ben smith, the price went up but the government won't say why. >> it's a secret. do think wikileaks was this amazing experiment. what was the damage, what was the cost of just totally opening the books. it's something people are still trying to figure out. >> the bradley-manning tax. the extra spending. they're doubling down on security. i really mean it. >> when the pentagon is attacking iran's own infrastructure, then i think we know whatever we can do or israel can do to another country, they can do back to us. they know it's a huge vel nes t vulnerability. when you put this in front of congress they will vote for any dollar amount to keep secrets. it's not the same as food stamps or other programs. >> there's no push-back and the transparency constituency is fairly limited. we will jump to another good one. the california senate passed a bill yesterday that aims to protect illegal immigrants from status checks by local police. the measure is dubbed the anti-arizona bill because it prevents the local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials unl

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released those functionality it is important that we understand you, and so we understand which ben smith you know. >> rose: right. >> now it is not important for the research you do but it is important for some of those searches, and so, you know, i think we just have been looking at ways of really meeting that user need and meeting it really well. >> rose: so you are worried or not worried about-face book's competition in search? >> i think that it is something we take seriously, like social media, i think it has been unfortunate facebook has been pretty close with their data and i think we would certainly -- we are in the business of searching data we don't generally turn it down when it is offered to us. so i think in general i think we would like to see content on the internet being made more open and so on, and we had an issue with them over contacts. >> rose: right. >> where they, you know, from the user's perspective you say it is great i am joining facebook i want my contacts and google said fine you can get them from google, and the issue we had is facebook said, no, google you

i'll see you back here tomorrow when i'm joined by ed rendell, jay carol lee and the always buzzy ben smithh buzz feed. follow us on twitter @alex. >>> coming up, we have dynamic duo. i don't mean batman and robin. we have carville and greenberg about their new book and the democratic campaign, of course. >>> and joe biden fires up the naacp. and the bain of our existence. all the fact checking. we'll check the fact checkers with steve radnor right here. >>> plus inside scientology with kate snow. next on "andrea mitchell reports." >> the most powerful men at penn state failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children sandusky victimized. >> will criminal indictments come following? what a difference a day makes. vice president gets a rousing reception today from the naacp crowd in houston. >> it's time for the naacp to do what it's always done. what it did for me, a young kid in wilmington, delaware, that's inspired a generation to stand up, make our case, stand our ground and make real our vision for america. >>> plus, mitt romney's rein at bain. new questions and answers abo

i'll see you back here tomorrow when i'm joined by ed rendell, jay carol lee and the always buzzy ben smithh buzz feed. follow us on twitter @alex. >>> coming up, we have dynamic duo. i don't mean batman and robin. we have carville and greenberg about their new book and the democratic campaign, of course. >>> and joe biden fires up the naacp. and the bain of our existence. all the fact checking. we'll check the fact checkers with steve radnor right here. >>> plus inside scientology with kate snow. next on "andrea mitchell reports." >> the most powerful men at

"outfront" tonight, ben smith, editor-in-chief of buzz feed. aret hoover, cnn contributor and lisa borders, president of grady health foundation and a fellow co-founder of "no labels." ben, let's take a look at the total fund-raising numbers first. obama's raised more than $255 million while romney's raised more than $121 million. this doesn't include june. if the romney campaign numbers are right, should obama be worried? >> i think he should. mitt romney turns out to be great at raising money. that's something he didn't have to deal with last cycle with john mccain. it's basically almost mitt romney's profession. when he was running bain capital, that was about getting rich people to give him money to invest. that's basically what he is doing this summer. you may see him on tv once in a while. he's raising a lot of money. and he has friends and outside groups who are going to give more. >> but this is something that president obama has not been bad at in the past either. fund-raising is what president obama did in breakthrough ways. so much so

citizen jane politics and contributor to the daily beast and of course, buzz feed editor in chief, ben smithalso known as theeart and soul of the internet. the presidential election is exactly four months away and today, there are some new responses from president obama and governor romney about these disappointing june jobs report. basically, the president said that these 80,000 jobs that were created last month is a step in the right direction, but not go enough. >> we can't be satisfied because our goal was never to just keep on working to get back to where we were back in 2007. want to get back to a time when middle class families and those working to get into the middle class had some basic security. that's our goal. >> meanwhile, governor romney called a press conference after the numbers were released from his vacation in new hampshire and said the report is another kick in the gut and it reflects the president's failed policies. >> the president's going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it. i know he's been planning on going across the country and celebrating what he ca

