guest: the huffington post i've also written for for tune cnn money.com. i've written for the new york daily news. i've published in a lot of different places. the huffington post is a great journalism outlet that has a lot of diverse voices and often a lot of conservative contributors so i wouldn't necessarily make assertions to my bias based on where my op eds are published. guest: thank you for your comment. now i'd like to say basically yesterday i found out one of my daughters' friends who is a chemical engineer graduated from georgia tech this last july still does not have a job. i think the big problem with the lack of jobs and for the millenials this is a real issue. now, i would like to say what do the millenials think about them paying for old people with the affordable care act? that's why they're not signing up. they realize this is a transfer of money from young people who don't have jobs, don't have money, have huge debt, and they're going to pay for old people. who have the majority of the money. guest: so, a few things. most young people ar

i will get to all of those stories, as soon as i discuss this breaking news from the huffington post. was your kid hitler in a past life? it's the kind of huffpo feature that leads to the question, "will journalism exist in the future life?" i have never believed in reincarnation. i don't know why. maybe i was a skeptic in a past life. but this article offers incontrovertible antidote that your child may have had a past life, such is the story of a six-year-old boy who was able to translate the words of adolf hitler, even though none of his relatives knew german. incredible. even more incredible that his relatives who didn't speak german were able to tell he was translating correctly. laugh but, folks, just because this kid's parents be heave hitler in a past life, doesn't mean you should give up hope for your child. consider this-- hitler of an artist. has your child ever colored with crayons? ( laughter ) does he sometimes have trouble getting along with others? idoes he blame his early bedtime on a global jewish conspiracy? if so, if so-- i want to be clear about this-- if so,im no

then a conversation with jamie lee curtis who has written a powerful blog to the huffington post about her own struggles to fight addiction. we are glad you joined us. those conversations are coming up right now. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. the escalating war in syria has left 9 million people in the middle of a conflict that shows no sign of abating and has put a most read million people on the run, including a number of children. according to officials the u.s. is using all tools possible to bring an end to the conflict. in the meantime, the humanitarian crisis continues to escalate. joining us is a senior fellow for the foreign relations and foreign policy program. good to have you on this program. what do we make of where this situation is that the moment? some months ago there was a sign of hope that something could be done to deal with the stockpile, and now we have a crisis that seems to be spinning further out of control. >> i think a lot of people hoped we would be in a different pace than we are. we face the biggest humanita

did "the huffington post" do the tim armstrong story? >> it was slate. >> that's a "huffington post" piece. they should be all over that. >> that was on slate. >> that was slate. >> no, but they covered it. i just meant are they skewering the owner of "the huffington post" as an objective news source would have to. are they skewering tim armstrong? >> we'll get to that story in a big way in a little bit. >> what's that? >> hold the thought. we'll get to that in a little bit. >>> and we have to talk about -- he's running a business, i'm not sure what he said. i haven't looked at it too close. my point is did "the huffington post" cover what their opener said? >> i don't know. >> okay. there's no right or wrong on this story itself. >> that's what you just said. yes, i do think that. >> well, i know you're going to come down on the side of the -- >> of protecting the individual rights? >> i'm sure that tim armstrong was well intentive in politicking with the way he said. >> i know i have a hard time finding anything he says right in the si

sam, i want to turn to "the huffington post" on the domestic politics, your publication there, going big with your front-page space, "4 million enrolled." that's a number, that's a fact, and it is one that the white house is arguing today, sam, is not only great news for them, but is the right way to assess a long-term health care policy, a point that has been discussed before when you look at state-level initiatives, you have to take time and not the first cut, first month or two numbers. what's your take and what do your sources say, tell us about that splash page. >> well, the splash page is beautiful, as is all the stuff on "the huffington post," as everyone knows. as for the facts of the story, i mean, listen, if you had said they had gone to 4 million at this point when they were starting out in october, when on the first day i think there were six enrollees, people would have laughed at you, so this is clear progress in favor of supporters of the affordable care act. there's obvious caveats, how many people of these have actually purchased their first month's premium, there's

