if you look at the book about the debt crisis, bob woodward opens with a personal message to obama thats you're an empty suit. clearly something about president obama bothers woodward where he is injecting his opinion more than i've seen and calling attention to this threat, which that to me is no a threat. that wasn't too much of a threat new we know it wasn't a threat because of woodward's reply, which i'm going to get to in a minute. you said something interesting. i think a lot of people will see this as radical. i have a simple explanation. he wrote books about president bush about the opinion of the american people that he was the worst president we've ever had. he wrote a tough book on obama. here's my idea. he's a republican. >> i think he's conservative. >> he keeps pushing for the grand bargain. he's conservative and a republican. mystery solved. >> he's like the blue-red, mr. blue ribbon, closet republican. you look at his national security reporting. words are very tough on president obama. if you're looking at it through that lens, you also see it's a pattern of woodward be

bob woodward is not involved in policy. >> dana: that is obsurd. bob woodward is a reporter.rting. what he reported on and subsequently confirmed by the white house. the question he was asking, threat set aside, does it matter who came up with the idea for sequester? he decided it was, it was integral to the story. >> bob: he said can you imagine ronald reagan say he couldn't move an aircraft carrier? who is woodward to say that. >> greg: he can. >> kimberly: he has context and history. the fact he is making a big deal suggests there is something more to it. you are fooling yourself. this is a warning. get him now or interviews or another book down the road, they will find a way and it will be insidious. that is how they do things. >> eric: do you think -- >> bob: do you think the comment that they were going to -- if they can't, the wime "washington times" did not drop the column, they would not give a press pack -- >> dana: gaherty did not say it. lanny davis himself said it. solomon. solomon said it about the column. jim garety had nothing to do with it. he wrote david jac

>> bill: but you can't disagree with bob woodward because he is the pope. a is in cincinnati hoy. what do you say? >> caller: bob, i'm sorry, bill. >> bill. >> caller: listen, bill. word of mouth is the best advertisement. this is my mouth and this is where people ought to buy the obama hate machine that you have there because to make heads or tails of the ignorance, just the shear ignorance bob woodward, he's with too cute. he let's his good get in the way of his better like the lot of them. come on >> bill: well said, linda. every time i go out now and talk about the obama hate machine, i am going to take linda with me. >> telling you >> bill: she's got it. but this is woodward. he figured he could make news become part of the story. right? if he comes out and attacks the obama white house. form and friends and sean hannity last night embrace them now as their new hero. what undercuts that story, it was legitimate bona fide reporters across the board said, hey, woodward, get a life, man. we have had worse than that and we have given worse than that. it goe

bob woodward totally regrets it. at this point everybody is talking about how woodward screwed up. >> instead of talking about the fact that obama and jack lew were misleading when they said they didn't want the sequester. the president and the secretary of the treasury are very comfortable revising history in a false way, just to make them severals look better. >> not talking about his reporting, but talking about him. no reporter wants to be the story. >> unless you like having your name in lights which woodward doesn't need, of course. a clear idealistic, some defending woodward liberal commentators who, who feel that obama is being attacked unfairly, but i can't help but notice because woodward went on sean hannity fox new show that people on your side of the political spectrum who never had much use for bob woodward and now hailing him as a truth teller because he's taking it to the white house. little bit of ideological convenience there. >> it's red shirt, red jersey, blue jersey is what i describe people get

an icon like bob woodward.the second term of any two-term presidency, arrogance exceeds itself, we will find out by how much in just moments. we're coming right back. the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more... [ midwestern/chicago accent ] cheddar! yeah! 50 percent more [yodeling] yodel-ay-ee-oo. 50% more flash. [ southern accent ] 50 percent more taters. that's where tots come from. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on every purchase plus a 50% annual bonus on the cash you earn. it's the card for people who like more cash. 50% more spy stuff. what's in your wallet? this car is too small. or a charity case. a trouble maker. worthless. just a stupid mistake. i don't think i'm a lost cause. i'm just a kid. youth villages believes that no child is a lost cause. not a single one. because a stable loving family can help any child succeed. and we have an 80% success rate that proves it. if

