i'm howard kurtz. this is "reliable sources." >>> we want to begin by showing you live pictures of tahrir square in cairo. egyptian authorities this past hour announcing that mohammed morsi, the candidate of the muslim brotherhood, has won the presidential runoff election. thousands of people there favorable to the muslim brotherhood cause celebrating that announcement. candy crowley will have a live report later this hour. >>> it's not that the media have utterly ignored fast and furious, the justice department sting involving guns in mexico that tragically resulted in one agent's death. it's been mentioned at least 30 times in "new york times" i stories and 40 in the "washington post." as the cases ebbed and flowed and republican congressman darrell issa has demanlded more and more documents, the case has been a fixture on conservative websites and on fox news. when president obama invoked executive privilege to withhold the documents and issa's committee voted that eric holder should be held in cont

this is by a man named howard kurtz. let me read the first paragraph. unbeknownst to the billions to tune and religiously to the cbs news, walter cronkite cut a deal with pan am to fly his family to vacation spots around the world. what did you think of the headline in the first paragraph? >> when people call your book masterful, you say "thank you howard kurtz." what he did was tell you how the new standards change. cronkite could pretty much do what he wanted. it was a boy's club. it was difficult to break it up. when he was in world war ii, it was all about the propaganda machine, we're going to win the war together. cronkite was slow to change to that. he stayed with what ever the boys' club was. he was friends with pan am and the top executive. i deserve a little r and r. it was a mistake. all the points he mentioned are in the book. i consider them our mistakes. i am trying to write a real biography. i think the line was what he had a halo. how many people in life had a low? when you do a full biography, may you will see the high and lows. cronkit

howard kurtz reminds me of the friendly cartoon turtle. you know what i'm talking about?: cecil? >> greg: i think so. leaks have an unusual conflict. rewards the reporter and potentially harms the country. go back to carl bernstein. beware of witch hunts. it makes leaks. that weak makes careers. robert redford played woodward. that's what happens when you get a leak. it makes your life. it creates a myth of good looking reporters. no one looks like robert re redford. >> dana: except for shepard smith. >> bob: in their case and in this case as the managing editor of the "new york times" said, anybody who calls this a leak, and doesn't understand that months of reporting, doesn't understand leaks. woodward and bernstein didn't take leaks. they did reporting it and put it together. good reporting over a long period of time. >> eric: here is what was called. here is what was told to sanger. here is what is told to sanger. we as a country were going to step up the cyber attack on iranians enriching uranium. that tells the iranians that we're on to them. >> kimberly: i am calli

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i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> remember when the republican primaries were going strong and we all bounced from bachmann to trump to perry to cain and the hottest story around was who would win iowa. >> and what an extraordinary night here in des moines. welcome to abc news's special coverage of the iowa caucuses which basically ended in a dead heat. >> iowa gop chairman matt strong making the announcement that governor mitt romney, former governor romney, won the iowa caucuses by eight votes. >> but the tone was a bit more subdued by the time mitt romney officially clinched the gop nomination. >> he goes over the top with 1,144 plus delegates he needs to get the nomination in tampa. texas did it for him. >> this is not a surprise. once everybody else was effectively out of the race, and frankly before everybody else was out of the race, you could do the math pretty easily. >> now we're in the dog days of the campaign and coincidentally or not, cable news ratings are down. fox news down nearly 250,000 viewers in primetime since january, but from a much higher base

i'm howard kurtz. state of the union with candy crowley begins right now. >>> the hope of last year's arab spring turns this year to an uncertain arab summer. you are looking at live pictures in tahrir square in cairo. where thousands are celebrating the election of mohamed morsi. i'm candy crowley in washington. we want to welcome viewers from cnn international to "state of the union." the announcement came about 90 minutes ago, defeating ahmed shafiq. christian amanpour is the global affairs anchor, also with her is correspondent ben wedeman. let's go back to the moment this was announced by effectively the elections commission in cairo. tell me, ben, wareaction imdiate and joyous? >> reporter: it was incredible. we really heard a rouge roar coming uprom the crowd. the only time i've heard a louder roar was 6:00 p.m. last year when hosni mubarak's resignation was announced. what we saw -- it's a very hot, bright day in cairo. i'd say tahrir square was about a third full. within about 20 minutes, it j

