thank you both for being here. >> good to see you, rev. >> thank you very much. >> errol, how closelyk the clintons are watching this mayor's race? >> i think they've got to be watching it closely, in part because they are political animals. this is the most important city in the country. they live, you know, just a few miles north of here, and they've got some skin in the game. they've got somebody who is very close to them, both politically and personally who is in this limelight. so i think they're certainly watching it. ironically, i think if anthony weiner were doing better in the polls, they might be a little bit more concerned than they have reason to believe now. >> but is it also possible that they're watching it because mrs. clinton's aide, who is weiner's wife is clearly there if mrs. clinton runs for president, is the fear that this will bring back things that they want to leave not discussed in terms of the clintons? >> no, i don't think so. i mean, look, anybody who wants to dredge up stuff from the 1990s about bill clinton, they have all of the archival footage they wou

let's turn to errol and talk about government, government surveillance. president obama defended it to our chris cuomo, as well. take a listen. >> it can only work if the american people trust when's going on and when's been clear since the disclosures that were made by mr. snowden is that people don't have enough information and aren't confident enough that between all of the safeguards and checks we put in place within the executive branch and the federal court oversight that takes place on the program and congressional oversight, people are still concerned as to whether their e-mails are being read or the phone calls are being listened to. >> okay. so he said, people don't trust the government but then he says we need to trust the government and realizes people don't trust the government. we need to trust the government. what's the solution here? >> he has no good, easy answers here. this is somebody backtracking step by step and said in that interview, nobody's -- well, accidentally, we may have listened in a few times. if they did it 2,400 times by a

let's talk about this with errol lewis and anna navarro.tart with you, anna, not much gets done in d.c. these days, does it? >> listen, anna, when congress wants to do something, they do. when they want to do nothing, they do. when they want to do things in a hurry they do, and when they want to do things slowly, they do. they have a full agenda of what they must do and hopefully they will get to it. with the approval ratings that congress has right now, most americans are breathing a sigh of relief they are gone and not in washington doing anything. >> but you have to say they're fed up. a cnn poll gives congress an approval rating of 17%. the president's approval rating has dropped to 46%. mr. obama is not in a strong position when it comes time to cut a budget deal or avoid a government shutdown. >> he is not doing great but he is never going to run for political office again in his life and congress has to run in about a year and a half. and that adds strength to the president's position. and during this five-week break, congress is goi

republican strategist kevin madden and stephanie cutter, radio talk show host ben ferguson and columnist errol lewis. rarely do we get a chance to get happy news and i want to bring you back to last friday when the president had a news conference and he sought to ease americans' doubts about the massive nsa surveillance programs and outlined the series of reforms and they include working with congress to restructuring the secret court to the declassification of some nsa activities and outside experts to review computer spy technolo technology. i want to welcome someone else from afar and the assistant democratic leader in the house. last month he joined forces with conservative republicans in a failed effort to defund the surveillance program. congressman, first of all, thank you so much for being there. i wanted to ask you, first of all, if what the president said in any way made you feel easier or more comfortable about this program in particular the phone data that is collected on every american? >> first of all, thank you so much for having me, candy. yes, but i felt that way before. as yo

has employed a variety of methods one of them errol martini a plane that had been flying over cuba to transmit u.s. broadcasts the u.s. broadcasting board of governors that oversees iraq marty has asked congress to discontinue the program two years in a row admitting it has been a failure it's hard to believe we're still wasting millions of tons paid dollars on beaming a gem t.v. signal to fewer than one percent of cubans can see from an airplane to the island at a time when u.s. lawmakers cut funding on social programs for a low workers that a time when we hear calls to defund us public radio and television washington still spends millions of dollars every year on a media operation to do. overthrow the cuban government in washington i'm going to check out. some other world news now al qaeda front group the islamic state of iraq has claimed responsibility for a string of blasts in shia parts of the iraqi capital baghdad the attacks claimed over eighty lives and left almost two hundred fifty injured militants said the attacks were a response to the security forces operations a recent s

has employed a variety of methods one of them errol martini a plane that had been flying over cuba to transmit u.s. broadcasts the u.s. broadcasting board of governors that oversees iraq marty has asked congress to discontinue the program two years in a row admitting it has been a failure it's hard to believe we're still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jam t.v. signal fewer than one percent of cubans can see from an airplane to the oil and i did time when u.s. lawmakers cut funding on social programs for a low workers at a time when we hear calls to defund u.s. public radio and television washington still spends millions of dollars every year on a media operation to overthrow the cuban government in washington i'm going to check on. but i thank you for joining us here on our team tonight on real research they are now ten souse me eleven thirty pm in moscow and crosstalk in just a second. the u.s. government project arrow marty has been in place for twenty years this project was designed to break the media monopoly of cuban television by putting u.s. government propag

