ben smith, what i heard most frequentably romney's choice of ryan was the word "bold." as we have learned in previous election cycle, such snap judgments can look pretty different a week or a month later. >> it was a choice to change everything romney was doing, not to just keep doing it the operating assumption until now, he was going to try to romney himself would remain a sypher and try to run a referendum on obama which he never talked about himself, never really laid out a lot of details. ryan has come in and filled in a lot of blanks before him as detailed policy he is carrying. now it looks like it is a very clear choice between a set of policies for the president's articulated between -- and now a very clear ideological policy that ryan brings. if anything, a referendum on paul ryan for a while now. >> that is certainly the way it is playing in the media and terry smith, looking back to sarah palin four years ago, not comparing the two candidates, but is there a journalistic tendency to say something positive about a new running mate at the outset? "washington p

joining me now is nate silver and ben smith, editor and chief of buzz feed. had this fascinating show so far involving an empty chair which kind of sums up i think what most people think was between mr. akin's ears. ben smith, a quite extraordinary statement by him in this interview about rape and women. which, whichever way you try and explain it, it gets more grubby and more incomprehensible. how is he still in any kind of position to run for the senate? why isn't he gone yet? >> well, nobody can make him go. they are try. they are pushing so hard to get him out. he was nominated by the republican voters of missouri. despite the fact that the republican leaders in the state were saying exactly something like this was going to happen. mccaskill, the democrat, was pushing as hard as she could to get this guy on the ticket in the hopes that something like this would happen. you could see president obama pounce. he was delighted at that press conference. he couldn't really hide it. >> nate silver, this whole idea of legitimate rape is obviously nonsense. what a

i will give ben smith the last word. in sort of the second iteration of the defense of the plan, one thing romney said in florida is we are going to expand medicare. he was referring only to medicare advantage which most health policy experts would say is actually a replacement going to private insurance and now he's back off expansion and is defending the cuts. what were you going to say to e.j.? >> i think one of the things, old people have kids. i think the idea you can slice these demographics cleanly, that people under 55 just don't care, it doesn't matter. it's also true the presidential campaign is not the best place to debate complicated fiscal policy. president obama has not laid out a bold plan for slashing health care spending. somebody started talking about death panels a couple years ago and that went out the window and hasn't come back. romney has gotten trapped into talking about something neither side wants to talk about. >> we will move from that to something else romney probably doesn't want to talk abo

cupp and ben smith. i like to put up the boards. ben smith, the states are the same.orth carolina is sneaking in there. i don't see pennsylvania and wisconsin. i'm sorry, until romney can expand the map, it makes it hard. you see how romney can win nationally. you see it state by state. >> it is the old mario cuomo line. they are not spending the money there. >> have they made a mistake, s.e.? go all in in pennsylvania? >> no, i don't think pennsylvania would be a consideration for romney. he went in for a couple of times in charter schools. he was burned. >> colorado is the democratic fire wall. obama wins colorado, he can afford to lose ohio. it expands the map for the democrats. >> shameless plugs. mr. buzz feed. >> i don't know if this is buzz feed. anna north published "america pacific." it is like what will happen if we go over the fiscal cliff. >> does it involve us living on water? >> it's a bad sin. >> s.e. >> "new york daily news" has a section called the rumble. it is a blog. >> i love buzz feed. check out thecareer.com. i'm interviews joan walsh. we had ne

ben smith in a new video slamming president obama. the 22-minute film features former s.e.a.l.s, special forces and intelligence officers, skewering the president for taking president for the bin laden raid. the president pushes back. the obama team points to this interview wolf blitzer did recently with the commander of the raid. >> at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the united states that shouldered the burden of this operation and made the hard decisions. i pressed ben smith on that. >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. if he gave the order, wonderful. taking all the credit with the i, i, i, me, my and using us as a political ad is wrong. >> they also blast the owe bama administration for becoming public. >> we have procedures that were compromised and knew the name of the dog on the operation. >> they deny taking parts in any leaks and says the republicans are resulting to swift boat attacks. a reference to the 2004 attacks on john kerry's vietnam war record

