in his departure. fox said carlson's final sho aired friday which was a surprise to the anchor who signed off with a promise to return tonight nbc has reached out to tucke carlson for comment. we have not heard back yet let's bring in right now msnbc and nbc news national affair analyst john heilemann he's also the host and executive producer o showtime's the circus. john, explain for us, if you will, we were talking before why is this one of

courtney covers the white house for the l.a. times. as such, she's in regular contact with white house press office seeking information for her reporting. you would have to ask the white house who prepared the document for the president and why they included that question." we do plan to ask the white house who prepared that document for the president but not just of concern to other reporters in the press corps, also of concern to voters who just said in that most recent fox news poll 76% of them want to see this president taking questions regularly in interviews and press conferences, aishah. >> aishah: i know you'll be following up on that. thank you. you know, i don't work often at the white house but when i do fill in for jacqui or peter, occasions where the white house staff will come by booth by booth and ask what topics are you interested. we never hand over any questions word for word but i think it's fair and easy to tell what we are going to ask. >> john: typically if there's a big press conference, not necessarily two on tw

according to the l.a. times, quote, carlson cites it's related to a discrimination lawsuit filed by abby grossberg. that could be the kind -- that executive producer, just, and was also terminated. it was also reported that murdaugh was concerned about carlson's coverage of the january 6th attack, and also carlson's dismissal may be linked to the landmark 787 million dollar defamation settlement, with dominion voting systems. the washington post quoting, quote, the -- demeaning case also played a role in his departure. they said that carlson's final show aired friday, which was a surprise to the former anchor. who signed off on friday with a promise to return tonight. nbc has reached tucker carlson for comment, we haven't heard back yet. let's talk to msnbc, and national news -- he's also the executive producer of showtime circus. john, explain for us if he will. why is this one of the more significant days and cable news history? >> i find it hard to think, will certainly, the history of fox news, was when roge

i am frank shyong a columnist with the l.a. times and i will let everyone introduce themselves so i get it correctly. >> i am nicholas david often and i come from new haven, connecticut. >> i am erica and i live in california. >> my name is ali winston and i come from new york. >> i feel like this is setting up a tender profile or something. i live in l.a.. >> i will start with erica. you wrote the book somewhere sisters. i wanted to ask you, as an introduction to the book in case not everyone here has read it, why did you want to write a book and how did the idea come about? >> my book centers on a pair of identical trends -- twins born in vietnam separated at birth. about six years ago i became a mother to identical twins. i was studying twin science and epigenetic's. i connected with a researcher in california that is a very well-known twin researcher. she connected me with twins around the world. for a piece i was working on for the atlantic back then interested in twin science. and the story of the twins drew me to it of course.

according to the l.a. times, tuck 'ems' exit is related to that lawsuit that is apparently the line that is considered too far for fox. not the racism or the on-air misogyny or the anti-immigrant bashing, the white replacement theory or being a tool for russia and other authoritarian regimes. that was all fine. but when the toxic culture within fox is exposed and it threatens to cost rupert money, that's when you gotta go remember, that is what happened with tuck 'em's predecessor, bill o'reilly, who was then fox's biggest star he was let go after a series of sexual harassment allegations against him became public, with settlement payouts totaling around $13 million joining me now is tara setmayer, senior adviser to the lincoln project, and angelo carasoni i'm going to go to you first because i have met you and you have been fighting this battle against fox and trying to illuminate the racism and the dangers of it. i am very curious what you made of tucker's firing today >> i mean, a couple things when glenn bec

. >> reporter: citing multiple sources familiar with the situation, "l.a. timesreporter steve battaglio said the grossberg litigation played a role in carlson's departure. >> that means more court testimony, more depositions, more bad publicity, and possibly another big check. i think they want to avoid that and one way to do it was to start with getting rid of tucker. >> reporter: nbc news has not confirmed the reporting. beyond grossberg's suit, text messages revealed through the now settled litigation with dominion voting systems expresses -- exposed carlson's frustration with management. in days following the election, audience numbers dropped more than a third, in part because fox called the state of arizona for joe biden. according to court documents, carlson texted we worked really hard to build what we have those expletives are destroying our credibility. it enrages me. now less than three years later, carlson is out of a job. >> they have lost big names before they've replaced them, and they haven't missed a beat in the ratings. >> reporter: changing an