. >> there's a tweet from ben smith at buzz feed, he talked to you at the 92nd street "y" and confided, perhaps, that you think bill clinton wants hillary clinton to run in 2016. >> never told me i wanted to run, but he was so involved and into her campaign in 2008 and i can't believe that bill clinton wouldn't want to be in the middle of another campaign. i just -- that's just my guess. do i know for certain? no. but an educated guess says -- i'll confide in you. he likes politics. >> he likes politics. by the way, you point out that he likes politics. arianna huffington on "huff post" has her political animals blog which now is connected, of course, to the usa network's launch on sunday night of the "political animals" serious, the limit the summer series. what about the fact bill clinton loves politics? does barack obama love politics? >> you know, i think -- i think he likes leading. i think he likes being president -- >> the rough and tumble. >> but no one has with bill clinton in that sense of liking politics, liking people, sort of being connected. >> i've watched him campaign o

great author, jay macinerney, and buzz feed editor in chief, the always buzzy, never disappointing, ben smith. in the last 24 hours, the investigation into governor mitt romney's time at bain reached a tipping point. >> the date romney left bain is the linchpin. >> it's a very fact-based question. you're either there or you weren't. >> he was getting paid over $100,000 as the president and ceo of bain capital while it was shutting down companies. >> either a lie is being told now, or a lie was told to the s.e.c. >> if there's a false filing with the s.e.c., there can even be a criminal prosecution. >> surely the romney campaign knew we would get to this juncture. >> this is his achilles heel. >> the achilles heel of mitt romney. >> this goes to the very heart of why you do or do not vote for somebody. >> it appears that the romney campaign could be looking to change the subject. after months of remaining silent on possible running mates, last night, team romney released this e-mail, saying sometime between now and the republican convention, mitt will be announcing his choice for vp. so instea

luke russert will be joined by ben smith, heather mcgee and jonathan capehart.n, find us on facebook.com/nowwithalex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. good afternoon to you, andrea. >>> have a great break, alex. coming up here, as mitt romney is about to leave for not quite a break but his first foreign tour as a candidate, we will have your first look at our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll comparing the candidates' qualifications for commander in chief. we will hear from both campaigns. >>> and more of my exclusive interview with elton john on politics, princess diana and being a father. >>> many locations will be dealing with thunderstorms on and off today, including minneapolis and chicago. some of the worst spots early today. this afternoon, washington, d.c., back through areas of virginia, north carolina and even chicago could deal with numerous strong thunderstorms. on the west coast, even our friends in phoenix could deal with a few strong storms. ♪ ♪ i want to go ♪ i want to win [ breathes deeply ] ♪ this is where the dream begins ♪ ♪ i want to

>> well, it's really remarkable how quickly and how viciously al smith ends up going after the people who had once ben his greatest supporters. and i was trying to think if there's been another party presidential candidate who in less than a decade after he had run on his party's platform is actually endorsing actively the candidates of the other party? -- >> joe lieberman. >> i guess so he is sort of hard -- was he ever really a democrat? i don't know. but, so going around and actually doing these endorsements in 1936, in 1940, and i think in this way that is incredibly out spoken, is vicious, he makes a speech in 1936, where he is accusing the new deal and fdr themselves of being socialists, and communists, he picks up the worst language, calls roosevelt a tyrant and says he is abusing the constitution and becomes a standard bearer of the liberty league, which is a business funded -- it's funded by the dupont family, but a group that begins in the 1930s to attempt to push back the new deal and it really is a puzzling, puzzling moment in his career. and there are people that tried to sit and trace, h

