when tim armstrong and arianna huffington announced aol's purchase of "huffington post" in february it marked not just yet another reshaping of aol but a redefinition of the online news business. less bench six months after that $315 million deal, aol now boast a new staff reported as large as that of "new york times." aas a good insult to the times injury, "huffington post" just last month surpassed the times as the most visited news site on the internet. just last week they made the boldest attempt to -- overseas. opening a u.k. edition and becoming the newest addition to london's interesting journalism theme. [laughter] just as one of its oldest avengers, the 168 year-old "news of the world" was printing its final edition. given all that's happening there, one could imagine there's an opportunity for a new player on the sink at "huffington post" is a noticeable part of a wealthy empire but but not the only part. aol's patch division is a closely watched experience in hyperlocal's citizen journalism today. website such as text crush, aol defense, aol government new site helping to sh

sam stein, reporter at the huffington post.rd you're in the capitol, it is all happening around you. where are we, what's going on? >> well, it takes two reporters from the huffington post, lawrence, to cover the fact that absolutely nothing is happening, which at this very minute at least publicly. behind closed doors, john boehner and there's big crowds of reporters outside his office for hours, looking to see people coming in, see whether they've had their rear ends realigned by john boehner as they try to get the votes they need. this is crucial. if boehner can pass the republican plan in the house, they will at least, that is the republicans will at least be able to say hey, we put something on the table, and in the physics of blame and in the last phases of negotiations, that would mean something. but he's having a terrible time getting the votes. i just talked to one tea party guy who said look, if not me, when, if not us, who. the way the tea party people view it, they're sort of like the guy in tiananmen square in fron

arianna huffington is co-founder and editor-in-chieff of the "huffington post," and joins me fresh froml downstairs on the obama presidency and you ran up the stairs and avoided the applause and the people trying to shake your hand, so thank you for that. >> thank you. >> and what is the state of the obama presidency? downstairs the people here, and certainly represent his base. his more liberal or progressive base, and are people feeling okay or disappointed or want to see more? >> well, the discussion which was with the great harvard professor and jeffrey rosen seemed to suggest that the american dream is in disarray, and over 24 million people unemployed or underemploy and the foreclosures and the kids who graduated from college and can't get jobs, and so they very good at articulating the problems and positioning them in terms of morality and basic american principles, but when it comes to policy, and legislation, he is constantly being outmaneuvered by the republicans, so he gives them a tongue lashing, but it is about preemptive surrender, and not prioritizing jobs, but deficit, a

thank you. -- adriana huffington and -- arianna huffington and tim are strong. -- armstrong. >> but we will begin with questions that were given to us over the internet or from our audience here today. the first question is, and you can decide among yourselves because many of these are for both of you, or related to the murdoch scandal. i think this question stands alone without that. how does the government post and the entire a l l media landscape draw the line between the interests of the public and the public interest? >> the interest of the public -- i suppose what the question means is that it -- is the fact that the public is highbrow and lowbrow we are finding the public wants to hear about lindsay lawn and charlie sheen, which we have concluded are not in the public interest, but they are in danger with the public. that is human nature. in fact, we discovered when we made a deal with facebook that would make it possible for our readers to be able to see what their friends were reading and what their friends were commenting on, that they often did not like they're france to kno

well, the huffington post would have reported on that, right? i mean, it would have been blistering, right? i mean think about it. lincoln sells out slaves. right? there would be protests and a lot of third party guys, and so i think as you guys talk to your friends about getting involved civically, don't set up a situation where you're guaranteed to be disappointed. that's part of the process of growing up. you know, we all -- and that doesn't mean you're not principled and you're not focussed on driving around a particular position or a particular issue. it means that you're sort of pushing the boulder up the hill and you get it a certain way, and other people are pushing it. sometimes it's going to slip back, right? >> joining me now is frank rich, writer at large for "new york magazine." frank, that sounded like a pretty good tutorial on the politics of governing. >> i agree, i think he's entirely right on that. the problem he has now in this protacted negotiations with these intransigent republicans, he can't make the best case for himself,

well, you know, can you imagine how sort of the huffington post would have reported on that? it would have been bad, right? think about it. lincoln sells out slaves. right? there would be protests and you'd want a third-party guy. so i think as you guys talk to your friends about getting involved civillsifkly, don't se situation where you're guaranteed to be disappointed. that's part of the process of growing up. we all -- and that doesn't mean you're not principled or focused on or driving around a particular position or a particular issue. it means that you're sort of pushing the boulder up the hill, and you get it to circle him. other people are pushing. sometimes it's going to slip back. right? >> joining me now is frank rich, writer at large for "new york" magazine. that sounded like a pretty good tutor yal? >> i agree. i think he's entirely right about that. the problem i think he has now is in this pro tracted negotiation with these republicans, he can't make the best case for himself. he's fighting on their turf about deficits. my own feeling is, yes, there have been