now the l.a. times in 1991, background check, they reviewed, which msnbc has not seen, says the man had been arrested as a juvenile, accused of molesting a 4-year-old boy. he was still able to become a volunteer with the youth program. santa monica officials did not respond to the l.a. times request for comment. and nbc news reached out to the santa monica pd for comment but did not receive a response about the background check revelation. richard, thank you for being with us. what have you heard from the victims in this case? >> the victims, the trauma is still impacting them. some of them recently made statements for basically the judge who will eventually decide who gets what in this case, so traumatized they had to get therapy. they had many of them had suicide attempts. some of them spent considerable amounts of their time in prison, in jail, because basically their lives fell apart. in the aftermath of this abuse. these are kids who mr. uller was meant to be helping in this police activities, part

additional i had a column, a regular column in the l.a. times? in the 80's, the l.a. imes had column right and column left. they wanted both voices heard on opinion pages. no longer. same with the new york times. and i wrote for them. did you know i dug up a piece written in the 1980's extolling what a wonderful talk show host i was in the l.a. times? it is such a dramatic takeover of liberalism by the left and the liberal just lay down and allow the left to do this. it is a tragedy. host: dan just mentioned that one of the author discussions we just heard was about book bands. and i wanted to ask you about this, this was a recent headline in the hill newspaper. nearly 1500 book bans implemented in the first half of the school year. should books be allowed to be banned from school libraries? >> books have always been banned in school libraries. it is such an odd question. of course they have. who wants unfettered access to books for eight-year-olds? it's such an odd accusation. it depends on what you're banning. if you are banning things that are appropriate for that a

. >> reporter: the "l.a. timesorporation ceo rupert murdoch personally made the call to oust carlson. he is currently involved in a lawsuit filed by his former senior producer abby grossberg. >> he used incredibly vulgar language to talk about women at times and that his peers were empowered to behave in a way that was deeply misogynistic and >> rorte carls darcoft fox ago tt a hisc defamation lawsuit with dominio $787 million. text messages revealed in court documents show carlson privately criticizing fox's guests, former president trump, and one directed at fox management that said, those f-ro our credibility. murdoch was also reportedly upset with carlson's coverage of the january 6th attack. he claimed it was provoked by government agents. the 53-year-old has gone relatively unchecked for years, making controversial comments about race and immigration. >> really? i'm a talk show host. i mean it's like i can have any opinion i want. >> reporter: in another abrupt departure today, cnn anchor don lemon was let go

hollywood is celebrating and remembering the man, harry belafonte, and one thing the "l.a. times" wrote, belafonte was described in the "look" magazine in 1957 as the first black matinee idol in entertainment history. but here's the thing about belafofonte, he didn't just hugs hiss celebrity to entertain but to change minds. ♪ day-o ♪ >> reporter: his voice made harry belafonte famous, but growing up in harlem and jamaica, his mother taught him to use it to do more than entertain. >> she would say to me, never go to bed at night knowing that you have spent a day in which you have done nothing to try to change injustice. >>>> reporter:r: and belafafont started fighting early, joining the navy at 17 to serve in the pacific during world war ii. after the war he sang in clubs before receiving a tony award for his 1953 broadway debut. next came success in hollywood. including an academy award nomination for "carmen jones." his career was one of firsts, the first african american to win an emmy. ♪ down the way where the nights are gay ♪ >> reporter: his album "calypso" was the first to

because as the l.a. timeane t san francisco. crow and his wife kathy also gave thomas the bible that onc belonged to frederick douglass he disclosed the gift in his report, and he valued the bibl as $19,000 and listed the clos personal friends after the l.a. times ran the story on the financial disclosure that thomas himself had reported, thomas simpl stopped reporting gifts! it all begins to look a lo like he is trying to hid something for the last 20 year and now he just got caught joining me now is one of the reporters of this -- who broke the story. great to have you here give us a sense of the scope o what you uncovered in terms of these two men's relationship and the gifts that thomas an his wife ginni have received >> yeah. the troops stand out both fo their lavishness, and for thei frequency. so we found that clarenc thomas has been accepting thes luxury trips virtually every year for more than 20 year without disclosing them. >> that is a lot >> it's a lot. so, multiple international cruises on a sup