the reason he is bob woodward when we asked him to be on the broadcast, lo and behold he started calling people to see what is happening and raising the debt ceiling meant. bob, what is your reaction to what you heard senator demint say? >> well, one thing just not factually correct. that there was a vote to give president obama a blank check, raising the debt ceiling does not give the president a blank check says we're going to pay the bills -- that we already -- that's all right in the legislation. i think calling around this weekend was very interesting is, this is kind of a trifecta for boehner, talk to somebody, key administration figure who said, what boehner did was very gutsy. you don't hear him talking like that in the obama white house very often. >> schieffer: somebody in the obama white house? >> key player, saying john boehner did the very gutsy thing. it's what the president wanted. the second thing is conservative press is praising boehner like the national review had long article saying, well done, john boehner. haven't seen that for a long time. third most interesting th

those people who believe it's bob woodward and does the leave its seymour hersh. think it's actually an apples and orange comparison because woodward tells us inside stories from the top. he tells us what the people at the top are thinking and doing and have done. her says that's fine and dandy and it's useful. the problem is they don't tell us the truth. he said he told us to woodward and from hersh's point of view those are the people who really would tell us what happens. in some ways it's mr. insider versus mr. outsider and i don't think that will ever change. will we ever see the likes of a seymour hersh again? i am optimistic about the state of american journalism although there are tremendous changes in journalism. circulations have plummeted in advertising resources of plummeted. there's this whole world of investigative reporting. hersh was just one of many. the question is from my point of view will anyone ever do what seymour hersh has done? no one will ever produce the range of scoop. i can't see anyone being as indignant or angry or in fatigue of all

although bob woodward was very cooperative in the making of this book. i went to talk to ed and i kept thinking, he really does not look like redford at all. bob, i'm sorry about that. bob is very helpful, very cooperative in the making of this book. where was i.? 1974 -- thank you. 1974 and like hundreds of others of my generation, my haste i might go into journalism because we have the sense we can save the world in journalism and the purpose of place or we could make wonderful things happen. of course we are looking for role models. the person i began to look at a seymour hersh. of course woodward and bernstein, balsa seymour hersh. he was a different kind of journalist can't even then woodward bernstein. i wasn't alone in my hot duration are looking at him as the rock star of american journalism in america investigative reporting. the pulitzer prize-winning journalist who worked for "the new york times" told me he came to a journalism conference in new york city in the early 1970s. he said the keynote speaker at this event was seymour hersh. he said h

we partnered with the bob woodward foundation as well as others, and we are training people, veterans- and others to become disaster response professionals, and we do this through a series of education and just general repurposing, finding those places in disaster response where we can best use our skills. >> lana we wish you luck. >> thank you for having us. >>> severe bought means tough decisions for california ranchers. beef is more than a $3 billion business in that state, so the potential impact is tremendous. melissa has the story. >> reporter: sunrise over the ranch and the cattle have already assembled. waiting expectantly for their feed. they are hungry. the landscape makes for scant forage. >> it is as bad as i have scene. none of the smaller droughts that we have had compare at all. >> winter rains ordinarily produce green pastures, but now the family must provide hay. >> we're at the point where we are out of feed. it will be a very expensive year for us with all of the additional feed that we have had to purchase. >> reporter: what the ranchers are telling us, the price o

be perpetrated in america, and the reason is because the mainstream media led by the ghost of bob woodwardbasically have decided we're in the tank for this, and there are people on this network who say that, too. it doesn't matter. no one cares. that's the difference between what goes on, the corruption in that capital, the moral corruption and out in the country. and again, someone should speak to it. >> well, i'm not going to try to defend every member of the media, but i can tell you that inside our fox home, we're asking the tough questions. we're trying to. >> the only place it's being asked. >> roger writes on twitter, benghazi isn't going away. i pressed on the issue of why people care, say they care, because even if it's not exactly about that night, it is about what you're talking about, getting the answers. >> and by the way, harris, it is about getting the answers, and it is not about getting any person. okay, we have just been talking. no mention of the secretary of state. no mention of the president. we're not here promoting it for political reasons. we're here to get the trut

