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there are those who say mou that he was known to sort of exaggerate exaggerate.is the guy that went fishing, and talked about the fish that was larger than the one he reeled in. and it did not seem to affect with what he was saying as a reporter on the air and that is a very important distinction. where that changed though was manyin the friday broadcast where he talked about the tribute in his own time in iraq and his bird being the one that was hit. but as they are having these conversation, and talking about the people and tlhere are a lot of pre-alarms going off, and that is the great concern here. >> and sharon do you believe nbc news knew about this and should have done something sooner? >> i would hope not. i mean what interest could they possibly have and if they had known earlier, pirs oft all, let me say that i don't have any reported information that they knew about it earlier, and didn't do anything about it and if so, that would really be terrible, because you have to deal with the star on air talent and in such a way that you have to pull him back a

it exaggerates skin problems and cakes up throughout the day. it makes you look older. luminess air is just the opposite. it's so light, it actually uses up to 10 times less makeup than ordinary liquids. >> my old foundation would sit in the pores, like speckle in a nail hole. it didn't look pretty. it didn't look smooth. it looked like something yucky. when i picked up the airbrush for the first time, i could see the difference. i thought, "this is the one. this is the one that's gonna work." >> i have no makeup on right now. i usually never leave the house without makeup. i use this, and it's awesome. all you have to do is just push a button. it's really that easy. what i do is i go in little circular motions. you can actually wear contacts. it doesn't go inside your eyes. it's not uncomfortable. it's not like you have to have your eyes shut or anything like that. i'm gonna add a little more coverage here on my birthmark just to finish off all over the skin. look at it. you have to love it. i mean, my skin looks better. i get a lot more compliments. pictures are fabul

because i'm not-- >> you are not exaggerating? >> i'm not exaggerating. i am not a germophobe.t has nothing to do with germs. it is all about a fresh start. i was writing. i was writing. it was not going well, start again. take a shower, put on different clothes. you will feel refreshed. >> is it harder sober? is it better sober? >> i don't care if it is harder or better sober. i should be dead seven times by now. and i am so glad i am not. maybe it would be easier to write with coke and maybe i would write better with coke. writing well is so important to me that there is no advantage i wouldn't give myself, except that. i talk out loud all the time. i start fights with myself to see if i can get a scene going. >> what about movies? we see superhero movies greenlighted time after time after time. is that depressing? >> no. of course not. like i said, any time there is a lot of anything, some of it will be better than others. >> is it a golden age of movies? >> yes, because there are also great movies. the comic book movies, some of which i am a huge fan of. i don't think i cou

is this an exaggeration? i think that's too much for the network news division to have to work to overcome. they have a very important brand. there's a lot of mope attached to it. and to put that at risk would be a foolish business decision. at the end of the day, this is a business. >> it's a cold hard business calculation. >> yeah. i think nbc made that. i think perhaps. >> with the suspension. >> with the suspension. a lot of people believed that was belaboring the inevitable and at the end of the six months whatever the decision is which will be probably to say it's not going to happen here on the nbc evening news desk has just given them a window of opportunity. it gives them six months to decide how they want to staff that particular decision. in six month's time has lester holt proved himself to be the worthy heir? if the answer is yes, lester will stay exactly where he is. viewers voting every day. putting rates on the screen before lester took over and his first week. nbc was winning the whole week b

we're going after o'reilly for exaggerating being in a war zone?laughter) i don't know if you watch his -- >> caution! you are about to enter the no-spin zone! >> jon: misrepresenting -- misrepresented the zone he is in (laughter) he passes to some jackass that misrepresents global warming by wandering around boston pointing at snow. textbook case of controlling. no one's watching him for the actual truth. you're basically putting in a tremendous amount of work to say, the emperor has no clothes! when the emperor has spent like, 20 years going look at my dick! i'm naked! whoo! but even worse, mother jones, you brought a magazine article to a tv fight. >> more proof the american media is corrupt, mother jones which is low circulation, the bottom rung of journalism in america. a liar irresponsible guttersnipe, far-left zealot, defamation political hit job. >> jon: well, that deserves a terse blog retort. cut, paste, right click, and gotcha. but do you know what? maybe the media feels this type of indictment is necessary to preserve its credibility. l