, the editor in chief of aol huffington post.zuckerman and eliot spitzer, thank you for joining us. >>> we're taking on two issues that would get to the core of this country, manufacturing and fast food. i'll explain next. >>> july 4th weekend is here but not everybody's feeling that patriotic spirit, the dream to become an american was crushed for 22,000 immigrants who won green cards as part of the diversity visa lottery, only to be told soon after that it was a government computer error. christine romans is here. also joining me, pete dominick. 50,000 people from around the world are randomly selected in this lottery every year, no special skill or education required. what do you think of this system? is it a good system, a bad system? >> that's a different story altogether. 50,000 people randomly selected in a sea of -- it's just luck. what's the point? >> i don't know if this is common around the world. are we the only country that does it? >> it's rare. most country try to match skills with what the economy needs, this is m

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. >> today, huffington post editor in chief are yana huffington and tim armstrong spoke at the nationalress club. they discussed a merger of their two companies and the future of journalism. harrison portion of the event indeed here is a portion of the event. >> i happen to be in london when the scandal started, and it was amazing to see two things. first of all, how incredibly irrelevant the debate between old media and new media is. they are an institution of old media, 168 years on paper. not an upstart blocker who did not have enough supervision, but an incredible institution of the british press that was acting in ways that would have been utterly disgusting coming from anywhere in the media universe. it was new media that played a huge part in bringing in the news of the world down so fast. it was amazing watching all that happened on twitter. within moments, it was getting thousands of tweets. advertiser after advertiser was leaving, and i stopped counting at no. 39 because i knew that was going to be enough, and it was. at the same time, to see that that story was broken by anot

we'll have more on that with "huffington post" sam stein in just a moment. today, the president had strong words for republicans, threatening to default on our nation's debt. >> never in our history has the united states defaulted on its debt. the debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the american people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners. >> how interesting it got. one of the questions posed was from a tweet by house speaker john boehner. the republicans should be asking themselves where are the jobs. >> there's some areas where the republicans have been more resistant in cooperating, even though most objective observers think it's the right thing to do. i'll give you a specific example. it's estimated that we have about $2 trillion worth of infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt. we haven't gotten the kind of cooperation that i'd like to see on some of those ideas and initiatives, i'm going to keep on trying and eventually i'm sure the speaker will see the light. >> mr. president that is soft talking i

she recently wrote in the huffington post about what small business owners must do in the event of a double dip recession. great to see both of you guys. >> thank you. >> christie, i want to start with you. i want to hear what people are talking about in your world. are people optimistic? >> the self-employed community which is 78% of the small business population is optimistic about the economy. however, what they're not optimistic about is our government, our policymakers who are making very bad decisions or no decisions at all. their big concern is the unstable policy climate will continue to put the roadblocks to allow the self-employed community to achieve and grow past this current economic climate. >> so how is that affecting the way they're running their businesses right now? >> everyone is running their business very hesitantly. they're very cautious about the decisions they make because so much is up in the air regarding policy whether it be tax policy, health policy. dealing with the national debt right now. balancing the budget. there's just a big concern about the regula

lineup for you today combining the powers of msnbc, the newly revamped dylanratigan.com and the huffington post to bring you a real conversation a way from the washington talking points. in the show today -- a d.r. exclusive with one of the true conservatives in this nation that i respect. senator tom coburn on the whys and hows behind higs new plan to save $9 trillion and more importantly seek to establish true confidence in america's political and economic problem-solving systems. also today a look at the real dheel would replace the taxes and austerity debate with tree structuring versus taxes and austerity as it may be the only solution that could not only save america but the world from long-term financial ruin. but it's a debate neither president obama nor republican leadership wants to touch. >>> before we step away, though, for senator coburn, let's look at what the rest of the lawmakers are doing, calling it the congressional two-step. all about political posturing, and getting your members on the record the right way on a bill that will never pass so that you can say you voted th