an icon like bob woodward.nd term of any two-term presidency, arrogance exceeds itself, we will find out by how much in just moments. by how much in just moments. we're coming right back. the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more... [ midwestern/chicago accent ] cheddar! yeah! 50 percent more [yodeling] yodel-ay-ee-oo. 50% re flash. [ southern accent ] 50 percent more taters. that's where tots come from. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on every purchase plus a 50% annual bonus on the cash you earn. it's the card for people who like more cash. 50% more spy stuff. what's in your wallet? this car is too small. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] ♪ i'm feeling better since you know me ♪ ♪ i was a lonely soul, but that's the old me... ♪ announcer: this song wa

"washington post" reporter bob woodward became an unlikely hero to conservatives thanks to a recent op-ed about sequestration. woodward wrote, "when the president asked that a substitute for the sequester include not just spending cuts but also new revenue, he is moving the goalposts." well, the conservative media, they just couldn't wait to repeat this talking point. >> this is an idea of the president. he also talks about how the president and his team are moving the goalposts. >> yeah. moving the goalposts. republican politicians used woodward's column to back their own ideas. >> bob woodward's got a great piece where he tells the president, basically, he doesn't use these words, but he basically say the president has amnesia about this. >> and there are other examples. we don't have all night. the only problem with woodward's op-ed is that it's simply not true. president obama never moved the goalposts when it comes to new revenue. because you could go back to july of 2011 when the white house released this statement, saying that "the president will demand that the super committee pur

anybody. >> now, sperling and carney are not the only members of team obama to take a swipe at bob woodward over the last couple of weeks. and david plouffe tweeted, quote, watching woodward the last two days is like imagining my idol, mike schmidt facing live pitching again, perfection gained once is not repeated. and woodward exposed the watergate scandal in the the 1970's that ultimately led to president nixon's resignation and this is the journalist that the white house is now trying to discredit. ultimately in the end the obama administration are going to be the ones regret picking this fight. and joining me is the author of the price of politics" one and only bob woodward. bob as always, welcome back to the program. >> thank you, thank you. >> sean: let's start at the beginning. tell us about the conversation. >> with gene sperling? >> yes. >> yeah, i mean, it was the half hour in which he was shouting at me. now, i've known him for 20 years and he e-mailed back don't i don't worry about shouts, but he was really worked up and, and then he sent me that e-mail apologizing and you know,

and i'm afraid that he wants a political victory on immigration. >> tom brokaw, you have known bob woodwardg time. and this issue came up as i asked gene sperling about. and here's how woodward reacted to getting the email. he spoke on cnn this week. >> i mean, it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters you're going to regret doing something that you believe in, even though we don't look at that way, you do look at it that way. >> you know, i told gene sperling he should be offended that nobody believes he's that threatening. [ laughter ] >> well, i have known bob a long time, going back to his seminal days as a watergate reporter. and i'm confident that white houses have made him a lot more uncomfortable than that email over the course of the years when he talked to. any reporter who has worked in this town has been yelled at by somebody in the white house or somebody on the hill. it just comes with the territory. this is a speck that became a sandstorm overnight. and i think it's really reflective of the kind of media environment that we live in, in which eve

we'll be back and talk to bob woodward about this in just a minute. transit fares! as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. no? oh, right. you're thinking of the 1.6 million daily customer care interactions xerox handles. or the 900 million health insurance claims we process. so, it's no surprise to you that companies depend on today's xerox for services that simplify how work gets done. which is...pretty much what we've always stood for. with xerox you're ready for real business. [ male announcer ] ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money. that's not much you think. except it's 2% every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch. over time it really adds up. then go to e-trade and find out how much our advice costs. spoiler alert: it's low. really? yes, really. e-trade offers investment advice and guidance from dedicated, professional financial consultants. it's guidance on your terms not ours. that's how our system works. e-trade. less for us. more for you.

