full foreclosure one of the daily caller is tucker carlson.s a constant critic of fox news. shannon bream is live in washington with the rest of this story. hi, shannon. >> hi, shep. media matters bills itself as nonprofit progressive research center with the goal of, quote, correcting conservative misinformation in the media investigative report by the daily caller there is much more to the story. the daily caller cites sources current and former media personnel number of mainstream writers and executives like the "l.a. times" work together with media matters to promote viewpoint and specific stories. one sources quoted as saying greg sergeant he quote will write anything you give him. msnbc were eager to use our stuff. they would have it on the air that night of verbatim. neither sarjent and top sources at nbc or msnbc responded to our comment. media matters sometimes pitches me stories just as fox news sometimes does. when i mention media matters in the newspaper 12 times since 2007, i identify it as a liberal group. we did also find instan

columnist and partner at both fight strategies and vince colonise senior online editor at the daily caller welcome to you all and let's get started with this thing the u.s. economy outperformed expectations adding two hundred thirty four thousand jobs in january drop the unemployment rate down to eight point three percent this is the twenty third straight month of job private sector job creation and the numbers would have been even better if fourteen thousand government workers and been laid off by republican governors so eight point three percent this is the lowest since the beginning of the obama presidency here's president obama talking about it today . now this morning we received more good news about our come. in january. american business is added another two hundred fifty seven thousand jobs. the unemployment rate came down because more people found work altogether we've added three point seven million new jobs over the last twenty three months. terrible news for mitt romney so what do the republicans in the house in particular and the senate going to do to crash our economy before

on the back of the big picture on the on the panels and i will run political reporter the daily caller karl first progressive strategist syndicated columnist and partner bullfight strategies and vince collin a senior editor online editor at the daily caller and so yesterday every single republican in the house of representatives voted against a resolution the resolution that congressman peters put forward congressman gary peters and he said let's simply acknowledge the key fact and that is the so far the bush tax cuts have caused those two trillion dollars and this is by the book in the congressional budget office this is now this is two thousand and twenty two and this is the zero point no deficit if. congress does absolutely nothing in the bush tax cuts expire guess what happens within a decade or so we get to almost no no budget deficit raise taxes a little bit add that everything's fine and on the other hand if we keep everything the way it is the bush tax cuts continue things get even worse like they've been getting for the last couple years so you know it. well and in fact let me

. >> jon: that is tucker carlson and editor in chief of the daily caller which has been running a is a series of reports about mudslinging website media matters which accordingly influences over liberal operations, they have connections with the obama white house and will do all it can to go after fox news. according to the daily caller, 2009 internal e-mail to the founder of media matters, said, we must take fox news head on in a presidential campaign to discredit and embarrass the network making it illegitimate in the eyes of consumers. we should hire private investigator to look into an the -- >> jon: have you ever heard anything like this, judy? >> it's pretty astonishing. the fact is thank you very much, based on memo. i find it kind of astonishing the head of media matters he keas weapons for his personal protection. there was a lot of interesting material in it. and no one else in the media has picked up any of this and nobody has gone to david and insists that he comment on these allegations. it's very disappointing. >> you don't think the coverage it deserves? >> no, not at

so they offer these comments in this way. >> jack schaefer wrote say the daily caller is attacking media matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda. your response? >> we put a lot of great reporters on this piece and we really enjoyed what we presented and we they we have a phenomenal story. >> thanks for joining us. up next, andrea mccarran on the harassment campaign that erupted afterive reports on underage drinking here in washington. all energy development comes with some risk, but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today. >>> it was a classic example of aggressive local reporting. andrea mccarran found that high school students have easy access

he is an editor of the daily caller, jamie weinstein here. good to see you again.at buchanan on. he was just fired. this is on the heels of your, i guess we should call it the new media is doing that. that is this investigation in media matters. they wanted this for a long time. there are certain people we target. enemy's list. collaborate with the white house and they feed the info and picked up by main stream media. msnbc is shocked to find out that his views in the new book. >> he had the views forever. buckley wrote a book in 1990 that called pat cue can nan out on his views. the views have been consisten consistent. >> he has never been secretive of his views. >> always controversial. >> i've been the target of media matters. >> sean: you? they go after you? you are the nicest person in the world . i understand them coming after me. >> because i dayed to right about an f.b.i. protest. that spilled in our yard and neighbor's yard where they brought along a huntington post reporter, no main stream media reporters. it wrote about it for fortune, they went after m