ben smith in a new video slamming president obama.2-minute film titled "dishonorable disclosure" skewers the president for taking credit for the osama bin laden raid. the president bushs back saying he has always credited the s.e.a.l.s for the raid. and this is a interview done with admiral mccraven about it. >> make no mistake about it at the end of the day, it was the president who shouldered the burden of this. >> reporter: i pressed ben smith on this. should the president get no credit here? >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. if he gave the order, wonderful, but taking all of the credit with the i, i, i, me, i, i, i about it and using us as a political ad is wrong. >> reporter: the film also blasts the obama administration for allowing classified information on the raid and the security operations to become public. >> we had tactics and techniques and procedures compromised and we knew the name of the dog on the operation. >> reporter: the obama team denies taking part of any leaks and the rep

ben smith in a new video slamming president obama. the 22-minute film entitled "dishonorable disclosures," features former s.e.a.l.s., special forces members, intelligence officers securing the president for taking credit for the blin laden raid. the obama team points to this interview wolf blitz der recently with the commander of the raid, admiral welcome mcraven. >> at the end of the day, make no mistake about it. it was the president of the united states that shouldered the burden for this operation, that made the hard decisions. >> i pressed ben smith on that. does the president get no credit? should he get no credit here? >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. and if he's -- if he gave the order, wonderful. but taking all the credit with the i, i, i, me, i, i about it and using us as a political ad is -- is wrong. >> the film also blasts the obama administration for allowing classified information on the raid and other security operations to become public. >> we had tactics, techniques, procedure

that would prevent any politicianfrom exploaiting military gains or political secrt we skyped with ben smith... a navy seal who appears several times in the film. we asked if this a political manuever on the part of his group.(skype) 22:24:56 this isn't about republican or democrat, it's about ameriia. denied leaking any national security secrets. stand up poltics aside the fact remains that federal prosecutors and lawmakeras are investigating leaks from the aid that killed osama bin laden to the reported cyberattacks on iian. (video) 16:57 it's just not the way thattthe military does business nd i believe at the very highest levels they should be held accountable for it. we sat down with former fbi agent... doctor tyrone powers. he had just finished watchinggthe film dishonorable disclosure.(ppwers) 18:27:22 some of the issues they talk abouu have validity the severitt of the impact of the leaks or the severity of the impact offthe press conferennes i thhnk was a little exaggerated but special forces say because the adminiitration was so quick to go public on bin laden's death... the u-s bu

ben smith from buzzfeed.nk you for joining us tonight tonight. >> eliot: we have view founder coming up. she's every 5-year-old who ever jumped in a pool and didn't want to get out. ♪ ♪ every coach, every rival who ever pushed her. she's the tip of a spear that goes all the way back to the beginning. it's amazing how far you can go with a little help along the way. td ameritrade. proud sponsor of the 2012 u.s. olympic team. >> eliot: the libor scandal has devolved into a blame game where everyone is at fault. first hillary clinton canses michelle bachmann picks up a key endorsement and liz sets back women 50 years. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder. >> what's wrong with showing pride? what we're seeing this kind of soft anti-american feeling that americans can't show our exceptionalism. you know, red white and blue, wear it. >> i mean-- >> waive it. be proud of being an american. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> who do you think he's going to pick and why? >> well, i just want to go on record i'm

. >> reporter: that's former navy seal ben smith in a new video slamming president obama.he video features former seals, special forces members, intelligence officers securing the president for taking credit for the obama raid. the obama campaign has fired back. the obama team also points to this interview wolf blitzer did recently with the commander of the raid. >> at the end of the day, make no mistake about it. it was the president of the united states that shouldered the burden for this operation that made the hard decisions. >> reporter: the pressed ben smith on that. does the president get no credit within. >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. if he gave the order, wonderful. but taking all the credit with the i, me, i, me about it and using us as a political ad is wrong. >> reporter: the film also blasts the obama administration for allowing classified information on the raid and other security operations to become public. >> we had tactics, techniques, procedures compromised. we even knew the name of the dog that was on the opera