right now there is no clear proof williams exaggerated or lied about his experiences there but nbc is reviewing his accounts. williams once said that he watched a man commit suicide at the superdome, and he also said this -- >> reporter: when you look out of your hotel room window in the french quarter and watch a man float by face down when you see bodies that you last saw in banda aceh, indonesia and swore to yourself you would never see in your country -- i accidentally ingested floodwater, i had disintary. the hotel overrun with gangs. >> hurricane katrina was a horror story. is it possible he saw a body floating there. general who led task force for katrina, thank you for joining me. good morning. >> good morning. >> the account he describes ritz carlton hotel on the edge of the french quarter. is it possible there was enough water in that part of new orleans that a body could float by. >> very suspect but anything is possible brian. there are many stories from katrina, and everybody have their story from where they stood. more than likely that happened on tuesday from looking at

which the company on which it was relying for the super battery turned out to have been wildly exaggerating its claims. it had to pit it and make a -- it had to pit and make a left turn and got lg -- the chemistry gives it a 200 mile car in 2018. cory: that is the ultimate electric car -- to get a car that can go a great long-distance and have a great price. >> you have to be able to have the distance and while you are traveling that distance, your car cannot catch fire. cory: it can't catch fire? the bar keeps getting higher. you can't have a flaming car. it's interesting the technology is so difficult to come by. things get half the price and twice as powerful every year and we expect things like 3-d printers to do that and we expect batteries to do that. has battery technology changed much in the last 200 years? >> this is the thing. alessandro volta invented the architecture of the battery in 1799, and it has not changed much since then. much of that time, we were not trying to create a super battery. for the last few years, the question today is which way is apple going? is it going th

if you exaggerate. >> is there a a treatment facility?> i don't think it is that type of pathology to get treatment for other than getting therapy why he would do something. kennedy: over the next six months? >> that is part of the carrot to get the suspension the money doesn't really matter but he has been completely embarrassed to say we're giving him a very severe punishment but now that clears the deck to start over again and you better believe the selfie comes back to the chair to get a second chance but that is the kirk -- the year. kennedy: but if he could did mitt teasing the audience will except gym again? >> i think so. put the other part of that is that he is not the only one with false memories can people get it. for him to do something that is so self-destructive. >> is there a name for the motivation? >> he wouldn't be in that position unless he is in complete denial what he is doing. >> and it is not similar to substance abuse. >> covers kuwaitis say he has to hit rock bottom. >> 30 rock-bottom. [laughter] >> president obam

and that is an exaggeration.sh intelligence says that, sean i am telling you, i've been around a long time. as you know. i have never seen anything like this lack of leadership in my life. >> number one administration said john boehner broke protocol inviting the prime minister of israel to speak. more importantly, his former campaign staff is now in israel actively campaigning against netanyahu. and joe biden -- >> seems to me perfectly appropriate -- can invite someone to speak to the congress but not inviting to speak sto barack obama where i think it's entirely appropriate and there's so much at stake here that -- >> suggesting that the attack in paris on this kosher paris in this kosher supermarket, he went on to say it's a random act of violence, talking about randoming shooting folks in paris. >> we know that that was an organized plot. look at the story about how they got the wife of one of the killers, all the way to syria. that took a very sophisticated network. it almost breaks my heart in a way. we ha