>> the first one was "huffington post." we have launched three. recent is called the dodo, and i was thinking we are killing the dogs, and it is about animals, approaching animal rights from a really ideological place, and coming at it from trying to sort of talk about the issues, but also bringing issues to people that would not necessarily think that they cared about animals. odoind myself reading d religiously. >> would you partner with animal at themor do you look as competition? >> you look at them as a traditional media business that disruption. when we launched "huffington post" we looked at "the new york times" and said how could we build a business that will represent the "new york times" for the next generation, and planet,look at animal it is not directly looking at it, per se, but a traditional business model, and saying how do you build something that is digitally native that speaks to that audience. name thate a 3-d "the stuck out to me -- printing company that stuck out to me. a bunch of stocks tumbled when one of them, with negativ

senator elizabeth warren writing in the huffington post that she supports it.o create pathways for struggling families to build economic curt, and this is an -- security, and this is an idea that falls into that category. quote: the possal service appreciates all innovative ideas to generate revenue and enhance the custer -- customer's experience. however, community bankers say this financial services is no place for the government. >> anytime you have government trying to impose itself on a free market, free functioning system like our financial system in this country, it's a bad idea. >> reporter: the postal service says they could make $9 billion a year doing this type of business. however, that would have to bo through congress, and it's taken years for congress really to do anything on the postal service. there are proposals to reform the postal service on capitol hill, and neither has passed congress. back to you. dennis: thanks very much, rich edsonn and coming up, growing papes for twitter. will it get its action together the way facebook did? cheryl: a

her husband works for the huffington post. says the daughter has already overcome more setbacks than most of us adore in the span of our lives. having her existence used as a scapegoat for cutting corporate benefits was one indignity too many. of regrettabled but forgivable mistake a ceo can make? or does this go to show that may be tim armstrong should not be in this job after all? >> it is not the first time that he has put his foot in it. he publicly fired an employee when there were a bunch of other staffers listening to the conference calls as well. the ceo executives that i also he islike rupert murdoch, an outspoken person as well. in fact, as journalists, we like it when ceos are upfront. to learn toas got not talk too much if this is the thing that he wants to avoid in the future. >> when i interviewed tim armstrong, i found him to be a straight shooter. aol, it was over sort of a no-nonsense approach. overall, has he been good for aol? >> he has been. he has turned the company around, improve the advertising, improve

and then there's the huffington post. necessary roughness.utive power is justified. howard kurtz is with me now. i'm sure the huffington post was just as vocal in defending president bush with his executive authority uses. >> had this been george w. bush, megyn, changing unilaterally several times over and over the law, the main stream media would have gone ballistic. with a few exceptions, "the washington post" did mildly criticize, but the media are not raising these questions about barack obama. it is debatable whether he's exceeded his authority, but they're not even having the debate. >> why? >> well, i think part of the reason has to do with not because the media are in love with barack obama. for example, there has been critical treatment of the bomped rollout of obamacare and broken promises of you can keep your plan or doctor. but journalists are more sympathetic to the goals of the affordable health care act. but with president bush, in the dna of many journalists, they were opposed to what the bush/cheney administration was doing.

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joining us now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the "huffington post."see you tonight. thanks for joining us. i guess i'll start with this. it seemed like president obama genuinely honestly believed in the summer of 2011 he was going to get somewhere negotiating with the republicans. everybody i talked to said when he put the idea of chain cpi, adjusted social security formula in his budget last year, that it was just for show. he knew republicans weren't going to two along with it but he wanted to prove it to the country. he wanted people to see that. was that the plan? do you think he succeeded in doing that? >> i think he was tired of not getting credit for being willing to make all the concessions that he was. because he was taking all the heat from democrats who were furious at him for being willing to cut medicare, cut medicaid, cut social security, et cetera. and at the same time, he had all these, you know, deficit scolds saying, why won't the president lead? so i think he was sick of that, so he put that out there. but, you know, i don't quite u

joining me now, an associate science editor for "the huffington post" who watched it all.is debate with these two guys there, what did they actually accomplish? >> you know, it's interesting, the debate started off as being billed as something just about evolution, but it turned out to be a debate of more science versus creationism and seems nothing was really accomplished, so the highlights were kind of what we have heard before in these discussions, as you mentioned, they discussed the age of the earth. they discussed noah's ark, what was before the big bang, but there seems to have been no final resolution that we saw. >> okay, so they had their prepared remarks and they pretty much went at it at the pace that we just showed, pretty deliberate, maybe not the most energet energetic, some might say. who won? >> right, exactly. so it's interesting, we kind of followed the public response via social media, and a lot of people were definitely in support of bill nye, but, you know, when the debate started, he was given some criticism from the science community, and people wer

