friends of hamas! that's serious! being friends with a muslim terrorist is a big commitment.'ve got to be a groomsman in all four of their weddings. i mean, the suicide vest rentals alone! [laughter] folks, this bombshell lit up the conserv-osphere. >> let me bring up one piece of information that ben shapiro at breitbart put out today, which is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not yet disclosed formally is something called friends of hamas. >> you know i saw that information today, also, and that is more and more concerning. >> there was a report that came out last week, not confirmed yet. but we-- also not denying it very vigorously that one of the groups behind the speeches may have been an outfit called friends of hamas. >> that has a ring to it. zint? >> stephen: oh, it has a ring to it. a ring that goes something like this: and folks -- [cheers and applause] friends of hamas is even worse than it sounds because this organization is so sinister that it doesn't even exist. [ laughter ] turns out, hagel's link with "friends of hamas" goes back to

you google friends of hamas you find this isn't even a friends of hamas website. you find out this is some guy told ben shapiro and he ran with it. there is no accountability. >> cenk: so now ben shapiro totally unapologetic. he calls the daily news reporter a hack, and saying, hey i stand by my source. story. i had a source. i had a source who told me there was friends of hamas. is that good enough? i have one source, it is what it is, and my job is to report what the source said. >> you look at his first article he said he's citing senate sources. plural sources. then he said today that he only had one source. so he's lying it's not journalistically appropriate to say that you have more sources when you only have one. i work with a gossip outlet. sometimes we run rumors, too. when you have an unnamed sources you need two to go with it. then you can say i have two sources this is why chuck hagel is not releasing his documents because he has received donations from friends of hamas. come on, this is not real. that's not even gossip-news level accountability. that'

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hamas made i think that the problem of normalization. connecting trying working with the israeli media the result is that the only reporter in gaza but all those hamas sanctions not particularly promising in one of the recent human rights watch report that accuses a muscle harassing assaulting an arbitrarily detaining journalists israel too has come under fire for deliberately targeting reporters and media houses affiliated to him us doing this last one gaza israel fell twenty places in the two thousand and thirteen world press freedom index due to the actions of its army in the palestinian territories these two journalists are with sami because he speaks of mice he engages israeli audiences. because you spend so much time in palestinian areas with three israelis day to trade the media blackout does little to shed light on the fate and future of ordinary gazans it also perpetuate stereotypes on both sides of the border that have done nothing but breed mistrust and hatred policy on t.v. tell of its. military whistleblower bradley manning

the ongoing standoff between israel and hamas has made it almost impossible for journalists to do the jobs on both sides palestinian media as recognized by israel nor as journalists rights while hamas prohibits guards and journalists have any contact with israelis it is policy they are met colleagues struggling to report through the blackout and help sworn enemy try to understand each other. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist the party he for you to an israeli newspaper it was the last major story sunday are as rami would write for the hebrew place a month later gaza's ruling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with israeli media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and make that a for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them here on message sami feels he's on a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other whe

the last major story sunny as rami would write for the hebrew priests a month later gaza's ruling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with israeli media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and a magnet for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them hear our message sami feels he's on a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other when his nine year old daughter was hit by an israeli missile it was his israeli editors who arranged for her to be bought across the border and treated and it was in the newspapers that he published his anger and anguish over israel's bombardment of gaza. the how to. israelis using the media in its war against us in this war journalists are under attack they want to kill all our words and reports that prove that there were no crimes in gaza as their father has to have in the attack is coming from both sides of the border israeli journalis

are they hamas? >> they are not hamas.'s nobody that speaks with one voice for the house republicans. when there is a deal cut it's always mitch mcconnell and joe biden. >> who is obama talking to, the president? he has to send joe up to find somebody of like mind to talk to him? >> yeah, because he doesn't have relationships on the hill. whether that's his fault or their fault -- >> we agree on that, there's no connection. congressman, back to you. the what. what i found profound in what you said this morning is it's not -- sure, we're going to argue whether one party won 60/40 or lost 70/30 on who gets blamed. forget the blame game for a second. what's going on with the economy? i think the american people looking at the polling we got our hands are have become very demoralized ever since the election. they have been seeing shutdown talk, debt ceiling talk, this stupid named sequestration and all they hear is trouble in the nation's capital. the inability of our own government which has been elected to do its job. i thin