just happened to fall under this stupid this legislation well in the piece i wrote on this for huffington post i mean there are some examples you can think of for example let's say a child dies a crib death since death where the guardian or a babysitter had nothing to do with that but let's say the babysitter didn't discover the child for several hours because she was sleeping up anger over you know making out with the with her boyfriend downstairs you know that's bad babysitting right and maybe the parents are upset about that and they want something to come out of this the babysitter had nothing to do with the child's actual death well there's here's a chance for a prosecutor to come in and you know appease the parents and charge charge the babysitter with a felony even though you know in any other circumstance she would have really done anything wrong up with a terrible babysitter so there are lots of examples where maybe the parents or the guardian did something that's you know bad parenting or a bad way to watch kids but it isn't a crime but now the prosecutor could some sort of come

and in a new two-party series done in collaboration with the "huffington post "which we call "tradingur future" how trade deals may be dangerous to our financial and employment health. >> there ar few things that we can and should do right now to redouble our efforts on behalf of the american people. today congress can advance trade agreements that will help businesses sell more american-made goods and services to asia and south america. supporting thousands of jobs here at home. >> reporter: these agreements are modeled on the 1993 north american free trade agreement or nafta. nafta was the hottest issue in the election year of '92 when presidential candidate ross pa lowe the strongest third party challenge in history, trading his past and the issue. >> pay $1 for your labor, have no health care. that's the most expensive single element making the cut. have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a job sucking sound going south. >> reporter: many on the left imposed nafta allowing foreign c

. >> so journalists who claim that an aggregation website, huffington post, say, takes five paragraphsf a story that they publish on, in, in their world and reprint it there without permission, and then that's a violation of copyright. in the new lessig world how would that be resolved? >> it's a hard question. >> yeah. >> because huffington post is a successful commercial venture. >> right. >> they depend on something called fair use for a lot of their. they have agreements and a whole bunch of -- >> right. >> but fair use, which is.the supreme court said a fundamental first amendment requirement in copyright law. fair use says i'm allowed to use certain things. >> a, a certain amount. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> certain amount without permission. >> yeah. >> and that means even if you say i can't use it i'm allowed to use it. so, so, i think fair use is an essential part to any system of copyright, and i think we depend upon it in all sorts of contexts and need to. >> yeah. this is a hard thing to fix though, right? >> you know. >> i mean i'm not saying it's the wrong thing to say, but i'm

but i do accept visa, master card, and american express. >> joining me now, "huffington post" reporternd msnbc contributor alex wagner. have you made your contribution yet to the colbert super pac? >> in a donation under $50 so that he does not have to disclose it. >> so the question of the day is, is this a joke? >> no. the fec ruled in his favor, and the fec is a very serious body. my favorite part of that whole sort of scene in washington today was that they panned out from the rest of the room, and you could see the faces of all of the fec folks on the board, and they were just beaming like we're finally getting our 15 minutes. but it is very serious. and this sets a precedent. now other folks on other channels who have political leanings such as sarah palin will be free to fund raise and advocate and, you know -- >> well, she order -- palin already has a pac. all they said today is if you discuss the pac on your show, that will not be considered a contribution from viacom or comedy central. it was a very minor point. it doesn't really change the landscape much. let's listen to col

it's typical washington stupidity, and this is where it gets them. >> ryan grim of the huffington post, my guest, appreciate it. >>> coming up, the extraordinary scandal that's riveting england, tying journalists to the highest echelons of british government. prime minister got hammered with questions today. you don't to want miss this story. zplmptle perhaps the most monumental labor struggle of the year. >>> still ahead, the rupert murdoch-owned british tabloid is under fire for hacking into and deleting the voice mails of a 13-year-old murder victim. [ male announcer ] things seem better with travelocity's best price guarantee. our girl's an architect. our boy's a genius. we are awesome parents! biddly-boop. [ male announcer ] if you find a lower rate on a room you've booked, we won't just match it. we'll give you $50 towards your next trip. [ gnome ] it's go time. >>> in the spotlight tonight, the scandal that's rocking the political media world in england and across the atlantic. at the epicenter of it all, the news of the world, rupert murdoch. the story revolves around milly dau