the conservative leaning web site the daily caller put out another report today on the liberal advocacyhe daily caller reports congressional republics are now interested in examining media matters tax exempt status. in the interest of full disclosure it is important to note that one of the founders of the daily caller is tucker carlson who is also now a fox news contributor. media matters is a known constant critic of this news organization. shannon bream has the news tonight live from washington. shannon? >> shepard, in forms filed with the irs in order to get tax exempt status. media matters identifies purpose as charitable and educational. since then, the organization made it clear that it is using resources to attack various media outlets, including fox news. >> this is basically taking a government subsidy in order to attack a for profit company like fox news and news corps so you have a company that is free of tax -- federal taxes, people can donate to and have a tax write off and classified as educational charity but by any conventional standard doesn't meet any of those metrics.

columnist with daily caller.dent of penn financial group, author of the next great bull market. business expert matt mccall is back. everyone in the last basically assumes that barack obama is going to roll into the white house is going to be an avalanche of cascade of questions he is going to answer. the greatest evidence i think she in trouble is the left is becoming unhinged. >> we've got to take back the house. i saw pictures of boehner and cantor on our screen. don't ever let me see again in life. [ laughter ] >> those republicans in our halls on our stream talking about anything. these are demons. [ applause ] these are legislators who are destroying this country. >> sean: demons? >> you know what there are people that are unhappy. there was an article just today which i just got sent to me about this huge money person in san francisco. they are angry about keystone the opposite way most people are. his numbers are going up because the republicans have no narrative. they have no way of challenging him. >> s

recently the daily caller become exposing the media operations and the fox news contributor, tucker carlsonns me from washington. tucker, this is fascinating, if not explosive series that the daily caller has been doing and interestingly, let's talk about first, this idea that they're digging up dirt on fox employees. and that's the the stuff of pa political campaign not a watch dog organization. >> and not even a legitimate political campaign. i don't know a single presidential campaign, i know your campaign didn't do that and i don't know anyone that would do that, it's risky and unethical and it would potentially back fire. but we obtained an internal memo from media matters that laid out a plan to undermine fox. our private investigators to quote look into the personal lives of fox employees, targeting them online, going to their homes, placing billboards across from their houses, really harassing them and placing moles within fox news, sort of war without limits against fox. >> mike: there was a memo that you guys were able to obtain, this is just one of the quotes from it, it says, we

that is an internal document posted on daily caller.at be subsidized by the federal government, yes, or no? >> as a policy matter, no. >> bill: that is good. now, you answered the question. >> let me go one step further. david brock is a friend of mine. the original intent was to expos misinformation on the media. to the extent he has changed his purpose and become idealogiccal i think that was a mistake but i also think brent bozell is another example and evangelical churches are another example. >> even if you are right, you are saying that you are using bad behavior alleged to excuse other bad behavior. >> no, no. >> bill: that is exactly what you are doing. you are saying i don't want to deal with media matters so i will go over to another organization. >> i want to deal with media matters if they are violating the law. >> bill: we are dealing with it now. >> if they are violating the law they should be relieved of the tax exempt. >> bill: we made the case quite clear. it is not the law they are violating. it is the nonprofit statut

cept executive vice president actual taxpayers union and will ron political reporter with the daily caller welcome both of you back tim geithner and bill president obama's corporate tax policy today and you tube corporations the united states effectively paid the fewest taxes among the thirty four we see didn't nations and when you add in bad taxes which are paid in most other nations we're waiting on our corporations are way way low and so we've got the top marginal tax rate thirty five percent but the amount of actual tax dollars pay is low is to me as his and i do because of the country sort of like the situation in. sixty when when john kennedy came along and said you know millionaires and billionaires like me don't pay taxes even those top tax rates ninety one percent so let's close some of these loopholes and drop the rate that's obama saying let's close loopholes drop the rate down to twenty percent twenty five percent specially for domestic manufacturers geez tax return last year one thousand feet high when you break down ninety five or going to twenty thousand pages yes they paid