government project errol marty has been in place for twenty years this project was designed to break the media monopoly of cuban television by putting u.s. government propaganda on t.v. screens this injection of american t.v. works with a blimp and a c one thirty military plane working in tandem you know this would actually be a major achievement in the history of technology if it actually worked this program which over the years has built up a billion taxpayer dollars simply does not work but continues to exist despite the cuban government completely blocking the transmission the official logic of continuing the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance and action but the big question is who gives the u.s. government the right to propagandize cubans just because they have a different lifestyle doesn't mean it is wrong and the u.s. government does has the right to destroy it and even if cubans on mass actually do hate their system then it is their job to change cuba not the military industrial complex and its cronies in washington

signals to circumvent that the us has employed a variety of methods one of them errol marty a plane that had been flying over cuba to transmit us broadcasts the us broadcasting board of governors that oversees iraq marty has asked congress to discontinue the program two years in a row admitting it has been a failure it's hard to believe we're still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jam t.v. signal fewer than one percent of cubans can see from an airplane to the oil and i did time when u.s. lawmakers cut funding on social programs for a low workers at a time when we hear calls to defund u.s. public radio and television washington still spends millions of dollars every year on a media operation to overthrow the cuban government in washington i'm going to check out. and up next year well sports. a. wealthy british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. hello welcome i'm kate partridge and this is the arty weekly sports show hof an hour of top sport f

. >> errol, you seem to know the bright lines, it's bloomberg-light, in some form of other, if quinnorse mont. they're being careful there because they think there's a problem in the primary with de blasio. where is thompson with this? he's the pro-business candidate. he's the chief financial guy. i can't figure it out. >> it's very interesting. thompson came close. closer than anybody imagined. partly because they misread the polls four years ago. to beating bloomberg who had outspent -- >> so he should be a shoo-in for the nominee, right? >> he may or may not be a shoo-in at this point. he's doing a slow and steady wins the race kind of strategy. he's got a lot of support from a lot of black ministers. he appears to be all over the place to some on stop and frisk. that reflects the reality of some of these neighborhoods. you need police protection as much as you need the police to respect -- >> they don't want profiling but they want the police on the corner and he's been trying to walk that line. it does feel that the republican field is not as strong as it's been in previous year

. >> i'm errol louis or tonight we're at town hall where i'm joined i'm more than 1000 new yorkers as well as our panelists, the host of portal politico, ryan, the show, the host of the brian lehrer show, katie, the city hall bureau chief and grace, political reporter for new york one. the next 90 minutes we been under up to the conversation we will get a chance to learn more about these seven democratic candidates seeking to become our cities next mayor. we are using the twitter hashtag, nyc 2013. our debate is part of nukes official the program for the 2013 elections administered by the city campaign finance board. the board manages the city's public matching funds program which is designed to strengthen the role of average new yorkers and their small dollar contribution. tonight's debate is cosponsored by new york one news, the citizens union of the city of new york, the hispanic federation, the citizens committee for new york city, transportation alternatives, wnyc and time warner cable. now without further ado let's introduce the seven candidates. they are bill de blasio, bill th

. >> here's -- >> go ahead, errol.p in. >> the only reliable -- the only reliable watchdog is the four of us and our colleagues in the media. and that involves doing all the digging you can and cultivating sources and, yes, some of them are unsavory. yes, some of them are lawbrea r lawbreake lawbreakers. one of them might be named edward snowden. that's not what's important. what's important is that we get the policy -- enough transparency that we have at least the possibility of looking over the shoulder of both the court and the congress and the nsa. because obviously government is not doing the job the way the president had promised. >> let me make sure we get in. this is what, again, i go back to this "post" reporting. this is what this nsa official, speaking on condition of anonymity, speaking with white house permission, this is what he or she said. we are a human run agency operating in a complex environment with a number of different regulatory regimes. so at times we find ourselves on the wrong side of the lin

. >> thank you, errol and good evening. mr.over a hospital that nobody wants to own. the state says it could take down its whole system of hospitals, and then the former owner that was ordered to take it back says we don't want it. how are you planning on keeping it open? are you -- how are you going to pay for it, and do you think fiscally responsible a position to have? de blasio: our neighborhoods in brooklyn need the hospital. the bottom line is for years we've fought successfully to keep it open. it was first threatened in 2008 and now in the last year -- and i'm very proud to say we won in court yet again, and the hospital is open for business. [applause] that's so important for brooklyn and the city. because we have to end this epidemic of hospital closures. how do we fix this problem? the city and state have to take responsibility. it's time for leaders to step up. we haven't had that in recent years. i've proposed a brooklyn health authority and something we'd build out citywide over time to have the city and state pla