. >>> leading the news in the huffington post, eric holder, the state attorney general, you don't haveefend gay marriage bans. he says when laws touch on court constitutional issues like equal protection, an attorney general should apply the highest level of scrutiny before reaching a decision on whether to defend it or not. >>> and astronomers document record-breaking lunar impact. video capturing the meteorite crashing into the moon last september, the impact energy was about the same as detonating 15 tons of tnt. >>> some stories you may have missed, the longest serving member of the house of representatives is resigning. 87-year-old democrat john dingell of michigan has served 29 full terms. that's 58 years. the seat is likely to remain in democratic hands. >>> a push for a bold warning label for testosterone drugs for men. asking the fda to add a black box warning, this comes aed my growing evidence the hormone treatments can increase the risk of heart attack. the fda is reviewing the safety of testosterone drugs. >>> the supreme court turns up its nose to a smelly washing machine

he's the former ceo of pop in to post -- of the huffington post.talk about the income inequality debate, it is really on fire in silicon valley. i do not know it people in new york have their head around to the protests, and what is going on. >> year medivation of technology. -- the urbanization of technology. they are all moving to san francisco, because they want to be in a norman area -- urban area. big them a diverse fight centers of eggs and these is where technology is getting developed. now you have all of these tech workers moving up to the city, and they have a little bit more money than some people in the city, so they jack up the rents. that nobody houses all caps for dramatic pushes out the people who have been -- nobodyresidents can afford, and pushes out the people who have been long-term residents. >> can you give us a sense of what it is like? in new york city is is always how we have operated -- this is always how we have operated, it is just how we roll. >> what he mentioned was important, that it is only recently that these tech

guest: the huffington post i've also written for for tune cnn money.com.itten for the new york daily news. i've published in a lot of different places. the huffington post is a great journalism outlet that has a lot of diverse voices and often a lot of conservative contributors so i wouldn't necessarily make assertions to my bias based on where my op eds are published. guest: thank you for your comment. now i'd like to say basically yesterday i found out one of my daughters' friends who is a chemical engineer graduated from georgia tech this last july still does not have a job. i think the big problem with the lack of jobs and for the millenials this is a real issue. now, i would like to say what do the millenials think about them paying for old people with the affordable care act? that's why they're not signing up. they realize this is a transfer of money from young people who don't have jobs, don't have money, have huge debt, and they're going to pay for old people. who have the majority of the money. guest: so, a few things. most young people are in fav

aspect of life in palestine shepherd just got back from the region and wrote a viral article for the huffington post about the myth of the conflict and how the western media gets it wrong but he's not simple journalist he's also editor in chief of stop being famous a music blog dedicated to in-depth interviews with some of the biggest names in music today and covering a wide variety of social issues earlier today for our stop by the studio and i first asked him about another story he's been writing about check out. i want to ask about something that you posted very recently on stop being famous which is this open letter to d.m.'s you know in light of him wanting to box george zimmerman you were saying that this is sort of a mockery of a tragedy so you know what kind of brought it were brought this about what made you inclined to write this piece mainly brought the. piece that i made that are excused that i wrote was almost of it was like i was vomiting it was involuntary i couldn't hold it in i was thinking like you know i've been a fan for many years and i know where he was coming from in term

the good the bad in the very very fast so mentally ugly the good chris kluwe in an interview with huffington post yesterday the former n.f.l. punter an outspoken l g b t rights advocate called out anonymous and f l executives who say that the league isn't ready for a distraction like an openly gay player michael sam he said one thing i thought was really interesting was the very word just strach it seems of this word distraction is code for i don't really like the idea of a gay player on my team but i know i can't say that so i use the abstract stick couldn't agree more well said it's the bat james toronto the wall street journal columnist has been heavily criticized the. for a piece he wrote about sexual assault on college campuses according to toronto what is called the problem of sexual assault on campus is in large part a problem of reckless alcohol consumption by men and women alike when two drunken college students collide the male one is almost always presumed to be at fault or as james taranto thinks it's time for society start blaming the victims of sexual assault as if it didn't ha