ben smith: mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. americc did. 's former navy seal ben smithwho appears several times throughout a 22 minute film titled dishonorable disclosures. smith and other former seals, special forces members and intelligence officers sharply criticize the president for nno only taking credit for the bin laden raid.buu allowing classified information to become puulic.criticism that's being echoed in the halls of congress.28:26 rep. michael mccaul: i think that violates a sacred honor and rule that you don't violate national security intelligence. and i believe that's what the white house has done here and it's wrong. the obama team denies taking part in any leaks- and says "the republicans are resorting to swift boat 3 the blistering 2004 attacks on john kerry's vietnam war record. (nats) 22:28:06 (smith/skype) whether it's obama bush whether it's romnny or obama in the next term we don't plan on going away were here to hold their feet to the fire. in the case of the swiftboat ads.... political analyst john dedie says the fo

ben smith slamming president obama. disclosures features former s.e.a.l.s, intelligence officers, securing the president for taking credit for the bin laden raid. obama campaign pushes back saying the president repeatedly credited s.e.a.l.s for the operation. the obama team points to this interview recently with the commander of the raid, admiral william mccraven. >> make no mistake, the president that made the hard decisions. >> reporter: i pressed ben smith on that. >> does the president get no credit here? >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. if he gave the order, wonderful. but taking all the credit with the i, i, i, me about it, using us as a political ad is wrong. >> reporter: the film blasts the obama administration for allowing classified information on the raid and other security operations to become public. >> we had techniques and procedures that were compromised, even knew the name of the dog on the operation. >> reporter: the obama team denies taking part in any leaks and

this guy ben smith really gets to me. >> this is an organization that really kind of gets laughed ations with the people in the military and pentagon around it. not a lot of people view it credible. it's one thing to make a critique about leaks, it's quite another thing to inject yourself in the middle of a political campaign and get the uniform involved in it. >> does this have nothing to do with their military role r, more are their ideology on the right? >> it's hard to understand how they'd get any traction. as a cover to make this sort of strange critique of obama, this is a president who's prosecuted more leakers than any other previous one to the consternation of civil libertarian organizations. >> foreign policy magazine reports that one of the main spokes men in this group, ben smith has put this out on his blog. you are an imposter. you are a muslim. you are the manchurian president, may you go back to the country you were born in, you little, little man and take all your communist supporters with you. that is the thinking hind this guy. >> thanks for having me. one of the

this guy ben smith really gets to me. >> this is an organization that really kind of gets laughed atound it. not a will tlot of people view credible. it's one thing about leaks, quite another to inject yourself into the middle of a presidential campaign. >> does this have nothing to do with their military role r, more are their ideology on the right? >> it's hard to understand how they'd get any traction. as a cover to make this sort of strange critique of obama, this is a president who's prosecuted more leakers than any other previous one to the consternation of civil libertarian organizations. >> foreign policy magazine report that is one of the main spokesmen in this group, ben smith, has put this out on his blog. you are an imposter. you are a muslim. you are the manchurian, may you go back to the country, you little, little man and take your supporters with us. that is the thinki ining hind t guy. >> thanks for having me. one of the things we have to sort of look at here is this has been a well coordinated campaign that started this year. the new group led by the birther is the

that would prevent any politicianfrom exploaiting military gains for olitical secrt we skyped with ben smithvy seal who appears several times in the film. we asked if this a political manuever on the partt of his group.(skype) 22:24:56 this isn't about republican or democrat, it's abbut america. the obama administration has denied leaking any national security secrets. stand up poltiis aside the fact remains that federal prosecutors and lawmakeras are investigating leaks from the raid that killed osama bin laden to the reported cyberattacks on iran. (video) 16:57 it's just not 3 the way that the military does business and i believe at the very highest levels they should be held accountable for it. we sat down with former fbi agent... doctor tyrone powers. he had just finished watching the film dishonorable disclosure.18:27:22 some of the issues they talk about have validity the severity of the impact of the leaks or the severity of the impact of the press conferences i think was a little exaggerated butt special forces say because the administratiin was so quick to go public on bin laden's d