aol bought the huffington opposed. in the middle east, we saw how citizen journalists are reporting on the uprisings, and in papers like the "san francisco chronicle" are finding ways to collaborate with groups like spj's journalist of the year in northern california. his last three of this year's winners were new or nonprofit media, a ratio that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago when newspapers and large tv stations dominated the news media. to be sure, most of the hard work is still ahead of us. few new start-ups turn a profit. many community newsrooms' still rely on volunteer labor, and broader economic issues. we want to encourage the members of our audience here at the public library to drive this discussion. this is your chance to ask these experts what is happening to the news that you depend on to make your day to day decisions. our conversation tonight will include five elements -- we will talk about the quality of reporting available to the public and move on to what is being done to create sustai

papers likthe huffington post ar publications are doing a better job. we call ourselves a liberal city. supervisors, business is not going to be as usual if you keep dumping millions of millions of dollars, as you did with hunters point, other projects that i could name, but i will not name. in the end, it is left to you all. at one time, being a politician was a respectful career. it is not because of such types of decisions. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: have a good rest of the day. meeting is adjourned. >> good morning. quick adjustment here. thank you all for coming this beautiful morning in san francisco. we are honored to have mayor ed lee with us today. senator yi and supervisor cohen is on the way and a special guest marisa churchill from the top chef from the food network. i have been with the company for over 35 years and you can probably tell by my hair color. i have seen lots of changes off that time period. lot

it's typical washington stupidity, and this is where it gets them. >> ryan grim of the huffington post guest, appreciate it. >>> coming up, the extraordinary scandal that's riveting england, tying journalists to the highest echelons of british government. prime minister got hammered with questions today. you don't to want miss this story. zplmptle perhaps the most monumental labor struggle of the year. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, ging them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. new newtons fruit thins. real cranberries and delicious cranberry citrus oat... ♪ or real blueberries... ♪ ...and luscious blueberry brown sugar. the goodness of whole grains... and a thin cri

joining me is huffington post report and is msnbc analyst alex wagner. can she run in a bubble?e it. >> i ran for president, and they didn't let me run in a bubble. >> no, you can't. living in the bubble works when you're trying to build grass-roots support, but when you're on the national stage, you do have to answer these tough questions. this is hugely controversial, so are a number of other things. this is someone who has railed against, quote/unquote, government handouts, and it turns out they have received subsidy foss their clinic, for their farm. she received a federally backed home loan. there's something to be said for standing behind your decision, and if you can't, someone will answer the tough questions for you. if that's the opposition, i don't think it's a good play. >> i don't think it's as much the particulars as the inconsistency. you've taken a policy decision, but you seem to have done otherwise in your own business. >> the idea you won't have to answer questions like that when you're on the national stage i think is ludicrous. you can't almost see the light

joining mess is huffington post alex wagner, also an msnbc analyst.nk for you joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> what are you seeing? >> a couple things. i think the republicans in large part have seen this as an interesting political exercise. as you want, there are real consequences to this. there are 22,000 people in minnesota wo don't have jobs right now. the first people that will get cut and the first people to feel these shutdown? services are the elderly, the blind, the poor, the people struggling to hang on and people facing foreclosures. the idea they can go about this as a theoretical practice ignores the fact there's a human elements to all of this. >> a poll says 63% favor a mix. why aren't republicans just listening to the constituency? >> i think there's always a dismissal of the democrats, you know, and their platform. i think, to your point, there is a widespread feeling in this country that it's going to hurt. everything nose we'll have to do some belt tightening. to me it's illogical that the republicans are being so hardline o

up on the huffington post, like 500 comments.le is, is religion a greater barrier to the white house than race? >> that's really what the novel's dramatizing in ways? >> right. one of the issues it explores. the idea of identity. we live in an era with president obama and muslim rumors and even with candidates like mitt romney being mormon how it's no longer acceptable to say i won't vote for mun because they're black. it's not acceptable to say you won't vote for someone because they're gay, but it is okay tock say i won't vote for tom cruise because he's scientologist or because they're muslim. i wanted to explore that. it's a fun beach read but i did want to explore that issue. >> i started this last night. i'm around page 20 because i had to go to bed to get my beauty sleep to guest host for dylan but i noticed there's also both the candidate and his pals, they're basketball playing cronies from their college day. sounds a little bit like in politicians we may know, and talk about the friendship anglealitiangle aliti a little