i think he's happy to see bob woodward criticizing. he's happy mitch mcconnell doesn't like him.uz is trying to become the conservative fire brand who's the anti-establishment hero of the tea party. >> here's the thing. seems like the republicans, certainly those up in 2014, have to kind of survive ted cruz and his rebellions in order to get through their own elections. given that he's looking at 2016, he still has people like mitch mcconnell, who's already having to defend that vote back home on raising the debt ceiling. >> yeah, that's exactly right. and to perry's point, i always like to think of the villains on reality tv shows. that's not why ted cruz came to washington, to make friends. he came to win. and to win for him means, you know, he's positioning himself has this conservative leader and putting his republican colleagues in the senate in tough positions. he came out after the government shutdown saying he wasn't going to get involved in primary fights and challenges though those incumbent republicans, but these groups that he's been aligned with, the senate conservat

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. >> i was at an event a year and a half ago with karl burstein and by satellite bob woodward and they talked, bernstein was exercised about the lifelong after he left the white house effort by nixon to eradicate a list of things he did. i was curious about your perspectives on how good a job as a store and mr. frank and writers, how good a job he did in making us forget the things he did spend nixon didn't eradicate -- at his funeral, bill clinton sort of said let's not judge, there will come a time where we don't judge his entire presidency by this one thing. he was in public life or 50 years. i think he was taking a broader view of nixon now. the war was johnson's war. he had told sulzberger the u.s. careful. it was a cold warrior. it was a tragedy 50,000 americans died in that war and 18,000 have died under when nixon was president when they didn't have to. but i don't think, i think he, he became a valuable counselor in some ways. and i think people, i think people will never forget what he did. so i don't think eradicate is the right word that people begin to sort of, i think we'

this is what bob woodward contends, the war within. general mcchrystal would disagree with this. i know general petraeus disagrees with this. it was the synergy between the conventional and the special operations forces, the conventional forces taking and holding ground, and the special operations forces then being able to target insurgent and terrorist operatives that created a dynamic that improved, helped to improve the situation on the ground. if you have a pure counterterrorist campaign such that existed in iraq, there's no way that it can solve the problem. the final myth, all the surge did was create a decent interval for the orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from iraq. that's all it was designed to do. that's not what it was designed to do. that may be the way it turned out, perhaps, we will see. but this goes to the perspective of two presidents. george bush looked on iraq has, in his model within south korea where u.s. forces now 60 years on are still there helping that country stabilize after a very difficult war. south korea was in south korea for several decades but

bob woodward and andrea mitchell are on tape talking about this.e a conversation by our ambassador to ukraine, this woman, who has ever occurred saying we want to put such and such person in power. it is pretty obvious we are using this weapon to stir up the emotions of people in ukraine. we have an ambassador saying we are going to pick and choose the next leader. host: you think the u.s. is behind what is happening there? caller: not only there, but syria. host: go to our website, www.c-span.org, we had the former ambassador for the u.s. 2 2006.ne, from 2003 he talked about the history of the background of what is going on in that country. go back to our website and listen to that first hour. weets from members of congress reacting to what is happening in ukraine. by reports of ongoing violence, ukrainian government must respect democratic rights of its citizens. says i remain deeply concerned about violence in the ukraine. read his statement there. levin, we call on all sides to take steps to de-escalate the situation. rush, calling for peace in

. >> reference to my bob woodward comment. >> you're going to regret it. >> seriously.ard talked about you're going to regret it who was it, that was going to go out in the rain without an umbrella. >> john loveette, former speechwriter said i made the threat to him, once i saw him walking and was about to rain he didn't have an umbrella, i said you will regret that. >> and he just chills up and down his body. >> i'm in a threatening and imposing type of figure going with that image. i haven't been trying to back away from that. >> i'm digging in my shoes. >> gene sperling is leaving march 5th. one of the great example of public service and embodiment, thank you, brother, from clinton to now, you didn't have to do this and you did it. >> thank you. >> i think david axelrod is one of the great examples. giving back to the kids. how is the institute of politics going in chicago? that is a special place. >> excellent. it's been buzzing since you were out there. >> of course it has. >> really? >> yeah. >> they invited you. >> i thought it was sweet you let three republicans