. >> that's former navy s.e.a.l., ben smith, in a new video, slamming president obama. the 22-minute film, titled "dishonorable disclosures" features former s.e.a.l.s, special forces members, intelligence officers, skewering the president for taking credit for the marbin laden raid. the president pushes back, saying that the president has repeatedly credited the s.e.a.l.s for the bin laden operation. and they also point to this interview that wolf blitzer did recently with admiral william mccraven. >> at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the united states that shouldered the decision. >> should the president get to credit here? >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. and if he's -- if he gave the order, wonderful. but taking all the credit with the i, i, i, me, i, i about it and using us as a political ad is wrong. >> reporter: the film also blasts the obama administration for allowing classified information on the raid and other security operations to become public. >> we had tactics, techniques, and

msnbc contributor jonathan capehart of the "washington post" and buzzfeed editor in chief, ben smith. a gunman opened fire across the street from the empire state building this morning, killing one person before he was killed by police. the nypd says nine other people were shot, some of them possibly by the police. the shooting happened shortly after 9:00 a.m. during the morning rush hour. officials say the shooter was a 53-year-old disgruntled worker who was fired during a company downsizing last year. police say he returned to outside of his old place of employment this morning and shot a former co-worker in the head. new york city mayor michael bloomberg addressed the press in the last hour, saying things could have been much worse. >> this is a terrible tragedy and there's no doubt that the situation would have been even more tragic but for some extraordinary acts of heroism. every day as you know our police officers put their lives on the line to protect us. they did so again today, responding immediately. >> president obama was notified of the shooting shortly after 9:30 by his

standing watchdog organization that would prevent any politicianfrom exploaiting secrt we skyped with ben smith a navy seal wwo appears several times in the film. we asked if this a political manuever n the part of his group.(skype) 22:24:56 this isn't about reeublican or democrat, it's about america. the obama administration has denied leaking any national &psecurity secrets. stand up that federal prosecutors and lawmakeras are investigating leaks from the raid that killed osama bin laden to the reported cyberattacks on iran. (video) 16:57 it's just not 3 the way that the military does business nd i believe at the very highest levels they should be held accouutable for it. ww sat down with former powers. he had just finished watching the film dishonorable disclosure.(powers) 18:27:22 somm of the issues they talk aboutthave validiiy the severity of the impact of the leaks or the severrty of the impact of the press conferences iithink was a little exaggerated but special forces say because the administration was so quick too go public on bin laden's death... the u-s burned sources.. and lost out

ben smith in a video slamming president obama.es former s.e.a.l.s, former intelligence members, skewering the president for taking credit for the raid. the obama campaign pushes back saying the president has repeatedly credited the the s.e.a.l.s and also points to this interview wolf blitzer did with the the commander of the raid. >> at the the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the united states that shouldered the burden, that made the hard decisions. >> i pressed ben smith on that. does the president get no credit? >> he gets the credit for having osama bin laden killed under his watch. if he gave the the order, wonderful. but taking all the credit with the i, i, i, me, i, i about it and using us as a political ad is wrong. >> the film also blasted the obama administration for allowing classified information on the raid and other security operations to become public. >> we had tactics, techniques, procedures compromised. ooen the even the name of the dog on the operation. >> the obama team denies

ben smith: mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. t the ammrican military has done pilled osama bin laaen. you did not! that's former navy seal ben smithwho appears several times throughout a 22 minute film titled dishonorable disclosuree. (stand-up) during the film smiih and other former seals, special forces members ann intelligence officers sharply criticize the president for not only taking credit for the bbn laden raid.but allowing classified informationnto become public.criticism that's being echoed in the halls of congress.28:26 rep. michael mccaul: i think ttat violates a sacred honor and rule that you don't violate national security intelligence. and i believe that's what the white house has done here and it's wrong. the obama team denies takinggpart in any leaks- and says "the republicans are resorting to swift boat tactics..".. a reference to the blistering 2004 attacks on johnnkerry's vietnam war (smith/skype) whether it's obama bush whether it's romney or obama in the next term we don't plan on going away were here to hol

our team ben smith is editor in chief of buzz feed. is the anchor of your vote on pbs world channel. will cain is with us for the blaze.com. john is bringing us the news this morning. nice to have everyone with us. i realized when i said the date, it's my brother's birthday. i'll have to call him after the show. >> why don't you say it right now? >> consider this your phone call. moving on, a developing story which is truly a tragedy, this news out of hollywood, the famed director tony scott, the brother of ridley scott, known for blockbusters like "top gun" and "days of thunder" and "beverly hills cop 2" has committed suicide. to christine romans for an update. >>> hollywood is shocked by this news. the case is being treated as a suicide saying tony scott jumped off the vincent thomas bridge yesterday in san pedro, california. now the coroner's office is saying a passerby actually saw him jump and called 911. scott's death took the entertainment industry and insiders by total surprise. >> we use the word shocking all the time when we