before arab spring iran was main patron of hamas. hamas is enemy of the united states. didn't see hamas as anything but a tool to hit the u.s. and israel. jenna: hamas from gaza firing rocket into israel. israel is our own democratic ally in the region that is the dynamic. >> hamas is terrorist group. it is recognized as a terrorist group not only by the united states but eu and countries around the world. it committed atrocities in around the world. most recently in bulgaria tourists were attacked. what happened in the arab spring, hamas shifted into iran's orbit to take on new patrons. those new patrons are turkey, egypt and qatar. those countries like iran are u.s. allies. jenna: why are they helping hamas? why are they patrons of a terrorist organization? >> they see the opportunity to weaken iran. how can we weaken iran? one way in syria they're taking another one of iran's allies which is the regime of bashar assad and second taking iran out of the orbit or taking hamas out of iran's orbit. jenna: so we see turkey, qatar, egypt, supporting hamas, a terrorist organ

sides of the border israeli journalist two are banned from working in gaza but ironically it's not hamas but tel aviv that stops them deeming it too dangerous for them to report from there is a very scary place for israeli some a masked people came to my palestinian cameramen in gaza they gave him twenty five thousand dollars and we told him that the next time that the jewish is going to enter gaza please tell us where it's going to be a route with a car we're going to kidnap both of you and take you take him and release you ohad him oh is among a handful of israeli journalists who'd regularly work in gaza but after his government made it illegal six years ago his station employed gaza based palestinian journalists now because of hamas ruling even that has become impossible . very problematic decision from us for a lot of other decisions that the hamas made i think that the problem of normalisation in. connecting trying working with the israeli media the result is that the only reports leaving gaza are those hamas sanctions not particularly promising in one of the recent human rights wat

i am the creator of the friends of hamas myth. nol involvement in. and they are relying on the best intelligence that they could produce -- >> stephanie: they were holding up cabinet appointment over something he had nothing to do with. every time i think i have never seen this, it gets worse, right? >> it is absolutely incredible. and you know you are in an alternate universe when karl rove is the voice of reason. >> i think the superintendent a thief. he is stealing from our kids. >> and i believe that you are an idiot. >> stephanie: this is the hyperbole that we have gotten to. >> it's incredible. i remember sitting in shock when one of the house members called the president a liar to his face. but that's the kind of world we're in at this point. >> stephanie: i think the look on nancy pelosi's face said it all. but like i was saying with gerrymandering, i'm not sure how we get out of this. i would like to think -- do you have any hope in 2014 that we would be able to gain some leverage at least? >> absolutely. if they continue

the friends of hamas thing i can do far less justice that than comedy central can. behold stephen colbert. >> according to conservative news anger gator breitbart.com, hagel may have taken money from an organization called friends of hamas. friends of hamas is even worse than it sounds because this organization is so sinister that it doesn't even exist. it turns out hagel's link with friends of hamas goes back to daily news reporter dan friedman who asked a republican senate aide looking for dirt in hagel's past if hagel had given a speech to the junior league of hezbollah or the friends of hamas, assuming that no one could take seriously the idea that organizations with those names existed. why wouldn't you take it seriously? i mean, if there is no junior league of hezbollah, who puts out the cookbook of bomb recipes? besides, the fact that these organizations don't exist only makes it more suspicious that chuck hagel has been tied to them. what else is he hiding that hasn't happened? is he a member of the al qaeda kids club? what about the muslim brotherhood or th

friends of hamas does not exist. the group was made up by "new york daily news" reporter dan friedman as a joke. friedman said he was asking a republican aide on capitol hill about rumors that hagel had spoken to controversial groups. >> so i was trying to follow up on that. and i was -- i spoke to a republican aide on the phone, and i asked about that. and i threw out the example of friends of hamas. >> friedman was making a joke, but the aide apparently passed along the information, and shapiro ran with the story. and believe it or not, he is standing by it. "the story as reported is correct. whether the information i was given by the source is correct, i'm not sure." what a journalistic standard. shapiro's story is still posted on breitbart.com with no correction or clarification. let's bring in eric burns tonight, democratic strategist and founder of bullfight strategies. eric, good to see you. good to have you with us tonight. >> thanks for having me back, ed. it's great to be here. >> you have got united states

the problem over bright bart's friends of hamas story.sting chuck hagel may have accepted donation from a terrorist group that does not exist. the story was later debunked, but only before it bounced around sites like red state and the national view and drew attention from rand paul who said it's very tunnel trouble, and i've just seen the press report, to i'm about to have to look at what the response is and what the group is, and that kind of thing. it's very concerning. he's going to have to respond to this. >> jay carney made light of the foe controversy at yesterday's briefing when asked if huhhingel would withdraw his no, ma'am nation nation. >> absolutely not. if my suggestion to the -- might have been found in the meetings of the friends of hamas. >> the white house too found itself on the defensive this week accused of withholding by a press corps fed up with its limited access after the press's weekend golfing trip to florida. said white house correspondent association president ed henry, says this is a fight for more access. "i