needs to be nationwide access to now now looks on and overdose antidote for opiates according to huffington post quote studies have shown that this drug overdose death rates can cut overdose death rates excuse me by fifty percent it only eleven states have enacted laws giving legal protection to those who can administer the drug so although drug abuse has been stigmatized and silenced in this country for decades it's very real and the dialogue needs to be opened so others can seek help seek treatment and most importantly stay alive. despite the economic woes here at home every year the u.s. government gives away around thirty seven billion dollars in assistance to foreign countries and while many u.s. assistance projects focus on humanitarian crisis relief advocacy groups like human rights watch and amnesty international suggest that most u.s. aid isn't going to these types of causes at all aggression research service recently released a report for the top ten recipients of u.s. foreign aid and what we see is that all ten countries have ties to torture programs and half of them are going to

focusing on the really weird stupid story for example all the mainstream outlets that york times the huffington post box news all of the they all just ran the same story that russia is blocking a shipment of chobani yogurt to the u.s. olympian as the times puts it the yogurt industry's political allies are outraged mind you all countries have very strict laws about importing dairy products for good reason the u.s. is own international dairy foods association has a lengthy testing process for importing any dairy but for some reason the media has decided to be outraged that u.s. the limpia who remain unnamed can't have their precious new york me the greek yogurt chobani at the olympics and other weird story the american media has decided to focus on is the toilet in sochi i yahoo sports reporter tweeted a picture of a sign in a sochi bathroom telling people not to flush the toilet paper but rather he was a basket that's provided this is standard procedure in many countries and is actually a lot better on sewage systems but the reporters said that that without question the thing that is most surpr

more of the huffington post reports that freedom industries knew about the second chemical leak for weeks but did not disclose the details about it to the state or federal regulators because it's considered a trade secret that could hurt the company's bottom line financially if the information is disclosed freedom industries filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy it right after the spill essentially stopping all west virginia residents and businesses from seeking legal action against the company but as a mess in b.c. as chris hayes pointed out in order to file for bankruptcy freedom industries has to find another company to finance it not one but two companies stepped up to the plate money or funding l.l.c. and w. funding however it turns out that mouneer funding l.l.c. was also incorporated the same day that it offered to save freedom industries and guess what the company's officer is one j. clifford forrest the very man who bought freedom industries at the end of last year as for the funding that company is organized by the lawyer who also organized not near funding l.l.c. and the sole lis

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if you think about the huffington post, everybody needs news every day come if you think about techcrunch, technology is probably the biggest cultural trend in society. the third one his women, and we think women are underserved on the internet. you have been involved in this, but the makers project, and we l.a.the conference in i am a big believer in brandon i would love to have more content brands and more platforms to serve content brands, not just the ones we own but across the internet. >> a world made some gains because of deep cuts at its local network at neighborhood never called patch. ceo tim armstrong talked about it with betty liu. >> it is $150 billion space. we have almost 20 million --sumers andthe product consumers in that space, and the product, how to get structured. we are going to hang with it and we are big owners of the property, and we're going to work for a closely with them. i was a also one of the things we have been able to do both with hail and the rest of our content robberies as we just purchased gravity, the -- all of these are going to get more personal. >>

here is secretary sebelius misstates and misrepresenting the record and the truth to the huffington post disb. >> first of all, that was a cbo congressional budt office predict when was bill was signed, not sure wherehe got their numbers, they are all ove theoard, and you know vice president looked and said, it may be closer to 5 to 6. neil: here is secretary sebels in herwn words, just last fall. one day before the failed launch of obamacare web sit secretary repeatingame goal, of 7 million people that she first stated, in june of last year. >> i think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of march. neil: smc administrator stated ththe same 7 million number in r statements, just two weeks before the secretary made her remarks last septeer. secretary sebelius and her senior staff all declares the me number, the same goal, repeatedly, yet the secretary stillenies the number, and the goal. what is wrong 'this woman? why did the obama administration to decide to do a classic late friday document dump with the latest obamacare rort, from tavenner's cms, a r