sam steiner of the huffington post reported that the senate may vote on mcconnell's compromise plan as early as this week. that would mean republicans get big spending cuts in exchange for zero tax increases. the president vowed that that wouldn't happen. tonight let's be an honest broker and make sure he keeps his word. >> i do not see a path to a deal if they don't budge, period. >> president obama drew a line on taxes last week. republicans are running out the clock, and it looks like the president is caving. senator sheldon whitehouse is here. one of the key figures in the news corporate fox hacking scandal is found dead, and there's more trouble in the united states for rupert murdoch. filmmaker robert greenwall on the latest. in psycho talk tonight. >> yes, they have the right to do that. that's not discriminating based upon religion against their particular religion. >> republican presidential hopeful herman cain has a warped understanding of the constitution. more anti-islam remarks from the godfather's pizza man. tonight, he's attacking another candidate on his religion. remem

aol bought the huffington opposed. in the middle east, we saw how citizen journalists are reporting on the uprisings, and in papers like the "san francisco chronicle" are finding ways to collaborate with groups like spj's journalist of the year in northern california. his last three of this year's nn

papers likthe huffington post ar publications are doing a better job. we call ourselves a liberal city. supervisors, business is not going to be as usual if you keep dumping millions of millions of dollars, as you did with hunters point, other projects that i could name, but i will not name. in the end, it is left to you all. at one time, being a politician was a respectful career. it is not because of such types of decisions. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: have a good rest of the day. meeting is adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> [laughter] nice treat. supervisor mar: the morning, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee. today i am joined by supervisor farrell, [reads names] i but like to thank [unintelligible] at sfc tv for providing access. >> item #one. approval of -- item number two, approval of minutes of the may 10, 2011 me

well, anyway, prepare for tomorrow's huffington post headline "stewart evoice rates stewart." >> on the eighth day, they thought there was only enough hope for three days. >> you invite an important visitor to our house and our tone and eat your pizza with a [bleeped] fork right in front of us. >> i want to bless the children. you will not we nigh god's love. >> the giant [bleeped] gaggoons hanging on this man. >> i'm so short. can you lean over. >> [inaudible] >> anthony, go inside, and if you come back out, wear a light jacket. >> all right, boys. you know the rules. i don't remember anything. [speaking in all different accents] >> i like to eat cheese. >> what? >> you can take our horses, but you'll never take ourration! >> guvnah. >> new york i'm no spy, just [bleeped] with summer home. >> we don't need no stinking ez pass. >> you can't get there from quee-eh. >> he wasn't going out with little boys. >> you should see some of the [bleeped] i've done. >> better on the floor than in the senate. >> keeps getting better and better. >> another to be certain than right. >> am i

joining us from "the huffington post," is that true? basically sending a bunch of conditions like they used to do with literacy tests in the south to keep blacks from voting, is this a bunch of regulations to basically kill any chance of having an abortion legally in kansas? >> that's what they seem to be and what they've done. i heard word the third clinic has been denied a license as well, which mean as wom can no longer get an abortion in kansas because of these impossible regulations that they were given two weeks to comply with. >> give me example. >> recovery room twreen 70 and 57 75 degrees. a janitor's closet 50 feet or larger, a dressing room for patients and staff. there has to be -- the recovery ram has to be 150 square feet or larger. the size and temperature of the room -- >> this is like literally tests for the south. >> exactly. >> my question is are they admitting this is a game? a strategy to kill abortion rights in kansas? >> republicans are not admitting it. saying it's to protect women's health and safety that these

papers likthe huffington post ar publications are doing a better job. we call ourselves a liberal city. supervisors, business is not going to be as usual if you keep dumping millions of millions of dollars, as you did with hunters point, other projects that i could name, but i will not name. in the end, it is left to you all. at one time, being a politician was a respectful career. it is not because of such types of decisions. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: have a good rest of the day. meeting is adjourned. >> san francisco's buses and trains serve many riders who are blind or how low vision. muni is their lives line to get around. simple act of courtesy can help them access muni services safely. it is not just courtesy. it is the law. >> i used to take the 21 airlock. >> lot of times, when i would be waiting at the bus stop, the door would open and the driver would announce the bus line. >> 71. >> it is easier and preferabl

huffington post reporting allen west told his colleagues i'm ready to drive the car. told the huffington post, i don't know if this is a compliment or the ultimate repudiation. i think the company men is more preerm. >>> in george clooney is telling usa today the time is right for his new thriller "the ides of march." he stars and directs the film which also stars ryan gosling. it's about a young press person working for a presidential candidate during the iowa caucus. the knew bee gets a back room crash course. clooney said he thought about shooting the film in 2008 but the nation was too hopeful back then. new he says cynicism has seemed to have come back. >>> finally, does this voice sound familiar -- >> moore and her union fought to overturn the reforms that have -- >> if you guessed morgan freeman was guessing that over, you'd be what we'd like to call, wrong. freeman's people confirm that he's not the their ratter of an ad posted for sins sfr strong america. the group is running the ad targeting shelly moore in wisconsin's recall campaign. >>> well ark video gam