. >>> president obama taking flak for saying the media are exaggerating the threat of terrorism. >> you know, what's the famous saying about local newscasts right? if it bleeds, it leads, right? >> the president have a point or is he shifting the blame as he seeks new war powers from congress. >>> plus why did msnbc ask eric holder to quack like a duck? i'm howard kurtz, and this is "media buzz." >>> the television world was stunned when jon stewart suddenly announced that later this year he'll be stepping down from his comedy central franchise. >> 17 years is the longest i have ever in my life held a job by 16 years and five months. thank you. the upshot there being, i am a terrible employee. but in my heart i know it is time for someone else to have that opportunity. >> the openly liberal comedian rarely criticizes president obama, but when he does such as after the paris rally for press freedom during those terror attacks, it stings. >> how could obama not be there? look how many world leaders he could have bowed down to and apologized? >> and when john mccain told me that stewart is

future. >> what has been exaggerated. >> the ebola crisis. malaria killed more then ebola. if you look at it, it's a billion in change, people in africa, a couple of chows and affected -- thousand affected. less than 0.1%. of the fear is so strong that people wouldn't want to travel to africa because of that. that affects the economy, future, business. >> what do you thick of western charity songs as a response to african emergency? >> honestly, you want to applaud anyone that wants to do something great for a cause. once it is done, what is taken afterwards. it's the same amount of people infected. more now, than before. it's only a few thousand people. why isn't anything happening. happening? >> use commonsense. it's not going to africa. >> where is it going? >> i would expose it if i knew. i don't know where it's going. >> the reason i ask about what you thought about all the western musicians and so on. there's a paternalistic view that exists today, and this is decades after colonialism, that africa must be saved. >> yes. >> by the west.

the idea that he was exaggerating his story over time is disturbing and why he was exaggerating it iswas he trying to put himself in the center of the action? that's what his critics are saying. again, he says it's an independent innocent mistake that was made. >> you brought up, brian, sort of this vulture culture that we live in. some are saying, we're making too much of this. >> and then some other story will come along and then outrage and that person will be publicly tried. i think there's some truth to that. the reason why journalists focus intensely when one journalist is scrutinized, it goes to the credibility of the whole profession. everyone takes a hit when one journalist falls. especially true in media where credibility and trust is what we go off, what we stand for. >> i understand there have been some reports of members of the military being upset about this. >> yes. >> because they go through this their life is on the line every single day. >> a couple of them have been quoted saying that they feel like the apology on wednesday wasn't sufficient and that's what has trig

they didn't go out of their way to exaggerate or mislead people about their own spying careers. i think it was more a case of the fact that reality fell sort of sadly short of fiction. i think that it's no coincidence that all three of those men made their postcareer fame as fabulous as the story tellers of one sort of another. and i think because james bond's outsize flames, their own exploits in the war pale by comparison. they were not like flemings' daring creations. they did not drop behind enemy lines and slit the throat. they were intelligence. rather than front line operatives, they were behind the scenes hunters and gatherers, more pedestrian, but effective task on finding out dirt on american politicians and officials and forwarding it back to their superiors in england. all of this was done throughout the war between 1940 and 1945. and it had a great influence why do the british need to spy on us? most americans forget in 1940 when churchill first sent stevenson over here to start building the secret notework-- network, it was unpopular in america. called the european

it exaggerates skin problems and cakes up throughout the day. it makes you look older. luminess air is just the opposite. it's so light, it actually uses up to 10 times less makeup than ordinary liquids. >> my old foundation would sit in the pores, like speckle in a nail hole. it didn't look pretty. it didn't look smooth. it looked like something yucky. when i picked up the airbrush for the first time, i could see the difference. i thought, "this is the one. this is the one that's gonna work." >> i have no makeup on right now. i usually never leave the house without makeup. i use this, and it's awesome. all you have to do is just push a button. it's really that easy. what i do is i go in little circular motions. you can actually wear contacts. it doesn't go inside your eyes. it's not uncomfortable. it's not like you have to have your eyes shut or anything like that. i'm gonna add a little more coverage here on my birthmark just to finish off all over the skin. look at it. you have to love it. i mean, my skin looks better. i get a lot more compliments. pictures are fabul