her husband works at the huffington post.d at the end that our daughter has already overcome more setbacks the most of us have endured in the span of aryl lives. -- in the span of our lives this the kind of regrettable but forgivable mistake a ceo can make or is this something that shows that maybe tim armstrong should not be in this job? >> this is not the first time he has put his foot in it. six months ago, he publicly fired an employee when there were a bunch of other staffers listening in. he apologized for that as well. executives -- i also cover rupert murdoch -- he is an outspoken person as well. that is not the type of thing that takes your job away necessarily. as journalists, we like it when ceo's are more honest and upfront. this does not put a bad spell on him but he's got to learn to not talk too much. when i interviewed tim armstrong, i found him to be sort of a straight shooter. when he took over aol, the idea was that he was going to bring refreshing change to the company because of his no-nonsense approach a

the actor slash sad person announced he is withdrawing from public life and rented a paparazzi huffington post and fox news. mostly he complained about being called a homophobe by others in the gay department of justice or gdoj. he said he was wrongfully accused of using a gay slur. he lamented anything you do is tossed in a a pit and you are measured by who you are on your worst day. the policy went over as well as this one. >> oh my goodness. we we couldn't show you the rest because it got very bloody. baldwin, does he have a point that he is the victim here? he seems to blame every sing impel person on the planet. >> he was on a good roll with that one. i think if he wants tip on retiring from public life his brothers could give him advice on how to disappear from the media eye. it is a very interesting article. at some points he almost gets it. he is saying like how i am not a homophobic concern and i want to have an out reach and the young trani says to me -- >> that was the best part. >> i thought that was interesting how he is talking about the way people are judged by this group o

here is secretary sebelius misstates and misrepresenting the record and the truth to the huffington post disb. >> first of all, that was a cbo congressional budget office predict when was bill was signed, not sure where they got their numbers, they are all over the board, and you know vice president looked and said, it may be closer to 5 to 6. neil: here is secretary sebelius in her own words, just last fall. one day before the failed launch of obamacare web site. secretary repeating same goal, of 7 million people that she first stated, in june of last year. >> i think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of march. neil: smc administrator stated the same 7 million number in her statements, just two weeks before the secretary made her remarks last september. secretary sebelius and her senior staff all declares the same number, the same goal, repeatedly, yet the secretary still denies the number, and the goal. what is wrong 'this woman? why did the obama administration to decide to do a classic late friday document dump with the latest obamacare report,

also released this image, and also you have media such as huffington post,s in their image that they have on the huff postmedia website. and you have who this month did a segment holding up this the free a.j. staff sign as welt. and this is dave he is from the nation, he's got his glove the nation and sports editor, and the glove says free a.j. staff. and this is the press core, as well. that they have joined in solidarity, is our own news in doha. >> that's right, tony. i was there for two years with a lot of those people. i should tell you that dina one of our journalists here her picture, she is holding up a sign. moo rhea she has the tape on her mouth as well, that photo of her beamed from one of the jumbotron screens in time square today. just stunning. just stunning. maria, appreciate it. today the white house press secretary, was asked for the obama administration is still calling for the release. >> we have expressed concerned about the detainment and trial of al jazeera and others and we have expressed those concerns directly to the government, and we had urged the governmen

howard kurtz with me now, and i'm sure that "the huffington post" would have defended george bush equally. >> had this happened when george bush was in office, they would have gone wild. now with a few exceptions on had you noti-- they're not even hav the debate. >> why? >> well, i think part of the reason has to do with not because the media are in love with barack obama, for example, there has been critical treatment, i think of the botched rollout on obamacare, and the broken promises on you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor. but i think generally journalists are more sympathetic to the goals of the administration, when on the issue of the aenlt terror tactics, i think in the dna of many of them, they were opposed. >> it is not just obamacare, however, as i mentioned in the program. it is i can kill an american with the drone. i can engage in the war in libya without congressional approval. i can do all sorts of things that relate to presidential power grab outside of domestic policy that the liberals should be objecting to. would normally be objecting to, but for the fact t