bob woodward verdicts the mush abushadministration.ich side does the media take verdicts president obama on sequestration. it's not all. one answer that really says something. hi, i just switched jobs, and i want to roll over my old 401(k) into a fidelity a. man: okay, no problem. it's easy to get started; i can help you with the paperwork. um...ts green line just appeared on my floor. yeah, that's fidelity helping you reach your financial goals. could you hold on a second? it's your money. roll over your old 401(k) into a fidelity ira and take control of your personal economy. this is going to be helpful. call or come in today. fidelity investments. turn here. how do you keep an older car running like new? you ask a ford customer. when they tell you that you need your oil changed you got to bring it in. if your tires need to be rotated, you have to get that done as well. jackie, tell me why somebody should bring they're car here to the ford dealership for service instead of any one of those other places out there. they are going to ta

bob woodward knows this. every responsible journalist knows. this so woodward wrote it. and he says the obama administration didn't like what he wrote. >> well, they are not happy at all and some people kind of, you know, said look, we don't see eye to eye on this. they never really said though afterwards, they said this is factually wrong and it was said to me in an email by a top. >> what was said, yeah? >> it was said very clearly "you will regret doing this. >> who sent that email to you. >> well, i'm not going to say. >> was it a senior person at the white house? >> a very senior person. >> that person was gene sperling an economic advisor to the president. to be fair, i read the emails between sperling and woodward. there does not seem to be any threat as far as a reprisal is concerned. it looks like sperling is telling woodward he is wrong on the issue and will regret being wrong. but i could be wrong because tone does not appear in email. now, it is certainly true that the obama administration does not like to be criticized by the press. if you are perceived to b

it's all on e-mail. >> bob woodward, i think, his sense of proprity was offended. d to woodward. i think he didn't like the tone and content of this message from the white house. his reporting from his best-selling book, "the price of politics," had convinced him that the white house has been wrong about what they've been saying, about the genesis of the sequester. he didn't like this brushback from gene spurling. i guess they had had a shouting match. he says they have not had a makeup conversation. but his bigger point is, he says he doesn't think this is the way to do business by the white house. and he says that it's a reflection of how thin skinned that they are. that this is a white house that's not used to taking criticism. >> that's a key word because we're looking at just what happened yesterday and not looking at this completely in context. this has been going on for some time between the white house and woodward. things got ugly. woodward said the president wasn't telling the truth. jack lew wasn't telling the truth. they pushed back on that. then woodwar

bob woodward made his reputation based on a third rate burglary. now, he's losing his reputation because of third-rate punditry. does bob realize the e-mails i get from canadian pharmacies are more threatening than the one he got from the white house? also bradley manning has admitted some guilt. the government official mistreated him, not so much. and the dow is at a five-year high and corporate profits are bigger than ever which means if barack obama is the communist fox news keeps saying he is, he's very, very bad at it! today, my friends is the birthday of late rolling stone brian jones, he would have been 71. also the birthday of paul krugman and internationally beloved humanitarian gilbert godfrey. on this date in 1983, the final episode of m.a.s.h. was broadcast on cbs. how fitting that pope benedict's retirement falls on the 30th anniversary of father mulcahy's. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. if political gridlock was an olympic sport the congress would be preparing to field a gold medal. maybe we can all do

host: let me go back to the story about bob woodward and the exchange with bob henry and j kearney. guest: when you're telling jessica about the tone of that evil was respectful -- last night a senior adviser of the white house put out a tweet that compared bob woodward to an aging baseball player and the little them. -- and belittled him. is that respectful? does the white house support this? guest: there was an accusation that gene had been threatening and everyone who knows gene knows that is hard to believe. gene has been working on these issues all his life and work 20 hours per day. the president will continue to help middle-class americans. i have enormous respect for the work that bob woodward is famous for. many of us probably got into the business in part because we read "all the president's men" saw the movie or both. we have a factual disagreement that we stand by which is that the president was very clear from the beginning that he would push balance to deficit reduction. how can that be a mud -- and a mystery? that was his position when he signed the budget control act