has he been exaggerating over the years. >> i want to switch gears to a sad story overnight.journalist. david carr of the new york times. 58 years old. the last piece of his published was about brian williams. brian, this was your mentor at "the new york times." a man we all looked up to. >> an incredible man. i'm still speaking of him in the present tense because i have been shocked by this. he collapsed at work at "the new york times." i worked with him for six years. he took me under his wing and mentored me. he had a passion and love for "the new york times" like no one else and a love for journalism. he was the most important media reporter of our time. he explained the revolution to us as readers. through that, he was explaining our world. the world is changing due to the information age and digital revolution. he had a grasp of that like no one else. >> what do you think he would want people to remember most about him and to do in his absence? >> his love for other people his love for family and friends and love for the new york times. his passion for that institution

it's about exaggerations of the truth. it's clear that he was in both locations. we saw him on television in those locations. but if he took stories and embellished them over time as he seemed to do with his iraq war story, then that's a serious offense, not necessarily for a comedian or celebrity or athlete, but for a journalist it's a serious offense. >> i want to get some more voices on this. i believe we have robert thompson and frank cezno joining us on the phone. gentlemen, thanks for being with me. frank, first of all, your assessment of brian williams taking himself out-the anchor chair saying i'm going to focus on the issue at hand i will be back and i will regain your trust. >> this might be up there with somebody who's been booted out of a job saying i'm going to step down and spend more time with my family. not like he had a choice and it's a good way to put a spin on it. it's somewhat gracious. it's a smart thing to do to let everybody catch their breath. this investigation had to take shape and they need to see if there were any other shoes that woul

it didn't really go out of their way to a exaggerate or mislead people about their own spying careers. i think it was more a case of the fact that reality failed sadly short fiction. i think that it is no coincidence that all three of those men made their posts career famous as fabulous as a storyteller's of one sort or another and i think because of james bond's outsize fame there on the exploits during the war sort of pale by comparison. they're not like fleming's a daring creations, they did not drop behind enemy lines and sort of slip the not the officers wrote in the dark. there were desk jockeys, they were the traditional kind of intelligence officers rather than frontline operatives, there were behind the scenes intelligence gatherers charged with the more pedestrian but extremely important in this case and very effective task of finding out intelligence entered on american politicians and officials and foreign in the back to their superiors in england. -- forwarding it back to their superiors in england. all this was done throughout the war from 1940 to 1945 and had a great in

>> i would think that you were a little bit of an exaggerator. >> a little bit?hat screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflat one aircraft with another. >> what about hillary? >> well hillary's a liar. she made it up for sure. she was sleep deprived. >> would you vote for her for president? >> depends on who's running against her. >> so you might vote for a liar? >> they're all liars sean. >> i don't buy that. >> they're not all liars but it goes to character. and you know what kirsten, you're right. politicians make up whatever. they come up with ideas and they spread them. but we have to stop accepting it. hillary clinton lied. richard bloomenthal lied. we've got to hold them to a higher standard. >> that's a great point, as news viewers as well. the public is going to decide this. brian williams is number one in the cbs, nbc abc, he's number one. nbc's not going to have a legitimate reason to just get rid of him unless the viewers respond. >> a producer or lower level on-air reporter they would have gotten fired. >> but it's consumers that have to demand

one of the fox news channel's biggest names fighting back now against allegations of exaggerating war stories. ugh... ...heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm... amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. introducing the citi® double cit's a cash back win-win. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn on puchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. >>> he is suspended for six months for examine rarted story about an iraq war mission. now brian williams stepped down from a group dedicated to promoting military valor and heroism. the congressional medical foundation announced yesterday that the anchor resigned from the group's board of directors. he had served on the board since 2006. meantime, his daughter alison is putting the wedding plans on hold according to e entertainment in part because of work and in part because of her father's suspension. fox news host bill o'reilly is firing back deny