this will be part three of this daily caller investigation. you will talk about it on "the five" as well. thank you. fair and balanced. >> happy valentine's day. >> you too. gregg: i love the suspenders. martha: we can get you a pair of those. gregg: i used to wear a lot of suspenders. i don't do it much anymore. no wonder it costs so much. a new report shows billions of dollars in health care fraud. what is being done about it coming up next? martha: taking a battle-axe to the pentagon's budget that is live look at capitol hill where defense secretary leon panetta, that is carl levin of michigan but leon panetta is set to testify on this on a slimmed down military budget. hot, hot topic. one chance to hunt down the right insurance at the right price. the "name your price" tool, only from progressive. ready, aim, save! grrr! ooh, i forgot my phone! the "name your price" tool. now available on your phone. get a free quote today. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, b

at the battle over sex i think bound to lose or to discuss with me is james columnist for the daily caller james thanks for joining us tonight . i mean how do you see this jeffrey let's talk about some of the crazy legislation that i think is just straight up crazy that we're seeing in some of these states other trans national ultrasound now here you have people saying that if you want to you don't have to teach sex ed and if you do you don't teach about contraception i do think it will social conservatives are the tough spot they have been pushed i think by the left over a number of decades into a position where they think the only thing they can do to protect their way of doing things is about nationalizing all these issues and politicizing all these issues i think of taking away other people's rights basically the point is that it's a strategy that's not working if you can get through the rate it is true in the bush administration in the first george h.w. bush administration and be at a point where you know you feel like you're reykjavik cerys maybe you should adopt a different strategy

joining us, founder of the daily caller, tucker carlson. good morning to you.satellite. we're going to take a quick time out. tucker carlson live from miami when we roll on. still to come, the high school coach kicked off the job for calling her students cows. jeremy lynn took the basketball world by storm, launching a five-game hot streak after months on the bench. our next guest, his old high school coach says you all should have seen this coming. right back ♪ if you want it you got it i never believed anything as much as i believed i'd be overweight and unhealthy my whole life... until weight watchers. points plus gave me strength nothing else d. and i lost 46 pounds. my name is lindsey, and i'm 23 years young. i believe because it works. your turn. your time. your year. [ female announcer ] weight watchers, rated #1 best plan for weight loss by us news & world report. [ jennifer ] join for free. weight watchers points plus 2012. because it works. >> steve: joining us once again from miami on the phone now, tucker carlson. we're having a satellite problem. t

senior on-line editor for "the daily caller" and joins us live.>> good morning. >> let's start with this extraordinarily even though it was revealed by your organization they have suggested in a memo to hire private investigators to dig into the, you know, into the personal lives of fox newschannel people and executives as well, they are tax exempt and now i understand some congressional republicans are saying, hey, we got to look at that. that's not right. >> the daily caller is reporting exclusively overnight that congressional republicans are interested in looking at media matters' 5013 c tax exempt status. this is basically taking a government subsidy in order to attack a for profit company like fox news and newscorp so you have a company that's free of tax -- federal taxes, people can donate to and have a tax writeoff and is classified as an educational charity but any conventional standard, doesn't meet any of those metrics. as you noted, we reported there was a memo circulated in 2009 encouraging them to send private investigators after fox

. >> the daily callers, in depth investigation into the media matter's web site has reportedly gottention of members of capital hill. they're going to question the group's tax exempt status. here's the latest. >> the latest installment on the media matters for america details millions of dollars in contributions from left-wing organizations since its founding in 2003. it's collected $28.8 million from these foundations, among others. the tide foundation, the open society institute, the ford foundation, the sandler foundation, the human fund for media and democracy, moveon.org, the barbara streisand foundation, and many, many others. because media matters is a 501(c)(3) it pays no income tax, but in order to maintain its tax exempt status it has to meet certain criteria. the mere presentation of unsupported opinion is not educational. these from the wrist. some in congress are reportedly considering hearings to exam media matter's tax exempt status, including chas grassley. grassley told the daily caller, quoteing now, the standards for tax exemption deserve review as a part of good st