. >> paul, this is a hit to veteran washington post journalist bob woodward for basically standing up to the obama administration this week. you know, mr. woodward basically has criticized the white house for trying to blame the budget stalemate on republicans and saying they were jeopardizing national security. he says the kind of behavior he would seek from the administration is madness and he hadn't seen anything like it in a while and he should know since he covered president nixon. so this is a hit to him for refusing to be bullied. >> paul: he's being excommunicated from the beltway press corps. all right, joe. >> paul, you remember dennis rodman, former basketball star, cross-dresser, used to date celebrities and now he's taken up with little kim, a miss this week for rodman who is in north korea, amid the gulags called kim jong uchn a friend for life. i think there's a reason they called him "the worm." . >> i can't top that. and to johnny manziel and they've created what is the most popular online video among the teenagers in my neighborhood. basically a good clean fun where

does the email exchange between bob woodward and gene sperling rise to the level of a threat? i don't think so. you read the email tcertainly doesn't sound like a threat to me. >> i don't think bob was air anded and i don't think bob used the word threat. regret is what he said. you can't threaten bob woodward. it's not going to scare you. but the young journalist who is come to town here and are trying to cover the white house or do anything and they start getting people being aggressive and abusive. you know, i know we get into the fights with the subjects we cover from time to time, but there is such a thing as transparentsy and lay off. woodward's laying out the facts who, started the seqefer and got the white house mad because he corrected them when they got it wrong. >> i think the white house has been very critical of bob woodward. i don't think the faces are on the white house's side. i think woodward is right and he was there, he reported fiduciary his book "the price of politics," he was in the room eye mean, he took you in the room fyou read those passages, talking t

bob woodward denies reports that a white house -- reporting. veteran reporter accused the president of quote, moving the goalposts by proposing new revenues as part of a deal to head off the sequester. in an e-mail exchange described as a heated phone conversation, white house economic advisor gene sperling told woodward he would regret making that claim. here is wood word on "hannity". >> people said this was a threat or i was saying it was a threat. i haven't used that language. but it's not the way to operate in the a white house. the problem is, they're all kinds of reporters who are much less experienced, who are younger. if they will get roughed up in this way and, you, i, flooded with e-mails from people in the press saying this is exactly the way the white house works. they're trying to control and they don't want to be challenged or crossed. jon: talk about it with our "news watch" panel today. judith miller is a pulitzer prize-winning reporter. kirsten powers is a "daily beast" columnist and both are fox news contributors. what about

we continue with journalist bob woodward.ou mentioned your age earlier and i don't think you look a day over 50 just for the the record. you know, this is not your first rodeo. i was talking about this on my radio show earlier today and you're right about young journalists and i think they can be far more intimidated in an incident like this and i don't expect you would be. i am concerned that the media has become almost like the press office, almost an extension of the press office, not critical in any way with president obama. as a conservative, am i wrong? >> let's get in out on the table, because it's boimportant. we live in an era partisanship, let's face it, fox news is a cornerstone of part of that partisanship and there are a group of people, msnbc, a lot of people who support obama who just believe he can do no wrong. we've got this division and what somebody who's a traditionalist in the reporting, like myself, said, well, let's find out what happens. sometimes it falls this way and sometimes it falls that way. i ge

and does this e-mail exchange between bob woodward and gene sperl rise to the level of a threat? i don't think so, he when you read the e-mail it doesn't sound like a threat to he me. >> greta: i don't think that bob was scared and i don't think that bob-- he said he didn't use the word threat, he used the word regret. you can't threaten bob woodward, but the young journalists trying to come to the white house and start being aggressive and abusive and i know we get into fights with the subjects we cover from time to time, but you know, there is such a thing as transparency and a thing-- and woodward was laying out the facts who started the sequester and got the white house mad because they got it wrong. >> i don't think that the facts are on the white house's side. woodward reported for his book "the price of politics" he was in the room if you read those passages talking to everybody there. >> and the central substantive complaint he makes that the white house is pretending that the president wasn't behind the sequester when in fact it was a suggestion by them. >> and he said h