i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> the headline on the "time" cover says "we are americans, just not legally." the story is by jose antonio vargas who did not disclose his illegal status when he worked at the "washington post" and "huffington post." it was a coincidence, but on friday, a day after "time" hit the newsstands, president obama announced he is suspending deportations for many younger illegal immigrants. >> they are americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one -- on paper. >> joining us to talk about the role of journalists and covering this politically sensitive story from new york is hose antonio vargas. welcome and let me start with this. in the last couple of years, has the media coverage of illegal immigrants in your view got more sympathetic, and could that have helped move president obama on this issue? >> well, thanks for having me, first, howard. i'm not sure if sympathetic is the right word. i just think it's gotten more and more human. i mean, i think -- i think journalists in general in the country have -- have written about t

lauren ashe burn is the site's editor-in-chief formerly with "u.s.a. today" live and howard kurtz isnews week and host of cnn's "reliable president obama his his pich to cleveland today and his campaign went to great lengths to amplify this through social media. >> they did. they were live streaming it on your computers and before and during the speech david axelrod, campaign strategist for president obama, asked the questions and then would later have a town hall in his which he would answer the questions and the way he would know that therm questions for the town hall is if you put the hashtag-- which is a symbol where you can search for things, obama 2012. and some of the questions, margaret, were very good. if bush tax cuts caused these deficits why did you exend? it was a thoughtful question. what is his job plan? and the other one was is hiding under his mustache? it did range. >> warner: did the president respond to these? did these get through and become part of the event? >> well, the president wasn't taking questions on twitter. he's done that twice before, campaigned very

i'm howard kurtz. happy father's day. here's some breaking news. if you missed our program, you can now go to itunes on mondays and download a free audio podcast or buy the video version. we'll see you here next sunday. "state of the union with candy crowley" begins right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news. rodney king, the man whose beating by police led to a trial of four policemen who were later found not guilty that then led to 1992 riots in los angeles has died. rodney king died this morning in. in the last hour i spoke with the captain of the rialto, california, police department. >> the rialto police department received a 911 call from the fiancee of rodney king this morning about 5:25 a.m. the rialto police officers responded to the scene. they arrived. and they found rodney king at the bottom of his swimming pool. the officers jumped into the pool and removed him and began cpr with mr. king. mr. king was unresponsive. rialto fire department paramedics arrived on scene and immediately transported him to the a

howard kurtz is "newsweek's" washington bureau chief and host of cnn's reliable sources.lcome back to you both. before we get into the presidential campaign what about the drama that began at mid-afternoon over the john edwards verdict? what was the reaction in the twitter sphere and social media land. >> twitter has been on fire on this trial and overwhelmingly comments have been negative against the former presidential candidate. i wonder why there's still so much passion about this. it's a campaign finance trial, edwards has been discredited for four years and i think the reason is because of the drama surrounding his late wife elizabeth and his relationship with his campaign videographer. people still care about this so it transcends the legal aspects of this trial. >> warner: so on to the presidential campaign, what's the social media buzz been about this past week >> past week really the obama campaign has been focusing on economics and on romney economics. they bought the web site term www.romneyeconomics.com and have been pushing that. stephanie cuter who works fo

let's talk about that and more with howard kurtz, the host of cnn's "reliable sources."ie on a new website called "the daily download." thanks for coming in. howie, let me start with you. you saw this video, millions have now seen it, an outpouring of support for the 68-year-old woman, more than $500,000. she's invited to disney world by the disney corporation. explain this phenomenon. years ago even a few years ago this could have never happened. >> no. because we would never have known about this, wolf, if not for one of these middle school bullies posting this video on his own facebook page. and it gets picked up by everyone. the mainstream media a step behind here. lauren, you saw the way in which this went to use the cliche, viral. >> i did. i saw a tweet saying ellen dejen res, comment on this. ellen came out saying bullying doesn't end when you grow up, it ends when you stop bullying. >> let's play a clip just to remind viewers what happened. >> oh, my god, you so fat. >> you're so fat. >> you take up the whole seat. >> you don't have a family cause they all kille