you know if he exaggerated about his role as a journalist in the war what about the people that exaggeratedget us into the war in the first place? and made those mistakes? those people should be punished. >> a journalist's effort is to get as close as you can get. and you can make a mistake. there's a difference between making a mistake and making something up entirely. if you're going to make up that you were hit in a helicopter with an r.p.g., you don't do just one and i think there's an entire bag of potato chips with the brian williams' story. you don't even have to search. there are stories of -- and this is missile mania. it's a diagnosable situation but when you have stories that elevate you through danger, hillary clinton had the same issue, being shot at in an airplane, seeing dead bodies, being in dangerous situations heroic acts all feed through this and williams' stories deal with everything from puppies to seeing dead bodies. >> he needs to give a fuller explanation of is there a reason on his part and why was he think sng why would he continue to do this? jon: we'll see what n

he denies ever exaggerating the story in 2003. in my view nbc did not understand what a crisis this was going to become. because on wednesday, last wednesday, he was asked are you going to apologize on air? we know you're going to apologize on facebook, but are you going to apologize on air? he said i don't know. i'll talk to my boss. it suggests that a few hours later he did apologize on air. this was not a coordinated strategy. they didn't know how controversial this would become. >> historically the anchors for the three big networks have had a huge influence. notably, walter cronkite. >> who won and who lost? i'm not sure. the viet cong did not win by a knockout. it may make it a draw. >> president johnson is believed to have said if he has lost cronkite he has lost middle america. is that why this is such a big deal? there really is no comparison anywhere else around the world to the position held by the network anchors in the u.s. >> that is right. even in this fragmenting age when people are as likely to get the news on the

he and probably not the only one, that he has exaggerated these stories in the past particularly this one about iraq we have seen several other versions. if he has done that he's not the only one. there's a sense of myth making or brand building you sometimes see not just among journalists but among celebrities and athletes all the rest. journalists are in a special category of course. we are supposed to be the ones that do stick with the truth and facts and call people out when they stray too far and exaggerate. that's why, of course the serious credibility for williams. york i don't think his job is necessarily on the line? >> you don't? >> the fact people are even talking about it means maybe it is. it goes to show how much has changed in these last two or three days since the story surfaced. i guess the reason i say i'm not sure his job is on the line because he has bumped credibility and done dangerous work. he was in iraq and new orleans, not like he was there and over the years did embellish his story. >> he is very well respected and i used to work with him at msnbc and nbc bu

exaggerate their power--and they are powerful and they know exactly what they want. they want to control the environment of their business activities so that they can make more money and get more bonuses and, perhaps, give more dividends to their shareholders, and they do that in a very strategic way to this day. they strategically want to control the environment that they operate in. if the government's part of the environment, they want to put their officials in high positions in government. they want to contribute campaign money to members of congress. and if consumers are a potential drag, then they want to have more exciting, emotional advertisements and try to get them to buy their cars. and if the labor is considered an obstacle, well, they'll try to make their influence known there. and if they don't want to pay a certain level of taxes, they will shape and strategically plan the tax. and if they want to have members of congress who are receptive to them, they will enter through their executives and political action committees, the campaign cash that is neede

of the washington family to save the union george washington forged it and that was far from an exaggeration because year after all was the son of george washington's most famous eulogists and the son-in-law of george washington's adopted child. and so now only one word separator robert e. lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from commendable will be the largest american army ever raised, from glory perhaps that no american since george washington had known. and what did robert e. lee's lee say? well, he said he opposed secession come and he did oppose secession. he thought secession was illegal. and equally significantly he thought george washington would have oppose secession. that was no given at the time because people on both sides of this conflict claimed george washington for their own secessionists said george washington was a rebel rebel against the british. on the other side union is will say george washington industry will address said the price of the union about any exceptional allegiance. and actually robert e. lee's reading a biography of george washington in the months be