with lou: bob woodward talks about the threats of the warehouse and frankly it is getting toasted one. and today the president's appearance before an uncharacteristically challenging the press corps a new dynamic has begun is it because the end henry started over the weekend? >> i think the republicans are digging in their heels and he is not used to that. they usually cave he said we gave you the tax hikes we're here to talk about spending and standing firm and he is getting defensive. that is not an attractive role for the president who talks about he is not divisive in a unifying. it is an entertaining light and the hall in the area of the republican stand for something finally. >> i find it interesting bob woodward got under their skin. lou: that was an idiotic thing to do. >> hehe chose to make it an issue it could be interpreted as a threat is to different ways it could be will be wrong or here is the offer you can refuse. lou: i think bob woodward has interpreted enough presidents imidian's i trust his interpretation. >> he is an excellent reporter. lou: and peter king says do

some of the recent revelations with bob woodward may give him pause. >> sean: it wasn't just bob bute came out and said i got intimidated, too? >> it didn't surprise me. i have seen things behind the scenes myself. i just hope we get more people looking at this critically. >> sean: i wanted to ask you a question about your speech, something that went on behind the scenes. we'll continue with dr. carson we'll continue with dr. carson "common [ mom ] 3 days into school break and they're already bored. hmm, we need a new game. ♪ that'll save the day. ♪ so will bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller powerful sheet. the only one with trap + lock technology. look! one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. use less. with the small but powerful picker upper, bounty select-a-size. use less. with the small but powerful picker upper, they're coming. yeah. british. later. sorry. ok...four words... scarecrow in the wind... a baboon... monkey? hot stew saturday!? ronny: hey jimmy, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars s

lou: and goes after bob woodward, who has recanted his inintimatetions of threat, and d gene sperling over for sunday lunch or brunch. >> he invited the president too. lou: who not go. >> i think that bob woodward's sin was to demolish the very center of the president's campaign against the republicans, this sequester was there fault, and wood ward pointed out it of the the president's idea in the first place, he moved goal post, that undermined whole tactic. lou: gene sperling acknowledged that out loud in front of bob woodward and god everyone and important, including the american people. >> i see the fine hand of david axelrod behind this. it appears that what this presidentments to do is kind of -- president wants to do is just go through first two years of second term, and get a democratic house and pass these liberal bills. lou: that is a lovely thought for the president but there is a matter of perhaps republican resistance. we see if they learn anything about grand games. and having more voters than the other fellow. >> thank you. lou: the book is,, the ma amate, you can get l

lou: i think bob woodward has interpreted enough presidents in midian's i trust his interptation. >> lou: and peter king says don't go near the of conservative political action committee why is he so worried about people going there? >> there is the presumption republican = conservative but they are not. the conservatives said they want you dry a clear line and peter does himself on the republican blind after calling himself a conservative. there really is a moderate republican

some of the recent revelations with bob woodward may give him pause. >> sean: it wasn't just bob but i got intimidated, too? >> it didn't surprise me. i have seen things behind the scenes myself. i just hope weet more people looking at this critically. >> sean: i wanted to ask you a question about your speech, something that went on behind the scenes. we'll continue with dr. carson "common sense solutions," that is what america needs when we return. ♪ ♪ ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. [ male announcer ] from the way the bristles move to the way they clean, once you try an oral-b deep sweep power brush, you'll never go back to a regular manual brush. its three cleaning zones with dynamic power bristles reach between teeth with more brush movements to remove up to 100% more plaque than a regular manual brush. and even 76% more plaque than sonicare flexcare in hard to reach areas. oral-b deep sweep 5000 power brush. life opens up when you do. email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a p

some of the recent revelations with bob woodward may give him pause. >> sean: it wasn't just bob butple came out and said i got intimidated, too? >> it didn't surprise me. i have seen things behind the scenes myself. i just hope we get more people looking at this critically. >> sean: i wanted to ask you a question about your speech, something that went on behind the scenes. we'll continue with dr. carson "common >>. >> sean: so you give this speech the president was in the room, national prayer breakfast and gets all the publicity and then we discover the white house wanted a copy 6 your speech. they kept asking you to get a copy of that. what happened? >> that happened the last time i was going to speak also. i just simply told them that i don't have a copy of the speech because i don't speak from a script. i don't use a teleprompter. before i went to that prayer breakfast i wasn't hundred percent sure what i was going to say. >> sean: it's you tell your story. did you sense they were afraid because they knew maybe where you might be going and you didn't agree with the president. di