ben bernanke during his semiannual report to congress today and tomorrow. >>> on the earnings front, citigroup beat the streets estimates. england's drug maker, glasgow smithine is buying a firm for $3.6 billion. a scathing new u.s. senate report accuses hsbc of a "pervasively polluted culture." alleging the bank failed to -- transfers believed to be linked to drug gangs and terror groups. >>> delta airlines is working with the fbi and dutch authorities after what appeared to be sewing needles were found in sandwiches on four separate flights from amsterdam to the u.s. on sunday. >>> yahoo appointed long time marissa meyer as its fifth ceo to attempt to turn around the struggling search engine. >>> a 9-year-old landscape artist from england passed a million pounds in lifetime earnings after selling 24 of his paintings for just under $400,000. >>> the tigers rally, a twin gets down and dirty. and a tie breaking grand slam. plus, what the president and first lady did when they were caught on the kiss cam. your first look at sports is straight ahead. you're watching first look on msnbc. alking... ♪ oh, come on! ♪ ugh, again! [ sniffs ] that's what i'm talkin'

smith. then testimony from department of homeland security secretary janet napolitano. and later federal reserve chairman ben bernanke on capitol hill. >> it was about those men and women who are almost motorly injured in war who because of the huge advance that is have been made in medical trauma treatment over the last ten years, now they're being saved. an incredible number of them are being saved. almost everybody who falls on the ballotfield is being saved. and i wanted to write about what life was like for these people. and i really started off with the question, having seen some people who were pretty gruesomely maimed, wouldn't it be better off if they were dead? don't they wish that they were dead? >> in beyond the battlefield, his ten part winning series and in the subsequent e book, david wood spoke with veterans and their families on the daily struggles for those severely wounded in military operations. tonight at 8:00. >> next on "washington journal," a discussion on syria and the obama administration's response to continuing violence in the country. we're joined by andrew tablor followed by the

smith is in washington dc. >> reporter: from the big screen, to capital hill, baltimore's arts grad, spoke in front of several members of congress including beng awareness about human trafficking and proposition 35, a law that will protect sexual exploitation of victims in california. >> something that actually is occurring in our own country and being that california, we have three of the major hot spots, in regards to trafficking. >> reporter: wjz investigation found that there are at least 20,000 human trafficking cases a year in the u.s. human trafficking is illegal in maryland but prosecutors say loopholes some times make it hard to prosecute. olivia and her children were brought to maryland from asia, as household states. >> i was most scared for my kids because, each day when i came home, i had a scary feeling i might not see my kids. >> reporter: she says she hopes congress will delegate more money to programs that prevent trafficking and help victims like lid yeah, once they are found. >> fighting slavery doesn't cost a lot of money, the cost of allowing it to exist in our nation, and abroad are much higher. >> reporter: the national

abc7 news reporter nick smith will bring us live reports from golden gate park beginning at 6:00. >>> later today we pay learn the name of the man wanted by ben asia police for shooting at an officer at a traffic stop. around 11:30 police called off their lengthy search but they think they know who they are looking for. it happened around 6:30 last night in benicia. the officer realized she stopped a stolen car out of napa just as the suspect opened fire. now here's what her patrol car looked like afterwards. see all the bullet holes in the windshield. she was not hit but returned fire and the suspect sped off, later abandoning the car. that triggered a massive police search of the area around columbus parkway. the man is still at large this morning, considered armed and dangerous. >>> we are assuming he's armed obviously because he shot at the officer. however, since he's fled, and has not been located, we don't know if he still has the gun in his possession or if he got rid of it. >> a woman and child left behind in the stolen car were taken into protective custody by police. >>> union city police have arrested a man wanted in connection wi

smith also brought three former sex slaves with her who are now successful college students and working to fight the industry that they were once enslaved in. >>> and right now, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is on capitol hill. he's giving his semiannual report to the senate banking committee today. bernanke expects the unemployment rate to come down. he says it will likely remain high for the next two years. >> given that growth is to absorb new entrance into the labor force, the reduction in the unemployment rate seems to be slow. indeed, the central tendency for participant's forecast has the unemployment rate at 7% or higher at the end of 2014. >> burr nanernanke will testify tomorrow. >>> well, a week after the president spent a weekend in the state, first lady michelle obama is returning to virginia. mrs. obama will make two campaign stops on friday, one in charlottesville and the other in fredericksburg. >>> and the president is on his way actually, right now, to texas where he hopes to bring a record haul at two fund-raising stops. first visit san antonio and then a private fund-raiser at the home of an attorney. then he will fly to austin, where he will meet with donors

smith, a member of the armed services committee. then secretary of the peloton not testifying before a committee. then the federal reserve board chairman ben bernanke. >> joining us on "newsmakers,"