representative of the washington family to save the union george washington forged and that is not an exaggeration because the son of george washington -- son in lot of george washington's adopted child. so now only one word separated robert e. lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be the largest american army ever raised, from glory perhaps that no american since george washington had known. what did robert e. lee say? he said he opposed secession and he did oppose secession, he thought secession was illegal. equally significantly he thought george washington was opposed to secession and that was no given at the time. people on both sides of the conflict claimed george washington for their own. secessionists said george washington was a rebel -- rebelled and rebelled against the union with the british. unionists say george washington in his farewell address said to prize the union above any sectional allegiance. robbery beat is reading a biography of george washington in the months before the civil war. he is hearing these arguments and concludes he agrees with the u

the move comes after williams admitted exaggerating a story about an iraq war mission he was on backt will fill in for williams during his suspension. >>> u.s. president sbroim urging russia's -- barack obama is urging russia's president to seize the opportunity for peace in ukraine. mr. obama phoned vladimir putin tuesday. the call came ahead of peace talks planned for wednesday in belarus between mr. putin and the leaders of ukraine, france, and germany. preliminary talks have already begun. >>> a verdict is expected today in belgium where 46 suspected jihadists have been on trial since september. they're suspect members of the group sharia for belgium and are accused of brainwashing young belgian men to fight in syria. most of the suspects are being tried in absentia. >>> police in sydney have arrested two men for allegedly planning terror attacks as revenge for incidents overseas. anna coren has developments live from australia. what are thoughts telling us now, bring us up to date on all that we know about this alleged terror plot. >> reporter: well the only reason police knew a

i certainly think that if the stories that are now being looked at reveal more fabulism, exaggerationhatever the right word is he can't survive. i don't mean to be flip. but if brian were like a rock star and oprah winfrey and barbara walters were still around, he could go and confess to an addiction for exaggerating, go to a clinic for four weeks and come out purified. i don't think for a journalist that's possible. i've been trying to think all day and asking people, if you were brian williams, would you make a public mea culpa, where would you do it and what would you say? let me confess to you in my more humble life, i can't come up with a credible answer. >> that's a really important point. i've been having the same thought all day. david, i'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. i think it was jeff rosen at nyu, media critic said look he should be leading on this. he should be the one pointing out what's true and what's not true. he could very easily answer the questions, well, is it true, did you see the body floating in the french quarter, even though there wasn't much flood

the exaggerations of bill o'reilly. responsibility to explain the angry irishman to you and david corn. the threats, when he issues that threat and says i'm going to come after you with everything i've got. what he's got is a tv show. that's it. that's all he's going to come after anybody with. it's all going to be in the safety of

the exaggerations of bill o'reilly.plain the angry irishman to you and david corn. the threats, when he issues that threat and says, i'm going to come after you with everything i've got. what he's got is a tv show. that's it. that's all he's going to come after anybody with. it's all going to be in the safety of that studio. no one has to worry about a thrown punch or anything like that. that kind of irish bluster is something i grew up with. everybody relax. >> should we we see the size of the bluster as inproportional to the size of the real threat sp >> absolutely. the guys that

every single war correspondent i know has exaggerated about one incident or another.this different from that? >> it is probably along those same lines. he hasn't been accused of stealing other people's ideas and plain you arism like is a cary for instance. he is being accused of upping his streed credit. this that hurts his reputation. this is the not same as taking people's other ideas. we've seen enough people in television journalism survive that. i don't know that it kills him. david: i want to mention to our viewers gopro resumed trading. not as big of a bump. it is up a hefty 3 1/2% right now after it reported better-than-expected earnings. okay, sabrina, back to brian williams, here is what he said to "stars and stripes." they are the ones that blew the whistle talking about a his copper being shot at at rangers game. they came out with article that it wasn't true. i would not have chosen to make this mistakes. i don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another. not hard to figure out why he made up the story. he wanted