ed o'keefe of "the washington post," a colleague of bob woodward. o, not a colleague of woodward. why did the story even become such a big deal? >> bob woodward is a legend and that always becomes news and then when he actually lays out why he felt potentially threatened or was attacked by the white house in a very blunt and direct way. to some of my political colleagues who reported that issue, it got a lot of attention, but you know, when these emails got revealed that showed that, you know, maybe woodward was overstating the case, and it really sort of blew up in his face and it became a distracting sideshow to the larger issue which was the sequester and the cuts taking effect friday. >> the effects people in this country. the root of this back and forth was the president was responsible first automatic spending cuts. the white house argues he was not. rer republicans say he was. who is correct? who's right? >> oh, man, you will put that to me, craig? it's the $64,000 question in this town this week, right? >> that's why we put it to you. >> exac

back in washing tocchet the spat between the white house and veteran watergate reporter bob woodward ek. in fact, depending on who you talked to, it eclipsed coverage of the sequester debate. at issue is whether white house economic director gene sperling threatened woodward and that really depends o let's go behind that store we ari melber, msnbc political contributor at "the nation." take us to it. >> there were two big stories in washington this week, of course the sequester and the idea that bob woodward was bullied while covering it. the famous "post" reporter said the white house tried to scare him. the administration's argument was that woodward, of course, was going to regret making a factual error, when all the e-mails came out the evidence showed woodward was exaggerating. it was a threat so veiled i can't see it. still, the whole thing consumed washington for days, and that reaction, i think, suggests two larger problems. first, there's the problem that washington and the media share. we focus too much on ourselves, so in a week when spending cuts were going to impact milli

remember what harry truman said bob woodward if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. all right, folks. what a great week. have a great weekend. the sequester is here. hope you survive it. come back and see us again on monday. have a good one. >> this is "the bill press show." [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hello, current tv you know jacki schechner every day is magic for me. >> what do you have? >> stephanie: somebody sent me a crewela devil doll and reba mcentire is on the show. [ applause ] >> stephanie: so today's show will be a puppet show. and also reba mcentire >> that's exciting isn't her new show with lily tomlin. >> stephanie: yes, friend of the "stephanie miller show." >> i was going to say >> stephanie: and of course crewela. this is what my life has come to. here is jacki schechner with a real job in the current news. >> good morning, everybody. it is sequestration day. the president and vice president will meet with senator at the white house. the president has to sign an order by 11:59 tonight, and jay carney says he will do that in private. don't expec

to something else -- >> that was inside baseball. >> who cares with what bob woodward thinks?es about what dennis rodman thinks except that it was pretty good footage. it was an interesting gig. no one takes him serious. i went out it dinner with him e. stuck us all with the tab. this is not somebody who will join the mensa society soon. >> right. >> the north koreans took him seriously? >> i'm sure she they it, yeah. >> they didn't exactly sit down and figure out their nuclear arsenal or diplomacy. they had a party, byou the way, back at kim jong-un's house and they had a big love fest. terrible. >> it is terrible when you think about it. we're joke being this, but north korea is not a joke. dennis rodman is, though. >> ahead on "the five," dr. ben carson has some advice for conservatives and republicans on how to grow the party. you will hear from t him. that's ahead on "the five" dad, i'd put that down. ah. 4g, huh? verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pure lte build. moe most consistent speeds indoors or out. and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously

. >> and he was making a joke about a number of journalists, including bob woodward.lking about the flap that's been going on with the white house and bob woodward. he said hey, what's the worst that could happen when a president gets into a fight with bob woodward? >> senator, what is the good of these kinds of evenings, of the media getting together with politicians, with office holders, and joking around like this. >> well, at this point in washington i think any function where republicans and democrats are coming together is a good thing, and there were a number of elected officials there, people talking to the press, and it is one more venue where people can at least try to be civil to each other. none of the three speeches i would consider snarky. they were all pretty positive. my favorite joke from the president was when he talked about how john kerry was doing well stepping into hillary's shoes but taking it too far when he was showing up every day at work in pant suits. i thought that was the president's best joke. he said he is too tall for pant suits, it is

it happened after ron tweeted about bob woodward's criticism much obama. obama white house, woodward is it willfully wrong. what did the white height say about woodward. ron forny writes a senior white house official that ron used as an unnamed source sent him an indignant e-mail. what is next a nazi analogy? he accused ron spriding bs. he told the source to stop e-mailing him and any feture emaims will - e-mails will be pub blisherable. i spoke to ron earlier and asked how al relationship with a white house official deteriorated to the point he had to cut thai ties? >> it was a combination of things, i felt like the person trying too hard to intimidate me and my reporters when i was editor in chief of the national journal. there no relationship of give or take. it was all combat and trying to explain why i was stupid and why i was wrong and why can'tip see the president as great as this person could. i was not getting anything out of it except for a headache and a waste of time. other reporters might have a hard deeming with that . i just didn't think it w

bob woodward, thank you, as well. >> thank you, bob. so much.l l live in charleston, north carolina. where voters will decide if they want to put mark sanford back on the ballot. plus, hillary clinton fuels 2016 speculation with a new video released yesterday that's sure to please many in the democratic base. it's not just fueling speculation -- >> she just -- >> what? she's running, but she wanted just in case people came up to her and didn't know what her position was -- she wanted to clarify. >> if anyone needs the answer to the question, she is. thank you, we'll be right back. >>> i've cut spending, reduced debt and made government more accountable. more recently, i've experienced how none of us go through life without mistakes. but in their wake, we can learn about grace, a god of second chances and be the better for it. in that light, i humbly step forward and ask for your help in changing washington. >>> i'm sorry for all the mistakes i've made. sugar, just give me one more chance. >> break up with career politicians, the right guy, teddy

>> bob: this is a far better story to lead with than bob woodward. [ laughter ] compared to somethingide baseball. >> bob: who cares what woodward or radman thinks but it was good. he is an intimidating guy. this is not somebody to will join the mensa society. >> dana: did north koreans take him seriously? >> eric: we didn't take him seriously. >> andrea: they had a party at kim jung un's house and a big love fiesta bowl. it is terrible. north korea is actually not a joke. ahead on "the five," dr. ben carson has advice for conservatives answer republicans on how to grow the party. you will hear from him that's ahead on "the five." thyou eat less...ing weiyou lose weight.et. it's a great plan... until you get hungry. that's the time to take slimful. one tasty 90-calorie slimful and a glass of water satisfies hunger for hours making it easier to eat smaller meals, and resist snacking. your friends might think you found the secret to losing weight. but it's no secret... it's slimful. eating less is a beautiful thing. >>> ladies and gentlemen, my name is sally o'malley, i'm 50 years old a

this sequester, bob woodward said was supposed be to be about cutting spending and the president added component and the idea of the press getting tough. john boehner, what are you prepared to give up to get a deal with the president. it's not the president. what are you willing to compromise-- . sequester, it's a 70-30 split already. >> megyn: i don't winter to get back into that. i want to ask you this, we talked in the last hour how the president's approval rating dropped 7 points in week and now down to 46 with gallup, quinnipiac and fox news, 8 points up from his lowest ever. and why? do you feel like the american people are starting to think that the president-- >> i think there's starting to be a pox on all their houses. >> megyn: he's been immune to a lot of this. >> not necessarily. this is a democrat and obama supporter, i'm so sick of this. like crisis number-- emerge from crisis to crisis, unless you're a die-hard partisan who want to say my side is doing a great job and the other side stinks, you can't credibly say that anybody there looks good under the sequester paradigm