the daily caller cites current and former employees of media matters. obsessive and manic failure including fears of being killed by right wing snipers, fears that led him to hire armed security guard to carry guns to events in washington, d.c., without permit, which is illegal here. we asked for a comment but has not heard back. brother-in-law of usama bin laden said the al-qaeda leader told his children to move to europe or the united states for good education. bin laden did not want his family following the the jihaddist footsteps telling them to live in peace and "don't do what i am doing or what i have done." the brother-in-law said bin laden struggled with rebret over the impact of the 9/11 attacks that they had on his family. bin laden was killed by u.s. navy seals last spring. >>> our top story at the bottom of the hour, president obama sent the budget for the 2013 fiscal year to congress today. calls for $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade. republicans are labeling at it failure and campaign tactic. tonight, chief congressiona

it is tucker carlson, fox news editor of the daily caller. bill schulz, he thinks he is on "the voice" right now. and next to me is the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n and fox news contributor. right now he is considering whether or not to shave his mustache live on the show. stay tuned. and his readers are leaving because his cart cals -- his articles are deceiving. good to see you, pinch. >> today in sports he focuses on the five-time olympic medal list as she trains to jump back into the bull at the advanced age of 40. and to that i say big deal you buoyant harlet. i am 161 years young and training to be a shot put and be a paper maid curling during the winter games or something to read as the wrestlers grunt their way to making way to top their locker room toilets. >> you are not really. >> will negotiations get bumpy as iran acts jumpy? the islamic country is no longer the ray of sunshine i once thought it was? warning that it would take preemptive actions against the perceived foes if it felt threatened. talk about a snub, tucker. ira

that memo -- kudos to tucker carlson and daily caller.erything you and i talked about the left where they have an agenda, objective truth has nothing to do with it. if you look and read the words, where does the media bias come in play anywhere there? what they say, the job is do the dirty work for the obama administration and congress. they are going after fox. not because of a biased on fox but because they want to do the dirty work of the obama administration and they see fox not being in tune with the obama administration. >> sean: let's look at how this goes. the whole mind set, the enemy's list, hiring of private investigators. let me put this up on the screen there. this will be inside the memo from media matters that says, "we should also hire a team of tracker tos stake out private and public events with anchors, hosters, reporters, prominent contributors and senior network, and staff." they're saying this is a proposed non-profit and we learn through the memos decollaboration with the highest level of white house, valerie jarret

this is a big headline in the daily caller this morning. graham paul said it would be an honor to be considered as romney's beat. and chuck todd of explains no one knows if some sort of barlingen has been made but it's interesting that ron paul has never attacked romney but attacked more conservative candidates at just the moment they were beginning to pose a athlete romney. the timing is noticeable. now f.c.l. news is offering us a clue. the junior senator says it would be an honor to be considered a running mate for romney. what do you think of that as a ron paul supporter? caller: well, i don't really make he wants the -- i value him being 76 years old and i don't really care about how close he is to death. but the fact that i haven't really been able to see negative commercials out here in california to know what the back and forth has been on the candidate's negative ads. it just seems like ron paul's big positives are reversing all this trouble we have had with government and everybody just forgetting that we have a problem. host: tha

here from the daily caller to tell us what he found, vince.online editor and worked on this investigation. vince, thank you very much for being here. first of all, what led you to do this? media matters is, obviously, a left group that has been very critical of many organizations including fox news and, you know, a lot of people believe, look, if you, you know, are on that kind, that side of the aisle, you believe stuff like this, and if you're not, you don't. so why get involved in it? >> well, we wanted to pull back the veil. obviously, media matters has been out there for a while, they were founded in 2004, and we felt like media matters deserves some scrutiny. they spent a lot of time going after reporters, we've heard stories of reporters who felt intimidated by the way that media matters behaved towards them, even insiders claimed that they were intimidating reporters, they would receive thousands of e-mails after a media matters hit on them. so we felt it was reasonable for us to investigate them. as a news organization, we wanted to ex