israeli forces arrested twenty three hamas members adorn in the occupied west bank some were reported in no way because so far israel has given a reason for the raid hamas branded the move a criminal attempt to prevent national reconciliation for police to me and hamas is considered a terrorist organization by israel b. u.s. and e.u. despite winning the last palestinian parliamentary elections six years ago. the us government is expected to see a ratings agency standard and poor's accusing it of overvaluing the subprime mortgage debt which caused the global financial crisis as rippin says states merely underestimated the scale of the market's deterioration is the first time a. government has sued a ratings agency the firms have long been accused of vested interests because they're paid by the same companies they assess. the case preparing to test a new supersonic styles approach seen as the next generation of frontline borman named after the celtic gold tyron is that mind aircraft can evade radar and select its own targets but it's all to sound first reports now experts are nervous ab

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the leader of the hamas a group of the group hamas says that he's in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas about forging a coalition government khaled mashal mentioned that both parties are getting ready ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections they are now hamas have pushed the fatah movement had been headed by a boss out of the gaza strip back in two thousand and seven conflict between the two sides. meanwhile while the fires in australia are making their way across the south of tasmania while emergency services are bracing for a worsening weather conditions authorities have called on some locals to move from inaccessible areas until the danger has passed the latest wave of fires comes after a bushfire destroyed nearly two hundred properties last month. business after a short break stay with us. tonight which. documentaries in arabic. to the world talks of the r.p. into. arabic. visit arabic t.v. .

there is no friends of hamas. that is up and down the conservative network -- >> they have no shame at all. >> we need to take a spur to a break here. die --on't quit, they until now. >> they have to be more candid and honest about it. >> the catholic church has a global membership of 1.2 billion souls. it came as a shock this week to learn that the 85-year-old pope benedick has decided to resign, mark. >> it absolutely shocked me, as a lifelong patpracticing an admittedly imperfect catholic. his predecessor having gone through a painful public death -- one of the critics of pope benedict said you don't come off the cross street is an act of enormous humility and honestly. >> how many of leaders give up power willingly? >> george washington is about the only one i can point to. it has not happened in 600 years, and you realize how vulnerable any to this institution is. the last time that happened was the center before columbus -- sentry before columbus. >> one of the reasons he decided to retire is that he was the

"one of the names listed is a group reportedly called friends of hamas" friends of hamas, that soundsrible and illegal. also kind of made up. not only is there no known proof that chuck hagel had any link to such a scary organization, not only that, as our friend dave weigel points out, there is no evidence that "friends of hamas" exists anywhere. so a whack job website says something that is untrue, and both very unlikely and totally unsupported by any facts. somebody is wrong on the internet, big whoop, right? but on russia they have their media deniers. and in america, we have republican senator rand paul, who as a senator gets to take part as to whether or not chuck hagel gets to be defense secretary. and here is his comment on "talk radio". >> let me bring up one piece of information that been shapiro put out today, which is one of the foreign funders behind senator hagel that he has not disclosed formally is called friends of hamas, is that is in fact true would that lead you to vote against mr. hagel? >> you know i saw that information today also. that is more and more concerni

they suspect the palestinian militant group other than hamas may be responsible.sraeli military did not retaliate. tensions are rising in gaza and the west bank. the death of a palestinian inmate over the weekend sent palestinians into the streets in protest. the inmate died in an israeli prison. he was allegedly tortured. >>> north korean leader kim jong un has conducted a military inspection to check if troops are ready for battle. the country's state-run media reported on tuesday that kim monitored an artillery exercise. he reportedly said he was convinced officers are ready for his orders on maximum alert. kim is accompanied by senior military officials believed to have directed the 2010 shelling of a south korean island. that's the south korean island of yeonpyeong. four people were killed in the attack. kim referred to the incident, praising the artillery unit for attacking their so-called enemies on the island. analysts say kim is applying pressure on new south korean president park geun-hye to improve bilateral ties. president park is facing other challeng

here's steve colbert. >> friends of hamas is even worse than it sound us because this organization ishat it doesn't even exist. the fact that these organizations don't exist only makes it more suspicious that chuck hagel has been tied to them. what else is he hiding that hasn't happened? is he a member of the al qaeda kids club? what about the muslim brotherhood or the muslim sisterhood of the traveling pans or ties to the dead poets society. whienld are they dead? do they know the too much about benghazi? president obama, you must withdrawal hagel's nomination or you'll lose the supplyiorlyin sy moderate republican, another group that doesn't exist. >> after that brouhaha, it looks like hagel has enough votes to get confirmed next week. next we welcome republican louie gohmert. he's sounding the conspiracy alarm bell. take a guess. is it about the government coming to take your guns away oar another warning that shari'a law is taking over? >> it's for our protection and the founders' quotes make that very, very clear and including against a government that would run amok, you know. w