. >> joining us now, howard fineman, editorial director of "the huffington post" and msnbc analyst. >> how are you tonight? >> i'm not sure. >> stress out. >> look. i was listening to senator schumer basically calling on maturity, a kind of sense of adulthood, where are the grownups in the room, but particularly when he said listen, we all know that the senate is the only way out of this mess, given how dysfunct n dysfunctional the senate is as of late, should i be concerned the senate is the only way out of this mess? >> that's not reassuring, and having covered the senate for a long time, i can tell you the way they operate sometimes isn't reassuring. to go to luke russert's point, it's not just this drama now, what people are looking at is whether our country is suffering some kind of political nervous breakdown, and maybe a sort of permanent inability to deal with the fundamental questions of our economy and our finances and our society. how we deal with entitlements, how we deal with the ageing of the baby boom, how we deal with our tax structure, how we create jobs, these fundam

papers likthe huffington post ar publications are doing a better job. we call ourselves a liberal city. supervisors, business is not going to be as usual if you keep dumping millions of millions of dollars, as you did with hunters point, other projects that i could name, but i will not name. in the end, it is left to you all. at one time, being a politician was a respectful career. it is not because of such types of decisions. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: have a good rest of the day. meeting is adjourned. >> welcome to culture wire. we're going to take a look at one of the biggest and most significant public art projects today. ♪ on june 26, mayor newsom and other officials gathered at the hospital to cut the ribbon and welcome the public into a beautiful new state-of-the-art facility. >> 3, 2, 1. [applause] >> in has been 10 years since voters approved the measure for the new building. >> when they cast the vote, we have

before we even started eating, he said to me, i want to buy the huffington post and bring the huffington post and aol content together. it all happen unbelievably fast. for those of you who may be read the story of our deal, we close the deal at the super bowl. >> in halftime, literally. we had our first super bowl together and we had corporate videoconference. we did her first corporate videoconference. we did her first analyst called. and today is her first day of we're having a birthday together. >> your hear the national press club and we're extremely grateful. a lot of members came to me before the event and wanted me to ask the question about the value of the professional journalist versus the ones who essentially participate for no financial benefit to them. how you balance that? how do you decide the where -- where the value comes from adding a professional? for those like me, professional journalist to worry that people will work for free, and might push them aside, are you ok with that? or how do you preserve the added value that only -- we would like to think -- of professiona

joining me in our round table, george will, arianna huffington, founder of "the huffington post," former clinton budget director alice rivlin also a member of one of the many y commissions studying solutions to the debt crisis, and charlie gasparino, senior correspondent for fox business network. good morning, all. you heard what the secretary of the treasury said. george, is the country going to go off the cliff or will there be a deal do you think? >> we were supposed to go off the cliff originally in may. that was the drop dead date then it was moved to august 2nd, a week there this coming tuesday. now suddenly we wake up this morning and mr. geithner, whose credibilility is zero with republicans and this is one reason why, says no, no, 4:00 this afternoon, the asian markets open, and that's the drop dead date. the president this week in his tantrum compress conference said republicans won't say any to anything. they said yes to the ryan budget, the democratic senate said no. they said yes to cap and balance. the only plan put on paper, the president has put not one on paper, the only

joining me now, msnbc political analyst and senior editor for "the huffington post," howard ç finemanmnist, ezra klein. ezra, looking at the two speeches, the president's speech and then speaker boehner's speech, compare and contrast for us the policy positions outlined by each of them. >> obama's going for what he likes to call the balanced approach. and the balanced approach is some level of tax increases. now, remember that the deal obama offered boehner about a week ago now, or maybe a little bit less than that was $1.2 trillion in tax increases for $4 trillion in deficit reduction total. boehner walked from that. but boehner did say he would be okay with an $800 trillion tax increase if there were $4 trillion in debt reduction total. so in some strange way, the two aren't as far apart as you would think, but they can't bridge that final gap. so now boehner's arguing for no tax increases at all, but obama is sort of held to that same deal and is trying to continue to offer it to boehner. >> let's listen to what the president said about the tea party and the unwillingness to compro