>> today over the in huffington post. down played the goal from sign up from 7 million to 6 million. if they are going down and expecting a million less people to sign up, this will cause problems up and down the law and they need sign ups to pay for the new cost of the program. >> they do. and we learned that maul business will be hurt more. and every week there are new wrinkles that they have to iron out. >> i think we all just need to work together and do a little relationship building and we'll figure it out. we need to work on it. >> and yes, that is starting right here, right now. marjorie johnson. thank you. >> and thank you. >> you know, i am obviously not been a strong supporter of barak obama, but this is really is over the top and there is emormous long- term damage to our military. it is it like a highway spent turn it on and off. the fact of the matter he is impacting the future presidents to deal with the barrage. >> that was dick cheney slamming the obama administration's plan to shrink our military to a si

here is secretary sebelius misstates and misrepresenting the record and the truth to the huffington postirst of all, that was a cbo congressional budget office predict when was bill was signed, not sure where they got their numbers, they are

kiev, you also have soledad o'brien from "america tonight," and you also have other media such as huffington post media, they put this out on their web page, you had christianne amanpour. >> our former colleague. >> yes our former colleague. this is the kabul press corps that came out in solidarity. the doha newsroom, in solidarity as well and take a look at this also. >> how about this, this is our colleague and our friend, dina alshenawi, i have known dina for several years. there she is can you believe it, with the sign, with the hashtag, #freeaj staff. there she is in the most important city in the world, one of the iconic corners. in the world. times square, on one of those big jumbotron screens. free aj staff. it is the biggest international city on the planet and the word is spreading. >>> maria, see you a little later in the newscast. thank you. white house press secretary jay carney was asked, is did white house still calling for our journalists release. >> we remain deeply concerned about the ongoing lack of freedom of expression and press freedoms in egypt. the government's target

from california and he's a senior consultant, and his work appeared in salons and slate and on the huffington post. alex, nice to have you on the show. this is happening more and more often because we can, and in the old days if you didn't catch the show when aired you were done and not able to see and now watching all five seasons of lost and that could be an experience, and why? >> it is 7 seasons of lost. people must be tweeting about that. >> i saw them all. it felt like 5. >> look, you know, restorive experience is one that mentally recharges you and a couple of important featurefeatures, it i fascinati fascinating. for different people, different kinds of activities fulfill this. some people science fiction or literature and some people hiking, nature, others rebuilding cars or sort of doing that type of mechanical design stuff. but the people i have interviewed who are dedicated binge watchers talk about watching shows like game of throwns or the wire or house of cards and using very much the same types of language that the people use for going to the theatre or or opera and so i think

editorial director for "huffington post."he question is, is it smart to muss up bill clinton as he goes out campaigning? i assume he will go to places like new hampshire, arkansas, the south, take away some ability to give character witness. this guy is really smart. this guy is great. believe eme, he is great. can he do that with rand paul calling him a predator? >> bill clinton has had one of the more successful post presidencies. he has clinton foundation. >> his numbers are great. >> he has built himself a tremendous reputation, much better than when he left office. what the republicans are doing is trying to chip away at that, trying to cut his numbers so he has less effectiveness in the places that you mentioned including kentucky where he is going to campaign for the democratic candidate in the senate race that he basically chose. and so for the republicans for 2014 they want to make him less effective in the senate races and gubernatorial races. >> will it work? suppose a local reporter walks up, you know what they do

. >> joining me now is the washington bureau chief at "the huffington post" and father of twins as of this saturday. congratulations. robert, i know you didn't just have twins, but i'm going start with you. >> give ryan a chance to catch his breath and relax a little bit there. >> he needs five minutes. he's five minutes behind us temporally. we've been talking a lot about the danger the democrats face in terms of the balance of power in the senate. if you talk about national unity of a party that contrasts between the republican retreat and the democratic retreat is incredibly pronounced. we talk about generational waves. in terms of national policy, it is a democratic moment right now. >> well, i think there's no doubt that right now you have a pretty strong agreement on a set of ideas that the democrats want to move forward on. you heard a lot of it there. immigration reform, things around the minimum wage, certainly some aspects of climate change. i do think there are quite a bit more things top to bottom in the democratic party. republicans are unified in their agenda. we're not