with me now, back with us, penn jillette and cnn contributor ben smith and reporter for the los angeles time magazine columnist and -- i can't go through this so many times. there are too many titles and i'm getting 50,000 tweets and they are saying, are you going to drink any of this beer? what kind of damn brit are you? so just for the record, does it get any better for a columnist in the history of journalism than clint eastwood going bonkers on the stage? >> it was awesome. he did it without a teleprompter or complete control of his bladder. >> ben smith, five minutes was agreed with the romney camp. he went on for 13 minutes and it was complete chaos. >> i think people are going to be talking about clint eastwood rather than mitt romney tomorrow. the whole convention was supposed to be about women of color representing this new young republican party and it it really -- it was dominated by this 82-year-old guy going a little bit off the rails. >> right. from the political point of it, be serious for a moment, no doubt that tomorrow's headlines on television around the world will no

i asked this guy, one of the former navy seals, ben smith was his name.me on the program last week, before the president had commented on this on camera, and i asked him, is this just a group of republican guys who don't like the president trying to slam on him? what say you? and here is what he told me. >> when we are out there, whether it's a republican or a democrat with me on the field of battle, or doing a mission, if it's leaked to the enemy that we are going to be there, or how we're going to do it, we both die just the same, so it is -- americans die. and if stuff is leaked terror comes to the united states and american citizens die. megyn: chris plant is the president out there on a limb saying, and i quote, i don't take these folks too seriously. >> i thought honestly it was despicable. attacked them. he was completely dismissive of these people who are seals and c.i.a. officers, calling them names, oh, no, tea party, and oh, a birther. he seeks to discredit them and smear them. >> what they are is they are being used by republicans who wish to

ben smith from buzzfeed. thank you fofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofofo here we are on the "full court press" this tuesday, june 12th. good to have you with us. >> announcer: on your radio, on tv, the "bill press show." new on current tv. >> eliot: the libor scandal has devolved into a blame game where everyone is at fault. first hillary clinton canses, michelle bachmann picks up a key endorsement and liz sets back women 50 years. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder. >> what's wrong with showing pride? what we're seeing this kind of soft anti-american feeling that americans can't show our exceptionalism. you know, red white and blue, wear it. >> i mean-- >> waive it. be proud of being an american. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> who do you think he's going to pick and why? >> well, i just want to go on record i'm for michelle bachmann for vice president. i want everyone to be clear about that. >> the ladies of the press bel

>>> all right, our team this morning, bridget seigle is with us and ben smith, editor and chief of buzz feed and margaret hoover, former white house appoint in the bush administration. our get real, obviously your cell phone is great if you need to google map your directions or figure out what restaurant to go to, gps if you're stuck somewhere. but your phone also apparently knows not only where you've been but where you're going. it will predict where you will be in the next 24 hours. a team figured out thissal ga rhythm that uses tracking data to figure out where they are going to be tomorrow. even if you break from your routine, the phone can figure out where you're going to be. so companies could in theory be able to predict your movements in the future. the team, which is from the university of birmingham in the u.k. won the nokia mobile challenge. the question is legally you know that would never ever fly but it's kind of interesting. >> if you have privacy concerns about being tracked, turn off the location services device in your phone, the battery will last longer anyway. >> i

ben smith, editor-in-chief.ay reston, cnn contributor, washington correspondent, and from "time" magazine. welcome to you all. 12:50 in the morning. i'll have a little sit-down. the whole point is we can all enjoy ourselves, relax and consider the big picture. did paul ryan succeed? i thought it was interesting watching your twitter feed. we can all in real-time now see the reaction from so many people. i got the feeling the reaction was early on a bit nervous. a bit stilted. then he got more confident. he got to the economy. his numbers, the sort of stock in trade. he hit some big points. >> i think he got done what he needed to get done? he attack obama without being a one note attack dog. he projected the kind of hopeful he introduced himself. if there was anything missing from this whole thing, it has been mitt romney. there was not very much. >> how much pressure is mitt romney under now? we've seen some great speeches, i think. i thought ann romney was terrific. i actually liked chris christie. >> i though